The aged oak upon the steep stands more firm and secure if assailed by angry winds; for if the winter bares its… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
I live in the country, so I get a fair amount of exercise. We heat our house with wood, so I split… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first;… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
“Our lives aren't even about doing real things most of the time. We think and talk about people we've never met, pretend… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I take my dog, Fideo, out for a hike in Runyon Canyon three times a week. It's about 45 minutes round-trip with… — Ana Ortiz Copy Share Image
For the Left, tolerance does not mean tolerance. It means first, acceptance. And second, celebration. That is totalitarianism: You not only have… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
If I were to listen to people all the time when they say, 'Hey, this is a really high challenge, this is… — Gabriel E. Gomez Copy Share Image
Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild Mingled in harmony on Nature's face, Ascend our rocky mountains. Let thy foot… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
My first feeling was a wild desire to drive a stake in the sand and claim the place for myself. The beach… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Stay, my lord, And let your reason with your choler question What 'tis you go about: to climb steep hills Requires slow… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Maine is wonderful. It can be very hard. I mean, if you look at the profile maps it doesn't look it, but… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I don't think you should necessarily listen to a celebrity just because he is one. But if you can marshal your celebrity… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive… — John Milton Copy Share Image
[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When people look for the road in the clouds The cloud road disappears The mountains are tall and steep The streams are… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe &… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I'm afraid many women do choose the wedding over the marriage. It seems a steep price to pay, but it comes from… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Oh! might I kiss those eyes of fire, A million scarce would quench desire; Still would I steep my lips in bliss,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Although most Americans may be largely ignorant of what was, and still is, being done in their names, all are likely to… — Chalmers Johnson Copy Share Image
We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions. — Veerappa Moily Copy Share Image