We are loping sequences of chemical conversions, acting ourselves converted. We are twists of genes acting ourselves twisted; we are wicks of… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
If I ever get to 100, I'd want to be filled with wonder and wild, adolescent, wide-eyed interest in newness. So let's… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
A zealous man feels that like a lamp he is made to burn; and if consumed in burning, he has but done… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech trumps political correctness. I would say our magazine would publish an anti-Semitic or Holocaust denying cartoon if it meant… — Ezra Levant Copy Share Image
I'm very blessed that I have a healthy temper. I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
But what if your fire is not burning well or, worse, has gone out? Without inner fire, you have no light, no… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
And do you agree with me, that the first condition of an artist should be to bear respect toward what is great,… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
Faced with the Divine, people took refuge in the banal, as though answering a cosmic multiple-choice question: If you saw a burning… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
Earthly love is a brief and penurious stream, which only flows in spring, with a long summer drought. The change from a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
O marvelous Sacrament! How can I find words to praise you! You are the life of the soul, the medicament healing our… — Louis of Granada Copy Share Image
You'll wrest a burning sword from an angel, but you're afraid of bats?" "I'm not afraid of them. I just don't like… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Yes,” I whisper. The red blinking light on one of the cameras catches my eye. I know I’m being recorded. “Yes,” I… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I recently got back from Hiroshima and it was fascinating to me how the Japanese accommodate this paradox. We were talking about… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
In my opinion, if there is one extremely legitimate use for petroleum besides running wood chippers and front-end loaders to handle compost,… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
I don't understand a belief that there is an invisible being in the sky who watches over us all the time and… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Love provides much needed warmth .. Excess of it would essentially mean burning .. Responsibility will turn love into enchantment .. And… — Sandeep Sahajpal Copy Share Image
It's all about you, Colie." She touched one finger to her temple, tap tap tap. "Believe in yourself up here and it… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
There have been women who stumbled across Feministing randomly, through a bizarre Google search or something, and had no idea what feminism… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
The name says it all. That's where Dad (Hades) tries out his new punishment ideas, but he says the traditional ones still… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds,… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
“As a magnifying glass concentrates the rays of the sun into a little burning knot of heat that can set fire to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I am looking for the fellowship of the burning heart--for men and women of all generations everywhere who love the Savior until… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
You could see the flames and the outer skin of the spacecraft glowing; and burning, baseball size chunks flying off behind us.… — William Anders Copy Share Image
Some fighters know when to stop on their own and go on to something else, and then some fighters have nothing to… — Marvin Hagler Copy Share Image
It is so hard to learn to put sadness in perspective so hard to understand that it is a feeling that comes… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Long drawn, the cool, green shadows Steal o'er the lake's warm breast, And the ancient silence follows The burning sun to rest.… — William Braithwaite Copy Share Image
I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this day find all oratory, biography, operas,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me, a picture should be like sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. It must… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
You don't know. When I'm out there at night I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving,… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
A man must go on a quest / to discover the sacred fire / in the sanctuary of his own belly /… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
The burning of fossil fuels has altered the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere so rapidly and so abundantly that now,… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
I said: what about my eyes? God said: Keep them on the road. I said: what about my passion? God said: Keep… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
If we can produce more ethanol and bio-diesel to help fuel our vehicles, we will create jobs, boost local economies and produce… — Rick Renzi Copy Share Image
[T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love doesna always mean burning flashes o' passion. Sometimes, it's jus' the warmth o' yer hearts as they beat yer day together."… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
Here then is the pattern in my carpet, the sense of the eternal mysteries, the eternal beauty hidden beneath the crust of… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
I wish to fill in the gaps which have so far always remained unanswered in the souls of men as burning questions,… — Abd-ru-shin Copy Share Image