A bronze plaque read: GAIUS PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS Dan made a face. "Get a load of the guy with the funny name."… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
He who is himself crossed in love is able from time to time to master his passion, for he is not the… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Irene-" "Don't call me that." "You were the princess Irene the first time we met." "It means 'peace'," Attolia said. "What name… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Leap out the window, my inner Tigress cried. You aren't ready to face such a powerful Tiger. I frowned. I thought a… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report.… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own. You winnow his in the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When children feel understood, their loneliness and hurt diminish. When children are understood, their love for their parent is deepened. A parent's… — Haim Ginott Copy Share Image
Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. Texting, email, posting, all of… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
It is well-known that there are many faces in the world over the finishing of which nature did not take much trouble,… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
Every now and then, I have blissful moments of thanking God for all the amazing things that are happening. When I leave… — Lea Michele Copy Share Image
We hanker to go on, even in the face of plain evidence that long, long lives are not necessarily pleasurable in the… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Making art now means working in the face of uncertainty; it means living with doubt and contradiction, doing something no one much… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
There are too many "creative writing" courses and seminars, in which young wirters are constantly being taught to rewrite the previous generation.… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
I am forced to get my living by the labour of my hand; and the sweat of my brow... for bitter bread,… — James Otis Copy Share Image
First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I don't believe in marriage. I think at worst it's a hostile political act, a way for small-minded men to keep women… — Tina Modotti Copy Share Image
When we talk about emotion, we really talk about a collection of behaviors that are produced by the brain. You can look… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
In editing, you really face what the movie is. When you shoot it, you have this illusion that you're making the masterpieces… — Daniel Espinosa Copy Share Image
And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
What does interest me is how difficult my culture seems to find it to look the dark side of life directly in… — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
Mrs. Obama has a hug - a sincere and friendly embrace - that has become familiar to countless supporters from coast to… — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
Dave and I as a couple seem to be the acceptable face of gayness, and that's great. I've got to use that… — Elton John Copy Share Image
He took a hairpin out of my untidy hair (by now my complicated arrangement of ringlets must have looked as if a… — Kerstin Gier Copy Share Image
As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I still get very excited when people say they fall in love. It doesn’t matter how old you are, falling in love… — Cote de Pablo Copy Share Image
Growing up, I was watched by my parents and strongly critiqued. Instead of saying they loved me or showing physical attention, they… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
Piper!” Frank yelled. “Counter those empousai! We need some chaos.” “Thought you’d never ask.” She started catcalling at the female demons: “Your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Economic man and the Calvinist Christian sing to each other like voices in a fugue. The Calvinist stands alone before an almost… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
His aster-blue eyes shown out from a face blackened by bruises and soot, his fair hair glittering in the firelight. Dressed all… — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know,… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
“The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
You can direct the outcome of any situation you face through the power of thought. Keep your thoughts focused on the best… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving… — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share Image
The wife whose sweetly given reply in the face of any problem would be, "Whatever you think is best, dear." Women, take… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I wouldn’t want you to get in the shower and then pass out or some such. How about if I help you… — Devon Monk Copy Share Image
I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Usually, when people talk about the "strength" of black women . . . . they ignore the reality that to be strong… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
