Sunset quotes

Sunset

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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
Sunset

"It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not stirring to understand how the world actually works — that white light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive the wavelengths of light, that transparent air reflects light, that in so doing it discriminates among the waves, and that the sky is blue for the same reason that the sunset is red? It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it."

Science Passion Sunset
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Anais Nin Writer, Diarist
Sunset

"Acapulco in the sunset seems like a balm; it enters the blood like a drug after one inhalation of the scent of flowers, one glimpse of the bay iridescent like silk, the sunset like the inside of a shell, so much like the flesh of Venus."

Flower Blood Sunset
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Allen Tate Poet, Critic
Sunset

"The dusk runs down the lane driven like hail; Far off a precise whistle is escheat To the dark; and then the towering weak and pale."

Running Dark Sunset
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Sunset

"Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot mountain... avoid prettiness - the word looks much like pettiness - and there is but little difference between them."

Differences Feet Sunset
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Langston Hughes Poet, Novelist
Sunset

"I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset. I've known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers."

Sleep Sunset New Orleans
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Geneen Roth Author
Sunset

"No matter where you go, no matter how many gifts you give and receive this holiday season, unless you are actually present, it all flies by as if in a dream. Satisfaction in anything--a meal, an interaction, a gift, a sunset--depends on your willingness to take it in. Breathe. Feel your arms and your legs. You are allowed to love every little thing about yourself and your life. You are allowed to take up space and be all that you are. Really you are."

Dream Holiday Sunset
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Erma Bombeck Humorist, Writer
Sunset

"Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed."

Thinking Kids Sunset
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Tom Wilson Comedian, actor
Sunset

"About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation."

Love Fun Sunset
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Sunset

"A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night."

Nature Kissing Sunset
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Sunset

"The sky lay over the city like a map showing the strata of things and the big full moon toppled over in a furrow like the abandoned wheel of a gun carriage on a sunset field of battle and the shadows walked like cats and I looked into the white and ghostly interior of things and thought of you and I looked on their structural outsides and thought of you and was lonesome."

Gun Cat Sunset
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Sunset

"You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans."

Home Sunset Sunrise
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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist
Sunset

"In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the glance and the shrug of the loser, the outsider, the despised minority. It is a nuance that comes most effortlessly to the oppressed."

Style Sunset Ironic
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Bill Murray Actor, Comedian
Sunset

"I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster, drank piña coladas. At sunset, we made love like sea otters. That was a pretty good day. Why couldn't I get that day over and over and over?"

Girl Sunset Good Day
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Ronald Reagan Politician, Actor
Sunset

"I have recently been told that I am one of the millions of Americans who will be afflicted with Alzheimer's Disease. . .. I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead."

Journey Sunset Alzheimer's
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Sunset

"Passion doesn't come from business or books or even a connection with another person. It is a connection to your own life force, the world around you and the spirit that connects us all. You are the source. Books, work, music, people, sunsets all provide sparks, but only you can light the fire."

Book Passion Sunset
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Meg Whitman Business Executive
Sunset

"You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford.That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this."

Government Pain Sunset
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Ronald Reagan Politician, Actor
Sunset

"One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."

Men Children Sunset
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