Quotes about Dim

Dim eclipse, disastrous twilight. Votes: 3

No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears. Votes: 3

Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power. Votes: 3

Dim them lights get it in pimp tight do wat i do i lace up my own nikes. Votes: 3

O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame! Votes: 3

Sundays are for Dim Sum. While the rest of America goes to church, Sunday School, or NFL games, you can find Chinese people eating Cantonese food. Votes: 3

This is no way to run a business, I told Dim Sum, and then looked at Tons of FunAnd you might want to lay off the carbs, you fucking wildebeest. Votes: 3

Nosegays! leave them for the waking, Throw them earthward where they grew Dim are such, beside the breaking Amaranths he looks unto. Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do. Votes: 3

Now spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health have flown. Votes: 3

There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. Votes: 3

Compassionate the mountains rise Dim with the wistful dimness of old eyes That, having looked on life time out of mind, Know that the simple gift of being kind Is greater than all the wisdom of the wise. Votes: 3

Reunion with the mother is a siren call haunting our imagination. Once there was bliss, and now there is struggle. Dim memories of life before the traumatic separation of birth may be the source of Arcadian fantasies of a lost golden age. Votes: 3

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, how complicate, how wonderful is man! Distinguished link in being's endless chain! Midway from nothing to the Deity! Dim miniature of greatness absolute! An heir of glory! A frail child of dust! Helpless immortal! Insect infinite! A worm! A God! Votes: 3

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit. Votes: 2

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it. Votes: 2

Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched. Votes: 2

It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light. Votes: 2

If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim. Votes: 2

The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim. Votes: 2

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start. Votes: 2

Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together. Votes: 2

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it. Votes: 2

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face. Votes: 2

I'd like to form a club just for fathers. Specifically, fathers of daughters. There would be lots of overstuffed leather chairs, wood paneling, dim lights. The works. Votes: 2

What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be. Votes: 2

We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb. Votes: 2

Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most inclusive rules for an undivided mankind. Votes: 2

High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, over time, natural talent seems to ignite in some people and dim in others. Votes: 2

You have been called to be who you are - the whole luminous light. No one can dim your light when you are fully present to the depth and breadth of it. Votes: 2

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were. Votes: 2

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish. Votes: 2

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. Votes: 2

I think the best part in going to the movies is you feel something and you relate whether it's to family struggles or dimming your light for someone. I would say to never dim your light and to really, truly follow your dreams. Votes: 2

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide. Votes: 2

I like something simple and traditional, like dinner and a movie. The best way to get to know someone is to have a conversation over dinner. And steak houses have a nice atmosphere - the lights are dim, and they usually have a band playing. Votes: 2

Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world. Votes: 2

I love Chinese food, like steamed dim sum, and I can have noodles morning, noon and night, hot or cold. I like food that's very simple on the digestive system - I tend to keep it light. I love Japanese food too - sushi, sashimi and miso soup. Votes: 2

After several trillion dollars of stimulation by the Obama Administration and the Fed, one might think the economy would be chugging along at a pretty good clip. But, it just isn't so, and the light at the end of the tunnel is pretty dim. Just ask a small business owner. Votes: 2

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. Votes: 2

Great Time makes all things dim. Votes: 0

Holiness was always something richly dim. Votes: 0

The light of the Way seems dim. Votes: 0

Let's face it: Bush is just dim. Votes: 0

Use your light, but dim your brightness. Votes: 0

The snapshots had become almost as dim as memories. Votes: 0

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within. Votes: 0

And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. Votes: 0

A dim capacity for wings demeans the dress I wear. Votes: 0

Men who love themselves hate those who would dim their glory. Votes: 0

Shout out to asian girls, let the lights dim some(dim sum). Votes: 0

Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious Sun uprist Votes: 0

The sun is getting dim, will I pay for who I've been? Votes: 0

Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights. Votes: 0

Theres a fine line between playing a dim-witted character and playing a cartoon. Votes: 0

Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth. Votes: 0

What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps. Votes: 0

During the fight my senses dim, and basically, I don't feel any pain. Votes: 0

The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ Votes: 0

Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own. Votes: 0

However dark the night, however dim our hopes, the light will always follow darkness. Votes: 0

The soul awakes ... between two dim eternities - the eternal past, the eternal future. Votes: 0

Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth. Votes: 0

When you're a light instead of a dim switch, your brightness radiates in every direction. Votes: 0

To someone you may be their only sunlight; so don't dim the light. Keep shinning Votes: 0

To someone you may be their only sunlight; so don't dim the light. Keep shinning. Votes: 0

A society without firearms is, in the end, a society of dim-witted, collectivist bean farmers. Votes: 0

The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way! Votes: 0

Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order. Votes: 0

It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light, Votes: 0

All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim. Votes: 0

If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat. ~Val Votes: 0

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language. Votes: 0

It was a small room with dim light coming in the window, reminiscent of old Polish films. Votes: 0

In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Votes: 0

The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back. Votes: 0

For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read. Votes: 0

Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame. Votes: 0

The prospects are dim for a society that makes mascots out of the unproductive and condemns the productive. Votes: 0

We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness. Votes: 0

As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused. Votes: 0

Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them. Votes: 0

God is everywhere: yes, but how dim faith is, what a remote idea heaven is, in the modern world! Votes: 0

Our role in life is to bring the light of our own souls to the dim places around us. Votes: 0

So doth the greater glory dim the less: A substitute shines brightly as a king Until a king be by. Votes: 0

October's gold is dim — the forests rot, The weary rain falls ceaseless, while the day Is wrapped in damp. Votes: 0

but there was nothing I could do to dim the supernovae exploding inside my brain, an endless chain of intra cranial firecrackers Votes: 0

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes, but one should always make new ones. Repeating mistakes is a hallmark of dim consciousness. Votes: 0

And somewhere from the dim ages of history the truth dawned upon Europe that the morrow would obliterate the plans of today. Votes: 0

Science, while it penetrates deeply the system of things about us, sees everywhere, in the dim limits of vision, the word mystery. Votes: 0

We could all be mediums, and all have absolute knowledge, if the bright light of our ego consciousness would not dim it. Votes: 0

The past ... is a dim avenue down which we may walk and find the diverging paths of terror and beauty and passion ... Votes: 0

No matter how dim the light filtering through the trees is, you can still try your best to grasp it. -Kaien Cross Votes: 0

When we give our lives to Jesus Christ, the things of earth grow strangely dim. The values of eternity grow increasingly bright. Votes: 0

"¦made me promise to cut down on the drinking and swearing, which I have. Unfortunately, this has left me dim-witted and nearly speechless. Votes: 0

What if English toil and blood Was poured forth, even as a flood? It availed, Oh, Liberty, To dim, but not extinguish thee. Votes: 0

Not when the sense is dim, But now from the heart of joy, I would remember Him: Take the thanks of a boy. Votes: 0

In the dim light of the computer screen he seemed otherworldly; Julia thought him beautiful, though she knew it was the beauty of damage. Votes: 0

I wasn't sure if the word boys should mean dim or incomprehensible. I was hovering between the two, with a healthy dose of testosterone-poisoned. Votes: 0

Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable he in whom there rests a dim opinion concerning the gods. Votes: 0

A child who is happy on his pony's back has something which will be to him a glorious memory that the years cannot dim ... Votes: 0

What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours? Votes: 0

In this dim world of clouding cares, We rarely know, till wildered eyes See white wings lessening up the skies, The angels with us unawares. Votes: 0

We faintly hear, we dimly see, In differing phrase we pray; But dim or clear, we own in Him The life, the truth, the way. Votes: 0

We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim and distant past Votes: 0

We perceive, as from a great distance, a thousand years filled with dim shapes of men moving blindly, performing strangely, in an unreal shadowy world. Votes: 0

Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect Votes: 0

Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect. Votes: 0

He wanders, like a day-appearing dream,Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined." Votes: 0

Pale brows, still hands and dim hair, I had a beautiful friend And dreamed that the old despair Would end in love in the end.... Votes: 0

Perhaps, Howard thought, the curtains and murals and pastel angels are a mercy, a dim reflection of things fit for the fragility of human beings. Votes: 0

He wanders, like a day-appearing dream, Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined. Votes: 0

Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness. Votes: 0

Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses because we were born this way. Votes: 0

Why are you dim when your face is so fucking pretty? When your eyes are bright enough to light up my whole damn world. Why? Votes: 0

Seal the openings, shut the doors, dull the sharpness, untie the knots, dim the light, become one with the dust. This is called the profound union. Votes: 0

The boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattleskulled clod-pated dim-domed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed boys. How could anybody accuse her of stealing them? Why would anybody want them anyway? Votes: 0

My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. Votes: 0

The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him December's as pleasant as May. Votes: 0

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded. Votes: 0

The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing "” or one person "” at a time. Votes: 0

I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem. Votes: 0

The fabric of my faithful love No power shall dim or ravel Whilst I stay here - but oh, my dear, If I should ever travel! Votes: 0

For all things turn to barenness In the dim glass the demons hold The glass of outer weariness Made when God slept in times of old Votes: 0

A thorough understanding of game theory, should dim these greedy hopes. Knowledge of game theory does not make one a better card player, businessman or military strategist. Votes: 0

The man that sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which will never grow dim or doubtful Votes: 0

The sun shall shine in ages yet to be, The musing moon illumine pastures dim, And afterwards a new nativity For all who slept the dreamless interim. Votes: 0

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful. Votes: 0

my brain Worked with a dim and undetermined sense Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call it solitude Or blank desertion. Votes: 0

Dogs are dim creatures, do not speak to me of their good sense--have you ever heard of a team of tomcats hauling a sled across the frozen wastes? Votes: 0

A Hebrew knelt in the dying light, His eye was dim and cold; The hairs on his brow were silver white, And his blood was thin and old. Votes: 0

O Twilight! Spirit that dost render birth To dim enchantments; melting heaven with earth, Leaving on craggy hills and running streams A softness like the atmosphere of dreams. Votes: 0

There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley of terror wearing nooses of conformity. Votes: 0

Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach, but brave at last with bugles. Votes: 0

You must realize that what you are cannot be seen in a mirror. What you see in a mirror is but a dim reflection of your true reality. Votes: 0

The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the dim alleys between them. Votes: 0

Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto. Votes: 0

Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in His wonderful face, and the things of earth will grow strangely dim, in the light of His glory and grace. Votes: 0

Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim. We fancy that industry supports us, forgetting what supports industry. Votes: 0

This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye. Votes: 0

The years thunder by, The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed. Votes: 0

A dim consciousness of infinite mystery and grandeur lies beneath all the commonplace of life . There is an awfulness and a majesty around us, in all our little worldliness . Votes: 0

I thought to myself: if it's true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps I never had a star. Votes: 0

Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don't need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days... Votes: 0

In some dim beginning, man created the institution of government as a convenience for himself. And, ever since that time, government has been doing its best to become an inconvenience. Votes: 0

...I returned to walking up the mountain, and there, in the dim asexual beauty of reddening dawns and skies that firmed to blue, I discovered my real and appropriate strengths. Votes: 0

Corporation: a miniature totalitarian state governed by a hierarchy of unelected officials who take a dim view of individualism, free speech, equality and eggheads. The backbone of all Western democracies. Votes: 0

Relationships are not about how two people can survive each other but about how the whole world becomes more capable of love, with all its dim anguish and glowing rapture. Votes: 0

In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of breath; fortune a thing inscrutable, and fame precarious. Votes: 0

Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: This is really a pretty shallow and maybe unseemly way for a grownup to make a living. Votes: 0

Tuon's eyes snapped open, and despite the dim light, she focused directly on Mat. She saw the knife in his hand, ready to throw. Then she looked over her shoulder. Votes: 0

They came out in a dim, damp basement - a generic sort of place, full of moulding boxes. 'You take me to the nicest places,' Claire said, and sneezed. Votes: 0

It's time to make love, douse the glim; The fireflies twinkle and dim; The stars lean together Like birds of a feather, And the loin lies down with the limb. Votes: 0

It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows. Votes: 0

I remembered the dim winter light, the smell of damp earth and leaves, the eeriness that always attaches to a place once settled and civilized, but now reclaimed by the wilderness. Votes: 0

My love came back to me Under the November tree Shelterless and dim. He put his hand upon my shoulder, He did not think me strange or older, Nor I, him. Votes: 0

But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows. Votes: 0

Ah! gracious Heaven gives us eyes to see our own wrong, however dim age may make them; and knees not too stiff to kneel, in spite of years, cramp, and rheumatism. Votes: 0

Sound-- That stealeth ever on the ear of him Who, musing, gazeth on the distance dim, And sees the darkness coming as a cloud-- Is not its form--its voice--most palpable and loud? Votes: 0

There was nothing mean about his voice. In fact it was almost too nice. Like she was too dim to grasp whatever was so obvious to him. Which made her absolutely furious. Votes: 0

I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath. Votes: 0

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,- Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own. Votes: 0

Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. AndI, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom, sometimes seen, oftennot. Life is a dream surely." Votes: 0

Contemplate the wonders of creation, the Divine dimension of their being, not as a dim configuration that is presented to you from a distance, but as the reality in which you live. Votes: 0

Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls. Votes: 0

Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through the dim night of this immortal day. Votes: 0

It's funny shooting movies because you get to see clubs during daylight hours, which no one should ever see - it's not pretty; there's a reason the lighting is dim in there. Votes: 0

Love - not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults love sees through them to the secret inside. Votes: 0

There were shadows galore in the dim light, but there was one shadow that did not correspond to any object in the room. It lurked next to the fireplace, a formless, undulating darkness. Votes: 0

How Time doth lash us with sharp pains, Set loose our teeth, snatch wisps of hair, dim eyes -- And finally bend our backs toward earth To find the fittest place for burial. Votes: 0

I'm no reformer; for I see more lightThan darkness in the world; mine eyes are quickTo catch the first dim radiance of the dawn,And slow to note the cloud that threatens storm. Votes: 0

It is we that are blind, not fortune; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty. Votes: 0

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful. Votes: 0

Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that. Votes: 0

I am grateful for the rare opportunities to look at my circumstances from a higher perspective, one detached from the dim outlook I normally insist on seeing. These periodic glimpses show me life's grandeur. Votes: 0

Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the American Century except from behind the billboards ... Votes: 0

. . . integral wisdom involves a direct participation in every moment: the observer and the observed are dissolved in the light of pure awareness, and no mental concepts or attitudes are present to dim that light. Votes: 0

But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight; Casting a dim religious light. Votes: 0

The instant of birth is exquisite. Pain and joy are one at this moment. Ever after, the dim recollection is so sweet that we speak to our children with a gratitude they never understand. Votes: 0

One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present. Votes: 0

Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are. Votes: 0

My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth. Votes: 0

The Brother's hood fell back, and his silvery hair shone out in the dim chamber like starlight. All the air rushed out of Tessa's lungs in a single instant. The Silent Brother was Jem. Votes: 0

Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom, sometimes seen, often not. Life is a dream surely. Votes: 0

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't. Votes: 0

The past is only so heroic as we see it. It is the canvas on which our idea of heroism is painted, and so, in one sense, the dim prospectus of our future field. Votes: 0

And what have I done?" What? WHAT?...You've stolen them." With that, Cornelia fled, but Buttercup understood; she knew who "them" was. The boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattledskulled clodpated dim-domed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed BOYS. Votes: 0

Thy treasures of gold Are dim with the blood of the hearts thou hast sold; Thy home may be lovely, but round it I hear The crack of the whip, and the footsteps of fear. Votes: 0

Where's the superficial? I was, and therefore am, dim, gloomy, a drag, unfashionable, unfanciable, and awkward. This doesn't seem like superficial to me. These aren't flesh wounds. These are life-threatening thrusts into the internal organs. Votes: 0