When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
You got to have an enemy to fight. And when you have an enemy to fight, then you can unite the entire… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
Do not stand at my grave and weep I am not there; I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Canoes, too, are unobtrusive; they don't storm the natural world or ride over it, but drift in upon it as a part… — John Graves Copy Share Image
“Everything stops in her and sinks into silence. She drives slowly, foggy pictures painted in her mind. She has to open a… — David Grossman Copy Share Image
During that long terrible ride to Munich, I finally swallowed the bitter pill of my lover's rejection and poisoned myself with it.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is our lack of will that lies behind the continued denial of justice to Jean McConville. Yet there is something that… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
You probably can't get much closer to God than serving a congregation 24/7. At the same time, there's a different kind of… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
You & I, Love, together we ratify the silence, while the sea destroys its perpetual statues, collapses its towers of wild speed… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“When the silence comes and the echoes of former life fades, what will have mattered will be, one made the world a… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
I now realize Melania is not a normal woman. Two women had described having sex with her husband on national TV in… — Stephanie Winston Wolkoff Copy Share Image
Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It reveals. It reveals to the aspirant that matter and spirit are one, quantity and quality… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
I love the Capitol rotunda. It's just so big and so grand, and I love being in the Capitol at night when… — Kevin Yoder Copy Share Image
Silence is difficult and arduous; it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
As you know, shibumi has to do with great refinement underlying commonplace appearances. It is a statement so correct that it does… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
I liked the solitude and the silence of the woods and the hills. I felt there the sense of a presence, something… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
“10. WINDLESTRAWS. KEΦAΔH I WINDLESTRAWS The Abyss of Hallucinations has Law and Reason; but in Truth there is no bond between the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“With her silence alone she held off, for a moment longer, the suggestion that the worst was over, the tree had fallen,… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
I live alone, perhaps for no good reason, for the reason that I am an impossible creature, set apart by a temperament… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I believe that the place where an animal dies is a sacred one. There is a need to bring ritual into the… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
“There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“We were all quiet for a few moments before I broke the silence by saying, in my best upper-crust-girls'-school voice, "I am… — Lia Habel Copy Share Image
MySpace is somehow more welcoming than Facebook. And Twittering, I just... Ugh. I like having radio silence. I think radio silence is… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see, So deep in my soul… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“It is in the last step that one finds the unfathomable beginning; it is in the aloneness that one discovers himself never… — Heather K. O'Hara Copy Share Image
Eyes are at rest, the stars are setting. Hushed are the stirrings of birds in their nests, Of monsters in the ocean.… — Rabia Basri Copy Share Image
Those who remain content easily remain small: small are their joys, small are their ecstasies, small are their silences, small is their… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the… — John Gillespie Magee, Jr Copy Share Image
To know that no one before you has seen an organ you are examining, to trace relationships that have occurred to no… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
When I read John Cage's book Silence, I was growing up in Louisville, Kentucky. For me, records were a mode of time… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays,… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I saw my parents as model grown-ups, and their manner, their silence, informed my sense of what adulthood looked and felt like.… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I've got childhood friends who are working for non-profit foundations, or who are running for state senate and doing things that actually… — Greg Saunier Copy Share Image
