A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet. — Shmuel Niger Copy Share Image
Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Don’t.” I walked up to him. “If it ever comes down to a situation between me and you, save yourself. I’m not… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
The orator, who may be silent without danger, may praise without difficulty and without reluctance; and posterity will confess that the character… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
When I was 14 and living in London, I'd go around Hampton Court Palace with its marvelous atmosphere, through the gateway where… — Jean Plaidy Copy Share Image
Romance is the truth of imagination and boyhood. Homer's horses clear the world at a bound. The child's eye needs no horizon… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Long live gravity! Long live stupidity, error, and greed in the palaces of fantasy capitalism! — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Life isn't perfect and that's the kind of world where Jesus showed up. He wasn't born in a palace on a perfect… — Louie Giglio Copy Share Image
You may depend upon it that they are as good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages. — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
I do miss the stage. There's nothing like it, nothing. When I did my one-woman show and played the Palace and played… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
I am a stranger to half measures. With life I am on the attack, restlessly ferreting out each pleasure, foraging for answers,… — Marita Golden Copy Share Image
Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand. Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand! — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . . . . Four years have already past… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling… — Yoshida Kenko Copy Share Image
I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my… — Christopher Love Copy Share Image
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God than live in that palace at Washington. — Rachel Jackson Copy Share Image
It is sparkling light, aromatic plants, a lofty palace, a flowing river, ripe fruit, a beautiful wife and abundant clothing, in an… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
Some princes are born in palaces. Some are born in mangers. But a few are born in the imagination, out of scraps… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Whatever is pure is also simple. It does not keep the eye on itself. The observer forgets the window in the landscape… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
