A woman's counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart's ease he liv'd; and… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
One of the most powerful shocks of the Middle Passage is the collapse of our tacit contract with the universe-the assumption that… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
Say, care-worn man, Whom Duty chains within the city walls, Amid the toiling crowd, how grateful plays The fresh wind o’er thy… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
My pen.’ Funny, I wrote that without noticing. ‘The torch’, ‘the paper’, but ‘my pen’. That shows what writing means to me,… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; his love sincere, his thoughts immaculate; his tears pure messengers sent from his heart;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Yes, I am a judge on 'MasterChef,' where I taste thousands of dishes, and yes I am a trained chef which has… — John Torode Copy Share Image
If I could only remember that the days were not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
You're a grand old flag! You're a high-flying flag, And forever in peace may you wave. You're the emblem of the land… — George M. Cohan Copy Share Image
... what will not the heart endure ere it will voluntarily surrender the hoarded treasure of its love to the cold dictates… — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Copy Share Image
“It wasn't what lay at the end of her road that frightened Ammu as much as the nature of the road itself.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Unfortunately I feel like a lot of the issues that the show [OJ Simpson ] was dealing with are still very much… — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
“I spent days and nights staring at the blank page, searching the deepest corners of my mind: who have I been, what… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this… — Diana Krall Copy Share Image
I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
That the Father and Son would love sinners that much is beyond our comprehension--but it ought to awaken a response of love… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me. When I was young I longed to write a great… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self,… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
We always say we are equal in front of death, but when you are rich, for example, and you have everybody taking… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
When Mitt Romney talks about women, when he says he believes that we can do any job a man can do, I… — Kerry Healey Copy Share Image
Call upon me in the Day of Trouble, and I will deliver, and thou shalt glorify me...Wait on the Lord, and be… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
If anybody asks what Sufism is, what kind of religion is it, the answer is that Sufism is the religion of the… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“I did not understand why Alfrida looked at him with such a fiercely encouraging smile. All of my experience of a woman… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
But she’d managed to find her way into our reality, perhaps because she had an important mission here, perhaps because she was… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Keeping the door that leads to your heart ajar is destructive as univited guests would move in and trample on your feelings,… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the… — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
You see, growing in grace doesn't mean doing more or greater things for God. True growth comes in doing the same things… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
When you think about Boston, Harvard and M.I.T. are the brains of the city, and its soul might be Faneuil Hall or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
The Democratic Party represents the American brain, and the Republicans represent not the American heart, or soul, but the American gut. The… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I believe that there is something far nobler than loyalty to any particular man. Loyalty to the truth as we perceive it… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I think you can learn a lot about a guy from the way that he talks to you and the way that… — Aly Michalka Copy Share Image
One day when Thomas Aquinas was preaching to the local populace on the love of God, he saw an old woman listening… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
By the time I was 18 years old, I had achieved everything that was in my heart to do and at the… — Kelly Clark Copy Share Image
Everybody naturally wants to abide in that highest frequency of the heart, and it is often through intimate relationships that we are… — John Friend Copy Share Image
“Fear had absorbed her completely and remained there, fixed, tenacious, almost corporeal, as if it were some invisible person who had made… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
It makes me nuts, the idea that if you put a political struggle at the heart of your book, then it has… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths; Love laps his wings on either side the heart Absorbing all the incense of… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image