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Quotes About Evening

It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business in the morning and the last in the evening. Guard yourself against such false and deceitful thoughts that keep whispering: Wait a while. In an hour or so I will pray. I must first finish this or that. Thinking such thoughts we get away from prayer into other things that will hold us and involve us till the prayer of the day comes to naught.
~ Daniel Henderson
After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often.
~ Gustav Klimt
Tea lights were lit and placed on the table and around the garden, so that it looked like large fireflies had settled in for the evening.
~ Louise Penny
I spent a lot of the evening watching Professor Robinson, and you want to know what I saw? I saw the fox.
~ Louise Penny
Shadows were distancing themselves from the trees, the statues, the people. Elongating.
~ Louise Penny
home each evening. Exhausted. Bewildered by
~ Louise Penny
We are wholly alone in the evening gloom. And my fingers are warm like the lost days of June. — Joseph Brodsky, from "Evening," Joseph Brodsky: Selected Poems , trans. George L. Kline (Harper & Row, 1973)
~ Unknown
The fire in the evening was the best of all. Peter said is wasn't fie, but he couldn't tell me what it really was. You can thought, Grandfather, can't you?' 'It's the sun's way of saying goodnight to the mountains' he explained. 'He spreads that beautiful light over them so that they won't forget him till he comes back in the morning.
~ Johanna Spyri
sobre la que se elevaba la cabaña del Viejo. Expuesta a todos los vientos, pero situada de forma que recibía los rayos de sol de la mañana hasta la noche, la cabaña gozaba de un amplio panorama sobre todo el valle.
~ Johanna Spyri
The evening light was like honey in the trees When you left me and walked to the end of the street Where the sunset abruptly ended. The wedding-cake drawbridge lowered itself To the fragile forget-me-not flower. You climbed aboard. Burnt horizons suddenly paved with golden stones, Dreams I had, including suicide, Puff out the hot-air balloon now. It is bursting, it is about to burst
~ John Ashbery
We were at Glenaicill—six of us—for the duck-shooting, when Leithen told us this story. Since five in the morning we had been out on the skerries, and had been blown home by a wind which threatened to root the house and its wind-blown woods from their precarious lodgment on the hill. A vast nondescript meal, luncheon and dinner in one, had occupied us till the last daylight departed, and we settled ourselves in the smoking room for a sleepy evening of talk and tobacco.
~ John Buchan
Beyond the terrace, a light breeze stirred the reeds at the edge of the pond. Looking out at this intimate vista, one could see the reeds and a stone lantern and the brightest of the evening's stars floating on the gloaming mirror of the pond. Then the breeze came again to crack the water's surface, and the picture was flooded.
~ Unknown
Finally one evening somebody suggested Python (a great name for an untrustworthy impresario, I thought), someone else added Monty, which had connotations of our greatest World War II general, there was hysteria, and history was made. A
~ John Cleese
Sunset and evening star And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.
~ Jackson Browne
I'm at work by 8 or 8:30, and when I get home every night, my wife and I walk around the lawn. We have dinner together, and then we spend most of our evenings alone.
~ Jerry Falwell
Definitely, something is happening out there in Internet world at any given moment, but the likelihood that it's something that can't wait until that evening for you to find out about it is very small.
~ Garth Risk Hallberg
Lucknow University looks amazing all lit up during night time.
~ Mohit Raina
I was meaning to be kind to you this evening, but you make it very difficult.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Time was of the essence. For at eight o'clock the world came to an end. It was reading time. The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the blue candlewick bedspread the white pages of my open book, illuminated by a circle of lamplight, were the gateway to another world.
~ Diane Setterfield
For at eight o'clock the world came to an end. It was reading time. The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours.
~ Diane Setterfield
The world in the evening seems fraught with the absence of promise, if you are a married man. There is nothing to do but go home and drink your nine drinks and forget about it.
~ Donald Barthelme
The next evening, Fields, his pride hurt, dumped two big splashes of bourbon over the ice and served it to Mrs. Truman. She tasted the drink. Then she beamed. "Now that's the way we like our old-fashioneds!
~ Unknown
Evening is the time which the higher classes choose for dancing, card playing, and the like; and consequently never get to bed till late at night. If we love our souls, and would not become worldly, let us mind how we spend our evenings. Tell me how a man spends his evenings, and I can generally tell what his character is.
~ J.C. Ryle