“It was the week after Easter holidays, and he was journeying along with Smart the mare and the light spring-cart, watching the… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The problem is that if we had known Satan was taking over the world we would have needed a whole other budget… — Amy Sherman-Palladino Copy Share Image
The city grows like a cancer; I must grow like a sun. The city eats deeper and deeper into the red; it… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
You so often see bowlers pick out a lovely new ball from the bag at nets and it looks great when it… — James Anderson Copy Share Image
The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Do I have a problem with Larry Ellison buying Sun? No, that's part of the capitalist system. As soon as we go… — Scott McNealy Copy Share Image
Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until… — Homer Copy Share Image
As freely as the firmament embraces the world, so mercy must encircle friend and foe. The sun poursforth impartially his beams through… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
I've tried not to exaggerate the glory of athletes. I'd rather, if I could, preserve a sense of proportion, to write about… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Then what difference does human striving make: mortal struggle, valor, pain? If you live, then live for the test of spirit, for… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
Every line of true knowledge must find its completeness as it converges on God, just as every beam of daylight leads the… — Robert Dabney Copy Share Image
In a great affliction there is no light either in the stars or in the sun; for when the inward light is… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
This [the movie Babe] is the way Americans want to think of pigs. Real-life 'Babes' see no sun in their limited lives,… — Morley Safer Copy Share Image
Being poor with three small children is terrifying. You can't make any plans. You know you're not going on holiday, ever. There's… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
It may be that the night will close over us in the end, but I believe that morning will come again. Morning… — Rosemary Sutcliff Copy Share Image
Inside, my soul became so cold I hated everything. I even despised the sun, for I knew I would never be able… — Dave Pelzer Copy Share Image
“Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole, so that he… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
This perfected body can be compared to a mirror, and the human spirit to the sun. Nevertheless, if the mirror breaks, the… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
“A vast field opened like a blossoming tulip, flowers blooming in the rippling airs of spring. High and frothy trees hugged air… — Paul Andreas Wunderlich Copy Share Image
“Her resolutions against Jim Meserve were just like the lightning-bugs holding a convention. They met at night and made scorning speeches against… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I was walking along a road one evening – on one side lay the city, and below me was the fjord. The… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I toyed briefly with an image someone once mentioned to me, of a village in the shadow of a twin-peaked mountain. In… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In a large university, there are as many deans and executive heads as there are schools and departments. Their relations to one… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred miles… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
O friend, my bosom said, Through thee alone the sky is arched. Through thee the rose is red; All things through thee… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When asked by a grumpily puzzled professor what "rules" he followed, Debussy is said to have retorted, mon plaisir "whatever I please"… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
Again the early-morning sun was generous with it's warmth. All the sounds dear to a horseman were around me-the snort of the… — Wynford Vaughan-Thomas Copy Share Image
The stars associated with the solar system, such as the planets and asteroids (and it should be remembered that the term star… — Henry M. Morris Copy Share Image
“Now if only we stopped for a moment to think, it is quite obvious that there is no merit or design or… — Filippo Bologna Copy Share Image
What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
In his study of Atlanta over the last 60 years, Kevin Kruse convincingly describes the critical connections between race, Sun Belt suburbanization,… — Dan Carter Copy Share Image
“The sun tells the best joke of a day full of them, setting so spectacularly that you can almost smell the tropical… — Tod Wodicka Copy Share Image
It hit me that being hip was a full-time job, and I was only a part-timer. I couldn't hide forever that I… — Jancee Dunn Copy Share Image
Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There's a famous quotation from the time the Buddha learned of the deaths of two of his greatest disciples: "It's as if… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image