Poetry is not the language we live in. It's not the language of our day-to-day errand-running and obligation-fulfilling, not the language with… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“We are more similar to the outside world than we could ever imagine. The great truth is that our nature is analogous… — Paola Sanjinez Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you need to completely close yourself off from the outside world and enrich your inner world by reading and thinking because… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I'm not saying you have to keep up. But at the moment you choose to stop growing, your world will begin to… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
Unlike the mother-son relationship, a daughter's relationship with her mother is something akin to bungee diving. She can stake her claim in… — Victoria Secunda Copy Share Image
“Books were so simple about these things, fairy tales so straightforward! There were peasants, and then there were kings and queens. Sometimes… — Liz Braswell Copy Share Image
“A stagecoach passed by on the road and went on; And the road didn’t become more beautiful or even more ugly. That’s… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
Prisons function by isolating those of us who are incarcerated from any means of support other than those charged with keeping us… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
“We talked about the speed trials, which were starting today. I said I was running in them, but not that it was… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“A museum employee walked through interrupting the conversation; he nodded to the couple before disappearing again. Nora hooks her arm with his… — Caroline Walken Copy Share Image
“In Highland New Guinea, now Popua New Guinea, a British district officer named James Taylor contacted a mountain village, above three thousand… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“They were one unto the other, a circle whirling evenly, effortlessly, endlessly. He knew beauty and the intensity of a dream and… — Dorothy B. Hughes Copy Share Image
“Our culture believes strong individuals can transcend their circumstances. I myself don't much enjoy books by Hardy or Dreiser or Wharton, where… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
Your body is free but your heart is in prison. To release your heart, you simply reverse the process which locked it… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“When we pull back into the castle courtyard, James is waiting. And he does not look happy. Actually he looks like a… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
“To awaken to history was to cease to live instinctively. It was to begin to see oneself and one’s group the way… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“The outside world may have wondered about Grant’s sympathies, but his private statements leave no room for conjecture about his inexorable drift… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“The sense of the world must lie outside the world. In the world everything is as it is, and everything happens as… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I think it is a combination of looks, aura, success, the energies that one gives out, the person you are and the… — Arjun Rampal Copy Share Image
“Belief is intellectual, it involves thinking, and it is a learned conditioning from the outside world: Fear arises out of beliefs. Trust… — Premlatha Rajkumar Copy Share Image
The relationship between God and his people was always the one having absolute primacy, the one that had basically to determine all… — David Novak Copy Share Image
When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. The wartime posters… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“It is not uncommon in the modern world for people to retreat into the world of books to escape from the realities… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
I believe the world is round because it was designed like that so we have nowhere to hide in a corner or… — Jesse Berridge Copy Share Image
“Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the word, a place where the U.S. government now puts… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't… — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
“When we feel disconnected, food can sometimes be a way of connecting with the outside world. Think about what you’re doing when… — Jon Gabriel Copy Share Image
“No, no, don’t touch your mother just before the baby is born. Now it will be a girl child, because you are… — Indu Sundaresan Copy Share Image
Today things are different. The darkness in the outside world has vanished, but the darkness in our hearts remains, virtually unchanged. Just… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Revolutionary or reformer – the error is the same. Unable to dominate and reform his own attitude towards life, which is everything,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The great Christian art did not die because all possible forms had been used up; it died because faith was being transformed… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
“The female guard in R&D explained that they had no women's street clothes, so she gave me the smallest pair of men's… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
Moments when the original 'poet' in each of us created the outside world for us, by finding the familiar in the unfamiliar,… — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
And everyone is always saying that marriage is really hard and takes a lot of work. But the thing is, when you… — Erin McCarthy Copy Share Image
“To me, love is paramount when choosing a mate. It will stand the test of time when the winds blow and the… — Melody Anne Copy Share Image
“A forbidding-looking place, certainly, but that only made it seem the more pitiful. It was the refuge of twenty-two men who, at… — Alfred Lansing Copy Share Image
There is a lesson that I learned at twelve - the world does not end at the edge of a quad. There… — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
I think we've been labelled as role models since we were very young. My sister and I don't look at ourselves as… — Mary-Kate Olsen Copy Share Image
I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude, where we meet our friends continually, and can imagine the outside… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
