Those who refuse to look at or give expression to the dark side of life are in denial-fear preventing passage through the… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
House passes #dadt (don't ask don't tell) repeal. A step fwd on equality 4 gay Americans in military. History will judge those… — Frank Pallone Copy Share Image
Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to… — Benjamin Stillingfleet Copy Share Image
Actors do have good and bad sides. It's because the passage down the birth canal distorts the face. People born by caesarean… — Richard Griffiths Copy Share Image
Music, at the end of the day, is communicating something - emotion, a feeling, a rite of passage, where you are in… — Ed O'Brien Copy Share Image
I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The passage into mystery always refreshes. If, when we work, we can look once a day upon the face of mystery, then… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
Here's a slightly outrageous tip: Don't respect the text. Just because you've written something down doesn't mean it has a right to… — Crawford Kilian Copy Share Image
Christopher Columbus was looking for a passage to India, but he landed in America. He landed in the wrong place, and when… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Strange priests are they who never straightly walk But all aslant through sideways passage stalk Who never seek their goals in forward… — Willard Fiske Copy Share Image
As an actor, I relish and delight in doing things that I'm not necessarily the demographic for. This is a demographic that… — Ray Stevenson Copy Share Image
Let us not try to understand music with our mind. Let us not even try to feel it with our heart. Let… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy; and, if haply your dates of life… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The sand in the hourglass runs from one compartment to the other, marking the passage of moments with something constant and tangible.If… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The journey toward authenticity, toward becoming whole is made palpable in Maureen Seaton's Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir. It shines its… — Terry Wolverton Copy Share Image
In every Magical, or similar system, it is invariably the first condition which the Aspirant must fulfill: he must once and for… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“The way of the Essentialist means living by design, not by default. Instead of making choices reactively, the Essentialist deliberately distinguishes the… — Greg McKeown Copy Share Image
As we cleared the passage we found mixed with the rubble broken potsherds, jar seals, and numerous fragments of small objects; water… — Howard Carter Copy Share Image
I find it expressed in various passages of Scripture that the fact that God knows things while in a state of possibility,… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Your interviews or blog posts or whatever are less supplements to your novel than part of it. I'm not private, but I… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
There’s a passage that I love in Romans 1. … [I]t talks about homosexuality and it says that they will receive in… — David Barton Copy Share Image
Hebrews . This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds. — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
[I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Krystal’s slow passage up the school had resembled the passage of a goat through the body of a boa constrictor, being highly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Apollodorus says, "If any one were to take away from the books of Chrysippus all the passages which he quotes from other… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
Perhaps sunlight had always been luminous, and doorways signs of greater passage than that of one room to another. But she’d not… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest. — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind… — John Irving Copy Share Image
[The passage of the Sugar Act] set people a thinking, in six months, more than they had done in their whole lives… — James Otis Copy Share Image
I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have… — William Kidd Copy Share Image