To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time ...to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing... under the sun.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth bene...ath, or that is in the water under the earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive cou...nsels and comforts, we get under no other condition ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I love order. It's my dream. A world where all would be silent and still and each thing in its last place, under the last dust.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As to "Don Juan," confess ... that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? I...t may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world? and tooled in a post-chaise? in a hackney coach? in a Gondola? against a wall? in a court carriage? in a vis a vis? on a table? and under it?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sky was as full of motion and change as the desert beneath it was monotonous and still,--and there was so much sky, more than ...at sea, more than anywhere else in the world. The plain was there, under one's feet, but what one saw when one looked about was that brilliant blue world of stinging air and moving cloud. Even the mountains were mere ant-hills under it. Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky. The landscape one longed for when one was away, the thing all about one, the world one actually lived in, was the sky, the sky!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion ...of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's ...bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha' been left to the men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »