Winston Churchill Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Night Quotes

I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them what was what; professors who had devoted their lives to mastering and focusing ideas in every branch of learning; who were eager to distribute the treasures they had gathered before they were overtaken by the night. But now I pity undergraduates, when I see what frivolous lives many of them lead in the midst of precious fleeting opportunity. After all, a man's Life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought or Action. Without work there is no play.

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O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Animal Quotes , Night Quotes

The cloud shadows of midnight possess their own repose.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Night Quotes , Clouds Quotes

Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change our perspective of your day and your life.

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Tags : Oprah Winfrey Quotes , Grateful Quotes , Night Quotes

Through the ghoul-guarded gateways of slumber, Past the wan-mooned abysses of night, I have lived o'er my lives without number, I have sounded all things with my sight.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Past Quotes , Night Quotes

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Fear Quotes , Night Quotes

Someone spilled the ink on the canvas. Now boasts: "I painted the night".

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Night Quotes , Ink Quotes

The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Song Quotes , Night Quotes

Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , War Quotes , Night Quotes

Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Farewell Quotes , Night Quotes

Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise, because 'tis light? Did we lie down, because 'twas night? Love which in spite of darkness brought us hither Should in despite of light keep us together.

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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Lying Quotes , Night Quotes

I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator's workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight.

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Tags : Robert Burns Quotes , Sex Quotes , Night Quotes

In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Winter Quotes , Night Quotes

Is mankind alone in the universe? Or are there somewhere other intelligent beings looking up into their night sky from very different worlds and asking the same kind of question?

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Intelligent Quotes , Night Quotes

But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Night Quotes , Light Quotes

The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night is in pursuit of us; but, so far we are pursued by nothing else.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Moon Quotes , Night Quotes

After I handed over all my authority, I feel now our struggle [for Tibet ] become much, much safer. And me personally, the day I officially handed over, that night, very unusual sound. I am quite free now.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Struggle Quotes , Night Quotes

The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Night Quotes

..there is nothing worse than the feeling that no one cares whether we exist or not, that no one is interested in what we have to say about life, and that the world can continue turning without our awkward presence. I began to imagine how many millions of people were, at that moment, feeling utterly useless and wretched—however rich, charming, and delightful they might be—because they were alone that night, as they were yesterday, and as they might well be tomorrow.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Night Quotes , Yesterday Quotes

[Max Planck] was one of the finest people I have ever known... but he really didn't understand physics, [because] during the eclipse of 1919 he stayed up all night to see if it would confirm the bending of light by the gravitational field. If he had really understood [general relativity], he would have gone to bed the way I did

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Night Quotes , Light Quotes