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“We also have to work, though, sort of the dark side, if you will. We've got to spend time in the shadows in the intelligence world. A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies... That's the world these folks operate in, and so it's going to be vital for us to use any means at our disposal, basically, to achieve our objective.”

Ifs World Needs Mean Done Use Sides Dark Achieve Source Shadow Method Folks Available Objectives Discussion Agency End Times Spend Time Dark Side Intelligence Agencies

Author:Dick Cheney

“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.”

Sometimes Dark Distance Israel

Author:Matthew Henry

“The Mosaic religion had been a Father religion; Christianity became a Son religion. The old God, the Father, took second place; Christ, the Son, stood in His stead, just as in those dark times every son had longed to do.”

Father Christ Dark Christianity Son Dark Times Mosaics Second Place

Book:MOSES AND MONOTHEISM

Source: MOSES AND MONOTHEISM

“As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the collector comprehend.”

Doe Dark Flight Extinction Collectors Owl Hegel Minerva

Book:Illuminations

Source: Illuminations

“Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.”

Writing Mind Wells Self Dark Essentials Corners Self Knowledge Subconscious Subconscious Mind Deep Dark

Author:Meg Rosoff

“The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosophers Stone.”

Heart Stills Hard Dark Stones Philosopher

Book:Collected Prose

Source: Collected Prose

“I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated.”

Kids Dark My Family Complicated

Author:Amanda Palmer

“In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.”

Thinking Young Choices Culture Black Dark White Novel Reader Adults Absolutes Young Adult Defined Gray Shade Satisfying Black And White Shades Of Gray

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“When I'm working on a Slipknot song, it's like a switch flips in my head. I can go there easily - it doesn't take a lot of soul searching - and it's a dark, almost sinister place. Stone Sour is more the way I've always written. It's a different tone.”

Way I Can Different Soul Song Dark Written Stones Tone Soul Searching Flip Sour Sinister Stone Sour

Author:Corey Taylor

“Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast. How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. Admirer as I think I am Of stars that do not give a damn, I cannot, now I see them, say I missed one terribly all day. Were all stars to disappear or die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime, Though this might take me a little time.”

“That's what being shy feels like. Like my skin is too thin, the light too bright. Like the best place I could possibly be is in a tunnel far under the cool, dark earth. Someone asks me a question and I stare at them, empty-faced, my brain jammed up with how hard I'm trying to find something interesting to say. And in the end, all I can do is nod or shrug, because the light of their eyes looking at me, waiting for me, is just too much to take. And then it's over and there's one more person in the world who thinks I'm a complete and total waste of space.”

“Don't google your name. Ever. Don't “search” for yourself on anything that glows in the dark. Don't let your beauty be something anyone can turn off. Don't edit your ugly out of your bio. Let your light come from the fire. Let your pain be the spark, but not the timber. Remember, you didn't come here to write your heart out. You came to write it in.”

Writing Heart Light Pain Remember Turns Names Dark Fire Ugly Sparks Google Edits Remember You Remembers You Turn Off Timber Bios Glow In The Dark

Author:Andrea Gibson

“Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.”

Ifs Two Dark Goes On Glowing Life Goes On

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“A key purpose of journalism is to provide an adversarial check on those who wield the greatest power by shining a light on what they do in the dark, and informing the public about those acts.”

Light Purpose Dark Keys Shining Checks Journalism Informing

Author:Glenn Greenwald

“There's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink.”

World Want Dark Drink Warm Bars Buzz Apps Bourbon

Book:The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects

Source: The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects

“Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen Antoine Saint-Just, of the National Convention and the Committee of Public Safety. In the dark and harrowing days of '94, an obscene feminine inversion will appear: a thin crimson ribbon, worn round a bare white neck.”

Ifs Mean Grows Dark White Higher Citizens Protect Highest Safety Rounds Saint Necks Feminine Throat Conventions Worn Committees Public Life Obscene Ribbons Crimson Public Safety Inversions

Author:Hilary Mantel

“How do you know the chosen ones? No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, not for glory, not for fame... for one person. In the dark. Where no one will ever know or see.”

Knows Men Persons Dark Millions Greater Brother Fame Glory Lays Chosen Do You Know Chosen One Greater Love Babylon 5

Author:SebastiAn

“Curiosity takes ignorance seriously - and is confident enough to admit when it's in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.”

Enough Dark Knowing Ignorance Curiosity Not Knowing

Author:Alain de Botton

“At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure emotion, flung back and forth among its creatures, the agony of the one-eyed Siamese no different from that of the Lisbon girls, and even the trees plunged in feeling.”

World Different Feelings Night Girl Fighting Dark Emotion Tree Cry Pure Creatures Cat Agony Making Love Back And Forth

Book:The Virgin Suicides: A Novel

Source: The Virgin Suicides: A Novel

“I'm not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments, it's true, but I do have a sense of humor.”

Moments Individual Dark Sense Of Humor

Author:Alan Moore

“I've always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don't say anything for shock value.”

Has Beens Values Dark Shock Say Anything Shock Value

Author:Amy Schumer

“The nobility of Teresa Leo's poems is that they are not disposed to hide from the dark-rather, they display a mind that tends toward obsession and brooding, that works against fatality like fingers at a knot. The firm, attentive mind on display and the lucid unfolding of the poems are the life instinct seeking and finding its way through again and again. Love and beauty are the argument, but they don't win easily. Bloom in Reverse works through elegy toward survival with moving persistence, both driven and compelling.”

“Im not a fan of grilling meat, since that tends to dry it out, and I find grill marks leave a bitter taste. A good steak house will offer different options for preparation, and I would ask them to broil or pan-roast the steak and finish it with butter. It ends up a dark chocolate color and stays very juicy.”

Different Ends Asks House Dark Fans Color Taste Offers Mark Bitter Preparation Meat Dry Chocolate Steak Juicy Dark Chocolate Grilling Bitter Taste Steak House

Author:Tom Colicchio

“Let it be a settled principle in our minds, in reading the Bible, that Christ is the central sun of the whole book. So long as we keep Him in view, we shall never greatly err in our search for spiritual knowledge. Once losing sight of Christ, we shall find the whole Bible dark and full of difficulty.”

Mind Long Book Whole Spiritual Reading Christ Dark Views Principles Sun Losing Sight Difficulty Spiritual Knowledge Reading The Bible

Book:Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke

Source: Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke

“The moon grew full, then slowly pared itself down until it shriveled into a ghostly boat riding above the roiling dark. Then it fell out of the sky. They climbed into it, left land behind, and floated out to sea.”

Left Dark Behinds Sea Sky Land Grew Moon Boat Riding

Book:Song for the Basilisk

Source: Song for the Basilisk

“Today, in the Twenty-First Century, an age of jet aircraft, personal computers, wireless telecommunications, laser surgery, and incipient space travel, the mentality with which many presumably educated, intelligent people approach matters of economics and business is, however astonishing it may seem, still that of the Dark Ages.”

“You must go into the dark in order to bring forth your light.”

Light Order Dark

Author:Debbie Ford

“As I enter the small intestine I get squeezed by muscles. Its dark and the walls look like slimey crushed velvet theres pancreas juice on me help me I am disintigrating.”

Looks Helping Dark Wall Muscles Help Me Juice Crushed Velvet Intestines Pancreas

Author:Lynda Barry

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in the lives of all of us, and of the saints, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints. Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.”

“I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.”

Want Stuff Dark Negative Video Unbelievable Manson Dark Things

Author:Sammy Hagar

“Meg Pokrass writes like a brain looking for a body. Wonderful, dark, unforgiving.”

Writing Body Dark Brain Wonderful Unforgiving Meg

Author:Frederick Barthelme

“I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us.”

Writing Night Dark Moon Bottles Spills Chalk

Author:John J. Geddes

“And if I remain in the dark about our purpose here, and the meaning of eternity, I have nevertheless arrived at an understanding of a few more modest truths: Most of us fear death. Most of us yearn to comprehend how we got here, and why-- which is to say, most of us ache to know the love of our creator. And we will no doubt feel that ache, most of us, for as long as we happen to be alive.”

Ifs Knows Feels Long Happens Purpose Understanding Dark Doubt Alive Eternity Creator No Doubt Nevertheless Modest Ache Fear Of Death

Book:Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

Source: Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

“I believe that the dark night of the soul is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and perseverance. It helps to know that others have endured a loss of faith.”

Knows Believe Soul Helping Spiritual Night I Believe Dark Loss Answers Common Perseverance Seeking Spiritual Experience Dark Night Dark Night Of The Soul Loss Of Faith

Author:Julia Cameron

“Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter.”

Ifs Important Dark Color Scene Brighter Seductive Somber

Author:Donna Mills

“But I will wear white - the whitest white! - purest most pristine white! - through the dark terrible days of winter - as no man of our time will ever dare.”

Men Dark White Terrible Winter Dare Our Time Pristine Terrible Day

Author:will.i.am

“Wars of small kingdoms and forgotten lands, what do chessmen dream of in the dark?”

War Dream Dark Land Forgotten Kingdoms

Author:Keri Hulme

“A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting.”

World Looks Whole Night Belief Church Dark Prayer Meetings Winter Whole World Dull Superstitions Depressing Wednesday Methodists Prayer Meeting Dark Depressing Wednesday Nights

Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.”

Men Belief Black Dark Rooms He Man Cat Blind Philosopher Superstitions Theologian Blind Man Dark Room Black Cat

Author:Laurence J. Peter

“I hate Christmas. I do think it is odd that I have wound up playing these two iconic Christmas haters. It is the same story, in a way. Scrooge is the original Grinch. I think I am perfectly suited, because I have had some dark Christmases.”

Thinking Way Two Stories Hate Dark I Hate Originals Wounds Odd Iconic Scrooge

Author:Jim Carrey

“I just want to work with talented people who are enjoyable to be with, and take big huge risks from high comedy to deep, dark, brooding drama, to thriller. I just want to go back and forth.”

People Want Bigs Dark Comedy Risk Huge Drama Enjoyable Back And Forth Thrillers Brooding Deep Dark

Author:Frank Oz

“I was lucky enough to be a "type." Sort of a bad-guy type at the time, because I was tall and I had dark eyes. A lot of times, you don't have to be good; you just have to be the right type.”

Enough Eye Guy Dark Type Lucky Be Good Tall Bad Guys Dark Eyes

Author:Kurt Fuller

“There seems to be something poetically that doesn't work or is limiting when you call God 'God' in a poem. When I tried to be honest with myself in my relationship with God, Christ is, on the one hand, completely dark, he's transcendent and unknown. On the other hand, he is completely imminent and completely knowable as Jesus. Our tradition speaks of him in both ways as transcendent but also as a lover who comes to us, and the two word 'Dark One' seem to me to contain both things, the transcendence and otherness of Christ, but also like a kind of dark lover who comes to us.”

Way Kind Two Hands Seems Jesus Speak Christ Dark Honest Lovers Tradition Being Honest Transcendence Transcendent Relationship With God Otherness

Author:Kevin Hart

“We account for all the matter and energy that we're familiar with, measure up how much gravity it should have, it's one-sixth of the gravity that's actually operating on the universe. We call that dark matter. It really should be called dark gravity. We don't know what that is.”

Knows Should Matter Universe Energy Dark Should Have Accounts Familiar Gravity Dark Matter Matter And Energy

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Being on TV in front of people is a lot different than sitting in a dark room with a microphone. When I had my radio show, I was on four hours a day for 20-something years. If you put a live microphone in front of Mother Teresa for that amount of time, she'd piss somebody off.”

People Ifs Years Different Shows Mother Hours Dark Rooms Four Fronts Tvs Amount Sitting Radio Microphones Teresa Dark Room

Author:Wendy Williams

“Trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times. If you get lost and you just end up eating just anywhere, you know, you see a bunch of Venetians sitting around smoking cigarettes, eating something unrecognizable in a dark alley somewhere, chances are it's interesting.”

“Essentially, in photography, I think on two levels: one emotional and the other technical. The emotional impact has to do with looking for something dramatic happening in the photograph, something that reaches out and touches somebody in some way. And the technical is having to do with composition and framing - light and dark, light and shadow.”

Thinking Way Two Light Dark Levels Emotional Photography Happenings Shadow Impact Photograph Dramatic Reach Out Composition Light And Dark Framing Light And Shadow

Author:Leonard Nimoy

“In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and whats behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand.”

Ifs Littles Next Bits Sides Dark Behinds Doors Little Bit Gains Edges What If Floating Dark Side Examining Quicksand

Author:Trent Reznor

“It is necessary that one be a light to oneself in a world that is becoming utterly dark.”

World Light Dark Becoming Oneself

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.”

Doe Soul Fighting Dark Soldier Corners Battlefields Alleys Dig Deep Back Alleys

Author:William Butler Yeats

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