Land Quote by Mary Butts Download Open image “Sink twice before you strike out for land.” — Mary Butts ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Land Perseverance Strikes
Sometimes I would want to sink, and then while I was sinking I'd go, "Wait a minute, this isn't what I want to do,"… — Axl Rose Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of reading, reading which is contemplation - even a kind of vision & reading for information. For the first only… — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
“For some days before, as well as for some nights, Vincent had observed a shadow about the quays. First because it had tried to… — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
If it is true that it is the simplicity of the Einsteinian formulae which constitutes their difficulty, that they are so obvious as to… — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
Not till the end of the war will there be any time for art or love or magic again. Perhaps never again. — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of any effort to leave something serviceable behind it. — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
“the things you hate are only your body being knocked about by phenomena” — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
I thought of my father's wisdom, as though it were buried in a box under a tree. As in the old song - a… — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
“Like men of his kind, at cross-purposes with their purpose, there could be nothing fortuitous that happened to him.” — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
“She saw the skin pull under the driver's ears and knew that he was laughing.” — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
I am old enough to remember what it was like when the theories of Freud first escaped from the study and the clinic, and… — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
My days – the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood – have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In… — Daniel O'Connell Copy Share Image
I am an aware citizen, so I want my characters to be aware, too. They should be aware of what's happening in the society… — Pankaj Tripathi Copy Share Image
The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in… — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
Whenever I was flying commercial, I would land in Chicago, and they would announce, 'Get your passports out.' It happened so often, I would… — Shahid Khan Copy Share Image
To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Even though we must walk in the land of fear, there is no need to fear. The power of His resurrection comes before the… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land. — Hamid Karzai Copy Share Image