The rains are rhythmic, coming religiously in the afternoons (after lunch has been eaten but before tea, so that the nights are… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
But the owls themselves are not hard to find, silent and on the wing, with their ear tufts flat against their heads… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
A certain degree of solitude seems necessary to the full growth and spread of the highest mind; and therefore must a very… — Novalis Copy Share Image
Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Lovers who are free to go when they are restless always come back; lovers who are free to change remain interesting. The… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
If I'm alone at home, I get increasingly restless, bothered by the idea that I'm missing some crucial encounter out there somewhere.… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Doubt is the disease of this inquisitive, restless age. It is the price we pay for our advanced intelligence and civilization-the him… — Ross Turnbull Copy Share Image
Ere you lie down to sleep in the night, sit still awhile, and nurse again to life your gentler self. Forget the… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
Maybe it's true that we are all descended from the restless, the nervous, the criminals, the arguers and brawlers, but also the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Visual artists choreograph dances for the eyes, guiding visual journeys in specific ways. But when presented with little or nothing, the journeys… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
“Wo aakey khwaab mein taskine-iztiraab to de, Vale mujhe tapishe-dil majaale-khwaab to de. [Taskine-iztiraab: peace to a restless mind; tapishe-dil : heart… — Hasan Suhail Siddiqui Copy Share Image
An effective proclamation of the Gospel in contemporary Western society will need to confront directly the widespread spirit of agnosticism and relativism… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
We were young, we were wild, we were restless Had to go, had to fly, had to get away Took a chance… — Josh Gracin Copy Share Image
How shall not man, whose nature stands bound up with forces vast, innate with strength, reveal his life In mould of holiest… — Deron Williams Copy Share Image
The dragon-fly is dancing,— Is on the water glancing, She flits about with nimble wing, The flickering, fluttering, restless thing. Besotted chafers… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
So I am praying while not knowing how to pray. I am resting while feeling restless, at peace while tempted, safe while… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Dozens of chemotherapy treatments and one bone marrow transplant later, I wish I could say that I've mastered the art of not… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
A scientist sets out to conquer nature through knowledge - external nature, external knowledge. By these means he may split the atom… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Leaders are fascinated by future. You are a leader if and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Those of us who witness the degraded state of the environment and the suffering that comes with it cannot afford to be… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of people who like training with guns are probably drawn to it not only for practical reasons,… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
We [humans] are the only creatures who are in-between. We're of the earth, but don't belong to it, because we strain after… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
We must be learning if we are to feel fully alive, and when life, or love, becomes too predictable and it seems… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
“When you're restless, you're alive and awake, not sleepwalking in your life or in your creative practice. You value independent thinking of… — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
I went to law school. I found it interesting for the first three weeks. By the fourth week, I found it tedious.… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Who does not observe the immediate glow and security that is diffused over the life of woman, before restless or fretful, by… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
You get a strange feeling when youre about to leave a place. Like youll not only miss the people you love but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively;… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I was simply restless, quite likely because of a dissatisfaction with the recent trajectory of my life, and if there is a… — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
Peter Hyland's poems are both elegantly wrought and meditatively wild. They testify to an original, restless intelligence. He can cast his imagination… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
Men are in a restless pursuit after satisfaction and earthly things. They have no forethought for their eternal state, the present hour… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The Stone trembled and threw herself outward bound, toward Saturn. In her train followed hundreds and thousands and hundreds of thousands of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Yea, I have looked, and seen November there; The changeless seal of change it seemed to be, Fair death of things that,… — William Morris Copy Share Image
Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, / The muttering retreats / Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels / And sawdust… — John Green Copy Share Image
Scientists who study play, in animals and humans alike, are developing a consensus view that play is something more than a way… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image