Even if one succeeds in making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, there remains the problem of what to do… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There remains, however, the hope, at least in Russia, that, as sometimes happens in history, the memory of lost alternatives will one… — Stephen Cohen Copy Share Image
I can admire the solemn and stately language of worship that recognizes the greatness of God, but it will not warm my… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal — Pierre Boulez Copy Share Image
Each such answer to the great question, invariably asserted by the followers of its propounder, if not by himself, to be complete… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
There was a small wooden gazebo built out over the water; Isabelle was sitting in it, staring out across the lake. She… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we;… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We feel the beauty of nature because we are part of nature and because we know that however much in our separate… — Ernest Everett Just Copy Share Image
Money-crimes have an abstract quality. History is laden with the victims of gold, but their remains are odourless. — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Speaking the words he had been taught, directing them no longer upward but to the earth on which he knelt, he prayed:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten,… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
An artist is a person who lives in the triangle which remains after the angle which we may call common sense has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The truth in you remains as radiant as a star, as pure as light, as innocent as love itself. — James Lane Allen Copy Share Image
A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and, when it has fallen… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
In my experience, Cupid's arrows rarely strike two people with the same definition of cleanliness. One partner usually feels like he or… — Margo Kaufman Copy Share Image
Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state. But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even… — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image