Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm has passed… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Memory is a barricade against forgetting; light is a bulwark against darkness; life is a flex against the stillness of the grave.… — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“These are the attributes of Bullshit people; they will...blur your imagination, take your endowments for a piece of debris, make you ridiculous,… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
During the mission, Walter Jones, a team member was given a package containing bone fragments by a Lao. The source said they… — Bo Gritz Copy Share Image
To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“A God who knew the answer to that question would indeed know everything and have everything. For that reason he would be… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceived a chain of… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
But we have not used our waters well. Our major rivers are defiled by noxious debris. Pollutants from cities and industries kill… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Yet soil is miraculous. It is where the dead are brought back to life. Here, in the thin earthy boundary between inanimate… — Toby Hemenway Copy Share Image
We can tell much by what we have already willing discarded along the pathway of discipleship. It is the only pathway where… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men-I saw them; I saw the debris and debris of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
It is thus that the generality of mankind, whose lot is ignorance, attributes to the Divinity, not only the unusual effects which… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I had it together on Sunday. By Monday at noon it had cracked. On Tuesday debris Was descending on me. And by… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
On the off chance that you have children, don't clean up at all. As children, my brother and sister and I loved… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
Puppies are constantly inventing new ways to be bad. It's fascinating. You come into a room they've been in and see pieces… — Julie Klam Copy Share Image
Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image