It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, and to be without a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
On our honeymoon we talked and talked. We stayed in a beachfront villa, and we drank rum and lemonade and talked so… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative. We… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Whether in peaceful trade or warlike attack, the sea unites more than it divides. Even if it were possible to treat England,… — Nicholas Rodger Copy Share Image
“There, at a depth to which divers would find it difficult to descend, are caverns, haunts, and dusky mazes, where monstrous creatures… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The painting was framed in a misty view of sky, sea, and valley. Newt's painting was small, black, and warty. It consisted… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Bad, or good, as it happens to be, that is what it is to exist! . . . It is as though… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
A black-crowned night heron stood on an apron of wet sand, looking across the channel. The feather plume at the back of… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
When I got up this morning the sea was full of sun pennies - and now it all seems to be covered… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
For the most part we humans live with the false impression of security and a feeling of being at home in a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
As long as science fails to discover the sources of life, as long as, on sea or in the sky, there is… — Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer Copy Share Image
Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
There is no they, only us. We are part of a large fellowship called the human race. We all hurt the same.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
After... The seas have dried out The trains have come to a shrieking holt The hounds of the abyss cease to howl… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits.… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
When I sit with students, I do not just want to help them solve their problems. I want to find a moment… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
I am afraid of reduction. After a lifetime's independence- yes, selfish independence- I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more,… — Rosie Thomas Copy Share Image
Like all real treasures of the mind, perception can be split into infinitely small fractions without losing its quality. The weeds in… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits -… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Pope John XXIII was an amoeba of goodness in a sea of waste, mistakenly believing that the Holy See could or would… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have done business in China for 25 years, so I know that in order to get China to cooperate with us,… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
A captured pirate was brought before Alexander the Great. “How dare you molest the sea?” asked Alexander. “How dare you molest the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The American flag doesn't give her glory on a peaceful, calm day. It's when the winds pick up and become boisterous, do… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
SHE is neither pink nor pale, And she never will be all mine; She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Ah; but my courage fails me, and my heart is sick within me! —Lord, take pity on the Christian who doubts, on… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
And I wish that I was made of stone So that I would not have to see A beauty impossible to define… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
Tucker was my safe place for three years, my secure dock in a sea of indecision as I dealt with my father's… — Melissa Brown Copy Share Image
I saw the sky and sea and sand and the flickering flames of the bonfire through my tears. All at once, it… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
If you aren't a fisher you'll see many things, but the river, except where it is ridden by waterfowl or waded by… — Paul Schullery Copy Share Image
I shouldn’t ask you to,” he said, devotion in every word, “but I’m going to. Wait for me, Jess. I’ll come back… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
The work saved me. I clung to it like flotsam in a boiling sea. It was the only solitary sport that I… — Rheta Grimsley Johnson Copy Share Image
As the people of Shishmaref lose their natural hunting grounds to the warming sea, they are forced to buy U.S. canned goods… — Amy J. Berg Copy Share Image
I like the way the morning can be stormy and the afternoon clear and sparkly as a jewel in the water. Put… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Flyfishing does have its social aspects - on some of our crowded trout streams it can get too social - but esentially… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
Sea does the sweep of his eyes that he does, the one that goes from my head to my toes and back… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
