Indolence is the worst enemy that the church has to encounter. Men sleep around her altar, stretching themselves on beds of ease,… — Frederic Dan Huntington Copy Share Image
“Editing can feel incredibly burdensome for self-published authors when you are tasked to reread your work, for what feels like, a thousand… — Robin S. Baker Copy Share Image
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven… — William Blake Copy Share Image
My discovery of Tarkovsky's first film was like a miracle. Suddenly, I found myself standing at the door of a room the… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
They talked about nothing in particular, sentences that had meaning only in the sound of the voices, in warm gaiety, in the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
On a moonlit night, after a snowfall, or under cherry blossoms, it adds to our pleasure if, while chatting at our ease,… — Yoshida Kenko Copy Share Image
When Zen masters say `effortlessness` they are referring to the state when your enlightenment is well rooted. Now there is no need… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The extension of power offered by a pony, the ease and speed of movement, the tapping of unsuspected courage, the satisfaction of… — Diana Athill Copy Share Image
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The voice of a person thinking, discovering, revising, is ever-present without any loss in grace or ease.” — Susan Stewart Copy Share Image
A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
As long as you are carrying a secret, as long as you are trying to ease your conscience by telling God how… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of God was so… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
As you may know, my motto is: "All memory is fiction." It could just as easily be: "All fiction is memory." Unpacked,… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
Artists with a capital 'A' are at ease working in all areas of art, whether it is a contemporary abstract painting or… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
Rather than empowering all, consumer and shareholder activism gives greatest voice to those with the most money in their pockets, those who… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
I love discordancy. It makes people ill at ease and wakes up a part of their brain that's normally asleep. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings. — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
But now I salute you who follow me, It is my time to stand at ease ... content. — Christopher Vokes Copy Share Image
What it 't to us, if taxes rise or fall, Thanks to our fortune, we pay none at all. Let muckworms who… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
