If death is truly a curse,' Spock said, as soberly as some power pronouncing a hundred years of sleep, but with a… — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
I think of no news to tell you. It is a serene summer day here, all above the snow. The hens steal… — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
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
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
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
Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
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
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
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
“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
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
Sometimes people ask, 'Does writing make you happy?' But I think that's beside the point. It makes you agitated, and continually in… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Now imagine that you are going beneath the surface of the ocean. Below the surface all is calm, silent, and serene. As… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In legal practice, in the representation of clients, I have always felt deeply engaged, serene, and not all inclined to stand aside.… — Louis Begley Copy Share Image
So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
If the man who observes the myriad stars, and considers that they and their innumerable satellites move in their serene dignity through… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same:… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The very sight of a teapot puts a smile on the face of most people. One cannot help but think of more… — Barbara Roberts Copy Share Image
We often love to think now of the life of men on beaches,--at least in midsummer, when the weather is serene; their… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Those who knew Benjamin Franklin will recollect that his mind was forever young, his temper ever serene; science, that never grows gray,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the… — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Center, a speaking Voice.… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat.… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
I know of no teachers so powerful and persuasive as the little army of specialists. They carry no banners, they beat no… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I took a walk, Suddenly I stood still, filled with the realization that I had no body or mind. All I could… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
He who believes in God is not careful for the morrow, but labors joyfully and with a great heart. "For He giveth… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The moods of a river change from hour to hour and day to day. It can be still and serene as a… — Ernie Lyons Copy Share Image
Belief in karma ought to make the life pure, strong, serene, and glad. Only our own deeds can hinder us; only our… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed,… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply pleased with us, pleased that we exist, and, from… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I was very serene, and I still am, until I start talking in another voice, then suddenly I have a lot of… — Kate McKinnon Copy Share Image
In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I would like to become tolerant without overlooking anything, persecute no one even when all people persecute me; become better without noticing… — Elias Canetti 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
