Shall we keep men in a fool's paradise? Shall we lull them into soft slumbers from which they will awake in hell?… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“In that smooth fortress of glass, I caught a glimpse of my corruption gripping steel, which before I had thought of as… — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
I find that jazz loosens up the deep place of my mind, lets me find my own strange rhythms. Generally, I find… — Paul Lynch Copy Share Image
And there's a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind, Or who have found a painter to make them so for pay And smooth… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
What interests us in operations of striation and smoothing are precisely the passages or combinations: how the forces at work within space… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen… — Roy Ayers Copy Share Image
Be in a state of gratitude for everything that shows up in your life. Be thankful for the storms as well as… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The peace that we are looking for is not peace that crumbles as soon as there is difficulty or chaos. Whether we’re… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I try to catch my breath and calm myself down, but it isn't easy. I was dead. I was dead, and then… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Splutter, splutter. Yes - we're off - we're rising. But why start off with an engine like that? But it smooths out… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I fell in love with you," he said, "because you were one of the bravest people I'd ever known. So how could… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The cat dropped the rat between its two front paws. "There are those," it said with a sigh, in tones as smooth… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Black ice is the smoothest naturally occuring ice there is, as if nature were condescending to art. ... Black ice is an… — Lorene Cary Copy Share Image
In the vast archipelago of the east, where Borneo and Java and Sumatra lie, and the Molucca Islands, and the Philippines, the… — Frederick Marryat Copy Share Image
Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think... It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
You have to be an extremist to believe that you're gonna be the president of the United States and your name is… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
Some guys can do more talking in the ring, other guys do posing, body building, whatever the hell they do in the… — Owen Hart Copy Share Image
When my way is too rough for my feet, or too steep for my strength, I get off it to some smooth… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Babes crying in the wilderness know that the world already has plenty of terrifying noise, but there aren't enough clear voices to… — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
So let the way wind up the hill or down, O’er rough or smooth, the journey will be joy; Still seeking what… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
I stood beside a hill Smooth with new-laid snow, A single star looked out From the cold evening glow. There was not… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
Water and oil, simply considered, are capable of giving some pleasure to the taste. Water, when simple, is insipid, inodorous, colorless, and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
As though prayer could simply pluck sin out. But any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
Time has stopped; time is racing. Lochie's lips are rough yet smooth, hard yet gentle. His fingers are strong: I feel them… — Tabitha Suzuma Copy Share Image
What's important is that you stay true to yourself. Because when you enter the real world, the most valuable thing you can… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Hockey is an art. It requires speed, precision, and strength like other sports, but it also demands an extraordinary intelligence to develop… — Jacques Plante Copy Share Image
I find it, as ever, very unprofitable to have much to do with men. It is sowing the wind, but not reaping… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“you clutter my mind thoughts of you, thoughts of me with you thoughts that keep me from rest that ull me to… — Madisen Kuhn Copy Share Image
There is no cultivation of patience when your pattern is to just try to seek harmony and smooth everything out. Patience implies… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I understand better than she'd imagine that history is indelible. You can mask it; you can patch it smooth and clear; but… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
After shows my face feels dirty with makeup and sweat, especially in the smaller venues, so it feels good to get back… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was a fashion assistant. I bought the fabric. I made sure that everything was smooth in the workroom. And I scrambled… — Jaye Davidson Copy Share Image
Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels,… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
There was a lot of stuff [in Rock of Ages] that had effects in it and I thought it was too smooth.… — Adam Shankman Copy Share Image
I find it soothing to take something wrinkled and make it smooth. It feels anticipatory. It's what I do before a celebration.… — Alexandra Stoddard Copy Share Image
For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If your path had been smooth, you would have depended upon your own surefootedness; but God roughened the path, so you have… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image