But I am I now; and so many other millions are so irretrievably their own special variety of 'I' that I can… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no struck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable… — Frank Schatzing Copy Share Image
The most successful of the Tartar princes assumed the military command, to which he was entitled by the superiority either of merit… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Next Monday the Convention in Virginia will assemble; we have still good hopes of its adoption here: though by no great plurality… — George Washington Copy Share Image
In the Catholic Church, there are many other things which most justly keep me in her bosom. The consent of peoples and… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry,… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
While he has not, in my hearing, spoken the English language, he makes it perfectly plain that he understands it. And he… — Jean Little Copy Share Image
Students present themselves...like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them. — John Updike Copy Share Image
No individual life is an end in itself. One can live fully only by participating fully in the succession of the generations,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It is hardly plausible to view a whole succession of logics as an evolutionary and functional program of innate wiring, particularly in… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
God can be good and terrible-not in succession-but at the same time. This is why we seek a mediator between us and… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors. — Aaron Hill Copy Share Image
My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason. — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
The greatest satisfaction you can obtain from life is your pleasure in producing, in your own individual way, something of value to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Great things do not just happen by impulse, but as a succession of small things linked together. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Time, which measures everything in our idea, and is often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as nothing; it… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If from one burning lamp someone lights another, then another from that one, and so on in succession, he has light continuously.… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
