The rate of growth of the relevant population is much greater than the rate of growth in funds, though funds have gone… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them,… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Love must kiss that mortal's eyesWho hopes to see fair Arcady.No gold can buy you entrance there;But beggared Love may go all… — Henry Cuyler Bunner Copy Share Image
That every will must consider every other will its equal would be a principle hostile to life, an agent of the dissolution… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
O Holy Spirit of God, abide with us; inspire all our thoughts; pervade our imaginations; suggest all our decisions; order all our… — John Baillie Copy Share Image
I like the concept of an anti-muse, though I'm not quite sure what that is. If there is such a thing in… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Twenty-five years ago, Christmas was not the burden that it is now; there was less haggling and weighing, less quid pro quo,… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
There comes, even to kings, the time of great weariness. Then the gold of the throne is brass, the silk of the… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
He who has not been at a tavern knows not what a paradise it is. O holy tavern! O miraculous tavern!--holy, because… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
I believe it, she's a very good person, kind. There's weariness there, but no bitterness or spite. When you're with a girl… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
I counsel our children to do their critical studying in the early hours of the morning when they're fresh and alert, rather… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Africa is never the same to anyone who leaves it and returns again. It is not a land of change, but it… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
(Title: To the Moon) Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of defeat. I say “perception” because America is… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
Therefore, in my incontrovertible capacity as plaintiff and defendant judge and accused, I condemn this nature, which has so brazenly and unceremoniously… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You were right about your Bela, Rand," Moiraine said from where she stood by the mare. "She has a good heart, and… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
“And yet I would not be a child again. For surely as the night succeeds the day, So surely will their mirth… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
let us thank God for having made us this gift of death, so that life is to have meaning; of night, that… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“Undoubtedly, our weariness is not based on the fact that we’re running. Rather, our weariness is all too frequently based on the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
In my view the time for rousing revolutionary literature has passed, because the revolution has already revolutionised itself to death and has… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
It is vain to think that any weariness, however caused, any burden, however slight, may be got rid of otherwise than by… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t'inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or… — Ben Jonson 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]n order to raise a soul to the highest perfection, He allows it to pass through dryness, brambles, and combats, causing it… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
When it's new and important, you have to rest in between times. And anyway, even when I like a person there is… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Many complain of a chronic weariness that sleep will not banish. Their trouble is that too little blood is pumped through the… — Gene Tunney Copy Share Image
Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild Mingled in harmony on Nature's face, Ascend our rocky mountains. Let thy foot… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
“I should explain that I really did travel, but everything smacks to me of merely telling myself that I travelled, although I… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
She looked at him, and oh, the weariness to her, of the effort to understand another language, the weariness of hearing him,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Let's sit down here. From here we can see more of the sky. The vast expanse of these starry heights is soothing.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is weariness that causes seers not to act on what they see; for whereas the wisdom of the world can… — Kate Horsley Copy Share Image
There is no sense of weariness like that which closes in a day of eager and unintermittent pursuit of pleasure. The apple… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image