So proper for a circus girl," Mme. Padva says with with a gleam in her eye. "We shall have to loosen those… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Thy Banners gleam a little, and are furled; Against thy turrets surge His phantom tow'rs; Drugged with his Opiates the nations nod,… — George Sterling Copy Share Image
The hair of his face, on the contrary, carroty and flaming, resembled a growth of copper wire clipped short to the line… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Well do I remember that dark hot little office in the hospital at Begumpett, with the necessary gleam of light coming in… — Ronald Ross Copy Share Image
How can I teach your children gentleness and mercy to the weak, and reverence for life, which in its nakedness and excess,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam! — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you,… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
The beauty that men seek is half a dream-- Where'er we wander, yet it lies afar; It touches with its wand a… — Kenneth Rand Copy Share Image
This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Two diverse gates there are of bodiless dreams, These of sawn ivory, and those of horn. Such dreams as issue where the… — Homer Copy Share Image
War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
After nightfall the face of the country seems to alter marvelously, and the clear moonlight only intensifies the change. The river gleams… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Everything seems beautiful because you don't understand. Those flying fish, they're not leaping for joy, they're jumping in terror. Bigger fish want… — Curt Siodmak Copy Share Image
Last comes the class of persons, of nervous organization and enfeebled vigour, whose sensual appetite craves highly seasoned dishes, men of a… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
The listeners got some such insights into their past lives, as one gets into the darker parts of the woods, when a… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Dirty days hath September April June and November From January up to May The rain it raineth every day All the rest… — William Shakespeare 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
It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Let the dream go. Are there not other dreams In vastness of clouds hid from thy sight That yet shall gild with… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam; Where the salt weed… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
We cannot conduct reforms that affect the people adversely. If therapy drags out for decades and no gleam of light is seen,… — Yevgeny Primakov Copy Share Image
Physical beauty and ugliness is not very important. The real thing is the inner. I can teach you how to be beautiful… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The desert came into view ... sand and palm trees, a way of life that revolved around human beings without possessions or… — Hanan al-Shaykh Copy Share Image
Little self-denials, little honesties, little passing words of sympathy, little nameless acts of kindness, little silent victories over favorite temptations-these are the… — Frederic Farrar Copy Share Image
There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
