Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
The tunnels of our lives connect, coming to daylight at the oddest moments, and then plunge us into the dark again. We… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
You'll note that politicians no longer spend money, they invest it. Don't worry about paying more to the [IRS]. You aren't being… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I know what I'm asking. For you to find a needle in - God, not even a haystack. A needle in a… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
But once in a while . . . I don't know. I feel so close, Rose. So close to the edge. Like… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Are there not, dear Michael, Two points in the adventure of the diver,- One, when a beggar he prepares to plunge; One,… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Nixon identified himself as a crisis-laden man. He'd reach levels of victory and then he'd plunge into defeat. He was vice president,… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives us into the heart of… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the main thing is: Just do it. Plunge in! Being Canadian, I go swimming in icy cold lakes, and there… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure,… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
Yes, I took a remedial algebra course in college. I struggled in math in high school and didn’t have confidence to plunge… — Jim Stafford Copy Share Image
I always liked to take the plunge, you know, I'd jump in at the deep end and hope that I'd find land… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Make sure you're realistic about what you can do, but if you have a good lead with something, making the plunge into… — Ben Clymer Copy Share Image
Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object.… — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
“beg him: take me quick, farther, i: plunge in your rapids and you then: release me - pure - as foam as… — Anja Utler Copy Share Image
There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I could run nearly naked on a hot, windy beach and plunge without care into a running diamond sea; roll on the… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
John Green has written a powerful novel—one that plunges headlong into the labyrinth of life, love, and the mysteries of being human.… — KL Going Copy Share Image
If Tolstoy were alive today and working at Panopticon Insurance, he'd say that all insurance companies are the same, then throw himself… — Paul Neilan Copy Share Image
Happiness, I think, lies on the surface... when one plunges under the surface all the buoyant things disappear, and the farther down… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The minute my child was born, I was reborn as a feminist. It's so incredible what women can do... birthing naturally, as… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
If in the paddock the owner is surrounded by a herd of young children, don't back his horse. But if the owner… — Robert Morley Copy Share Image
Gershwin's tragedy was not that he failed to cross the tracks, but rather that he did, and once there in his new… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
It wasn't as if she was terrified of heights, she simply preferred to be closer to solid ground, where words like plummet… — Victoria Alexander Copy Share Image
The only equivalent plunge from genius I could think of was Ernest Hemmingway's tragic loss of ability to write. Hemmingway got up… — Ian Wooldridge Copy Share Image
Poetry is like walking along a little, tiny, narrow ridge up on a precipice. You never know the next step, whether there's… — Josephine Jacobsen Copy Share Image
A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The Long Emergency will be chiefly characterized as a "time out" from technology. It could plunge us into a dark age of… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The common, the quotidian, is so much more unyielding to me, really stubborn and hard to work with, and I like this… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
If I ask you to plunge into the Ganga or to jump from the roof of a house, meaning it all for… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Overseas, America's fighting men and women have been waging war against those who would attack America and plunge the world into a… — Mark Kennedy Copy Share Image
I always loved cartoons but the process seemed so difficult. Then I told myself, "Nothing good comes easy." So, I took a… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
Blood fills my mouth. Fire sears my veins. I choke back a howl. The silver knife slips--the choice is mine. I am… — Bree Despain Copy Share Image