A snake came to my water-trough / On a hot, hot day, and I in pyjamas for the heat, / To drink there. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than mine -- If he… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
During the last five years, those four advantages-costs, products, people, goodwill-have been the salvation of Interface during a recession that saw our… — Ray Anderson Copy Share Image
Numbers have dehumanized us. Over breakfast coffee we read of 40,000 American dead in Vietnam. Instead of vomiting, we reach for the… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
I suspect it's because Truman Democrats have been replaced by Gruber Democrats - self-styled elitists who feed lavishly at the public trough… — Jack Kelly Copy Share Image
Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
But this man had set down with a hammer and chisel and carved out a stone water trough to last ten thousand… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Though we often see life troughs as the universe's conspiracy to ruin us, they're actually our own true nature inviting us to… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Your 40s are a major trough. About the age of 50, feelings of satisfaction begin to rebound and keep rising into your… — Jane Pauley Copy Share Image
California is going to take themselves off the cliff culturally and economically, fiscally. They are going to be at the trough in… — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-gauges,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance. — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
[My father] did get enough money to buy mules. We didn't have tractors, but he bought mules, wagons, cultivators and some farming… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The last thing I would want is for Monbiot, Mann, Flannery, Jones, Hansen and the rest of the Climate rogues' gallery to… — James Delingpole Copy Share Image
For me, prayer means launching out of the heart towards God; it means lifting up one's eyes, quite simply, to heaven, a… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs. — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
What this country needs... what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Something ferocious and tragic, like… — William Styron Copy Share Image
God's visit to earth took place in an animal shelter with no attendants present and nowhere to lay the newborn king but… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history,… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image