There are many marvellous stories told of Pherecydes. For it is said that he was walking along the seashore at Samos, and… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
The Federal Government has a responsibility to manage wisely those public lands and forests under its jurisdiction necessary in the interest of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I’d heard about the Baptists from Jacob Henry’s mother. According to her, Baptists were a strange lot. They put you in water… — Robert Newton Peck Copy Share Image
“Quite suddenly Sophie couldn't bear it. She pelted up to her bedroom, tripping over the stairs. The tears in her eyes were… — Katherine Rundell Copy Share Image
When you are relaxed about where you are at in life, things tend to flow more fluidly. It is as if you… — Jennifer O'Neill Copy Share Image
Spirituality is best manifested on the ground, not in the air. Rapturous day-dreams, flights of heavenly fancy, longings to see the Invisible,… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Another guy barked orders to a small army of brooms, mops, and buckets that were scuttling around, cleaning up the city. "Like… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The body remembers, the bones remember, the joints remember, even the little finger remembers. Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
When I say I don't do fur or leather, in my world it's a massive shock, but when it comes into the… — Stella McCartney Copy Share Image
I was in a prayer meeting yesterday. You gotta appreciate how scared, how scares folks on that side of the equation are.… — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
After all, there is such a thing as looking like a gentleman. There are men whose class no dirt or rags can… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
For a dying man it is not a difficult decision [to agree to become the world's first heart transplant] ... because he… — Christiaan Barnard Copy Share Image
The president [Barack Obama] asked for a commitment of, I think, 100,000 jobs for veterans and military spouses over the next couple… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
“The prettiest bottle, made of glass molded in a pattern of leaves, was half-filled with a colorless liquor. Her attention was caught… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, as water. We feel poetry… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
When music sounds, gone is the earth I know, And all her lovelier things even lovelier grow; Her flowers in vision flame,… — Walter de La Mare Copy Share Image
The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials, these for organisms are air water &… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
Over 1 billion people have no access to clean drinking water, and more than 2.9 billion have no access to sanitation services.… — Marq de Villiers Copy Share Image
I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
One can, then, conceive the production, by purely mineral means, of all natural hydrocarbons. The intervention of heat, of water, and of… — Marcellin Berthelot Copy Share Image
You taste of the cool water that hides deep in a stream. You taste of the night air, soft and scented and… — Katie MacAlister Copy Share Image
My favorite place that I've been to that most people haven't been to is the Golden Triangle in the northeast of Thailand,… — Arthur Frommer Copy Share Image
People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
The Water Babies "Young and Old" When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Try not to have any break in chanting the mantra even for a moment. Continue repeating the mantra while engaged in any… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
For a shot, I had to look like I've slipped on wet floor and hurt my back. My director wanted me to… — Harshvardhan Rane Copy Share Image
Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below,… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
The strongest animals on earth are plant eaters. Every creature we've enlisted to do the work we couldn't handle - the horse,… — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Music burst through him, perfect notes he hear rarely. Fire and ice, wind and calm, sky and earth, water and rock all… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
“All of the waves and waters hastened, suffering, towards goals, many goals, to the waterfall, to the sea, to the current, to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Poverty comes from Hell. Prosperity comes from Heaven. Adam had complete dominion over the earth and all it contains. A. Adam could… — Benny Hinn Copy Share Image
Before I had studied Zen for thirty years, I saw mountains as mountains, and waters as waters. When I arrived at a… — Li Ching-Yuen Copy Share Image
People are are moving away from the fossil fuel-based economy, to a more renewable economy. That is what is called the 'transition… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
He picked up the letter Q and hurled it into a distant privet bush where it hit a young rabbit. The rabbit… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Well I'm not just gon' go and do rap songs. I wanna touch, and maybe help, and see what I can do… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image