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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Aristotle Onassis

Focus, Light, Moments

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
Dalai Lama

Hope, Judge, Focus

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
Ayn Rand

History, Government, Human

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Dante Alighieri

Crisis, Hell, Moral

It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.
Hillary Clinton

Change, Hope, Night

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
Karl Von Clausewitz

Truth, Courage, May

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
Horace Greeley

Life, Money, Down

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Charles Caleb Colton

Great, Greatest, Confusion

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
H. G. Wells

Good, Evils, Surely

The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
William Cowper

Live, Tomorrow, Away

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
Ray Charles

Music, Childhood, Roots

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.
Bruce Springsteen

Music, Greatest, Blues

We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.
Saul Alinsky

Beautiful, Before, Dawn

So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in each of these societies the people at the bottom are the darkest skinned with the most African features.
Henry Louis Gates

Beautiful, Wanted, Culture

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.
Pearl S. Buck

Evil, Race, Shadow

I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement.
Harlan Coben

Heart, Human, After

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Women, History, Human

There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful.
Eddie Vedder

Music, Beautiful, Someone

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.
John Major

Moment, Begins, Recovery

Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.
Javier Bardem

Freedom, Discovered, Regions

Even in your darkest moments, you'll think of something that'll crack you up.
Brad Paisley

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.
George Berkeley

Truth, Long, May

I think that Ionesco's greatest weapon is that he's able to make us laugh at the darkest corners of our souls.
Geoffrey Rush

Greatest, Laugh, Able

One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.
Ayelet Waldman

Fear, Bad, Children

I have friends who are going through chemotherapy, and they make the darkest, most hideous cancer jokes you've ever heard.
Kathy Griffin

Through, Friends, Cancer

There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling it up from the darkest recesses of your mind or your heart. It's your experience and your observation.
Robert Carlyle

Experience, Mind, Heart

I'm a big believer in the notion that our greatest potential lies in our darkest parts. To a certain extent it's only in facing those parts of ourselves that we can truly grow, and I think that's true of all of the characters I've played, certainly in the past few years.
Zachary Quinto

True, Greatest, Past

In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.
Michael Burgess

Freedom, Evil, Compassion

When we were filming 'The Darkest Hour,' we didn't even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didn't even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you're just generating them from your own imagination.
Olivia Thirlby

Challenge, Big, Moments

The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

History, War, Everybody

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