“Yes: the future bridegroom, Mr. Rochester himself, exercised over his intended a ceaseless surveillance: and it was from this sagacity—this guardedness of… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Commit to Excellence. Become massively innovative and wear your passion on your sleeve. They might call you different or weird or even… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
“What had the man had, to make him by the loss of it so bleed and yet live? Something—and this reached him… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Nature seems to have treasured up the depth of our mind talents and abilities that we are not aware of; it is… — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
Growing up, I played about every sport imaginable except soccer and hockey. I've always had a passion for basketball. I remember actually… — Dwight Howard Copy Share Image
“Her tongue touched his, hesitant, almost shy. It was enough. Enough to bring their past, their passion, their desire, rushing back to… — Lexxie Couper Copy Share Image
The prosecution [of impeachments], will seldom fail to agitate the passions of the whole community, and to divide it into parties more… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Pardon me also, and deal mercifully with me, as often as I think of anything besides You in prayer. For I confess… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
“If your mind and spirit are seduced by images of windswept ridge tops, flutters of aspen leaves caressed by a canyon breeze… — Reid Lance Rosenthal Copy Share Image
it is better to take experience, to suffer, to love, and to remember than to walk unscathed between the fires. I've had… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
For me the breakthrough was the realization that I wasn't the center of the universe or even the centre of my own… — Shaun Micallef Copy Share Image
I’ve had that kind of experience myself: I’m looking at a map and I see someplace that makes me think, ‘I absolutely… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Elvis Presley - his music, his movies, his photos. I come across a new image of him every day and try to… — Kristen Taekman Copy Share Image
Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
And yet day and night meet fleetingly at twilight and dawn," he said, lowering his voice again and narrowing his eyes and… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“I didn’t answer right away; I was too busy savoring the moment. The delicious night air, the music of mama cows in… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
“Life's uncontrollable, unpredictable, and a hell of a mess. Without fear, loss, and the wrong choice we made, we wouldn't be who… — J.C. Reed Copy Share Image
“The art of change-ringing is peculiar to the English, and, like most English peculiarities, unintelligible to the rest of the world. (The… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
My Masterpiece complete, Sir Eric's Opus. Conductor or Love, Passion, Romance, Joy. A Song, A Dance, A Symphony. I scream to the… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
...I prefer not to have among my guests two people or more, of any sex, who are in the first wild tremours… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
“Monogamy, in brief, kills passion -- and passion is the most dangerous of all the surviving enemies to what we call civilization,… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“There have been men in arid deserts where the sun has so disfigured them that they have become things of horror –… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
When you're starving or wrapped up in a cycle of binge-ing-and-purging, or sexually obsessed with (someone), it is very hard to think… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Kunlun Mountain Over the earth the greenblue monster Kunlun who has seen all spring color and passion of men. Three million dragons… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
St Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I reached and grabbed ahold of the garden rake that was leaned up against the tree, when suddenly I felt my heart… — DEAN MAFAKO, M.D Copy Share Image
“Yes. That's passion, not love. Passion fades. And once it does, you're left taking care of someone you can barely stand, suffering… — Karpov Kinrade Copy Share Image
I thought to be feminine was to give in to straight culture, or the beauty standard, but in my heart I had… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
The people who write official histories for the Army believe that a generation needs to pass before you can tackle the official… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
Every film for every actor is a make-or-break film. I believe every film has the power to break you or make you.… — Abhishek Bachchan Copy Share Image
“My passion was dead. For years it had rolled over and submerged me; now I felt empty. But that wasn't the worst:… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular mythology, the best and most durable relationships are based not on vulnerability or passion but on a conjugation of… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
Therefore, doing the Stations of the Cross was still more laborious than consoling, and required a sacrifice. It was much the same… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them. Aim… — Scott Weiss Copy Share Image
Friendship is far more delicate than love. Quarrels and fretful complaints are attractive in the last, offensive in the first. And the… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image