One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of… — Glen Duncan 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
Where's the hope that can abate The grief of hearts thus desolate That can Youth's keenest pangs assuage, And mitigate the gloom… — Thomas Haynes Bayly Copy Share Image
From laboratories employing complex apparatus, poetry often emerges into the outside world after a long lapse of time, just as some scientific… — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
The longest time that man may live, The lapse of generations of his race, The continent entire of time itself, Bears not… — James Sheridan Knowles 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
Most of the methods for measuring the lapse of time have, I believe, been the contrivance of monks and religious recluses, who,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Every act of disobedience committed due to passion, its forgiveness is hoped for. Every act of disobedience committed due to arrogance, its… — Sufyan al-Thawri Copy Share Image
But Thee, but Thee, O sovereign Seer of time, But Thee, O poets' Poet, Wisdom's Tongue, But Thee, O man's best Man,… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
Silence has many dimensions. It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be presence, awareness,… — Thomas Merton 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
What's natural is the microbe. All the rest-heath, integrity, purity (if you like)-is a product of the human will, of a vigilance… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For character too is a process and an unfoldingamong our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little… — George Eliot 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
The other thing Aron found about sensitive people is that sometimes they're highly empathic. It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
We start out in identical perfection: bright, reflective, full of sun. The accident of our lives bruises us into dirty individuality. We… — Gregory Maguire 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
Part of abandoning the all-or-nothing mentality is allowing yourself room for setbacks. We are bound to have lapses on the road to… — Jillian Michaels Copy Share Image
I don't know what I can do about the aging. Yes, I am aging. Oh my God, I'm aging all the time.… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline.… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
We must understand that the fact of error, demonstrated in subsequent work, does not suggest that ethical lapses are responsible. It is… — Lewis M. Branscomb Copy Share Image
The main reason I went to digital was because I got time-lapse, video, and still images all in one camera. Having a… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
If any person wants to see clearly just how much she has changed - whether for better or worse - let her… — Anonymous 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
All of the spiritualities that are now clamoring for attention, from explicit Satanism to what we hear on Oprah, are concerned with… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of… — Harriet Beecher Stowe 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
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
Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
