The name Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Unalaska, derived from the original Aleut word agunalaksh, which means "the shores where the… — Corey Ford Copy Share Image
If I had political responsibility, I would want to prepare for a plan B that would foresee that the European currency union,… — Peer Steinbruck Copy Share Image
If I wrote at all, I must throw myself headlong into the great political maelstrom, and would of course be swallowed up… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
I beg the reader not to go in search of messages. It is a term that I detest because it distresses me… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The conscious mind is a maelstrom of fleeting thoughts, images, sensations, feelings, conflicting desires, and doubts; barely able to confine its attention… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are tempted to be that kind of Christian who keeps the Lord’s wounds at arm’s length. Yet Jesus wants us… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Vengeous scowled. 'As you can see,' he said, 'you are vastly outnumbered.' I usually am.' Your situation has become quite untenable.' It… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
Why is the forecast so bland? Why instead of 'stormy' don't they just say the sea's 'a frothing maelstrom of terror and… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, 'Let's talk about something… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
The wave of punitiveness that washed over the United States with the rise of the drug war and the get tough movement… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory,… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
A lot of other people wanted a free production UNIX with lots of bells and whistles and wanted to convert MINIX into… — Andrew S. Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
“I don't feel calm at all. I am a maelstrom of emotions. All I want to do is scream.” — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Love is the impulse which directs the world, And all things know it and obey its power. Man, in the maelstrom of… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
There is that might-have-been which is the single rock we cling to above the maelstrom of unbearable reality. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Every time when it comes to writing a book, I think, "I'm the last person in the world that should be doing… — David Toop Copy Share Image
I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
