As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.
I know now that doors open as quickly as they close. That nothing very good or very bad lasts for very long.
It is the taste of cut steps, bloody fingerprints. Of healed books, smiles on fresh tulips. Of longing and sweet fatigue.
The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.
It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important.
The oppressed peoples of the earth are not objects for the exquisite turmoil of European consciences. They are subjects from which to learn how to exercise political intelligence and action. Obviously, colonial arrogance is a long time dying.
Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawn Indicative that suns go down; The notice to the startled grass That darkness is about to pass.
The secrets of evolution are death and time—the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.
A long-simmering resentment against the world can burn off more calories than you might imagine.
Life was a little like that, I guess. We’d spend so long chasing after something already in motion, always out of reach and calling, just ahead.
The night seemed long. Wilbur's stomach was empty and his mind was full. And when your stomach is empty and your mind is full, it's always hard to sleep.
The cold stars spun to the ancient rhythm, the august march of an everlasting symphony. They are old, the stars, and their memory is long.
On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.
If you were anyone else, your nuts would be taking a long vacation, and the destination would be out of your mouth
He liked murder. Murder and long walks had been two of his favorite things when he was younger.
I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.
We prayed the moon would unstopper long enough to suck us through to the other side so we could see how dull the stars were at their backsides.
She gave herself up to the waves of the storm. If they drowned, it would be together, a shattered vessel on the sea, a collision of longing and desire.
Peter Wessel and Peter Van Daan have grown into one Peter, who is beloved and good, and for whom I long desperately.
Gift giving is part of the culture no matter where you are and no matter how long you stay.
Mr. Asher, you can resist who you are for only so long. Finally, you just decide to go with fate.
