Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, Some of them turn into friends. Friends are the… — John Hay Copy Share Image
Some people spend so much time hunting treasure that they fail to see it all around them. It's like sifting through gold… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
The myriad past, it enters us and disappears. Except that within it, somewhere, like diamonds, exist the fragments that refuse to be… — James Salter Copy Share Image
This is the process of mental analysis, sifting through the selves, sifting through your thoughts, practicing mindfulness, learning to control thought. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality. — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Your soul is the priestess of memory, selecting, sifting, and ultimately gathering your vanishing days toward presence. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The charter school is a possibility, an alternative in certain circumstances, but not in most, and not in most places, and not… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I think the Internet really sussed things into perspective. Because twelve years ago, I could spend my days on writing and running… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
“Closing his eyes, he held her tightly and sifted place in a general southerly direction, pushing to the farthest limits his diminished… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I don't go into any album with a concept or a deliberate direction. It's more letting the best music that really appeals… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
Given the lack of public skills in reading photographs, given that photographic content is sometimes buried in beauty, contemporary landscape photographers are… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
And each year now we know more, but we know no better — what we see in the sky is simply the… — Christopher Buckley Copy Share Image
Algaliarept varied its shape, sifting through my mind without me even knowing to choose what scared me the most. Once it had… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
The farmer after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.This result might… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But then, Cap'n Crunch in a flake form would be suicidal madness; it would last about as long, when immersed in milk,… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“I drank some of that lake! I might have choked on a fish or a frog or a...a...a turtle!" "It is wisest… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I wrote almost all of it in the deepest hope and conviction. Sifting my thoughts and choosing my words. Trying to say… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Men's hearts are being searched...it is a tremendous sifting time, not only of actions but of inner motives. Nothing can escape the… — Frank Bartleman Copy Share Image
I do not know all of the providences of the Lord, but I do know that he permits false doctrine to be… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
From my spirit's gray defeat, From my pulse's flagging beat, From my hopes that turned to sand Sifting through my close-clenched hand,… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
“Every sifting comes by divine command and permission. Satan must ask leave before he can lay a finger upon Job. Nay, more,… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Some kind of clutter is difficult - letting go of things with sentimental value, sifting through papers - but some clutter I… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out, the grains tipping, sifting past each other. Maybe it was a state of mind. — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired. — Armand Hammer Copy Share Image
Cosmology is serious business and in our hearts we are nothing if not cosmologists, hanging in a cold cage sifting the ruthless… — Dennis Overbye Copy Share Image
“Sifting through the sieve of branches, a dusting of sugar over the cereal of dead leaves. An inch of snow accumulated through… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
When we learn to say a deep, passionate yes to the things that really matter, then peace begins to settle onto our… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor; the labor of sifting, combining,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I'd love to say that every move I make is completely calculated and I'm sitting on a pile of scripts, sifting through… — Eric Balfour Copy Share Image
Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat.… — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news False history gets written… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Put in every joke that's not a dud and then let's just start pulling the ones that work the least. You're just… — Jason H. Moore Copy Share Image
I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A nap is not to be confused with sleeping. We sleep to recharge our bodies. We nap to care for our souls.… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
