Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little… — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
We're all a bunch of badminton birdies who just got batted from the Republican side of the court to the Democrat side.… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Trying to talk somebody out of the stuff that they enjoy in life is like trying to talk them out of their… — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; —… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The nephew revenges himself for this, by holding his breath and terrifying his kinswoman with the dread belief that he has made… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Focus your attention on the top of your neck. Take that energy and transmit it in two lines to your hands. Then… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted'… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
However and wherever war begins, it persists, it spreads, it propagates itself through time and across space with the terrifying tenacity of… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
...with the most infinite tenderness I have ever known in my life, he put his arms around me, gently, gently, and I… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
The trouble with God isn't that He so seldom makes Himself known to us... He's holding you and me and everybody else… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Julian dipped his head to her ear where he nuzzled her neck. “I will love you forever,” he whispered. — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
When teachers try to teach, nurses try to nurse, small businesses try to serve their clients and the police try to arrest… — John Redwood Copy Share Image
Why does anyone stay in an unhappy relationship? Because people do. They do it all the time. And the truth is, when… — Sarah Dunn Copy Share Image
But now that she was my apprentice, every such thought caused a guilty twitch in my neck, as if someone had dropped… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
One of the reasons to pick the cancer effort is to demonstrate to people that there's not much beyond our capacity. It… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
A rich man's body is like a premium cotton pillow, white and soft and blank. ''Ours'' is different. My father's spine was… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Right there, in front of everyone, I threw my arms arond his neck and mashed my mouth against his. He was startled… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I live by the beat like you live check to check. If you don't move your feet then I don't eat, So… — Andre Benjamin Copy Share Image
... He didn't know how to say good-bye. His throat ached from the strain of holding back his emotions. “I don't want… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
A Locrian, who proposed any new law, stood forth in the assembly of the people with a cord round his neck, and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to… — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
No man rides harder than my Lord Scamperdale - always goes as if he had a spare neck in his pocket. — Robert Smith Surtees Copy Share Image
he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
