After having stopped the lower activities of the mind, it must be made receptive; and, instead of weaving all kinds of empty… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
There is nothing for it but for all of us to invent our own ideal libraries of classics. I would say that… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Criticizing people, winding them up, making idiots of them or fooling them doesn't make people with autism laugh. What makes us smile… — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
“Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up.” — Marlena De Blasi Copy Share Image
Courage cannot be left like bones in a bag. It must be brought out and shown the light again and again, growing… — Conn Iggulden Copy Share Image
Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron,… — William Empson Copy Share Image
I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
I am already married," she remarks to the empty air, twisting the ring on her right hand that covers an sold, distinctive… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but… — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter. Old men ought to be explorers Here or there does… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Claire. Wake up.” She blinked and realized that her head was on Shane’s shoulder, and Michael was nowhere to be seen. Her… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
Despite the obvious emphasis of Scripture (in regard to suffering), we are bombarded by suggestions that the 'successful' Christian living takes place… — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
If we go on to cast a look at the fate of world historical personalities... we shall find it to have been… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
I remember one day going in the studio to sing and then going to work with three separate songwriters before I came… — John Waite Copy Share Image
Mr. Obama would be a disheartening president even during a super boom, with his grim demeanor and empty rhetoric, as well as… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Did you ever admire an empty-headed writer for his or her mastery of the language? No. So your own winning style must… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Gansey appeared beside Blue in the doorway. He shook his empty bottle at her. "Fair trade," he told her in a way… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
What’s going on?” Royce asked as throngs of people suddenly moved toward him from the field and the castle interior. “I mentioned… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
