A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But then Mason touches my neck, to the spot on it where the cut from that night has since healed, and I… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“La beauté qui parle aux yeux, reprit-elle, n’est que le prestige d’un moment; l’œuil du corps n'est pas toujours celui de l'âme."… — George Sand Copy Share Image
He waved to the city and said good-bye. The city responded by carrying on the way it always did, traffic moving forward… — Matthew J. Kirby Copy Share Image
When I sleepwalk into your room, and pick you up, and hold you up in the moonlight, you cling to me hard,… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I had never wanted permanence before, not really, or I had wanted my freedom more; I had accepted that passionate feeling faded,… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“Only those could maintain certainty who were themselves of great permanence – like the stars, the mountains and the sea. And they… — Sten Nadolny Copy Share Image
“Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past. [Referring… — Jean-Henri Fabre Copy Share Image
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
“A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is merely the egoism of the man, who wants to bury a woman like a treasure. All attempts at using vows,… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Over your breasts of motionless current, over your legs of firmness and water, over the permanence and the pride of your naked… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours ... never doubt the excellence and… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
After death, life reappears in a different form and with different laws. It is inscribed in the laws of the permanence of… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
I think vampires are different from human beings, but they're sentenced to eternity on this planet. They have the same confusion about… — Alexandra Cassavetes Copy Share Image
“They told us to depend on memory, because nothing written down could be relied on. The Spirit travels from mouth to mouth,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Obey; this may be right; but beware of reverence… Government is nothing but regulated force; force is its appropriate claim upon your… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“Only the existence of a public realm and the world’s subsequent transformation into a community of things which gathers men together and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The overwhelming pressure of mechanization evident in the newspaper and the magazine, has led to the creation of vast monopolies of communication.… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
“There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees. Our globe seen… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What Jesus meant was that whoever is attached to the worldly life and this earthly body will lose them in death. But… — Rama Swami Copy Share Image
My belief in the growth and permanence of democracy is undimmed. I know that the people will cast off the new dictatorship… — Sylvia Pankhurst Copy Share Image
In coming to an appreciation of the Mormon Church, one of the things that has been most compelling to me is the… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I can always invent movement, and sometimes it can be fitted into the right place, but that is not choreography. It is… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image