Ability Quote by Robert James Waller

“But the Spirit was not limited to doing surprising and extraordinary things. He was present in the Old Testament period in giving civil rule…

— John Owen

“The core reason for it all was beauty. Walking was a divine delight. Everything was rewritten when he was up in the air. New…

— Colum McCann

As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from…

— Sherwood Anderson

“They were mere permutations of known quantities. There was no roundness or fullness in this world he now inhabited, everything was a dead shape…

— D. H. Lawrence

“He cared little for commonly experienced emotions, for everyday associations of ideas, now that the closing of his mind had grown more pronounced, and…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

He had realised that most vital of humanities. he had touched lives. And he had raised three boys that no one had wanted into…

— Nora Roberts

He had thought more than other men, and in matters of the intellect he had that calm objectivity, that certainty of thought and knowledge,…

— Anonymous

“When it came down to reality, what mattered except the lives of those you loved? All that was precious was made up of passions…

— Anne Perry

“Then his heart and imagination were more in the ascendency. Now he had begun to admire the intellectual qualities of that literature more, and…

— George MacDonald

The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“After years of pretending at emotions, he'd grown to appreciate their mystery, their chaos and randomness. Sometimes they were predictable, one-dimensional, almost stupid -…

— Kim White

His epitaph: Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, and the tides of…

— Isaac Newton