to the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
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I know for a fact that this idea of the Jews causing the war and the Jews being so all important is… — Joachim von Ribbentrop Copy Share Image
What a wonderful faculty is memory! -- the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on… — Susanna Moodie Copy Share Image
I could say I believe in every drop of rain that . . . Well, I believe life is a Zen koan,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
What have I got in my pocket?" he said aloud. He was talking to himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, you split your soul, you see, and hide part of it in an object outside the body. Then, even if one’s… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For myself, I am interested in science and in philosophy only because I want to learn something about the riddle of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a rule for what makes good fantasy work, and it's as strange as any riddle ever posed in a fairy tale:… — Teresa Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
A certain person wondered why a big strong girl like me wouldn't keep a job which paid a normal salary. I took… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
And when, in the evening of life, the golden clouds rest sweetly and invitingly upon the golden mountains, and the light of… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
But the solution to the riddle of life and space and time lies outside space and time. For, as it should be… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
“I felt I was in the loneliest place in the world, and I was apprehensive. Nothing could be heard except the occasional… — Loren Graham Copy Share Image
“May I leave you with a bit of a riddle, Lord Tyrion?” He did not wait for an answer. “In a room… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Molecular genetics, our latest wonder, has taught us to spell out the connectivity of the tree of life in such palpable detail… — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
“The first question is: what is a sound that makes no sound?' And by the time Captain Lambestyo has thought of an… — Matt Suddain Copy Share Image
The blood of Heaven binds you," said the Queen. "Blood calls to blood, under the skin. But love and blood are not… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” “Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“Silver hidden in the gold, Young man hidden in the old, Laughing lord with weeping eyes, Bring king and ring before sunrise!… — Margaret Lovett Copy Share Image
Every great literature has always been allegorical - allegorical of some view of the whole universe. The 'Iliad' is only great because… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
'The Hobbit' was one of the first biggish books I ever read. I remember vividly the 'riddles in the dark' passage, and… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
“I’d once heard a spiritual “riddle” that went like this: “What’s the only thing in heaven that’s the same as it was… — Todd Burpo Copy Share Image
The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
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In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles." "What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No!… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a riddle about a man who is locked in a room with nothing but a bed and a calendar, and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an unsolvable riddle. But the contemplation of that riddle - even though… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Would all, who cherish such wild wishes, but look around them, they would oftenest find their sphere of duty, of prosperity, and… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
We are sure that, though we know not how, necessity does comport with liberty, the individual with the world, my polarity with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The whole [of religion] is a riddle, an ænigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the onlyresult of our… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“I have a little pussy,/ And her coat is silver-gray;/ She lives in a great wide meadow/ And she never runs away./… — Stories of Childhood Copy Share Image
It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death.… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
If then, your world be such a baffling riddle, it is because you are that baffling riddle. And if your speech be… — Mikhail Naimy Copy Share Image
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