Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Do you know, I always imagine that the subway trains are dragons,' Rose said to Bear as they clung to his coat… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers; for their education is but the mere breaking in of… — Thomas Hodgskin Copy Share Image
We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Growing up, I didn't have any comic books, at all. But my friend had a trunk full of them, so comic books… — James Spader Copy Share Image
Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the sombre renown of waning statesmen or chinless… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Precisely because the State has the monopoly of coercion it can be allowed the monopoly only of coercion. Only if the modern… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver… — John Lyly Copy Share Image
Among the cancers devouring the American body politic, one of the most virulent involves liberals who play the race card as carelessly… — Deroy Murdock Copy Share Image
Did you dream of me?" he asked. "Yes," she admitted grudgingly. She had. She'd dreamed of his hands caressing her, of his… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Principle #6: Recognition that change and reform are not identical, and that innovation is a devouring conflagration more often than it is… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
All-devouring time, envious age, Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees, Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die. — Ovid Copy Share Image
I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
Desperate? So what? I'm desperate, too!" Fenoglio snapped at her. "My story is foundering in misfortune, and these hands here," he said… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
The Swamp of Despond is that place set before the narrow gate where true and false pilgrims alike are assaulted by their… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
If surface water can be compared with interest income, and non-renewable groundwater with capital, then much of the West was living mainly… — Marc Reisner Copy Share Image