Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Neither let mistakes and wrong directions - of which every man, in his studies and elsewhere, falls into many - discourage you.… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Prayer is innocence's friend; and willingly flieth incessant 'twist the earth and the sky, the carrier-pigeon of heaven. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
We pursue her in her incessant metamorphoses yet we never manage to trap her. She always escapes: each encounter ends in flight.… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Under all of the factors that make up the art world, it's up to the individual artist to discern which of those… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
You will probably have but a short time to live. Before you launch into eternity, it behooves you to improve the time… — Thomas McKean Copy Share Image
We go in withering July To ply the hard incessant hoe; Panting beneath the brazen sky We sweat and grumble, but we… — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
“Incessant smiling is one of the deadly tools used by someone whose intent is to make others cry.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The imbalances in the climate have been brought on by the incessant push for more and more immediate wealth. — Jayni Chase Copy Share Image
Imitation is often a shortcut to a solution. We copy when we lack the inclination, the ability or the time to work… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
...the goal of all spiritual life is to get your ego out of the way - outwit the sucker; dissolve it; shoot… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image
The dancer's trembling heart must bring everything into harmony, from the tips of her shoes to the flutter of her eyelashes, from… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi's incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive… — Karen White Copy Share Image
Political correctness is as exploitable as any other progressive ideal, but its aim is to stifle the incessant noise of those who… — Marcus Brigstocke Copy Share Image
To the mind which looks not to general results in the economy of Nature, the earth may seem to present a scene… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities… — Arthur Peacocke Copy Share Image
I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
In New York, just standing still on the sidewalk is a weird feeling. You have this incessant need to do things. Los… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
Free women and men everywhere must wage an incessant campaign so that these human values become a generally recognized and practised reality.… — Menachem Begin Copy Share Image
Even though in principle we may "know better", we routinely succumb all the same to the incessant, often frantic and unexamined busyness… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
