We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help By so much reading. It is… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Even if Bush could be forgiven for taking America, and much of the rest of the world, to war on false pretenses,… — Joseph Stiglitz 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
Humility collects the soul into a single point by the power of silence. A truly humble man has no desire to be… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards. — Charles Stuart Calverley Copy Share Image
He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that there would be objections if he… — Barbara Olson 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
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
Let those who think the soul is shallow rail, They must be warned before they dare to leap They'll plunge into the… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
To rid the grass of weed, to get The whole root, Thick, tangled, takes a strong mind And desire - to make… — Lucien Stryk Copy Share Image
But, in the end, the books that surround me are the books that made me, through my reading (and misreading) of them;… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist; Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you've… — W. H. Auden 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
How does the light of a star set out and plunge into black eternity in its immortal course? The star dies, but… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a… — Robert Browning 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
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
While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand new, even more unsustainable entitlement at the health care 'summit,' thousands… — Mark Steyn 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
As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I am pleased enough with the surfaces - in fact they alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Heavens, how charming it is! There is now in the sky only the soft vaporous color of pale citron - the last… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
