“Seraphina had found nothing but an end, she thought, a horribly easy end to pain. Her own wouldn’t be easy, because she… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
...men endeavor to sink us still lower, merely to render us alluring objects for a moment; and women, intoxicated by the adoration… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Those who know in their hearts that they are not really necessary -- and are entirely replaceable-- must inevitably be tempted to… — Charles le Gai Eaton Copy Share Image
We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Why are you helping me?” she asked quietly. “Because Oscar is here,” he responded automatically. “And he’s one of us. The real… — Jane Washington Copy Share Image
When God puts something in your heart and deep down you know it’s a destiny moment, don’t wait for ten confirmations. Do… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
I have outlasted all desire, My dreams and I have grown apart; My grief alone is left entire, The gleamings of an… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
“Sienna swallowed down her hurt and added it to the growing infestation of pain placed it in that beating glass jar of… — Ali Harper Copy Share Image
If physical exercise were combined with mental exertion, the blood would be quickened in its circulation, the action of the heart would… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
“She'd been pounding her location and thoughts into a device that would send those things to virtually any human with Internet access… — Stefan Bourque Copy Share Image
“... I was often, later on, to act out with Giaconda a circumspection I did not feel: her abundance made others reticent;… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
What was new was the fact that, despite my heart doing its fight-or-flight, help-we're-prey-and-HEY-STUPID-THAT'S-A-VAMPIRE number, I was glad to see him. Ridiculous… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If a man is good in his heart, then he is an ethical member of any group in society. If he is… — Dr Elmer Hess Copy Share Image
But that would leave Paxton to fend for herself, and the last thing any woman wanted in this kind of situation was… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put… — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
I am Darkness. I am Shadow. I am the Ruler of the Night. I, alone, stand between mankind and those who would… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“And yet, as Verena watched her turn back to the dusting, she had the curious sensation that positions had been reversed in… — Kate Williams Copy Share Image
There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“There's no poetry in me, Reginleit. No fine words." He stared down at her, his gaze seeming to consume her. "I come… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I was neither doing these people nor myself a favor by showing up when my heart wasn't in it. There were not… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Hard work and talent are crucial to success, and intangible qualities like heart and clutch are generally real - but luck is… — Andrew Sharp Copy Share Image
It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Heroism breaks its heart, and idealism its back, on the intransigence of the credulous and the mediocre, manipulated by the cynical and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Stephanie Kallos's lovely and heartfelt first novel is a gift. A story of broken hearts and broken promises, it is also the… — Sheri Holman Copy Share Image
Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don't know what to tell a person that can't -… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I love satire. Evelyn Waugh is one of my favorite writers of all time. He's hilarious. He's so wicked. He's so great.… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Sometimes, after I'd gone at the coke like one of those snow plows moving up First Avenue, I'd think my heart was… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I know the difference now between dedication and infatuation. That doesn't mean I don't still get an enormous kick out of infatuation;:… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
In early youth, if we find it difficult to control our feelings, so we find it difficult to vent them in the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Now anyone who has ever been on a blind date is well familiar with “The Moment”—that moment where you first walk into… — Julie James Copy Share Image
The heart is that which lies at the centre of things, and is also formless. It is simple awareness devoid of movement… — Ajahn Thate Copy Share Image
Do not forget, read a passage from the Gospel every day. It is the power that changes us, that transforms us, it… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Our stories arise from our hearts and our souls. In this sense, telling our stories becomes a sacred gesture, opening a clear… — Susan Wittig Albert Copy Share Image
But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Houses of Congress have . . . requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public… — George Washington Copy Share Image
