Best night & long Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The rishis of old attained the Knowledge of Brahman. One cannot have this so long as there is the slightest trace of worldliness. How hard the rishis laboured ! Early in the morning they would go away from the hermitage, and would spend the whole day in solitude, meditating on Brahman. At night they would return to the hermitage and eat a little fruit or roots. They kept their mind aloof from the objects of sight, hearing, touch, and other things of a worldly nature. Only thus did they realize Brahman as their own inner conciousness.”

World Mind Littles Long Hard Whole Night Realizing Morning Objects Return Solitude Roots Sight Fruit Hearing Going Away Worldly Meditating Aloof Brahman Worldliness

Author:Ramakrishna

“I never used to tell jokes on stage. Now I'm cutting up jokes all night long.”

Long Used Night Cutting Stage Jokes All Night

Author:Robin Thicke

“Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long. Good things come to those who wait.”

Long Truth Romance Night Waiting Relationship Sweet Kissing Good Things Lips All Night Those Who Wait

Book:Evolution (freebie)

Source: Evolution (freebie)

“The Novelist As Teacher”: “I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no more than teach my readers that their past – with all its imperfections – was not one long night of savagery from which the first Europeans acting on God’s behalf delivered them.”

Ifs Firsts Long Would Be Past Night Acting Teach Novel Teacher Reader Satisfied Novelists Imperfection Behalf Savagery Long Nights

Book:Things Fall Apart: Authoritative Text, Contexts and Criticism

Source: Things Fall Apart: Authoritative Text, Contexts and Criticism

“A worshipper perceives that he is near to God because he is awake all night worshipping God. But after worship, your prayers are for health, long life, wealth, and for the damsels and slaves of the Paradise. Ponder! Did you ever pray to God, 'O' God, I desire from Thee nothing but Thee'?”

Long Desire Night Wealth Prayer Praying Worship Slave Thee Perceive Awake Paradise All Night Long Life Our Prayers Pondering Praying To God Worship God Worshippers

Author:Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

“As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run. . . . What an interest it imparts to life!.”

Thinking Years Long Home Running Night Games Winning Interest Saving Occupation Perpetual Long Runs Amusement Amusing Impart Unbecoming

Book:Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)

“I have found nothing half so good / As my long-planned half solitude, / Where I can sit up half the night / With some friend that has the wit.”

Long I Can Night Found Half Solitude Wit

Book:Selected Poems And Four Plays

Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays

“There'll always be Christmas as long as a light Glows in the window to guide folks at night, As long as a star in the heavens above, Keeps shining down... there'll be Christmas and love.”

Long Light Night Heaven Stars Window And Love Shining Folks Guides Christmas Shining Down

Author:Edna Jaques

“You've been so long in the rain, you feel like a dirty dish rag. But despite the misery of your water soaked body, you look around to see verdant leaves dripping with water. The air entering your lungs smells vibrantly clean. To experience adventure, you must be willing to be uncomfortable at times and enjoy the loneliness by being happy with your own singing. A song pops out of your mouth... "It rained all night the day I left, the weather it was fine..."”

“And I leave the children the long, long days to be merry in in a thousand ways, and the Night, and the trail of the Milky Way to wonder at.”

Way Children Long Night Wonder Childhood Thousand Trails Merry Milky Way Long Day

Author:Williston Fish

“He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and numb at the cold sweating center of every drug deal. But now he'd found this warm thing, this chip of murder. Meat, some part of him said. It's the meat talking, ignore it.”

Years Long Said Night Found Deals Talking Cold Drug Bed Long Time Murder Warm Meat Emptiness Chips Detachment Numb Numbness Sweating

Book:Neuromancer

Source: Neuromancer

“I'm not Akira Kurosawa. He used to write...He used to write a completely new spec script over a couple of nights. I'm not like that. It takes me a long time to put a film together that I want to make.”

Want Writing Long Together Film Used Night Couple Long Time Scripts Take Me Specs Kurosawa

Author:Duncan Jones

“My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me.”

Long I Can Lasts Night Left Goal Sweet Dance Elegant Tango

Author:Robert Fulghum

“Some say that ever 'gainst the season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor wi”

Long Spirit Night Walks Planets Birth Bird Seasons Strikes Fairy All Night Saviour Larks

Author:William Shakespeare

“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”

Long Age Night Fire Winter Folks Tales Thee Long Ago Tedious

Author:William Shakespeare

“Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choosing each through all the weary hours, And meeting strangely at one sudden goal, Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers, Into one beautiful and perfect whole; And life's long night is ended, and the way Lies open onward to eternal day.”

World Way Love Long Soul Whole Beautiful Lying Night Goal Hours Perfect This World Flower Eternal Lonely Green Meetings Golden Weary Lone Long Nights Green Leaves

Author:Edwin Arnold

“I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who waited through long days and nights, who used other people's dreams for their lives.”

People Long Dream Used Night Strange Photographer Odd Tribes Day And Night Collectors Autographs Long Day Funny People

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance.”

Long Together Night Muse Get Together

Author:Edgar Degas

“Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry; His form was bent, and his gait was slow, His long thin hair was white as snow, But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye. And he sang every night as he went to bed, "Let us be happy down here below: The living should live, though the dead be dead." Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago.”

Should Long Said Eye Happiness Form Night White Wonderful Hair Bed Snow His Eyes Dry Tall Every Night Long Ago Bent Slender Jolly Gait

Author:George Arnold

“How could I, blest with thee, long nights employ; And how with the longest day enjoy!”

Long Night Enjoy Thee Enjoyment Long Nights

Book:The Works of Tibullus: Containing His Four Books of Love Elegies

Source: The Works of Tibullus: Containing His Four Books of Love Elegies

“I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing yields me pleasure but the solitary communion with the 'mountains & the woods'-the 'altars' of Byron. I have thus rambled and dreamed away whole months, and awake, at last, to a sort of mania for composition. Then I scribble all day, and read all night, so long as the disease endures.”

Source: The Portable Edgar Allan Poe

“Don't get down on yourself that you can't run a 4K or dance all night long at a fun club. Give yourself a break.”

Giving Long Running Night Fun Break Clubs All Night

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“I feel that non-violence is really the only way that we can follow because violence is just so self-defeating. A riot ends up creating many more problems for the negro community than it solved. We can through violence burn down a building, but you can't establish justice. You can murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder through violence. You can murder a hater, but you can't murder hate. And what we're trying to get rid of is hate, injustice, and all of these other things that continue the long night of man's inhumanity to man.”

“The Arctic is a highway. The tree limit, the scarcity of trees, freed people to walk. Particularly in the wintertime. Which connected people physically, communicatively. And mythically. The long nights of winter free people to tell. And to listen.”

People Long Night Walks Tree Limits Winter Connected Highways Scarcity Arctic Wintertime Long Nights

Author:Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa

“My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.”

Thinking Heart Long Feelings Night Literature Sleep Grief My Heart Universal Wake Up Shock Waking All Night Assassination Indignation Righteous Indignation

Author:Elizabeth Gaskell

“Side by side ... the British and French peoples have advanced to rescue ... mankind from the foulest and most soul-destroying tyranny which has ever darkened and stained the pages of history. Behind them ... gather a group of shattered States and bludgeoned races: the Czechs, the Poles, the Norwegians, the Danes, the Dutch, the Belgians -- upon all of whom the long night of barbarism will descend, unbroken even by a star of hope, unless we conquer, as conquer we must; as conquer we shall.”

Long Soul States Night Stars Sides Race Behinds Groups Mankind Pages British Tyranny Conquer Destroying Rescue Shattered Dutch Barbarism Unbroken Norwegians Long Nights Belgians

Author:Winston Churchill

“I had a truly horrible dream last night ... [Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mike Tyson and I] were on our way to a TV studio for a debate about his long-time working friendship with the powerful Bush family from Texas and how it might affect the next Bush presidency when The Terminator seizes power in Sacramento and tries to hand over the state's 54 electoral votes by election day in 2004. That is the basic plan behind Schwarzenegger running. He doesn't want to be Governor, he just wants the electoral votes to go to Bush this time.”

“Days begin and end in the dead of night. They are not shaped long, in the manner of things which lead to ends - arrow, road, man's life on earth. They are shaped round, in the manner of things eternal and stable - sun, world, God.”

Men World Long Ends Earth Night Time Sun Eternal Rounds Stable Arrows

Author:Jean Giono

“Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.”

Littles Long Might Night Hell Sorrow Waste Speed Good Day Discontent Morrow Wooing Pensive Long Nights Suing

Book:The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene: With Other Poems of Chaucer and Spenser

Source: The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene: With Other Poems of Chaucer and Spenser

“"What is the greatest surprise you have found about life?" a university student asked me several years ago. "The brevity of it," I replied without hesitation. Time moves so quickly, and no matter who we are or what we have done, the time will come when our lives will be over. As Jesus said, "As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work" (John 9:4).”

Years Long Said Matter Done Moving Night Found Jesus Our Lives Students Years Ago Surprise University Who We Are Hesitation Brevity University Students

Author:Billy Graham

“The people's awe and innate fear will hold injustice back by day, by night, so long as the people leave the laws intact, just as they are: muddy the cleanest spring, and all you'll have to drink is muddy water.”

People Long Law Night Water Drink Spring Injustice Awe Innate Muddy

Book:The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia

Source: The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia

“I pray the gods will give me some relief and end this weary job. One long full year I've been lying here, on this rooftop, the palace of the sons of Atreus, resting on my arms, just like a dog. I've come to know the night sky, every star, the powers we see glittering in the sky, bringing winter and summer to us all, as the constellations rise and sink.”

Knows Giving Long Ends Jobs Lying Night Stars Sky Dog Son Arms Praying Summer Give Me Winter Gods Will Weary Palaces I Pray Constellations Night Sky Rooftops Lying Here

Author:Aeschylus

“There are Depeche Mode parties around the world where people listen to our music all night long. The more remixes we can give them, the more interesting those nights have got to be.”

People World Giving Long Night Interesting Party Around The World All Night Remix Depeche Mode

Author:Martin Gore

“We are close to dead. There are faces and bodies like gorged maggots on the dance floor, on the highway, in the city, in the stadium; they are a host of chemical machines who swallow the product of chemical factories, aspirin, preservatives, stimulant, relaxant, and breathe out their chemical wastes into a polluted air. The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.”

Source: Cannibals and Christians

“My heart has become as hard as a city street, the horses trample upon it, it sings like iron, all day long and all night long they beat, they ring like the hooves of time.”

Heart Long Hard Night Cities Streets My Heart Beats Horse Rings Iron All Night City Streets

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.”

World Long Earth Night Faith Sea Wind Breaths Lays Rounds Edges Naked Melancholy Shore Folds Withdrawing Girdles Shingles Round Earth

Author:Matthew Arnold

“One night in the early sixties I passed something on the Long Island Expressway just before the Queens tunnel that I must have seen for years. The billboard advertising cigars, Dutch Masters. I realized it was sort of perfect. It's weird isn't it? You're looking at Rembrandt - in neon! It was too much, it was irresistible.”

Years Long Night Perfect Too Much Masters I Realized Advertising Queens Islands Sixty One Night Irresistible Tunnels Cigar Dutch Billboards Neon Long Island

Book:Drawings and digressions

Source: Drawings and digressions

“Imagine that -- a country that's supposed to be a democracy, supposed to be for freedom and all of that kind of stuff when they want to draft you and put you in the army and send you to Saigon to fight for them -- and then you've got to turn around and all night long discuss how you're going to just get a right to register and vote without being murdered. Why, that's the most hypocritical government since the world began!”

World Want Kind Long Country Government Night Turns Fighting Stuff Democracy Imagine Vote Army Supposed To Be Imagine That All Night Register Hypocritical Saigon

Author:Malcolm X

“When I lie on the beach there naked, which I do sometimes, and I feel the wind coming over me and I see the stars up above and I am looking into this very deep, indescribable night, it is something that escapes my vocabulary to describe. Then I think: 'God, I have no importance. Whatever I do or don't do, or what anybody does, is not more important than the grains of sand that I am lying on, or the coconut that I am using for my pillow.' So I really don't think in the long sense.”

Thinking Feels Long Doe Important Sometimes Lying Night Stars Wind Importance Naked Beach Sand Grain Vocabulary Pillow Very Deep Indescribable Grains Of Sand Coconuts

Author:Marlon Brando

“Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal of his candles on a rejoicing night, let her look to him and keep him out of harm's way; or the world will be apt to say, she has a mind to be a widow before her time. She ought, in such cases, to exert the authority of the curtain lecture; and if she finds him of a rebellious disposition, to tame him, as they do birds of prey, by dinning him in the ears all night long.”

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: With the Exception of His Numbers of the Spectator

“Naked girls with the heads of Marx and Malraux prone and helpless in the glare of the headlights, tried to give them a little joie de vivre but maybe it didn't take, their constant bickering and smallness, it's like a stroke of lightning, the world reminds you of its power, tracheotomies right and left, I am spinning, my pretty child, don't scratch, pick up your feet, the long nights, spent most of my time listening, this is a test of the system, this is only a test.”

Source: Sixty stories

“At night I sit in my chamber and read the bible. Far in the distance roars the sea. Then I lie down and think for a long time about the calm and pale man from Nazareth.”

Thinking Men Long Lying Night Sea Long Time Down And Distance Calm Pale Chamber Nazareth

Author:Joseph Goebbels

“When you're at an Olympic Games watching someone you've known for a long while and he or she has done something, even if it's only coming in the top 50, then you have a monumental night.”

Ifs Long Done Night Games Known Olympic Games

Author:Steve Bunce

“I see is that there are many people who destroy their marriages because of one-night stands with someone else. And as the French say, "C'est ne pas grave." It's not something easy to swallow, but at the same time, it does not justify you to end a long-lasting relationship because something happened.”

People Long Doe Ends Night Easy Happened Graves Justify Lasting One Night Long Lasting One Night Stand Lasting Relationship Long Lasting Relationship

Author:Paulo Coelho

“The idea (for the painting 'Room in New York', 1932, ed.) had been in my mind a long time before I painted it. It was suggested by glimpses of lighted interiors seen as I walked along city streets at night, probably near the district where I live (Washington Square, New York, fh) although it's no particular street or house, but is really a synthesis of many impressions.”

Mind Long Ideas Night House Rooms Cities Streets New York Particular Painting Long Time Impression Squares Interiors Glimpse Synthesis City Streets Streets At Night

Author:Edward Hopper

“War must never be a condition but, rather, a temporary scourge which we suffer as a child does a fever, knowing that health follows the long night of pain and that peace is health.”

Children Long Doe War Pain Night Suffering Knowing Conditions Temporary Fever Scourge Long Nights

Book:The Fall of Hyperion

Source: The Fall of Hyperion

“When you're Dead ... you stay up all night long.”

Long Night All Night Up All Night

Author:Kelly Link

“Do right! and thou hast naught to fear;Right hath a power that makes thee strong.The night is dark, but light is near;The grief is short, the joy is long.”

Long Light Joy Night Strong Dark Grief Thee

Author:Thomas Cogswell Upham

“We want players here who are going to be here for the long term. Players who buy houses here, who settle in the area. It's a brilliant club, great supporters but we want players to come here to be part of that community rather than being ships in the night having a last pay day at Ipswich... we want to build for the future rather than do a quick fix because I think it's going to be a long-term job.”

Thinking Want Long Jobs Lasts Night House Term Community Pay Player Areas Clubs Brilliant Ships Settling Long Term Supporter Quick Fixes

Author:Paul Jewell

“If we lived forever, if the dews of Adashino never vanished, if the crematory smoke on Toribeyama never faded, men would hardly feel the pity of things. The beauty of life is in its impermanence. Man lives the longest of all living things... and even one year lived peacefully seems very long. Yet for such as love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night.”

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