Night Quotes - Page 31

• Well, I get my subject on Wednesday night; I think it out carefully on Thursday, and make my rough sketch; on Friday morning I begin, and stick to it all day, with my nose well down on the block.

  John Tenniel

  Friday, Morning, Block

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• That was on a night in August. Dad Lewis died early that morning and the young girl Alice from next door got lost in the evening and then found her way home in the dark by the streetlights of town and so returned to the people who loved her. And in the fall the days turned cold and the leaves dropped off the trees and in the winter the wind blew from the mountains and out on the high plains of Holt County there were overnight storms and three-day blizzards.

  Kent Haruf

  Girl, Morning, Dad

  Kent Haruf (2013). “Benediction”, p.198, Pan Macmillan

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• The other night I searched (the Web) for 'self-transforming elf machines.' There were 36 hits! It surprised me. I sort of use the search engine like an oracle. I've used the phrase for DMT, 'Arabian hyperspace.' So I thought of this, and then I searched it, 'Arabian hyperspace,' in quotes. And it took me right to a transcript of the talk in which I'd said the thing! You can find your own mind on the Internet. I'm very grateful to the people who type up my talks and then post them at their websites.

  Terence McKenna

  Grateful, Self, Dmt

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• Around me the moonlight glittered on the pebbles of the llano, and in the night sky a million stars sparkled. Across the river I could see the twinkling lights of the town. In a week I would be returning to school, and as always I would be running up the goat path and crossing the bridge to go to church. Sometime in the future I would have to build my own dream out of those things that were so much a part of my childhood.

  Rudolfo Anaya

  Running, Dream, Stars

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• That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting.

  Carmen Laforet

  Profound, Exciting

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• It rained all that night. The next day was Saturday, the Fourth of July.

  Michael Shaara

  July, Next Day, Saturday

  Jeff Shaara, Michael Shaara (2012). “The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)”, p.655, Ballantine Books

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• My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years.

  Margaret Mahy

  Simple, Years, Evening

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• I love 'Last Friday Night' by Katy Perry almost as much as 'Karma Police',
  and if you want to straddle that line, you have to take the slings and arrows.

  Chris Martin

  Karma, Friday, Arrows

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 31, 2011.

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• Our God, who art our winged self, it is thy will in us that willeth.
  It is thy desire in us that desireth.
  It is thy urge in us that would turn our nights, which are thine, into days which are thine also.
  We cannot ask thee for aught, for thou knowest our needs before they are born in us:
  Thou art our need; and in giving us more of thyself thou givest us all.

  Khalil Gibran

  Art, Self, Giving

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Also, I gained lots of weight between ages 18-20 because I was drinking alcohol at night. Alcohol has lots of calories and that does not help.

  Oksana Baiul

  Drinking, Alcohol, Age

  Q&As, www.goldenskate.com. March 7, 2003.

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• All is finite in the present; and even that finite is infinite in it velocity of flight towards death. But in God there is nothing finite...Upon a night of earthquake he builds a thousand years of pleasant habitations for man. Upon the sorrow of an infant he raises oftentimes from human intellects glorious vintages that could not else have been.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Men, Years, Vintage

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• I remember draft night, I shook David Stern's hand while rocking a red suit with white pinstripes and red gators I've always been a trendsetter.

  Jalen Rose

  Hands, White, Red

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• The impact of organizational health goes far beyond the walls of a company, extending to customers and vendors, even to spouses and children. It sends people to work in the morning with clarity, hope, and anticipation and brings them home at night with a greater sense of accomplishment, contribution, and self-esteem. The impact of this is as important as it is impossible to measure.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Morning, Children, Wall

  Patrick Lencioni (2012). “The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business”, p.193, John Wiley & Sons

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• The sound of a small bell during a dark night, is louder than the din of traffic outside your window during rush hour. Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.

  Seth Godin

  Dark, Impact, Bells

  FaceBook post by Seth Godin from Dec 10, 2013

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• Be strong to hope, O Heart!
  Though day is bright,
  The stars can only shine
  In the dark night.
  Be strong, O Heart of mine,
  Look towards the light!

  Adelaide Anne Procter

  Strong, Stars, Heart

  Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.77

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• In my day, at 12 years old, which was 38 years ago, we worked out in summer months for two and a half hours. Today someone in that age group might work out for four hours, two hours in the morning and two at night

  Mark Spitz

  Summer, Sports, Morning

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• You know, we're the most undisciplined generation the world has ever knownhow many of you are disciplined? How many go to bed at the same time every night, get up every morning at the same time? How do you discipline your appetites, how do you discipline your tongue? We're the most weak, effeminate Christianity the world has ever had-no wonder nobody wants it. It has no strength, it has no character

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Morning, Character, Discipline

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• If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be far fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Soul, Would Be

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• When I think I've made an error, it can cause me a sleepless night. But that only happens rarely.

  Louis van Gaal

  Thinking, Errors, Causes

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• What you people who weren't yet born can never know is what it meant to sleep in cities under silent falls of snow when all night long the only sounds you heard were dogs that parked at trains that passed so far away they took a short cut through your dreams and no one even woke. It was the war that changed that. It was. After the Great War for Civilization - sleep was different everywhere.

  Timothy Findley

  Dream, Dog, War

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• But that night as I drove back to Montreal, I at least discovered this: that there is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and that the human tragedy, or the human irony, consists in the necessity of living with the consequences of actions performed under the pressure of compulsions so obscure we do not and cannot understand them.

  Hugh MacLennan

  Simple, Tragedy, Important

  Hugh MacLennan (2009). “Watch that Ends the Night”, p.266, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• Love, it’s such a night, laced with running water, irreparable, riddled with a million leaks. A night shaped like a shadow thrown by your absence. Every crack trickles, every overhang drips. The screech of nighthawks has been replaced by the splash of rain. The rain falls from the height of streetlights. Each drop contains its own shattering blue bulb.

  Stuart Dybek

  Running, Rain, Fall

  Stuart Dybek (2004). “The Coast of Chicago: Stories”, p.86, Picador

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• The rainiest nights, like the rainiest lives, are by no means the saddest.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Mean, Saddest

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• I wish continued success to the Foundation. You're doing an important job to help what is called 'the beautiful game'. You're helping it to expand at every level. I will always remember this very special night in Washington, D.C.

  Lamar Hunt

  Beautiful, Jobs, Games

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• I never had a bad night in my life, but I've had a few bad mornings.

  Lefty Gomez

  Morning, Bad Night

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