Best 439 quotes in «dawn quotes» category

The dark comes before dawn. The financial markets are under great pressure because of the lack of leadership during the transition period.

The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.

The darkest hour was just before dawn.

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again and again.

The [Elian] raid... was almost worth it, if only to watch Jesse Jackson...defending an armed pre-dawn raid by the US government on a minority household.

The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.

The light of the dawn is not so sweet as the first glimpses of fame.

The life that the dawn brings us is the only life we have. Life is in the here and now, not in the there and afterwards.

The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.

The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of members in a sect or creed.

The idea of liberalism has to be recreated. In the course of time it has lost so much of its clarity and attraction that it first has to rise like a new dawn in front of the people.

The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. ... If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.

The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly.

The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of man. They represent escapism, but they all feature themes that have such poignancy in a modern world.

There is a solitude, or perhaps a solemnity, in the few hours that precede the dawn of day which is unlike that of any others in the twenty-four, and which I cannot explain or account for. Thoughts come to me at this time that I never have at any other.

The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth.

The populations of most cities around the world continue to grow. The reasonspeople congregate in cities are various and complex, and the dawn of the digital age has not put much of adamper on the human urge to congregate.

There are some moments in life that are like pivots around which your existence turns—small intuitive flashes, when you know you have done something correct for a change, when you think you are on the right track. I watched a pale dawn streak the cliffs with Day-glo and realized this was one of them. It was a moment of pure, uncomplicated confidence—and lasted about ten seconds.

The pale stars are gone! For the sun, their swift shepherd, To their folds them compelling, In the depths of the dawn, Hastes, in meteor-eclipsing array, and the flee Beyond his blue dwelling, As fawns flee the leopard.

The period before the dawn of knowledge is called the age of darkness.

There are a lot of truths in this world. When it rains it pours. It's always darkest before the dawn. He who smelt it dealt it.

There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.

There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.

There is no solemnity so deep, to a right-thinking creature, as that of dawn.

There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.

The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost romantic, the most quixotic figure in all rowing.

The saddest of all failures is that of a soul, with its capabilities and possibilities, failing of life everlasting, and entering upon that night of death upon which morning never dawns.

The sky sinks in the morning, this fact has been insufficiently observed.

The stories in Dawn Raffel's astonishing Further Adventures in the Restless Universe as as sharp and bright as stars.

The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.

The thinnest tendrils of dawn are creeping in from the east. People in New York are softly starting to tweet.

The tail of the comet slashed the dawn and in the red light of the rising sun, for a brief instant, it seemed as if the comet was bleeding across the sky.

The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.

The world...is full of resurrections... Every night that folds us up in darkness is a death; and those of you that have been out early, and have seen the first of the dawn, will know it - the day rises out of the night like a being that has burst its tomb and escaped into life.

This elaborate Golden Dawn system became part of Crowley's own inner world ... He carried it further than even the Golden Dawn principals had envisaged. I know of nothing within the Order documentary that even hints at the kind of visionary and spiritual experience that Crowley managed to get out of it.

They say it’s always darkest until right before the dawn. I’ve worked on enough projects to know how true this saying really is.

They say it's darkest before the dawn, but it also tend to be quietest, and the quiet lets you hear yourself better.

True spiritual life depends not on probing our feelings and thoughts from dawn to dusk but on 'looking off' to the Savior!

Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.

Those to whom worshiping is a window, to open but also to shut, have not yet visited the house of their souls whose windows are open from dawn to dawn.

To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom.

This is the darkest hour before dawn and we should never underestimate monetary authorities' ability to deal with the adversity.

Today, as chief Of the guardians of the seas Of the land of the dawn, I gaze up with awe At the rising sun!

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. It matters not what the clocks say or the attitudes and labors of men. Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.

Unca Jay!" "How's it going Claire?" She giggled. "Qwil aaaaawl wet now." "I can see that. Where's your mama?" "Gone, gone, gone," Claire sang. "Cwaire pway wid Qwil aaaawl day. Cwaire nebber gowin home." Jacob and Claire, Breaking Dawn, page 152.

Turns out we've been eating the wrong things...since the dawn of civilisation

Unless and until we have peace deep within us, we can never hope to have peace in the outer world. You and I create the world by the vibrations that we offer to it. If we can invoke peace and then offer it to somebody else, we will see how peace expands from one to two persons, and gradually to the world at large. Peace will come about in the world from the perfection of individuals. If you have peace, I have peace, he has peace, and she has peace, then automatically universal peace will dawn.

We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's gloom the first pale spark, While others only note that day is gone.