Quote by John Williams

“A sense of his own identity came upon him with sudden force, and he felt the power of it. He was himself, and he…

— John Williams

“A kind of joy came upon him, as if borne in on a summer breeze. He dimly recalled that he had been thinking of…

— John Williams

“He accepted the deformity which had made life so hard for him; he knew that it had warped his character, but now he saw…

— William Somerset Maugham

“He felt soothed and happy, as if some gentle and invisible hand had removed from his soul the burden of his body.”

— Jose Conrad

“I studied him the way I studied all the people in my life, noticing the changes of his mood, the times when the edge…

— Roland Merullo

“Everything he did was a physical thing.  When he spoke, my bones ached.  When he breathed, I felt it in my veins and on…

— Tyra Lynn

“If anything, the spirit that drove him now was fiercer, but there was no denying the diminishing powers of his body. He”

— Donna Leon

“No matter how fierce was the passion that gripped him, the fact is he was paralyzed, transfixed by the contemplation of his own past.…

— Natsume Sōseki

“He thought--while his hand moved rapidly--what a power there was in words; later, for those who heard them, but first for the one who…

— Ayn Rand

“He was entirely rid of his nervous misgivings, of his forced aggressiveness, of the imperative desire to show himself different from his surroundings. He…

— Willa Cather

“His power reached out to her like physical touch of a lover, sending tingles over her skin. His sculptured body moved in a sensual,…

— Lia Davis

“The intellectual part of his nature was already effaced; he had power only to feel, and feeling was torment. He was conscious of motion.…

— Ambrose Bierce