The change from storm and winter to serene and mild weather, from dark and sluggish hours to bright and elastic ones, is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I love waking up with you, Sam. You feel so good. You smell so good and when I open my eyes and… — P.J. Fiala Copy Share Image
People in Parliament occupy themselves with private animosities and petty quarrels, and think little of the national interest. It is impossible to… — William III of England Copy Share Image
I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see;… — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day; the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“Anyhow, isn't it a bit wrong to think happiness is all smooth and serene. Isn't it mostly a great energetic struggle -… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
When I lived in Baltimore, I would come down fairly often to go to the Hirshhorn, and one of my good friends… — Abbi Jacobson Copy Share Image
I could no longer afford to be jealous or unfriendly, because, as soon as I was, a bandage came down over my… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
Audrey didn't necessarily feel that she had accomplished anything. But she was serene, because Audrey was very realistic about death. She had… — Robert Wolders Copy Share Image
By the help of the water of new birth, the stain of former years had been washed away, and a light from… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Sometimes a game comes at just the right moment in your life. 'Flower' is beautiful, serene, and a bit of sunshine in… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Wise people, after they have listened to the laws, become serene, like a deep, smooth, and still lake.” — Various Copy Share Image
“Claire's face looking pretty and serene, as if she were gifted with a madness that left her ignorant of worry.” — R.J. Lawrence Copy Share Image
When I had my first boy it all started and that male energy seemed to keep me awake but since my daughter,… — Sadie Frost Copy Share Image
A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be,… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
They who reach down into the depths of life where, in the stillness, the voice of God is heard, have the stabilizing… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
The most certain sign of wisdom is continual cheerfulness; her state is like the things above the moon, always clear and serene. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm produces the most cruel disorders in human society; but its fury is like that of thunder and tempest, which exhaust themselves… — David Hume Copy Share Image
One's appearance bespeaks dignity corresponding to the depth of his character. One's concentrated effort, serene attitude, taciturn air, courteous disposition, thoroughly polite… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
The day becomes more solemn and serene When noon is past; there is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures; nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
In eras past, mainstream culture was blandly, blindly complacent, so underground music was angry and dissatisfied. But now, mainstream culture isn’t complacent,… — Michael Azerrad Copy Share Image
The unwearable of high heels is self-evidently all around us, coming to a head at the average wedding reception, a uniformly high-heeled… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
…the Lake of Shining Waters was blue — blue — blue; not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
The moral task of man is a process of spiritualization. All creatures are go-betweens, and we are placed in time that by… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Millions of mutual-fund investors sleep well at night, serene in the belief that superior outcomes result from pooling funds with like-minded investors… — David F. Swensen Copy Share Image
Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief!… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. I've been a man, a woman,… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
With every year that I grow older, I also draw closer to (my loved ones) to the day when we will once… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image