I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The amusement fled from Royce's face and with a groan he pulled her roughly against his chest, crushing her to him. "Jenny,"… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
Certain countries long ago succeeded where the U.S. has failed in commercializing their air traffic control systems, putting them in the hands… — Holman W. Jenkins, Jr Copy Share Image
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids… — John Keats Copy Share Image
I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there. The dark-robed priests were met… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society's well. Even the poorest whites, those who must live their lives… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
There is a horrifying loneliness at work in this time. No, listen to me. We lived six and seven to a room… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“The Knowing Afterwards, when we have slept, paradise- comaed and woken, we lie a long time looking at each other. I do… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“In the past he had been unable to see the great, teh unfathomable, the infinite, in anything. He had only felt that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Think ye by gazing on each other's eyes To multiply your lovely selves? — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I want to stay in the habit of 'glancing' at my problems and 'gazing' at my Lord. — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
“Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
[He stared into the camera] like some sort of an animal gazing from across the back of its sty. (On Winston Churchill) — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
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I try not to be super self-referential about my work because it becomes like navel gazing at a certain point. — James Ransone Copy Share Image
True love in this differs from gold and clay, that to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Only when you're in that ditch, lying there in the muddy runoff you've made of your life, gazing up at the peak… — Artie Lange Copy Share Image
Living is being happy: seeing, hearing, touching, drinking, eating, urinating, defecating, diving into the water and gazing at the sky, laughing and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
True friends don’t spend time gazing into each other’s eyes. They may show great tenderness towards each other but they face in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Until the battle with the Revanche he hadn’t thought he would ever tire of gazing at the horizon. Only since then had… — Suzanne Enoch Copy Share Image
And barely ten minutes later the soft sound of wingbeats came to their ears, and Balthamos stood up eagerly. The next moment,… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The three Divine are in this hierarchy, First the Dominions, and the Virtues next; And the third order is that of the… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Most books that come out with a comedy label seem to be, Eric [Wareheim] and I could have written, "This is our… — Tim Heidecker Copy Share Image
The International Space Station is a phenomenal laboratory, an unparalleled test bed for new invention and discovery. Yet I often thought, while… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments,… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
I remember vividly my student days, spending hours at the light microscope, turning endlessly the micrometric screw, and gazing at the blurred… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
Perhaps the easiest people to fall in love with are those about whom we know nothing. Romances are never as pure as… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
When K. looked at the castle, often it seemed to him as if he were observing someone who sat quietly there in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Will sat where he was, gazing at the silver bowl in front of him; a white rose was floating in it, and… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Oh! how should all hearts be taken with this Christ? Christians! turn your eyes upon the Lord: 'Look, and look again unto… — Isaac Ambrose Copy Share Image
“Kay sat gazing out the window of her bedroom, trying to understand the mesmerizing blue of the sky overhead. She was sure… — Delora Dennis Copy Share Image
“There, too, she would sit for hours gazing seawards. No tiniest speck of sail that crossed the waters could escape her watchful… — Emilia Francis Strong Dilke Copy Share Image
I prayed all the way up that hill yesterday, he said softly. Not for you to stay; I didna think that would… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
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