“I am a man of the old world, a seed that was transplanted by the wind, a seed which failed to blossom… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
It really seems to me sometimes that the only hope is space. That is to say, perhaps the most energeticin a bad… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Three elements entered into the life which offered itself to these children: behind them a past forever destroyed, still quivering on its… — Alfred De Musset Copy Share Image
“So you're the winner of this game show," Seth says, "and you get a choice between a five-piece living room set from… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I prefer the American spirit, the one that called us from the Old World to the New, to conquer and build and… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“He studied me with his predator's gaze, assessing me from head to toe. I studied him back. He didn't just occupy space;… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
But there is another way. And that is to organize mass non-violent resistance based on the principle of love. It seems to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
For who can wonder that man should feel a vague belief in tales of disembodied spirits wandering through those places which they… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time. But when the pollen again gilded the sun… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I worry that we have forgotten that the de-ideologized, de-politicized, uncontentious public space of the last 50 years as Europeans have experienced… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“We live in a strange time,’ Electra said. ‘A time when the gods are fading. Some of us still see them but… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
I came from the old world of gastronomy. Many years ago I walked into the kitchens of the Hotel St George and… — Marco Pierre White Copy Share Image
“As I train myself to cast off words, as I learn to erase word-thoughts, I begin to feel a new world rising… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
“His ex-wife dumped him and the kids." Sophia's gaze lifted from the wine she held, met his. "Dumped?" "Yeah, decided there was… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracingthe steps of the race; we go westward… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The old world is dying, but a new world is being born. It generates inspiration from the chaos that beats upon us… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image
“The significance of the resurrection claim within “true” Christian descriptions of the self, world and God is that, despite how tragic and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“I cannot say whether there is fur on my wife's legs for I have never seen them nor do I intend to… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“So gorgeous was the spectacle on the May morning of 1910 when nine kings rode in the funeral of Edward VII of… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Keep struggling, o brave soldier - keep struggling till politicians become an extinct species and politics an extinct profession. The mission is,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Now, with the glamour of the past upon them we are inclined to look back on old world festivities with regret and… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
There is room in this great and growing city for a journal that is not only cheap but bright, not only bright… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
“At seven o’clock Ivan got into the train and set off to Moscow. ‘Away with the past. I’ve done with the old… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
In the New World, you'll kick your own ass and I'll wash my own brain. I'll be my own parents and you'll… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
“I believe that in the process of locating new avenues of creative thought, we will also arrive at an existential conservatism. It… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Ms. Altar Guild gently coaxed my father and me toward the door. “It’s time,” she whispered. My stomach fell. What was happening?… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“Ask why you can’t lift an innocent finger without permission, and your lack of the simplest reasoning power baffles them. One must… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
“It is love that believes the resurrection.”16 “Simon, son of John,” says Jesus, “do you love me?” There is a whole world… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
“ Maybe he got me one of those two-necklace sets, the ones with the halved hearts , I thought, and he’ll wear… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
“I am writing this because on that night of the tenth of May in the 1,940th year of Our Lord, Churchill stood… — John Lukacs Copy Share Image
The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like… — Florence King Copy Share Image
“In 1861, on the eve of the Civil War, Grant, aged thirty-nine, with four children at home and scarcely a penny in… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
“America for Me 'Tis fine to see the Old World and travel up and down Among the famous palaces and cities of… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
By natural means, as the Lord always operates for the accomplishment of his purposes, means so simple that the thoughtless and unbelieving… — Anthony W. Ivins Copy Share Image
The weight of the old world is stifling, and trying to shovel its weight off your life is tiring just to think… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The whole of the Sermon [Matt 5-7] is framed within Jesus's announcement that what his fellow Jews had longed for over many… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“We know that there are many animals on this continent not found in the Old World. These must have been carried from… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“[The Devil] In my opinion, there is no need to destroy anything, one needs only destroy the idea of God in mankind,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness,… — Bible Copy Share Image