In general, American life is more easy-going. And civic pride, national pride in a cultural sense, is great in America. I think… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“The Tower trembles; the worlds shudder in their courses. The rose feels a chill, as of winter.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Every nation feels itself to be superior, but in America it's a jaunty feeling, and in some cases a rather ominous one… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Increasingly, I wonder if there are any outrages that would be sufficiently ominous in their effects upon liberty and unequivocal in their… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the… — D. W Brogan Copy Share Image
This is a strange book: visionary and dark. It stutters out a kind of music: repeated phrases which accumulate errors and mutate… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
You can't afford to make the shark look good so you do most of it with ominous music and a fin. — Jim Howick Copy Share Image
Weapons are ominous tools. They are abhorred by all creatures. Anyone who follows the Way shuns them. — Laozi Copy Share Image
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned — George Santayana Copy Share Image
If men are obsolete, then women will soon be extinct -- unless we rush down that ominous Brave New World path where… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
When I was a deacon, the ominous signs of the Great Depression began to appear. Tens of thousands lost their jobs. Money… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Nothing worthy can be built on a neglect of higher meanings and on a relativistic view of concepts and culture as a… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
To me the question of the environment is more ominous than that of peace and war...I'm more worried about global warming than… — Hans Blix Copy Share Image
There is that interesting thing that Haughton Forrest was imagining the landscapes. They are so dramatic. They are dark, big, gloomy paintings… — Ben Quilty Copy Share Image
The key strengths of civilizations are also their central weaknesses. You can see that from the fact that the golden ages of… — Arthur Demarest Copy Share Image
The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
“Are you taking us to hell?" I ask, and Denise answers with an ominous, "More or less.” — Amy McAuley Copy Share Image
God! I hated this business of being grown-up. I hated having to make decisions where I didn't know what was behind the… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
Pakistan's ruler Pervez Musharraf predicted the Taliban will fall for hiding Osama bin Laden. Ex-king Zahir Shah is standing by to replace… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
Never has good weather felt so bad. Never have flowers inspired so much fear. Never has the warm caress of a sunbeam… — Joel Achenbach Copy Share Image
We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
