I'm the son of Jupiter, I'm a child of Rome, consul to demigods, praetor of the First Legion. I slew the Trojan… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I love to travel with my family or my two best friends because I completely trust them. I forced my two best… — Julia Sawalha Copy Share Image
I remember the good evenings I have fished, even the ones that realised material hopes not by the fish that came to… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
Maybe a hundred years ago our people should have run away from this place, I said... And then run from the next… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Creation was given to people as a clean window through which the light of God could shine into people's souls. Sun and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It never takes longer than a few minutes, when they get together, for everyone to revert to the state of nature, like… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it,… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
It was true what Jim said, this wasn’t the end but the beginning. But the wars would end one day and Jim… — Jamie O'Neill Copy Share Image
Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power. If you want to… — Laozi Copy Share Image
I'll never be a poet,' said Amory as he finished. 'I'm not enough of a sensualist really; there are only a few… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids… — Rumi Copy Share Image
My position is a naturalistic one; I see philosophy not as an a priori propaedeutic or groundwork for science, but as continuous… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Those who look at the surface of the sea must behold the birth and death of the waves, but those who seek… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Karrin Murphy led the charge, and Sanya and I tried to keep up. She went through that sea of foes like a… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
As the pen rises from the page between words, so the walker's feet rise and fall between paces, and as the deer… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I understand the most profound and simplest Truth of all: Any time any of us reaches out, any time we pour even… — J. M. DeMatteis Copy Share Image
A mighty wind of resolution sets in strong upon him and freshens the whole atmosphere of his soul, sweeping down before it… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
Dwellers by the sea cannot fail to be impressed by the sight of its ceaseless ebb and flow, and are apt, on… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
Its subject is the slow and erratic process by which the peoples of the British Isles learnt - and then for long… — Nicholas Rodger Copy Share Image
If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea-coasts, our army and our… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family,and note the absorption of the person by… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
It is quite easy to debase the sport, change its values, dilute its ethics and destroy its traditional associations with quietness, relaxation… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
That stirring which had fluttered in her on first glimpsing the sea—that stirring landlocked children know so well—moved in her now, with… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
The only thing I don't divulge is the truth about Mother killing little Carolina. I don't know why. Perhaps I sense he's… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A pure soul is like a fine pearl. As long as it is hidden in the shell, at the bottom of the… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
However it may be for others, for us of the Citizen Army there is but one ideal - an Ireland ruled, and… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
The Mole was bewitched, entranced, fascinated. By the side of the river he trotted as one trots, when very small, by the… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
No member of the animal kingdom nurses past maturity, no member of the animal kingdom ever did a thing to me. Its… — Prince Copy Share Image
The wind of God's grace is incessantly blowing. Lazy sailors on the sea of life do not take advantage of it. But… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are very far… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Contentedly sat the old woman. Soon now, the sea would hold no terrors, and the blinds wouldn't have to be down, nor… — A.E. van Vogt Copy Share Image
Gravity is measured by the bottom of the foot; we trace the density and texture of the ground through our soles. Standing… — Juhani Pallasmaa Copy Share Image
Yet at the last Beren was slain by the Wolf that came from the gates of Angband, and he died in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
It's a huge Carthusian monastery, stuck down between rocks and sea, where you may imagine me, without white gloves or hair curling,… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
