The very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,--persons who are so sure… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
“Now that I know how many people there are in the world, I can see how it might have been lonely growing… — H.G. Parry Copy Share Image
With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the fact of the world and see the collapse of this pygmy giant.… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Well, then--our course is chosen--spread the sail-- Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings well-- Look to the helm, good master--many… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
Over the years, I have seen too many politicians ruin their careers because they could not accept defeat graciously. — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Among these treasures of our land is water-fast becoming our most valuable, most prized, most critical resource. A blessing where properly used-but… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The Bible's historical accuracy is a reminder that while "the heavens declare the glory of God," there's also plenty of evidence among… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I once had a leather jacket that got ruined in the rain. Why does moisture ruin leather? Aren't cows outside a lot… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The immortal mind, superior to his fate, amid the outrage of external things, firm as the solid base of this great world,… — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
“Smoke curls among the ruins of East London. Many of the buildings have burned to the ground or split like exploded rocks.… — John Owen Theobald Copy Share Image
Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
