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
Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I was taught to play the game from a total team concept-to be able to do everything reasonably well and some things… — Rick Barry Copy Share Image
The harsh fact of the matter is when you're passing legislation that will cover 300 million American people in different ways, it… — John Dingell Copy Share Image
Yes, this life is passing swiftly; our days seem to fade quickly; and death appears frightening at times. Nevertheless, our spirit will… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf 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
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
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
We open our eyes and we think we're seeing the whole world out there. But what has become clear—and really just in… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life, the leaf, the bud, the flower; No more doth flourish after… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Strange combination, isn't it--gratitude and resentment? But this is the way I think. Actually, I think everybody thinks that way. Even the… — Otsuichi 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
I smoked and looked down at the bottom of Pittsburgh for a little while, watching the kids playing tiny baseball, the distant… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The Treasury's plan has little for those outside of the financial industry. It is aimed at rescuing the same financial institutions that… — Richard Shelby Copy Share Image
In fact, you could make the argument that a historian like Shlomo Aronson does in passing in one of his books, that… — Nicholson Baker 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
Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
His football does not seem to suffer by all of this going on around him. You look at his passing and he… — Graham Taylor Copy Share Image
With the withering of the rose, and with each fallen petal, Allah is reminding us that everything here is passing away. He… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
I never fail to be moved by knowing that the ground on which I walk is layered with the past- with achievement… — Eva Hoffman Copy Share Image
“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
I actually don't feel the years passing, although the younger players make sure to remind me of my age. If there's a… — Ryan Giggs Copy Share Image
I don't want to sit on the sidelines and not value the gift of being here. Instead of the idea of time… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
What is the secret to great living? Entire separation to Christ and devotion to Him. Thus speaks every man and woman whose… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
So up I got in anger, And took a book I had, And put a ribbon on my hair To please a… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when… — Clive Anderson Copy Share Image
I’d go for Scholesy as the club’s greatest ever player. I’ve seen him do things that no other player can do. The… — Ryan Giggs Copy Share Image
I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Our purpose on this earth is not one single event, an accomplishment we can check off a list. There is no test.… — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
I'm simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I'm saying that you can get rid of all this insanity… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I would like you to show me, if you can, where the line can be drawn between an organism and it's environment.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The table is the number one place we pass on family stories and it's the knowledge of where your family came from… — Laurie David Copy Share Image
My advice to whoever asks me how to make a home is to not have anything, just a few shelves for books,… — Gae Aulenti Copy Share Image
If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation. Let this be one aspect of our daily intercession: "God,… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard.… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
“Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It was one of those perfect New York October afternoons, when the explosion of oranges and yellows against the bright blue sky… — Sarah Dunn Copy Share Image
