Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
I want to live my life without filters. I don't walk on egg shells. I say what I want and I'm a… — Demi Lovato Copy Share Image
Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
There was something about Jace, though, that made her want to push him, crack that shell of cynicism and make him admit… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As a boy I was a hermit crab, but I soon came out of my shell. Now I am a pincer crab,… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
The point is that something I thought was perfect has been broken, and I'm having to find the beauty in what is… — James Howe Copy Share Image
The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
He thinks of that ocean house and wishes he were back in his former life or that one could take one moment… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
Biologically inspired materials could revolutionize materials science. People looking at spider silk and abalone shells are looking for new ways to make… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“These shells are just like the people of the world, Okachan,' Manjiro said, speaking not just to his mother, but to everyone.… — Margi Preus Copy Share Image
From the place by the railing at the edge of the tracks on the summer evening I return across the city to… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Wave to the nice tourists, Sparkle. I promise it won't cause pestilence and firestorms." Elena bit the inside of her cheek at… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
...the first thing you do at the end is reflect on the beginning. Maybe it's some form of reverse closure, or just… — Jonathan Tropper 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
Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I find that I have painted my life, things happening in my life - without knowing. After painting the shell and shingle… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Once there was a gypsy queen who wore on her wrist a chain of six lucky charms - a golden crown, a… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
Yet, sluggard, wake, and gull thy soul no more With earth's false pleasures, and the world's delight, Whose fruit is fair and… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Some of the shells brought my heart into my mouth; lying there waiting for them was intolerable. I was sure I was… — Hervey Allen 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
within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties. — M.M. Kaye Copy Share Image
Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that… — Jonathan Krohn Copy Share Image
He that buys land buys many stones, He that buys flesh buys many bones, He that buys eggs buys many shells, But… — John Ray Copy Share Image
As an actor, you’ve got to live and learn, and you gotta just kind of form a hard shell and be confident… — Jessica Stroup Copy Share Image
I am the kind of woman who loves hurricanes. They put me in a party mood. Make me want to eat oysters… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
When a High Explosive shell bursts in fifteen feet and does you no damage, you can bet your sweet life you bear… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I stayed there, curled up into the warmth of your body, under the blankets, like something soft in a shell. Your arms… — Lucy Christopher Copy Share Image
The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings. — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
In order to get big things done, sometimes, presidents have to be deft at moving the pea around under the shells. — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
There is some kiss we want with your whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to… — Rumi Copy Share Image
If we reverse the outer shell and the essence--in other words, consider the outer shell the essence and the essence only the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
All inspiration comes from a higher power. The body is a shell. The creative spot is from God - You hear voices,… — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
