Even if it is indifferent to human desires, as it seems to be; if human life is a passing episode, hardly noticeable… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Every time I go to Europe, I remember that James Dean never saw Europe, but yet I see his face everywhere. There's… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by… — Brian May Copy Share Image
... there is clearly expressed for us? what it is we must attribute either to free will or to the decision and… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
The light is no mystery, the mystery is that there is something to keep the light from passing through. — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing… — Anonymous 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
Once we realize that government doesn't work, we will stop dreaming that this or that social problem can be solved by passing… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Just that, is one of those uncommon moments, those times when you don't wish for something else, for even one thing to… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Trees have about them something beautiful and attractive even to the fancy, since they cannot change their places, are witnesses of all… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
For a single girl in London, luck isn't always a glass slipper that fits. Sometimes luck is a splash of mud from… — Elizabeth Jane Howard Copy Share Image
Things in which we do not take joy are either a burden upon our minds to be got rid of at any… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions." She was lecturing him, so… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Describe your sorrows and desires, passing thoughts and the belief in some sort of beauty-describe all these with loving, quiet, humble sincerity,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Just as we bemoan the passing away of the Great Novel, a great novelist is likely to emerge, perhaps even from Denmark… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Madness to us means reversion; to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
