There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all Woods may be drawing near. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
His hair has the long jesuschrist look. He is wearing the costume clothes. But most of all, he now has a very… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
We get forwards in the world not so much by doing services, as receiving them: you take a withering twig, and put… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“I dunno, remember when we were in East St. Louis with George, and Jack you said you'd love those beautiful dancing girls… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I realized that Joyce had gone as far as one could in the direction of knowing more, in control of one's material.… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures.… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
[T]he sprawl of government into every conceivable realm of life has caused the withering of traditional institutions. Fathers become unnecessary if the… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
A picture without sky has no glory. This present, unless we see gleaming beyond it the eternal calm of the heavens, above… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
I can be much more sarcastic and, I think, sometimes withering in my assessments of things than I allow to show in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts,… — Alfred Armand Montapert Copy Share Image
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Thrice blessed are they whose early years are spent in some countryside. The flowering and withering of the seasons, and every exquisite… — Lizette Woodworth Reese Copy Share Image
“Even as rigorous a determinist as Karl Marx, who at times described the social behaviour of the bourgeoisie in terms which suggested… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
When you finally find the courage to admit you have a problem, that's when you have some power over it. That's the… — Ryan Montgomery Copy Share Image
Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Not the swart Pariah in some Indian grove, Lone, lean, and hunted by his brother's hate, Hath drunk so deep the cup… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
We believe that our truly urgent need is to make our nation secure, our economy strong and our dollar sound. For every… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
However you look at it, in these books "power" tends to be an expression of the essential nature of the person or… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
[For men] to feel their souls withering within them, unthanked, to find their whole being sunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I'm never more aware of the limitations of language than when I try to describe beauty. Language can create its own loveliness,… — Scott Sanders Copy Share Image
Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the… — Homer Copy Share Image