When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour. It marks… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
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“Unsociable even at home and unable to meet the eyes of strangers when she ventured out, Emily made her awkward way across… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
She did know that the journey to happiness was laborious and strewn with seeds of suffering. She guessed that it was probably… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
Forgiveness in no way justifies the actions that caused your wounding, nor does it mean that you have to seek out those… — Dawna Markova Copy Share Image
We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
'And I will give you a new heart, And I will put a new spirit in you I will take out your… — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
While He [the Lord Jesus] was sitting alone by the well, 'There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water' (John 4:7).… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod-always bored, often… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don’t deserve them, or that they’ll be unable… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark's is a clarion call, And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute, But… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
“The city was different back then--poor and crumbling--kept alive only by the gritty determination and steely cynicism of its occupants. But underneath… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“Love is the reason why my mother and father stick together in a hard life when they might each have an easier… — Kao Kalia Yang Copy Share Image
FEARLESS is a vivid account of one man's journey from all-American boy to all-American hero. Blehm's writing takes you beyond the battlefield… — Eric Greitens Copy Share Image
Love enters the heart unawares: takes precedence of all the emotions--or, at least, will be second to none--and even reflection becomes its… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
The title of Christian is a reproach to us, if we estrange ourselves from Him after whom we are denominated. The name… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you,… — Homer Copy Share Image
“She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too seriously, turning everything into a tragedy, and failed… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We all know that the 'divine glory of the ego' is socially a great nuisance; we all do actually value our friends… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Thea began to wonder whether people could not utterly lose the power to work, as they can lose their voice or their… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“I now knew there was no such thing as a broken heart. It will go on beating to taunt you and mock… — Clara Kramer Copy Share Image
Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
My parents know how passionate I've always been about acting. I convinced them this was something that I was going to put… — Alexander Ludwig Copy Share Image
For whatever life holds for you and your family in the coming days, weave the unfailing fabric of God's Word through your… — Gigi Graham Copy Share Image
She didn't know how to love, to give herself to someone, to out herself in someone else's keeping and take him into… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
Our method of proclaiming salvation is this: to point out to every heart the loving Lamb, who died for us, and although… — Nicolaus Zinzendorf Copy Share Image
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“Very soon afterward, Tom Erskine found her, and in five minutes, during which her heart in its cold cage took wearily to… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a painless lesson. They just don't exist. Sacrifices are necessary. You can't gain anything without losing something… — Hiromu Arakawa Copy Share Image
If we believe in the rebirth of our civilization... then clearly this renaissance must begin in the chambers of our own hearts...… — Georg Feuerstein Copy Share Image
It was the kind of promise a father makes easily and sincerely, knowing at the same time that it will be impossible… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“She knew exactly how she ought to feel, for she was well read in our greater and lesser English poets, but the… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that… — Dave Pelzer Copy Share Image
Blumenthal goes straight to the heart in these poems. Gorgeously wrought, surprising, true, wise, elegiac, they leave me with a sense of… — Lynn Freed Copy Share Image
That's the most beautiful thing to see, someone who's putting their heart and energy into something and you get to learn about… — Megan Stalter Copy Share Image