He stepped down trying not to look long at her, as though she were the sun, yet he saw her as one sees the sun, without looking.
Nor will the sweetest delight of gardens afford much comfort in sleep; wherein the dullness of that sense shakes hands with delectable odours; and though in the bed of Cleopatra, can hardly with any delight raise up the ghost of a rose.
Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of
Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.
Carroll O'Connor
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
Heinrich Heine
When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.
Gertrude Stein, Originally publi
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
William Golding, Pincher Martin,
Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life, can be full of dreams; and the most common actions
Virginia Woolf
As the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk down them arm-in-arm. If you persist, lawyers
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (
Therefore if you insist upon fighting to protect me, or
Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas (1
To save time is to lengthen life.
Source Unknown
You love what you find time to do.
What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
Viktor E. Frankl
Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.
I've found that if you wear a beret, people think you're either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.
Ernie Harwell
Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.
Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.
Nicole Appleton
Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.
But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.
Armistead Maupin
Time cuts down all, both great and small.
The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.
When tolerance is not afforded to those so well-deserved, it speaks ill of the one who feels he cannot afford to give it.
Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.
Johann Most
O God, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small.
Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic and more time to drive to the office.
If it's tourist season, why can't we kill them?
Old men and far travelers may lie with authority.
The alternative to a vacation is to stay home and tip every third person you see.
The bigger the summer vacation the harder the fall.
That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.
Michael Ondaatje
Those that say you can't take it with you never saw a car packed for a vacation trip.
Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement -- discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.
If you choose not to pursue your dreams, you'll still be a part of a dream - only it will be someone else's.
Mike Hawkins
Some people develop eye strain looking for trouble
When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.
Lawrence Lessig
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.
Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.
Truth comes only to a prepared mind.
Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.
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