Texas Lampshades

What is to give light must endure burning. - Viktor Frankl

You can always tell a Texan, but not much. - Unknown

It is easy to be heavy; it is hard to be light. - G K Chesterton

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. - Theodore Roethke

Through darkness diamonds spread their richest light. - John Webster

Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians. - Henry Rollins

It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. - Chinese Proverb

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. - Rabindranath Tagore

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yeats

Managers light a fire under people; leaders light a fire in people. - Kathy Austin

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to being it to light. - George Washington

Be enthusiastic as a leader. You can't light a fire with a wet match. - Unknown

You can get a lot farther with a kind word and a gun than a kind word alone. - Al Capone

The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train. - David Lee Roth

How many lawyers does it take to change a light bulb? How many can you afford? - Blanche Knott

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. - Unknown

There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train! - Mariah Carey

Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door. - Martin McGuinness

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. - Robert Schumann

The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas. - Malcolm McDowell

Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me. - Robin Wright

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it. - Maurice Chevalier

Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas. - Ian Fleming

I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes. - Carroll Shelby

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. - Og Mandino

When I make a vow to God, then I would suggest to you that's even stronger than a handshake in Texas. - Rick Perry

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton

The baby bat
Screamed out in fright,
'Turn on the dark,
I'm afraid of the light.' - Shel Silverstein

You can take the girl out of Texas but not the Texas out of the girl and ultimately not the girl out of Texas. - Janine Turner

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. - P G Wodehouse

A father is neither an anchor to hold us back nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way. - Unknown

Singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness. - Reba McEntire

Nothing prepared me for being this awesome. It's kind of a shock to wake up every morning and be bathed in this purple light. - Bill Murray

You don't have to say everything to be a light. Sometimes a fire built on a hill will bring interested people to your campfire. - Shannon L. Alder

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. The truly wise person is colorblind. - Albert Schweitzer

We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves. - Leonora Carrington

Gun control? We need bullet control. I think every bullet should cost $5,000. Because if a bullet cost $5,000, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders. - George Carlin

Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas. - Alexander MacLaren

We often say, 'There is light at the end of the tunnel.' We forget there was light at the beginning of the tunnel. There was no need to get into the tunnel in the first place. - Shabbir Banoobhai

When you write, you take the ball and you hold it up to the light and you turn it slowly, and let people draw their own conclusions. And try to bring empathy to all sides of the equation. - Justin Cronin