The alcohol smell is on my fingers, cold and remote, piercing like a steel pin going in. It smells like white enamel… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Vipassana: looking into something with clarity and precision, seeing each component as distinct, piercing all the way through so as to perceive… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
The nicest people I've ever met were covered in tattoos and piercings. The most judgmental people I've met are the ones who… — Connor Sinnett Copy Share Image
When my eyes meet his gaze as we're sitting here staring at each other, time stops. Those eyes are piercing mine, and… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end - whether we've had direct experience or not - there's part of… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
All unwillingly I opened my eyes - then I opened them wider, and lifted my head. The heat, my weariness, were quite… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
[Referring to the birds:] Nat listened to the tearing sound of splintering wood, and wondered how many million years of memory were… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
It is time to return to close reading, to a serious and painstaking examination of an author's methods, of his style. Do… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
You want me to come clean, I will. I'll tell you everything. Who I am and what I've done. Every last detail.… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression. There… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Women's scars and rituals involved beauty (piercing ears and noses, binding feet, and wearing corsets); men's involved protecting women. In cultures in… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Only with great care. For thousands, carols will be their only link with a church. At the same time, sentimentality is perhaps… — Jeremy Begbie Copy Share Image
Red like blood White like bone Red like solitude White like silence Red like the beastly instinct White like a god's heart… — Tite Kubo Copy Share Image
Through this feeling of helplessness suddenly burst a piercing nostalgia for the lost world of childhood. The way it came right up… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
I can be what I want to be when I grow up. Nobody can change that. After this sentence you will probably… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At times, life is hard, as hard as crucible steel. It has its bleak and painful moments. Like the ever flowing water… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If I was having a bad day, or if something was really getting me down -- boy troubles, whatever -- I wanted… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
For the soul of a person to be inflamed with passion for the living God, that person's mind must first be informed… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Now, men think, with regard to their conduct, that, if they were to lift themselves up gigantically and commit some crashing sin,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars That make ambition virtue! O, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Assault weapons—just like armor-piercing bullets, machine guns, and plastic firearms—are a new topic. The weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion… — Josh Sugarmann Copy Share Image
From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fixed sentinels almost… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I pierced one nipple. Not both. Just one. She has it in the books and I wanted to get as many of… — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
I took a closer look. Jesus had piercing blue eyes, dark hair that hung in a flawless mess, his body was emaciated… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“Thank you so much for the rude know-it-all attitude while also having to look at your ridiculously colored hair and obnoxious facial… — Heather Chapple Copy Share Image
Likewise the piercing of the body for multiple rings in the ears, in the nose, even in the tongue. Can they possibly… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying.… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
The result of [the] cumulative efforts to investigate the cell - to investigate life at the molecular level - is a loud,… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Discipline is a difficult word for most of us. It conjures up images of somebody standing over you with a stick, telling… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
Every funeral may justly be considered as a summons to prepare for that state into which it shows us that we must… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
To harden the earth the rocks took charge: instantly they grew wings: the rocks that soared: the survivors flew up the lightning… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I saw the Light,saw the myriad spirits flying loose up the Tunnel towards the celestial blaze, the Tunnel perfectly round and widening… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, religion often works to shrink and tame the very wild and mysterious forces that first drew our wonder. In the process… — Stephen K. Hayes Copy Share Image
As soon as she was close, she whispered, "you've got to get out of here." "No, you've got to get out of… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
The piercing nail has become a key to unlock the door, that I may see the good will of the Lord. And… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image