The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
The low bird is not picked tenderly out of the dust by its fellows; rather, it is dispatched quickly and without mercy. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
...in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The day I leave the power, inside my pockets will only be dust. — Antonio de Oliveira Salazar Copy Share Image
I love order. It's my dream. A world where all would be silent and still, and each thing in its last place,… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The pilot channel is doing what was expected. It is abating dust and giving us an inkling of what the area will… — John Wallace Copy Share Image
The time comes when our hearts sink utterly; When we remember Deirdre and her tale, And that her lips are dust. — James Kenneth Stephen Copy Share Image
The busy chatter of the heat Shrilled like a parakeet; And shuddering at the noonday light The dust lay dead and white… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
There yet remains but one concluding tale, And then this chronicle of mine is ended - Fulfilled, the duty God ordained to… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
Dear friend, Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
Speaking of dust, ‘out of which we came and to which we shall return,’ do you know that after we are dead… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
"My good fellow," retorted Mr. Boffin, "you have my word; and how you can have that, without my honour too, I don't… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Heaven and earth conspire that everything which has been, be rooted and reduced to dust. Only the dreamers, who dream while awake,… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
At that instant he knew that all his doubts, even the impossibility of believing with his reason, of which he was aware… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Nobody ever sets out to make a flop, but it's going to happen. You have to pick yourself up, dust yourself down… — Declan Donnelly Copy Share Image
And therefore I am come amongst you at this time, not as for my recreation or sport, but being resolved, in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
