Dim Quotes

346 quotes by 284 authors

Why are CEO's who slash jobs so proud of themselves? Instead of bragging about 'cutting fat,' they ought to be getting up before their employees… — Dale Dauten
Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
At the last dim horizon, we search among ghostly errors of observations for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. The urge… — Edwin Powell Hubble
Many love music but for music's sake, Many because her touches can awake Thoughts that repose within the breast half-dead, And rise to follow where… — Walter Savage Landor
The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded my consciousness like an ancestral… — Ross Macdonald
To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's care is more evident in some instances than in others; and upon such instances men seize,… — George MacDonald
Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of… — Nelson Algren
Because if one has an image, however dim and romantic, of a journey's end, one may, in the end, surely reach it, after no matter… — Margaret Drabble
The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing â€” or one person â€” at a… — Maureen Dowd
If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim our value consciousness as wellâ€”as happens, for instance, in old age with regard… — Max Scheler
It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the… — Kate Chopin
Where's the superficial? I was, and therefore am, dim, gloomy, a drag, unfashionable, unfanciable, and awkward. This doesn't seem like superficial to me. These aren't… — Nick Hornby
Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect — Murray Gell-Mann
For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read. — Alexander Pope
Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling… — Charles Caleb Colton
We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim and distant past — Dmitri Volkogonov
Life is agid, life is fulgid. Life is what the least of us make most of us feel the least of us make the most… — Willard Van Orman Quine
It isn't surprising that many children consider their parents to be a little dim, and that they sometimes try to update them. The fact that… — Peg Bracken
It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light, — Roland Gift
If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim. — Matthew Simpson

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