Evening Quotes - Page 39

• When in the evening we are alone with our most existential thoughts, it is then that we come face to face with the most precious truths that we discover in our brief existence in this world. Just before fatigue envelopes us, taking us into sleep. We think of what our lives actually mean. And then we know how lucky we are if we still enjoy consciousness, rationality and love. But the greatest of these is love.

  Michael Kirby

  Love, Mean, Sleep

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• Check out the helmet hair on Randy Moss, babe! He looks like some freakish anti-Mr. T after a long evening sleeping through 'Aida.'

  Dennis Miller

  Football, Sleep, Hair

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• I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.

  Bill Bryson

  Travel, Cities, Arriving

  Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

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• I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet ... the evenings in late autumn time, when the white mist creeps across the fields, making it seem as though old Earth, feeling the night air cold to its poor bones, were drawing ghostly bedclothes round its withered limbs.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Lying, Autumn, Night

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “Silhouettes”, p.5, Read Books Ltd

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• During the course of many years I have observed that a great number of doctors, lawyers, and important businessmen make a habit of visiting a chess club during the late afternoon or evening to relax and find relief from the preoccupations of their work.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Doctors, Years, Numbers

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• The match will be shown on Match of the Day later this evening and if you don't want to know the result look away now as we show you Tony Adams lifting the cup for Arsenal.

  Steve Rider

  Football, Looks, Want

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• Nature is beautiful, and you are in her bosom. That voice of comfort which speaks in the breezes of morning, may visit your mind, that the delightful influences which the green leaves, the blue sky, the moonbeams and clouds of the evening diffuse over the universe, may in their powers of soul-healing, visit your day visions, is my desire and hope.

  Humphry Davy

  Beautiful, Nature, Morning

  Sir Humphry Davy (1858). “Fragmentary remains, literary and scientific, of Sir Humphry, Davy, bart., late president of the Royal society, etc: with a sketch of his life and selections from his correspondence”, p.64

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• The word chrysalis alone is an unmistakable indication that here two dreams are joined together, dreams that be-speak both the repose and flight of being, evening's crystallization and wings that open to the light.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Wings, Two

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• A sound-bite culture can't discuss science very well. Exactly what we're losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can't be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Causes, Sound, Culture

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.116, Faber & Faber

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• Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners roused the serfs, who seized three-pronged lances when the warlords raised whips in their black hands. We were brave and sacrifice was easy and we asked the sun, the moon, to alter the sky. Now I see a thousand waves of beans and rice and am happy. In the evening haze heroes are coming home.

  Mao Zedong

  Dream, Regret, Hero

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• If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret.

  Confucius

  Life, Morning, Regret

  James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.135

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• Thou wilt always rejoice in the evening, if thou spend the day profitably.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Rejoice, Ifs

  "The Imitation of Christ in Four Books".

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• We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Heart, Sorrow, Gladness

  Abraham Lincoln (1991). “Great Speeches”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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• Daily prayers can help us keep on the path that leads to eternal life. We are very unlikely to stray if we offer a humble, simple prayer at least each morning and evening to express thanks and to seek divine guidance.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Life, Morning, Prayer

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• Brothers and sisters, good evening. You all know that the duty of the conclave was to give a bishop to Rome. It seems that my brother cardinals have gone almost to the ends of the earth to get him... but here we are.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Rome, Giving

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• I can't take it y'all
  I can feel the city breathin
  Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening
  Sigh before we die like the last train leaving

  Mos Def

  Cities, Hip Hop, Leaving

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• The sun had, in the meanwhile, sunk behind the Ettersberg. We felt in the wood the chill of the evening, and drove all the quicker to Wiemar, and to Goethe's house. Goethe urged me to go in with him for a while, and I did so. He was in an extremely engaging mood. He talked a great deal about his theory of colors, and of his obstinate opponents; remarking that he was sure that he had done something in this science.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Death, Color, House

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.99, Ravenio Books

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• It was evening all afternoon.
  It was snowing
  And it was going to snow.
  The blackbird sat
  In the cedar-limbs.

  Wallace Stevens

  Winter, Snow, Cedars

  Wallace Stevens, John N. Serio, Robert Gantt Steele (2004). “Wallace Stevens”, p.16, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.

  John Woolman

  Time, Winter, Parent

  John Woolman (1847). “A journal of the life, gospel labours, and Christian experiences of ... John Woolman ...: To which are added his last epistle, and other writings ...”, p.8

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• On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence.

  John Keats

  Winter, Silence, Frost

  John Keats (1841). “The poetical works of John Keats”, p.228

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• Every day my mother had tea. My dad has his ritual cigar. They had their evening cocktail. Those rituals were done nicely, with flair and feeling.

  John Travolta

  Mother, Dad, Feelings

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• Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.

  George Eliot

  Love, Morning, Book

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.467, Wordsworth Editions

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• My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if you can imagine it taking two men to write one song. ... Good authors, too, who once knew better words now use only four-letter words writing prose. ... Brush up your Shakespeare and they'll all kowtow.

  Cole Porter

  Song, Inspiration, Writing

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• O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet the Evening listens.

  John Keats

  Song, War, Native

  'O thou whose face hath felt the winter's wind' (written 1818)

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• Sometimes after an enjoyable family home evening, during a fervent family prayer, or when our entire family is at the dinner table on Sunday evening eating waffles and engaging in a session of lively, good-matured conversation, I quietly say to myself, 'If heaven is nothing more than this, it will be good enough for me!'

  Marlin K. Jensen

  Prayer, Home, Sunday

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