Contemplations Poem Quotes & Sayings

This is Nature - the balance of colossal forces ... the mighty Cosmos in perfect equilibrium produces - this ... sometimes it seems to me that man is come where he is not wanted ... why should he run about here and there, talking about the stars, disturbing the blades of grass?
from Lord Jim — Joseph Conrad

But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core. — Paul Laurence Dunbar

I look up but don't spot him. "I take care of myself. I ain't living with nobody. Got my own digs. What are you doing up there?"
"Tracking the Hag. Trying to devise a way to trap her. She's fast but she's not a sifter."
I jerk, and look around warily. That's all we need right now. "Is she here?"
"If you brought that crazy bitch near me again." Ryodan doesn't finish his sentence. He doesn't need to. — Karen Marie Moning

In every department of life
in its business and in its pleasures, in its beliefs and in its theories, in its material developments and in its spiritual connections
we thank God that we are not like our fathers. — James Anthony Froude

I am honest and enthusiastic, except when I'm lying down. — Jarod Kintz

Love is like a shadow, one can only catch it by falling into it. — Ambrose

Choices are like dominoes, one tumbling against the next and then the next until events go out of human control. — Ann Rule

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity. — Kjell Magne Bondevik

His yellow eyes gazed at me possessively
I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me was far more intimate than copping a feel could ever be. — Maggie Stiefvater