The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
O Lord! You are the guide of those who are passing through the Valley of Bewilderment. If I am a heretic, enlarge… — Mansur Al-Hallaj Copy Share Image
Hope is a path on the mountainside. At first there is no path. But then there are people passing that way. And… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
I don't hold much of care for 3D. I think it's a passing fad. It came and went in the '60s. I… — Ciaran Hinds Copy Share Image
When you have children, you almost feel like you've made your contribution to the survival of the human species. It's your way… — Chris de Burgh Copy Share Image
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I started off doing street team work for No Limit and Def Jam. I was the waterboy, the scrub. I was passing… — Paul Wall Copy Share Image
Photography in our time leaves us with a grave responsibility. While we are playing in our studios with broken flowerpots, oranges, nude… — Brassai Copy Share Image
I think men spend so much time passing for being men. There's a sense among many writers of color that the most… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
When a mother asked her small child how he fell out of bed, he answered, "Because I wasn't in far enough." Let… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
After the November elections gave Republicans control of the Senate, voters made clear they wanted change. We were hopeful our leaders got… — Louie Gohmert Copy Share Image
What is your personal carrying capacity for grief, rage, despair? We are living in a period of mass extinction. The numbers stand… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
Old churches must not simply stand as monuments to the past but as spiritual grandparents that have invested in the future by… — Eddie Gibbs Copy Share Image
Every one ought to study the Bible with two ends in view: his own growth in knowledge and grace, and passing it… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
After ages during which the earth produced harmless trilobites and butterflies, evolution progressed to the point at which it generated Neros, Genghis… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of all the world contains… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
One time, just passing by, I happened to see Jack White from the White Stripes. I'm a huge White Stripes fan, and… — Reid Scott Copy Share Image
Laugh often friends tho' passing years bring, sometimes, smiles and, sometimes, tears, for mirth forever warms and cheers. Laugh often! — John McLeod Copy Share Image
Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? Are the people inside… — John Cage Copy Share Image
Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Perhaps patriarchy's greatest psychological weapon is simply its universality and longevity. ... Patriarchy has a still more tenacious or powerful hold through… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
The reason the Democrats are so intent on passing a stem-cell bill is they're depending on the research to grow themselves a… — Will Durst Copy Share Image
You can never tell what type of impact you may make on another's life by your actions or lack of action. Some… — Ed Foreman Copy Share Image
Writing an autobiography, usually thought of as a looking back, can just as well be a looking across or through, with the… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter. — John Sterling Copy Share Image
A lot of people ask me about my father's passing when I was young, which I'm never comfortable with. I invariably move… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
The planet will adapt to anything. Maybe we should start to use the heart and the brain that we've been given to… — Guy Laliberte Copy Share Image
I saw the spires of Oxford As I was passing by, The gray spires of Oxford Against a pearl-gray sky. My heart… — Winifred Mary Letts Copy Share Image
our sons and daughters are only passing through. ... If we are lucky, they always will consider our home their harbor, but… — Jacquelyn Mitchard Copy Share Image
For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Given that we are passing the climate change bill, which is based on the supposition that the climate is getting warmer, let… — Peter Lilley Copy Share Image
All in all, Tolkien fans are as varied, remarkable and marvelous as the books and the worlds that they share. They make… — John Howe Copy Share Image
Money, success, and the external trappings have chased after me wherever I have gone. These things show up in my life, and… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I spent three years working at the White House and wanted to do something that wasn't about passing bills and resolutions. — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of… — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
