The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
All through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There are still eight of us,” Guy pointed out. “Not exactly an even fight.” “I was thinking the same thing,” Mauvin said.… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it… — Jack London Copy Share Image
We are recipients of God's choicest blessings. We enjoy an abundance of material things beyond that enjoyed by any other nation in… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
...and a dream away in space with neither her nor there where all the footsteps ever fell can never fare nearer to… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“He woke before dawn and watched the gray day break. Slow and half opaque. He rose while the boy slept and pulled… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
We stink more of the world than we stink of sack cloth and ashes. A lot of contemporary churches today would feel… — Nicky Cruz Copy Share Image
“Now these ashes have grown cold, we open the old book. These oil-stained pages recount the tales of the Fallen, a frayed… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Ah lucklesse babe, borne vnder cruell starre, And in dead parents balefull ashes bred, Full litle weenest thou, what sorrowes are Left… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
As the last Seelie left the hall, Roiben, self-declared King of the Unseelie Court, nearly fell into his throne. Kaye tried to… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“All that remains is regret for what might have been. It is like standing in the ashes of a fire you once… — Elizabeth Chadwick Copy Share Image
Y is for YGGDRASIL. The legendary Nordic ash tree with its three roots extending into the lands of mortals, giants, and Niflheim,… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
It should be pointed out that some of the things done after the arrest of the Gang of Four were inconsistent with… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
Just as a snowflakewent on to feed a puddle that filled a stream and then the river, thepumpkin patch is a gathering… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“Lost ye way in the dark, said the old man. He stirred the fire, standing slender tusks of bone up out of… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist,… — Hafez Copy Share Image
