There is a great solitude about such a shore. The woods are never solitary- they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity. We can never pierce its infinite mystery- we may only wander, awed and spell-bound, on the outer fringe of it. The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only- a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.
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If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through the dust no matter how thick.
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I am...blood. That primordial ooze. Not out there, listeners, in here. Inside this skin we wear, it only lets us think we're something else-- nice clean brains, little talking computers running around in the pursuit of happiness. We pierce this skin and what do we see Warm ooze, protoplasm churning and jesting, defecating, pulsating, life, death.
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Looking out of my window this lovely spring morning I see an azalea in full bloom. No, no! I do not see that; though that is the only way I can describe what I see. That is a proposition, a sentence, a fact; but what I perceive is not proposition, sentence, fact, but only an image which I make intelligible in part by means of a statement of fact. This statement is abstract; but what I see is concrete.
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Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things.
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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
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He that respects himself is safe from others; He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.
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What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.
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Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
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Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
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There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.
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Years ago we discovered the exact point the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
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There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.
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What this country needs is a good five cent cigar.
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Too much truth is uncouth.
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Mmm... caffeine pills. The midnight snack of champions.
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There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.
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Only dreamers can teach us to soar.
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Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.
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His efforts failed, however, because ? as both lower courts found ? Pierce suppressed or destroyed the trust instrument and stripped Howard of all his assets before his death.
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Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
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If you ever become a mother, can I have one of the puppies?
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