Have you thought of an ending?" "Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant. " "Oh, that won't do! Books ought to have good endings. How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?" "It will do well, if it ever came to that. " "Ah! And where will they live? That's what I often wonder.
The critical question is how a religious tradition is interpreted. Is it interpreted in ways that are pro-human rights or in ways that are a throwback to the Dark Ages?
People have passed through a very dark tunnel at the end of which there was a light of freedom. Unexpectedly they passed through the prison gates and found themselves in a square. They are now free and they don't know where to go.
A: The soul wanders in the dark, until it finds love. And so, wherever our love goes, there we find our soul. Q: It always happens? A: If we're lucky. And if we let ourselves be blind. Q: Instead of watching out? A: Instead of always watching out.
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.
My overcoat is worn out my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark.
I'm the ruler in my kingdom and my dark seat is hot. Step into my world and your heartbeat stop!
It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a scream pierced the air'. . . . Good writing takes enormous concentration.
Now they are empty, Ramon replied with a shrug of broad, muscled shoulders on his six-foot-three-inch frame. . . . For the first time, a glint of humor touched Ramon Galverra's finely sculpted mouth and arrogant dark eyes.
Beginning in 1940,. . . questionable grades of (low) malignancy were classed as cancer. . . . the proportion of 'cancer' cures. . . increased rapidly.
See? There it is again. My flame in the dark.
I really like 'Batman. ' Not the TV show, but the dark 'Batman. '
By the time I was 18, I had absorbed punk rock from America, Britain, and the West Coast. All of it was so dark and weird and different and cool and hot and sexy and rebellious. It was a fist-in-the-air kind of rebellion that I wasn't getting from the '70s mainstream.
I preferred rock when it was in the dark, when it was a secret between me and the audience, when it wasn't mainstream.
The bright side of life's unpredictability is that it's not over until it's over. As dark as the passages and confusing as the cul-de-sacs that you find yourself in are, progress is nevertheless being made. Something is unfolding. You are becoming.
For him it was a dark passage which led to nowhere, then to nowhere, then again to nowhere, once again to nowhere, always and forever to nowhere, heavy on the elbows in the earth to nowhere, dark, never any end to nowhere, hung on all time always to unknowing nowhere, this time and again for always to nowhere, now not to be borne once again always and to nowhere, now beyond all bearing up, up, up and into nowhere, suddenly, scaldingly, holdingly all nowhere gone and time absolutely still and they were both there, time having stopped and he felt the earth move out and away from under them.
Some of our newspapers and magazines are more concerned with the welfare of their advertisers than they are with the dissemination of news and the discussion of matters of lasting importance. . . . Radio, television, motion pictures, popular books - all contribute. . . to. . . the stifling of dissent on all but the most banal levels. . . . a renunciation of the most basic and precious of democratic principles.
I think there is sort of a general universal perception of me or someone who looks like me, as someone who is kind of menacing, dark or mysterious.
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.
Smile is a good reply to the dark world.