Henothing common did, or mean,Upon the memorable Scene…

He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try.

— Andrew Marvell

The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas.

— Andrew Marvell

[My] pictures are about memory and forgetfulness. The evidence is dissolving. Bones crumble; human ash returns to soil; teeth, sandals, hair, bullets, axes disperse…

— Simon Norfolk

“I fell in love. It felt exactly like a fall, a head-over-heels tumble into a state of unbearable lightness. The earth tilted on its…

— Philip Yancey

There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are plenty of…

— Erwin Chargaff

Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy…

— Stafford Cripps

You're different. You're more perfect. Time is three things for most people, but for you, for us, just one. A singularity. One moment. This…

— Jonathan Nolan

The world needs people who are more comfortable standing still. We keep the earth on it axis when everybody else is bouncing around.

— Bill Konigsberg

By threatening war against Iran, Iraq and North Korea in his now-famous "Axis of Evil" address, the president painted himself into a corner. Either…

— Pat Buchanan

True. There is a beautiful Jesus. He is frozen to his bones like a chunk of beef. How desperately he wanted to pull his…

— Anne Sexton

A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships

— Jorge Luis Borges

The two revolutions, I mean the annual revolutions of the declination and of the centre of the Earth, are not completely equal; that is…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

Outside the ring of dancing warriors with spears and axes stood wolves at a respectful distance, watching and waiting.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

When we are not realized, we are moving on the periphery, like a wheel and we are disturbed. But a realized soul is on…

— Nirmala Srivastava

It could just be a shift on the axis.

— Bill Cassidy