Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonably-resolute… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Delacroix, Wagner, Baudelaire - all great theorists, bent on dominating other minds by sensuous means. Their one dream was to create the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
We are all so bent and determined to get what we want, we miss the lessons that could be learned from life's… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
Everything Tolstoy wrote is precious, but I found this final statement of the truth about life as he had come to understand… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I’m a goddess of destruction. Tell me honestly that you find nothing exciting about the idea of a billion people screaming out… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The concern for world evangelization is not something tacked on to a man's personal Christianity, which he may take or leave as… — James Stuart Stewart Copy Share Image
And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
I feel that the justices that I am going to appoint - and I've named 20 of them - the justices that… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Do me a favor?” he whispered. Beth's hold tightened on his hand. ”Anything, what do you need?” ”Hum the Jeopardy theme.” There… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
In this state [man's fallen condition], the Free Will of man toward the True God is not only wounded, maimed, infirm, bent,… — Jacobus Arminius Copy Share Image
“Strange bent over these things, with a concentration to rival Minervois's own, questioning, criticizing and proposing. Strange and the two engravers spoke… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
Yet each of us also carries another portrait with us, a picture far more important than any in our wallet. Psychologists have… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
The sentiment that is very inappropriately named equality is fresh, strong, alert, precisely because it is not, in fact, a sentiment of… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
The earth with yellow pearsAnd overgrown with roses wildUpon the pond is bent,And swans divine,With kisses drunkYou drop your headsIn the sublimely… — Friedrich Holderlin Copy Share Image
Robert Spencer, a prolific anti-Islam writer and a leading Islamophobe who is bent on distorting Islam and demonizing Muslims, has persistently argued… — Louay M. Safi Copy Share Image
Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry; His form was bent, and his gait was… — George Arnold Copy Share Image
He bent, lips coming to mine and — 'Derek? Chloe?' It was Kit, opening the back door. Derek let out a low… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Without fail, every cartoonist that I asked advice from bent over backward to be helpful and encouraging. It took many forms: some… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
When I was teaching at an institution that bent over backward for foreign students, I was asked in class one day: "What… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The answer is for all of us to create our own systems, our own ideas, because vibrant independent ideas will trump this… — Alex Jones Copy Share Image
A thousand trees are seen towards heaven rising, With beautiful and sweetly-scented apples; The orange, wearing on its lovely fruit The colour… — Luis de Camoes Copy Share Image
I like "Rock, Paper, Scissors Two-Thirds." You know. "Rock breaks scissors." "These scissors are bent. They're destroyed. I can't cut stuff. So… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
The good news is that by the second year, those cravings were about as half as frequent, and by the third year,… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
A bronze plaque read: GAIUS PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS Dan made a face. "Get a load of the guy with the funny name."… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
He took a hairpin out of my untidy hair (by now my complicated arrangement of ringlets must have looked as if a… — Kerstin Gier Copy Share Image
This is what history is: all those centuries of bodies, moving over these canals, twisting and blooming into life in these houses,… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
People have a comic bent or an angularity to their thinking, and those are the people who make jokes. And it's usually… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
And somewhat as in blind night, on a mild sea, a sailor may be made aware of an iceberg, fanged and mortal,… — James Agee Copy Share Image
Poetic experience is distinct in nature from mystical experience. Because poetry emanates from the free creativity of the spirit,it is from the… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
[I have seen] workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of… — Bernardino Ramazzini Copy Share Image
Abby,” he murmured, lifting a hand to curve around her neck. “I love you.” A sob slipped free and she wrapped her… — Shiloh Walker Copy Share Image
He put the book down. “As you wish.” He rose and walked past me. I lowered my sword, expecting him to pass,… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
A tiny dark object came sailing out of the window and landed at the giant's feet. Polybotes yelled, "Grenade!" He covered his… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
IN MEMORIAM: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE She whom we love, our Lady of Compassion, Can never die, for Love forbids her death. Love has… — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For sure, they don't teach you this in history class, but in colonial times, the person who got left in the stocks… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image