Of all the intellectual hurdles which the human mind has confronted and has overcome in the last fifteen hundred years the one… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
Breathe in and take one step, and focus all your attention on the sole of your foot. If you have not arrived… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Seven hundred thousand men are said to have perished in the first two expeditions, which had been thus commenced and carried on… — Elihu Palmer Copy Share Image
There is nothing surprising in a Muslim or a Pathan like me subscribing to the creed of nonviolence. It is not a… — Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Copy Share Image
Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The larger question for the Northwest, where the cities are barely a hundred years old but contain three-fourths of the population, is… — Timothy Egan Copy Share Image
Sometimes the valley below is like a bowl filled up with fog. I can see hard green figs on two trees and… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
My shoulders sagged. Really, is it too much to ask that I be able to come home from a long day of… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
But do you want this? It's not much of a life. Don't you see? It's the first life I've had in four… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
[O]ne might ask why, in a galaxy of a few hundred billion stars, the aliens are so intent on coming to Earth… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The notion that any one person can describe 'what really happened' is an absurdity. If ten - or a hundred - people… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
We've been co-evolving with our technology for a hundred thousand years. Human beings and the technology we make were always inseparable. We're… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
If you go to Sundance, the experience that I've had there as a viewer is... there's like a hundred movies there, and… — Tim Heidecker Copy Share Image
I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, — who yet live and speak excellently in… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I am well acquainted with all the arguments against freedom of thought and speech - the arguments which claim that it cannot… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If I fall asleep, it is because I am overloaded. I sleep because one hour with Henry contains five years of my… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
You know, where I come from, an antique, to be called an antique, it has to be at least a hundred years… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The light beyond my eyes flashflashflashes with a hundred futures for me. Doctor. Ship's captain. Forest ranger. Librarian. Beloved of that man… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I'm just making that bit… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I've never understood why.… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
Aw, fudge,' floated down to me, as a couple of golden eyes peered over a third-floor window ledge. 'You're a freaking dhampir.… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
For there is one thing we must never forget... the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
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Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
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If death is truly a curse,' Spock said, as soberly as some power pronouncing a hundred years of sleep, but with a… — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
Tough break today. Looks like I gotta go back and rememorize a couple hundred pages of the usga rules book! — Jeff Overton Copy Share Image
Don't make fun of her," the Duke said. "She needs gentle encouragement. Carla, baby, we love you. You are such a good… — John Green Copy Share Image
In a way, it made him sad. He couldn't help but think that a hundred times zero was still nothing. — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
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How could someone possibly be that beautiful? She wondered for the hundred thousandth time. What higher power orchestrated such a perfect union… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
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