Quotes about dark
dark age warfare
National security rests on the credible threat of a form of warfare universally condemned since the Dark Ages, the wholesale slaughter of noncombatants. George Will
dark thinking would-be
I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing to be as in the dark about what happens next as your reader would be at that time. George Saunders
dark people age
My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something; edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that's true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect.
dark secret debate
I am for secret, dark debates. Jean-Claude Juncker
dark secret want
I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious ... I am for secret, dark debates
dark reality trying
But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we're mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques. Jim Henson
dark age definitions
The definition of a Dark Age is that we no longer remember what we once could do. Jerry Pournelle
dark journey opposites
It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like what you see outside there, to a very dark place. But the opposite journey, which is what this movie takes, is much more complicated. Neil Jordan
dark law four
In terms of the most astonishing fact about which we know nothing, there is dark matter and dark energy. We don't know what either of them is. Everything we know and love about the universe and all the laws of physics as they apply, apply to four percent of the universe. That's stunning. Neil deGrasse Tyson
dark should-have matter
We account for all the matter and energy that we're familiar with, measure up how much gravity it should have, it's one-sixth of the gravity that's actually operating on the universe. We call that dark matter. It really should be called dark gravity. We don't know what that is.
dark black might
You know, there's black holes and what - could there be wormholes? Could - might there be a multi-verse? These are all fascinating frontiers. What is the nature of dark matter and dark energy? And what was around before the universe? And do we have access to higher dimensions?
darkness sun burning
He was alone in the darkness once more, but the darkness became brighter and brighter until it was burning like the sun. Neil Gaiman
dark understanding protection
If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up.
dark world judgment
I am anti-life, the Beast of Judgment. I am the dark at the end of everything. The end of universes, gods, worlds…of everything. And what will you be then, Dreamlord?" "I am hope.
dark doors light
Also, in my bedroom, nobody minded if I kept the hall door half-open, allowing in enough light that I was not scared of the dark, and, just as important, allowing me to read secretly, after my bedtime, using the dim hallway light to read by, if I needed to. I always needed to.
dark cards rooms
I feel like I am involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell me the rules, and who smiles all the time.
dark shining world
You shine like a beacon in a dark world.
dark people shadow
You musn’t be afraid of the dark.’ ‘I’m not,’ said Shadow. ‘I’m afraid of the people in the dark.
dark night black
It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and flapping and dressed completely in black.
dark littles apocalypse
I sat in the dark and thought: There’s no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones.
dark past giving
One of the great things about humor is, you can slip things past people with humor, you can use it as a sweetener. So you can actually tell them things, give them messages, get terribly, terribly serious and terribly, terribly dark, and because there are jokes in there, they'll go along with you, and they'll travel a lot further along with you than they would otherwise.
dark despair pessimism
...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair is relentless in the certainties of its pessimism. But we have seen again and again, from our own experience and others', that absolute statements of hopelessness that we make in the dark are notoriously unreliable. Our dark certainties are not sureties. John Piper
dark men expeditions
Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark. John Newton
dark men age
Men of learning began to set experiments aside...to form theories...and to substitute these in the place of experiments. John Wesley
dark littles my-own
When I was little, I didn't like being left on my own in the dark. John Terry
dark thinking danger
The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent. John Tillotson
dark past deserving-it
They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften the world, they'd kill themselves. (Irish) John Steinbeck
dark light way
A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in the dusk or dark. John Singer Sargent
darkness betrayed hours
Betrayed by Judas, denied by Peter, abandoned by the eleven, forsaken by God. Darkness, you get one hour. Then you die.
dark thinking light
Despite what people might think, I'm not interested in being dark all the time. I'm actually searching for some kind of light, and I'm always very happy when I can achieve that. Nick Cave
dark tree choices
He has his good side and his bad side. Very dark indeed is his majesty when he wants to be. When he was young, he made a choice, like a tree does when it decides to grow one way or the other. He grew large and green until he shadowed over the whole forest, but most of his branches are twisted. Nancy Farmer
dark night ideas
I like the night, I have clearer ideas in the dark. Serge Gainsbourg
dark doors knows
All I know is a door into the dark Seamus Heaney