“When her gaze landed upon his lips, he scooted closer and brushed his mouth over hers. Fire ignited low in his belly… — D.A. Rhine Copy Share Image
“In a nervous and slender-leaved mimosa grove at the back of their villa we found a perch on the ruins of a… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Perhaps all women are part faerie, for what woman can deny her faerie blood when the portals to her own land are… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
“Was it a moment of indecision or was it a moment of redemption. Redemption long overdue and long unacknowledged? They didn’t know.… — Vinod Pande Copy Share Image
By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
...Nameless, unknown to me as you were, I couldn't forget your voice!' 'For how long?' 'O - ever so long. Days and… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
When you get into fashion, when you're not yet working in fashion, you have this idea about what the fashion world is:… — Prabal Gurung Copy Share Image
“They loved each other greatly. Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it. To them - and… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
I had seen so many begin to pack their lives in cotton woool, smother their impulses, hood their passions, and gradually retire… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in the falling snow; Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued Elations when the… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
If there’s any other message in this to readers, it’s in these two characters as icons of hope, that it doesn’t make… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
The demagogue is usually sly,a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality as respects all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people… — John Piper Copy Share Image
I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people.… — Linda Kaplan Thaler Copy Share Image
As long as my heart's still in it, I'll keep going. If the passion's there, why stop?... There'll likely be a point… — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
Music education can help spark a child's imagination or ignite a lifetime of passion. When you provide a child with new worlds… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The intellectual is always showing off, the lover is always getting lost. The intellectual runs away. afraid of drowning; the whole business… — Rumi Copy Share Image
It is essential..that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
My mother had a definite influence on my leadership style. She was very involved in the community. She would say that whenever… — Shellye Archambeau Copy Share Image
Machines taking over jobs - it's the history of civilization. Replacing farm animals, old forms of manual labor, now taking over small,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“In temperament the Second Men were curiously different from the earlier species. The same factors were present, but in different proportions, and… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
A coquette is one that is never to be persuaded out of the passion she has to please, nor out of a… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“Your heart tells you your life path, goals, and passions. The heart has a passion so deep it burns within you like… — Sarah Christine Lalonde Copy Share Image
The indispensability of reason does not imply that individual people are always rational or are unswayed by passion and illusion. It only… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“If you had the capacity to shove love into a princess or fury into a winged monster, you had the capacity to… — Rakesh Satyal Copy Share Image
“His (Lenin's)humanitarianism was a very abstract passion. It embraced humanity in general but he seems to have had little love for, or… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“You know, it's never wise to tempt the devil" His gaze lowered to her hand, still locked in his grip, her finger… — Kristen Callihan Copy Share Image
“Most days, I’ve got this impermanence thing down just great. It doesn’t bother me; what’s to bother? Most days, I sit comfortably… — Agnostic Zetetic Copy Share Image
Movies are so hard to get made - every step of the way of making a movie has obstacles. If you don't… — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image
Exultation that does not flow from education, affections that do not flow from knowing, savoring that does not flow from seeing, feeling… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
But a writing project begins not just in doubt but also in faith-that if your passion is genuine, if you have mastered… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
Love is a combination of admiration, respect, and passion. If you have one of those going, that's par for the course. If… — William Wharton Copy Share Image
“Do you know that feeling? When you meet someone and you know? The sudden hollowing out of your torso, as if your… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
“No matter how fierce was the passion that gripped him, the fact is he was paralyzed, transfixed by the contemplation of his… — Natsume Sōseki Copy Share Image
The balance is the penalty of being human: the danger of allowing yourself to feel. For this we walk a narrow path… — Peter F. Hamilton Copy Share Image
