False Dawns Quotes

#1. In the history of thought and culture the dark nights have perhaps in some ways cost mankind less grief than the false dawns, the prison houses in which hope persists less grief than the promised lands where hope expires.

Louis Kronenberger

#2. There is a general sense of guarded optimism. There have been too many false dawns over the last 60 years. There have been more tears than smiles, but I sense there is a commitment from Abbas and Sharon, a new determination to make a reality of the goal of two states living side by side.

Jack Straw

#3. If I had to choose between sex and food, I would choose food, but I'd choose sex over nearly everything else.

Helen Gurley Brown

#4. I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.

Wade Boggs

#5. I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm travelling toward light.

Bruce Cockburn

#6. The nation seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attainted by wounds and ailments to be robust, but too strong and resourceful to succumb.

Richard Hofstadter

#7. The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid

Lucian Of Samosata

#8. Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision.

Harri Holkeri

#9. Politicians talk about wage equality, but my father has made it a practice at his company throughout his entire career. He will fight for equal pay for equal work, and I will fight for this, too, right along side of him.

Ivanka Trump

#10. There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.

Storm Jameson