Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Two thousand years ago, in the Middle East, an event occurred that permanently changed the world. Because of that event, history was… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
The axe and saw are insanely busy, chips are flying thick as snowflakes, and every summer thousands of acres of priceless forests,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
And yet the real success goes to those who obsess. The focus that leads you through the Dip to the other side… — Seth Copy Share Image
Sri Ramakrishna is far greater than the disciples understand him to be. He is the embodiment of infinite spiritual ideas capable of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The majority of the ten thousand states of mind cannot be discussed. It is rather a question of teaching a person to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The modification of prejudice takes a long time, and occurs as the result of a thousand things that happen to the prejudiced… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Men look on knowledge which they learn--or might learn--from others as they do on the most beautiful structures which are not their… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
With a fourth generation of nuclear power, you can have a technology that will burn more than 99 percent of the energy… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
One down," Beckendorf said. "About five thousand to go." He tossed me a jar of thick green liquid—Greek fire, one of the… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the origins of the religious experience, how the history of religion has evolved over the last umpteen thousand years,… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
I wonder, when a writer's blocked and doesn't have any resources to pull himself out of it, why doesn't he jump in… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
There's a ripple effect in being underpaid for women. Ten thousand women are turned down every day for domestic abuse shelters. Part… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
Every particle of the world is a mirror. In each atom blazes forth the light of a thousand suns. Open the heart… — Mahmud Shabistari Copy Share Image
Tobacco has not yet been fully tried before the bar of science. But the tribunal has been prepared and the gathering of… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
Titian, Tintoretto, and Paul Veronese absolutely enchanted me, for they took away all sense of subject... It was the poetry of color… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
Two thousand scientists, in a hundred countries, engaged in the most elaborate, well organized scientific collaboration in the history of humankind, have… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
A day without a dark cloud. Almost a happy day. There were three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days like that in… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Sun and moon have no light left, earth is dark; Our women's world is sunk so deep, who can help us? Jewelry… — Qiu Jin Copy Share Image
Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
That's my favorite subject because it really levels the playing field for artists these days. You don't have to sell out to… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
I kind of liked the method of the seventies where they would throw a little bit of money at a hundred different… — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image
“Kallor shrugged. '[...] I have walked this land when the T'lan Imass were but children. I have commanded armies a hundred thousand… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
You cannot be a conscious Christian without St. Paul. He translated the teachings of Christ into a doctrinal structure that, even with… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken, I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children,… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If I'm doing an event, if it's a charity event, where it's a walk-around event, where I gotta put a thousand small… — Tom Colicchio Copy Share Image
My high school in South Bend had nearly a thousand students. Statistically, that means that several dozen were gay or lesbian. Yet,… — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
[...] "I recall what you said to me once," Will went on. "That words have the power to change us. Your words… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Those who would send out thousands of questionnaires asking the unconverted what they would desire most in a worship service should realize… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
It is still news to her that passion could steer her wrong though she went down, a thousand times strung out across… — Diane di Prima Copy Share Image
That could stay, not forever, because we believe that nothing exists that is forever, not even the dinosaurs, but if well maintained,… — Christo Copy Share Image
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I am part of a light, and it is the music. The Light fills my six senses: I see it, hear, feel,… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image