Night Quotes - Page 33

• In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?

  Mother Jones

  Song, Children, Bird

  Jones (Mother), Philip Sheldon Foner (1983). “Mother Jones speaks: collected writings and speeches”, Pathfinder Pr

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• Your ancestors fought for you to have a share in that institution over there. It's yours. See the school board, and every Friday night hold your meetings there. Have your wives clean it up Saturday morning for the children to enter Monday. Your organization is not a praying institution. It's a fighting institution. It's an educational institution along industrial lines. Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!

  Mother Jones

  Friday, Monday, Morning

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• You're the hope in the morning, you're the light when the night is falling, you're the song when my heart is singing, it's your love!

  Brandon Heath

  Song, Morning, Fall

  Song: Your Love, Album: Leaving Eden, 2011

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• They're on you day and night. Their oversight is just too extreme [. . .] That's why our 10-year loan, we paid it back in three years. We couldn't stand the government. The bureaucracy kills you.

  Lee Iacocca

  Government, Years, Three

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• What is it that binds us to this place as to no other? It is not the well, or the bell, or the stone walls, or the crisp October nights or the memory of dogwoods blooming. Our loyalty is not only to William Richardson Davie though we are proud of what he did 200 years ago today. Nor even to Dean Smith, though we are proud of what he did last March. No, our love for this place is based on the fact that it is as it was meant to be, the University of the people.

  Charles Kuralt

  Loyalty, Wall, Memories

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• There's nothing terribly wrong with The November Man in a serviceable late-night cable TV sort of way but neither is there anything terribly right about it. It's unnecessary and derivative.

  James Berardinelli

  Men, Cable Tv, Way

  "The November Man (United States, 2014)". A movie review by James Berardinelli, www.reelviews.net. August 29, 2014.

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• The city man, in his neon-and-mazda glare, knows nothing of nature's midnight. His electric lamps surround him with synthetic sunshine. They push back the dark. They defend him from the realities of the age-old night.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Sunshine, Dark, Reality

  Edwin Way Teale (1976). “The American seasons”, Dodd Mead

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• Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night
  I can see paradise by the dashboard light.

  Jim Steinman

  Lonely, Dark, Light

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• The last night of love, the first night of war

  Camil Petrescu

  War, Lasts, Firsts

  "The Last Night of Love, The First Night of War". Book by Camil Petrescu, 1955.

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• One night I attended a Laughing Liberally comedy show. There was one funny comedian there - Lee Camp.

  Matt Labash

  Laughing, Comedian, Comedy

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• Well, as you know, there are 24 hours in every day. And if that's not enough, you've always got the nights!

  Ronald Graham

  Hours, Enough, Wells

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• If I can send one person home after a performance feeling better than when they arrived, then I've done my job, and I sleep good at night.

  Cyrus Chestnut

  Jobs, Home, Sleep

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• By some chance, here they are, all on this earth; and who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on this earth, lying, on quilts, on the grass in a summer evening, among the sounds of the night. May God bless my people, my uncle, my aunt, my mother, my good father, oh, remember them kindly in their time of trouble; and in the hour of their taking away.

  James Agee

  Summer, Mother, Quilts

  James Agee (2008). “A Death in the Family”, p.15, Penguin

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• Wouldn't it be terrible if you'd spent all your life doing everything you were supposed to do, didn't drink, didn't smoke, didn't eat things, took lots of exercise, all the things you didn't want to do, and suddenly one day you were run over by a big red bus, and as the wheels were crunching into you you'd say 'Oh my god, I could have got so drunk last night!' That's the way you should live your life, as if tomorrow you'll be run over by a big red bus.

  Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

  Running, Exercise, Drunk

  "Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography". Book by Michael Parker, 2009.

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• I'm thinking that I shouldn't have filed my nails last night.

  Dara Torres

  Thinking, Nails, Lasts

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• Being in the building with Sarah Palin that night is a transformative and oddly unsettling experience. It’s a little like having live cave-level access for the ripping-the-heart-out-with-the-bare-hands scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

  Matt Taibbi

  Heart, Hands, Indiana

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• People should be _very_ careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For that reason alone, it is extremely mean to demand a marriage certificate for life, just for one night of embracement.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Mother, Children, Father

  Wilhelm Reich (2012). “Where's the Truth?: Letters and Journals, 1948-1957”, p.11, Macmillan

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• People frequently comment on the emptiness in one night stands, but emptiness here has always been just another word for darkness. Blind encounters writing sonnets no one can ever read. Desire and pain communicated in the vague language of sex.
  None of which made sense to me until much later when I realized everything I thought I'd retained of my encounters added up to so very little, hardly enduring, just shadows of love outlining nothing at all.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Sex, Pain, Writing

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• We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard's power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It's us and our homemade masks.

  Richard Bach

  Years, Yesterday, Mirrors

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• In the stillness of the night, the Goddess whispers. In the brightness of the day, dear God roars. Life pulses, mind imagines, emotions wave, thoughts wander. What are all these but the endless movements of One Taste, forever at play with its own gestures, whispering quietly to all who would listen: is this not yourself? When the thunder roars, do you not hear your Self? When the lightning cracks, do you not see your Self? When clouds float quietly across the sky, is this not your own limitless Being, waving back at you?

  Ken Wilber

  Sky, Play, Clouds

  Ken Wilber (1998). “The Essential Ken Wilber”, p.34, Shambhala Publications

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• Each day men sell little pieces if themselves in order to try to buy then back each night and weekend.

  C. Wright Mills

  Weekend, Men, Order

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• Do you know how it is when one wakes
  at night suddenly and asks,
  listening to the pounding heart: what more do you want,
  insatiable?

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Heart, Listening, Want

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• At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new
  day of a most precious delusion.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  New Day, Doubt, Sunrise

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• When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he closes his eyes. For instance: you will capture the truth of a moonlit night if you'll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, and then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared. You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of humankind.

  Anton Chekhov

  Dog, Writing, Eye

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• I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest - sometimes not even the most diligent. But they are learning machines; they go to bed every night a little wiser than when they got up. And, boy, does that habit help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.

  Charlie Munger

  Running, Boys, Long

  Commencement speech at the graduation ceremony for the USC Gould School of Law, genius.com. 2007.

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