The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
When a monk goes away from the world, he goes fighting with it. it is not a relaxed going. His whole being… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Poem for Liu Ya-tzu I cannot forget how in Canton we drank tea and in Chungking went over our poems when leaves… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
I am constantly torn between the attitude of the conscientious journalist who is a recorder and interpreter of the facts and of… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
I was always torn between wanting whatever I pictured as a typical high school experience and that being just a part I… — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
“Though this new forest grew mightily, elsewhere the mighty jungles fell. Elsewhere the coastal rain forests that furred the body of the… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness. — Faith Baldwin Copy Share Image
The big icebergs that drift into warmer water melt much more rapidly under water than on the surface, and sometimes a sharp,… — Edward Smith Copy Share Image
All these people that you meet or I meet, there's not a prayer in hell that they're ever going to run for… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a kaleidoscope of… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
The so-called right to privacy, as it were, is no longer a right inasmuch as it is now a privilege, to be… — Marshawn Lynch Copy Share Image
Death must simply become the discreet but dignified exit of a peaceful person from a helpful society that is not torn, not… — Philippe Aries Copy Share Image
The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I could not imagine living away from Sevenwaters, away from all that was so much a part of me. Maybe, if you… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
My favorite time of the holidays is when the children have torn open their loot and delivered their verdicts and are looking… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
Thus is the fruit of the Earth taken, its flesh torn. Thus is it given over standing, toward rot. It is the… — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
Dr. Calder [a Unitarian minister] said of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on the publications of Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi, that he was like… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples… — Edvard Grieg Copy Share Image
Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave?… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“It wouldn’t bring her back.” “I know. Trust me, I do. And I would have done far worse,” he says, “if I’d… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's in my mind a... turbulent moon-ridden girl or old woman, or both, dressed in opals and rags, feathers and torn taffeta,… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
Apart from a commendable determination to discomfit Trump and members of his inner circle (select military figures excepted, at least for now),… — Andrew Bacevich Copy Share Image