The Mississippi Delta is not always dark with rain. Some autumn mornings, the sun rises over Moon Lake, or Eagle, or Choctaw,… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little ... The trade unions, under the European system,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country's energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Bliss—a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious—lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
To play with baubles is our ambition, not to deal with grave questions in a spirit of serious energy. But while we… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
You and I, we are the Church, no? We have to share with our people. Suffering today is because people are hoarding,… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Over and over, the economy has determined the extent of our response, but how much value does it place on breathable air,… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Using political power, the elite can induce local authorities to facilitate enclosure and privatisation of land, water, and other hitherto public amenities.… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
A rich man's body is like a premium cotton pillow, white and soft and blank. ''Ours'' is different. My father's spine was… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
The dragon is withered, His bones are now crumbled; His armour is shivered, His splendour is humbled! Though sword shall be rusted,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My parents came from the Kyushu Island in the Southern part of Japan to find work in Tokyo. So we could only… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
Acknowledging the physical realities of our planet does not mean a dismal future of endless sacrifice. In fact, acknowledging these realities is… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Different people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
“…have poets write about you as if you are alive. Scientifically, it is absolutely true, you are alive. You have a pulse,… — Susan Zwinger Copy Share Image
To struggle against censorship, whatever its nature, and whatever the power under which it exists, is my duty as a writer, as… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
Everybody was going along thinking that it was a day like any other day, and bang, down went the Twin Towers. Changed… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Solve all your problems through meditation. Exchange unprofitable religious speculations for actual God-contact. Clear your mind of dogmatic theological debris; let in… — Lahiri Mahasaya Copy Share Image
Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and fears of… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Russell James asked me to shoot underwater. He tied my feet under the water. I don't know how many feet - maybe… — Alessandra Ambrosio Copy Share Image
The pool was but a stone's throw from the house, and I arrived there in a few minutes, only to find a… — Theodore Gordon Copy Share Image
I got a statistic for you right now. Grab your pencil, Doug. There are five billion trees in the world. I looked… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years, Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe Are brackish with the salt of human tears!… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Ever crack an egg into simmering water only to watch the white spread out and form wispy tentacles? It happened to me… — Claire Saffitz Copy Share Image
Every morning our newspapers could read, 'More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.' How? The poor die in hospital wards… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
I remember when Saif was a baby, the pediatrician had recommended that we give him orange juice to drink, but my mother… — Sharmila Tagore Copy Share Image
The SEALs place a premium on brute strength, but there's an even bigger premium on speed. That's speed through the water, speed… — Marcus Luttrell Copy Share Image
I do get in the water, but I was ruined by 'Jaws' 'cause I saw it when I was 13. Before that,… — Catherine Oxenberg Copy Share Image
We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
It's so silly isn't it? how we grown men take up trout angling not simply to pursue trout but to find some… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
Water. Its sunny track in the plain; its splashing in the garden canal, the sound it makes when in its course it… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
When like the patriarchs we learn to dig wells of virtue and spiritual knowledge within ourselves by means of ascetic practice and… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth and nourishes all things, and rises up… — Confucius Copy Share Image
So-called global warming is just a secret ploy by wacko tree-huggers to make America energy-independent, clean our air & water, improve fuel-efficiency… — Chip Giller Copy Share Image
The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If anything is endemic to Wyoming it is wind. This big room of space is swept out daily, leaving a bone yard… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
The bread of bitterness is the food on which men grow to their fullest stature; the waters of bitterness are the debatable… — Ouida Copy Share Image