Famous Quotes & Sayings

We never find smaller amounts of dark matter or more concentrated dark matter.

Ludwig von Mises

In the socialist commonwealth every economic change becomes an undertaking whose success can be neither appraised in advance nor later retrospectively determined. There is only groping in the dark. Socialism is the abolition of rational economy.

Unlike the other two times, I was a dark horse, and I prefer being the dark horse.

Thomas Campbell

Melt and dispel, ye spectre-doubts, that roll Cimmerian darkness o'er the parting soul!

Shaun Alexander

We're used to having to play in very, very tough climates. That's just part of the game. And we like wearing our dark uniforms better. It makes us feel like we're at home.

William Shakespeare

All dark and comfortless.

William Shakespeare

This thing of darkness I Acknowledge mine.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent. We are in the midst of unparalleled difficulties and untold sufferings; we have been through dark days of apprehension and anguish; but I can say with confidence that with courage and self-reliance and by the Grace of God we shall emerge triumphant.

Maurice Maeterlinck

As soon as we put something into words, we devalue it in a strange way. We think we have plunged into the depths of the abyss, and when we return to the surface the drop of water on our pale fingertips no longer resembles the sea from which it comes. We delude ourselves that we have discovered a wonderful treasure trove, and when we return to the light of day we find that we have brought back only false stones and shards of glass; and yet the treasure goes on glimmering in the dark, unaltered.

Don King

Without a doubt there is a lot of pride for them at this golf course. This is their turf. They've got a great golf course, and it's a dark day when they don't win here.

William Shakespeare

Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.

William Shakespeare

If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms.

William Shakespeare

Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most modest terms; for I am one of those gentle ones that will use the devil himself with courtesy: sayest thou that house is dark?

Ryan Key

The pressure and the weight of what was happening, and the whirlwind that was spinning around us, was really weighing me down. I was kind of a pain ... to be around. And I think a lot of people were really frustrated with me.... It was kind of a dark time for me.

Ismail Haniyeh

Postponing the election will lead to a vacuum and to a dark future. Postponing the election is not the solution.

Nigel looked at her with sparkling eyes. The soul which shone through her dark face had transformed it for the moment into a beauty, more lofty and more rare than that of her shallow sister. He bowed before the majesty of the woman, and pressed his lips to her hand.

J. R. R. Tolkien

N-nothing important. That is, I heard a good deal about a ring, and a dark lord, and something about the end of the world, but please, Mr. Gandalf, sir, don't hurt me. Don't turn me into anything... unnatural.

New Yorkers will never forget the extraordinary support we received following the dark days after 9/11 and how much it meant to our city, ... One way that each of us can offer support is by making a donation to an organization that provides disaster relief.

We know that viewing levels increase in September because the weather starts getting a little cooler, it gets darker a little earlier, viewers are already conditioned to be looking for new programming.

(Two years) ago the program sort of drove into some real dark days as Nigeria suspended immunization in parts of the north,

Lord Byron

Though they did not kiss, / Yet still between his Darkness and his Brightness / There passed a mutual glance of great politeness.

I seem to gravitate toward the dark side of things when it comes to directing. I love action, but I love the drama as well.

Location is the most important piece of information, you know. And not knowing their location, it's like trying to drive in the dark with no headlights.

Alice Lowe

We developed 'Sightseers' as a TV idea but didn't get anywhere with it because all the channels said it was too dark originally as an idea for television.

Alice Meynell

... I am dark but fair, / Black but fair.

Alice Hoffman

The nature of love had totally escaped her until now. She had thought that if you lost it, you could never get it back, like a stone thrown down a well. But it was like the water at the bottom of the well, there when you can't even see it, shifting in the dark.

Alice Hoffman

Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.

Alice Cooper

I'll take you to the deepest, darkest, hottest lover's lane for a little spark in the dark.

Anne Michaels

But sometimes the world disrobes, slips its dress off a shoulder, stops time for a beat. If we look up at that moment, it's not due to any ability of ours to pierce the darkness, it's the world's brief bestowal. The catastrophe of grace.

Anne Michaels

When you are alone - at sea, in the polar dark - an absence can keep you alive. The one you love maintains your mind. But when she's merely across the city, this is an absence that eats you to the bone.

Anne Heche

I think it takes an introspective person to want to go into the theater and see the dark side of themselves.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Splutter, splutter. Yes - we're off - we're rising. But why start off with an engine like that? But it smooths out now, like a long sigh, like a person breathing easily, freely. Like someone singing ecstatically, climbing, soaring - sustained note of power and joy. We turn from the lights of the city; we pivot on a dark wing; we roar over the earth. The plane seems exultant now, even arrogant. We did it, we did it!

Anne Lamott

A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.