The nephew revenges himself for this, by holding his breath and terrifying his kinswoman with the dread belief that he has made… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Beauty: "You called me beautiful last night." Beast: "You do not believe me then?" Beauty: "Well - no. Any number of mirrors… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground,… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“Aimee pulled him to a stop. "Thank you, Xedrix. I really appreciate this." "Really wish I could say the same. Damn bears,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Take empathy, something added to human nature very recently and moving as we speak. Less than 300 years ago, Christians were enjoying… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Zeal is that pure and heavenly flame,The fire of love supplies ;While that which often bears the name,Is self in a disguise.True… — John Newton Copy Share Image
The world can be a challenging and difficult place in which to live. We are often surrounded by that which would drag… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Do you know, I always imagine that the subway trains are dragons,' Rose said to Bear as they clung to his coat… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
All my laurels you have riven away, and my roses; yet in spite of you, there is one crown I bear away… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That the people have a Right to mass and to bear arms; that a well regulated militia composed of the Body of… — George Mason Copy Share Image
“Animals had returned to what was left of the forest...clusters of orange butterflies exploded off the blackish purple piles of bear sign… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
I think it's a very central tenet to it yes, it is. I can't bear it, I can't bear inequality, I can't… — Janet Suzman Copy Share Image
Each person discovers a field of allurements, the totality of which bears the unique stamp of that person’s personality. Destiny unfolds in… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
The character of the landscape changes from hour to hour, day to day, season to season. Nothing of the earth can be… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
I love all of my children equally, all of my printed books, and each one bears a special piece of me. But… — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Besides loving each other, we must bear with each other and pardon ? 'forgive them that trespass against us' ? in order… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The man who bears my name, and who claims to be me, was born on July 15, 1865, the sixth in a… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
The Church has realized that anything and everything can be built up on a document of that sort, no matter how contradictory… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
My father and Mary Pickford were the reigning stars of not just Hollywood but of the world. Well, to bear my father's… — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr Copy Share Image
This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole, and what is my nature, and how this… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It's a very specific body. Even great reviews will be like: chubby, portly, overweight. . . . Sometimes I'm like, 'Ugh, how… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
That the world I was in could be soft, lovely, and nourishing was more than I could bear, and so I stood… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt… — Vaslav Nijinsky Copy Share Image
La parole humaine est comme un chaudron fe" le o u' nous battons des me lodies a' faire danser les ours, quand… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The lives of individuals of the human race form a constant plot, in which every attempt to isolate one piece of living… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
We should bear the intelligence and taste of the architect or the gardener in how we shape the becoming of our self.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Ut cum spiritu postrema sacramentum dejuremus," he chanted. "Et hostes ornamenta addent ad ianuam necem." "You just...finished the prophesy,"Rachael stammered. "-An oath… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Few stories are written about what happens to the princess after the wedding. Reading between the lines of other stories, we can… — Elizabeth Debold Copy Share Image
A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
They are constantly trying to drive us into a corner because we have an independent position, because we maintain it and because… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they… — Moliere Copy Share Image
In fact we say that an intention is good, that is, right in itself, but that an action does not bear any… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
