New Dark Age Quotes

#1. We are on the verge of losing our capacity as a society for deep, sustained focus. In short, we are slipping toward a new dark age.
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Maggie Jackson

#2. Are we facing a new Dark Age, Angus? Possibly, Lou. A dark age in which our concentration spell is this long.

Alexander McCall Smith

#3. [Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science.

Winston Churchill

#4. Most people today don't feel that Barack Obama is on our side. We sense he's incapable of doing what Roosevelt did, of loving his country so much that he was willing to run great risks in order to advance its cause, to free others from a new Dark Age - and protect our own liberty in the process.

Arthur L. Herman

#5. Someday our piecing together of knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas we shall either go mad or flee into the safety of a new dark age.

H.P. Lovecraft

#6. Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.

Boris Johnson

#7. Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.

Paul Hawken

#8. I think many New Age efforts at spirituality really fail because they're so taken by the light, and so eager to hold up light and warmth in a world that can be cold and dark, that they don't honor enough the darkness, the sinking, the suffering, and the Shadow

Mathew Fox

#9. If the selflessness of phenomena is analyzed and if this analysis is cultivated, it causes the effect of attaining nirvana. through no other cause does one come to peace.

Gautama Buddha

#10. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety and no doubt - just absolute confidence in yourself.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#11. It's a really hard movie [Insane Farting Corpse] to do a Q&A for, as well. The audience is still kind of reeling and being like, "I don't know what to ask."

Daniel Radcliffe

#12. -I'm going to heaven! I replied.
-What do you mean, you're going to heaven?
-Let me pass.
-And what will you do in heaven, my poor child?
-I'm going there to kill God, who killed Daddy.

Tom Reiss

#13. In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.

Alexandre Dumas

#14. I have always believed that this idea of having a nation go through this very painful five or six years of continuous recession with high unemployment would be detrimental for the economy and the society.

Antonis Samaras

#15. When it's dark, be the one who turns on the light.
- Joseph, Age 9, Brooklyn, New York, November 29

R.J. Palacio

#16. I have heard that we are spirits having a human experience. Perhaps those of us who have no conscience are dark spirits having a human experience.

P.A. Speers

#17. A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#18. When answering questions over the years about film and TV adaptations of my books, I have always maintained that no movie or TV series could ever change or damage my work.

Michel Faber

#19. Before the Internet, we were in a different sort of dark age. We had to wait to hear news on TV at night or in print the next day. We had to go to record stores to find new music. Cocktail party debates couldn't be settled on the spot.

Marvin Ammori

#20. My wardrobe is drab. I could spend six weeks in the same jeans. Most everything I have is blue or black, but certainly not cool.

Colum McCann