Our principles fix what our life stands for, our aims create the light our life is bathed in, and our rationality, both… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, when it comes down to it, all we really want is to be close to somebody.… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
Probably also due to the political situation getting just worse and more extreme, but also this distance and this sadness of this… — Sayed Kashua Copy Share Image
The actors bring their own stuff and thoughts, and most of the time, I don't want to know what they are. It… — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
The mystery of the evening-star brilliant in silence and distance between the downward-surging plunge of the sun and the vast, hollow seething… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being,… — John Green Copy Share Image
A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
I found myself thinking about the distance between the 60s and today through certain moments. Like the Henry Flynt interview with Ubuweb… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
Books are like people. Some look deceptively attractive from a distance, some deceptively unappealing; some are easy company, some demand hard work… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Thanh Hoa itself is a rich agricultural province. Rice fields, a pattern of many shades of green, stretch far into the distance… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Photography is to the layman perhaps the most enticing art. As a buff and a follower, at a respectful distance, I find… — Norman Corwin Copy Share Image
In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, phone calls were a premium commodity; only the very coolest kids had a phone line of their… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Having that little bit of breathing room to work, and not feeling like it's going to fall apart at any second, has… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
Objectification is a critical reason why an abuser tends to get worse over time. As his conscience adapts to one level of… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
I think that America is an ideal place for the privileged homeless, who are used to different cultures. It's easiest and most… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
And, as a consequence of the pressure that we've applied over the last couple of weeks, we have Syria -- for the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We live our lives by philosophies, amid worldly affairs and occupations that totally absorb us and are a great distance from the… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I know people think I'm just the Diego Sanchez from the Gilbert Melendez fight. Hook, hook, hook. A crazy brawler. But I… — Diego Sanchez Copy Share Image
Between highway sounds I heard waves and thought how the curve of the coastline here had sheltered and nurtured live-born sharks, humans,… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
“As the crow flies. That’s how she liked to walk. So what if she had nowhere to go? So what if no… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying.… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“Push too far into independence and we disconnect and hurt each other. Then in a longing for togetherness, we seek each other… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
I tend to see my characters from inside and outside at once; this is a technique I use to retain a slight… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
I don't want to be classed as a humorist. It makes me feel guilty. I've never read a good tough quotable female… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
The dog, who had sounded so ferocious in the winter distances, was a female German Shepherd. She was shivering. Her tail was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Every funeral may justly be considered as a summons to prepare for that state into which it shows us that we must… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
There may be dead ground in between; and I may not have got The knack of judging a distance; I will only… — Henry Reed Copy Share Image
I love my lecture tours. I get up onstage. I have my stack of books and a glass of water and a… — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
The Lord is near! You're not alone. You may feel alone. You may think you're alone. But there's never a moment in… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I've never been the type of photographer to live with people I photograph. You know, shoot heroin with them, that kind of… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. The… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
For me the very important thing was never to forget that they had no right to have me there, that my duty… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
For if there were a list of cosmic things that unite us, reader and writer, visible as it scrolled up into the… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I am convinced that there is no great distance between heaven and earth, that the distance lies in our finite minds. When… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
