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
Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain,… — Charles Mackay 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
All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
I drank from the bottle again and it was a scary plunge because I always wanted to take too much. It hurt,… — James Franco Copy Share Image
It is my PRIDE, my damned, native, unconquerable Pride, that plunges me into Distraction. You must know that 19 - 20th of… — Thomas Chatterton Copy Share Image
Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Soon we will plunge ourselves into cold shadows, and all of summer's stunning afternoons will be gone. I already hear the dead… — Charles Baudelaire 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
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
Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish desires and schemes that plunge them… — Saint Timothy Copy Share Image
The feeling of love is measured by the extent of missing the feverish state in which the absence of the other plunges… — Francine Noel Copy Share Image
I gaze lovingly at "Hilal" a love that is reflected through time or what we imagine to be time, as in a… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Give me a hot coal glowing bright red, Give me an ember sizzling with heat, These are the jewels made from my… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering. — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
As soon as an opinion becomes common it is sufficient reason for men to abandon it and to uphold the opposite opinion… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
The oft-heard comment that Leonardo [da Vinci]'s genius managed to transcend the culture of his time is amply justified. But his was… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows.… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Characters who are absolutely sure about what they do, who plunge ahead without fear, are not that interesting. We don’t go through… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
The mystery of the evening-star brilliant in silence and distance between the downward-surging plunge of the sun and the vast, hollow seething… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
He had said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Everything happens as though I were only one of the particular existences of some great incomprehensible and central being.... Sometimes this great… — Arthur Adamov Copy Share Image