Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neal Shusterman

Getting to know someone in blind darkness changes your impression of them.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Nephi taught that by clinging to the word of God, as though it be a handrail, we would be able to avoid temptations and not lose our way in darkness. Thus, we would remain on the narrow path.

Khalil Gibran

Darkness is dawn not yet born.

Narendra Modi

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

John Adams

My history of the Jesuits is not elegantly written, but is supported by unquestionable authorities, is very particular and very horrible. Their restoration is indeed "a step toward darkness," cruelty, perfidy, despotism, death and I wish we were out of danger of bigotry and Jesuitism.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Secrecy is as essential to intelligence as vestments and incense to a Mass or darkness to a spiritualist séance and must at all times be maintained, quite irrespective of whether or not it serves any purpose.

Malcolm Muggeridge

There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy; but if it became blackish red, it would become cloudy.

Umberto Eco

I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic way and you can't disentangle them. But when you actually live a cliche, it feels brand new, and you are unashamed.

Tre Cool

Life is like breakfast: you just mix all ingredients 'cause in your stomach it will all come together.

Rick Danko

Paul Butterfield and I had a band together at one point.

William Jennings Bryan

Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.

Virginia Woolf

But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.

William Shatner

I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.

William J. Clinton

The ideals that bind us together are as old as our nation, but so are the forces that pull us apart.

Sarah Addison Allen

Watching them, she realized they made so much sense together. Every look, every touch, was a reassurance, almost electric, as if they were shocking each other with every contact.

William Ellery Channing

A clear thought, a pure affection, a resolute act of a virtuous will, have a dignity of quite another kind, and far higher than accumulations of brick and granite and plaster and stucco, however cunningly put together.

Lee Iacocca

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

Loretta Lynn

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

Hermann Hesse

A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.

John Lyly

The rattling thunderbolt hath but his clap, the lightning but his flash, and as they both come in a moment, so do they both end in a minute.

William Shakespeare

Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear.

Avicenna

The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.

Black Elk

And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

E. F. Benson

Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.