Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts you speak… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Much has happened since last we met, Bartimaeus," he went on. "Do you remember how we parted?" "No." I did. "You set… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
[On the propulsive force of rockets] One part of fire takes up as much space as ten parts of air, and one… — Vannoccio Biringuccio Copy Share Image
I have precognitive dreams such as the year my brother's apartment caught fire and he lost everything. I'd dreamt it two months… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I hate the word mentor, the professionalization of friendships between generations. I just feel like the fact of friendship is the thing… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
“In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love, and the ability to ask questions. Which are, at the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
For thirty years now, in times of stress and strain, when something has me backed against the wall and I'm ready to… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
“Why, that is nothing: for I tell you, father, I am as peremptory as she proud-minded; And where two raging fires meet… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Stop It, stop lighting your butthol on fire, and everybody listen to me. If you light your ass on fire, I hope… — Bob Saget Copy Share Image
There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of… — Andrea Jung Copy Share Image
A Christian never falls asleep in the fire or in the water, but grows drowsy in the sunshine. — John Berridge Copy Share Image
There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
You cannot make steel until you have made the iron white-hot in fire. It is not meant for harm. Trouble and disease… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The burning embers within me burst into flame / My body becomes a fire-lit torch. / Ho someone! Send for the mid-wife. — Amrita Pritam Copy Share Image
A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
There is no thirst of the soul so consuming as the desire for pardon. The sense of its bestowal is the starting-point… — Charles Brent Copy Share Image
I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness.… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
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