False Dawns Quotes & Sayings

You save lives," Miles says to me. "That's way more impressive. — Colleen Hoover

Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us. — Albert Einstein

There is a general sense of guarded optimism. There have been too many false dawns over the last 60 years. There have been more tears than smiles, but I sense there is a commitment from Abbas and Sharon, a new determination to make a reality of the goal of two states living side by side. — Jack Straw

I have never had more pleasure than riding a horse naked at a fast gallop across an empty landscape. Riding is life. They rest is just pedestrian. — Chloe Thurlow

Over the vistas broke a cold gray light, such as seen in those false dawns that are neither night nor true morning, when the world and all its contents seem but shapes of mist, formed in vain hope and desire ... If you awake from troubled sleep at such a time, you can only sit by the window and think of those that have been lost to you, those that followed your parents into those cold and heartless regions below the grass, silent and dark. Eventually, morning comes and the world resumes its solidity, but another tiny thread of ice has been stitched into your heart forever. — K.W. Jeter

Why did God make all this all so decayable and dieable and harmable and wants to make me realize and scream? — Jack Kerouac

I don't know about making a passionate love story, even if it's appealing for an audience to see a husband and wife make love on the screen. — Sandra Dee

In the history of thought and culture the dark nights have perhaps in some ways cost mankind less grief than the false dawns, the prison houses in which hope persists less grief than the promised lands where hope expires. — Louis Kronenberger

We are not built for mountains and dawns and artistic affinities; they are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff of life, and this is where we have to prove our mettle. A false Christianity takes us up on the mount and we want to stay there. But what about the devil-possessed world? Oh, let it go to hell! We are having a great time up here. — Oswald Chambers

I would never say out loud that I am raising my children alone, but a lot of the time it has felt like that. — Liberty Ross