A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of… — William James Copy Share Image
The Santa Anas blew in hot from the desert, shriveling the last of the spring grass into whiskers of pale straw. Only… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Barely tearing her eyes away in time to focus on the water, she heard the heavy thump of his belt hitting the… — Vivienne Savage Copy Share Image
Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring; And modest dame… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“It is a place of fine weather, and this is a book of fine weather, a book written in Spring. I will… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
I rode horseback three miles each way to get to high school, and in bad weather it was a problem sometimes to… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The complaints of contemporary writes, who deplore the increase of luxury and deprevation of manners, are commonly expressive of their peculiar temper… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“I. IN WINTER Myself Pale mornings, and I rise. Still Morning Snow air--my fingers curl. Awakening New snow, O pine of dawn!… — Yvor Winters Copy Share Image
When the long, varnished buds of beech Point out beyond their reach, And tanned by summer suns Leaves of bright bryony turn… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
The purpose of God is the sovereign cause of all that good that is in man, and of all that external, internal… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
In early youth, if we find it difficult to control our feelings, so we find it difficult to vent them in the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“Autumn is the season of subtractions, the Japanese art of taking more and more away to charge the few things that remain.… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Truly, Autumn is my season,” the scarlet beast chorted. “Spring and Summer and Winter all begin with such late letters! But Autumn… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
The process of schooling does not give birth to human beings - as education should but never will so long as it… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
As we get older we do not get any younger. Seasons return, and today I am fifty-five, And this time last year… — Henry Reed Copy Share Image
Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another.… — Robert Runcie Copy Share Image
I never heard a wood thrush until I was a grown man, though I must have been surrounded by them every spring.… — Louis J. Halle Copy Share Image
“Change is in the air. This change reminds us that we are made and beautifully sculpted by the same power that orchestrates… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
The sense of justice springs from self-respect; both are coeval with our birth. Children are born with an innate sense of justice;… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done with when it… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
If you neglect to instruct children in the way of holiness, will the devil neglect to instruct them in the way of… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Mrs. Jo did not mean the measles, but that more serious malady called love, which is apt to ravage communities, spring and… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
As a kid growing up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, all I wanted to do was be on Broadway in a musical. 'Spring Awakening'… — Jonathan Groff Copy Share Image
If democracy succeeds in Egypt, other countries will follow. Should the democratic experiment in Egypt be hijacked by the military or anti-democratic… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
It's absolutely critical, you know, to train young men and women not just to find sites, but also to protect sites, especially… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share Image
It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
I have to spring a cat out of Rumelt Animal Shelter. Think of it as a prison break." It does the trick.… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
In spring when maple buds are red, We turn the clock an hour ahead; Which means, each April that arrives, We lose… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
We, drinking love at the furthest springs, Covered with love as a covering tree, We had grown as gods, as the gods… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
A ward, and still in bonds, one day I stole abroad; It was high spring, and all the way Primrosed and hung… — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
Independence used to be the ticket for liberty. But today, security and freedom, whether it's in the Arab Spring, whether it's in… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The end of despots is always odd?exhilarating to those who suffered their tyrannies, and to those who hold despotism in contempt, and… — Fouad Ajami Copy Share Image
The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
