387 Quotes About Twilight

  • Author Heinrich Heine
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    The cloudlets are lazily sailing O'er the blue Atlantic sea; And mid the twilight there hovers A shadowy figure o'er me...

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  • Author Hubert H. Humphrey
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    The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.

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  • Author Oliver Wendell Holmes
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    We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's gloom the first pale spark, While others only note that day is gone.

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  • Author Victor Hugo
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    The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.

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  • Author Paul Krugman
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    If we discovered that, you know, space aliens were planning to attack and we needed a massive buildup to counter the space alien threat and really inflation and budget deficits took secondary place to that, this slump would be over in 18 months. ... There was a Twilight Zone episode like this in which scientists fake an alien threat in order to achieve world peace. Well, this time, we don't need it, we need it in order to get some fiscal stimulus.

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  • Author Rudyard Kipling
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    Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?

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