Night Quotes
Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert Hall at night and using ten million rounds of ammunition on the off chance of getting it. That should convince you that the atom will always be a sink of energy and never a reservoir of energy.Ernest Rutheford
The gates of hell are open, night and day Smooth the descent, and easy the way.Virgil
My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light.Edna St. Vincent Millay, "A Few Figs from Thistles", 1920
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.Japanese Prove
Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.Woody Allen
to be yourself in a world that is doing its best, day and night to make you like everybody else - - Is to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight.E. e. cummings
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 3
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.Matt Groening, "Life in Hell".
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.Mother Theresa
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.Woody Allen
Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good night.Andy Warhol
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.Og Mandino, The Greatest Miracle in the World
My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now.Ronald Reagan
Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.Marion Howard
My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and oh, my friends, It gives a lovely light.Edna St. Vincent Millay
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters, 1952
If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night.Dicky Barrett
There never was night that had no morn.Dinah Mulock Craik
Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers Love, nightmare - Like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers.William S. Gilbert
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.T. E. Lawrence
Goodnight.Lord Byron, last words
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.William Shakespeare
To thine own self be true -; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou canst not be false to any man.William Shakespeare
To be nobody - But - Yourself - - In a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - - Means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.E e cummings
He should not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, spoken by Elrond
This above all TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE. And it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.William Shakespeare
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, Where have I gone wrong Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.Charles M. Schulz
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.Kahlil Gibran
Tonight we are launching an effort which holds the promise of changing the course of human history.Ronald Reagan
The enemy came. He was beaten. I am tired. Goodnight.Vicomte Turenne, Message sent after the battle of Dunen, 658
True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkenss, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds, a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.Jim Bishop
The foolish man lies awake all night Thinking of his many problems; When the morning comes he is worn out And his trouble is just as it was.Norse Proverb, Myth and Meaning page 72
Weather forecast for tonight dark.George Carlin
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 3
He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.Edward R. Murrow, On Winston Churchill, 1954
I had a dream last night that a hamburger was eating ME!Jerry Seinfeld, Seinfeld episode "The Van Buren Boys" - Broadcast on February 6, 1997
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday.Unknown, Epitaph on headstone of actor John Wayne (author unknown)
