There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Painting is a fine art: not merely because it gives us trees and faces and lovely things to see, but because paint… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
The survivors of Hurricane Harvey do not need empty tweets and platitudes from people like Donald Trump and Joel Osteen. They have… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
Jealousy, and local policy mix too much in all our public councils for the good government of the Union. In a words,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow. This… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Oh! none are so absorb'd, as not to feel Sweet thoughts like music coming o'er the mind: When prayer, the purest incense… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you will observe, it doesn't take A man of giant mould to make A giant shadow on the wall; And he… — John Townsend Trowbridge Copy Share Image
It was the tenderness mingled with melancholy which we bring to a time that belongs irrevocably to the past, when a pale,… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
The political trend is always to be observed, partly as a spectacle, partly for one's own safety. The liberal is dissatisfied with… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
My fictional worlds were those of a fabulist, of an intellectual fantasist. I was the lawgiver, and the countries and inhabitants of… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
Light That's how I feel- like the winter-fringed breeze might scoop me up into its wings, fly away with me trapped in… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Demon. Gremlin. Poltergeist. Ghost. Phantom. Spirit. Shadow. Ghoul. Devil. People are afraid of them, so they relegate their existence to stories, volumes… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
We human beings have not secured happiness; on the contrary, science gives us catastrophes. We are like travelers losing their way in… — Liang Qichao Copy Share Image
We've turned off all the lights in the living room to make hand shadows. We've got this big flashlight aimed at the… — Sonya Sones Copy Share Image
I listened for the voice I knew so well, the one I always heard at the beginning. Good girl, Macy! You're doing… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
So vast is the shadow cast by the MGM production of 'The Wizard of Oz,' so indelible are its characterizations, so perfect… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we've been… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually reacquire colors,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
And all times are one time, and all those dead in the past never lived before our definition gives them life, and… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Art teaches you the philosophy of life, and if you can't learn it from art, you can't learn it at all. It… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
In my photographic work I was always especially entranced... by the moment when the shadows of reality, so to speak, emerge out… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Big? Sure. But, he can't catch mice! So for your big tree. No use? Then plant it in the wasteland - in… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
O, beautiful rainbow; - all woven of light! There's not in thy tissue, one shadow of night; Heaven surely is open when… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
“A dark shadow leaped from the stairs, his long coat flowing behind him like demon wings, landing in between her and Warrington.… — Kerrigan Byrne Copy Share Image
I watched her and I watched the birds' shadows flit across her face, and I...wanted. I wanted more happy memories to hang… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“As Shadowhunters, they had all seen wonders, but there was something distinctly Faerie about this kind of magic: It seemed to take… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I will give you three days to seek your shadow. Return to me in the course of that time with a well-fitted… — Adelbert von Chamisso Copy Share Image
It was so hot today I saw a robin dipping his worm in Nestea.It was so hot today I saw a pigeon… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living: All things fall under this… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine There fell thy shadow, Cynara! thy breath was shed Upon my soul between… — Ernest Dowson Copy Share Image
“If our splintered attention has led us to oblivion and blindness; and the shell has replaced the substance, it may be enlightening… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I won't say I've never felt in Alex Salmond's shadow, but latterly, when Alex was leader, I didn't. It's more about my… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“For some, memories are a blessing. They give one something to look at and cherish in dark times. For some, memories are… — Taylor Chackowsky Copy Share Image
We have ignored this cancer for so long that the romance of environmental concern is already fading in the shadow of the… — Edmund Muskie Copy Share Image
Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Grace is above praise and blame. I never read the bad stuff people write, but I never read the good stuff, either.… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
Everything I do is gauged under the shadow of 'Dil Chahta Hai.' Even 'Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara' and 'Rock On,' which are… — Farhan Akhtar Copy Share Image
