the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
No act of virtue can be great if it is not followed by advantage for others. So, no matter how much time… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Here is a truth, a truth by which to live: there is hope. There is always hope. If we choose to abandon… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
There's nothing more that I can do for this old love but cremate it & scatter the ashes at my feet to… — Rosa-Lee Beckwith-Powell Copy Share Image
A small grove massacred to the last ash, An oak with heart-rot, give away the show: This great society is going to… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended /… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
We swallowed a few bites-not to much scince the food of the gods can burn you to ashes is you overindulge. I… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I don't want to have a gravestone. I want to have all my friends burn me and then snort the ashes. I… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
An ash-gray dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst onto the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
She told me if I clean all the ashes out of the grate, then I’ll be able to help my sisters get… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
Clay can be a metaphor for many things. I made it a metaphor for flesh and earth, and these are two kinds… — Stephen De Staebler Copy Share Image
Straight out of Blackpool, I'm William Regal. My rhymes so intense, they shouldn't be legal. My style is refined, not crude and… — William Regal Copy Share Image
and god help you if you are an ugly girl course too pretty is also your doom cause everyone harbors a secret… — Ani DiFranco 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
Vanish. Pass into nothingness: the Keats line that frightened her. Fade as the blue nights fade, go as the brightness goes. Go… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The fire of the forest burns trees to ashes. Even expensive sandalwood tree which is endowed with qualities of cooling and fragrance,… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
the most common type of pessimism is neither philosophical nor religious: it is the pessimism of thwarted desire. ... It is the… — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
Earth, Ashes to ashes and dust to dust in mother earth we place our trust and as we cycle through our years… — Nancy Holder Copy Share Image
A nuclear war does not defend a country and it does not defend a system. I've put it the same way many… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Coming out of the Ashes in 2013-14 and the World Cup in 2015 I realised how much I wanted to be a… — Joe Root Copy Share Image
We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of a worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A strong reputation is like a good bonfire. When you have one kindled it's easy to keep the flame burning, even if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My very first acting job was with Alan Parker on Angela's Ashes but as a child I had written to so many… — Kerry Condon Copy Share Image
God help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
“There is no greatness in dying for love, Raakha, she wanted to say. Those who die untimely, violent deaths don’t become ashes.… — Manjul Bajaj Copy Share Image
Piece by piece, I fed my wardrobe to the night wind, and flutteringly, like a loved one’s ashes, the gray scraps were… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Growing up, my education about Test cricket came from dad's video of the 1981 Ashes series - and Ian Botham's incredible match… — James Anderson Copy Share Image
Harry," she said quietly, "I know you must be angry." I burn things to ash and smash holes in buildings when I'm… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I don't think we really measured the enormity of the whole occasion. I'm very, very surprised. We never expected it. When I… — Duncan Fletcher Copy Share Image
I've tried to find a new elegance. It's not easy because people want to be shocked. They want explosive fashion. But explosions… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
Maybe it was a good thing that Bones was putting Don's remains away instead of me. With my current emotional state, I'd… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Now don’t you be covering for him, Ash. (She wagged her finger at Nick.) Are you driving? (Cherise) No, Mom. I’m sitting.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“He it is still and yet it is not he any longer. His features have become uncertain and faint, like a photographic… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Being an Israeli is to know that you have risen from the ashes of those who were killed and knowing you have… — Tzipi Livni Copy Share Image
What passes relentlessly through the years is blood, and time; all the bitterness or warmth along the way is almost incidental. Even… — Luke Davies Copy Share Image
However strong or beautiful this body may be, its culmination is in those three pounds of ashes. And still people are so… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea. But for now we are… — Jeff Mangum Copy Share Image
