In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
How confusing the beams from memory's lamp are; One day a bachelor, the next a grampa. What is the secret of the… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light, And drew behind the cloudy vale of night. — Homer Copy Share Image
1.5 billion people lack proper access to electricity. Many buy kerosene, which can cost 30 percent of their income. It sends millions… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... "The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
She walks away, and I am too stunned to follow her. At the end of the hallways she turns and says, "Have… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Jem seemed to look through her then, as if he were seeing something beyond her, beyond the corridor, beyond the Institute itself.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
When Lord Kelvin was in this country [U.S.], he said that nothing interested him so much as Mr. Hewitt's work and his… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share Image
There's something unrefined about a reading woman, they always reek of the lamp. How can she grow up to be a lady… — Florence King Copy Share Image
He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong… — Gilbert Parker Copy Share Image
The fruition of the year had come and the night should have been fine with a moon in the sky and the… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
I just long for the day when I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lamp-posts. — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound; I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her friends are… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Though now this grained face of mine be hid In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow, And all the conduits of my blood froze… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
In times of tragedies, our duty is to lend a helping hand to those in grief and thus light lamps of kindness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It{California} is the land where the fabled Aladdin's Lamp lies buried-and she {San Francisco} is the new Aladdin who shall seize it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love, And though the sager sort our deeds reprove, Let us not weigh them. Heaven's… — Thomas Campion Copy Share Image
The truth of love is the truth of the universe: it is the lamp of the soul that reveals the secrets of… — Kabir Copy Share Image