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Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. – William Congreve	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. – Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov	added by anonymous 10 years ago
... Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole. – Oscar Wilde, "De Profundis"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
My writing is like a ten gallon spring. It can issue from the ground anywhere at all. On smooth ground it rushes swiftly on and covers a thouasand li in a single day without difficulty. When it twists and turns among mountains and rocks, it fits its form to things it meets: unknowable. What can be known is, it always goes where it must go, always stops where it cannot help stopping -- nothing else. More than that, even I cannot know. – Su Shih	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. – William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, Act 1 Scene 1	added by anonymous 13 years ago
For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. – Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking. – Terry Pratchett, Eric	added by anonymous 13 years ago
You dehumanize a man as much by returning him to nature - by making him one with rocks, vegetation, and animals - as by turning him into a machine. Both the natural and the mechanical are the opposite of that which is uniquely human. Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines. It is also obvious that when man domesticated animals and plants he acquired self-made machines for the production of food, power, and beauty. – Eric Hoffer	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind. – Antoine De Saint-Exupery	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The hand that rocks the cradleIs the hand that rules the world. – W.R. Wallace	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.N.B. This quote is commonly misquoted as savage beast. – William Congreve	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. – William Congreve	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives.... But close up a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. – Ursula K. LeGuin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet. – Carry Nation	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks and sand dunes but poor in natural resources and vital raw materials, has been no easy task Indeed, practical men, with their eyes fixed upon things as they are, regarded it as an empty and insubstantial utopian dream. – Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks. – Charlotte Bronte	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion. – William Cullen Bryant	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Sometimes we want to get away from the busy and hectic city life to find solace in the raging waves of the ocean pounding on the rocks or the turbulent splashing of a bubbling waterfall. At other times we are amazed by the immovable silence of a mountain or the gentle caress of a river overjoyed tat its union with the sea. The topography of a region speaks to each one of us--a secret language that people from all facets of life understand and relate to. – Stuti Garg	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Call on God, but row away from the rocks. – Indian Proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun. – Ruth Westheimer	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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