Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
MOTHER: Why, just lying there, Jim, you run so fast. I never saw anyone move so much, just sleeping. Promise me, Jim.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Your prayer must be for a healthy mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that has no fear of… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
You write your books. You scatter your seeds. Rats might eat them, or they might rot. In California, some seeds lie dormant… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
This is the deadening consensus that crosses party lines, that dominates our major media, and that is strangling the liberty and prosperity… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. . . . How beautifully they go to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We add that it would be all too easy to object that mutations have no evolutionary effect because they are eliminated by… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
The condition of the United States positively announces the lack of substance, of unifying principle from the start: that consensus is a… — Davis Schneiderman Copy Share Image
The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label. I certainly proved it in the case of EPIC [End… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
As for me, I've chosen to follow a simple course: Come clean. And wherever possible, live your life in a way that… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
In a presidential campaign, you can't lie. You can't hide what you are and what you want. You can't hide what kind… — Nicolas Sarkozy Copy Share Image
We of Es Toch tell a little myth, which says that in the beginning the Creator told a great lie. For there… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Lying," he said out loud, hoping no one would hear. "I need to lie. Teach me, quickly." I wouldn't if I were… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
So many companies today, when first confronted by a crisis, go into a bunker mentality. They either say, "No comment," or they… — Steven Fink Copy Share Image
“She had argued for a broad interpretation, which imposed a duty to answer questions truthfully, and not to hide facts which could… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the 'bad girl' or the 'good girl' or the 'bad… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
The great thing about having been poor is how liberated it makes you if you eventually become rich. There's nothing like the… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
To fall for," "to be fallen for"--I feel in these words something unspeakably vulgar, farcical, and at the same time extraordinarily complacent.… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
In all matters of opinion and science ... the difference between men is ... oftener found to lie in generals than in… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I find I can get so much done between midnight and 4 a.m. Everything is quiet, no one is disturbing me, and… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Whatever we attempt is a reflection of our inner thirst, which we hope to quench in all these external ways. What we… — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
GOING TO WALDEN It isn't very far as highways lie. I might be back by nightfall, having seen The rough pines, and… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
After a long moment I closed the freezer door. I wanted to lie down and press my cheek against the cool linoleum.… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
Why is it we love so fully what has washed up on the beaches of our hearts, those lost messages, lost friends,… — Richard Jackson Copy Share Image
The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
This morning I understand what it means to die: when we disappear, it is the others who die for us, for here… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
During episodes of unemployment I find it rewarding to sleep as much as possible-anything from twelve to fourteen hours a day is… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“I don't think anybody'd remember and certainly do know everybody'd lie. The reason I'm so bitter and, as I said, 'in anguish,'… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final. In… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
And that's when Anna realized that what the wolf had been asking Bran for was death. Impulsively, Anna stepped away from Charles.… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image