Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand. My eyes were… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
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Every time I look at it, It looks back at me I love the sea, its waters are blue And the sky… — Esther Earl Copy Share Image
The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
You must walk sometimes perfectly free, not prying or inquisitive, not bent on seeing things. Throw away a whole day for a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is through our technology that we have been able to fly far away from earth to learn, in truth, how precious… — Dixie Lee Ray Copy Share Image
I am more affected by the attractions of virtue than by the deformities of vice; I turn gently away from the wicked… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Life is a charity ball given by the leaders of society. A few dance, get their charity's worth to the last penny;… — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
My experience protesting with Mojave Dolphins, and the other wonderful animal activists, can be described in a few words: inspiring, motivational and… — Camille Copy Share Image
When I meet someone, I look at their eyes and their smile and seek out the good first - it's easy to… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax." I whirled around to find the real Patch standing in… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
You're telling me that you can raise the dead by simply summoning?" "Yes." "My God," she whispered, staring at me."What have they… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
In his laborious efforts to attain mountaintops, where the air is lighter and purer, the climber gains new strength of limb. In… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
There was an uncommon array of people in there [rehab] with me, and I became friends with all of them. You recognize… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
I think it's offensive to equate evangelical Christians, Catholics, others that view marriage as between a man and a woman, as being… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
Not only should we observe moderation with food, but we must also abstain from every other sin so that just as we… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
If you're Strigoi," the boy interrupted loudly, "then why don't you have horns? My friend Jeffrey said Strigoi have horns." Dimitri's eyes… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
"The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good;" and without claiming for an instant that title of good for my book,… — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
I think that [having not a lot of time sweating the details] can be both a strength and a weakness. I think… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
As I experience it, appreciation of beauty is access to the soul. With beauty in our lives, we walk and carry ourselves… — Jean Shinoda Bolen Copy Share Image
In America, snobs who wouldn't be seen dead with a lottery ticket play the stock market. We like to gamble. Winning, we… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
Marya Morevna! Don't you know anything? Girls must be very, very careful to care only for ribbons and magazines and wedding rings.… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
When I finally got my break in TV, as a staff writer, I always wanted to be at the top of that… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
Mamma," whispered Rannoch as he nestled by her side, "what is man?" Bracken looked into her calf's eyes. "Man? Man is something… — David Clement-Davies Copy Share Image
Raphael continued to stare at me, in no hurry to get started. "You know the best way to get rid of a… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
I have no fear; I have nothing to lose. I'd rather burn out than fade away, and I would rather go out… — Dean Ambrose Copy Share Image
Taking a deep breath that smelled of rain, she was poised to move when a hand clasped her elbow. Memories of another… — C.C. Hunter Copy Share Image
So, I looked up, and we were in this giant dome like a glass snowball, and Mark said that the amazing white… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
I [i.e., God] have given you baptism as a gift for the forgiveness of sins, and preach to you unceasingly by word… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I didn't relate well to people my age. Maybe the truth was that I didn't relate well to people, period. Even my… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Providence is wonderfully intricate. Ah! You want always to see through Providence, do you not? You never will, I assure you. You… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Tell them you came, and saw, and looked into my eyes and saw the shadow of the guard receding. Thoughts in time… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
Jem always said that Will rushed toward the end of a mission rather than proceeding in a measured manner, and that one… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Maybe i would become a mermaid... i would live in the swirling blue-green currents, doing exotic underwater dances for the fish, kissed… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When I'm onstage and the singer sings, "I think about childhood friends and the dreams we had" and "on board I'm the… — Chuck Panozzo Copy Share Image
The nephew revenges himself for this, by holding his breath and terrifying his kinswoman with the dread belief that he has made… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“No, hear me out. The long answer to that question is that everything about me has changed since meeting you. What I… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
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