Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I'm afraid to be on this shore a trunk without limbs, and what I most regret is not to have flower, pulp,… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited on our [England's] shores… — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
Fate is a sea without a shore, and the soul is a rock that abides. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we… — Phil Bredesen Copy Share Image
He turns his back to the far shore and rows toward it. He can in this way travel away from, yet still… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Levi's station in life was the receipt of custom; and Peter's, the shore of Galilee; and Paul's, the antechambers of the High-… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Somebody saying something offensive to you, or insulting to you, is not pleasant, but it's part of life. And my belief is… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
And yet one can't forever stand on the shore; at some point, even if filled with indecision, skepticism, reservation and doubt, you… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a stone cold… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who’s asking that… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there,… — William Bligh Copy Share Image
In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain-I find no sea room-but in great souls I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore. — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
I know I can walk through the world, along the shore or under the trees, with my mind filled with things of… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I haven't been one since I did a film called (coughs) Encino Man (laughing). After two or three runs with Pauly Shore,… — Brendan Fraser Copy Share Image
I return to the newborn world, and the soft-soil fields, What their first birthing lifted to the shores Of light, and trusted… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Between lips and lips there are cities of great ash and moist summit, drops of when and how, vague comings and goings:… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The stream of passing years is like a river with people being carried along in the current. Some are swept along, protesting,… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
Nothing is nicer than diving with your eyes open. Diving down as far as the shimmering legs of your mother and father… — Jenny Erpenbeck Copy Share Image
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
