I go to bed, and I wait for sleep as a man might wait for the executioner. I wait for its coming… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It may be healthier to eat beer and franks with cheer and thanks, than to eat sprouts and bread with doubts and… — John Robbins Copy Share Image
To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder, In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cross lightning. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When we sat down to eat I took inventory of the people in the room, and the remnants of my good mood… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“It stopped when we tried to prove it existed, like a secret that doesn’t want to be believed.” — Arabella Sveinsdottir Copy Share Image
I don't think Israelis are less critical of corruption than people in Italy, France or America. Israel is special in a different… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
America is the world's policeman, all right -- a big, dumb, mick flatfoot in the middle of the one thing cops dread… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
O eternal truth and true love and beloved eternity! You are my God; to you I sigh by day and by night.… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I'm reasonably easygoing. Messing up my lines or making a fool of myself is where you find my fears. Like a lot… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
For years my life alternated between depression and acute anxiety. One night I woke up in a state of dread and intense… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Like a cross between Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions and Janice Lee's Damnation, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing is at… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“There is more than one way to lose your life; quickly through violence, or fettered-away and wasted around dreadful, toxic people.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
One more time? For the audience?" he says. His voice isn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Already the boy with the… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The least difficult thing a foreign missionary has to learn is the language; the part of her work which she has the… — Isabella Thoburn Copy Share Image
“I was starting to hate my sixteenth birthday. A poufy white dress and a cake with roses made out of pink icing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one;… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar.… — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image