They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, the character of Washington is among the most cherished contemplations of my life. It is a fixed star in the firmament… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
However much we admire the orator's occasional bursts of eloquence, the noblest written words are commonly as far behind or abovethe fleeting… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit… They confound the brilliance of the firmament with… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
But the day is spent; And stars are kindling in the firmament, To us how silent--though like ours, perchance, Busy and full… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
Thus the theory of description matters most. It is the theory of the word for those For whom the word is the… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If the Word of God is living and powerful, and if the Lord does all things whatsoever he wills; if he said,… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
Ah; but my courage fails me, and my heart is sick within me! —Lord, take pity on the Christian who doubts, on… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The ancients had little doubt about the true shape of the earth: "It's [the world's] shape has the rounded appearance of a… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
“The telescope destroyed the firmament, did away with the heaven of the New Testament, rendered the ascension of our Lord and the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
Triumphant hours are the Lark's Who circles skywards from his home each day: World's early riser, with bubbling golden song, Towards the… — Dafydd ap Gwilym Copy Share Image
Bianca Nazario stands at the end of the world. The firmament above is as blue as the summer skies of her childhood,… — David Moles Copy Share Image
If I were asked to name, in one word, the pole star round which the mathematical firmament revolves, the central idea which… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows, I… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Describing Starry Night: Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the mighty breath which gives life to all things and in which all… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
There were many stars in Motown's firmament - among them, Stevie, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Martha Reeves and Diana Ross - but… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
The stars were my best friends. The air was full of legends and phantoms, full of mythical and fair-tale creatures, which suddenly… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
Among all his creatures in heaven or earth, God hath not made any like unto the sun in the firmament, the beams… — John Jewel Copy Share Image
The Cloud Maze. “ An Excursion in Dimension A Climb Though the Firmament; There Is No Beginning There Is No End Enter… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
This is the one and only firmament; therefore it is the absolute world. There is no other world. The circle is complete.… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
But the context of religion is a great background for doing science. In the words of Psalm 19, 'The heavens declare the… — Arthur Leonard Schawlow Copy Share Image
Love is a condition so powerful; it may be that which pulls the stars in the firmament. It may be that which… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
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With a clear sky, a bright sun, and a gentle breeze, you will have friends in plenty; but let fortune frown, and… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“215. As in the stellar firmament there are sometimes two suns which determine the path of one planet, and in certain cases… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly believed that… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
In the great wealth, the great firmament of your nation's generosities this particular choice may perhaps be found by future generations as… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
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