Daley Thompson Quotes

I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

Moscow had this incredible, intense atmosphere of intrigue and darkness and secrecy.

San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city, with lots of great contrasts between dark and light, often overlapping each other. It's a great setting for a horror story.

Creativity doesn't flourish in an atmosphere of despotism, coercion and fear.

As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: "The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.

Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by the light of the Amnesty candle; the candle in barbed wire. When I first lit the Amnesty candle, I had in mind the old Chinese proverb: 'Better light a candle than curse the darkness.'

Moscow has an energy. Which is important. The city and the people all have an energy. It's quite different from what everybody knows in Los Angeles, but it has an energy. People have an energy.

Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.

The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become.

Jamaica is kind of similar to Miami, but to go from there to Miami, and then Miami to L.A., it's crazy.

When you shine bright, some won't enjoy the shadow you cast.

If you go to Florence, it has all surface beauty, but like Venice, it's simply a museum of Renaissance times. Los Angeles is raw, uncouth and bizarre, but it's a place of substance. It has more new horizons than any other place.

Some girls are bright as the morning / And some girls are blessed with a dark turn of mind.

Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.

The world is filled with people who are no longer needed -- and who try to make slaves of all of us -- and they have their music and we have ours.

You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.

I believe that it would be almost impossible to find anywhere in America a black man who has lived further down in the mud of human society than I have; or a black man who has been any more ignorant than I have; or a black man who has suffered more anguish during his life than I have. But it is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come; it is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

Theirs is the banner in my hand. And I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their hearts was not to be final, and their night was not without hope. For the battle they lost can never be lost. For that which they died to save can never perish. Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this earth. It may sleep, but it will awaken. It may wear chains, but it will break through. And man will go on. Man, not men. ~Equality 7-2521 (as Prometheus), pgs 103-104

A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow.

Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.

We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us

How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon.

Its when the sun shines the brightest that our shadows appear the biggest

The light, the sky, the water, they were all things you looked *through* during the day. At night, they were things you looked *into*. You looked *into* the stars, you looked *into* dark rollers and the surprising platinum flash of their caps.