Life is not stationary. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years all tick away at the same clip for everyone. No… — Hugh W. Pinnock Copy Share Image
Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Perhaps Bufalino’s closest friend was Philadelphia crime boss Angelo Bruno. Law enforcement referred to Bufalino as “the quiet Don Rosario”; Bruno was… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
“Even in your hobbies, has there not always been some secret attraction which the others are curiously ignorant of--something, not to be… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The Metropolitan Police has a very straightforward approach to murder investigations, not for them the detective’s gut instinct or the intricate logical… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“In theory, I would like to lead a transparent life. I wold like my life to be as clear as a new… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“Charles Darwin came to marriage with some trepidation. Of course he studied it carefully, cataloging the pluses and minuses of the connubial… — Annabelle Gurwitch Copy Share Image
What makes me so certain that the natural human lifespan is far in excess of the actual one is this. Among all… — Hans Selye Copy Share Image
“Architecture without pain, art looked at in undiluted pleasure, enjoyment without anxiety, compunction, heartache: there is no beggar woman in the church… — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
“Are not all lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Looking at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots representing towns and villages on… — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
“She knew from listening to her grandmother that old age was made up of such remembrances of youth. But she didn’t want… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Because our world is not the same as Othello’s world. You can’t make flivvers without steel—and you can’t make tragedies without social… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Maybe universal nostalgia doesn't exist. Maybe each of us carries our own personal version of the better times. It's at about twnety-two… — Caleb J. Ross Copy Share Image
“Nothing in the past has shaken the foundation of our faith. Nothing in the present can move it. Nothing in the future… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
“In extreme old age you suddenly find you are unable to run uphill, two buckets full of hen food are heavier than… — Deborah Devonshire Copy Share Image
People who use their erudition to write for a learned minority... don't seem to me favored by fortune but rather to be… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
“He was almost a poet in his old age and his notion of what happened took a poetic turn. 'I had come… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“All this occupied his thoughts when he revisited the places of his war. Tramping over soil fed by the blood of men… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
“Have you met my new dancer?" The girl approached and he was able to dink in the sigh of her with a… — Kate Roth Copy Share Image
The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“& they kind of probe about your future & if you have a will or why you bother to accumulate all that… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
“What was needed, was not merely a resolute man, but a man who was also free from the net of legal controls.… — Livy Copy Share Image
I am utterly devoted to the present moment. Don't move into the past because that is memory; there is no relevant existence… — OSHO Copy Share Image
I should never conclude were I to speak to you of all the misfortunes which have their origin in the faulty carriage… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
“To my surprise, I find the most relevant commentary on a marriage that continues into the sunset years comes from the radical… — Daniel Klein Copy Share Image
The truth about God is that He exists. He always existed. God existed before He created things. He is still creating things.… — Babloo Copy Share Image
