Top 42 Kept In The Dark Quotes

#1. Careful what you wish for; the darkness in my heart is kept in check by the smallest amount of light.

Liberty Stone

Kept In The Dark Quotes #7572
#2. The kind of smile that has kept a froggy, dark sort of surprise in its back pocket, and won't spoil it too soon.

Catherynne M Valente

Kept In The Dark Quotes #137862
#3. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.

Sylvia Plath

Kept In The Dark Quotes #151216
#4. I have always kept ducks, even as a child, and the colours of their plumage, in particular the dark green and snow white, seemed to me the only possible answer to the questions that are on my mind.

W.G. Sebald

Kept In The Dark Quotes #151733
#5. The purposeful restriction of knowledge has been at the heart of untold misery and hardship in this world. Serfs were kept illiterate so as to not jeopardize the feudal system. Slaves were kept in the dark on a variety of subjects so as to not provide them the possibility of escape.

Niger Innis

Kept In The Dark Quotes #182479
#6. I mean, The New York Times actually had an interesting case recently where they described a detainee who was afraid of the dark, and so he was purposely kept very much in the dark.

Jane Mayer

Kept In The Dark Quotes #209266
#7. When we were little, we kept close to our mother in a dark alley or if dogs barked at us. Now, when we feel temptations of the flesh, we should run to the side of our Mother in Heaven, by realizing how she is to us, and by means of aspirations. She will defend us and lead us to the light.

Josemaria Escriva

Kept In The Dark Quotes #253932
#8. I dealt with the White Council my whole life, so I'm used to being treated like a mushroom - " "Eh?" Ascher asked. "Kept in the dark and fed bullshit," Binder reported calmly. "Ah.

Jim Butcher

Kept In The Dark Quotes #271322
#9. Also, in my bedroom, nobody minded if I kept the hall door half-open, allowing in enough light that I was not scared of the dark, and, just as important, allowing me to read secretly, after my bedtime, using the dim hallway light to read by, if I needed to. I always needed to.

Neil Gaiman

Kept In The Dark Quotes #280053
#10. People do terrible things to each other, but it's worse in the places where everybody is kept in the dark.

Tom Stoppard

Kept In The Dark Quotes #361210
#11. Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.

Richard Whately

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#12. I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.

Emile Zola

Kept In The Dark Quotes #483466
#13. Flag: What are you really up to?

Waller: You want the big picture?

Flag: No, I like being fed a steady stream of crap and kept in the dark like a mushroom.

Marv Wolfman

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#14. When it comes to branding and the ever-changing social media phenomenon, you're not a mushroom. In other words, you shouldn't be kept in the dark and fed a pile of...well, you get the idea.

David Brier

Kept In The Dark Quotes #488765
#15. You did not so much mind being -conventionally- betrayed, if you were not kept in the dark, which was humiliating, or defined only as a wife and dependent person, which was annihilating.

A.S. Byatt

Kept In The Dark Quotes #531350
#16. I like to pretend I'm a prisoner kept in a dark, dank cell who's only allowed fifteen minutes a day in the yard, so that I can remember to really enjoy looking up.

Matthew Quick

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#17. The word of God directs us in our work and way, and a dark place indeed the world would be without it. The commandment is a lamp kept burning with the oil of the Spirit, as a light to direct us in the choice of our way, and the steps we take in that way.

Matthew Henry

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#18. In the night, I am kept awake by the endless chatter of my inner self. I hear it speak softly of old hurts and fondly of past loves, while its demands and anxieties resound throughout me in multitudes.
I could be calm and composed all day long, but the moment it is dark, my mind riots.

Beau Taplin

Kept In The Dark Quotes #850860
#19. As far as the Council is concerned, the U.S. Wardens are a bunch of mushrooms."
"Eh?"
"Kept in the dark and fed on bullshit.

Jim Butcher

Kept In The Dark Quotes #926967
#20. I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me

Oscar Wilde

Kept In The Dark Quotes #1012366
#21. They watched her sit, holding the bundle up before her, the lamp just at her elbow belabored by a moth whose dark shape cast upon her face appeared captive within the delicate skull, the thin and roselit bone, like something kept in a china mask

Cormac McCarthy

Kept In The Dark Quotes #1105044
#22. ... none had been outside Russia. I kept trying to remember something that I had read about a species of fish that was born, lived, spawned, died in the dark waters of a cave; and were blind.

Martha Gellhorn

Kept In The Dark Quotes #1115592
#23. Nobody knows because Team Obama has conveniently arranged for you to be kept in the dark on your health insurance costs until after everyone votes next week.

Hugh Hewitt

Kept In The Dark Quotes #1159148
#24. In the Lonely Hour is about a guy that I fell in love with last year, and he didn't love me back. I think I'm over it now, but I was in a very dark place. I kept feeling lonely in the fact that I hadn't felt love before.

Sam Smith

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#25. He pursed his lips and gazed at me reproachfully for throwing our seventh-grade history in his face,times two. back then he'd brought our tween-love Armageddon on himself by letting our whole class in on a secret while he kept me in the dark.
Not that i was bitter.

Jennifer Echols

Kept In The Dark Quotes #1284757
#26. I can't help but think of the phrase ' sometimes it is better to be kept in the dark than be blinded by the light.

Anna Todd

Kept In The Dark Quotes #1297775
#27. Sorry, is my new Djinn name Mushroom ? Because I don't like being kept in the dark and fed bullshit, David. Just so you know.

Rachel Caine

Kept In The Dark Quotes #1328885
#28. I wanted you to watch, so I stomped around the room to wake you before I got in the shower. Didn't you wonder why the light was on? It wasn't for me, I can see in the dark. And then I kept the water cold so the glass wouldn't fog.

Jeaniene Frost

Kept In The Dark Quotes #1358243
#29. I love you," he murmured. "Oh, Bree, I do love you." She didn't answer, but a hand floated up from the dark and lay along his cheek, gentle as a tendril of seaweed. She kept it there while he took her, laid open in trust, while her other hand held his beating heart.

Diana Gabaldon

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#30. He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.

J.K. Rowling

Kept In The Dark Quotes #1381233
#31. In a democracy, citizens pass judgment on their government, and if they are kept in the dark about what their government is doing, they cannot be in a position to make well-grounded decisions.

Peter Singer

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#32. A bit of information, kept in the dark is a secret. That same bit of information put to the light becomes truth...even if it's a lie.

J. Evan Johnson

Kept In The Dark Quotes #1529573
#33. My eyes kept skipping back to her, drawn to her face like a lone candle flame in the dark

Alexandra Bracken

Kept In The Dark Quotes #1542024
#34. The sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary. Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban.

George Orwell

Kept In The Dark Quotes #1623431
#35. I don't lose. Do you hear me? I don't lose and that includes losing you. I'm done being kept in the dark. Im done feeling like you're slipping right past me. You are not saying goodbye to me. I'm in love with you and you love me back. You are staying.

Katie McGarry

Kept In The Dark Quotes #1631823
#36. an aching hollowness in the bosom, a dark cold speck at the heart, an obscure and boding sense of something that must be kept out of sight of the conscience;

Lionel Fisher

Kept In The Dark Quotes #1632151
#37. If you want to - if you want to engage in conspiracy theories that the White House and the vice president intended no one to ever know - like "The New York Times" - we would have been kept in the dark forever. I just think that's completely irrational.

Kate O'Beirne

Kept In The Dark Quotes #1675344
#38. I believe nakedness shouldn't be kept in the dark.

Faye Resnick

Kept In The Dark Quotes #1732728
#39. women possessed closely guarded answers to the secrets of the universe, and men would forever be kept in the dark.

Shelly Alexander

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#40. Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Kept In The Dark Quotes #1761499
#41. He told himself she wasn't really such a bad person, she was just a pest, she was sticky, there was something misplaced in her make-up, something that kept her from fading clear of people when they wanted to be in the clear.

David Goodis

Kept In The Dark Quotes #1791992
#42. God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself and a continued readiness for every event.

Matthew Henry

Kept In The Dark Quotes #1871340

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