Pale Quotes
514 quotes by 371 authors
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Later when I thought of the chickens, one of those rare pale blue eggs rose up into my throat. The chickens had been part of…
— Melissa Coleman
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I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my…
— Mark Lawrence
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The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.
— Virginia Woolf
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Then fear will grow pale and fade away, and you will be free, through your faith in our strong and living Savior, Jesus Christ.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.
— Marty Meehan
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But I also believe there is enormous value in the piece of writing that goes no further than the one person for whom it was…
— Betsy Lerner
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The dark is settling in. The sky glows yellow- pale- anemic from the city lights. The Tenderloin at night is a real horror show. Every…
— Nic Sheff
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History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale…
— Winston Churchill
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Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pale light.
— Carl Sagan
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Bears, dragons, tempestuous on mountain and river, Startle the forest and make the heights tremble. Clouds darken beneath the darkness of rain, streams pale with…
— Li Bai
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Pornography is just 'fast-food feminine energy', it will always leave you wanting more, with little or no nutritional value. There is nothing ful-filling about pornography,…
— Barry Long
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I have sat here happy in the gardens, Watching the still pool and the reeds And the dark clouds. . . . But though I…
— Richard Aldington
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Just as a dancer, turning and turning, may fill the dusty light with the soft swirl of her flying skirts, our weeping willow -- now…
— Ted Kooser
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The Holy Night We sate among the stalls at Bethlehem; The dumb kine from their fodder turning them, Softened their horned faces To almost human…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is slicked o'er with the pale cast of thought
— William Shakespeare
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She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He…
— Bram Stoker
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our…
— Carl Sagan
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What I fear and desire most in this world is passion. I fear it because it promises to be spontaneous, out of my control, unnamed,…
— Terry Tempest Williams
Who Wrote These Pale Quotes
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