Whether we assert our rights by sea, or attempt their maintenance by land whithersoever we turn ourselves, this phantom incessantly pursues us.… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
. . . Action always happens in the present, because it is an expression of the body, which can only exist in… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
This is how to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world: Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For there is nothing quite so terror-inducing as the loss of sleep. It creates phantoms and doubts, causes one to questions one's… — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
“Not only are there before and after, but there are also beginnings and returns. Not only is there the creation of the… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
Regard this fleeting world like this: Like stars fading and vanishing at dawn, like bubbles on a fast-moving stream, like morning dewdrops… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We are nothing: imitations, copies, phantoms: repeaters of what we understand badly, that is, hardly at all: the animated fossils of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just because a thing can't be done doesn't mean it can't be did. We all look into mirrors and see phantoms. Our… — Dean Young Copy Share Image
But mostly I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet. I still loved him. It… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I did a song, "Court and Spark," for a Joni Mitchell tribute album that's yet to see the light of day. So… — Duncan Sheik Copy Share Image
“And it was the din of all these hollow-sounding voices that made him halt irresolutely in the pursuit of phantoms. He gave… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
[Modern science] passed through a long period of uncertainty and inconclusive experiment, but as the instrumental aids to research improved, and the… — Thomas George Bonney Copy Share Image
“First spouses, I have learned, don't ever really go away--even if you aren't speaking to them anymore. They are phantoms who dwell… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Haunted Gulp down your wine, old friends of mine, Roar through the darkness, stamp and sing And lay ghost hands on everything,… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One thing I definitely experienced up here (New York), that maybe I have to sort of cop to feeling defensive about, is… — Philip Morrison Copy Share Image
Throughout history, works of art have been stolen under mysterious circumstances...Said by some to be the work of "Phantom" thieves... ...Others dismiss… — Yukiru Sugisaki Copy Share Image
As I currently explore things like augmented and virtual reality, I constantly bring us back to actual bodies in space, real dancers… — Saya Woolfalk Copy Share Image
Tier on tier of beautiful mountains and streams Blue green vistas locked in white clouds The mist makes my bandana wet Dew… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is a haunting phantom called Regret, A shadowy creature robed somewhat like woe, But fairer in the face, whom all men… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if… — Jim McDermott Copy Share Image
It is not simply what one remembers, but why. There are sites of amputation where the past is severed from the body… — Camilla Gibb Copy Share Image
The line of gray along the horizon is brighter now, and with the coming light I feel a certainty: that there is,… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The general opinion of “Revenge of the Sith” seems to be that it marks a distinct improvement on the last two episodes,… — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I read the Phantom comics when I was in Australia shooting 'Dead Calm'' and when one of the crew told me that… — Billy Zane Copy Share Image
All our lives we are engaged in preserving our experiences and keeping them fresh by artificially sprinkling the water of memory over… — Vimala Thakar Copy Share Image
It always felt like the price of being a writer was that you would - even in the most terrible moments, there… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Sit, Phantom!" Ivy cooed. "On your bottom!" "Oh, for goodness' sake!" Gabriel put down his book and pointed a longer finger at… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
Thy Banners gleam a little, and are furled; Against thy turrets surge His phantom tow'rs; Drugged with his Opiates the nations nod,… — George Sterling Copy Share Image
What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
That was what humans did: They left on another messages through time, pressed between pages or carved into rock. Like reaching out… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
If you want someone to tell you what to think," the phantom answered briskly, without looking up, "you will never be short… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
Another dream. Another long-distance call on my phantom party line. No wonder i had steadfastly refused to have dreams for most of… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image