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The road was so dimly lighted. — Amy Harmon

Dimly lit restaurants always make me think they're trying to hide the food. — Michael Kurland

The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it. — Mark Twain

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities. — Samuel Johnson

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. — Dale Carnegie

The dimly lit tunnel smelled of mold and butt - moldy butt. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I was dimly aware that I might be getting in over my head. But that only added to the scheme's appeal. That it wouldn't be easy was the whole point. — Jon Krakauer

In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt. — Huston Smith

We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us. — James Ramsey Ullman

They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived - bound, in other words, for life. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Understand. I understand. She was only dimly aware that it wasn't Hezekiah holding her, but his — Lynn Austin

It explodes too close, the heat pulsing through my hasty lightning shield. Dimly, I wonder if I'll die without eyebrows. — Victoria Aveyard

When, all at once, you find you have something precious you only dimly suspected was to be yours, you almost wish it hadn't come so soon. — Kate Douglas Wiggin

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly. — Edwin Percy Whipple

Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves. — Steven Magee

He was dimly aware that if you wish to remain a human being under Fascism, there is an easier option than survival
death. — Vasily Grossman

Flyers have a sense of adventures yet to come, instead of dimly recalling adventures of long ago as the only moments in which they truly lived. — Richard Bach

Reason's a thing we dimly see in sleep. — Rebecca West

Dimly, I hear Maven yelling somewhere, the prince charging in to save his princess. But I'm not a princess. I'm not the girl who gets saved. — Victoria Aveyard

Parked in the dimly lit back. He parked close and got out as Jasper and Rocky got — Kristen Ashley

I dimly guess, from blessings known, of greater out of sight. — John Greenleaf Whittier

I am, he thought dimly, watching a vampire take a piss. — Stephen King

Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion. — Umberto Eco

This world-
To what may I liken it?
To autumn fields
lit dimly in the dusk
by lightning flashes. — Yu Minamoto

I heard Molly say, 'Our Mouse is a hundred miles away.' But I wasn't as far away as that; I was in a dimly lit street somewhere in Hampstead. — Dodie Smith

We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental. It is not realistic. — Tennessee Williams

A good person, striving dimly,
Is well aware of the right path. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one — Voltaire

We are merely one of a multitude of species upon which nature indiscriminately exerts its force. Nature has a master agenda we can only dimly know. — Camille Paglia

Nice talk," he hears Lennie say dimly from the insane universe where God has clearly died and lies stinking on the floor of a pillaged heaven. — Stephen King

We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at times, never entirely lost. — Daphne Du Maurier

I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write. — Aldous Huxley

This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of. — Anthony Bourdain

The gravity of the time is such that every new avenue of peace, no matter how dimly discernible, should be explored. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Brian's face turned pouty. "So you were just blowing smoke up my ass." Anna smiled dimly. "You may have been inhaling, dear, but I wasn't blowing. — Armistead Maupin

Mainland Wales, was somewhere before us but only dimly visible, an inky smudge squatting along the far horizon. — Ransom Riggs

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

The category of first sentence makes sense only if it is looking forward to the development of thematic concerns it perhaps only dimly foreshadows. — Stanley Fish

A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her, - the light which, showing the way, forbids it. — Kate Chopin

A dimly lit tavern, a willing young woman, are some of the reasons I cheat. — Randy Travis

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. Thomas Carlyle — Bohdi Sanders

He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside. — Philip K. Dick

History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad. — Bret Easton Ellis

What I was caught up in, I dimly understood, was the embodiment of history — Peter Cunningham

Before one is afraid, one sees clearly; while one is afraid, one sees double; and after being afraid, one sees dimly. — Alexandre Dumas

Afraid of the darkness of the unknown, the spaces in which we see only dimly, we often choose the darkness of closed eyes, of obliviousness. — Rebecca Solnit

No one, except Ronny, had any idea of what passed in her mind, and he only dimly, for where there is officialism every human relationship suffers. — E. M. Forster