Now it is you who everyone presumes is so fragile. Wounded. Scarred. Maybe they're right. Perhaps you are. A nursery rhyme comes… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
“Along the bank there are various other people, but why they come or go, with the slowest of idle steps, or remain… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The realm of death seems an enemy's country to most men, on whose shores they are loathly driven by stress of weather;… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
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Heavens, how charming it is! There is now in the sky only the soft vaporous color of pale citron - the last… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
What we do with Him now, we will be for all eternity. In His eternity He came to die our death and… — Charles S. Price Copy Share Image
“He watched the sun rise beyond the grape arbor. In the thin golden light the young leaves and tendrils of the Scuppernong… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them. Filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking;… — Anonymous 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
What is love?” “I don’t know.” “Love is the name given to the bond Kemal feels with Füsun whenever they travel along… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
By the time I retire, I will have fought the best. I will have made my money. Maybe I'll be a boxing… — Oscar De La Hoya Copy Share Image
I remember I would not stand still; I would not stop being perplexed by everything that spontaneously attracted me or caught my… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
As we drifted to earth I sat up on the glass roof of the capsule, watching the beauty of the golden dawn… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A crippled child Said, "How shall I dance?" Let your heart dance We said. Then the invalid said: "How shall I sing?"… — Gabriela Mistral Copy Share Image
I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational… — Bill Lee Copy Share Image
A story can fly like a bee, so straight and swift you catch only the hum of its passing. Or move so… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image
Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point. ... Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
A friend is more than a therapist or confessor, even though a friend can sometimes heal us and offer us God's forgiveness.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Futility Move him into the sun - Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
She is standing on my lids And her hair is in my hair She has the colour of my eye She has… — Paul Eluard Copy Share Image
Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. ...… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Smog hung all round the horizon, the sun on the bright beige countryside was painful; she and the Chevy seemed parked at… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
From "Wetness and Water" How does a part of the world leave the world? How can wetness leave water? Do not try… — Rumi Copy Share Image
All day long this man would toil thus, his whole being centered upon the purpose of making twenty-three instead of twenty-two and… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
The more two people open to each other, the more this wide-openness also brings to the surface all the obstacles to it:… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
I feel like we're between two great possibilities: we're either going to turn things around, and in this generation see the rising… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
One of the great reasons, I am sure, why [David O.] McKay has lived to such a good, ripe, and vigorous old… — Ernest L. Wilkinson Copy Share Image
I'm just authentically, unapologetically myself. In and out of drag, in and out of the gig, in and out of the studio.… — Alyssa Edwards Copy Share Image
The birds that wake the morning, and those that love the shade; The winds that sweep the mountain or lull the drowsy… — Reginald Heber Copy Share Image
Nice thought. But I think I will no longer like to live in another generation. The sun will get hotter and the… — Xeru Tamoyo Ryko Copy Share Image
Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we had planted… — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
The prairies were dust. Day after day, summer after summer, the scorching winds blew the dust and the sun was brassy in… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
Calmly spinning, I scan as far away as I can see. The last rays of the day's sun warm my back and… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
For a long time, science has gone in the direction of sort of putting people in their place. We learned that the… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
That morning I was not yet a vampire, and I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely, and yet I can't… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
But one of the coolest things about meteorites is that most were formed four-and-a-half-billion years ago, during the birth of our solar… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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