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The shadow of sharks is the shadow of death, and they call forth dim ultimate fears. Yet there is something holy in their silence. — Peter Matthiessen

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 — Dmitri Volkogonov

A streak of presence surrounded by a dim glow of absence. — John Crowley

Never allow the dark shadows of your past to dim the light you were destined to shine. — Prahmiss

Everything in the seen world is a dim reflection or representation of the unseen world. — Dan P

The half-shut eyes were dim with the infinite cynicism of adult life. — William Golding

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. — Eddie Huang

And so I pushed it all down into the dim recesses of my mind, there to fester and grow like botulism. — Robyn Davidson

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 ... — William Butler Yeats

Men who love themselves hate those who would dim their glory. — Anthony Ryan

The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way! — William Wordsworth

My intellect would wish for a clear-cut universe with no dim corners, but there are these cobwebs in the cosmos. — C. G. Jung

It was him, thirty years too old, twenty pounds too light, & forty watts too dim maybe, but him. — Michael Chabon

A revolution, woven in the dim light of mystery, has kept me from you. Another revolution will return me to your arms, bring me back to life. — Jose Rizal

Where shadows dim with shadows mate,
in caverns deep and dark.
Where old books dream of bygone days,
when they were wood and bark ... — Walter Moers

Nothing can shark the wheels or crush the spirit of a determined people, said Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu — Mgbasonwu Vincent Nwabinye

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. — John Newton

Demagogues thrive in dim light. — Garrison Keillor

Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights. — Honore De Balzac

But which of us can hope to probe with questioning finger the dim thoughts that flit in a fool's head? — Flann O'Brien

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? — Pella Grace

Things look dim to old folks: they'd need have some young eyes about 'em, to let 'em know the world's the same as it used to be. — George Eliot

For the countries of the spirit, to which he was now admitted, were accessible only via many dim and tangled trails. — Louise Erdrich

I'll wait for you," he said as his hand dropped to his side, as his eyes began to dim. "I think I could wait for you forever. — T.J. Klune

Turning up our light in the presence of those whose light is dim becomes the difference that makes the difference. — Eric Allenbaugh

As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused. — Anthony Burgess

The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing - or one person - at a time. — Maureen Dowd

Ever since her diagnosis, she's been fading like a light bulb with cancer's hand on the rotary dimmer. — Danielle Esplin

She stepped outwards into the dim atmosphere, and falling, was most fabulously lit by the moon and the sun. — Mervyn Peake

But there was nothing I could do to dim the supernovae exploding inside my brain, an endless chain of intra cranial firecrackers — John Green

Shake the hand that shook the world. — Stephen King

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

What if English toil and blood Was poured forth, even as a flood? It availed, Oh, Liberty, To dim, but not extinguish thee. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

We cannot dim another person's light without first extinguishing our own. — Alaric Hutchinson

with facts, fear grows dim — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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. — Thomas Kibble Hervey

Let's face it: Bush is just dim. — George Clooney

humans are like Hong Kong knockoffs of angels, in that we have a divine spark in us, but sometimes it goes dim when Cinemax "After Dark" is on. — Anonymous

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. — Mark Twain

The lantern's dim light hardly cut through the darkness. — I.D. Blind

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. — William Butler Yeats

Far over the misty mountains grim To dungeons deep and caverns dim — Anonymous

Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own. — James Russell Lowell

I found Burns, absorbed, silent, abstracted from all around her by the companionship of a book, which she read by the dim glare of the embers. — Charlotte Bronte

So doth the greater glory dim the less:
A substitute shines brightly as a king
Until a king be by. — William Shakespeare

I told you. Your light is too dim." ~ Daiki Aomine — Tadatoshi Fujimaki

The candle-light was dim, as though the darkness were trying to put it out. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

He broke through the wall of men surrounding Olivia - dim-witted fowl clustered about a dozing crocodile, as he saw it - and offered to take her home. — Loretta Chase

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start. — William James

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 — Loreena McKennitt

In the dim light of today are the shadows of yesterday's affliction and the hope of tomorrow's gifts. — Ariana Carruth

Your boss takes a dim view of SEX? — Vincent H. O'Neil

When you're a light instead of a dim switch, your brightness radiates in every direction. — T.F. Hodge

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. — H.P. Lovecraft

Do not fear the dark, even when life is dim.
A true seeker will always find light from within — C Enyo

The prospects are dim for a society that makes mascots out of the unproductive and condemns the productive. — Walter E. Williams

A vision of the future like some dim, gaunt monster sometimes appalled her, but luckily to-morrow never comes. Mrs. — Kate Chopin

To someone you may be their only sunlight; so don't dim the light. Keep shinning — Bernard Kelvin Clive

If a dog barks at the sun, it does not dim the sun's brightness. (44) — Padma Venkatraman

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. — Nathalia Crane

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. — Seth

Religion is the master of creating dull and dim minds! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it. — Maurice Chevalier

Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth. — Sri Aurobindo

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Never dim your light because others are too afraid to come out of the dark. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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

In the dim light he appeared to phosphoresce, in the manner of warm seas on velvety summer nights. — Terry Pratchett

Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them. — Philip Sidney

MACHOs (for MAssive Compact Halo Objects - really just another name for black holes, brown dwarfs and other very dim stars). — Bill Bryson

If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat. — Orson Scott Card

The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked with dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed. — Sterling Hayden

However dark the night, however dim our hopes, the light will always follow darkness. — Louis Zamperini

An undaunted author, is the one who will succeed. There is no misfortune, that can dim their optimism. — Mary Sage Nguyen

I realized I'd only seen him at night in dim, flattering restaurant lighting. The sun was not his friend. — Augusten Burroughs

October's gold is dim - the forests rot, The weary rain falls ceaseless, while the day Is wrapped in damp. — David Gray

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. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within. — Maya Angelou

A society without firearms is, in the end, a society of dim-witted, collectivist bean farmers. — Vin Suprynowicz

Only cast your pure eyes into the well of my delight, friends! You will not dim its sparkle! It shall laugh back at you with its purity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language. — Alfred North Whitehead

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

Dim or indistinct views of sin are the origin of most of the errors, heresies and false doctrines of the present day. If — J.C. Ryle

Em," he said again, his eyes wide and dark blue in the dim light. "Did you kiss Mark the other night? — Cassandra Clare

During the fight my senses dim, and basically, I don't feel any pain. — Fedor Emelianenko

He spoke of his lifelong crusade on behalf of fifty-watt lightbulbs. ("Sixty's too bright," he said, "and forty is too dim. — Jonathan Franzen

It was a small room with dim light coming in the window, reminiscent of old Polish films. — Haruki Murakami

Dim light source unknown. — Samuel Beckett

The sun is getting dim, will I pay for who I've been? — Tori Amos

Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched. — Charlie Pierce

If you're going to start tonight there's no time to waste. Certainly not enough time to finish your quarrel with this dim-witted mushroom-muncher. — Cornelia Funke

For a few seconds I stood there in a strange, dim place. Where the things I could see didn't exist. Where the invisible did. — Haruki Murakami

They choose to burn before the darkness, rather than gutter out like a dim flame. — Alison Croggon

Cersei stumbles from one idiocy to the next, helped along by her council of the deaf, the dim and the blind. — George Martin

She felt ... less. She felt tamped down. Dim. More faint. Feint. Feigned. Fain. — Patrick Rothfuss

His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him! — Richard Harris Barham

Ronan's voice was slow, petulant. His eyes, though, half-hidden in the dim, warm light of the Camaro's interior
they were terrible. — Maggie Stiefvater

With night's
Dim veil and blue
I will cover my eyes,
I will bind close my eyes that are
So weary. — Adelaide Crapsey

And somewhere from the dim ages of history the truth dawned upon Europe that the morrow would obliterate the plans of today. — Jaroslav Hasek

The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back. — Dorothy Parker