Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles de Lint

You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.

Charles Dickens

For the night-wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round a building of that sort, and moaning as it goes; and of trying, with its unseen hand, the windows and the doors; and seeking out some crevices by which to enter.

Charles Caleb Colton

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.

Charles Dickens

People like us don't go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are

Charles Dickens

The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by the twopenny post, a day or two previous.

Charles Dickens

"I saw her, in the fire, but now. I hear her in music, in the wind, in the dead stillness of the night," returned the haunted man.

Charles Dickens

Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the windows: and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, and hides among the dead.

Charles Dickens

[I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air.

Charles Spurgeon

He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds; and faults of some kind nestle in every bosom.

Benjamin Walker

Don't trust somebody that don't have a troubled period.

Lauren Kellin

We usually get it done somehow. We've always been a third-period team. As soon as we put all three periods together, we feel there will be no stopping us.

Sugar Ray Leonard

When you're a boxer, there is a lot of downtime and long periods of inactivity.

Asghar Farhadi

I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.

Michael Garnett

Getting thrown in like that is a tough way to make your debut. In between periods I talked to Dunham, and he said to go out there and relax. After that I played as I always played.

Rob Proffitt

I think we got into using our speed in the second and third periods and that really worked well at times.

Lisa Stevens

He spends all his day in a tree. He comes down for short periods to play and nurse.

Philip Gonsalves

Some of the showers could be a little heavy, but only for short periods of time.

F. Stone

We need to play three periods tomorrow like we played the first one tonight.

Charles Caleb Colton

Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

Alan Moore

For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain... It just won't be the same.

Regina Miller

We knew they would stretch our defense. We wanted to take some chances on Marsh inside and she certainly made some plays. But I'd rather give up a 2 contested over a 3. That's a little less.

Gary Williams

We know we have to play well. Georgia Tech is a young team that certainly has shown it can play.

Jason Goldberg

We know companies that would pay top dollar to find people who have the right experience for certain nursing positions.

Jose Ferreira

Venture capitalists certainly create value for themselves, but they also singularly create value for the rest of the world.

Stan Conte

Ultimately the player makes this decision, to a certain degree,

David Milne

Science deals in evidence and uncertainty. Religion deals in certainty without evidence.

Lucas Till

I think there's certain things that I know in my head that I enjoy: action movies.