Pushing Back The Darkness Quotes

#1. Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair.

Kim Stanley

#2. When people use the term magic realism, usually they only mean 'magic' and they don't hear 'realism', whereas the way in which magic realism actually works is for the magic to be rooted in the real. It's both things. It's not just a fairytale moment. It's the surrealism that arises out of the real.

Salman Rushdie

#3. Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

Charles Dickens

#4. I have a great family. I can call them and they don't want to talk just football They want to find out how my day went outside of football.

Ben Roethlisberger

#5. You have to stick within what I call your circle of competence. You have to know what you understand and what you don't understand. It's not terribly important how big the circle is. But it is terribly important that you know where the perimeter is.

Rolf Dobelli

#6. A dream project is anything I do when I'm awake.

Charles Fleischer

#7. History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.

Eva Herzigova

#8. Memories come back, pressing in on you, like ghost faces in the darkness pushing up the glass, trying to get into the lit room.

Julia Green

#9. You can get the best locksmith in the world to design the best lock he can design, is it pick proof? No, it's not: it can be very hard to pick, but it is pickable. Because you can get, say, the next 10 best locksmiths, and give them unlimited money and time, they will figure out a way to pick it.

Mikko Hypponen

#10. Freedom requires religion in society, not in individuals.

Mitt Romney

#11. They stay like this, in silence, both aware that they have created something together. Defiance. A pushing back of a darkness that no one has ever pushed at before. A wonderful, criminal liberty to love that which has been so viciously called unlovable.

Tony Burgess

#12. As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits.

Julie Bowen

#13. You must also forgive yourself. You must forgive yourself for any past mistakes and failures that you cannot forget.

Laura Aranda

#14. I'm definitely a perfectionist. I started entertaining so young. I think, naturally, my personality is that of a perfectionist, and then on top of that, growing up in the industry, I became very objective and analytical of myself early on, and I find myself doing that in everything.

Keke Palmer

#15. Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

Fergus Henderson

#16. The prime minister has chosen to acknowledge publicly the sovereignty of God and the claim of God on her life. Hers is the challenge to live up to that claim.

Philip Robinson