But do you know this idea of the imaginary homeland? Once you set out from shore on your little boat, once you… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
I was like a lost moon―my planet destroyed in some cataclysmic, disaster-movie scenario of desolation―that continued, nevertheless, to circle in a tight… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Is it worth losing your position over and being ostracised for?' He glared down at me. 'If you even have to ask… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
“Everyone was pretending to be bored to tears, or maybe they actually were, but Quentin wasn't. He was unexpectedly happy, though he… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Liberals don't want any part of Canada left behind. I used to give speeches on and on and on about the fact… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
In the desert, the two primary elements are stone and water. Stone comes in abundance, exposed by weathering and a lack of… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
The group of guys I came up with in the 1990s were very innovative. I remember some of the older guys were… — Tracy Lawrence Copy Share Image
“But the child grows up, and reaches adolescence. He stands on the threshold of life, and the school-bench is left behind him.… — Lyubov Dostoyevskaya Copy Share Image
“Now, I learned a long time ago how to be quiet on the outside while I'm freaking on the inside. How to… — Laura Wiess Copy Share Image
“Cinderella was such a dork. She left behind her glass slipper at the ball and then went right back to her stemonster's… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
“Ah, are you digging on my grave, My loved one? -- planting rue?" -- "No: yesterday he went to wed One of… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“THE NEW All that appeared true seems to be coming unglued; All that was established is being questioned anew; All that was… — Tom Breen Copy Share Image
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“Oh, nothing. Only you really did help them, you know.” “Who?” “All the men who’ve come through this House. You helped them… — Helene Wecker Copy Share Image
“One could understand feminism generally as an attack on woman as she was under “patriarchy” (that concept is a social construction of… — Harvey Mansfield Copy Share Image
The successful human being is adaptable. We have to adapt to changes in weather. We have to adapt to changes in climate.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“You don’t want me, and I don’t want anybody else. So I’ll just be . . . left behind. Left to pick… — Elizabeth Hayley Copy Share Image
“Every step of the road was just as she'd dreamt it all the time she'd been away. Every step took her further… — Jon McGregor Copy Share Image
“In general, it is the people who are left behind stationary, who give way to low spirits at any parting; the travellers,… — Gaskell Elizabeth Cleghorn Copy Share Image
You reach a certain age, and you realize, 'Wow: there are younger people doing this better than I can, and don't leave… — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
In truth, the best long-term explanations about our ancient counterparts can be found in the paintings, sculpture, crafts, tools of utility, language… — Edward J. Fraughton Copy Share Image
“The Reformation biblical faith in God[50] had radically desacralized [entgöttert] the world. Thus the ground was prepared in which rational and empirical… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Instead of adding forms where nothing existed, I would recollect the fragments I'd left behind. If I left something in every city… — Xuan Juliana Wang Copy Share Image
You can ask the question, "What's making the boat go forward?" It can't be the wake. The wake can't drive the boat.… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
It would be the death of you to come with me, Sam," said Frodo, "and I could not have borne that." "Not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That’s the irony of life. The moment when you give up on something and decide to move on leaving every memory of… — Arriah Kiprujistho Copy Share Image
We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all… — Bob Filner Copy Share Image
Upon graduation, I hit a wall. All of my good friends from UCLA were taking on jobs they were passionate about, and… — Karen Fukuhara Copy Share Image
You will have to create the path by walking yourself; the path is not ready-made, lying there and waiting for you. It… — Osho Copy Share Image
We're looking at the dawn of a new arms race. For example, Germany technically opposes the US space militarization program, but is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Thus humans who lived a million years ago, despite their big brains and sharp stone tools, dwelt in constant fear of predators,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“What’s the definition of torture? I’ll tell you what it is. It’s when someone you can’t stand to be parted from leaves… — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
“From The Courage to Love (Release date 23 August 2013): “My grandfather used to tell me,” Bernard continued, “that a man’s worth… — E.E. Montgomery Copy Share Image
As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the… — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
A stock market decline is as routine as a January blizzard in Colorado. If you're prepared, it can't hurt you. A decline… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
One of the biggest divides in Canada - I said it in 2006, and I said it right through my political career… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are… — George Weah Copy Share Image