The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist. — William Golding Copy Share Image
Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse. — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
“When we fall in love, we recognise in the other the fragments of ourselves that we have lost.” — Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D Copy Share Image
I guess I'm just hopelessly fascinated by the realities that you can assemble out of connected fragments. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To be cool is to believe. To stay cool is to have the sweet fragments of serenity rock your wig away. — Lord Buckley Copy Share Image
The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands.… — James Salter Copy Share Image
At the sight of a single bone, of a single piece of bone, I recognize and reconstruct the portion of the whole… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take… — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
I believe in logic, the sequence of cause and effect, and in science its only begotten son our law, which was conceived… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The myriad past, it enters us and disappears. Except that within it, somewhere, like diamonds, exist the fragments that refuse to be… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Now shall I become a common tale, A ruin'd fragment of a worn-out world; Unchanging record of unceasing change. Eternal landmark to… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
We are going to have to gather up the fragments of knowledge and responsibilities that have been turned over to governments, corporations,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We are now facing a difficult situation in Peru, where there are attempts to cut back the territorial rights of the indigenous… — Evaristo Nugkuag Copy Share Image
Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through the floating… — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share Image
“Some alters are what Dr Ross describes in Multiple Personality Disorder as 'fragments', which are 'relatively limited psychic states that express only… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
His [Turgot's] first important literary and scholastic effort was a treatise On the Existence of God. Few fragments of it remain, but… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
In a fragment of a second you can understand: Things you know, things you don’t know, things you don’t know that you… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
Ignorance is a treasure of infinite price that most men squander, when they should cherish its least fragments; some ruin it by… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
A life of mere pleasure! A little while, in the spring-time of the senses, in the sunshine of prosperity, in the jubilee… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Like sheaves of corn it gathers you unto itself. It threshes you to make you naked. It sifts you to free you… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
God is in the mountains. Impassive, immovable, jagged giants, separating the celestial from the terrestrial with eternal diagonal certainty. As if silently… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature. — Max Planck Copy Share Image
“These fragments, these shivers of my heart Are mere lifetimes enclosed in a minute” — Zubair Ahsan Copy Share Image