Dim Quotes
346 quotes by 284 authors
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But a day must come when the fire of youth will be quenched in my veins, when winter will dwell in my heart, when his…
— Heinrich Heine
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I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and…
— Mark Twain
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There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life looks out and…
— John Ruskin
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I love Chinese food, like steamed dim sum, and I can have noodles morning, noon and night, hot or cold. I like food that's very…
— Shilpa Shetty
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Use your light, but dim your brightness.
— Laozi
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It is we that are blind, not fortune; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her…
— Thomas Browne
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Negro servants have been smuggling odds and ends out of white homes for generations, and white people have been delighted to have them do it,…
— James A. Baldwin
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Great Time makes all things dim.
— Sophocles
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As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused.
— Anthony Burgess
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Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them ... one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An irradiation and glory…
— Paul Cezanne
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Very, very slowly, the dwarf remnants of what was once our mighty sun will cool and dim, until it embarks on its final metamorphosis, gradually…
— Paul Davies
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When we give our lives to Jesus Christ, the things of earth grow strangely dim. The values of eternity grow increasingly bright.
— David Jeremiah
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O you proud Christians, wretched souls and small,/ Who by the dim lights of your twisted minds/ Believe you prosper even as you fall,/ Can…
— Dante Alighieri
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Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics…
— Terry Eagleton
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It dulls the image.…
— Ezra Pound
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The sun is getting dim, will I pay for who I've been?
— Tori Amos
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The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance. It is here…
— Ellen Ullman
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Lower the Law and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt; this is a very serious loss to the sinner rather than…
— Charles Spurgeon
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A buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. Such is his power that karma can't hold him. No matter what kind…
— Bodhidharma
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