Night Quotes - Page 24

• If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night

  Eamon de Valera

  War, Historical, Thieves

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• On the road, they join the bedraggled remnants of a column of exhausted Confederate soldiers evacuating burning Atlanta. Rhett makes her take note of the scene: "Take a good look, my dear. It's a historic moment. You can tell your grandchildren how you watched the Old South disappear one night."

  Vivien Leigh

  Grandchildren, Atlanta, Soldier

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• There is a moment in the history of every nation, when . . . the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become microscopic: so that man, at that instant . . . with his feet still planted on the immense forces of night, converses by his eyes and brain with solar and stellar creation.

  Marsilio Ficino

  Eye, Men, Feet

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• After attending a banquet honoring the 1974 BYU team that won the Western AthleticConference and went to the Fiesta Bowl. It was the first of Edwards' 18 WAC champions and 21 bowl teams. That was the group of kids that totally changed the direction of my life and the direction of our football program. We started 0-3-1 and won seven or eight in a row. They were the first bowl team in school history. I hadn't really accomplished anything yet. To see all those guys reminded me where we've been. It was an emotional night.

  LaVell Edwards

  Football, Team, School

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• By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.

  John Milton

  Dream, Truth, Distance

  John Milton (1851). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction”, p.210

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• I could have danced all night!

  Alan Jay Lerner

  Ballet, All Night

  "I Could Have Danced All Night" (song) (1956)

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• About, about, in reel and rout the death fires danced at night.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Fire, Ballet

  William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Michael Mason (2007). “Lyrical Ballads”, p.184, Pearson Education

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• Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.

  Howard Marion-Crawford

  Life, Cheerful, Rebel

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• The quality of a survival kit is determined how much it can help you when you need to sleep. If you can sleep well at night, you have it made. It should also assist you in meeting your water needs.

  Mors Kochanski

  Sleep, Water, Survival

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• I used to go to my kids' soccer games and I was the only parent who wasn't screaming, because I'd have to do a show that night. It was hard. Moms and dads get more emotional at those soccer and Little League games than at a professional game.

  Neil Diamond

  Soccer, Mom, Dad

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• I am purely evil;
  Hear the thrum
  of my evil engine;
  Evilly I come.
  The stars are thick as flowers
  In the meadows of July;
  A fine night for murder
  Winging through the sky.

  Ethel Mannin

  Stars, Flower, July

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• As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.

  Frances O'Grady

  Morning, Jobs, Real

  "TUC leader Frances O'Grady: 'People want some hope for the future'" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2012.

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• My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.

  Jimmy Wales

  Grandmother, Government, Views

  "Open vs. Closed: Jimmy Wales on Being Open". Interview with Mathew Ingram, gigaom.com. April 29, 2010.

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• We're doing fine. The fire is no closer today than it was yesterday or the day before. They expected or feared very high winds last night, and they didn't get them.

  Bill Taylor

  Fire, Wind, Yesterday

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• I represent an affluent district, but when I worked to form my county's first battered-women's shelter, some nights there were no beds left. Violence against women crosses all economic lines.

  Lynn Woolsey

  Domestic Violence, Lines, Firsts

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• A pilot's business is with the wind, and with the stars, with night, with sand, with the sea. He strives to outwit the forces of nature. He stares with expectancy for the coming of the dawn the way a gardener awaits the coming of spring. He looks forward to port as a promised land, and truth for him is what lives in the stars.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Stars, Spring, Wind

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• To be alone in the air at night is to be very much alone indeed. . . cut off from everything and everyone . . . nothing is 'familiar' any longer . . . . I think that unfamiliarity is the most difficult thing to face; one feels rather like Alice in Wonderland after she has nibbled the toadstool that made her grow smaller - and like Alice, one hopes that the process will stop while there is still something left!

  Pauline Gower

  Cutting, Thinking, Air

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• I hope you either take up parachute jumping or stay out of single motored airplanes at night.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Airplane, Jumping, Pilots

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• Electronics were rascals, and they lay awake nights trying to find some way to screw you during the day. You could not reason with them. They had a brain and intestines, but no heart.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Heart, Brain, Trying

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• There's a lot of Hollywood bullshit about flying. I mean, look at the movies about test pilots or fighter pilots who face imminent death. The controls are jammed or something really important has fallen off the plane, and these guys are talking like magpies; their lives are flashing past their eyes, and they're flailing around in the cockpit. It just doesn't happen. You don't have time to talk. You're too damn busy trying to get out of the problem you're in to talk or ricochet around the cockpit. Or think about what happened the night after your senior prom.

  Robin Olds

  Senior, Eye, Mean

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• Oh, pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep.

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Fear, Pilots, Danger

  Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs and Ballads, Grave and Gay”, p.42

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• She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.

  Ada Leverson

  Morning, Infidelity, Noon

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• Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.

  Namie Amuro

  Morning, Sleep, Games

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• Respect your body: you can only climb a mountain if you give your body the attention it deserves. You have all the time that life grants you, as long as you walk without demanding what can't be granted. If you go too fast you will grow tired and give up half way there. If you go too slow, night will fall and you will be lost. Enjoy the scenery, take delight in the cool spring water and the fruit that nature generously offers you, but keep on walking.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Giving Up, Spring

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• The night is shattered, and the blue stars shiver in the distance.

  Pablo Neruda

  Stars, Distance, Blue

  Pablo Neruda (1990). “Selected Poems”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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