And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause, it is nevertheless your sin to be the unnecessary occasion:… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Someone once said, if you scratch a cynic, and you'll find a disappointed idealist. That really rang a bell with me -… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
How shall I admire, how laugh, how rejoice, how exult, when I behold so many proud monarchs groaning in the lowest abyss… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved. There was science in… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I have no fear to burn my mouth and throat I’m ready to drink every flame and more. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Power, true power, comes from the belief in true things, and the willingness to stand behind that belief, even if the universe… — James A. Owen Copy Share Image
Naturally, you don't sit down in "white hot inspiration" and write with a burning flame in front of you. But since I… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Like a moth to a flame we become helpless to the beautiful ghosts that true love sheds. — Ryan O'Neal Copy Share Image
A person does feel sheepish picking on journalists, a class already so richly despised that if a planeload of them crashed in… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
It isn't the height that scares me - the height makes me feel alive with energy, every organ and vessel and muscle… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
A solitary maple on a woodside flames in single scarlet, recalls nothing so much as the daughter of a noble house dressed… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I find you in all small and lovely things; in the little fishes like flames in the green water, in the furred… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame! — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
[Airline food] is the tiniest food I've ever seen in my entire life. Any kind of meat that you get - chicken,… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
What is the fire that burns in your heart? If you are lucky enough to discover it, than by all means fan… — Mary Lou Retton Copy Share Image
Words.” His tone sharpened. “I shared my house, my bed, and my blood with you, as well as offered you a place… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Life and death: they are one, at core entwined. Who understands himself from his own strain presses himself into a drop of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image