“But you won’t abdicate." Of course not. It’s my duty to go on, to maintain the line. I can’t possibly fail in… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The first great literary work about solitude, the Tao Te Ching, was written in ancient China, likely in the sixth century B.C.,… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
'Strive for peace with all men, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord' (Heb. 12:14), Why did… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“If a thousand painters worked for a thousand years, they could not create a work of art as beautiful as you” — Shannon Dermott Copy Share Image
“ We have made the world dance as we sang for three thousand years. That is difficult habit to break, as I… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“1. Is anything impossible for the grace of God? Suppose you bring a light into a room that has been dark a… — Sri Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
“You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Modern humans arrived in Europe around forty thousand years ago, and again and again, the archaeological record shows, as soon as they… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
and I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“He looked at me, that first day, like he had just found something he’d lost a thousand years ago.” — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In Paul Friedrich's book Proto-Indo-European Trees he identifies the "semantic primitives" of the Indo-European tribe of languages through a group of words… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
“The tree blossoms, and bears its fruit, which falls, rots, withers, and even the seed is lost! Go, count the rings of… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“Though I live a thousand years,” recalled Pershing’s chief of staff, “I shall never forget that crowded hour.” — John F. Ross Copy Share Image
Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I took an estimated two thousand years of high school French, and when I finally got to France, I discovered that I… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“They say that I bring back the past; For instance, Helen comes, Brushing the maggots from her eyes, And, clearing her throat… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
“JENNET: They also say that I bring back the past; For instance Helen comes Brushing the maggots from her eyes, And, clearing… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
