The earth, though in comparison of heaven so small, nor glistering, may of solid good contain more plenty than the sun, that… — John Milton Copy Share Image
...So please, be tolerant of those who describe a sporting moment as their best ever. We do not lack imagination, nor have… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There's a verse in the Bible: 'Those who are barren have more children than those who give birth.' There are young people… — Ginger Rogers Copy Share Image
Isaiah calls the Church barren because her children are born without effort by the Word of faith through the Spirit of God.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the… — Samuel Griswold Goodrich Copy Share Image
I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat in silence,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile… — Paul Brooks Copy Share Image
We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day will often bring to his task attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Perhaps I am too tame, too domestic a magician. But how does one work up a little madness? I meet with mad… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness… — David Douglas Copy Share Image
In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies; the domain of Science is a republic, and all its citizens… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He was too good to be Where ill men were, and was the best of all Amongst the rar'st of good ones-… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience; to start… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; And after summer evermore succeeds Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: So cares… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
This is what reading is like to me. It's finding a spring in the midst of a barren land. Just when I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
There is nothing more pitiable than a soulless, sapless, shriveled church, seeking to thrive in a worldly atmosphere, rooted in barren professions,… — George C. Lorimer Copy Share Image
From plots and treasons Heaven preserve my years, But save me most from my petitioners. Unsatiate as the barren womb or grave;… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation,… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
God's truth is literal truth. The illumined mind has more operative cells. In reclaiming the mystical, we take back our whole selves.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Be surprised by joy, be surprised by the little flower that shows its beauty in the midst of a barren desert, and… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence was far from… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where… — Waris Dirie Copy Share Image
People think that Detroit is this barren wasteland. While there are parts that are not as nice as others, the misconception is… — Steven Yeun Copy Share Image
There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of… — John Bowring Copy Share Image
There is no tragedy more woeful than the victory of hate, nor any attainment so hopelessly barren as the sterility of that… — James Stephens Copy Share Image
Observation made in the cloister or in the desert will generally be as obscure as the one and as barren as the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Is there conscience in the Kremlin? Do they ever ask themselves what is the purpose of life? What is it all for?...… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
People have responded to the pictures I make as mystical things, and they somehow carry the illusion further thinking that the place… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The man who seeks one thing in life and but one, May hope to achieve it before life is done; But he… — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Copy Share Image
Long live the weeds that overwhelm My narrow vegetable realm! The bitter rock, the barren soil That force the son of man… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
