I wrote a huge number of letters that spring: one a week to Naoko, several to Reiko, and several more to Midori.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The suburbs have this veneer of happiness, you know? This veneer of the ideal life. From afar, it's all together - white… — Jason Jones Copy Share Image
The crumbling castle, looming among the mists, exhaled the season, and every cold stone breathed it out. The tortured trees by the… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
I'd say is stimulus infrastructure spending is not instant jobs. I think the real reason the president [Donald Trump] wants to do… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
It sloweth age, it strengtheneth youth, it helpeth digestion, it abandoneth melancholie, it relisheth the heart, it lighteneth the mind, it quickenth… — Joseph Lyons Copy Share Image
High-speed trains in Japan can now reach 375 mph - twice as fast as any public transit train in the United States.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
2006 Games -by then, my identity had started to shift. Before that, my identity was in snowboarding. That's how people knew me… — Kelly Clark Copy Share Image
“it feels like a precious wound, like a heartbreak you won’t let go of because it hurts too good. We all want… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Now all of the ideas that I'm talking about, they are not radical ideas. Making public colleges and universities tuition free, that… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Is it really in our countrys best interest to signal to the enemy that they probably only have to wait us out… — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are...so make up your own rules. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I guess when the world’s crumbling around you the only way to survive is to comfort yourself,” he said.” — Diane Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“Plover’s words were like dried flowers, stiff and crumbling, crushed flat between pages, when we’d had the living, blooming blossoms all around” — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Fischer does not merely outplay opponents; he leaves them bodily and mentally glutted. Fisher himself speaks of the exultant instant in which… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The love she left behind will be the reason dreams are reached. She was the rock in a world that was crumbling.… — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
1989 was such a very, very important year in Europe. The wall fell, the Soviet Union was crumbling, and so many things… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
Against the windows the storm comes dashing, Through tattered foliage the hail tears crashing, The blue lightning flashes, The rapid hail clashes...… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“Overgrown, crumbling, tilted, full of cracks, returning to the soil. Paint fell from boards, plaster from walls. Unsupervised, matter was collapsing under… — Andrzej Stasiuk Copy Share Image
He turned to face her again, his late-pretty composure crumbling. "But you're..." "Pretty? Think again." She smiled. "I'm Tally Youngbood. My mind… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
A broken transportation system hits Michiganders in the pocketbook. Every year, our friends and neighbors spend millions of dollars on car repairs… — Kerry Bentivolio Copy Share Image
There is a dysfunctional strangeness to Los Angeles that doesn't exist in any other western city. The roads are crumbling, no-one knows… — Moby Copy Share Image
I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not so much that I wanted to give up rock writing, but I also wanted to try something new. So I moved… — Sylvie Simmons Copy Share Image
Were I as quiet as thunder, how I'd wail and whine! One groan of mine would start the world's crumbling cloister shivering.… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
It happened, as many things do, imperceptibly, in many ways at once. I date it - the slow crumbling of my faith,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[We] mention the South China Sea, we mention North Korea, South Korea, we mention Ukraine. We could mention five others. Yemen, and… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Even this nation (the US) will be on the very verge of crumbling to pieces and tumbling to the ground, and when… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Remember that you are not saved by increased levels of holiness, however desirable it is that you should reach them. ...It is… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
Fall leaves are brilliant with gold and red. You can cup them in your hand and wonder at them, be amazed at… — Rob Thurman Copy Share Image
The past is not a peaceful landscape lying there behind me, a country in which I can stroll wherever I please, and… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It’s the leftover humans. The survivors. They’re the ones I can’t stand to look at, although on many occasions I still fail.… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Imagine, [Kriezler] said, that you enter a large, somewhat crumbling hall that echoes with the sounds of people mumbling and talking repetitively… — Caleb Carr Copy Share Image
Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image