“I’m like one of those Japanese bowls That were made long ago I have some cracks in me They have been filled… — Peter Mayer Copy Share Image
A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You may cut off the heads of every rich man now living--of every statesman--every literary, and every scientific authority, without in the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“For the thousandth time he wished he’d just met her. That they were but two strangers traveling together, that such lovely, filthy… — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
The temptation is to stay inside; to subside into the kind of recluse whom neighborhood children regard with derision and little awe;… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I watched them from the window, thy children at their play, And I thought of all my own dear friends, who were… — Arthur Hugh Clough Copy Share Image
They established their patriotic credentials long ago, and are either supportive of the Bush agenda or know when to keep their traps… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy. — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Not long ago, two children in Great Park made a quest: a boy who sought a way to talk through the thing… — David Mains Copy Share Image
By speech first, but far more by writing, man has been able to put something of himself beyond death. In tradition and… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
“Disaster followed disaster... the hero stuck in there, though. Macon had long ago noticed that all adventure movies had the same moral:… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“They were about to continue a journey that had really started long ago. A journey that had been strangely interrupted, that even… — Alexander Key Copy Share Image
“I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, yes. Promises, no.” — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“Right in the centre was a tall bell tower of white stone, from which long ago some princess had leapt onto the… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image
Jose Ortega y Gasset says, "Tell me the landscape in which you live, and I will tell you who you are." Asserting… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
“Not so long ago, I spent a period in New York City, that teeming island of gneiss and concrete and glass, inhabiting… — Olivia Laing Copy Share Image
I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days. — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
“Still is the night, it quiets the streets down, In that window my love would appear; She's long since gone away from… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“Long ago, there was only One. One knew everything, but had experienced nothing. And so, One became many—us, people. The One, who… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I know what the counterterrorism feels like because I was there. But I also operated within limits. And within the United States… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“I remember Christian teachers telling me long ago that I must hate a bad man's actions but not hate the bad man:… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The bird music sank into her, like a song you used to know but forgot long ago. You hear a piano play… — Katherine Catmull Copy Share Image
“Long, long ago, (said the voice), five hundred years ago or more, on a winter's day at twilight, a young man entered… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“Another spell had been thrust upon her so long ago...She hadn't been able to see it but it was real. Otherwise why… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
