A Quote by Henry James

We work in the dark -- we do what we can -- we give what we have.

Henry James

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Henry James
American - Novelist
April 15, 1843 - February 28, 1916

If you want to get the most out of your men, give them a break! Don't make them work completely in the dark. If you do, they won't do a bit more than they have to. But if they comprehend, they'll work like mad.

Chesty Puller

I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!

Taiye Selasi

Lord, I fashion dark gods, too, Daring even to give You Dark despairing features

Countee Cullen

Not all of our work is dark, but when we are working on a dark project, we really tend to go there.

Erich Hoeber

I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.

Carter Burwell

Showing just the dark side doesn't always work. The important thing is to show what we can learn from dark things, what good we find there.

Svetlana Alexievich

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

John Milton

There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just making the work of art.

Eyvind Kang

I'm not a dark person at all, so those roles are the most challenging. I don't think I'm necessarily drawn to dark things. It just seems to work out that way.

Camilla Belle

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

John Jewel

I love a classic, white silk shirt with dark trousers or jeans or a dark, knee-length skirt: timeless clothes that are not too fussy always work.

Katie Melua

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.

Wendell Berry

'Dark Souls' is my life's work; everything I came up with for 'Dark Souls III' is based on my personal preferences.

Hidetaka Miyazaki

We will say to people that if you can work, and if you want to work, we will do everything we can to help you. We will give you the training, we will give you the support, we will give you the advice to get you going and get you back at work.

David Cameron

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

Anne Lamott

Put light against light - you have nothing. Put dark against dark - you have nothing. It's the contrast of light and dark that each give the other one meaning.

Bob Ross

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