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• Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, under the star-speckled sky listening to frogs and crickets. Darkness soothed. It softened the sharp edges of the world, toned down the too-harsh colors. With the coming of twilight, the sky seemed to recede; the universe expanded. The night was bigger than the day, and in its realm, life seemed to have more possibilities.

  Dean Koontz

  Stars, Children, Twilight

  Dean Koontz (2004). “Midnight”, p.15, Penguin

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• Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

  Will Rogers

  Witty, Political Will, Politics

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• There are people who look forward to spending their sunset years in the sunshine; it is my own retirement dream to await my death indoors, dragging strangers up dusty staircases while coughing up one of the most thrilling phrases in the English language: 'It was on this spot…' My fantasy is to one day become a docent.

  Sarah Vowell

  Dream, Retirement, Sunshine

  FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from May 06, 2010

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• Your light is more magnificent than sunrise or sunset

  Rumi

  Light, Sunrise, Magnificent

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey”, p.156, Shambhala Publications

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• He changed sunset into sunrise.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Sunrise, Changed

  Clement of Alexandria (2017). “Collected Works”, p.94, Lulu Press, Inc

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• There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

  Saul Bellow

  Book, Writing, Enemy

  Saul Bellow (2010). “Saul Bellow: Letters”, p.167, Penguin

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• It is more important that you should know about the reverses than about the successes of the war. We shall have all eternity to celebrate the victories, but we have only the few hours before sunset in which to win them. We are not winning them as we should, because the fact of the reverses is so little realized, and the needed reinforcements are not forthcoming, as they would be in the position were thoroughly understood...So we have tried to tell you the truth the uninteresting, unromantic truth.

  Amy Carmichael

  Christian, War, Inspiration

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• All about us, in earth and air, wherever the eye or ear can reach, there is a power ever breathing itself forth in signs, now in daisy, now in a wind-waft, a cloud, a sunset; a power that holds constant and sweetest relation with the dark and silent world within us. The same God who is in us, and upon whose tree we are the buds, if not yet the flowers, also is all about us- inside, the Spirit; outside, the Word. And the two are ever trying to meet in us.

  George MacDonald

  Faith, Flower, Inspiration

  George MacDonald (1978). “The World of George Macdonald: Selections from His Works of Fiction”, Shaw

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• Let your first interest be in your home. The baby you hold in your arms will grow quickly as the sunrise and the sunset of the rushing days.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Baby, Home, Rushing

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• Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Death, Halloween, War

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden when someone asked what he would do if he were suddenly to learn that he would die before sunset that very day. "I would finish hoeing my garden," he replied.

  Francis of Assisi

  Funny, Learning, Humor

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• I think the true test of a pop song, for me, and I've talked to a lot of other writers about this, is you take your demo, you pop it in your car and you drive down Sunset Blvd. to Santa Monica, and that's the Hollywood car test.

  Ryan Tedder

  Song, Thinking, Car

  "OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder on Hitmaking, Writer's Block and the Song That Got Away (Q&A)" by Michele Amabile Angermiller, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 06, 2013.

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• And to lose the chance to see frigatebirds soaring in circles above the storm, or a file of pelicans winging their way homeward across the crimson afterglow of the sunset, or a myriad terns flashing in the bright light of midday as they hover in a shifting maze above the beach -- why, the loss is like the loss of a gallery of the masterpieces of the artists of old time.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Beach, Loss, Artist

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Anger, Discipline, Teammate

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• A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.

  Mary Balogh

  Passion, Soul, Sunrise

  Mary Balogh (2003). “A Summer to Remember”, p.67, Dell

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• When we live without listening to the timing of things, when we live and work in twenty-four-hour shifts without rest – we are on war time, mobilized for battle. Yes, we are strong and capable people, we can work without stopping, faster and faster, electric lights making artificial day so the whole machine can labor without ceasing. But remember: No living thing lives like this. There are greater rhythms, seasons and hormonal cycles and sunsets and moonrises and great movements of seas and stars. We are part of the creation story, subject to all its laws and rhythms.

  Wayne Muller

  Strong, Stars, War

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• About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.

  Tom Wilson

  Love, Fun, Fighting

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• It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point A to point B. It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed it would always feel this way.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Powerful, Philosophy, Rivers

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.185, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• One evening, when we were already resting on the floor of our hut, dead tired, soup bowls in hand, a fellow prisoner rushed in and asked us to run out to the assembly grounds and see the wonderful sunset. Standing outside we saw sinister clouds glowing in the west and the whole sky alive with clouds of ever-changing shapes and colors, from steel blue to blood red. The desolate grey mud huts provided a sharp contrast, while the puddles on the muddy ground reflected the glowing sky. Then, after minutes of moving silence, one prisoner said to another, "How beautiful the world could be.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Beautiful, Running, Moving

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.37, Beacon Press

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• By now you know: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, "Take me to your leaders." Even I--unused to your ways though I am--would never make that mistake. We ourselves have such beings among us, made of cogs, pieces of paper, small disks of shiny metal, scraps of coloured cloth. I do not need to encounter more of them. Instead I will say, "Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers; take me to your deaths." These are worth it. These are what I have come for.

  Margaret Atwood

  Dream, Mistake, Shoes

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• After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

  Barbara Cartland

  Funny, Birthday, Women

  Quoted in Times (London), 6 Oct. 1993.

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• Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.

  Thomas Watson

  Godly, Night, Christian Inspirational

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• A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Money, Real, Gambling

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• Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

  William Maxwell

  Happiness, Dark, Light

  William Maxwell (2013). “All the Days and Nights: The Collected Stories”, p.59, Vintage

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• There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Powerful, Winning

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