SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Here in the United States, we speak with reverence of authentic experience. We write poems about our daddies taking us fishing and… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
I have therefore come to the opinion that the most reasonable recourse for the humanization of society and its institutions is to… — Manitonquat Copy Share Image
Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words. We… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to recapture anything. It's really about moving forward. I don't have much reverence for what I've done in the… — Matt Sharp Copy Share Image
A hundred thousand men were led By one calf near three centuries dead; They followed still his crooked way And lost a… — Sam Walter Foss Copy Share Image
He is likely to remain the one historian of the Sierra; he imported into his view the imagination of the poet and… — Robert Underwood Johnson Copy Share Image
Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles / To… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“The scientific spirit, the contempt of tradition, the lack of discipline and the exaltation of the individual have very nearly made an… — Kenyon Cox Copy Share Image
I have a reverence for medicine because I hero-worshiped my father [a former doctor], and because I admire doctors, I admire study,… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Some men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
As a good picture would come, I would never know exactly what I had done. When you did see it, it would… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
In a musical sense, it seemed like all the good intentions had gone awry, very quickly. I mean, we got back from… — Justine Frischmann Copy Share Image
At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
If you are fully aligned with your soul it will be your pleasure, your joy to always move toward cooperation, toward sharing,… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When we reverence anything in the mature, it is their virtues or their wisdom, and this is an easy matter. But we… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Love, Hope, and Reverence are realities of a different order from the senses, but they are positive and constant facts, always active,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In my heart there may be doubt that I deserve the Nobel award over other men of letters whom I hold in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have no reverence for any book that teaches a doctrine contrary to my reason; no reverence for any book that teaches… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
