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As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.


James Russell Lowell

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As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new -- and near the end. The milestones into head...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW The whole town had instantly gone to bed; the only noise now was barking dogs. How could I ever slee...
JACK KEROUAC I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the...
JACK KEROUAC Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me.
JACK KEROUAC And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make...
THE BEATLES What's Your Road, Man?
JACK KEROUAC We all grew up, those of us who took On the Road to heart. We came to cringe a little at our ...
SARAH VOWELL Road to destination is often very straight with journey smooth, but majority has tendency to meander...
ANUJ SOMANY Don't resist life, flow with it.
JIM GENOVESE Life is more like dancing than wrestling if you follow its rhythm.
JIM GENOVESE Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit t...
EMILY GIFFIN Tomas turned the key and switched on the ceiling light. Teraza saw two beds pushed together, one of ...
MILAN KUNDERA She emptied her mind of all thought of herself, of her children, of all anger, of all rebellion, of ...
MARIO PUZO Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN Take a second out to think about this: in your life you search and search for the right person for y...
IAN PHILPOT Non avevo niente da offrire a nessuno tranne la mia confusione.
JACK KEROUAC No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That...
C. JOYBELL C. Before you dive in head first, make sure the water is not shallow.
KATHERINE DIVOLIS Every revolution begins with one voice crying in the wilderness.
JEFFREY FRY He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the wo...
CORMAC MCCARTHY All day long you sit and sew,
Stitch life down for fear it grow,

Stitch life down fo...
EDITH SITWELL As long as that song plays, I get to put my hands on you, and I can’t guarantee I’m going to be ...
MEREDITH WILD Just give me one night, Vanessa. One night, and I won’t let you regret it.
MEREDITH WILD Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new socia...
WALTER LIPPMANN My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road.
KENNY LOGGINS But there's a beginning in an end, you know? It's true that you can't reclaim what you had, but you ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN You can't judge the present by the past. Each day is different, and you live it differently.
MARTY RUBIN O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And i...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Peeta and I grow back together. There are still moments when he clutches the back of a chair and han...
SUZANNE COLLINS I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart....
P.C. CAST Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
MARGARET MITCHELL In the end, night calls and we go. Mind, body and soul we go.
MARTY RUBIN My wife, Daniela, and I live in an old house from 1810 with three fireplaces at the end of a dead-en...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER We're drinking my friend, To the end of a brief episode, Make it one for my baby, And one more for t...
JOHNNY MERCER We believe that if the world doesn't go quickly to an end, it will be only because Hitlerism transfo...
MIGUEL SERRANO Nice to meet ya, shank," the boy said. "Welcome to the Glade.
JAMES DASHNER In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
AESCHYLUS Maybe memories should be left the way they are.
MELINA MARCHETTA The landscape started hard, sharp black mountains over my shoulder and thirsty young saguaros huggin...
LAURIE PEREZ Galatea Dunkel was a tenacious loser.
JACK KEROUAC ...and I realized no matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might a...
JACK KEROUAC I've spent a life-time attacking religious beliefs and have not wavered from a view of the universe ...
PHILLIP ADAMS Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as b...
LADY GREGORY Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different tim...
MARGARET ATWOOD in these shitty plastic days ...
GILLIAN FLYNN Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past......
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD Like a rock thrown in the river and over time is smoothed out by the continuous waves that changes i...
VICTOR WERNET Well, I'm more lopsided than a one legged badger," mewed Graypaw, breaking off from his carful stalk...
ERIN HUNTER No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with whi...
ROBERT AICKMAN I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of cours...
JON KRAKAUER We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you ha...
CRAIG GROESCHEL This is, to me, the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world. It is the same as that on the prec...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Like seasonless fowl we migrate…
from East Coast to West Coast
and back and forth again,...
LENORE KANDEL Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Man on Wire
LIVVY ANDERSON The key to hitting a lot of home runs as a player at Kauffman Stadium is that you'd better run i...
BILLY BUTLER Newt was sitting on the ground with Frypan and Minho, all three looking as if they were waiting for ...
JAMES DASHNER But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
ELIZABETH PETERS But when have I ever needed saving?
"Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro...
TRACY WARD You’re wondering whether this is a good idea. Because you’re smart and you see right through me,...
MEREDITH WILD World will change for betterment only when HEART of majority of individuals grows in size to accomod...
ANUJ SOMANY We talk about wanting to change the world, and we often picture this as a lofty goal reached only by...
ROSIE BLYTHE The power to implement a drastic change in your life or business is by learning to introduce the cha...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The world is inviolable: it has no beginning and no end. Those who seek to change it will be changed...
MALINDA LO Almost all people talk vociferously and publicly about the change until their financial position cha...
ANUJ SOMANY Every person who changed the world did it by doing something everyone around them was unwilling to d...
TIFFANY L. JACKSON The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of thems...
P.D. JAMES Would you want you as a friend?
PETER STROPLE Day by day we journey to the end! By and by we shall get to the end; when we get to the end, we shal...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Smartass Disciple: Master, I believe that the truth will prevail at the end.
Master of Stupidit...
TOBA BETA It was a comet. The boy saw the comet and he felt as though his life had meaning. And when it went a...
LUCAS SCOTT The safest road to hell is the gradual one -- the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turni...
C.S. LEWIS The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnin...
C. S. LEWIS The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnin...
C.S. LEWIS Water flows because it's willing.
MARTY RUBIN Go with the flow even if there are rapids ahead.
JIM GENOVESE The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic.
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.
MARGARET MITCHELL The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow every...
DAVID EDDINGS One thing God has been showing me is that I'm not called to save the world, just to point those He p...
J.R. RIM ...There is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end to the making and selling of ...
GEORGE SAUNDERS In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge?"
Allie considered this. "Meaning?"
"Meaning, ...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN As a teacher, your job is to motivate your unmotivated student. This is how you shape the future
SOTONYE ANGA We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now.
FREDERICK DODSON Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
NAOMI JUDD She blinked. "Hmm? Oh, don't care. What did Anubis look like to you?"
"What did... he looked li...
RICK RIORDAN I see a lack of hope on too many faces, ... As the city grows, we need not forget those who are disa...
CHARLES JACKSON If you want to change the world, why don't you start with yourself
MINA TADROS A rocky road is best at the beginning of a journey, in my opinion, if you get past the bumps you rea...
BOBBY W. MILLER I think you always have, you know, new players. Every year you see new faces, juniors coming into th...
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JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the f...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Nursed by stern men with empires in their brains.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot b...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Oh, Washington! thou hero, patriot sage, Friend of all climes, and pride of every age!
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mi...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And i...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL All kin' o' smily round the lips, / An' teary round the lashes.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which n...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope and peace
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Light is the symbol of truth
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Be noble! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in ma...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Thet tells the story! Thet's wut we shall git By tryin' squirtguns on the burnin' Pit; For th...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Sence I've ben here, I've hired a chap to look about for me, To git me a transplantable an' thrift...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Not caring, so that sumpter-horse, the back Be hung with gaudy trappings, in what course Yea, ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm f'om floor to ceilin'.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him: there is always work, And tool...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, th...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo good, to reach ful...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL With bated breath we offer wicked vows.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Who will think that the gods can be insulted with impunity?
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Villany reduces those whom it defiles to the same level.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The shadow of a mighty name.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Regarding nothing as done, while ought remained to be done.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Patience revels in misfortunes.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL