"Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Dark Quotes #Daylight Quotes #Broads Quotes

“Everyone said that the NBA could not possibly make it because it had too many black players.”
“But what the evil people do, that's their responsibility. The burden they have to carry. Sure, when we see 'em starting on causing some hurt, we've got to try and stop 'em, but mostly what the rest of us should be concerning ourselves with is doing right by others. Every time you do a good turn, you shine the light a little further into the dark. And the thing is, even when we're gone, that light's going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.”
“Poetry resonates differently in each culture; it doesn't in America.”
“You turn your life into a work of art in order to redeem the ordinariness - a condition you are stuck with.”

Source : Source: www.compulsivereader.com
“In the mid-1980s, operating problems took [nuclear] plants off-line so often that, on an annual basis, they operated at only about 55 percent of their rated total generating capacity. Today, as a result of several decades of experience and an intense focus on performance ... nuclear plants in the United States operate at over 90 percent of capacity. That improvement in operating efficiently is so significant in its impact that it can almost be seen as a new source in electric power itself.”
“Failure to love is almost like murder.”

Source : "Doctor Zhivago". Book by Boris Pasternak, 1957.
“You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning.”
“The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world.”

Source : Richard Sibbes (2015). “Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)”, p.2041, Titus Books

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