Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Hobbes

A great leap in the dark

John Tillotson

The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.

Bob Redman

It was dark and the floor was a little smaller than regulation.

Ramon Aviles

It was a tough play for him. It was dark out there.

Eric Hughes

It's a comedy, and the past few years we've gone dark musicals.

Abbas Kiarostami

There are certainties in existence, but love is something much harder to define than light and dark, life and death. I think saying you are "like" someone in love sounds right.

Abbas Kiarostami

This was pointed out to me by somebody who referred to the paintings of Rembrandt and his use of light: some elements are highlighted while others are obscured or even pushed back into the dark. And it's something that we do - we bring out elements that we want to emphasise.

Cornel West

The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.

Cormac McCarthy

Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. He looked about at the dark forest in which they were bivouacked. He nodded toward the specimens he'd collected. These anonymous creatures, he said, may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men's knowing. Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth.

Og Mandino

Sooner or later all mankind will realize that the greatest cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrow and crimes of humanity rests solely in acts of love. Love is the greatest gift from God. It is the divine spark that everywhere produces and restores life. To each and every one of us, love gives us the power to work miracles with your own life and those we touch.

Norman Vincent Peale

Nothing during the year is so impressively convincing as the vision Christmas brings of what this world would be if love became the daily practice of human beings.

Kamala Harris

I love being in a courtroom.

Pamela Stephenson

Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.

Julia Roberts

Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.

Julia Quinn

Love is blind,” Harriet quipped. “But not illiterate,” Elizabeth retorted.

Kristin Hannah

To lose love is a terrible thing. But to turn away from it is unbearable. Will you spend the rest of your life replaying it in your head? Wondering if you walked away too soon or too easily? Or if you'll ever love anyone that deeply again?

Knut Hamsun

Love is every bit as violent and dangerous as murder.

Mohsin Hamid

Which is stronger, politics or love? is like asking, Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling? They are two sides of the same thing.

Azar Nafisi

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

Bertrand Russell

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Charles Kettering

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Demi Lovato

When I look back, it saddens me to think that I was so hard on myself - when I was younger, I thought I had to look like everyone else, but I learned that beauty comes from how you feel about yourself. Once I started taking care of my mind, body, and soul, I realized that I didn't need to conform to what's "normal" and started to love myself.

Demetri Martin

I think it's interesting that cologne rhymes with alone.

Dale Evans

I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start.

Clara Barton

Long ago I added to the true old adage of "What is everybody's business is nobody's business," another clause which, I think, morethan any other principle has served to influence my actions in life. That is, What is nobody's business is my business.

Claire McCaskill

Even though we know sexual assault is still dramatically underreported, I think women are much more empowered today than they used to be.

Claire McCaskill

So it is the business community and agricultural community who I think might have the most influence on helping us make this effort more bipartisan.