It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher? — Horace Copy Share Image
Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
But why look back at all? Why turn your eyes to your shadow, when, by looking upward, you see your rainbow in… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
Suffering is better than sinning. There is more evil in a drop of sin than in an ocean of affliction. Better, burn… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century - and… — Bella Abzug Copy Share Image
Listen, Frank Zhang has moves. He's probably gonna turn into a kangaroo and do some marsupial jujitsu on their ugly faces. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everyone who turns up on 'X Factor' does it because a door has been closed to them at some time in their… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
What is it that turns people into artists? It often comes from some kind of pain or angst, a need to understand… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Those who cling to worthless idols turn away from God’s love for them. 9 But I, with shouts of grateful praise, will… — Jonah Copy Share Image
Rage keeps the person who feels it company. It moves into the hollows left by grief and loss, and turns inside you… — Paula Sharp Copy Share Image
He who never looks up to a living God, to a heavenly presence, loses the power of perceiving that presence, and the… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
It's much more interesting when you go to different places - make a left turn when nobody expects you to make a… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
I am an optimist and I believe that together we shall be able now to make the right historical choice so as… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, storing things away,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I don't care whether it's a chance meeting or playing a role that you thought was totally wrong but you did it… — Angela Lansbury Copy Share Image
Nonsense prevails, modesty fails Grace and virtue turn into stupidity While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise And… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
In Iraq #1 we stayed within U.N. mandates, limited our response, went home after Kuwait was freed - and were censured for… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
I know there's no heaven. I know it all turns to nothingness. But I fear there will be some remnant of me… — Drew Magary Copy Share Image
We have a largely materialistic lifestyle characterized by a materialistic culture. However, this only provides us with temporary, sensory satisfaction, whereas long-term… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I take it that the highest proof of Christ's power is not that He offers salvation, not that He bids you take… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
...people like to say things like 'all work is prostitution'. Most work is exploitation, but most work is not prostitution. Prostitution is… — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
If the 'Principle of Relativity' in an extreme sense establishes itself, it seems as if even Time would become discontinuous and be… — Oliver Lodge Copy Share Image
No matter what you do in life, a part of you still sits at a curbside, still hearing the drumbeat of a… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
It's a little weird when people turn around and look at you, but I don't mind. I really don't think I've changed. — Thomas Vanek Copy Share Image
It turns out that popularity is scary. I don't feel comfortable receiving so much attention from people; perhaps that's because I'm just… — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
Only strong natures can really be sweet ones; those that seem sweet are in general only weak, and may easily turn sour. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage! — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
But it turns out that even if I don’t talk a lot, when it’s something that matters I still have a lot… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Copy Share Image
For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Wit and wisdom differ; wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is bringing about ends. — John Selden Copy Share Image
Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It takes a year, nephew... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone. — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry will decline, just as a population which does not give birth will eventually… — R. J. Reynolds Copy Share Image
You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I remember reading Paul Fussell my first year teaching at U of Hawai'i and being like, oh, it has a turn! Why… — Juliana Spahr Copy Share Image
Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off: it is the economic equivalent of a force of nature… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Sometimes Allah punishes and sometimes men have to do it, and it is a wise man who knows if it's Allah's turn… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
