This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
Wouldn't we all rather have the possibility of finding pleasure and delight in literally anything we might encounter? Instead of assuming that… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
His voice was an omnipresent cry in our electronic world. His sharp features, majestic looks, and prancing style a vivid etching on… — Edward Seaga Copy Share Image
History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time,… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
It is too early to feel fear of the future when one is under 30, and too late after that. What I… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter with a truth that… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark… — Patricia Moyes Copy Share Image
Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I knew that the world around you is only uninteresting if you can't see what is really going on. The place you… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
My life has been sadly lacking in snails. I can't clearly remember any first-hand encounters. The best thing I can come up… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
The number and richness of man's signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
My encounter with another world and another culture and the beginnings of an attachment to them had set up an irritation, barely… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
People who cannot respect others for their good qualities - people who only look at the bad in others - are no… — Masaaki Hatsumi Copy Share Image
When we were all kids, there was one particular trailer that I think we can all remember. That was the trailer for… — Matt Reeves Copy Share Image
Appearances are there to be ignored, for the biggest hearts may reside in the smallest and unlikeliest of creatures. Those who fail… — Markus Heitz Copy Share Image
The problem with kitsch is that it is all too profound, manipulating deep libidinal and ideological forces, while true art knows how… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Be clear in your mind why learning to draw well is important. Drawing enables you to see in that special, epiphanous way… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
After all, he did say you were the issue of an encounter between your father and a traeling hatcha-hatcha dancer." There was… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat so that… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Every call to worship is a call into the Real World… I encounter such constant and widespread lying about reality each day… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
If you really want to help, then help others to be more present. Help others to free themselves from the past. Help… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I love the sound of the distant bugle call in the countryside in early morning I love to be pushed in busy… — Ai Qing Copy Share Image
I can concede that the government has no knowledge of the people, but I believe the people know less of the government.… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. Often,… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
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True encounter with Christ liberates something in us, a power we did not know we had, a hope, a capacity for life,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If you look at the curricula of most universities and schools in this country [USA], considering our long encounter with the Islamic… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Our way out involves both resistance and renewal: saying no to what is, so that we can reshape and recreate the world.… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
The Humbling is not vintage Roth, despite its compelling premise. The bizarre series of episodes -- mostly sexual encounters with women --… — Philip Hensher Copy Share Image
There are actually only ever two pastoral problems you will ever encounter. The first is this: persuading those who are under the… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
Books have always been living things to me. Some of my encounters with new authors have changed my life a little. When… — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
The more one studies paleontology, the more certain one becomes that evolution is based upon faith alone; exactly the same sort of… — Louis T. Moore Copy Share Image
Allegra Pazzi: Dr. Fell, do you believe a man could become so obsessed with a woman, from a single encounter? Hannibal Lecter:… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
In literary representation, the distinction between the genuinely erotic and the licentious is a distinction not of subject-matter, but of perspective. The… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
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