Our checks are pale. Our wallets are invalids. Past due, past due, is what our bills are saying and yet we kiss… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy… — James Shirley Copy Share Image
The anything-goes passiveness of the religious and political Left is matched by the preachy moralism of the religious and political Right. The… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I will kneel and strike my breast, then touch the dust with my forehead; I will, I will. Only do not forsake… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
The near end of the street was rather dark and had mostly vegetable shops. Abundance of vegetables - piles of white and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The actor who lets the dust accumulate on his Ibsen, his Shakspere [sic], and his Bible, but pores greedily over every little… — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they… — Charles W. Chesnutt Copy Share Image
The years thunder by, The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before… — Sterling Hayden Copy Share Image
No one is beat till he quits, no one is through till he stops. No matter how hard failure hits, no matter… — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image
Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences… — William James Copy Share Image
So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, for faith… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but… — John Timbs Copy Share Image
You got the impression that he never needed to sleep - just ten-thousand-mile checkups and dust him off occasionally. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Best to let the broken glass be broken glass, let it splinter into smaller pieces and dust and scatter. Let the cracks… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Thus when a barber and a collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier-white; The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack, And… — Christopher Smart Copy Share Image
Perhaps you say, Why are the wicked joyous? Why do they live in luxury? Why do they not toil with me? It… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The hard-working Americans, the people who made this country so great, they've been left in the dust. — Donald Trump, Jr Copy Share Image
That air. The air afterwards. I wanted to breathe it in. It felt right to breathe it in. Because we were breathing… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences. — George Will Copy Share Image
You never hear Jesus say in Pilate's judgement hall one word that would let you imagine that He was sorry that He… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is - Love, forgive us! - cinders, ashes, dust. — John Keats Copy Share Image
