Nightlessness Quotes & Sayings

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them. — Emily Bronte

It made our presence in the world meaningful; we still served a purpose. — Massimo Marino

Well honey, seems innocent enough to me. He came in and fell in love with your buns. — Lorena Bathey

I always believe that my greatest audience will come from 70-year-old Jewish men and Jewish women, but that's me from my experience of going to High Holiday services and being adored by the women with free candy in the back. — Mark Feuerstein

For a woman as for a man, marriage might enormously help or devastatingly hinder the growth of her power to contribute something impersonally valuable to the community in which she lived, but it was not that power, and could not be regarded as an end in itself. Nor, even, were children ends in themselves; it was useless to go on producing human beings merely in order that they, in their sequence, might produce others, and never turn from this business of continuous procreation to the accomplishment of some definite and lasting piece of work. — Vera Brittain

Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to gaze at them like a fool, is set down and denounced as an impious heretic. — Baruch Spinoza

Whatever I did in 1960, half a century ago, I couldn't do that today and enter the field. The field has changed so much, you have to adapt to the times whatever you're doing. That's the reality of life: you have to be a different person today than you had to be then. — Douglas Kirkland

Do you think too long a period of nightlessness," mused Sandra, "could drive you insane, the way they say sleeplessness can? — Julia Glass

I was a girl crying in the middle of a crowd, and nobody noticed. Maybe there was something awful about that, but there was something good, too. I would dry my own tears. I opened my eyes and kept on walking.
~Kit — Judy Blundell

Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety. — George Reisman

I will say I am the sum of my books. — V.S. Naipaul

Identity apart from God is inherently unstable. — Timothy J. Keller

One of Victor's friends had a pet called "Terry the Truth Cat." When she was little and her father thought she was lying he would pick up the cat and say, "You kids tell me the truth or Terry gets it." I guess it was supposed to help with honesty but it seems pretty fucked up. Plus, I don't think I could threaten a cat. Maybe we could get Terry the Truth Turtle and threaten him with a fake gun. We'd be trying to get our daughter, Hailey, to tell the truth and he'd just hide his head in his shell like, "I'm not part of this. I'm not with you guys." But I don't like guns so maybe we could hold it over a pot of boiling — Jenny Lawson

Even the wisest people learn little from their successes; God warns His people against allowing their victories (which He will grant) to lead them into pride and spiritual indifference. Instead, they should pay close attention to God's Word. — Max Anders

Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity. — Thomas Merton