The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant… — Sarah Wayne Callies Copy Share Image
Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Mann was conscious of adopting different perspectives in different parts of the novella, but my guess is that there are plenty of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
From the Medicare prescription drug plan to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the passage of No Child Left… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
I do know I'm going to heaven. I have read all of the Scriptures and the passages that define paradise and things… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
The round towers of the castles looked as if they were so firmly encrusted in the sky that, to get to their… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I thought that, given the system of rewards central to our economic system, in which profit maximization is valued above all else… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
An ignorant man believes that the whole universe only exists for him: as if nothing else required any consideration. If, therefore, anything… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
There's a certain pressure you put on yourself to use the comics page to full advantage that can focus your mind to… — James Vance Copy Share Image
“The rites of passage in the academic world are arcane and, in their own way, highly romantic, and the tensions and unplesantries… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I believe I'm a caterpillar buried deep down under the ground. The entire earth is above me, crushing me and I begin… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
We found in the course of our journey the convenience of having disencumbered ourselves, by laying aside whatever we could spare; for… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from… — David Hume Copy Share Image
If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I wanted my first novel to be a veritable infarct of narrative cloggers-the trick being to feel your way through each clog… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
What interests us in operations of striation and smoothing are precisely the passages or combinations: how the forces at work within space… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Most importantly, postmodernism comes down on the side of photography and power, not photography as power. As a consequence, photography continues to… — Geoffrey Batchen Copy Share Image
Daily meditation keeps me sane. I memorize prayers or poems that express my highest spiritual ideals, and quietly, word for word, go… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
The Church, in her wisdom, maintains the distinction between engaged and married couples -- they are not the same, today's culture and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
There wasn't reparative therapy in Corinth. So in this passage I think people came to Christ and experienced a new life in… — Alan Chambers Copy Share Image
I tend to start with a kernel, a vague concept, and just begin to write things down - notes about a character,… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
I think women assess time passage much better than men - because of their biological clocks - and they are much more… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Reframing an extract as a quotation constitutes a kind of coauthorship. With no change in wording, the cited passage becomes different. I… — Gary Saul Morson Copy Share Image
Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
But this same process of the old teaching the young can also cause errors and false conclusions to accumulate with the passage… — Carl Eckart Copy Share Image
The odd thing about tradition is, the longer it's been going, the more people seem to take it seriously - as though… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst;… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Milton, when he went blind, declared that he could now begin the real work of his life. Similarly, with the merciless passage… — Doug Scott Copy Share Image
Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
The bright side of life's unpredictability is that it's not over until it's over. As dark as the passages and confusing as… — Marion Winik Copy Share Image
And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
I believe that the Bible is to be understood and received in the plain and obvious meaning of its passages; for I… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
There's a passage about 'rivers of molten rock that wound their way... until they cooled and lay like twisted dragon-shapes vomited from… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame,… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
