Charles Dickens Quotes, Uncles Quotes, Dark Quotes

They whirled past the dark trees, as feathers would be swept before a hurricane. Houses, gates, churches, hay-stacks, objects of every kind they shot by, with a velocity and noise like roaring waters suddenly let loose. Still the noise of pursuit grew louder, and still my uncle could hear the young lady wildly screaming, "Faster! Faster!"

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It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Dark Quotes , Night Quotes

The secret studies of an author are the sunken piers upon which is to rest the bridge of his fame, spanning the dark waters of oblivion. They are out of sight, but without them no superstructure can stand secure.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Dark Quotes , Sight Quotes

Powers that be can't stay in control if you have everybody in love and in tune with each other and with the planet, and in tune with the electrons and the dark matter that's moving at the speed of light. That won't work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.

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You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Brother Quotes , Dark Quotes

Faced with the potential of mass atrocities and a call for help from the Libyan people, the United States and our friends and allies stopped Gadhafi's forces in their tracks. A coalition that included the United States, NATO and Arab nations persevered to protect Libyan civilians. So this is a momentous day in the history of Libya. The dark shadow of tyranny has been lifted, and with this enormous promise the Libyan people now have a great responsibility: to build an inclusive and tolerant and democratic Libya that stands as the ultimate rebuke to Gadhafi's dictatorship.

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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools

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Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Fall Quotes , Dark Quotes

Someday our piecing together of knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas we shall either go mad or flee into the safety of a new dark age.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Dark Quotes , Safety Quotes

The God of Israel is sometimes a God who hides Himself, but never a God who absents Himself; sometimes in the dark, but never at a distance.

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Tags : Matthew Henry Quotes , Distance Quotes , Dark Quotes

The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Stars Quotes , Dark Quotes

Unless some effective supranational government can be set up and brought quickly into action, the prospects of peace and human progress are dark and doubtful.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Dark Quotes , Government Quotes

and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea she is the female tunny-fish, round and happy among the males and dense with happy blood, dark rainbow bliss in the sea.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Gay Quotes , Dark Quotes

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

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Trust and start walking. We are not alone in the dark, our path will unfold as we move.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Moving Quotes , Dark Quotes

A picture of my existence... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground in a ploughed field on the edge of a vast open plain on a dark winter night.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Winter Quotes , Dark Quotes

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Lonely Quotes , Dark Quotes

Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Dark Quotes , Depth Quotes

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Dark Quotes , Night Quotes

However much I may be impressed by the difference between a star and the dark space around it, I must not forget that I can see the two only in relation to each other, and that this relation is inseparable.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Stars Quotes , Dark Quotes

Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Father Quotes , Dark Quotes