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
I'm sorry for the anguished hearts that break with passion's strain, But I'm sorrier for the poor starved souls that never knew… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe, hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This is the third time that, in the course of six years, during which I have had the lead of the Opposition… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring, With sudden passion languishing, Teaching barren moors to smile, Painting pictures mile on mile, Holds… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil. — William Dampier Copy Share Image
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination,… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like… — C. S. Lewis 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
Know verily that the purpose underlying all these symbolic terms and abstruse allusions, which emanate from the revealers of Gods holy cause,… — Bahá'u'lláh 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
I'm in East L.A., like Mount Washington, Highland Park. There's a little strip that they're gentrifying, trying to make a hip spot,… — King Tuff Copy Share Image
As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath… — Robert Falcon Scott Copy Share Image
Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in life, a new future… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
O leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree. — Thomas Campbell Copy Share Image
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem… — Fernando de Rojas Copy Share Image
All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships;… — Ernest Thompson Seton Copy Share Image
I am tired of tears and laughter, And men that laugh and weep Of what may come hereafter For men that sow… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
One time I was on the road with clients with an investment bank, and they thought it would be fun to go… — Melanne Verveer Copy Share Image
The prairies were dust. Day after day, summer after summer, the scorching winds blew the dust and the sun was brassy in… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
Where human life needs most sympathy, where usually it is the most barren, there it is that Christ is more likely to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
