He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds; and faults of some kind nestle in every bosom.
Love that shines from within cannot be darkened by obstacles of the world of consequences!
Tired of me already?" he asked with a smile in his voice. "No quite yet. You?" His eyes darkened, and he kissed her again. "Never. " Her heart skipped a beat. "Never is a long time," she said. His voice was low, fierce. And very sure. "That's what I'm counting on.
Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
Over this country, when the giant Eagle flings the shadow of his wing, the land is darkened. So compact is it that the wing covers all its extent in one pause of the flight. The sea breaks on the pale line of the shore; to the Eagle's proud glance waves run in to the foot of the hills that are like rocks planted in green water.
Truth was truth, whether I darkened my eyes to it or not.
Who’ll come lie down in the dark with me Belly to belly and knee to knee Who’ll look into my hooded eye Who’ll lie down under my darkened thigh?
Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows
The gospel of Jesus Christ is the brightest light and the only hope for this darkened world.
And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.
He took a step toward her, than another, tentatively, gathering all his strength, as though about to throw a heavy switch that would, if his calculations were correct, bring light to a hundred cities and ten thousand darkened rooms. He was going to ask her to dance - that was all.
All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for. . . There seems no plan because it is all plan: there seems no centre because it is all centre.
Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.
I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.
I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic.
The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light.
The sky darkened, the air grew colder, but he didn't mind. It didn't occur to him to move. This was the right place. This was where he had wanted to be.
I'd love to think that people in the future would gather in theatres, at conventions, and in darkened rooms, and read it out to each other.
If the heart is hardened, the intellect is darkened.
Time, like a flurry of wild rain, Shall drift across the darkened pane!
