Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“when the sun rose at the quarry it turned the world lavender and gold. After” — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
“Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Cameras are like dogs, but dumb, and toward quarry, even more faithful. They point, they render, and defy the photographer who hopes. — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
One has to tiptoe lightly and steal up to one's quarry; you don't swish the water when you are fishing. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
When I was a kid the highlight of my week would be doing a fossil hunt at the local quarry... that kind… — Alice Lowe Copy Share Image
The undertaking of a careless man succeeds not, though he use the right expedients: a clever hunter, though well placed in ambush,… — J. K. Bharavi Copy Share Image
From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
It’s paradoxical that the death of your quarry is besides the point and at the same time the whole point. A chase… — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
“To find the Scythe of Nen, I first had to find possibly the most elusive quarry I'd ever had to locate in… — Lisa Shearin Copy Share Image
I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The different steps and degrees of education may be compared to the artificer's operations upon marble; it is one thing to dig… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Many hunters and professional soldiers (especially snipers) have remarked how important it is during a stalk to not directly stare or even… — Kenneth W. Royce Copy Share Image
Nelson Mandela once remarked that he befriended his jailers, those grim, khaki-clad overseers of his decades of hard labor in a limestone… — Marc Ian Barasch Copy Share Image
The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine of literature,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
A minute analysis of life at once destroys that splendor which dazzles the imagination. Whatsoever grandeur can display, or luxury enjoy, is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Isn’t there a time or two you can remember when somehow an animal you’ve hunted has done something to make you let… — Gene Hill Copy Share Image
All these soft kinds [of stone] have the advantage that they can be easily worked as soon as they have been taken… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
So live, that when thy summons comes to join, The innumerable caravan which moves, To that mysterious realm where each shall take,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
as a bird swoops down on it's prey, and assumes this land bound wretch into heaven, so did romeo steal her lips… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
“Their quarry had been cornered in his defenses and their bloodlust was such that they were likely to pay top Julep to… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Sorry-in-the-Vale, Sorriest River, Crying Pools," said Jared. "Is the quarry called Really Depressed Quarry? — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The dogs are still playing in the yard, but the quarry will not escape them, never mind how fast it is running… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
West Africa today is just a quarry of paving stones for Hell, and those stones were cemented in place with — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
Fame, or notoriety, whichever that special noise may be called when the world like a hound 'gives tongue' and announces that the… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
Captain Niall, having apparently resigned himself to losing his quarry, was savaging her horsehair petticoat into teeny, tiny shreds. "Really, what did… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
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