Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Chris Abani

You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.

Edith Wharton

It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.

Antony Gormley

The elemental world we all live in is the darkness of the body.

Alan Thicke

And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.

Charles de Lint

I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never held unkind thoughts? The stranger's observation was valid. No one was innocent of darkness.

Carl Jung

Enlightenment consists not merely in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible. The latter procedure is more difficult and therefore, unpopular.

Carl Jung

How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings?

Carl Jung

When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear only of unequivocal results, and completely forget that these results can only be brought about when we have ventured into and emerged again from the darkness. But to penetrate the darkness we must summon all the powers of enlightenment that consciousness can offer.

John Abraham

I don't even see the point. He's like a stranger to me.

Truman Capote

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

Sara Blakely

I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going.

Richard Rodriguez

There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.

Wiz Khalifa

Bestfriends become strangers. That's how it is.

Will Rogers

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

M. Scott Peck

Let me simply state that it is wrong to regard any other human being, a priori, as an object, or an 'It.' This is so because each and every human being - you, every friend, every stranger, every foreigner - is precious.

Barack Obama

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

Joseph Addison

The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they ought not to leave him till they have delivered him out of his Troubles, or made him triumph over his Enemies.

James Rubin

That is a sure-fire way to give President Milosevic another pretext to kill innocent Albanians.

Jere Reneer

They are as innocent as they were when they first walked in here.

Ed Hall

There was no intent on his part. It was just a innocent mistake.

Sidney Jones

This man is not just an innocent old preacher. The man knows perfectly well JI exists. If he says it doesn't exist, he's lying through his teeth.

Bertolt Brecht

The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.

Edwin Meese

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

Benjamin Franklin

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.

Nicholas Sparks

A WALK TO REMEMBER is set in the late 1950s because that was the last really innocent period in schools.