Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
The sport to which I owe so much has undergone profound changes, but it's still baseball. Kids still imitate their heroes on… — Duke Snider Copy Share Image
There are a million rules for being a girl. There are a million things you have to do to get through each… — Elizabeth Scott Copy Share Image
Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dreams,… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Congress, 535 commoditized temple monkeys pawing through the ruins of America in search of bribes. The bicameral whorehouse on Capitol Hill works… — Fred Reed Copy Share Image
Simplicity of living gives you sensitivity of character. A lot of people told me that leaving L.A. and moving to Volcano (district… — Jason Scott Lee Copy Share Image
It is at a time like this, when crisis threatens the stomach, that the French display the most sympathetic side of their… — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
Never let it be said that Harry Dresden is afraid of a dried, dead bug. Creepy or not, I wasn't going to… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
A dog starv'd at the master's gate Predicts the ruin of the State. A horse misus'd upon the road Calls to heaven… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Tomorrow you may bring about the destruction of your world. Tomorrow you may sing in Paradise above the smoking ruins of your… — Henry Miller 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
Yes, he’s like a rash for which there’s no cure. It only goes away for a bit before returning unexpectedly to ruin… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Don’t let the past ruin your future. (Acheron) Meaning what, oh great Yoda? (Kyrian) You take care of the kid. I’ll take… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Court games aren't fair. They don't judge men by their worth, and they aren't about what's just. Guilty men can hold power… — Daniel Abraham Copy Share Image
The Hindu religion appears ... as a cathedral temple, half in ruins, noble in the mass, often fantastic in detail but always… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
If you do your "homework" well you can be sure you'll feel more relaxed. Make sure you have a walk or rest… — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
I'm not going to ruin my movie because of some stupid ruling that it has to be ninety minutes long. That's just… — Charles Willeford Copy Share Image
With science, ideas can germinate within a bed of theory, form, and practice that assists their growth... But we as gardeners, must… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Sitting down and weeping is what women have done for centuries, and it has done no good at all. Nor praying. God… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
No matter your wreckage. There will be someone to find you beautiful, despite the cruddy metal. Your ruin is not to be… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
I wish to be of service to the artists of our own day, by showing them how a small beginning leads to… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
It is we who built these palaces and cities, here in Spain and America and everywhere. We, the workers. We can build… — Buenaventura Durruti Copy Share Image
Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Idea for a short story. The shore of a lake, a young girl who's spent her whole life beside it, a girl… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Love is deceitful and sublime. In its truest form, it brings out the best in all beings. At its worse, It's a… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
A faith which we follow upon orders imposed from outside is no faith, and a community which puts its dependence upon such… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish desires and schemes that plunge them… — Saint Timothy Copy Share Image
While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
The Prisoner's Wife echoes Edwidge Danticat's Farming of the Bones in the urgency in which it reminds us of the possibility of… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Temptation can be defined as an inducement to do evil. Three powerful forces work together to ruin a believer's character and witness:… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
The only people I am aware of who don't have troubles are gathered in peaceful, little neighborhoods. There is never a care,… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead,… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
It's not bad enough I am exiled? It's not bad enough you take away the few good heroes I'm allowed to meet?… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The Jews invented a portable religion in the shape of the Bible, the Torah, and eventually the Talmud, and with other portable… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
The ruin of Paganism, in the age of Theodosius, is perhaps the only example of the total extirpation of any ancient and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
