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
This morning it occurred to me for the first time that my body, my faithful companion and friend, truer and better known… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
[P]ride has no intrinsic substance, being no more than the name given to the soul devouring itself. When that loathsome perversion of… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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
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
If you [Americans] behave with disrespect - even just a little bit - [the Iranian people] will punch you in the mouth… — Mohammed Emami-Kashani Copy Share Image
How to figure out the recipe of your life? Your body knows when it needs food. And it asks for it. But… — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
The leviathan state, that monster devouring civilization in this century, is in the throes of death. This is not a wish or… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
We must act now and wake up to our moral obligations. The poor and vulnerable are members of God's family and are… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was the last… — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
In comparison to the French Revolution, the American Revolution has come to seem a parochial and rather dull event. This, despitethe fact… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
If life is to be fully human it must serve some end which seems, in some sense, outside human life, some end… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We have reached a point where the value we do add to our economy is now being outweighed by the value we… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
In teaching, you must simply work your pupil into such a state of interest in what you are going to teach him… — William James Copy Share Image
Of all the islands he'd visited, two stood out. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
In Manhattan, marriage is a trend. Couples kiss over their arugula and radicchio salads. They fondle each other's genitals while devouring their… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions,… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Ambition is a devouring fire, who can poise it? It is a wind, who can fathom it? It is an abyss, who… — Nicolas Caussin Copy Share Image
We want something desperately and we try to force the universe to give it up before it is ready. We want everything… — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of… — Anais Nin 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
Vacation cruises are advertised as luxurious journeys to exotic places, but a chief pleasure is the reading of books ... . On… — Garrison Keillor 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
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
I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present… — Eric Hoffer 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
I've known both misery and happiness, lived in so many different skins it is impossible for one skin to claim me. And… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
Awaken your heart to kindness and mercy for the people and love and tenderness for them. Never, never act with them like… — Ali ibn Abi Talib 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
We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
“Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry,… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
President [ Dwight] Eisenhower warned us, five star general, he said watch out for the military-industrial complex. That's a threat to our… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
We should avoid being backward-looking, concerned with restoration and reaction, for it is the last few centuries that have spawned the pox… — Guillaume Faye Copy Share Image
Birds are the last of the dinosaurs. Tiny velociraptors with wings. Devouring defenseless wiggly things and, and nuts, and fish, and, and… — Neil Gaiman 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
![“[P]ride has no intrinsic substance, being no more than the name given to the soul devouring itself. When that loathsome perversion of love has borne its fruit, it has another, more meaningful and weightier name. We call it hatred.” quote by Georges Bernanos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/966/georges-bernanos-7838_devouring_p-ride-has-no-intrinsic-substance-being_1130320.jpg)
![“If you [Americans] behave with disrespect - even just a little bit - [the Iranian people] will punch you in the mouth so hard that all your devouring teeth will fall off.” quote by Mohammed Emami-Kashani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c81/mohammed-emami-kashani-88091_behave_if-you-americans-behave-with-disrespect_806735.jpg)
![“A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was the last bookseller who provided chairs where you could sit down and chat and waste a little time between sales. Nowadays books are bought standing. A request for a book and the naming of…” quote by Jules de Goncourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/26c/jules-de-goncourt-37962_book_a-sign-of-the-times-there-are-no-longer_1210077.jpg)
![“President [ Dwight] Eisenhower warned us, five star general, he said watch out for the military-industrial complex. That's a threat to our freedom, to our economy, and what we have now is a gigantic taxpayer draining empire that is devouring itself, which, as you say, it's creating more…” quote by Ralph Nader](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4ec/ralph-nader-1783_complexes_president-dwight-eisenhower-warned-us-fi_2132041.jpg)
