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“The state of mind of a fighter is so important. I don't like to see a fighter stay locked up in a room. Sometimes it works against them. They think and they worry. They dwell, sitting in that dark room. You come back and they're psyched out. I like to see boxers eat and then walk, mingle with people. You have to have a certain amount of movement.”

People Thinking Mind Important Sometimes States Certain Dark Walks Rooms Worry Movement Amount Sitting Fighter State Of Mind Locked Boxers Locked Up Dark Room

Author:Emanuel Steward

“In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.”

Knows Want Needs Persons Sometimes Lasts Enjoy Loses Dark Silence Talking Couple Really Great Say Anything

Author:Anton Yelchin

“Ordinary men live in fear all the time. Didn't you know that? We're afraid of the weather, we're afraid of powerful men, we're afraid of the night and the monsters that lurk in the dark, we're afraid of growing old and of dying. Sometimes we're even afraid of living. Ordinary men are afraid almost every minute of their lives.”

Knows Men Sometimes Night Dark Powerful Growing Minutes Dying Ordinary Monsters Weather Growing Old Ordinary Man Powerful Man

Book:Magician's Gambit: Book Three Of The Belgariad

Source: Magician's Gambit: Book Three Of The Belgariad

“Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are those who resent it. But art is not meant to stop the stream of life. Within a narrow span of duration and space the work of art concentrates a view of the human condition; and sometimes it marks the steps of progression, just as a man climbing the dark stairs of a medieval tower assures himself by the changing sights glimpsed through its narrow windows that he is getting somewhere after all.”

Source: Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order

“Sin doesn't always look sinful to us; sometimes it looks beautiful. That's why we need grace to see sin for what it really is - dark, dangerous, enslaving and destructive.”

Needs Looks Sometimes Beautiful Dark Sin Grace Dangerous Destructive

Author:Paul David Tripp

“Reading Shakespeare is sometimes like looking through a window into a dark room. You don't see in. You see nothing but a reflection of yourself unable to see in. An unflattering image of yourself blind.”

Sometimes Reading Dark Rooms Reflection Window Blind Dark Room Reflection Of Yourself Reading Shakespeare

Author:Antony Sher

“I like to hear songs which can lay it all on, songs which can look at the dark side as well as the bright side, sometimes they can be as strong as each other. Love and hatred are close.”

Wells Looks Sometimes Song Strong Sides Dark Hatred Lays Dark Side Bright Side Hatred And Love

Author:Jim Capaldi

“For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things that children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. This terror, therefore, and darkness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of daylight, but by the aspect and law of nature.”

Mind Children Sometimes Light Law Dark Darkness Sun Imagine Aspect Blind Terror Rays Laws Of Nature

Author:Lucretius

“Painful as the task is to describe the dark side of our affairs, it sometimes becomes a matter of indispensable necessity.”

Sometimes Matter Sides Dark Tasks Affair Painful Indispensable Dark Side

Book:The Writings of George Washington: pt. II. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to the American revolution: (v. 3) June, 1775-July, 1776. (v. 4) July, 1776-July] 1777. (v. 5) July, 1777-July, 1778. (v. 6) July, 1778-March, 1780. (v. 7) March, 1780-April, 1781. (v. 8) April, 1781-December, 1783

Source: The Writings of George Washington: pt. II. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to the American revolution: (v. 3) June, 1775-July, 1776. (v. 4) July, 1776-July] 1777. (v. 5) July, 1777-July, 1778. (v. 6) July, 1778-March, 1780. (v. 7) March, 1780-April, 1781. (v. 8) April, 1781-December, 1783

“The most interesting heroes have a bit of villainy to them, and the most interesting villains have a certain bit of heroism in them. I think (Alan Shore) intends to do the right thing, but his view of the world is very different so, to get to the right place, he sometimes takes a path that goes through a very dark forest.”

Thinking World Different Sometimes Certain Bits Dark Interesting Views Path Hero Forests Right Thing Shore Villain Heroism Most Interesting Right Place Villainy

Author:James Spader

“London is like a cold dark dream sometimes.”

Sometimes Dream Dark Cold London Dark Dreams

Book:Wide Sargasso Sea

Source: Wide Sargasso Sea

“A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself. A mentor is someone who allows you to know that no matter how dark the night, in the morning joy will come. A mentor is someone who allows you to see the higher part of yourself when sometimes it becomes hidden to your own view.”

Knows Sometimes Matter Joy Night Dark Views Morning Higher Mentor

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A full blown storm where everything changes. The sky goes through four days in an hour, the trees wail, little animals skitter in the mud and everything gets dark and goes completely wild. But it is really God - playing music in his favourite cathedral in heaven - shattering stained glass - playing a gigantic organ - thundering on the keys - perfect harmony - perfect joy.”

Source: DAYBREAK

“Though woman needs the protection of one man against his whole sex, in pioneer life, in threading her way through a lonely forest, on the highway, or in the streets of the metropolis on a dark night, she sometimes needs, too, the protection of all men against this one.”

Men Way Needs Sometimes Whole Night Sex Dark Streets Lonely Protection Forests One Man Highways Pioneers Dark Night Metropolis

Book:History of woman suffrage

Source: History of woman suffrage

“Infidelity is such a pretty word, so light and delicate. Whereas the act itself is dark and thick with guilt, betrayal, confusion, pain, and (okay) sometimes enormous pleasure.”

Sometimes Light Pain Dark Pleasure Okay Guilt Betrayal Enormous Confusion Delicate Thick Infidelity Pretty Words

Book:If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?!

Source: If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?!

“I do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place.”

Sometimes Stuff Dark Dark Places

Author:Tracy Morgan

“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'm certainly not one of those actors who remain in a dark place the entire time in order to be doing the scene. I sort of come in and out of it. It can be to the detriment of my performance sometimes!”

Sometimes Order Actors Dark Scene Performances Dark Places

Author:Matthew Rhys

“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

“Joy is not a constant. It comes to us in moments - often ordinary moments. Sometimes we miss out on the bursts of joy because we're too busy chasing down the extraordinary moments. Other times we're so afraid of the dark we don't dare let ourselves enjoy the light. A joyful life is not a floodlight of joy. That would eventually become unbearable. I believe a joyful life is made up of joyful moments gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude and inspiration”

“If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences Ive had, that need to be transformed.”

Ifs Needs Looks Sometimes Jobs Dark Transformed Punk Visceral Dark Things

Author:Lilith Saintcrow

“We're all moons. Sometimes our dark sides overshadow our light.”

Sometimes Light Sides Dark Moon Dark Side

Book:Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series

Source: Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series

“I sometimes wonder how we spent leisure time before satellite television and Internet came along…and then I realise that I have spent more than half of my life in the ‘dark ages’!”

Life Sometimes Age Time Dark Half Wonder Television Internet Realising Leisure Dark Ages Satellites Leisure Time

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“Having children can smooth the relationship, too. Mother and daughter are now equals. That is hard to imagine, even harder to accept, for among other things, it means realizing that your own mother felt this way, too--unsure of herself, weak in the knees, terrified about what in the world to do with you. It means accepting that she was tired, inept, sometimes stupid; that she, too, sat in the dark at 2:00 A.M. with a child shrieking across the hall and no clue to the child's trouble.”

Source: Living Out Loud

“Leadership is elusive and enigmatic, just as it is enlightening and empowering. It is a bright light among human energies that sometimes, by its very intensity, casts a long and dark shadow.”

Humans Long Sometimes Light Energy Leadership Dark Shadow Casts Empowering Intensity Enlightening Elusive Bright Lights Enigmatic

Book:Toxic leaders: when organizations go bad

Source: Toxic leaders: when organizations go bad

“Visit the graveyards sometimes and read the headstone epitaphs! There is much to learn from the dark face of the life!”

Life Sometimes Faces Dark Graveyard Epitaph Headstone

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The imagination doesn't crop annually like a reliable fruit tree. The writer has to gather whatever's there: sometimes too much, sometimes too little, sometimes nothing at all. And in the years of glut there is always a slatted wooden tray in some cool, dark attic, which the writer nervously visits from time to time; and yes, oh dear, while he's been hard at work downstairs, up in the attic there are puckering skins, warning spots, a sudden brown collapse and the sprouting of snowflakes. What can he do about it?”

Writing Years Littles Sometimes Hard Imagination Dark Too Much Tree Skins Fruit Dear Spots Brown Warning Collapse Crops Snowflake Attics Trays Fruit Trees

Author:Julian Barnes

“Sometimes it doesn't matter how dark the world gets. You can be saved by the smallest thing.”

World Sometimes Matter Dark Saved Smallest

Book:Fiendish

Source: Fiendish

“The human heart is a mysterious and sometimes dark place.”

Humans Heart Sometimes Dark Mysterious Human Heart Dark Places

Author:Emily Yoffe

“I love using unique names, so I go to a baby names site on the Internet and use the unique names. Sometimes my names have meanings such as 'strong', 'fire', and Phoenix which means dark red and is Greek. It's fun to think of a name meaning and matching it with a name. Even Frances means Victory.”

Thinking Mean Sometimes Use Names Strong Fun Dark Fire Baby Internet Victory Unique Red France Greek Site Phoenix Matching

Author:Franny Armstrong

“Our self-identification changes with our environment, but sometimes those dark thoughts permeate within us and there are those who are able to fight off those thoughts and others who don't want to fight them, or have just given in for whatever reason and whether they know the darkness they act upon is wrong, they love the darkness.”

Knows Want Self Sometimes Reason Able Fighting Given Dark Darkness Environment Our Environment Identification Dark Thoughts

Author:Matthew Carter

“It comes out of human beings, it comes from the dark side of the human being, when people don't give a hoot about other people and they'll steal and rob and rob the food out of baby's mouths, so it's incumbent on every new generation to develop a social conscience and to really defend themselves. And that takes demonstrations sometimes.”

People Giving Humans Sometimes Social Sides Dark Human Beings Generations Baby Mouths Conscience Stealing Demonstration Dark Side New Generation Incumbents Hoot

Author:Luis Valdez

“Even when a film is finished, when I direct a film, sometimes it's a dark profession, but it requires a peculiar form of courage that I admire.”

Sometimes Film Form Dark Direct Finished Profession Admire Peculiar

Author:Kenneth Branagh

“Just as the apparent openness of rectitude will have its hidden places where foul things moulder in the dark, so, in the shadowed lives of those outside the law may sometimes be found concealed honesty and naive ideals.”

May Sometimes Law Found Dark Honesty Ideals Openness Naive Concealed Foul Rectitude

Book:Strange Loyalties (Laidlaw 3)

Source: Strange Loyalties (Laidlaw 3)

“I sometimes like to watch a good, dark, disturbing movie.”

Sometimes Dark Watches Disturbing

Author:Chad Lindberg

“Positive energy brings good feelings, and dark energy often means harm. But the destruction in dark energy is also a subtle aspect of construction, like how even forest fires have their benefits. Sometimes enemies are our best teachers, people can learn from their mistakes, destruction sometimes means rebirth.”

“I think that television lately has been extremely dark and, in some ways, cynical but I also think that people who are writing those shows probably feel exactly as I do - that sometimes the darkness of a story can highlight the light in a story. There's a lot of cynical stuff but I think it may be even more in movies now where you see so many movies about cynical and corrupted characters. That's the state of many movies right now but movies, television, all of culture, there's always going to be a battle between the stories that are cynical and stories that are hopeful.”

People Thinking Way Feels Writing May Has Beens Sometimes States Character Stories Shows Light Culture Stuff Dark Darkness Television Right Now Battle Hopeful Cynical Highlights

Author:Randall Wallace

“I'm a pretty tenacious person; I get that from my mom. So sometimes, I use dark humor. I can't take myself too seriously.”

Persons I Can Sometimes Use Dark Mom My Mom Dark Humor Tenacious

Author:Art Alexakis

“Often my creative life has seemed like a long tunnel, dark and damp. And sometimes I wondered whether I could live through it. But I did!”

Long Sometimes Dark Creative Tunnels Damp Creative Life

Author:Ai Qing

“You can't expect everyone to laugh or applaud you for doing edgy things. Sometimes you'll miss. But I think comedians are artists and there's a value in failure. It kind of works both ways between comedians and audiences. The audience has to understand that comedians are going to sometimes tell a joke that doesn't work out with dark subjects, and the comedian has to understand that sometimes they 'll fail and it's not the audience's fault for not getting it or loving it.”

Thinking Way Kind Sometimes Artist Values Dark Audience Laughing Failing Subjects Missing Jokes Faults Work Out Comedian Edgy

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“The subject I liked best was painting, but the teachers didn't approve of my experiments and sometimes criticized me in front of the whole class. Maybe my love for photography came from that humiliation: a photo is something that you develop and print yourself, in the dark, and that remains in the dark until you decide to show it.”

Sometimes Whole Shows Dark Class Teacher Subjects Fronts Painting Photography Remains Experiments Print Humiliation

Author:Hiroshi Hamaya

“Sometimes, photographs live in our hearts as unborn ghosts and we survive not because their shadows find permanence there, but because that thing that is larger than us, larger than the things we can point to, remember and claim, escorts us from dark into light.”

Heart Sometimes Light Remember Dark Shadow Claims Photograph Ghost Unborn Permanence

Author:Laurel Nakadate

“I work with a lot of production that's really positive and contains a lot of soul stuff. Those instrumentals project the happiness out of me. But, sometimes I get a darker beat, with some dark piano or something... and then I'll do darker tracks.”

Soul Sometimes Stuff Dark Projects Beats Track Productions Piano Really Positive

Author:SonReal

“Sometimes I try to figure out why I always push things to talk about the really dark stuff in interviews, and I just think it's healing - for the listener, and for the guest.”

Thinking Trying Sometimes Stuff Dark Healing Figures Interviews Guests Listeners

Author:Alison Rosen

“I am only able to be honest. And sometimes my view of the world is pretty dark. But still funny.”

World Stills Sometimes Able Dark Views Honest Being Honest

Author:Rachel Zucker

“I like to get dark sometimes and then come back out into the light.”

Sometimes Light Dark

Author:Bat for Lashes

“Sometimes you can't see your way out. The "dark night of the soul" - it's a reality for many, many people.”

People Way Soul Sometimes Reality Night Dark Dark Night Dark Night Of The Soul

Author:Mariel Hemingway

“We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, open the window, and remind us that there are a whole lot of ways to tell the same story.”

Way Doe Sometimes Whole Stories Light Turns Dark Window Versions Locked Good Friend Turn-on Locked Up

Book:Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way

Source: Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way

“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