With Its Quotes

#1. The vegetation has crawled mile for mile towards the towns. It is waiting. When the town dies, the Vegetation will invade it, it will clamber over the stones, it will grip them, search them, burst them open with its long black pincers; it will bind the holes and hang its green paws everywhere.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#2. Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast.

Margaret Fuller

#3. Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other peoples' freedom as well.

Assata Shakur

#4. I love the sea with its impenetrable fathoms, its wash and undertow, and rasp of shingle sucked anew.

Margaret E. Barber

#5. I believe in monstrosities, and 'I Am Abraham' is a monstrosity of sorts, raveling out moment by moment with its contrapuntal songs, as if a band of musicians were at play, all of them with Lincoln's beard and disturbing grey eyes.

Jerome Charyn

#6. Each delegated task must be both time-consuming and well-defined. If you're running around like a chicken with its head cut off and assign your VA to do that for you, it doesn't improve the order of the universe.

Timothy Ferriss

#7. I've been using the power of the IMAX medium, with its gigantic screens and supervivid pictures, to get people to fall in love with the ocean.

Greg MacGillivray

#8. We are a society impatient with its misfits

Stephen Reid

#9. The world is ruled by such dreams, dreams of impassioned hearts, and improvisations of warm lips, not by cold words linked in chains of iron sequence,
not by logic. The heart with its passions, not the understanding with its reasoning, sways, in the long run, the actions of mankind.

William Kirby

#10. Like a bird, when his cage is opened, stays on his perch, dazzled by freedom, the postponed traveler does not see that his cage, with its bars of anxiety, it is open.

Andre Maurois

#11. That a modern battleship of 48,000 tons would have to defend itself against wood and fabric biplanes with its main armament was a salutary reminder of the changing face of sea warfare.

Richard Hough

#12. If the opponent offers keen play I don't object; but in such cases I get less satisfaction, even if I win, than from a game conducted according to all the rules of strategy with its ruthless logic.

Anatoly Karpov

#13. We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. The Music of Negro religion is that plaintive rhythmic melody, with its touching minor cadences, which, despite caricature and defilement, still remains the most original and beautiful expression of human life and longing yet born on American soil.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#15. The United Nations believes that acceptance of these principles will help the Palestinian people achieve their legitimate goal of an end to occupation and the creation of an independent and viable state, living in peace and security with its neighbors.

Kofi Annan

#16. The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living.

Chris Hedges

#17. With its grace and carelessness, it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though [all] could be swept into a nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm.

George Orwell

#18. The conventional heaven with its angels perpetually singing etc nearly drove me mad in my youth and made me an atheist for ten years. My opinion is that we shall be reincarnated.

David Lloyd George

#19. Many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with. Its fate. What's meant to be will always find a way.

Clara Garcia

#20. Each flies with its own kind: pigeon with pigeon, hawk with hawk.

Idries Shah

#21. The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it.

Hart Crane

#22. In 2009, Hamas was relatively new to power. It had won elections just three years earlier and was flexing its newfound strength via a war with its old enemy, Israel, which it officially wants destroyed.

Richard Engel

#23. Our understanding of the universe is like a tale without beginning or end, where the reader creates the script as he reads along. It's like the act of creation was more like an act of facilitation, where Love (divinity) is the facilitator and mankind's mind, with its free will, is the co-creator.

Ivan Figueroa-Otero

#24. A story without context is like a diamond without a mounting. The stone may be beautiful lying loose on a table, but when it is carefully mounted in the right setting it can dazzle you with its brilliance and sparkling beauty.

Charles R. Swindoll

#25. Off with its head," she whispered to herself,

Marissa Meyer

#26. A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must shatter the foundations of thought and re-create. Only in this way does every individual share in the cataclysm and understand the purpose of sacrifice.

Wole Soyinka

#27. I couldn't tell you why the carnival lured me with its sticky fingers and bright, whirling colors, except to say that it was different, and that excited me. I'd only read about 'different' in books, never experienced it for myself. Perhaps it was a case of be careful what you wish for.

Jane Harvey-Berrick

#28. Night does not show things, it suggests them. It disturbes and surprises us with its strangeness. It liberates forces within us which are dominated by our reason during the daytime.

Brassai

#29. We have the greatest power through love that can be known. It overcomes everything with its fierce and steady truth, if you can continue to stand in it.

Jay Woodman

#30. The ancient liturgy, with its poignant symbols and innumerable subtleties, is a prolonged courtship of the soul, enticing and drawing it onwards, leading it along a path to the mystical marriage, the wedding feast of heaven.

Peter Kwasniewski

#31. If we were really unattached, we should escape all this pain of vain expectation, and could cheerfully do good work in the world. Never will unhappiness or misery come through work done without attachment. The world will go on with its happiness and misery through eternity.

Swami Vivekananda

#32. Which Painters hold, and such the heritage This gentle solemn Spirit doth possess, Being a better mirror of his age In all his pity, love, and weariness, Than those who can but copy common things, And leave the Soul unpainted with its mighty questionings. But

Oscar Wilde

#33. Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise ...

William Osler

#34. When we remember our former selves, there is always that little figure with its long shadow stopping like an uncertain belated visitor on a lighted threshold at the far end of some impeccably narrowing corridor.

Vladimir Nabokov

#35. There is nothing rare about the merging of the bodies of two strangers. Even the Union of souls may occasionally take place. What is a thousand times more rare is the union of the body with its own soul in shared passion.

Milan Kundera

#36. The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

Herbert Hoover

#37. Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.

Lauren DeStefano

#38. I might look like a honey-eyed schoolgirl on the outside, in my skirt with its regulation four-inches-above-the-knee hem. But I'll rip those tassels off your shoes, old man. Just try Googling me.

Meg Cabot

#39. As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from the cold, but they were dying of scurvy.

Harry Johnston

#40. In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater numbers than men.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#41. The world used to think we are a land of snake charmers and black magic. But our youth has surprised the world with its IT skills. I dream of a digital India.

Narendra Modi

#42. It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in the other. Is there no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level?.

Mark Twain

#43. We must not see any person as an
abstraction.
Instead, we must see in every
person a universe with its own secrets,
with its own treasures, with its own
sources of anguish,
and with some measure of
triumph.

Elie Wiesel

#44. America wrestles with its obesity crisis to such an extent that Americans forget there are worse weight problems on earth than obesity.

Melissa Fay Greene

#45. Cave is a good word ... The memory of a cave I used to know was always in my mind, with its lofty passages, its silence and solitude, its shrouding gloom, its sepulchral echoes, its fleeting lights, and more than all, its sudden revelations ...

Mark Twain

#46. I can live without it all - love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear.

Erica Jong

#47. Making an object means imbuing it with its own spirit.

Kenji Ekuan

#48. Meanwhile, the mole goes on with its subterranean daydreams,
The dogs lie around like rugs

Charles Wright

#49. The "coalition against terrorism" means the United States. It does not wish anyone else to interfere with its strategy.

Tariq Ali

#50. As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.

Herodotus

#51. Inner peace is more a question of cultivating perspective, meaning, and wisdom even as life touches you with its pain.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#52. 'The Butler' has virtually nothing in common with its source material, the life of White House butler Gene Allen, except for the fact that the main character of the film and Allen were both black butlers in the White House.

Ben Shapiro

#53. Knowledge is the antidote to fear,-
Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#54. The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.

Agatha Christie

#55. When I return with her heart, there will be years aplenty for all of us," she said, eying her sisters' hairy chins and hollow eyes with disfavor. She slipped a scarlet bracelet onto her wrist, in the shape of a small snake with its tail between its jaws.

Neil Gaiman

#56. Freudism and all it has tainted with its grotesque implications and methods, appear to me to be one of the vilest deceits practiced by people on themselves and on others. I reject it utterly, along with a few other medieval items still adored by the ignorant, the conventional, or the very sick.

Vladimir Nabokov

#57. And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.

Roy Bean

#58. Haven't we put off problems without clarifying Japan's will to protect the lives and assets of its people and territory with its own hands, and merely accepted the benefits of economic prosperity?

Shinzo Abe

#59. And so a barrow to this hero was raised in that land, and there stands a token for men of later days to see, the trunk of a wild olive tree, such as ships are built of; and it flourishes with its green leaves a little below the Acherusian headland. And

Apollonius Of Rhodes

#60. When the past has taught us that we have more within us than we have ever used, our prayer is a cry to the divine to come to us and fill us with its power.

Rudolf Steiner

#61. A certain man placed a fountain by the wayside, and he hung up a cup near to it by a little chain. He was told some time after that a great art-critic had found much fault with its design. 'But,' said he, 'do many thirsty persons drink at it?

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#62. Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.

Simone De Beauvoir

#63. Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct - girls are to dwell in quiet homes among few friends, to exercise a noiseless influence.

Elizabeth Missing Sewell

#64. What an odd thing a stranger is. A stranger sleeping next to you. I listen to his breathing as if it were his entire life, with its hidden processes, the pulsing of the blood in the tissues, with thousands of tiny hidden decays and combustions, which together create and maintain him.

Mihail Sebastian

#65. FX does a great thing with its comedies where they give them a slow push out there.

Paul Scheer

#66. And here for the first time in my life I saw my beloved Mississippi River, dry in the summer haze, low water, with its big rank smell that smells like the raw body of America itself because it washes it up.

Jack Kerouac

#67. Shadow felt deeply uncomfortable: it was like watching an old wolf stalking a fawn too young to know that if it did not run, and run now, it would wind up in a distant glade with its bones picked clean by the ravens.

Neil Gaiman

#68. Don't do it. Please. I know this book looks delicious with its light-weight pages sliced thin a prosciutto and swiss stacked in a way that would make Dagwood salivate. The scent of freshly baked words wafting up with every turn of the page. Mmmm page. But don't do it. Not yet. Don't eat this book.

Morgan Spurlock

#69. If a society does not wage a common struggle to attain a common goal with its women and men, scientifically there is no way for it to become civilized or developed.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#70. Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

Alfred De Vigny

#71. By now it's got as much in common with its origins as a humpback whale would have with the sperm cells from a therapsid lizard. Still,

Peter Watts

#72. The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand ...

Oscar Wilde

#73. The sea cries with its meaningless voice,
Treating alike its dead and its living

Ted Hughes

#74. An object is chiral if it cannot be brought into congruence with its mirror image by translation and rotation.

Vladimir Prelog

#75. The tall, thin serious man strode in, his dark cloak billowing so dramatically it threatened to extinguish the lamp flame with its draught. He advanced like a malevolent shadow consuming the dim orange light, filling the room with a presence almost more than human.

Gregory Figg

#76. Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world.

Kate Grenville

#77. ...that society with its hurtful views on race and class distinction would make it difficult for us to succeed.

Curtis W. Jackson

#78. The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.

Phillips Brooks

#79. The point about democracy is not that it delivers legitimate, effective, prosperous rule of law. It's not that it guarantees peace with itself or with its neighbors ... Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality.

Rory Stewart

#80. You've got to set a trap so that it kills the rabbit straight off. On the leg is no good. All night the rabbit will cry and twist, then you'll have to kill it in the morning with its eyes looking at you, wondering why you did it.

Cate Kennedy

#81. The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he's with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit.

Michael Ondaatje

#82. They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated with its own bright spotlight.

Anna Godbersen

#83. When the South has trouble with its Negroes when the Negroes refuse to remain in their "place" it blames "outside agitators" and "Northern interference." When the nation has trouble with the Northern Negro, it blames the Kremlin.

James A. Baldwin

#84. There is a precarious balance to the life of a building. It has nothing to do with its age, or the beauty of its construction. A damaged building can always be repaired if it still has life, but a dead building will never be whole again.

Natsuhiko Kyogoku

#85. There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are seeking to be entrusted with its guidance should be left at home.

Woodrow Wilson

#86. May there only be peaceful and cheerful Earth Days to come for our beautiful Spaceship Earth as it continues to spin and circle in frigid space with its warm and fragile cargo of animate life.

Thant Myint-U

#87. It is by the nadir that we come, said Watt, and it is by the nadir that we go, whatever that means. And the artist must have felt something of this kind too, for the circle did not turn, as circles will, but sailed steadfast in its white skies, with its patient breach for ever below.

Samuel Beckett

#88. We sleep in language if language does not come to wake us up with its strangeness.

Robert Kelly

#89. 42nd Street with its quarter mile of marquees offering porn of all types, colors, sizes, and flavors.

Rich Zahradnik

#90. Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

Stephen King

#91. To understand the present with its full, rich significance, the mind must free itself from the habit of self-protecting acquisition; when it is utterly naked, then there is immortality.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#92. Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.

Ralph Ellison

#93. [...] confusing time with its mathematical progression, as the old do, to whom all the past is not a diminishing road but, instead, a huge meadow which no winter ever touches.

William Faulkner

#94. For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status.

Kenneth Burke

#95. But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world
a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.

Virginia Woolf

#96. If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.

Werner Herzog

#97. Mi-yammi! The extraordinary city, with its Judeo-Cubano population, its mix of surgical-appliance and sex-fetishist obsessions, takes the American melting pot past the boil. It represents pretty much everything Patrick J. Buchanan hates.

David Denby

#98. His cock shared none of his reservations and tried to impress with its best imitation of a towel rack.

Angel Martinez

#99. Strange and mysterious name to give to the spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the Light, and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual, or selfish souls? Doubt it not!

Albert Pike

#100. I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

Charles Baudelaire