Dimmest Quotes

#1. Destiny commands ... and imposes a sacred obligation to show up in the face of one's desire for a normal, casual life ... there are other forces afoot of which consciousness has only the dimmest of understandings ...

James Hollis

#2. There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.

Edith Wharton

#3. Americans have only the dimmest notion of what their constitutional freedoms are - and what it took to get them ... [and] the willingness to surrender what we're supposed to be fighting for is a recurring part of our history.

Nat Hentoff

#4. She waited, unwilling to meet his eyes, hoping he would go on. When he didn't, the silence stretched between them like invisible cobwebs. In the dimmest part of her, she realized she might have wishes, too, elusive wishes that belonged more to a girl in a garden than they did to a captive.

Caragh M. O'Brien

#5. It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty, that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade, or that the waters were profoundly deep; but that over all, rocks, wood, and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its inmost depths.

Thomas Cole

#6. Enlightenment comes to even the dimmest. It begins around the eyes, and it spreads outward from there- a sight that might tempt one to lie down under the harrow oneself.

Franz Kafka

#7. maybe, I thought, we were all circus mice, running around with only the dimmest awareness that God and all His heavenly host were watching us in our Bakelite houses through our ivy-glass windows.

Stephen King

#8. Absolute excellence is rarely to be found in any legislation.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#9. I think we should all be tolerant of each other and embrace each others' strengths and differences and uniqueness and beauty.

Martina Mcbride

#10. There are things we know and things we don't know about food. But there are certain basic things we do know, and that's what I've tried to build these rules on.

Michael Pollan

#11. The best things in life aren't free ... they're given freely, but you have to work hard to keep them - Shane KP O'Neill

Shane K.P. O'Neill

#12. I've never smoked crack. I've never done most things, drug-wise. But I assume that the experience I had watching Lost is the experience that crack addicts have smoking crack.

Ginnifer Goodwin

#13. I prefer atrophy over exercise any day.

Karen Duffy

#14. I was the chairman of the Budget Committee and the lead architect the last time it happened in Washington, and when we did it we had great economic growth, we cut taxes, and we had a big surplus.

John Kasich