Quotes with nights

  • 'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.
  • Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you live or die.

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  • Benjamin Franklin If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Alan Jay Lerner A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.
    Alan Jay Lerner
    American film screenwriter (1918 - 1986)
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  • Alan Jay Lerner A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.
    Alan Jay Lerner
    American screenwriter and songwriter (1918 - 1986)
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  • Anthony Doerr Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you live or die.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • A. E. Housman Could man be drunk for ever
    With liquor, love, or fights,
    Lief should I rouse at mornings
    And lief lie down of nights.
    But men at whiles are sober
    And think by fits and starts,
    And if they think, they fasten
    Their hands upon their hearts.
    Last Poems (1922) No. 10, st. 2
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Gerald C. Meyers Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears.
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  • Mignon McLaughlin For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Good. There are many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Bram Stoker He seemed so confident that I, remembering my own confidence two nights before and with the baneful result, felt awe and vague terror. It must have been my weakness that made me hesitate to tell it to my friend, but I felt it all the more, like unshed tears.
    Dracula (1897) Dr. John Seward
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Billie Holiday I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Warren Gamaliel Harding I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends. They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!
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  • Lord Chesterfield If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • E. M. Cioran Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Bruce Forsyth In the old days, variety turns like me learned how to cope with failure - we all had nights when we 'died' on stage - but today's youngsters simply don't have that experience. For them, it really is instant make or break time - hence, all the tears and, hence, all the potential emotional damage.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • William Shakespeare Let me have men about me that are fat, sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights. Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Oh the harsh snarl of guitar strings roaring!
    Heavenly distensions of our throats!
    Trousers stiff with dirt and love! Such whoring!
    Long green slimy nights: we were like stoats.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Those days of my youth [O, Ihr Zeiten meiner Jugen
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Carmen Electra People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.
    Carmen Electra
    American actress, model and singer (1972 - )
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  • Brunello Cucinelli St. Benedict said to take care of your mind, body and soul. I swim for an hour every morning, do 15 minutes of Tibetan stretching and breathing exercises, and play soccer with friends four or more nights a week.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Ben Zobrist There have been nights I've stayed up late thinking about, 'What's wrong with my swing? What do I need to fix?'
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • William Shakespeare These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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