The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“The allure of antiquity... The echoes of bygone eras, where time seems to linger in the aged textures of ancients. A visceral… — Monika Ajay Kaul Copy Share Image
The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't the death of a person you love bring you into lurid ruin? You don't know how to love the one… — Don DeLillo 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
“If you want to become a chemist, you will have to ruin your health. If you don't ruin your health studying, you… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
Nick Yablon ranges widely, from log cabins to skyscrapers and from Tocqueville to pulp fiction. He combines imaginative research with probing interpretation.… — T. J. Jackson Lears Copy Share Image
Ruin, weariness, death, perpetually death, stand grimly to confront the other presence of Elizabethan drama which is life: life compact of frigates,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
Why me?" she asked, holding on to him. "Because you cared," he whispered. "You cared so much for your people, it broke… — Annette Curtis Klause Copy Share Image
As a person progresses along the path of power, they attract certain forces and beings from other dimensions, who feel the power… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I actually put peanut butter on my bagel. I really like peanut butter and I like to ruin the bagel. You know… — Evan Peters Copy Share Image
The trouble is that when most people are apathetic ordinary people ... have to go too far, have to ruin their lives… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Normally I can't watch playback. I can't watch anything because I know that it's so rough and there's going to be effects… — Mike Vogel Copy Share Image
If my comrades are not destined to rule the world, then away with it! A shower of atom bombs upon it and… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Decker went to Greece a few summers ago and showed me pictures from his trip. "Aren't these awesome?" he had said, pointing… — Megan Miranda Copy Share Image
“When you overthink at the wrong moment, you cut yourself off from the wisdom of your emotions, which are much better at… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Stock dealers and banking companies, by the aid of a paper system, are enriching themselves to the ruin of our country, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
That's what the majority of people in the world do, they walk among the ruins of their life. Things that didn't work… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
In peace prepare for war, in war prepare for peace. The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The simple circumstantial narrative (did such a narrative exist) of the ruin of a single town, of the misfortunes of a single… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
What does a woman feel when she is hit? My mother slapped me when I was a child - on two occasions,… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
It goes to establish a just and permanent principle of trade which puts an end to all serious fluctuations in prices and… — Josiah Warren Copy Share Image
I just hate the whole idea of labeling anything as a comedy. If you tell me something's funny, I'll want to rebel… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
“...sola est quies, mecum ruina cuncta si video abruta; mecum omnia abeant. Trahere cum pereas, libet. (...the only calm for me -… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality, for how we live is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Capitalism is what is left when beliefs have collapsed at the level of ritual or symbolic elaboration, and all that is left… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene. Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
Starting from the ruins of the Second World War, we - all Europeans said, after centuries of fighting each other, we're going… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
He [Ranger] peeled my [Stephanie] clothes off and wrangled me into bed. And then suddenly he was inside me. He once told… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Remember this practical piece of advice: Never come into the theatre with mud on your feet. Leave your dust and dirt outside.… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
As the observance of divine institutions is the cause of the greatness of republics, so the disregard of them produces their ruin;… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
What sense does it make to build a castle of illusions? We can live in it for a short time, but when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in;… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image