Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into… — Newell Dwight Hillis Copy Share Image
once, when I was a young lady and on a night express ... I was awakened by a man coming in from… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Life's sunniest hours are not without The shadow of some lingering doubt-- Amid its brightest joys will steal Spectres of evil yet… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Fair Venus shines Even in the eve of day, with sweetest beam Propitious shines, and shakes a trembling flood Of softened radiance… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
Kazuhiko could have taken his gun and aimed it at the person behind them. But Sakura wouldn't want that. What she wanted… — Koushun Takami Copy Share Image
He splayed a hand out over the photographs, trembling fingers not quite touching the shiny surface, and then he turned and leaned… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Have you ever happened, reader, to feel that subtle sorrow of parting with an unloved abode? The heart does not break, as… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Bathed in sweat and trembling with agitation, no, not with agitation, but with fear, for he finally admitted it to himself: it… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Then the trembling starts to get worse. This must be how they begin, he thinks. Freak-outs. Breakdowns. Crack-ups. Eventually shut-ins and finally… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
The dancer's trembling heart must bring everything into harmony, from the tips of her shoes to the flutter of her eyelashes, from… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and for thy possession, the ends of the earth.… — Alexander Anderson Copy Share Image
Fear has been the original parent of superstition, and every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of their invisible… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and… — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
The hunter who accepts the sporting code of ethics keeps his commandments in the greatest solitude, with no witness or audience other… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
First of all, although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
...the girl with the tip-tilted nose, the forget-me-not eyes, the rose red cheeks and the lily-white neck and shoulders who gave the… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
Perhaps those, who, trembling most, maintain a dignity in their fate, are the bravest: resolution on reflection is real courage. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
