Whistling In The Dark Quotes

#1. And then everyone in the room started laughing. My dad and my uncles and aunts - if there's one thing they knew how to do, it was laugh. My dad called that sort of behavior whistling in the dark.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#2. The man who tells you nothing frightens him is whistling in the dark. Besides, fear is not necessarily bad. It may guard you from harm. And I suspect that fear of being caught, punished and disgraced keeps many more of us from committing crimes than does the voice of conscience'.

Victoria Clayton

#3. I blame my generation for having neglected to teach our children that in life there are no safe places, that safety is an illusion. "Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark," Baldwin said in an interview in 1961.

Azar Nafisi

#4. Even in her mind the words had the forlorn gallantry of someone whistling in the dark.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#5. Everything will be okay as soon as you are okay with everything. And that is the only time everything will be okay.

Michael Singer

#6. The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope; big stars were shining over the silent fields; here and there the dark pointed firs stood up with snow powdering their branches and the wind whistling through them.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

#7. There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

William, Saroyan

#8. Are you turning into a cougar? Is this some sort of midlife crisis I need to be concerned about?

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#9. Her head felt like miniature construction workers had taken up residence. Along with jackhammers and pneumatic drills, they were now whistling at passing women and yelling "Hey, baby!" She made the pledge of hung-over idiots everywhere: I'm never drinking again.

Kate Meader

#10. If you insist on fighting every fight that comes your way, you're simply letting them push you around in a different way.

Ken Liu

#11. Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.

Blaise Pascal

#12. The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens. Advent is the name of that moment.

Frederick Buechner

#13. At age fifteen, Martin entered Morehouse College in an accelerated program during World War II. As the U.S. pledged to fight fascism, racism, anti-Semitism, and colonialism, King was profoundly influenced through courses in sociology, history, philosophy, literature, and religion.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#14. We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.

Erica Jong

#15. The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.

William Blake

#16. There is another very important lesson: You must learn to be equipped to face your battles this year and be properly positioned on the wall. Pioneers will be challenged as they plow new ground, but I have new Body Armor I want to give you that will protect you in the days to come.

Bob Hartley