And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... "The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don't even… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
Harshness vanished. A sudden softness has replaced the meadows' wintry grey. Little rivulets of water changed their singing accents. Tendernesses, hesitantly, reach… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
How many elderly people you see have to leave the house they've had their whole life because their fixed income and their… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
"Once there, always there", would give you less freedom than you recently enjoyed, but more security. Security not in the sense of… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
All the sins of your life seem to be rising up against you. Don't give up hope! On the contrary, call your… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
The word is a thing of mystery, so volatile that it vanishes almost on the lip, yet so powerful that it decides… — Romano Guardini Copy Share Image
We now know that we cannot continue to put ever-increasing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. Actions have consequences. In fact, the… — Cary Fowler Copy Share Image
Letter-writing too often degenerates into a communicating of facts, and not of truths; of other men's deeds and not our thoughts.What are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is safe to say that almost every person living in New Orleans at the moment Hurricane Katrina struck shared your belief… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
One's dream is constantly evolving, rising and falling, changing course. This happens in every job, but because I have worked in comedy… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
My heart's dark, but it's rising. I'm pulling all the faith I can see. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Suspense combines curiosity with fear and pulls them up a rising slope. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I like the lad who, when his father thought To clip his morning nap by hackneyed phrase Of vagrant worm by early… — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
I had been sort of a rising star - an athlete, a scholar, a leader. My dream was to become a high-level… — Paula Broadwell Copy Share Image
I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic… — Tatjana Patitz Copy Share Image
Epicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I want our people to be like a molave tree, strong and resilient, standing on the hillsides, unafraid of the rising tide,… — Manuel L. Quezon Copy Share Image
Henceforth the cosmos, once a swarm of blazing galaxies, each a swarm of stars, was composed wholly of star-corpses. These dark grains… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
With rising Covid-19 cases and deaths in India, the government should have thought of the repercussions before opening liquor shops. — Jaideep Ahlawat Copy Share Image
A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
The so-called second New Deal of 1935 - including the Works Progress Administration, Social Security and the Wagner Act legalizing union labor… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Life is too short for any vain regretting... Between the swift sun's rising and its setting, we have no time for useless… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
