Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never… — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
“I have a hobby. I have the world’s largest collection of sea shells. I keep it scattered on beaches all over the… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
“Life is the name of all things that have shells separating them from the outside, the ability to sustain and reproduce themselves,… — Koji Suzuki Copy Share Image
Why did people assume that the beautiful among them needed nothing but their beauty to bring them happiness? That behind the beauty… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Maxim 20: If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective… — Howard Tayler Copy Share Image
How to sustain the miracle Of being, that like a muted bell, Or like some ocean-breathing shell, Quivers, intense and still? — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In Ireland, there are the same fossils, the same shells and the same sea bodies, as appear in America, and some of… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 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
The aristocrat, when he wants to, has very good manners. The Scottish upper classes, in particular, have that shell-shocked look that probably… — Jilly Cooper Copy Share Image
I guess this is gonna sound kind of weird, but I'm not scared for myself for dying. Because I believe all these… — Israel Kamakawiwo'ole Copy Share Image
It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
If there is no cost to be paid for the indiscriminate dumping of pollution into the earth's atmosphere, then it should be… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it… — J. F. C. Fuller Copy Share Image
Will Thisbee gave me The Beginner's Cook-Book for Girl Guides. It was just the thing; the writer assumes you know nothing about… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
So, the first thing we should introspect - are we concerned about ourselves ? All the time do we think that we… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
And Harry, with the unerring skill of the Seeker, caught the wand in his free hand as Voldemort fell backward, arms splayed,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing happened. And everything did. Your whole life you can be told something is wrong and so you believe it. Why should… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
The usual struggle squeezing my bloated Citroën, absurdly named “Picasso,” in or out of any old Italian town. I should be taking… — Joscelyn Godwin Copy Share Image
Philosophical studies are beset by one peril, a person easily brings himself to think that he thinks; and a smattering of science… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I'll look as if I'm dead, and that won't be true.' I said nothing. 'You understand. It's too far. I can't take… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
After a quarter of a century of personal experience and professional observation, I have come to understand that peace of mind is… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh The same desire and mystery, The echo of… — Dante Gabriel Rossetti Copy Share Image
It seems to me that I never grow unless I'm actually working with other actors who have shed whatever shell it is… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
First of all, people were not expecting [Donald Trump] to win. I still think they're in shell-shock four months later. Get over… — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Religion becomes a hollow shell of its former self when ritual remains and thoughtful reflection disappears. — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I marvel at the highest waves, the graceful curve of shells, the Ocean swells with power and prolificacy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want to be alone. Sympathies wasted on my hollow shell. I feel there's nothing left to fight for. No reason for… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She… — Marita Bonner Copy Share Image
I think I've always been half out of my shell and half in. Sometimes I can be extremely wild and sometimes I… — Emile Hirsch Copy Share Image
We reward people for making money off money, and moving money around and dividing up mortgages a thousand times over, selling it… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It’s only the sea,’ said Moomintroll. ‘Every wave that dies on the beach sings a little song to a shell. But you… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image