Best past & night Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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

“My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.”

Past Night Vision Air Fairs Filled My Thoughts Castles Castles In The Air

Book:Selections from Thomas Love Peacock

Source: Selections from Thomas Love Peacock

“Every night I vow to work out in the morning. For the past three years, however, I have always found an excuse not to.”

Years Past Night Three Found Morning Work Out Excuse Three Years Every Night Vow

Author:Matthew Vaughn

“I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night.”

Men Past Night Walking Flying Chairs Good Night Walking Away Up All Night Sleepless Nights Good Grades Goodnight Sleeping At Night Have A Good Night Best Night Had A Good Night Inspirational Good Night Dreaming At Night

Author:Liam Gallagher

“Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future.”

Thinking Knows Past Night Hope Behinds Sea Land Shore

Book:The Poems

Source: The Poems

“For years I kept a sign on my desk that helped me maintain the right perspective concerning yesterday. It simply said, 'yesterday ended last night.' It reminded me that no matter how badly I might have failed in the past, it's done, and today is a new day.”

Years Said Matter Done Might Motivational Today Lasts Past Night Perspective Yesterday Desks Last Night New Day Today Is A New Day Simply Said

Author:John C. Maxwell

“I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.”

People Firsts Home Past Night Courses Hours Party Dinner Expected Coffee Hardest Meals Exhausted Saturday Dessert Saturday Night Bedtime Appetizers

Author:Ina Garten

“And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table transformed to the grid of Manhattan. Sometimes, too, I dream of the indecipherable language of tin (a confused memory, perhaps, of its plaintive "cry"). But my favorite dream is of going to the opera (I am Hafnium), sharing a box at the Met with the other heavy transition metals my old and valued friends Tantalum, Rhenium, Osmium, Iridium, Platinum, Gold, and Tungsten.”

“Falling stars are high examples sent To warn, not lure. Gross fancy says they are Substantial meteors; but that is not so. They are the merest phantasies of Night, When she's asleep, and, dimly visited By past effects, she dreams of Lucifer Hurled out of Heaven.”

Dream Past Night Fall Heaven Stars Effects Example Fancy Gross Lure Lucifer Meteors

Author:Alfred Austin

“Through the ghoul-guarded gateways of slumber, Past the wan-mooned abysses of night, I have lived o'er my lives without number, I have sounded all things with my sight.”

Past Night Numbers All Things Sight Abyss Guarded Slumber Gateways Ghouls

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story.”

Sometimes Stories Past Night Streets Empty Mysterious Los Angeles Rays Bradbury

Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“Christmas is ... a time to mark our progress through this earthly journey. Every December we can look back and marvel at the designs of God and realize how very little we are in control of the events that shaped the past year. Then, with hearts full, look to the celebration of that silent, holy night, and all its certainty. Because of Christmas, this we know: Christ was born for us. He is love, and the plans he has for us always surpass those of our own.”

Knows Years Looks Heart Littles Past Night Christ Realizing Born Progress Plans Journey Events Design Holy Mark Silent Christmas Certainty Celebration December Holy Night

Author:Karen Kingsbury

“O days remember'd well! remember'd all! The bitter sweet, the honey and the gall; Those garden rambles in the silent night, Those trees so shady, and that moon se bright, That thickset alley by the arbor clos'd, That woodbine seat where we at last repos'd; And then the hopes that came and then were gone, Quick as the clouds beneath the moon past on.”

Wells Lasts Past Remember Night Gone Tree Sweet Moon Garden Silent Clouds Bitter Seats Honey Alleys Courtship Shady Bitter Sweet Silent Night Arbors

Author:George Crabbe

“Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the color of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, when we sang and wallowed all night and day in caves that smelt like Sunday afternoons in damp front farmhouse parlors, and we chased, with the jawbones of deacons, the English and the bears, before the motor car, before the wheel, before the duchess-faced horse, when we rode the daft and happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed.”

Source: A Child's Christmas in Wales

“To go out in a gondola at night is to reconstruct in one's imagination the true Venice, the Venice of the past alive with romance, elopements, abductions, revenged passions, intrigues, adulteries, denouncements, unaccountable deaths, gambling, lute playing and singing.”

Past Romance Night Passion Imagination Alive Singing Gambling Intrigue Adultery Venice Abduction Gondolas

Author:Peggy Guggenheim

“The past moves me and with me, although I remove myself from it. Its light often shines on this night traveler: and when it does, I scribble it down. Whatever pleasure is in it I need pass on. That's happiness. That is who I am.”

Needs Doe Light Past Moving Night Pleasure Shining Who I Am Remove Traveler Shine On Scribbles

Author:Virginia Hamilton

“I get bored quickly. I kind of take my hat off to bands who have been around for a long time and still do the same thing, because it's hard to keep a band together for decades. But I couldn't do that. I couldn't play the same songs night after night or just trade on my past glories, because it wouldn't interest me as a person.”

Kind Persons Long Has Beens Stills Hard Play Together Past Night Song Interest Band Long Time Glory Trade Decades Bored Hats My Past Hats Off

Author:Paul Weller

“What's down below is in the past Like last night's crickets, far below.”

Lasts Past Night Hell Cricket Last Night

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

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