The House ...She lays her beams in music, In music everyone, To the cadence of the whirling world Which dances around the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, to drink, and sleep; to be exposed to darkness and the light;… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
There is no lapse in His character or inconsistency in His nature. Our God is everything he says He is… for now… — Matt Redman Copy Share Image
OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Music. Close your eyes and it's a rosebush blooming in time lapse so that it shoots and blossoms flow outward in a… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Some [intentional communities], like the Shakers and the Harmony Society, have endured for a century or even longer. The Hutterians, to cite… — Benjamin Zablocki Copy Share Image
...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse. — Hale Irwin Copy Share Image
Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concretic layers of woodenness in the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
With writing ... you must keep in the habit. After a lapse it will take you not an hour, but a week,… — Anne Bosworth Greene Copy Share Image
Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realizes… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting… — William James Copy Share Image
All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
To have a reputation for being noble, she thought, is more confining than to be known as a wit. On the rare… — Libbie Block Copy Share Image
I had often stood on the banks of the Concord, watching the lapse of the current, an emblem of all progress, following… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I know the expression love bloomed is metaphorical, but in my heart in this moment, there is one badass flower, captured in… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“arrears, n. My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I thought would go wrong, I never thought… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Studying the martial Way is like climbing a cliff: keep going forward without rest. Resting is not permissible because it causes recessions… — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
Our lives are waves that come up out of the ocean of eternity, break upon the beach of earth, and lapse back… — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
The House ...She lays her beams in music, In music every ore, To the candence of the whirling world Which dances round… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you're actually being paid to be miserable, and to be as miserable as you can be, that's a very fortunate thing,… — Tom Hollander Copy Share Image