But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There seems to be an unalterable contradiction between the human mind and its employments. How can a soul be a merchant? What… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
No man of common sense will value a woman the less, for not giving herself up at the first attack, or for… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third,… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
I'm not good at love. I'm like a barbed creature. I push everyone I love away. — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Believing that navel-gazing in and of itself can transform itself into something that means something for society. I mean, we are communicative… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity,… — Kathy Najimy Copy Share Image
And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has substance nearly as… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Beggin' your pardon, miss, but I was told you be the one to help me cross on to the next world." "Who… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
Zakath's face grew thoughtful. "You know something, Garion?" he said. "Man thinks he owns the world, but we share it with all… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
We are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial settings. We have focused the awesome power… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Toward night, I felt my soul rejoice, that God is unchangeable happy and glorious and that He will be glorified, whatever becomes… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Because the divine goodness could not be adequately represented by one creature alone, God produced many and diverse creatures, that what was… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Someday, I'm going to meet some supernatural creature who tells me everything I should know up front and in a forthright manner… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
I know men are delicate origami creatures who need women to unfold them, hold them when they cry. But I am tired… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Here's what I like about God: Trees are crooked, mountains are lumpy, a lot of his creatures are funny looking, and he… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
The heart's seasons seldom coincide with the calendar. Who among us has not been made desolate beyond all words upon some golden… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
