Politically speaking, it's always easier to shell out money for a disaster that has already happened, with clearly identifiable victims, than to… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale. — John Milton Copy Share Image
The very act of representation has been so thoroughly challenged in recent years by postmodern theories that it is impossible not to… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
Whatever happened to me just now has gotten to me, broken past the fragile shell I've built. More than my memory is… — Elizabeth Scott Copy Share Image
How then can we account for the persistence of the myth that inside the empty nest lives a shattered and depressed shell… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
In the past I was very open and very generous, and I found that it just exploded in my face. A lot… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
But then I think about my sister and what a shell-less turtle she was and how she wanted me to be one… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
Rich, 'the Old Man said dreamily, 'is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what… — Robert Ruark Copy Share Image
Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
The two Virtues of Equanimity and Compassion become more available to the person whose ego-shell has been smashed-either by great suffering or… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Beneath the ocean surface, bad things are happening. Increasing CO2 makes ocean water more acid, and that threatens to dissolve the shells… — Mark Powell Copy Share Image
You should never meet your heroes. Paul Newman... I was so excited about meeting him, but he turned up in shell suit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a part of childhood that is childish, and a part that is sacred. Suddenly we are touching the sacred part… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I can't accept "our nervous age," since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're in a battle for our lives for things that really matter to us. There's a shell game going on like I've… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a… — Paola Antonelli Copy Share Image
Within the oyster's shell uncouth The purest pearl may hide, Trust me you'll find a heart of truth Within that rough outside. — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside. — Sam Vaknin Copy Share Image
In sports as in child rearing, marital arguments, or tantrums, the same laws of learning apply; when an emotion is encouraged and… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
