Midnight Quotes - Page 12

• Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the more evidence they have of grace. But God, who made the sun and the flowers, never sent me to proclaim to you such a lie as that.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Lying, Flower, Thinking

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.120

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• Midnight blue is the only color that can ever compete with black.

  Christian Dior

  Blue, Color, Black

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• Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight and dawn. Those dark fruitful hours, seldom recorded, whose secret flowerings breed peace and war, loves and hates, the crowning or uncrowning of heads.

  Joan Lindsay

  Hate, War, Dark

  Joan Lindsay (1977). “Picnic at Hanging Rock”, Viking Pr

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• [regarding US conquest of the Philippines] I turn green in bed at midnight if I think of the horror of a year's warfare in the Philippines ... We must slaughter a million or two foolish Malays in order to give them the comforts of flannel petticoats and electric railways.

  Henry Adams

  Thinking, Order, Years

  "The Letters of Henry Adams, Volume IV: 1892-1899". Book by Henry Adams, 1988.

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• It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the people; for I doubt whether in any village in England, had such an accident happened to the rector, all the people would have roused themselves at midnight to wreak their vengeance on the assailant.

  Bill Vaughan

  Catholic Religion, People, Doubt

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• Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that you've got to abandon all your own preferences, your own bright ideas, and guide souls along the road our Lord has marked out for them. You mustn't coerce them into some path of your own choosing.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Ideas, People, Shining

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• Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Soul, Way, Sun

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.67

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• The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned, was exactly that of the birth of the Persian savior Mithra, who, as an incarnation of eternal light, was born the night of the winter solstice (then dated December 25) at midnight, the instant of the turn of the year from increasing darkness to light.

  Joseph Campbell

  Winter, Night, Years

  Joseph Campbell, M. J. Abadie (1981). “The Mythic Image”, p.33, Princeton University Press

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• Maketa Groves has a strong, bright lyric gift. Her poems come out of music and are full of music. They bring us the sounds of the streets and the sounds of nature, and make us see once again that they are parts of the same song. She celebrates American lives as they are lived today: the mother scrubbing her kitchen floor at midnight, the drag-queens in the Tenderloin, the homeless woman knitting in the courtyard. This is poetry that relentlessly shows us the beauty in the world, with all its struggles and complexity, and demands that we go out to meet it with open hearts.

  Diane di Prima

  Mother, Song, Strong

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• Don't ever let anyone pull you so low as to hate them. We must use the weapon of love. We must have the compassion and understanding for those who hate us. We must realize so many people are taught to hate us that they are not totally responsible for their hate. But we stand in life at midnight; we are always on the threshold of a new dawn.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Compassion, People

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• Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest:
  Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers:
  Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest,
  And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers!

  W. S. Gilbert

  Love, Lying, Memorable

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.499, Oxford University Press

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• When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind: If anything goes wrong, I'll never have time to regret it.

  Edward Abbey

  Regret, Mind, Riding

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• The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries by; My hopes are flown And, alas! alone On my weary couch I lie.

  Sappho

  Lying, Moon, Sky

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• Hmm... That's like telling you about the cold of space, or terror of midnight. Sithis is all those things. He is... the Void.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Space, Void, Cold

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• Listen my children and you shall hear, Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Children, My Children

  Tales of aWayside Inn pt. 1 "The Landlord's Tale: Paul Revere's Ride" st. 1 (1863)

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• Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.

  Leontyne Price

  Art, Oil, Buttons

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• One of my first dates with a witch was on a satanic altar, and I didn't know it. I mean, there's little blood there and stuff like that. …We went to a movie and then had a midnight picnic on a satanic altar.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Mean, Blood, Satanic

  "'I was a teenage witch': Tea Party candidate". Interview with David Mark, www.abc.net.au. September 21, 2010.

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• It’s kind of like, I would say, maybe college recruiting. I’m pretty sure a lot more goes into it in the NBA. A lot more money is spent. I’ve heard stories, guys getting called right at midnight. It’s something that I haven’t experienced. I may want to go through it. I haven’t thought about it at all.

  Rajon Rondo

  College, Nba, Guy

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• It's not five minutes to midnight. It's five minutes after midnight.

  Angela Merkel

  Climate Change, Minutes, Five

  "Road to nowhere" by David Cronin, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2008.

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• If Christ does not appear to meet his 144,000 faithful shortly after midnight on February 6th or 7th, it means that my calculations, based on the Bible, must be revised.

  Margaret Davis Bowen

  Mean, Scary, Faithful

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• I returned to the white House after midnight more depressed than ever before. I had long since arranged to attend the World Series in Philadelphia the next day. Although I like baseball, I kept this engagement only because I felt that my presence at a sporting event might be a gesture of reassurance to a country suffering from a severe attack of 'jitters.'

  Herbert Hoover

  Country, Baseball, Next Day

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “The great depression, 1929-1941”

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• It took me a long time to figure out what Holly Golightly was all about. One night after midnight I was still trying. I don't drink much, but I was sipping. And it came to me. I wrote [“Moon River”] in half an hour.

  Henry Mancini

  Moon, Night, Rivers

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• The Moon and Pleiades have set, / Midnight is nigh, / The time is passing, passing, yet / Alone I lie.

  Sappho

  Lying, Moon, Night

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• Stars of heaven, clear and bright, Shine upon this Christmas light, Vaster far than midnight skies Are its timeless mysteries.

  Timothy Dudley-Smith

  Christmas, Stars, Light

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• I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.

  William Shenstone

  Learning, Oil, Lamps

  William Shenstone, “Elegy Xi. He Complains How Soon The Pleasing Novelty Of Life Is Over”

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