Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norman Vincent Peale

Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.

Norman Vincent Peale

Every night empty your mind of unhappy thoughts as you empty your pockets and come alive.

Emilie Autumn

For this freedom I have given all I had For this darkness I gave my light For this wisdom I have lost my innocence Take my petals And cover me with the night

Emile M. Cioran

I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the resonance it provoked in me, and an upheaval out of all proportion to this insignificant event thrust me into miracle, into the rapture of the definitive, as if there were no more questions-only answers. I was drunk on a thousand unexpected discoveries, none of which I could make use of. ... This is how I nearly reached the Supreme. But instead I went on with my walk.

Emile M. Cioran

Consciousness is nature's nightmare.

Emile M. Cioran

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

Emile M. Cioran

What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights!

Emily Giffin

It was the same night I gave myself to him completely, knowing that I would belong to him for as long as he wanted to keep me. And, as it turned out, even longer than that.

Emily Dickinson

You cannot put a fire out! A thing that can ignite can go itself- without a flame- E'en through the darkest night!

Ellen Potter

Look, when do the really interesting things happen? Not when you've brushed your teeth and put on your pyjamas and are cozy in bed. They happen when you are cold and uncomfortable and hungry and don't have a roof over your head for the night.

Ellen Pompeo

I'm extremely proud of our very, very diverse cast which represents the world that I walk around in every day.. I didn't see it last night when I watched the Emmys.

Elizabeth Perkins

If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums.

Elaine Stritch

I was so happy I didn't have to work that night. That was the truth, because show business is about the hardest profession in the world.

Elayne Boosler

What do hookers do on their nights off, type?

Holly Black

No," said Luis, "You can't date the Lord of the Night Court." "Well, I'm not, he dumped me." "You can't get dumped by the lord of the night court." "Oh, yes, you can. You so completely can.

Holly Black

One night you will ask me for something I cannot give.

Holly Black

I think Bob appreciated my outfit. He made me buy the more expensive pendant. You might think that was to my disadvantage, but I accept that status comes with a price.” “Not usually so immediately.” I shake my head. “You better not be hitting on federal agent ladies. They’ll arrest you.” His grin widens. “I like handcuffs.” I groan. “There is something seriously wrong with you.” “Nothing that a night being worked over by a hot representative of justice couldn’t fix.

Hermann Hesse

Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness.

Hermann Hesse

Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.

Henry Vaughan

I saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright.

Henry Vaughan

There is in God - some say - A deep, but dazzling darkness; as men here Say it is late and dusky, because they See not all clear. O for that Night! where I in Him Might live invisible and dim!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

But the nearer the dawn the darker the night, And by going wrong all things come right. Things have been mended that were worse, and the the worse, the nearer they are to mend.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Out of the shdows of night The world rolls into light.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In December ring Every day the chimes; Loud the gleemen sing In the streets their merry rhymes. Let us by the fire Ever higher Sing them till the night expire!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Oh, how short are the days! How soon the night overtakes us!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!

Henry Reed

The things that concern us during the day are going to influence what we experience during the night.

Helen Mirren

I still suffer terribly from stage fright. I get sick with fear. Not every night, but at the beginning and on occasion - not necessarily when I'm expecting it. You just have to cope with it - take it on the chin and work through it, trying to use the adrenalin to perform.

Heinrich Heine

The night comes stealing o'er me, And clouds are on the sea; While the wavelets rustle before me With a mystical melody.

Heinrich Heine

Perhaps already I am dead, And these perhaps are phantoms vain;— These motley phantasies that pass At night through my disordered brain. Perhaps with ancient heathen shapes, Old faded gods, this brain is full; Who, for their most unholy rites, Have chosen a dead poet's skull...

Heinrich Heine

The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right.

Hidetoshi Nakata

We had only snacks last time, I think it was OK for a day time menu. But this time it will be late night when people gather so we should add some proper meals.

Heraclitus

Could you tell night from day? No, I regard all such distinctions as logically impossible.