I have known men who thought the object of conversion was to cleanse them as a garment is cleansed, and that when… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I am Persephone" she said, her voice thin and papery. "Welcome, demigods. Nico squashed a pomegranate under his boot. "Welcome? After last… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
“There is shadow under this red rock // (Come in under the shadow of this red rock) // And I will show… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip… — John Updike Copy Share Image
While I was looking the other way your fire went out Left me with cinders to kick into dust What a waste… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
It would not be more unreasonable to transplant a favorite flower out of black earth into gold dust than it is for… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of centuries, and the small… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em," said Captain Jim.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Evil-doers who denounce the wise resemble a person who spits against the sky; the spittle will never reach the sky, but comes… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
People say to us how brave we are, fighting the wilderness, braving the isolation of the Outback. But these are easy opponents,… — Sara Henderson Copy Share Image
If the Soul sees, after death , what passes on this earth , and watches over the welfare of those it loves,… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out. It is the blessed spirit that God has set in the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface. The desert is a place of bones, where the innards… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes-nonselective chemicals that have the power to… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The works of Mozart may be easy to read, but they are very difficult to interpret. The least speck of dust spoils… — Wanda Landowska Copy Share Image
We're living in world, stars and dust Between heaven 'n all that surrounds us We're travellers here, spirits passing through And the… — Tina Turner Copy Share Image
The process of growth is, it seems, the art of falling down. Growth is measured by the gentleness and awareness with which… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
When the Universe was not so out of whack as it is today, and all the stars were lined up in their… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Between the age of 30 and going fishing, none of my friendships had any of that magic dust of when you were… — Bob Mortimer Copy Share Image
When the dust settles and the pages of history are written, it will not be the angry defenders of intolerance who have… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility.… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay. O wayfarer, to read what I have writ, And know by my fate… — Alcuin Copy Share Image
It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness -… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
We want to be God in all the ways that are not the ways of God, in what we hope is indestructible… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
“Even in rainier areas, where dust is less inexorable and submits to brooms and rags, it is generally detested, because dust is… — Amy Leach Copy Share Image
Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility?… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
You're water. We're the millstone. You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes. You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I touched the moon last night; a golden glow beyond my grasp. Eons before me it rested there. It will remain when… — Craig Froman Copy Share Image
Most people have already seen a cosmic collision. If you've seen a shooting star ever, you've seen a cosmic collision, because a… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Allah made the illusion look real and the real an illusion. He concealed the sea and made the foam visible, the wind… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Now summer is in flower and natures hum Is never silent round her sultry bloom Insects as small as dust are never… — John Clare Copy Share Image
I have been doing this [acting] for a really long time, so I've come to expect things to take a really long… — Sam Huntington Copy Share Image
And before me was the great raw bulge and bulk of my American continent; somewhat far across, gloomy, crazy New York was… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming... If we spend time in it [the vast spaces… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image