'Helping industry' is the elephant pit of socialism, a deep hole with sharp spikes at the bottom, covered over with twigs and… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
There are patterns in everything, in the whole of Nature, from the way the stars turn in the heavens to the whorl… — Celia Rees Copy Share Image
Some say that time is like water that flows around us (like a stone in the river) and some say we flow… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
No nose hair. Ever. You'd be surprised at all the little twigs sticking out. I just can't get it. How can you… — Kyan Douglas Copy Share Image
Seek first the kingdom of wealth and you'll worry over every dollar. Seek first the kingdom of health and you'll sweat every… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
That little bird has chosen his shelter. Above it are the stars and the deep heaven of worlds. Yet he is rocking… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Enormous morning, ponderous, meticulous; gray light streaking each bare branch, each single twig, along one side, making another tree, of glassy veins. — John Banville Copy Share Image
Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Through primrose tufts, in that green bower, The periwinkle trails its wreath; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Today the human race is a single twig on the tree of life, a single species on a single planet. Our condition… — Robert Zubrin Copy Share Image
The origin of Homo sapiens, as a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree, lies… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
We get forwards in the world not so much by doing services, as receiving them: you take a withering twig, and put… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The flamingoes are the most delicately colored of all the African birds, pink and red like a flying twig of an oleander… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Sleep doesn't come easy when a broken twig conjures images of a hulking mental patient snapping the arms off children, over by… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
October turned my maple's leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers: Soon these will slip from… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree,… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
He is very fond of me, almost too fond. I could do with less caressing and more rationality. I should like to… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
Peering down into the water where the morning sun fashioned wheels of light, coronets fanwise in which lay trapped each twig, each… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I don't throw my body down on the stage at all anymore because I'm sure I'd snap like a twig. — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
I hate my verses, every line, every word. Oh pale and brittle pencils ever to try One grass-blade's curve, or the throat… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image