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“A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.”

Should Humans Use Sides Dark Human Nature Expression Criticism Uniforms Ugliness Dark Side Indignation

Author:Mo Yan

“In circumstances as dark as these, it becomes us, as Men and Christians, to reflect that whilst every prudent measure should be taken to ward off the impending judgments, ...at the same time all confidence must be withheld from the means we use; and reposed only on that God rules in the armies of Heaven, and without His whole blessing, the best human counsels are but foolishness.”

Men Should Humans Mean Whole Use Christian Heaven Dark Liberty Taken Circumstances Blessing Judgment Army Foolishness Our Founding Fathers Prudent Us Founding Fathers

Author:John Hancock

“I have worked very hard with Nehru. I told him he should be the light of Asia, to show all those millions how they can shine out, instead of accepting the darkness of Communism.”

Should Hard Shows Light Dark Accepting Shining Lions Asia Nehru

Author:Winston Churchill

“Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.”

Should Writing Art Ends Song Dark Results Quality Mysterious Songwriting End Results

Author:Martin Gore

“If Bacchus ever had a color he could claim for his own, it should surely be the shade of tannin on drunken lips, of John Keat's 'purple-stained mouth,' or perhaps even of Homer's dangerously wine-dark sea.”

Ifs Should Dark Sea Color Mouths Claims Wine Lips Colour Shade Purple Bacchus

Author:Victoria Finlay

“The Loneliness One dare not sound -- And would as soon surmise AS in its Grave go plumbing To ascertain the size -- The Loneliness whose worst alarm Is lest itself should see -- And perish from before itself For just a scrutiny -- The Horror not to be surveyed -- But skirted in the Dark -- With Consciousness suspended -- And Being under Lock -- I fear me this -- is Loneliness -- The Maker of the soul Its Caverns and its Corridors Illuminate -- or seal”

Should Soul Sound Dark Consciousness Worst Loneliness Horror Size Dare Graves Makers Locks Alarms Seals Scrutiny Suspended Corridors Plumbing Caverns Fear Me

Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson

“It is apparently vital that we should be in the dark about ourselves not to be clear about our intentions, fears, and hopes. There is a stubborn effort in us to set up a compact screen between consciousness and the self.”

Should Self Dark Effort Consciousness Clear Intention Screens Stubborn Compact

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Tonight, I should watch the sun set, and think of the impending darkness as a metaphor for my wasted life: once it was bright, and full of potential, and now it is dark and hopeless and bleak. I should not make the mistake of thinking that the moon and the stars represent slim glimmers of hope, or evidence that there is light on the other side. Even if there is light somewhere I will never walk in it again.”

Ifs Thinking Should Light Stars Sides Dark Walks Mistake Watches Darkness Sun Moon Evidence Metaphor Tonight Hopeless Bleak Slim Wasted Life Sun Set

Author:John S. Hall

“I've got a deep dark suspicion that pretty soon we should start looking around for another planet for ourselves.”

Should Dark Planets Suspicion Deep Dark

Author:Wolfgang Borchert

“The significance of God, cause, number, substance or soul consists, as James asserts, in nothing but the tendency of the given concept to make us act or think. If the world should reach a point at which it ceases to care not only about such metaphysical entities but also about murders perpetrated behind closed frontiers or simply in the dark, one would have to conclude that the concepts of such murders have no meaning, that they represent no 'distinct ideas' or truths, since they do not make any 'sensible difference to anybody.”

Ifs Thinking World Should Ideas Soul Care Given Causes Differences Dark Numbers Behinds Concepts Murder Cease Tendencies Substance Significance Sensible Entity Metaphysical Frontiers

Book:Eclipse of Reason

Source: Eclipse of Reason

“We cannot escape our destiny, nor should we try to do so. The leadership of the free world was thrust upon us two centuries ago in that little hall of Philadelphia. In the days following World War II, when the economic strength and power of America was all that stood between the world and the return to the dark ages, Pope Pius XII said, 'The American people have a great genius for splendid and unselfish actions. Into the hands of America God has placed the destinies of an afflicted mankind.' We are indeed, and we are today, the last best hope of man on earth.”

“The Dali Lama and other notable Buddhist teachers have now indicated that since the world has plunged into a dark age, the information available in the tantras, which include the very, very powerful Kundalini release techniques, should be made available to the public.”

World Should Made Philosophy Age Dark Powerful Teacher Information Available Technique Release Buddhist Very Powerful Notable Dark Ages Tantra Lama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is not strange that that early love of the heart should come back, as it so often does when the dim eye is brightening with its last light. It is not strange that the freshest fountains the heart has ever known in its wastes should bubble up anew when the lifeblood is growing stagnant. It is not strange that a bright memory should come to a dying old man, as the sunshine breaks across the hills at the close of a stormy day; nor that in the light of that ray, the very clouds that made the day dark should grow gloriously beautiful.”

“Once in a Cabinet we had to deal with the fact that there had been an outbreak of assaults on women at night. One minister suggested a curfew; women should stay home after dark. I said, 'But it's the men who are attacking the women. If there's to be a curfew, let the men stay home, not the women.”

Ifs Men Should Said Facts Home Night Dark Deals Violence He Man Ministers Assault Attacking Cabinets Outbreaks Curfew

Author:Golda Meir

“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

“We who are crushed to earth with heavy chains, who travel a weary, rugged, thorny road, groping through midnight darkness on earth, earn our right to enjoy the sunshine in the great hereafter. At the grave, at least, we should be permitted to lay our burdens down, that a new world, a world of brightness, may open to us. The light that is denied us here should grow into a flood of effulgence beyond the dark, mysterious shadows of death.”

Source: Behind the scenes; or, Thirty years a slave, and four years in the White house

“Hope, and fear. Twin forces that tugged at us first in one direction and then in another, and which was the stronger no one could say. Of the latter we never spoke, but it was always with us. Fear, constant companion of the peasant. Hunger, ever at hand to jog his elbow should he relax. Despair, ready to engulf him should he falter. Fear; fear of the dark future; fear of the sharpness of hunger; fear of the blackness of death.”

Source: Nectar in a sieve and related readings

“Dark matter is interesting. Basically, the universe is heavier than it should be. Theres whole swathes of stuff we cant account for.”

Should Matter Whole Universe Stuff Dark Interesting Accounts Cant Dark Matter

Author:Talulah Riley

“Among Negroes of my generation there was not only little direct acquaintance or consciously inherited knowledge of Africa, but much distaste and recoil because of what the white world taught them about the Dark Continent. There arose resentment that a group like ours, born and bred in the United States for centuries, should be regarded as Africans at all. They were, as most of them began gradually to assert, Americans. My father's father was particularly bitter about this. He would not accept an invitation to a 'Negro' picnic. He would not segregate himself in any way.”

“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.”

“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

“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

“O ye whose years unfolding fair Are fresh with youth, and free from care, Should vice and indolence desire The garden of your souls to hire, No parleys hold-reject the suit, Nor let one seed the soil pollute. My child their first approach beware, With firmness break the insidious snare, Lest as the acorns grew and throve Into a sun-encircled grove, Thy sins, a dark o'ershadowing tree Shut out the light of Heaven from thee.”

“Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. You toodle along, thinking that all gay men wear leather after dark and should never, ever be permitted around a Little League field. And then one day your best friend from college, the one your kids adore, comes out to you.”

Thinking Men Should Littles Kids Faces Humanity Fall Dark Fields College Gay One Day League Bigotry Homosexuality Stereotype Adore Leather Homophobia Your Best Friend Gay Men Little League

Book:Loud and Clear

Source: Loud and Clear

“The bar... is an exercise in solitude. Above all else, it must be quiet, dark, very comfortable-and, contrary to modern mores, no music of any kind, no matter how faint. In sum, there should be no more than a dozen tables, and a client that doesn't like to talk.”

Should Kind Matter Dark Music Modern Exercise Solitude Quiet Comfortable Tables Alcohol Contrary Bars Dozen

Author:Luis Bunuel

“Let's have a merry journey, and shout about how light is good and dark is not. What we should do is not future ourselves so much. We should now ourselves. "Now thyself" is more important than "know thyself." Reason is what tells us to ignore the present and live in the future. So all we do is make plans. We think that somewhere there are going to be green pastures. It's crazy. Heaven is nothing but a grand, monumental instance of future. Listen, now is good. Now is wonderful.”

Thinking Knows Should Important Reason Light Heaven Dark Plans Wonderful Journey Crazy Future Green Instance Thyself Merry Know Thyself Pastures Green Pastures

Author:Mel Brooks

“When we reverence anything in the mature, it is their virtues or their wisdom, and this is an easy matter. But we reverence the faults and follies of children. We should probably come considerably nearer to the true conception of things if we treated all grown-up persons, of all titles and types, with precisely that dark affection and dazed respect with which we treat the infantile limitations.”

Ifs Should Children Persons Matter Easy Dark Virtue Type Treats Faults Affection Treated Limitation Titles Folly Mature Conception Reverence Infantile Dazed

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom "opinion" than he should fear meeting a ghost if he crossed the churchyard at dark.”

Ifs Men Should Care Dark Opinion Conscience Meetings Ghost Sole Phantoms Tribunals

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Dark sides are important. They should be nurtured like nasty black orchids.”

Should Important Sides Black Dark Nasty Dark Side Orchids

Author:Gillian Flynn

“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

“The Singapore judicial system's shameful recourse to using torture - in the form of caning - to punish crimes that should be misdemeanors is indicative of a blatant disregard for international human rights standards, one of the defendants said that sentencing day was the darkest day of his life, but in reality every day that Singapore keeps caning on its books is a dark day for the country's international reputation.”

“My wife has to be the worst cook. I don't believe meatloaf should glow in the dark”

Should Believe Humor Funny Dark Wife Worst Don't Believe My Wife Cooks Believe In Me Glow In The Dark Meatloaf

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“I don't think there is anything wrong with watching violence but I just think you have to present it in the appropriate light. I was like just watch how many accidents and deaths horror causes. Whereas I don't think anybody is going to go: "Oh, I just saw The Shining and I think I'm going to go axe somebody!" These movies aren't for everybody. The dark side of anything isn't for everybody. I think that you have to have some sort of responsibility in how you portray it because I always want the violence to seem real and if it seems disgusting then good, because it should.”

Ifs Thinking Want Should Real Light Seems Causes Sides Dark Responsibility Watches Saws Violence Horror Shining Accidents Appropriate Disgusting Dark Side

Author:Rob Zombie

“Oh, it is sad for a poor Christian to stand at the door of the promise, in the dark night of affliction, afraid to draw the latch, whereas he should then come boldly for shelter as a child into his father's house.”

Should Children Christian Night Father House Dark Poor Doors Promise Draws Shelter Affliction Dark Night Latches

Author:William Gurnall

“I was on a bus once, it was in the middle of the night, and I had a box of crackers and a can of Easy Cheese. It was dark, and it was a surprise how much cheese I had applied on each cracker. That's why they should have a glow-in-the-dark version of Easy Cheese. It's not like the product has any integrity to begin with. If you buy a room-temperature cheese that you squeeze out of a can, you probably won't get mad because it glows in the dark too.”

Ifs Should Humor Funny Night Easy Dark Rooms Middle Products Integrity Should Have Mad Surprise Boxes Versions Bus Cheese Temperature Middle Of The Night Crackers Glow In The Dark

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.”

Should Body Age Force Dark Sleep Ought Exercise Medicine Medical Physicians Moderation Dark Ages Digestion Recruit

Author:Voltaire

“So, most of it was done over the phone. But one of the first things I did as a director, because it's one of the first things you should do, even though most don't, is to ask good actors who they think is right for the part. They know better than anybody. But without missing a beat Maggie said Pauline Collins. I didn't know Pauline because I hadn't seen Shirley Valentine, but then I saw this thing that she did with Woody Allen [You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger], in which she was wonderful as a psychic, and I said to her on the phone: "The dialogue seemed improvised."”

Thinking Knows Should Firsts Said Done Actors Asks Dark Saws Wonderful Missing Directors Beats Phones Stranger Dialogue Tall Valentine Psychics Woody Good Actors Maggie

Author:Dustin Hoffman

“Travelers should only read after dark.”

Should Dark Traveler

Book:Eccentric Spaces

Source: Eccentric Spaces

“I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions.”

Thinking Should Hard Culture Dark Novelists Poke Dark Places Hard Questions

Author:Dana Spiotta

“The sight of stars always sets me dreaming just as naively as those black dots on a map set me dreaming of towns and villages. Why should these points of light in the firmament, I wonder, be less accessible than the dark ones on the map of France? We take a train to go to Torascon or Roven and we take death to a star.”

Should Dream Light Stars Black Dark Wonder Sight Towns Train France Maps Village Dots Firmament Points Of Light

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Self-defense is only an illusion, a dark cloak beneath which lurks a razor-sharp dagger waiting to be plunged into the first unwary victim. Whoever declares that any weapon manufactured today, whether it be a nuclear missile or a .38 special, is created for self-defense should look a little more closely at his own image in the mirror. Either he is a liar or is deceiving himself.”

Should Firsts Looks Littles Self Today Waiting Dark Special Weapons Illusion Mirrors Victim Defense Nuclear Liars Deceiving Missiles Self Defense Cloaks Razors Daggers Nuclear Missiles

Author:Wong Shun Leung

“The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is recorded by a series of observers, none of whom is impartial. The facts are distorted by sheer passage of time and thousands of years of humanity's dark ages, deliberate misrepresentations by religious sects, and the inevitable corruption that comes from an accumulation of careless mistakes. The wise person, then, views history as a set of lessons to be learned, choices and ramifications to be considered and discussed, and mistakes that should never again be made.”

“Slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back; I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.”

Should Dark One Thing Streets Built Slavery South Merit Just Saying Posthumous

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“If you see really bright lights, or hear really loud noises, go towards them, don't run away from anything. It's like giving someone instructions on how to handle a bear, don't run away from it. Stand up and try to make yourself look as big as possible. Don't give it the signal that it should chase you. And that's the case with the after death visions. Don't go for dark seductive lights, go only for bright lights.”

Ifs Giving Should Trying Looks Bigs Light Running Dark Vision Cases Bears Handle Noise Loud Instruction Running Away Signals After Death Seductive Bright Lights Loud Noises

Author:Robert Thurman

“I mean, let's face it, we didn't have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: Slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back. I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.”

Should Years Mean Country Faces Dark One Thing Streets Built Opposites Slavery South Merit Bad Things Just Saying Posthumous

Author:Dave Zirin

“In the feeding of hospital patients, more attention should be given to providing tasty and attractive meals, and less to the nutritive quality of the food.”

Should Age Given Dark Attention Quality Patient Medical Attractive Meals Hospitals Providing Feeding Dark Ages Tasty

Author:Frederick J. Stare

“Confuse the enemy. Keep him in the dark on your intentions. Sometimes what seems a victory isn't really a victory and sometimes a defeat isn't really a defeat. Whether in attacking, counterattacking, or defensive tactics, the idea of attacking should remain central, to always keep the initiative.”

Should Ideas Sometimes Seems Dark Enemy Victory Intention Defeat Initiative Tactics Attacking

Author:Vo Nguyen Giap

“I kept thinking maybe in the future editions [of Dark Money] I should sell it along with, like, some kind of, you know, Pepto Bismol or something. I wanted it to read a little bit like a thriller, so that it truly grabbed people.”

People Thinking Knows Should Kind Littles Wanted Bits Dark Little Bit Sells Thrillers

Author:Jane Mayer

“There's a strong nativist tradition - saying, "we have to protect ourselves" - that comes from the founding of the country. If you read Benjamin Franklin, who was one of the leading figures of the Enlightenment in the United States and the most distinguished representative of the movement here, he actually advised that the newly founded republic should block Germans and Swedes because they were too "swarthy" - dark.”

Ifs Should Country States Strong Dark United United States Figures Movement Protect Enlightenment Tradition Block Republic Representatives Founding Distinguished Franklin

Author:Noam Chomsky

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