The French have no such expression as 'killing time.' In their more philosophical vocabulary the term is 'passing time,' which means savoring… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
Gun control advocates need to realize that passing laws that honest gun owners will not obey is a self-defeating strategy. Gun owners… — J. Neil Schulman Copy Share Image
Something I always tell students is, when you're writing something, you want to write the first draft and you want it to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Bush the Elder's stature as president grows with every passing year. He was the finest foreign policy president I've ever covered and… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
Don't listen to me. Listen to yourself ... People often ask me at this age, 'Who am I passing the torch to?'… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Though she doesn't remember any trauma, she said that her parents told her she cried on a daily basis and her grandmother… — Mila Kunis Copy Share Image
All spiritual experiences are sensations in the body. They are simply a graded series of sensations, beginning with the solidity of earth… — Sri Anirvan Copy Share Image
I'm really disturbed by the degree to which I don't hear people saying, "Are we leaving the world better than we found… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values - the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell… — John Updike Copy Share Image
But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended, when it suited them. Memories were permanent. Sorrowful ones remained sad… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
By these pleasures it is permitted to relax the mind with play, in turmoils of the mind, or when our labors are… — Gerolamo Cardano Copy Share Image
The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
In mission, also on a continental level, it is very important to reaffirm the family, which remains the essential cell of society… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
That which once was, will be no more. Yesterday will never come again. To-day is passing, and will not return. You may… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
The great trains howling from track to track all night. The taut and telegraphic murmur of ten thousand city wires, drawn most… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
When you really think about your hand you begin to realize its connection, to sense the hum of your own being passing… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
What will happen to the spirit of this ancient dreaming land without the great mobs of kangaroos bounding across the song lines,… — Sue Arnold Copy Share Image
Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
My relationship to New York has changed a lot. I feel lucky to live here. A lot of times you walk through… — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
... when I saw any of those kinds of beauty I knew I was alive, and not just in the sense that… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
An infinite number of real parts of time, passing in succession, and exhausted one after another, appears so evident a contradiction, that… — David Hume Copy Share Image
What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives… — John Green Copy Share Image
You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was… — Sydney Schanberg Copy Share Image
Yo! Cam!” Beer Guy jumped off the porch and jogged down the sidewalk, passing me a quick look. “What you up to,… — J. Lynn Copy Share Image
Some people seem to believe that for each problem there is a solution readily available - a solution that can be promptly… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Massachusetts led the nation passing the first state minimum wage a century ago in June 1912, and with passage of an $11… — Holly Sklar Copy Share Image
Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passing fair, Playing in the wanton air: Through the velvet leaves the wind,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Rather than passing a thousand pages of tax reform legislation and restarting the tax code manipulation process, we should change the paradigm.… — Jim Bridenstine Copy Share Image
Meditation is not concentration. It is simple awareness. You simply relax and watch the breathing. In that watching, nothing is excluded. The… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude.… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
We've strayed into a zone with a high magical index,' he said. 'Don't ask me how. Once upon a time a really… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Man is a flux of states of consciousness, a flow of passing thoughts, each thought of self another self, a myriad thoughts,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
I used to go on college campuses 25 years ago and announce I was a feminist, and people thought it meant I… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,even a stranger, when in a lonely place.… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
