“In Islam, and especially among the Sufi Orders, siyahat or 'errance' - the action or rhythm of walking - was used as… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“Girls were warned by their mothers against infidelity to their husbands, since adultery cost a married woman her nose, or ears; for… — Frank Bird Linderman Copy Share Image
“I shook with cold and fear, without being able to answer. After a lapse of some moments, I was again called. I… — Hain Friswell Copy Share Image
“It's a bore, but the answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“FORERUNNER (deprecated synonyms: SUICIDE BOMBER, DEAD MAN RUNNING, SCHNEIDER) One who is Sent to a DTAP in which DODO has no Known… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Few of us now have seen the stars as folk saw them then—our cities and towns cast too much light into the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“many bodyguards stationed there to protect the dead man never once suspecting her presence. She headed the half mile along the coastal… — Rob Sinclair Copy Share Image
“Men speak of blind destiny, a thing without scheme or purpose. But what sort of destiny is that? Each act in this… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Beckett, where’s Eve?” When he had her pressed to his chest, she tried again. “Are you going to tell me or what?”… — Debra Anastasia Copy Share Image
The power of God has not in the least bit been diminished over the past 2000 years. Our Lord still sits on… — Eric Ludy Copy Share Image
“New town. New house. New car. New job. New life. That’s what Ben had asked me to do. To start a new… — Devney Perry Copy Share Image
We think of women at every age: while still children, we fondle with a naïve sensuality the breasts of those grown-up girls… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“I am, in large measure, the selfsame prose I write. I unroll myself in sentences and paragraphs, I punctuate myself. In my… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Then again, maybe you couldn't have killed me," he said, crawling out of the stairway. He moved very slowly, like a lizard… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
“This dead man is bound up with my life, therefore I must do everything, promise everything in order to save myself; I… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“The ranks opened covertly to avoid the corpse. The invulnerable dead man forced a way for himself. The youth looked keenly at… — Stephen Crane - The Red Badget of Courage Copy Share Image
“How would I find someone,” Caleb said, edging the dead man’s legs parallel to one another with his toe, “who would be… — James Scott Copy Share Image
“Here it is necessary briefly to consider the question of the cult of ancestors before venturing farther. The spirits of the departed… — Lewis Spence Copy Share Image
“XII. If there pushed any ragged thistle-stalk Above its mates, the head was chopped, the bents Were jealous else. What made those… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“He took the sacramental chalice, and stretching forth his bare arm, cried in a loud voice, 'Come ye viewless ministers of this… — William Mudford Copy Share Image
“It was this whole huge deal,” Megan said. “But then we re-voted and I won! I still can’t believe it.” “Well, congratulations,”… — Kate Brian Copy Share Image
“And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man's thought for the wonder… — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
“Is this true?" Suzette asked, sounding like a suspicious nanny. It was a tone Daniel had heard often as a child, though… — Lynsay Sands Copy Share Image
“So did you really mean all that stuff you said when I was a dead man?" "Every word." "Could you say it… — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
“A ridiculous fear pursued me, in fact: one could not die without having confessed all one's lies. Not to God or to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The studio was immense and gloomy, the sole light within it proceeding from a stove, around which the three were seated. Although… — James Hain Friswell Copy Share Image
“Friends!’ interposed the man, in a voice which rattled in his throat. ‘if I lay dead at the bottom of the deepest… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“When I got home, I seemed in a dream. My windows looked upon hers; I remained all the day looking at them,… — Hain Friswell Copy Share Image
“Now,' cried the fiend, 'follow me! You must understand that I cannot get out by the great gate - the porter will… — Hain Friswell Copy Share Image
“There's a proverb, a maxim, that runs, 'The dead man is dead; let's give a hand to the living.' Now, you say… — Leonardo Sciascia Copy Share Image
“Bones are patient. Bones never tire nor do they run away. When you come upon a man who has been dead many… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“There were usually not nearly as many sick people inside the hospital as Yossarian saw outside the hospital, and there were generally… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
And upsidedown in the earth a dead man walks upon my soles when I walk. — Bill Knott Copy Share Image
“I tell you even a half-dead man hates to be alive and not be able to see any sense to it.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
