Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking it's… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The only indication of the passage of time lies in the heavens, the subtle shift of the moon. So Peeta begins pointing… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
By surviving passages of doubt and depression on the vocational journey, I have become clear about at least one thing: self-care is… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
If one takes a public stand against, say, most any sin you can think of, one is considered "courageous" and a "defender… — Benjamin L. Corey Copy Share Image
In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the pages of… — Frederick Buechner 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
Sometimes you write passages that don't need to be rewritten. Performance is that for me. Improvisation, things that happen in the moment,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction… — Marquis de Sade 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
My wife is my first reader, my first line of defence I suppose. So she says, "Oh well, oh yes, it's all… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading… — Helene Hanff 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
Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
With the passage of years, not all of Dicken's readers remained infatuated with his pathos. One generation's sublimity became another generation's kitsch. — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
I wish you hadn't been so over-courteous about putting the inscription on a card instead of on the flyleaf. It's the bookseller… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
I think the impacts of 9/11 on academic freedom vary greatly depending on locale and time (softening with the passage of time),… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
However global I strove to become in my thinking over the past twenty years, my sons kept me rooted to an utterly… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, style, and wit. A beautiful game, but one so remorselessly travestied by the… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Very few people are aware that in each of our fingers, located somewhere between the firs phalange, the mesophalange and the metaphalange,… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence… — Carl Hiaasen 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
Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy… — Jean-Dominique Bauby Copy Share Image
