The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep… — Lisa St. Aubin de Terán Copy Share Image
God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The private devotions and secret offices of religion are like the refreshing of a garden with the distilling and petty drops of… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
I know of no religion or sect that has done or is doing without a house of God, variously described as a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Each of our temples is an expression of our testimony that life beyond the grave is as real and as certain as… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Altars should face the east, and should always be placed on a lower level than are the statues in the temples, so… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The tomb of the Saviour was a narrow and empty vault, precious only for its memories of the supreme tragedy of the… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
Horace, in a particularly boastful mood, once said his verse would last as long as the vestal virgins kept going up the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I do not hesitate to say that the road to eminence and power, from an obscure condition, ought not to be made… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
As in Jesus' time, so today, tyranny and pride need to be whipped out of the temple, and humility and divine Science… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
Jesus defied all of these rules. He taught in the outer courts of the Temple so women could join the audience. — Danny Silk Copy Share Image
Chris Davis [of the Davisfunds] has a temple of shame. He celebrates the things they did that lost them a lot of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me… — Katherine Dunham Copy Share Image
In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Here's the Middle East. Here's the mosque, here's the church, open the temple, everybody's MAD! — Maria Bamford Copy Share Image
If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, what doubts should we… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I've done Last Samurai in Japan, in LA, in New Zealand. Even in Japan it is very hard to shoot, because there's… — Hiroyuki Sanada Copy Share Image
I have a terrible wanderthirst; the very sight of a map makes me want to put on my hat and take an… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground, and tell sad stories of the death of kings... All murdered; for within… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Thought, stumbling, plods Past fallen temples, vanished gods, Altars unincensed, fanes undecked, Eternal systems flown or wrecked; Through trackless centuries that grant… — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image