Whatever is destroyed, the act of destruction does not vary much. Beauty if vapour from the pit of death. — J. A. Baker Copy Share Image
The sun, moving as it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the finest and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The cause of rain is now, I consider, no longer an object of doubt. If two masses of air of unequal temperatures,… — John Dalton Copy Share Image
So long as we perceive this world in motion, we have to conceive will behind it. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is a worse tyranny than that of ill-treatment. It is the tyranny of tears, vapours, appeals to feelings of affection and… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Once upon a perfect night, unclouded and still, there came the face of a pale and beautiful lady. The tresses of her… — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
The impersonal aspect [of God] (Nirakara, Nirguna) is called Brahman, or 'unknowable' by Herbert Spencer, 'will' by Schopenhauer, Absolute Noumenon by some… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
The Jehovah of the Jews is a suspicious tyrant, who breathes nothing but blood, murder, and carnage, and who demands that they… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimest… — Edmond Halley Copy Share Image
The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning. — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour. — Pieter Zeeman Copy Share Image
What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
What I have related is sufficient for establishing the main principle, namely, that the heat which disappears in the conversion of water… — Joseph Black Copy Share Image
As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Outside of mathematics and logic, there are common sense truths, such as that it is snowing that normal observers, in a specified… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
“A great sea fog is not homogenous--its density varies: it is honeycombed with streets, it has its caves of clear air, its… — Henry de Vere Stacpoole Copy Share Image
It is not the distance of the earth from the sun, nor the sun's withdrawing itself, that makes a dark and gloomy… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Asleep by the Smiths Vapour Trail by Ride Scarborough Fair by Simon & Garfunkel A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller: he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene. — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image