For I am bound with fleshly bands, Joy, beauty, lie beyond my scope; I strain my heart, I stretch my hands, And… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
Look now — in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
When dancing for mass numbers, you can throw your hands and legs anywhere, but contemporary dance is a whole different ball game.… — Amyra Dastur Copy Share Image
If life is a battle, then my inner scars are medals for valor, for swiftness, for courage, for passion. Evil is the… — Storm Constantine Copy Share Image
Scientific work will never stop, and it would be terrible if it did. If there were no more problems, you would put… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
When it is peace, then we may view again With new-won eyes each other's truer form And wonder. Grown more loving-kind and… — Charles Sorley Copy Share Image
With one hand he put A penny in the urn of poverty, And with the other took a shilling out. — Robert Pollok Copy Share Image
I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what… — Louise Mensch Copy Share Image
I know I'm not strong enough to be everything that I'm supposed to be. I give up. I'm not stong enough. Hands… — Matthew West Copy Share Image
(...)how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once, to… — Christopher McCandless Copy Share Image
I found Esau’s field guide at the bottom of my pack. Taking a candle into the bedroom, I read his book until… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
In Ronan's hand, the mask was as thin as a sheet of paper, still warm from Adam's gasped breaths. Orphan Girl buried… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I've been in so many writing workshops where someone hands in a story, and when the other writers in the workshop are… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
She had this dark cancer water dripping out of her chest. Eyes closed. Intubated. But her hand was still her hand, still… — John Green Copy Share Image
When children ask you questions about gray hairs, and wrinkles in the face, and sighs that have no words, and smiles too… — Joseph Parker Copy Share Image
I don’t want to be a person with full hands, resting from dreams, but a person full of dreams unable to rest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We live in a beauty-obsessed culture, which on one hand is absolutely fabulous, but on the flip side, is also dangerously extreme. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand. — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
Our American heritage is threatened as much by our own indifference as it is by the most unscrupulous office or by the… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
and standing before me a bloodied bottle of Absolut in her hand, is Mrs. Allington, her pink jogging suit drenched, her chest… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Tessa touched his wrist lightly with her hand. "Be brave," she said. "It's not a duck, is it? — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand,… — Bob Beauprez Copy Share Image
In fact you've got your hands tied behind your back when somebody chooses to take a low road in to you, there… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
How'd you get in here?" She raised her eyebrows. “You pick pockets.” Kat watched his hand fly to his back pocket. “I… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
It's no surprise that if you look at the development of the economy, of consumerism, of all these things that have gotten… — Peter Buffett Copy Share Image
I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
As long as the factories are in the hands of the whites, the housing is in the hands of the whites, the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When I think of you, and you are not there, I see you in my mind's eye always with a book in… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
While we keep aloof in general statements, there is little fruit to be expected; it is the hand-fight that does execution. — Joseph Alleine Copy Share Image
He brought his great hand to rest on an early edition of Bram Stoker's novel and smiled, but said nothing. Then he… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness.… — William Martin Copy Share Image
Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You don't believe it because you don't understand," he said hoarsely. "Prosper was different. He wasn't like other people. He might have… — Catherine Jinks Copy Share Image
There's so much myth and baloney. Like a 80-year-old man able to manhandle a 300-pounder with his little finger. Ridiculous. Or this… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Ignorant men do not know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
