Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods, And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt, And night by night… — William Allingham Copy Share Image
The explosion of a terrorist's single nuclear device in a major metropolitan center would trigger an unparalleled humanitarian and environmental disaster. An… — Alan Cranston Copy Share Image
I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
When rowan leaves are dank and rusting And rowan berries red as blood, When in my palm the hangman's thrusting The final… — Alexander Blok Copy Share Image
Have you ever stopped to think what fun this business of living can be? If you haven't, and if you are one… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
It was really executed well, from the art direction to the wardrobe to everyone else. And I have to say, two really… — Gary Cole Copy Share Image
This is my perspective and has always been my perspective on life: I have a very grim, pessimistic view of it. I… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
9/11 was my first day teaching at Harvard University. My classes were all canceled and I got back to town two days… — Hal Hartley Copy Share Image
I think I just have an idea in my head about how big an adventure game should be, so it's hard for… — Tim Schafer Copy Share Image
If everybody on the planet today had the same standard of living as the average European or American, we would need three… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Jews, Germans, and Allies is an important historical document, especially in light of those revisionists who would impose a universal amnesia about… — Hilma Wolitzer Copy Share Image
To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Confronted by a Church that has ceased to manifest God's mercy and intimate connection with humankind - that has converted Christ into… — Uta Ranke-Heinemann Copy Share Image
The attacks of September 11, 2001, were spectacular, riveting, grim, costly and searing. The shock that they caused reverberated throughout the world.… — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
What other developed democracy has such a ridiculous and squalid history of intolerance? From the imprisonment and roasting of heretics, witches and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Music is escapism from the grim realities of life. But then as soon as you escape into the music, from my point… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Men: Stand in solidarity with women. Women, if you were born female, you were born on a battlefield. You will be punished… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
You're not going,"he said as soon as she'd finished. "If I have to tie you up and sit on you until this… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is like witnessing the brilliant sun for the first time in the morning. It is like seeing the beautiful flowers that… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“And the view was suddenly clear to me. The world opened out to its grim beyonds and I realized that, at forty,… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
Nelson Mandela once remarked that he befriended his jailers, those grim, khaki-clad overseers of his decades of hard labor in a limestone… — Marc Ian Barasch Copy Share Image
“I am grim of mind and wrathful of spirit and I have no desire to be nice to anyone,” said” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“To them he’s the slightly less frightening alternative to the grim reaper.” — Kat Kruger Copy Share Image
Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn't going to be won by charm and personality. — Edmund H. North Copy Share Image
There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
When the dead body said, "Good evening," Annabel had to face the grim conclusion that it wasn't as dead as she'd hoped. — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
It's going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn't know anything but what it's… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image