The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye,… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Every female just wants affection, attention, appreciation, and for you to listen and protect her emotions. They are beautiful. And no one… — Justin Lee Riner Copy Share Image
Amanda Petrusich’s fascinating and insightful journey into the arcane netherworld of 78 records and its bring-‘em-back-alive collectors brims with the joy and… — Lenny Kaye Copy Share Image
Right now, and in every now-moment, you are either closing or opening. You are either stressfully waiting for something - more money,… — David Deida Copy Share Image
There was buried in Ruth humanitarianism beyond belief, an intelligence he was never given credit for, a childish desire to be over-virile,… — Waite Hoyt Copy Share Image
We are too ready to imagine that we are religious, because we know something of religion. We appropriate to ourselves the pious… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
When young we have a vivid sense of basic values like trust and warm-heartedness, which we tend to neglect in today's competitive… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
And as this is the obvious appearance of things, it must be admitted, till some hypothesis be discovered, which by penetrating deeper… — David Hume Copy Share Image
How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Our higher needs include making full use of our gifts, finding and fulfilling our calling, being loved and cherished just for ourselves,… — David Richo Copy Share Image
A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity. But… — Suzanne Brockmann Copy Share Image
It is the "where I am" that makes heaven. The life after death might become through its very endlessness a burden to… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
[Our family] love our father's image because the only thing we received from him was love and affection. We recognize that our… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
I want love to be simple. I want to trust without thinking. I want to be generous with my affection and patience… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of all vices take heed of drunkenness; other vices are but fruits of disordered affections--this disorders, nay, banishes reason; other vices but… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
“Ask me what I want,” Vicious murmured into my face. The public display of affection from him—not sexual, not bullying, but pure,… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
The technique of a great seducer requires a facility and an indifference in passing from one object of affection to another which… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Every time I hear anyone speak of the Sacred Heart of Jesus or of the Blessed Sacrament I feel an indescribable joy.… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
“There was something behind the softness that intertwined our fingers together—love? It felt different from two days ago. All I could think… — Alysha Speer Copy Share Image
“You want to capture a gun-crazed murderer during a Category Four hurricane.” Shelton’s gaze rose to the heavens. “Any idea how dangerous… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image