Tonight Quotes - Page 7

• I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy.... So I feel tonight like the man who is lodging happily in the inn which lies half way along the journey and that in time, with a fresh impulse, we shall go the rest of the journey and sleep at the journey's end like men with a quiet conscience.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Lying, Ambition, Sleep

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• The physical world is meaningless tonight
  And there is no other.

  Wallace Stevens

  Reality, World, Realism

  Wallace Stevens (1997). “Collected Poetry and Prose”

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• If any proof were needed of the progress of the cause for which I have worked, it is here tonight. The presence on the stage of these college women, and in the audience of all those college girls who will some day be the nation's greatest strength, will tell their own story to the world.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Girl, College, Progress

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• I do not know who I am tonight.

  Sylvia Plath

  Who I Am, Knows

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.184, Anchor

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• I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more.

  Sylvia Plath

  May, Fool, Empty Houses

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.8, Anchor

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• I would introduce myself if it were not useless. The name I had last night will not be the same as the name I have tonight. For the moment, then, let me say that I am thinking of Sam Slovoda.

  Norman Mailer

  Night, Thinking, Names

  Norman Mailer (2013). “Advertisements for Myself”, p.115, Odyssey Editions

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• I'm going to say this tonight because 20 years from now, 30 years from now, 40 years from now, I might not be able to say it, but I can say it tonight….You are now watching the greatest living rock star on the planet.

  Kanye West

  Stars, Rocks, Years

  "The Who’s Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey Throw Shade at Kanye West at Glastonbury: Details!" by Sophie Vokes-Dudgeon, www.usmagazine.com. June 29, 2015.

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• I'm folding up my little dreams
  Within my heart tonight,
  And praying I may soon forget
  The torture of their sight.

  Georgia Douglas Johnson

  Dream, Prayer, Heart

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• Oh, welcome to this world of fools, of pink champagne and swimming pools, where all you have to lose is your virginity. Perhaps you'll have some fun tonight, just stick around and take a bite, of life. We don't need feebleness in this proximity.

  Les Claypool

  Life, Fun, Swimming

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• Do not enforce the tired wolf
  Dragging his infected wound homeward
  To sit tonight with the warm children
  Naming the pretty kings of France.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Kings, Children, Tired

  John Crowe Ransom (1978). “Selected Poems”

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• Tonight the Republican presidential candidates had a big debate, 10 candidates. The last time that many rich white guys got together, I think Exxon merged with Mobil.

  Jay Leno

  Thinking, White, Guy

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• Don't give up. Don't listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don't get it tonight.

  Tori Amos

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Foolish

  "Tori Amos on Lauren Bacall, religion, and cleaning latrines". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. March 19, 2015.

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• Late at night when all the world is sleeping I stay up and think of you and I wish on a star that somewhere you are thinking of me too...Cause I'm dreaming of you tonight 'Til tomorrow I'll be holding you tight! And there's nowhere in the world I'd rather be than here in my room, dreaming about you and me.

  Selena

  Dream, Stars, Sleep

  Song: Dreaming Of You

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• My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now.

  Ronald Reagan

  America, Going Away, United States

  Reagan, Ronald (1988). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1986”, p.352, Best Books on

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• I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudolf Nureyev and Ted Heath, and ended up a senior cameraman with my own crew. I'd had my first short story published in 1947, and when my writing really started to take off I decided to go freelance, and eventually left the BBC in 1965.

  Michael Bond

  Senior, Writing, Blue

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• There are reports on the news tonight that members of the Taliban feel persecuted and fear their own safety. So now they know what it is like to feel like a woman in their country.

  Jay Leno

  Country, Safety, News

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• I'm a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl . . . leave me now return tonight tide will show you the way if you forget my name you will go astray like a killer whale trapped in a bay

  Bjork

  Girl, Blood, Whales

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• My heart went out, seeking the God of my people. In thousands of homes those white candles burned tonight. I joined an invisible congregation.

  Jessie Sampter

  Women, Home, Heart

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• If I thought there was some reason to be concerned about them, I wouldn't be sleeping in this house tonight. (When asked about continued presence of Soviet nuclear submarines along US coastlines)

  Ronald Reagan

  Sleep, House, Nuclear

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• I'm glad we were able to win this last one. I saw some good things tonight, ... It's just preseason, but we ran the ball good. I'm happy about that, and the first-team offense was pretty sharp.

  Bill Parcells

  Team, Winning, Balls

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• My thing is when people come up and say to me good set tonight and I say you too and then you find out that person is not in any band. Happens to me a lot.

  Oliver Sykes

  People, Band, Come Up

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• You are alive tonight for a reason. You were created to love and to be loved. You were not meant to be alone. You are not alone. You were meant to do life with other people. You need people who know you. You need to know people. Your voice matters. We are certainly strong. But we are also certainly fragile.

  Jamie Tworkowski

  Strong, Voice, People

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• Tonight we light these candles to honor the value and the work of Jyoti Singh's short, promising life, she was India's daughter. Tonight she's our daughter too.

  Meryl Streep

  Life, Daughter, Light

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• America is a miracle country. And we have to restore the sense that the Amiracle (ph) will apply to you. Each and every one of the people in this country who's watching tonight, lift everybody, unite everybody and build a stronger United States of America again. It will be and can be done.

  John Kasich

  Country, America, People

  John Kasich at the Republican presidential primary debate hosted by Fox News in Cleveland, Ohio, www.cbsnews.com. August 7, 2015.

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• In your bed tonight, turn off all of the lights and make sure that there is no noise. There is something that you will hear. It is probably that branch slapping the window but you better believe that your mind is going to go to some sick individual tapping on the glass because he wants to get your attention to come to the window for when you do you will be grabbed through it and pulled outside. That happens to me all of the time.

  Marcus Dunstan

  Believe, Glasses, Light

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