who had jolted Sophie out of her everyday existence and…

Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves…

— Francis Parkman

The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present…yet his day-to-day…

— Nicholas Sparks

Amid the gloom and travail of existence suddenly to behold a beautiful being; and as instantaneously to feel an overwhelming conviction, that with that…

— Stephen

“Do you want to know something from the beyond? Do you want to chat with divine beings face to face? It is indispensable to…

— Samael Aun Weor

“The goal of human life," says Ramakrishna, "is to meet God face to face." But the magic is this: if we look deeply into…

— Stephen Cope

“Though science makes no use for poetry, poetry is enriched by science. Poetry “takes up” the scientific vision and re-expresses its truths, but always…

— L.P. Jacks

Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Each time we come to savasana, we practice dying—we surrender the body to the earth and prepare for our destiny in this life. Facing…

— Darren Main

“Even when you're talking to them face to face you have this feeling of not connecting, as if the words just pass through them.…

— Ryū Murakami

“True love is like a ghost; everyone talks of it, but few have met it face to face.”

— Anonymous

“Gerber, who studied seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ottoman court decisions, points to examples of Ottoman muftis (official jurists) who, despite being paid by the government,…

— Mustafa Akyol

The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people; they disliked…

— Paul Theroux

Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.

— William Ellery Channing

Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there's something inside us that's so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won't…

— Hubert Selby, Jr