It doth not hurt", whispered a faint voice, "She will take you life and all you are and all you care'st for,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moonnor… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. So at this wonderful, young age of 65,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Have a care how you speak to me, Imp. Doubtless he meant to sound threatening, but that absurd wisp of a mustache… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To see ourselves as we truly are—a wisp of love itself—is perhaps our deepest fear. But it is also our greatest grace.… — Judy Cannato Copy Share Image
Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
You see, time is an ocean, not a garden hose. Space is a puff of smoke, a wisp of cloud. — David Wong Copy Share Image
“History was not a matter of missing minutes on the tape. I did not stand helpless before it. I hewed to the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
There is a scene in the movie where Astrid and Hiccup fly on Toothless's back toward the island of Berk. The animation… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Man is a flux of states of consciousness, a flow of passing thoughts, each thought of self another self, a myriad thoughts,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
In pulp fiction it is a rigid convention that the hero's shoulders and the heroine's balcon constantly threaten to burst their bonds,… — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
Eradication of microbial disease is a will-o'-the-wisp; pursuing it leads into a morass of hazy biological concepts and half truths. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates of knowledge, to recoil from fear of difficulty or… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
