I had never liked, even feared a little, this wild reach of marsh and mud flats where everything seemed turned away from… — John Banville Copy Share Image
I am not sure one is capable of reflecting absurdity without having a strong sense of meaning. Absurdity makes sense only against… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed. Discretion has large and extended views, and,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Without imagination, you live in a small room with the windows closed. Imagination opens the windows and shows us landscapes, horizons that… — Maxine Copy Share Image
Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Material and technical changes are mostly quite visible. But less visible are the changes in the mind of the people, their way… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
To speak about this universal force that will lead us beyond on the last horizon of our known self toward a wiser,… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
The essence of travel is diffuse. It is never there on the spot as it were, but always beyond: its symbol is… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
We have set out on a quest for true humanity, and somewhere on the distant horizon we can see the glittering prize.… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
The time for letting the Christian bashing go on essentially unchallenged has come to an end... There is a great need for… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
The foremost reason that happiness is so hard to achieve is that the universe was not designed with the comfort of human… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I suppose he'll die soon. I'm expecting it, like you do for a dog that's seventeen. There's no way to know how… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
And should I not, had I but known, have flung the machine this way and that, once more to feel it live… — Cecil Arthur Lewis Copy Share Image
Heavily and hypnotically,with her soul flattening itself back like the ears of a hissing cat,Kizzy leaned in and drank of Jack Husk's… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I left the jutra to chop wood. I began my walk through the snow, five kilometers to the tree line. That's when… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
What is striking in Minnesota is the invisible horizon line. On a grey day, when there's snow on the ground, the sky… — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
The glory of medicine is that it is constantly moving forward, that there is always more to learn. The ills of today… — William James Mayo Copy Share Image
That's what I call meditation. You simply stand aloof and just see the mind disappearing, like a cloud on a faraway horizon,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I am not ashamed to admit that I belong to those who fantasize that literature is capable of bringing new horizons and… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“From this arid sphere every discourse and every poem sets forth; and every journey through forests, battles, treasures, banquets, bedchambers, brings us… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The landscape of dating is a well-trodden horizon of red flags and green flags. Red flags are, of course, warning signs -… — Brett Cooper Copy Share Image
Wonder in everything No matter how great or small... Same thing that's scrawled across the stars Is written under our skin... There's… — David Gray Copy Share Image
Everyone [in higher education] was what I call drillers of deeper wells. These academics sit at the bottom of a deep well… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
In any case, ideals are something we strive for; they are somewhere on the horizon of our efforts; they provide meaning and… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Man is always separated from what he is by all the breadth of the being which he is not. He makes himself… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
What boy my age didn’t dream of fleeing the well-tended lawn and lamp-lit street for the untamed wilderness, where grand adventure awaited… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
The unexplainable thing in nature that makes me feel the world is big fat beyond my understanding – to understand maybe by… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Beyond the horizon, or even the knowledge, of the cities along the coast, a great, creative impulse is at work -- the… — Vance Palmer Copy Share Image
We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon .… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected; I have always considered the rain to be healing—a blanket—the comfort… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly illuminated with a kind of mock sunset.… — George Grey Copy Share Image
If I had grown up in that house I couldn't have loved it more, couldn't have been more familiar with the creak… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The marvel is that we did not all die of cold. As a matter of fact, only one of my party actually… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
The big thing on the horizon for me is video. I feel like it's the closest thing to a perfect mix between… — Tycho Copy Share Image
In this world you've a soul for a compass And a heart for a pair of wings There's a star on the… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
I do not believe that it is necessarily the duty of the writer to give a voice to his community. If a… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image