You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Star canto: star speaks light, and world to world Repeats the passage of the universe To God; the name of Christ--the one… — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
The point is that although love may die, what is said on its behalf cannot be consumed by the passage of time,… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
Becoming internally empowered shifts a person's center of gravity from external to internal- a mark of spiritual passage. — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
How science dwindles, and how volumes swell, How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun! — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Having a phone call from Steven Spielberg was just a fantastic rite of passage. I loved it, and he was very focused,… — Peter Morgan 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
We are not heavenly destined for a particular road; every road is our destiny; every path and every passage is our fate. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Protestant parents still keep a Bible handy in the house, so that the children can study it, and one of the first… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Very strange bridges are used to make the passage from one state of things to another; we may lose sight of them… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
“A precious, mouldering pleasure ’tis To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Where constraint breaks people, and mediation makes fools of them, the seduction of power is what makes them love their oppression. Because… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
It is right for you, young men, to enrich yourselves with the spoils of all pure literature; but he who would make… — Joseph Parker Copy Share Image
I loved reading historical novels when I was young, but I definitely don't think I wrote one. When I read my book… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
...it is not the obscure passages in Scripture that bind you but the ones you understand. With these you are to comply… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
As the work progresses the careful reader will insert mental interrogation points here and there. He will find that his interest increases… — John Bates Clark Copy Share Image
The model for our early bankruptcy laws was Deuteronomy, the idea that, under certain circumstances - in Deuteronomy, it is simply the… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
to look back on one's life is to experience the capriciousness of memory. ... the past is not static. It can be… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
I recall this passage as the hour of its first fully coming over me that she was a beautiful liberal creature. I… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The child had indeed shut up but all the questions that had accumulated on his tongue circulated in his mouth, moved through… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“... as a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it… — Plato Copy Share Image
So there are two separate tracks. One track is for the Syrian government and the opposition that is interested in a peaceful… — Mohammad Javad Zarif Copy Share Image
Only now are increasing numbers of political and social scientists beginning to realize that Kelso's theories provide a private-property-based alternative to the… — Hazel Henderson Copy Share Image
The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to construct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
If eternity had a season, it would be midsummer. Autumn, winter, spring are all change and passage, but at the height of… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
In times past there were rituals of passage that conducted a boy into manhood, where other men passed along the wisdom and… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
Genius scorns the power of gold: it is wrong. Gold is the war-scythe on its chariot, which mows down the millions of… — Ouida Copy Share Image
If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten… — Otto Dix Copy Share Image
I have heard articulate speech produced by sunlight I have heard a ray of the sun laugh and cough and sing! …… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
A Quest of any kind is a heroic journey. It is a rite of passage that carries you to an inner place… — Denise Linn Copy Share Image
Endurance involves much more than putting up with a situation; Patient Endurance is more than pacing up and down within the cell… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
As you suggested I have in the following disputed certain passages, trusting you will do me the justice either to modify the… — Denis Kearney Copy Share Image
Let dissolution come when it will, it can do the Christian no harm, for it will be but a passage out of… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
It's really hard for me to use the term 'history' in the singular, because it suggests a reductivist view of how moments… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
As a historian, I love every little detail, but whole long passages about wood paneling and journeys on horseback and every stop… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
The Anti-Slavery public have generously responded to our appeal, and sent the means to enable us to fit them out well, to… — Lewis Tappan Copy Share Image
