Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Author: Joseph Conrad

Author: Joseph Conrad

Quote #285712

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Author: Henry Drummond
Quote #9059

She accused me of wearing pants from the salvation army.""Rose, your pants ARE from the salvation ar

Author: Richelle Mead
Quote #291669

You're going to have things to repent, boy,' Mr. John had told Nick. 'That's one of the best things

Author: Ernest Hemingway
Quote #501140

One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally

Author: Mike Love
Quote #442921

I wouldn't dream of watching motor racing, cycling, or golf - which aren't truly sports anyway.

Author: Howard Jacobson
Quote #221961

For a long time I had wanted to take leave of Planet Tourism, to find one of those places that occas

Author: Lawrence Osborne
Quote #335710

Beauty lies in simplicity.

Author: Abhijit Naskar
Quote #132410

Don't fail to try because this is how winners roll.

Author: Auliq Ice
Quote #212294

Compassion is not prevention of all negative certainty, it is a home floating on the sea of fear, th

Author: James C. Emlund
Quote #326129

Sometimes you have to grow up before you appreciate how you grew up.

Author: Daniel Black
Quote #294205

Innovation is more attitude than skill.

Author: Sid Mohasseb
Quote #311719

A house in the middle of nowhere always reminds us our Earth’s position in the universe!

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
Quote #407767

Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved?

Author: Florida Scott-Maxwell
Quote #166077

When you come to a point realizing what is going on in the society, then you will also come to a poi

Author: Nadair Desmar
Quote #293151

There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie," Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day,

Author: Jodi Picoult
Quote #240361

Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you.

Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Quote #358302

Shokaku is a crane of some kind.''For lifting things?' Will asked.'For flying. A crane is a large bi

Author: John Flanagan
Quote #500110

At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.

Author: Amanda Harlech
Quote #449587

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos

Author: Robert Quillen
Quote #398856

Preach the Peace

Author: Anowar Hossain
Quote #239956

I would appreciate it if they would call a halt on all their devoted efforts to find a way to abolis

Author: Rex Stout
Quote #258026

…possessed of that indescribable charm called grace.

Author: Louisa May Alcott
Quote #75575

For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him always with hours to l

Author: Kahlil Gibran
Quote #80066

For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming...

Author: H.P. Lovecraft
Quote #337211

The bad, icky and stinky things that happen sometimes should never be allowed to have an adverse eff

Author: Azhar Ali
Quote #483306

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Quote #241362

Just be yourself' is about the worst advice you can give some people.

Author: Alain de Botton
Quote #37671

Dreaming is good—especially if you dream when you are awake. Remember dreams will remain a dream if

Author: Debasish Mridha
Quote #259427

There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this h

Author: Sergei Lukyanenko
Quote #92736

...I believe that doubts, honestly expressed and wrestled with, produce a faith that is stronger and

Author: Sheila Walsh
Quote #359355

I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.

Author: Edith Evans
Quote #319721

Life is too shortTo travel 195 countries on the round sphereTo meet thousands of celebrities around

Author: Bhavik Sarkhedi
Quote #418548

She soothed and solaced and celebrated destroying her gift by maiming it to suit her hearers.

Author: Martha Bacon
Quote #27399

They luxuriated in the feeling of deep and all pervading satisfaction, a feeling of knowing absolute

Author: Hubert Selby Jr.
Quote #486468

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the

Author: Unknown
Quote #467362

Every crisis offers you extra desired power.

Author: William Moulton Marston
Quote #491870

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Author: Francis Bacon
Quote #376499

Happiness is not the victory, success or accomplishment; it is what happens at the end of the day?

Author: M.F. Moonzajer
Quote #420297

That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.

Author: Mark Twain
Quote #63451

Books and movies, they are not mere entertainment. They sustain me and help me cope with my real lif

Author: Arlaina Tibensky
Quote #263899

...Changelessness is decay.""A paradox. There is no decay without a change for the worse.""Changeles

Author: Isaac Asimov
Quote #483750

There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection.

Author: James Salter
Quote #352345

Now memories have an unusual way of coming back to you in the middle of a day.

Author: Avijeet Das
Quote #283271

I'd rater share the glory of a hit than star by myself in a flop

Author: Kate Jackson
Quote #204583

Peter denied Jesus; Judas betrayed Jesus. The bad news was that both of them fell off the track and

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
Quote #444402

I have some NASA memorabilia from the early Apollo days that I can't imagine parting with. I've alwa

Author: Matthew Daddario
Quote #82201

To be free is not to live in no place and at no time but to live in one place as in the shadow of al

Author: Anthony Esolen
Quote #149191

Only the great warriors fall down from their horses

Author: Unknown
Quote #349160

Being perfect is what's stopping you from being good.

Author: Isabella Fons
Quote #195925

If you want to find money, focus on people. If you want to lose people, focus on money.

Author: Rob Liano
Quote #179790

Maybe the real miracle in any miracle is our ability to believe that despite our own depravity, in t

Author: Craig D. Lounsbrough
Quote #407940

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Author: Duchess Prazlin
Quote #336805

...see the blessing and beauty that you are.

Author: Holly Lynn Payne
Quote #299814

This is the moment I have dreaded, the very reason why we kept running, even when it seemed hopeless

Author: Jen Naumann
Quote #11332

A dwarf will always tell tall stories.

Author: Anthony T.Hincks
Quote #185662

Jesus is the perfect name!He who put away his fame!And persecuted in shame!That you will never be th

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
Quote #166565

Individuality should not translate to narcissism. Realizing the strength of individuality is an acco

Author: Amitav Chowdhury
Quote #8573

When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.

Author: Winston S. Churchill
Quote #180784

There's a saying," Aeneas said: "Keep an eye on Greeks when they offer gifts." He spoke wryly. "Hors

Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Quote #170481

I remember all of it, not because I meditate on it. No. I remember it because with each step I make

Author: Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Quote #474795

But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality

Author: Seamus Heaney
Quote #450421

I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to

Author: Matt Cameron
Quote #295335

If books/stories and movies are going to be judge as for the personality of people so... Doctor Slee

Author: Deyth Banger
Quote #153439

A sense of accomplishment Ahh yes. There's just (Nothing like it) Today, KNOW You can make it happen

Author: Sereda Aleta Dailey
Quote #27939

It turns out that what money buys has rapidly diminishing emotional returns ... As long as we're not

Author: Robert B. Reich
Quote #410766

Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.

Author: George Santayana
Quote #52716

I help others because I can, not because I expect something in return.

Author: Amy Manemann
Quote #475048

Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act

Author: Gary Zukav
Quote #420199

The first duty of a lecturer- to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap u

Author: Virginia Woolf
Quote #312505

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

Author: George Eliot
Quote #157853

His love for his children bore down on his heart with the weight of three heavy stones. There were a

Author: Alice McDermott
Quote #473314

I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Fi

Author: Shimon Peres
Quote #85680

In the letters section, a Scot reminds his readers of the ‘Glorious Alliance’ between France and Mar

Author: Bruno Latour
Quote #64520

Your life is your practice. Your spiritual practice does not occur someplace other than in your life

Author: Karen Maezen Miller
Quote #437153

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Author: Leo Rosten
Quote #318729

Now it's the dark's turn to be afraid.

Author: Joseph Delaney
Quote #407210

A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.

Author: Seneca
Quote #224175

The real measure of your "wealth" is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.

Author: Ziad K. Abdelnour
Quote #40854

Blind faith is not real religion my friend.

Author: Abhijit Naskar
Quote #136258

In your usual state of consciousness, there is a separate quale experience of everything you observe

Author: Abhijit Naskar
Quote #170192

Character is fate. Every day is training day.

Author: Kilroy J. Oldster
Quote #310598

Jefferson, who spent his life collecting books, many of which he donated to the Library of Congress,

Author: Azar Nafisi
Quote #474375

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
Quote #188685

The practice of forgiveness is very much like the practice of meditation. You have to do it often an

Author: Katerina Stoykova Klemer
Quote #295360

I was facing him before the last word was out, but I should have been dead by then. In a way I did d

Author: Peter S. Beagle
Quote #105861

Sharing feelings, conveying appreciation and whispering desires are all crucial components of a sati

Author: Brownell Landrum
Quote #368220

And then they half-ran, half-skipped the last eight blocks to her apartment, their bodies connected

Author: Danika Stone
Quote #197447

Life is life. You cannot replace a life.

Author: Unknown
Quote #166363

On Prozac, Sisyphus might well push the boulder back up the mountain with more enthusiasm and creati

Author: Carl Elliott
Quote #286168

Judge a person not by how he treats you, but how he treats others. The former reflects what he wants

Author: Betty Jamie Chung
Quote #165559

We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinion on us.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Quote #185856

Rather than walk about holy places we can thus pause in our thoughts, examine our heart, and visit t

Author: Martin Luther
Quote #294254

…everything may be done in a right way or a wrong; the right way is to do it as well as we can, as i

Author: Elizabeth Gaskell
Quote #365796

For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can

Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
Quote #5323

There's nothing wrong with you. There's a lot wrong with the world you live in. And definitely get o

Author: Chris Colfer
Quote #377850

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

Author: Winston S. Churchill
Quote #414267

We are involved in a life that passes understanding: our highest business is our daily life.

Author: John Cage
Quote #324113

The victim mindset will have you dancing with the devil, then complaining that you're in hell.

Author: Steve Maraboli
Quote #39157

For the beginning is assuredlythe end- since we know nothing, pureand simple, beyondour own complexi

Author: William Carlos Williams