I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The clamours of spring are the same old delicate noises, The earth renews its magical youth at a breath. — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In noise can be read the codes of life, the relations among men. Clamour, Melody, Dissonance, Harmony; when it is fashioned by… — Jacques Attali Copy Share Image
Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I heard through the nightThe rush and the clamour;The pulse of the fightLike blows of Thor's hammer;The pattering flightOf the leaves, and… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The thing you fail to grasp is that people are not basically good. We are basically selfish. We shove and clamour and… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
The performance of buggery is no more inevitable a part of homosexuality than an orange syllabub is an inevitable part of a… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I think the origin of all this clamour for tonality is not so much the need to sense a relationship to the… — Alban Berg Copy Share Image
“You must cry out if you want help. It is no use whatsoever to suffer in silence. Who will succour the drowning… — Kamala Markandaya Copy Share Image
No one claim, no one clamour, no one grievance when mercy comes to itself, than I take to laugh. when persecuting the… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
They [Bishops] shall also banish from churches all those kinds of music, in which, whether by the organ, or in the singing,… — Pope Pius IV Copy Share Image
They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with; as if, observes our author himself, any originality but our… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I guess the biggest lesson would be to have faith in that little part of yourself that knows what it's doing, knows… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The people themselves begin to clamour for an education which shall qualify their children for life rather than for earning a living.… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Once (says an Author; where I need not say) Two Trav'lers found an Oyster in their way; Both fierce, both hungry; the… — Pope Alexander VI Copy Share Image
I've wandered over many lands, and reaped withal no fruit, I've laid my pride of rank aside, and pressed my baffled suit,… — Bhartrhari Copy Share Image