Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene! My blood shudders still, although I am not a… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
We must guard against becoming so engrossed in the specific nature of the roots and bark of the trees of knowledge as… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
...full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets… — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills… — Alfred Tarski Copy Share Image
“Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“It was my good fortune to be linked with Mme. Curie through twenty years of sublime and unclouded friendship. I came to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Grandeur of effect is produced by two different ways which seem entirely opposed to each other. One is by reducing the colors… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
As he walks away on his own two feet--the toddler's body-mind has reached its moment of perfection. The world is his and… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I should never have dreamed of purpose, I am coming to the conclusion that privacy, the small individual lives of men, are… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit.… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In simple hearts the feeling for the beauty and grandeur of nature is a hundred-fold stronger and more vivid than in us,… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
Growing up in the Pacific Northwest as a young girl, whenever I felt emotionally overwhelmed, I would take a walk in the… — Brenda Strong Copy Share Image
Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is a quality of murky grandeur we give ourselves in having our own feelings, recoiling, separate from other things... To feel… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Noi fummo i Gattopardi, i Leoni; quelli che ci sostituiranno saranno gli sciacalletti, le iene; e tutti quanti gattopardi, sciacalli e pecore,… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
