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Quotes About Evening

The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.
~ Demosthenes
Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?
~ Henry David Thoreau
Tonight, just as the wan winter-evening light fanned out into all the colors of the hustlers' night, God tossed a handful of city rain across the green and red tavern legends like tossing a handful of red and green confetti. Overhead the wavering warning lamps of the El began casting a blood-colored light down the rails to guide the empty cars of evening down all the nameless tunnels of the night.
~ Nelson Algren
But that's all hindsight. That evening, my mind was cloudy, and my good judgment was influenced by my need to prove something. It goes to show you, you shouldn't stay out too late during the week.
~ Nelson DeMille
In the quiet serenity of the night that did not seem very important; it was only important that she should shut up and not spoil his evening. "Now you get on and start her up, and shut up talking." She opened her mouth to give as good as she got, but said nothing. What he had told her was incredible; and yet it was what she had secretly feared for some time.
~ Nevil Shute
The sky grew darker and the moon rose higher as the evening wore on. and without either or them being conscious of it, they began to regain the intimacy, the bond of familiarity, they had once shared.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Noah Calhoun watched the fading sun sink lower from the wrap around porch of his plantation-style home.He liked to sit here in the evenings, especially after working hard all day.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I began my journey as a 16-year-old boy at the Arsenal's academy, trying to one day become a first team player, going out for evening runs in East Barnet with Jack Wilshere.
~ Wojciech Szczesny
My nanny usually leaves around 6 P. M. I take my kids, I give them a bath, I put them to bed.
~ Shanna Moakler
Vaughn nodded. Lije steaded himself and looked into the woods. Never could abide no roof. Ours ain't the best, Vaughn said. Leaks come spring. Lije pointed at Venus faint above the distant ridge. only roof-hole I ever did crave. Evening star ain't a hole. Then how's that light get through?
~ Chris Offutt
Take a long soak, look over the house, my books, anything you want." He grinned at her boyishly. I have a stack of work beside the computer if you want to try your hand at looking at bids for me." "Exactly how I planned to spend my evening.
~ Christine Feehan
I thought of Natalia: she has escaped – none too soon, perhaps. However often the decision may be delayed, all these people are ultimately doomed. This evening is the dress-rehearsal of a disaster. It is like the last night of an epoch.
~ Christopher Isherwood
You're a nice boy, she chuckled harshly. You must come round here one evening. I'll teach you something you didn't know before.
~ Christopher Isherwood
O, thou art fairer than the evening air      Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars;      Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter      When he appear'd to hapless Semele;      More lovely than the monarch of the sky      In wanton Arethusa's azur'd arms Excerpt From: Christopher Marlowe. "The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
~ Christopher Marlowe
Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
~ Christopher Marlowe faustus
Y te enseñaré algo que no es ni la sombra tuya que te sigue por la mañana ni tu sombra que al atardecer sale a tu encuentro; te mostraré el miedo en un puñado de polvo.
~ TS Elliot
started back the same evening to hurry up his command, fully appreciating the importance of time.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
La luce della sera svela la natura profonda delle cose, trasforma l'impressione visiva in un quadro, la rende storia, sentimento, destino. Con il sole al tramonto, le macchie di fango e di fuliggine hanno mille voci, il cuore sussulta e tu hai di fronte felicità ormai perdute, lutti che non possono essere colmati, errori amari e la malìa eterna della speranza.
~ Vasily Grossman
And toward the evening of the same day, all the world's teletypes received a communication: Death was a result of natural causes. It wasn't said whose death, but the world surmised.
~ Venedikt Erofeev
When we walked the mowed margins of the field in the evenings, a school of black crickets sprang ahead of us like dolphins in front of a ship.
~ Kristin Kimball
With the theatre, your whole day is geared towards the evening's show, and that's the job. People usually go to work about 9 and come home around 5, or maybe 7.
~ Kristin Scott Thomas
The sun was beginning to sink into the horizon, and the smell of honeysuckle and jasmine hung heavily in the air. I glanced up at Veritas as I strode up the hill. Blooming
~ L.J. Smith
Evening backward leadeth silence.
~ lamartine alphonse de
Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me
~ Langston Hughes