For if there is ever a moment when we are most vulnerable, it’s when we’re closest to the idea of the attained… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I watch the Eruptions. Mount Dad, long dormant, now considered armed and dangerous. Mount Saint Mom, oozing lava, spitting flame. Warn the… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The smoking flax before it burst to flame Was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous.… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
I love using gas grills because they are easier to heat and it's much easier to control the flames with a gas… — Bobby Flay Copy Share Image
The warlock's gaze, on the flames, was remote and distant, as if he were looking back into the past. Simon couldn't help… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
God discovers the martyr and confessor without the trial of flames and tortures, and will hereafter entitle many to the reward of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
As you get older, though, you realize there are fire extinguishers. You do have an ability to control the flames. — Chaka Khan Copy Share Image
I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the… — Tom Watson Copy Share Image
During the summer of 2009, conservative activists turned up the heat on Democratic politicians to protest the innovation-destroying, liberty-usurping Obamacare mandate. In… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go. — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
They haven't killed us yet," I say, and I imagine that one day I will fly a plane over Portland, over Rochester,… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
In our own country, we have seen America pay a terrible price for any form of discrimination, and we have seen us… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Zeal is that pure and heavenly flame,The fire of love supplies ;While that which often bears the name,Is self in a disguise.True… — John Newton Copy Share Image
Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless… — John Donne Copy Share Image
I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle,… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
In tears I tossed my coin from Trevi's edge. A coin unsordid as a bond of love-- And, with the instinct of… — Robert Underwood Johnson Copy Share Image
I'll tell you something, Harpy," he said, his voice almost a whisper now. "It never even occurred to me that we wouldn't… — Kristan Higgins Copy Share Image
Cool the flames of your anger by performing the wudhu for only water can extinguish fire. — Muhammad Copy Share Image
Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked idiots stretches to… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
