Writing an autobiography, usually thought of as a looking back, can just as well be a looking across or through, with the… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
Beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It’s the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
On a micro level, if we're not terribly lucky, this sort of thing can happen to us quite frequently - the political… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for drug crimes and sex… — Mel Carnahan Copy Share Image
How deeply do any of us know our own selves? Ask yourself. We hold a picture of how we wish to be… — Craig Davidson Copy Share Image
Laugh. Laugh as much as you can. Laugh until you cry. Cry until you laugh. Keep doing it even if people are… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
I see nothing but Becoming. Be not deceived! It is the fault of your limited outlook and not the fault of the… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
So this was a nest of radicals. She thought a hotbed of sedition would involve more gunpowder and secret handshakes, and less… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Why does it have to be like this?' I asked bitterly. 'Why does life have to be so short, with all the… — Joseph Delaney Copy Share Image
From the air, Vatican City looked like a marble Monopoly set. The Church owned all the property from Broadwalk to Illinois Avenue,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Peoples of the entire world need to hear these words. Their conscience needs to grow in the certainty that Someone exists who… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Yeah, we were looking for a way to represent adulthood and the passing into adulthood. And I think, for me personally and… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
I guess it's like trying to put through the flat tax, which is probably my favorite one of all.... if we did… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Passing a tough resolution or threatening Iran will not bring about the desired outcome. — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Copy Share Image
Because beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment,… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
In passing, I firmly believe that research should be offset by a certain amount of teaching, if only as a change from… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall. — Adelaide Crapsey Copy Share Image
It is with extreme sadness that we hear of the passing of the leader of the world's Catholics, His Holiness Pope John… — Mohammad Khatami Copy Share Image
He rose and turned toward the lights of town. The tidepools bright as smelterpots among the dark rocks where the phosphorescent seacrabs… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The beauty of a house by the lake side in the middle of wilderness can best be appreciated not by those who… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Have you ever thought about it, about simply leaving? Really, truly thought about it with the intent to follow through and not… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Without God, life is like a school without a teacher. It is a wire with no current passing through it; it is… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
