The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think we're all tightrope walkers suspended on a wire two thousand feet in the air, and so long as we… — Dorothy Gilman Copy Share Image
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If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
That is an incredible period I think when you have a near-death experience. You are really understanding that there is a greater… — Maya Tiwari Copy Share Image
The most important factor in the training of good mental habits consists in acquiring the attitude of suspended conclusion, and in mastering… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
To be on the safe and humane side, let every relative and friend ... remember the golden rule, which has never been… — Clifford Whittingham Beers Copy Share Image
There are often lists of the great living male movie stars. How often do you see the name of Nicolas Cage? He… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until… — Cheikh Anta Diop Copy Share Image
In the immortal germ line of human beings - that is, the eggs that sit in the ovaries - they actually sit… — Mark Roth Copy Share Image
I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete… — Lucinda Franks Copy Share Image
I witness with pleasure the supreme achievement of memory, which is the masterly use it makes of innate harmonies when gathering to… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
My paintings should become objects into which one could float, as in water, so that one's mind is hung... suspended, and the… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
NBC has suspended Brian Williams for six months without pay. Williams said he's not worried because soon his veterans benefits will kick… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
We know one another. This is the present. There is no past and no future. Here I am washing my hands, and… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In these anxious times many of us are less astonished that reason is ever suspended than that it should ever prevail, even… — Morton Irving Seiden Copy Share Image
I was watching MTV and there were girls dancing in suspended cages. That would be an ambivalent situation: "I'm trapped! ...but enjoying… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
I'm not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can't afford to be suspended for a… — LeBron James Copy Share Image
Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My friend and coach reminded me this week that there is a moment when the acrobat lets go of one trapeze and… — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
The distinction between indoors and outdoors, which in England is usually so marked, was temporarily suspended in a hot gauzy haze. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
By marriage the husband and wife are one person in law, that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
I have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended life. I have not hesitated to declare my affiliation with an extremely… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Herman Cain has suspended his presidential campaign, but he has asked the Secret Service if they could continue to provide him protection,… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
“Like time suspended, a wound unmended-- you and I. We had no ending, no said goodbye; For all my life, I'll wonder… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
If the artist succeeds in producing the impression of a movement which takes several moments for accomplishment, his work is certainly much… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
I was in preschool and a girl actually kissed me on the cheek. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know… — Jensen Ackles Copy Share Image
I imagine myself as the broadcaster for a Cubs-White Sox World Series, a Series that would last seven games, with the final… — Jack Brickhouse Copy Share Image
Surfers are the canaries down the mine. Those of us who surf spend more time than anyone soaking in whatever the sea… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
We didn't think he would play on Sunday because he was suspended - that makes me think he has all the qualities… — Arsene Wenger Copy Share Image
Illinois is a state of suspended animation and the people live in hibernation from Oct. to whenever it ever gets warmer. — John O'Hara Copy Share Image
You're suspended sixty feet up in the air, you've been up there for three hours, and all the shot requires is that… — Alfred Molina Copy Share Image
Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how that impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
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