For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Effective metaphor does more than shed light on the two things being compared. It actually brings to the mind's eye something that… — Rebecca McClanahan Copy Share Image
“That’s all a shadow is—and though you might be prejudiced against the dark, you ought to remember that that’s where stars live,… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
And Complicated Grief is a text that announces, from the start, in its citation of influence, dense intertextuality and hybridity, a failure… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
I loved doing Cee Lo’s Bright Lights in the Big City. That was definitely a favorite of mine, because I love to… — Skylar Astin Copy Share Image
The awakening is the purpose. The awakening of the fact that in essence we are light, we are love. Each cell of… — Dolores Cannon Copy Share Image
Yes, the South-becoming always poorer-and the North-becoming always richer ...Richer, too in the resources of weapons with which the superpowers and blocs… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Your weakness is due to your conviction that you were born into the world. In reality the world is ever recreated in… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
The last light, in the last window, went out. Only the unstoppable machine of the sea still tears away at the silence… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
[Those who accept] the Americanized, Constantinian paradigm [say:] We are of God; they are of the Devil. We are the light; they… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away,… — Madeleine Stowe Copy Share Image
Debt, we've learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own set of villains -… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
“Certain living things prefer the dark, thriving in the shadows of tombstones and crypts, flowering admist the dead. Others tend toward the… — Fiona Paul Copy Share Image
Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Strange that so few ever come to the woods to see how the pine lives and grows and spires, lifting its evergreen… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
God is love. Wraith is how His love appears to us when we sin or rebel or run away from Him. The… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Alone? Is he alone at whose right side rides Courage, with Skill within the cockpit and faith upon the left? Does solitude… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
With the word creative we stand under a mystery. And from time to time that mystery, as if it were a sun,… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
“I love you, more, I think, than I know, but our kind of love isn't a sword. It's a light. Not a… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you want someone to feel warm, you dress them in a warm color and put a warm light on them and… — Colleen Atwood Copy Share Image
“Inside me there was everything I had believed was outside. There was, in particular, the sun, light, and all colors. There were… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
Then he crouches down behind it, motions for Tess and me to sit down, and begins unbuttoning his vest. I blush scarlet… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
I was already doing a lot of splendid research reading all the books about ghosts I could get hold of, and particularly… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
Because love stands above Darkness and Light.Because love is not sex or a shared faith, or "the joint maintenance of a household… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
The solid, solid universe Is pervious to Love; With bandaged eyes he never errs, Around, below, above. His blinding light He flingeth… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have a friend who loves housework. Honest, she loves all housework. All day long she moves from one chore to the… — Gabrielle Burton Copy Share Image
Twelve o'clock! It is the natural centre, key-stone, and very heart of the day. At that hour, the sun has arrived at… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends. I have savored to the full… — Agnes Sligh Turnbull Copy Share Image
The clearest window that ever was fashioned if it is barred by spiders' webs, and hung over with carcasses of insects, so… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“It argued a special genius; he was clearly a case of that. The spark of fire, the point of light, sat somewhere… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“When you’re older, you will realise the only thing that matters, the only thing, is that you had courage and honour. Lose… — Conn Iggulden Copy Share Image
Our duty is to rise in the bright daylight, openly, beating the drums. The cause for which we are ready to give… — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share Image
The more complicated the order, the bigger the asshole. If you walk into a Starbucks and order a 'decaf grandee, half soy,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Sometimes men and women prefer the darkness to the light because they are attached to their sins. Nevertheless it is only by… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
I sat on the bed. I looked at the Rorschach blot. I tried to make it look like a spreading tree, shadows… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Those of us who think about what we eat, how it's grown, those of us who care about the environmental impact of… — Anna Lappe Copy Share Image