In order to deviate successfully, one has to have at least a passing acquaintance with whatever norm one expects to deviate from. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form, The bended knee, the eye uplift; is all Which men need render; all which God… — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man. — Henry George Copy Share Image
For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Goals have never defined me as a player. What has defined me is my impact on the team. If that means passing… — Mia Hamm Copy Share Image
Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Speciation does not necessarily promote evolutionary change; rather, speciation 'gathers in' and guards evolutionary change by locking and stabilization for sufficient geological… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Returning from the wilderness a man becomes a restorer of order, a preserver. He sees the truth, recognizes his true heir, honors… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Life does not end when we die. Death is a rebirth into a spirit world of light and love, a transition from… — Betty Eadie Copy Share Image
“On the train I saw that world passing my window. It was when I came to see it was I who was… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valley in the lower Ramtops,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There were only 3 people that I wanted to meet in life, Nelson Mandela was one of them. What a life, what… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won't rain forever. You just have to sit down… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Guys think that the military associations of camo are going to make them look tough, as if they might just break out… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
When Will Graham could open his right eye, he saw the clock and knew where he was- an intensive-care unit. He knew… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
That's mostly what the Internet is, just passing the time. But unfortunately you are dealing with words that can have meaning. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Well, I like to - the game of serve and volley, but it's very tough, you know, against the best players because… — Daniela Hantuchova Copy Share Image
A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing… — Marc Racicot Copy Share Image
In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it. — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers set up the American judiciary as a check on the excesses of the elected branches and as a refuge… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
I have absolutely no objection to growing older. I am a stroke survivor so I am extremely grateful to be ageing -… — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is… — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
Liberals believe in burning the American flag, urinating on crucifixes, and passing out birth control pills to 11-year-olds without telling their parents… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Pilgrims are persons in motion passing through territories not their own, seeking something we might call completion, or perhaps the word clarity… — H. Richard Niebuhr Copy Share Image
There will always be a replacement coming along very soon - a newer version, a crazier version, a louder version. So if… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
Strike is always a form of direct action. With the strike, too, you are not asking government to make things easier for… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination… — Beatrice Webb Copy Share Image
... the decades looked on and didn't notice her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
It is one thing that I get a lot of joy out of, and that is passing the torch. Some stuff I… — Ricky Steamboat Copy Share Image
To despond is to lie ungrateful beforehand. Be not looking for evil. Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
The passing of Marxism-Leninism first from China and then from the Soviet Union will mean its death as a living ideology ...… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
