I must admit to a personal lack of sympathy with women who have themselves photographed in black stockings, garter belts and boots,… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
“The woman turns away; one wing blackens like an onyx gem while the other glows white like a bright spotlight. She flies… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny… — Frank Church Copy Share Image
I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The end of World War I also marked the end of bourgeois culture. An inner emptiness developed that, in the 19th and… — Walter Kasper Copy Share Image
“We must avoid coming to too close quarters with life. It is a slender crust over which you must walk without bearing… — Edmond Henri Adolphe Scherer Copy Share Image
Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
With political will and strategic initiatives, we can prevent more and more of our global neighbors from falling into the abyss of… — Helene D. Gayle Copy Share Image
Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
According to the faith and mercy of his Christian enemies, [Chosroes] sunk without hope into a still deeper abyss [Hell]; and it… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Mad, malevolent, and incantatory, The Orphan Palace reads like the hagridden fever dream of one who has not only stared the Abyss… — Robin Spriggs Copy Share Image
O Trinity, eternal Trinity! Fire, abyss of love... Was it necessary that you should give Even the Holy Trinity as food for… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
The listener must be gripped and whether he likes it or not, drawn into the flight path of the sounds without special… — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
People who’ve had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don’t know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
More education for women. More jobs for women. More equal opportunities for women. More women to be taken seriously. And I think… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
We are still fearful, superstitious and all-too-human creatures. At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
Marisa! Marisa!” The cry was torn from Lord Asriel, and with the snow leopard beside her, with a roaring in her ears,… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“There are people who from early on reveal a great talent for misfortune. Unhappiness pummels at them like a stoning, every other… — José Eduardo Agualusa Copy Share Image
Acquired characteristics are inherited in technology and culture. Lamarckian evolution is rapid and accumulative. It explains the cardinal difference between our past,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“however as things stood nothing seemed to have been mentioned with regard to the abyss so one can only presume that it… — Stuart Estell Copy Share Image
With undead armies, psychotic angels and exploding airships, Scar Night is a gripping, ripping yarn which rattles along at a great pace.… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
Democratic Rep. Charles Schumer of New York made a plea to Livingston, the incoming speaker. These new hearings, these new subpoenas wave… — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
“We stand on the edge of the abyss, across whose unknowable face we paint meaning so as not to see into it.… — Ovadya ben Malka Copy Share Image
I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died longe ago.Even… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
We have seen the highest circle of spiraling powers. We have named this circle God. We might have given it any other… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield! Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason, Resplendent daughter of the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Most of my life, I feel I have been Unicycling at the Edge of the Abyss! If fact, this will be the… — Jon Polito Copy Share Image
So many bright futures consigned to the ashes of the past.So many dreams lost in the madness that had engulfed us.Except for… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
[For men] to feel their souls withering within them, unthanked, to find their whole being sunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Evan Handler is a man who’s looked into the abyss and laughed. His book, It’s Only Temporary, made me laugh along with… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
If you were not cast into the abyss, you would have never groped, reached as far as you could reach, to grasp… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This my goodness does to endow the souls of the just more fully with spiritual riches when for my love they are… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image