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• I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the colour.

  Jeff Bridges

  Black And White, Going Out, Remember

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• Retreat? NO. I propose to attach at daylight and whip them.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Retreat, Propose

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• He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Words Of Wisdom

  Charles Dickens (1905). “The Pickwick Papers”, p.181

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• Lovers remain in the dark, working hard to keep out daylight.

  Mason Cooley

  Dark, Lovers, Hard

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• When you are so full of sorrow
  that you can't walk, can't cry anymore,
  think about the green foliage that sparkles after
  the rain. When the daylight exhausts you, when
  you hope a final night will cover the world,
  think about the awakening of a young child.

  Omar Khayyam

  Children, Rain, Night

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• Dreams make you click, juice you, turn you on, excite the living daylights out of you. You cannot wait to get out of bed to continue pursuing your dream. The kind of dream I'm talking about gives meaning to your life. it is the ultimate motivator.

  James C. Collins

  Motivational, Dream, Talking

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• From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Reading, Thinking, Years

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1808-1816”, p.514, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Science, History, Childhood

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• Humans withdraw to their homes, and surrender the night to the creatures that own it: the crickets, the owls, the snakes. A world that hasn't changed for hundreds of thousands of years wakes up, and carries on as if the daylight and the humans and the changes to the landscape have all been an illusion.

  M. L. Stedman

  Home, Night, Years

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• Having an enemy that is visible out in the daylight is a good thing.

  Lizz Winstead

  Enemy, Good Things, Visible

  Source: www.elle.com

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• This child whom we Love, Brings daylight Into our soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Children, Soul, New Life

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• He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human."

  Diogenes

  Lamps, Broads, Said

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

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• I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.

  H. L. Mencken

  Food, Drinking, Dark

  New York Post 18 Sept. 1945

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• An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later.

  Winston Churchill

  Morning, Autumn, Night

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• We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lucky, Worst

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• We take a lot of things for granted in our lives, such as gravity, air, daylight and time. Yet time is one of God's most precious gifts to us. It is the most significant non-renewable resource at our disposal. We have less of it remaining with each passing day. When God gave this gift, He intended for us to use it carefully; intentionally, wisely and productively.

  Tommy Barnett

  Air, Use, Renewable Resources

  Tommy Barnett (2013). “The Power of a Half Hour: Take Back Your Life Thirty Minutes at a Time”, p.21, WaterBrook

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• Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

  Honore de Balzac

  Husband, Lying, Player

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.7, The Floating Press

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• If you can not arrive in daylight, then stand off well clear, and wait until dawn. After all, that's one of the things God made boats for- to wait in.

  Tristan Jones

  Waiting, Sailing, Dawn

  Tristan Jones (2014). “Outward Leg”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

  Walter Bagehot

  Magic

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• I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves.

  Robertson Davies

  Wise, Blue, Hands

  "The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks". Book by Robertson Davies, 1947.

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• He gathers me up and I'm weightless before he sets me on the railing. He's the only thing keeping me from falling back, out of the reach of daylight. I'm not afraid of falling. I don't fear the sky beyond the train tracks like I did before. I can go anywhere just so long as it's with him.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Fall, Sky, Long

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Jun 18, 2013

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• We're burnin' daylight!

  John Wayne

  "Fictional character: Wil Andersen". "The Cowboys", www.imdb.com. January 13, 1972.

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• He says one word, nodding into the daylight. "Look." It's an astounding word. It's a gift.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Looks, Nodding, One Word

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from May 23, 2012

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• Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

  Charles Bukowski

  True Love, Reality, Love Is

  "Drifters / Love Is the Devil" by Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2013.

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• The hard surface of the stone is impervious to nothing in the end. The heat of the sun leaves evidence of daylight. Each drop of rain changes the form; even the wind and the air itself, invisible to our eyes, etches its presence. … All history is taken in by stones.

  Susan Griffin

  Taken, Rain, Eye

  Susan Griffin (2015). “A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War”, p.8, Open Road Media

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