Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Vaughan

Bright shadows of true rest! some shoots of bliss; Heaven once a week; The next world's gladness prepossest in this; A day to seek; Eternity in time; the steps by which We climb above all ages: lamps that light Man through his heap of dark days; and the rich And full redemption of the whole week's flight.

Joseph Addison

Whether dark presages of the night proceed from any latent power of the soul during her abstraction, or from any operation of subordinate spirits, has been a dispute.

Jorge Garcia

I have gotten used to working in the dark and I dig it.

Jorge Luis Borges

Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Let him who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God.

Joni Mitchell

All romantics meet the same fate some day. Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.

Kevin Spacey

I'm supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else?

Kevin Brooks

It was a truth that invaded her, like a dark disease, a truth too painful to talk about. And I was beginning to wonder if all I was doing was making it worse.

Keke Palmer

We need to stop separating ourselves by how dark or how light we are.

Kelley Armstrong

Tall, dark, and gruesome." -Tori

Khaled Hosseini

That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms.

Khalil Gibran

Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.

Khalil Gibran

You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet; you may even throw me into a dark prison; but you shall not enslave my thinking, because it is free!

Khalil Gibran

Darkness is dawn not yet born.

Jonathan Raban

In rural areas the majority of the victims of violent crime know their assailants (indeed, are probably married to them); in cities, the killer and the mugger come out of the anonymous dark, their faces unrecognized, their motives obscure.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Because it was starting to get dark, and because the streets were crowded, I bumped into a googolplex people. Who were they? Where were they going? What were they looking for? I wanted to hear their heartbeats, and I wanted them to hear mine.

Narendra Modi

Vote bank politics has put the future of our youth in darkness.

Lloyd Banks

I see myself as a flashlight in the dark. I'm not trying to be overlooked anymore.

Lynda Resnick

When people affected by epilepsy are reluctant to expose their condition, the public remains in the dark about it - a tragic irony that has made patient care and raising funds for research more than challenging.

Lynda Barry

I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.

Lorenzo Snow

Every man and woman who serves the Lord, no matter how faithful they may be, have their dark hours; but if they have lived faithfully, light will burst upon them and relief will be furnished.

Lord Byron

So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit for earth, undoom'd for heaven, Darkness above, despair beneath, Around it flame, within it death.

Lord Byron

Egypt! from whose all dateless tombs arose Forgotten Pharaohs from their long repose, And shook within their pyramids to hear A new Cambyses thundering in their ear; While the dark shades of forty ages stood Like startled giants by Nile's famous flood.

M. Night Shyamalan

Each of the actors need to have their justification for saying something awful. You want everyone to have a positive and negative thing. Even a positive thing needs to have darkness in it. It needs to have depth.

Loren Eiseley

Each and all, we are riding into the dark. Even living, we cannot remember half the events of our own days.

Lord Chesterfield

In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity.

Maimonides

The corporeal element in man is a large screen and partition that prevents him from perfectly perceiving abstract ideals; this would be the case even if the corporeal element were as pure and superior as the substance of the spheres ; how much more must this be the case with our dark and opaque body. However great the exertion of our mind may be to comprehend the Divine Being or any of the ideals, we find a screen and partition between God and us.

Maimonides

There are four different theories concerning Divine Providence; they are all ancient, known from the time of the Prophets, when the true law was revealed to enlighten these dark regions.

Mahatma Gandhi

We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any other evil. ...Disease increases in proportion to the increase to the number of doctors in a place.

Mahatma Gandhi

Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness

Mahatma Gandhi

The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark.

Mahatma Gandhi

Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.

Mahatma Gandhi

My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.