My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Sleep sweetly in your humble graves,Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause;Though yet no marble column cravesThe pilgrim here to pause.Stoop, angels, hither… — Henry Timrod Copy Share Image
The greatness of man is so evident that it is even proved by his wretchedness. For what in animals is nature, we… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Public spending on infrastructure has fallen to its lowest level since 1947. And the U.S., which used to have the finest infrastructure… — Ray LaHood Copy Share Image
A narrow pond would form in the orchard, water clear as air covering grass and black leaves and fallen branches, all around… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
YOU CHEATING SCUM!” Lee Jordan was howling into the megaphone, dancing out of Professor McGonagall’s reach. “YOU FILTHY, CHEATING B —” Professor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I spent a day in a neck brace on a hospital trolley after falling from a horse and cart in Ireland. All… — Jasmine Guinness Copy Share Image
No travel ban or quarantine will seal a country completely. Even if travel could be reduced by eighty per cent-itself a feat-models… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Let me say something at the outset. The questions that have been asked so far in this debate illustrate why the American… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Ah, Father! That’s words and only words! Forgive! If he’d not been run over, he’d have come home today drunk and his… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Sure must be a great consolation to the poor people who lost their stock in the late crash to know that it… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Less and less frequently do we encounter people with the ability to tell a tale properly. More and more often there is… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I think I have fallen in love and I believe the woman in question, though she has not said so, returns my… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
With that, the poignant charm vanished. Inside the fifth machine, all was rampant malignity. Deformed flowers thrust monstrous horned tusks and trumpets… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Tessa had lain down beside him and slid her arm beneath his head, and put her head on his chest,listening to the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Even as she’d come to know the real Ralston—the Ralston who was not cut from heroic cloth—Callie had failed to see the… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Having fallen from the eternal, the Evil One's desires are endless, insatiable. Having fallen from pure Being, he is driven by the… — Denis de Rougemont Copy Share Image
Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
But just make someone who has fallen in love listen to his stomach rumble, and the unity of body and soul, that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
We must make clear to the Germans that the wrong for which their fallen leaders are on trial is not that they… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to me to… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay, so men… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I'm at my desk, I'll realize that I have contorted myself completely, and I haven't moved for hours, and that… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I don't like to veer away from the truth because I think that's what people have fallen in love with about my… — Adrian Marcel Copy Share Image
Federal regulations forbid delaying inspections for fracture-critical bridges like the fallen Minneapolis bridge - the kind with a lack of redundancy in… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
I'd fallen asleep thinking I was much too tired to go on working and if I went on working, I'd lose it.… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
If it is permitted to the enlightened but baffled Statesman, when deserted and fallen from his place, to appeal from the voices… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
I'm fortunate in that I don't think I've ever fallen in love with somebody who hasn't fallen in love with me. I… — Hugh Dancy Copy Share Image
I am an unmarried man, as opposed to a single man. A bachelor, according to the dictionary, is a man who has… — Raymond Burr Copy Share Image
My camera, my intentions stopped no man from falling. Nor did they aid him after he had fallen. It could be said… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep, and I had… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The current disfavor into which socialism has fallen has spurred… the frenzy to proclaim oneself a liberal. Many writers today have recourse… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
There must not be lacking in our leadership something of that spirit of the Austrian corporal who, when all had fallen into… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Belgarath turned back to Senji. “All right,” he said. “The Sardion came to Zamad. How?” “It’s said to have fallen out of… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
My father provided; he gathered things to himself and let them fall upon the world; my clothes, my food, my luxurious hopes… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp names that never get fat, The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, The plumed war-bonnet… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
Liberals want to manage the damage with government programs to take care of those who have fallen between the cracks. Populists want… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
As Mr. Backlund, I truly believed in what I was saying. I believed in every word that I said. I believed that… — Bob Backlund Copy Share Image
Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
