It is impossible to catch today; it flows out from our palms! It is impossible to catch tomorrow; it flows out from… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Every fact is impure, but every fact contains in it the juices of life. Every fact is a clod, from which may… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Richard opened his hand, and the key stared up at him from his palm. "By my crooked teeth," asked Richard, remembering, "who… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Remember finally, that the ashes that were on your forehead are created from the burnt palms of last Palm Sunday. New beginnings… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone, But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
I don't know whether to admit it or not. You think I should tell them, Snerdley? Okay. Folks, some good friends of… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Suicide. A sideways word, a word that people whisper and mutter and cough: a word that must be squeezed out behind cupped… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The Art Magicke has rules. It means I have to teach you all my tricks. All the substitutions, the replications, the illusions.… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
I haven't come to you only to take , I haven't come to you empty handed : I bring you poetry as… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
I was in Cancun, Mexico, sitting in a disappearing-edge swimming pool, on a bar stool that was actually under the water, watching… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
Didn't we talk about this?" "HAIL!" "That isn't an answer." I planted my hands on my hips. "Was there a reason for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Give me the effing phone, Strider grumbled, opening his palm and waving his fingers. Effing? William laughed with genuine amusement. You ever… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
I wish I could tell you about the South Pacific. The way it actually was. The endless ocean. The infinite specks of… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
She thumped him again. He looked startled, then caught her flying fist in his hand and gently pried her fingers open. Very… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
The cycle hit the beach and spun out. Emma went into a rolling crouch as she flew free of it, keeping her… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
We humans think we are smart, but an orchid, for example, knows how to produce noble, symmetrical flowers, and a snail knows… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
There is a sort of natural instinct of human dignity in the heart of man which steels his very nerves not to… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
And you? Did you find the doorknob?” Hadrian picked up a jug and downed several swallows, drinking so quickly some of the… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Those five fingers and that palm were like a display case crammed full of everything I wanted to know--and everything I had… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Uncontradicting solitude Supports me on its giant palm; And like a sea-anemone Or simple snail, there cautiously Unfolds, emerges, what I am. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
So, what, you got cigarette burns, too?" Gitanes said. Chip showed his palm, "It's nothing." "Self-inflicted. You pathetic American." "Different kind of… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Some things never leave a person: scent of the hair of one you love, the texture of persimmons, in your palm, the… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
Tom is the most eccentric person I have ever worked with. We get on very well and I am most impressed with… — Louise Jameson Copy Share Image
The truly great and good, in affliction, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont; for it is the temper of… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Great is the man who can overcome the world, but greater still is the man who can overcome himself, for he will… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I'm a sucker for turquoise sea, white beaches and palm trees. I've been to the tropics every year since I could afford… — Bruno Tonioli Copy Share Image
The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and… — Patty Hearst Copy Share Image
Time has laid his hand Upon my heart, gently, not smiting it, But as a harper lays his open palm Upon his… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
When we raise one hand to say "bye-bye" we are gesturing that we are going apart from each other, whereas when we… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
