[On swingers:] They have gone from Puritanism into promiscuity without passing through sensuality. — Molly Haskell Copy Share Image
The days followed one another patiently. Right back at the beginning of the multiverse they had tried all passing at the same… — Terry Pratchett 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
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
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
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
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
In my life, there have been people that I was convinced would be around forever, and yet, somehow they managed to drift… — Alana Stewart Copy Share Image
It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Once more their weird laughter of the loons comes to my ear, the distance lends it a musical, melancholy sound. For a… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
Love is the very process of passing over, of transformation, of stepping outside the limitations of fallen humanity - in which we… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
We must reverse this psychology (of needing guns for home defense). WE can do it by passing a law that says anyone… — Carl T. Rowan Copy Share Image
Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We all end up living secret lives. We create what we are willing to admire and admiring what we shouldn't confess to… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
Definition of lecture: An art of transmitting Information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of students without passing through… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; .in the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that we cannot… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Shakespeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity, as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own; and we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I smiled: I thought to myself Mr. Rochester is peculiar — he seems to forget that he pays me £30 per annum… — Charlotte Bronte 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
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
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
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
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
I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full. — Francesca Annis Copy Share Image
How do you feel?" he asked him. "Like a military academy," said Arthur. "Bits of me keep on passing out. — Douglas Adams 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
The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing… — Catullus Copy Share Image
A sketch book freezes time. It is an instantaneous form of meditation focusing us on the worth of every passing moment. — Julia Cameron 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
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
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
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