We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton… — Katharine Sergeant Angell White Copy Share Image
We were enclosed, O eternal Father, within the garden of your breast. You drew us out of your holy mind like a… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's also… — Marcus Brigstocke Copy Share Image
I believe in you and me. I'm like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that I have a respect… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
There is a giant gulf between doing something and doing nothing. And someone who makes a lolcat and uploads it - even… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Catching fish is not a mental game between fish and angler. A 'smart' trout is only smarter than other trout, not smarter… — Lee Wulff Copy Share Image
What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no!… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie askew in… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Juno MacGuff: Wise move. I know this girl who had a huge crazy freakout because she took too many behavioral meds at… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Undaunted faith can stop the mouths of lions, make ineffective the fiery flames, make dry corridors through beds of rivers and seas.… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
How do we meditate silently? Just by not talking, just by not using outer words, we are not doing silent meditation. Silent… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact...that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nothing in all nature is so lovely and so vigorous, so perfectly at home in its environment, as a fish in the… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
It might be that some day I shall be drowned by the sea, or die of pneumonia from sleeping out at night,… — Janet Reno Copy Share Image
The sun's champagne streamed from one body into another. And there was a couple on the green silk of the grass, covered… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The reason territorial monarchs failed time after time against maritime powers was not that absolutist, non-consensual governments were incapable of building great… — Peter Padfield Copy Share Image
The soul on earth is an immortal guest, Compelled to starve at an unreal feast: A spark, which upward tends by nature's… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
It is the dissenter, the theorist, the aspirant, who is quitting this ancient domain to embark on seas of adventure, who engages… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Over this country, when the giant Eagle flings the shadow of his wing, the land is darkened. So compact is it that… — Hugh Walpole Copy Share Image
It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For an instant she felt them, their identities, almost their substance, pass over her head like a wave. At some time she… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I traveled to Israel in a small party assembled by Marty Peretz, the editor-in-chief of 'The New Republic.' Other guests included Senator… — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
Give me mine angle, we'll to th' river: there, My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finned fishes. My bended hook… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Time was something that largely happened to other people; he viewed it in the same way that people on the shore viewed… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The selective winnowing of time leaves only a few recognizable individuals behind for the historian to light on. Thus the historian who… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to women as freely as to men.… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
What Brighton's got is a major sea port on either side, good for importing drugs, great for exporting cash, stolen cars, stolen… — Peter James Copy Share Image
I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
People at civil-liberties organizations say it's a sea change, and that it's very clear judges have begun to question more critically assertions… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I felt proud that the baby's first real adventure should be as a protest against the insanity of world annihilation. Already a… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges,… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
The Brain - is wider than the Sky - For - put them side by side - The one the other will… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Beauty - what is beauty, forsooth? Form and color; that is, surface only. Fortune - what is fortune? Nothing is ever a… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
How sweet to move at summer's eve By Clyde's meandering stream, When Sol in joy is seen to leave The earth with… — Andrew Park Copy Share Image
She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
