And this lesson about mortal peace of mind I never forgot. Even if a ghost is ripping a house to pieces, throwing… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
When the waters of a lake are absolutely still, the lake reflects the trees, the sky, and everything around it perfectly. At… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
Yes, my dear children, everything is good and precious in God's sight when we act from the motives of religion and of… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
[Naaman] dipped himself," it says, "seven times in Jordan." It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from leprosy,… — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
There were five others before they got to him. He smiled a little when his turn came. His voice was low, smoky,… — John Green Copy Share Image
Every one must be struck with astonishment, when he first beholds one of these vast rings of coral-rock, often many leagues in… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Still Caine hesitated. A big, warm bed. A beautiful girl to share it with. Food. Water. Everything he needed, just a few… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A risk-free life is far from being a healthy life. To begin with, the very word "risk" implies worry, and people who… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Other men puffed, snorted, and splashed. George passed through the ocean with the silent dignity of a torpedo. Other men swallowed water,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
It's very freaky in Chicago.There's something in the water there, I don't know what it is. But the actual word Chicago means,… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It looks to me as if Darwinians are like someone who, having observed that tugboats sometimes maneuver ocean liners in tight places… — Peter van Inwagen Copy Share Image
As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Trying to wake you,” Bones answered crisply. “I cut you, threw water on you, slapped you, and set a lighter to your… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men; As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves, are 'clept All… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Swlmmlng After swallowing some water at Changsha I taste a Wuchang fish in the surf and swim across the Yangtze River that… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
A kata is not fixed or immoveable. Like water, it's ever changing and fits itself to the shape of the vessel containing… — Kenwa Mabuni Copy Share Image
You don’t fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. We’re gonna fight racism with solidarity. We're not gonna fight capitalism… — Fred Hampton Copy Share Image
Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee? He whose mind… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
“The crossing of the Red Sea is, according to the allegorical or symbolic meaning, really the entrance into matter. Water always stands… — Tom Harpur Copy Share Image
Let me say this before rain becomes a utility that they can plan and distribute for money. By "they" I mean the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The 'Cercle et Carré' group owes its existence to my encounter with the Uruguayan painter Torrès-Gracia in 1929... However difficult our relationship,… — Michel Seuphor Copy Share Image
Ultimately, mayonnaise and aioli are brothers from the same mother. Both are emulsions of oil and water, which just means that the… — Sohla El-Waylly Copy Share Image
Four hundred top-decision makers listed the myriad looming threats to global security, including famine, terrorism, inequality, disease, poverty and climate change. Yet… — Margaret Catley-Carlson Copy Share Image
I feel an enormous responsibility to bridge the gap between England and America, and be a sort of very quiet ambassador for… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
We aimed for no more than to have dominion over every creature that moved upon the earth. And so it came to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
In 1879 the Bengali scholar S.M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts: ‘like the… — Victoria Finlay Copy Share Image
“You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
A strong defense is the surest way to peace. Strength makes detente attainable. Weakness invites war, as my generation - my generation… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Join with the Earth and each other, to bring new life to the land, to restore the waters, to refresh the air,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Since I was a teenager, I had wanted to come to the United States to establish my name as a writer and… — Osama Alomar Copy Share Image
Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap.… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
I saw a commercial for an above-ground pool, it was 30 seconds long. Because that's the maximum amount of time you can… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
Seek wisdom in books, rare manuscripts, and cryptic poems if you will, but seek it out also in simple stones, and fragile… — Scott Cunningham Copy Share Image