You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“To pluck a flower means to take possession of it, and it also means to kill it.” — Anthony Bloom Copy Share Image
No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves. — Etheridge Knight Copy Share Image
Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
As though prayer could simply pluck sin out. But any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
Our advantages fly away without aid. Pluck the flower. [Lat., Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona. Carpite florem.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole,… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Never climb the tree with the reason of plucking a fruit; only to get there and pick a leaf. Let everything you… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Child, that is why all the rest are now a horror to her. That is what happens to those who pluck and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue Could make me any… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Your mortal attachments are like a puppet’s strings," Avari said, both hands clasped casually at his back. "One need only pluck the… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
Every time a good child dies, an angel of God comes down to earth. He takes the child in his arms, spreads… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
Baseball grew rapidly in favor; the field was ripe. America needed a live outdoor sport, and this game exactly suited the national… — John Montgomery Ward Copy Share Image
I would not be a rose upon the wall A queen might stop at, near the palace-door, To say to a courtier,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, Determination, American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm, American Pluck, Persistency, Performance, American… — Albert Goodwill Spalding Copy Share Image
If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor? Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
E'en in mid-harvest, while the jocund swain Pluck'd from the brittle stalk the golden grain, Oft have I seen the war of… — Virgil Copy Share Image
Petruchio: Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry. Katherine: If I be waspish, best beware my sting. Petruchio: My… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A question arises regarding the angels who dwell with us, serve us and protect us, whether their joys are equal to those… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Life is brimming with things to be discovered and known, skills to be mastered, challenges to be overcome. And when you are… — Christopher Kimball Copy Share Image
Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
One of the commonest mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic -… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image