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Source: The best of Vance Havner

“For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.”

People Light Certain Social Sides Dark Misfortunes Social Life Light Up Beacons

“How thick the fog is. I can't see the road. All the people in the world could pass by and I would never know. I wish it was always that way. It's getting dark already. It will soon be night, thank goodness.”

People Knows World Way I Can Night Wish Dark Goodness Thick Fog

Book:Complete Plays: 1932-1943

Source: Complete Plays: 1932-1943

“We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.”

People Needs Looks Passion Energy Fear Sides Dark Darkness Pieces Busy Dark Side Passion For Life

Author:Sue Grafton

“It's quite hard to find a ballsy or complex character. So the roles I've taken are those. Lot's of people put me in the dark category.”

People Hard Character Dark Roles Taken Complexes Categories Complex Characters

Author:Eva Green

“You cannot be naïve about evil. You cannot be naïve to the reality that there are human beings and human situations which have totally identified with the dark side of reality. They are malicious. Realism teaches you to put up appropriate boundaries so that people can't do any more evil than possible. But that doesn't mean you do evil back to them.”

People Humans Mean Reality Evil Sides Dark Human Beings Situation Teach Boundaries Appropriate Realism Dark Side Malicious

Author:Richard Rohr

“A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.”

People World Children Light Stars Dark Sky Corners Abyss Penetrate Grownups

Book:Midnight

Source: Midnight

“Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.”

People Thinking Certain Given Dark Quality Magic Tradition Woods Landscape Realism Yankees Magic Realism Hawthorne Dark Woods

Author:Alice Hoffman

“People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.”

People Light Dark Candle Light Up

Author:Irwin Shaw

“The reputations of the Lord's people should be very precious in our sight...We may ourselves one of these dark days need forbearance and silence from our brethren, let us render it cheerfully to those who require it now. Be this our family rule, and our personal bond: Speak evil of no man.”

People Men Needs Should May Evil Speak Dark Silence Lord Sight Reputation Our Family Brethren Forbearance Dark Days

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“of all the deprivations which afflict humankind, none is more dreadful than loneliness. A corrosive, it eats the heart out. People were meant to live by twos, with someone close with whom to share good and bad, to hear breathing in the dark room at night. Being alone is the one unnatural act.”

People Heart Night Dark Rooms Share Loneliness Breathing Live By Humankind Good And Bad Unnatural Deprivation Dark Room

Author:Zelda Popkin

“So the shortest day came, and the year died, / And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world / Came people singing, dancing, / To drive the dark away.”

People World Years Dark White Century Singing Died Dancing Snow Snow White Singing Dancing

Book:The Magic Maker: A Portrait of John Langstaff, Creator of the Christmas Revels

Source: The Magic Maker: A Portrait of John Langstaff, Creator of the Christmas Revels

“The Afghansti have caused a great many people a great deal of grief and have themselves suffered - for a lie, let us not forget - the same ways we in the United States have caused much suffering in Southeast Asia, and have also suffered much in return, also for a lie. It was no small betrayal, no small lesson for a man to learn at the age of 19. Any soldier returning home must rediscover his humanity and establish a livable peace with the discovered, liberated, permanently dark places in his own heart -the darkness that is always with us.”

“I have long admired Caroline Leavitt's probing insight into people, her wit and compassion, her ability to find humor in dark situations, and conversely, her tenderness towards characters.”

People Long Character Dark Ability Compassion Situation Insight Wit Tenderness Probing

Author:Dan Chaon

“Living in a culture that prefers to shut out the dark, avoid shadows, and anesthetize pain means that many people are isolated. ... Family, friends, and co-workers, fearful of the dark, are reluctant to participate in our shadow experience and may urge us to be done with the dark before it is done with us.”

People May Mean Done Pain Culture Dark Trouble Shadow Workers Urges Fearful Isolated Reluctant Family Friends Co Worker

Author:Susan Wittig Albert

“May we, as image makers, shapers of the culture, set our sights on things we value, rituals we engage in that heal and serve. May our images honor the ordinary endeavors of common people, and may they make their way to the eyes of the weary - light to the dark, fire to the chill.”

People Way May Light Eye Values Culture Dark Common Fire Honor Ordinary Sight Heal Endeavor Makers Ritual Weary Chill

Book:A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind: A Wake Up Call

Source: A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind: A Wake Up Call

“Trauma really does confront you with the best and the worst. You see the horrendous things that people do to each other, but you also see resiliency, the power of love, the power of caring, the power of commitment, the power of commitment to oneself, the knowledge that there are things that are larger than our individual survival. And in some ways, I don't think you can appreciate the glory of life unless you also know the dark side of life”

People Thinking Knows Way Doe Individual Sides Dark Worst Survival Glory Commitment Appreciate Oneself Caring Trauma Dark Side Power Of Love Resiliency

Author:Bessel van der Kolk

“Any swagger is just defense. When youre reminded so much of who you are by people - not a fame thing, but with my size, constantly, growing up - you just either curl up in a corner in the dark or you wear it proudly, like armor or something. You can turn it on its head and use it yourself before anybody else gets a chance.”

People Use Turns Dark Chance Growing Up Growing Fame Who You Are Size Corners Defense Armor Curls Swagger

Author:Peter Dinklage

“That's the joy of acting - you get to play people who are not you; you get to explore the dark, hidden sides of yourself.”

People Play Joy Sides Dark Acting

Author:Julie Kavner

“Not many people know this about me, but I'm a natural blonde. My hair went from light blonde naturally to a darker kind of blonde. My mother dyed my hair dark when I was a child, as I loved the look then. So I'm basically a natural blonde.”

People Knows Looks Kind Children Light Mother Natural Dark Hair Blonde

Author:Angelina Jolie

“The thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human. They're full of flaws as much as they are full of heroics. I think the reason that people love them and hate them so much is because, in some way, they always see a mirror of themselves in them, and you can always understand them on some level. Sometimes it's a terrifyingly dark mirror that's held up.”

People Thinking Way Humans Sometimes Reason Character Hate Literature Speak Dark Levels Mirrors Flaws Fictional Character

Author:Keira Knightley

“People are incredibly literal sometimes in how they view you. You have dark hair and pale skin? You must be brooding. The second you dye your hair blond and get a spray tan, people treat you as if you're a bit stupider and happier.”

People Ifs Sometimes Bits Dark Views Hair Skins Treats Pale Literal Spray Brooding Dark Hair Pale Skin

Author:Anna Paquin

“I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.”

People Thinking Two Play Hours Dark Half Jokes Manners Invites Retired Half Hours Bad Manners

Author:Bill Nighy

“Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt...people.”

People Humor Water Hurt Religious Dark Ready Woods Demon Wilderness Black Clouds

Author:Martin Luther

“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.”

“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

“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

“Pompeii, especially, with its grand murals and its flourishing gardens haunted by the dark shadow of Vesuvius, has always suggested uncomfortable parallels with our contemporary world, especially here in Southern California, where the sunlit life also turns out to have dark shadows in which failure and death lurk at the edge of consciousness. Now in these times, we have even closer parallels with those ancient, beautiful, affluent people living the good life on the verge of annihilation.”

“I really only write about inner landscapes and most people don't see them, because they see practically nothing within, because they think that because it's inside, it's dark, and so they don't see anything. I don't think I've ever yet, in any of my books, described a landscape. There's really nothing of the kind in any of them. I only ever write concepts. And so I'm always referring to "mountains" or "a city" or "streets." But as to how they look: I've never produced a description of a landscape. That's never even interested me.”

People Thinking Writing Looks Kind Book Dark Cities Streets Mountain Concepts Landscape Description Referring

Author:Thomas Bernhard

“No saint, no pope, no general, no sultan, has ever had the power that a filmmaker has; the power to talk to hundreds of millions of people for two hours in the dark.”

People Two Hours Dark Millions Saint Filmmaker Movie Pope

Author:Frank Capra

“This was how you wound up in the Inquisition. When you stopped being able to see any difference between Light Ones and Dark Ones. When for you, people weren't even a flock of sheep, but just a handful of spiders in a glass jar. When you stopped believing in the future, and all you wanted to do was preserve the status quo. For yourself. For those few individuals who were still dear to you.”

People Believe Stills Light Able Wanted Individual Differences Dark Dear Glasses Wounds Preserves Sheep Status Quo Spiders Handful Flocks Jars Inquisition

Book:The Twilight Watch: (Night Watch 3)

Source: The Twilight Watch: (Night Watch 3)

“People want fun and escapism at the moment. Look at the success of Guardians of the Galaxy. I think Nolan kick-started a very dark, bleak style of superhero escapism, and I think people have had enough of it.”

People Thinking Want Looks Enough Moments Fun Dark Style Kicks Galaxy Superhero Guardian Escapism Had Enough Bleak Nolan

Author:Matthew Vaughn

“People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.”

People Thinking Should Writing Artist Dark Cases Absolutes Parallels Gloomy Jolly Chaps Naivety

Author:Michael Haneke

“I lived in lower-income neighborhoods in the inner city. Across the street were dark parts of the world. I've experienced the gamut, from third world to inner city to my parents working their way out of being secretaries and janitors to professors and real-estate people. They've shown me a path of perseverance and hard work in a peaceable way.”

People World Way Real Hard Parent Dark Cities Path Streets Hard Work Thirds Perseverance Income Neighborhood Professors Secretary Estates Third World Inner City Janitor Perseverance And Hard Work

Author:Kenna

“I kind of feel that once we're back in London and back in regular life, I just sort of get the bus and very occasionally this whole other role [ in Chronicels of Narnia] slips into my home life. Randomly people recognise me but even then it's very minor. It's not as if my life has been turned on its head and I can't walk down the street unless I'm wearing dark sunglasses and a ninja kit.”

People Ifs Feels Kind Has Beens I Can Whole Home Dark Walks Roles Streets London Bus Slips Minors Recognise Sunglasses Narnia Ninja Home Life

Author:Skandar Keynes

“If you can't get your core audience to watch the show, it's very hard to then pull in enough people outside of your fan base to your network. The networks are just so branded now; USA can't really do a dark despairing drama and FX can't do a blue-sky show. People watch the networks they watch.”

People Ifs Hard Enough Shows Dark Watches Audience Sky Fans Drama Blue Core Usa Blue Sky Branded

Author:Warren Leight

“The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.”

People Looks Political Dark Horizon Providence

Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“When I was growing up I used to think that the best thing about coming from Des Moines was that it meant you didn't come from anywhere else in Iowa. By Iowa standards, Des Moines is a mecca of cosmopolitanism, a dynamic hub of wealth and education, where people wear three-piece suits and dark socks, often simultaneously.”

People Thinking Used Three Wealth Dark Growing Up Pieces Growing Standards Suits Best Things Sock Iowa Mecca Hub Cosmopolitanism Des Moines

Book:The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America

Source: The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America

“The inference is, that God has restated the superiority of the West. God always does like that when a thousand white people surround one dark one. Dark people are always "bad" when they do not admit the Divine Plan like that. A certain Javanese man who sticks up for Indonesian Independence is very lowdown by the papers, and suspected of being a Japanese puppet.”

Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

“When Americans look out on the world, they see nothing but dark and menacing strangers who appear to have no sense of rhythm at all, nor any respect or affection for white people; and white Americans really do not know what to make of all this, except to increase the defense budget.”

People Knows World Looks Dark White Increase Affection Stranger Defense Rhythm Budgets

Author:James A. Baldwin

“Oh thumb, I want a drink it is dark, where are the big people, when will I get there...?”

People Want Bigs Dark Childhood Drink Thumbs

Book:The death notebooks

Source: The death notebooks

“The first reform must be the attitude. The ministers of the Gospel must be people who can warm the hearts of the people, who walk through the dark night with them, who know how to dialogue and to descend themselves into their people's night, into the darkness, but without getting lost. The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.”

“I'd say people are victims of circumstances and they're limited to the opportunities that they see. Even though there might be more opportunities, you might not see them. You might just think, "I don't have any options." You usually go to the dark side, in that situation.”

People Thinking Might Opportunity Sides Dark Situation Circumstances Victim Dark Side Victims Of Circumstance

Author:Ice T

“I think I connect to people who could be written off as wild or dark, or who are just full of fire and looking for a place to put that fire. It's an important lesson to learn, and it's something I did learn: you live on behalf of others and you're happier and you have purpose. And you have a great excuse to have all that fire.”

People Thinking Important Purpose Dark Fire Written Lessons Excuse Behalf Important Lessons

Author:Angelina Jolie

“There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.”

People Stories Heaven Dark Broken Computer Fairy Afterlife Relatable Broken Down Afraid Of Death Fairy Stories Not Afraid Of Death Early Death

Author:Stephen Hawking

“I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.”

People Ifs Feels Should Littles Long Soul Earth Night Heaven Dark Dying Busy Atheist Bees Stoic Dark Night Dark Night Of The Soul Busy Bee

Author:Edmund White

“It is a blessing to have pretty people around me. I like people who are sparky, positive. Evil, dark people are repelled by me: Oooh no! Too much sunlight.”

People Evil Dark Too Much Blessing Sunlight Pretty People

Author:Geri Halliwell

“Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled by caution. The people asleep in those houses, I thought, tried to live like the mice in their own kitchens; to make no noise, to leave no trace, to slip over the surface of things in the dark.”

People House Individual Natural Dark Taste Surface Noise Kitchen Appetite Slips Mice Caution

Book:My çntonia

Source: My çntonia

“Snobs are people who look down on other people, but that does not justify our looking down on them. Who can say what dark fears of being inferior lurk behind their superior airs or what they suffer in private for the slights they dish out in public?”

People Looks Doe Suffering Dark Behinds Air Superiors Justify Dishes Inferiors Snob Looking Down

Book:Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith

Source: Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith

“When you are on the bright side of life, do not forget the people who are on the dark side and remember that man can easily slip from one side to the other!”

People Men Life Remember Sides Dark Forget Slips Dark Side Bright Side

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

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