Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendell Berry

True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible... In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives.

Katherine Mansfield

The mind I love must have wild places.

George Aiken

As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

David R. Brower

We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn....

Steve Irwin

If we save our wild places, we will ultimately save ourselves.

Carl Jung

If you insist on the chase," I say, my voice much surer than I feel."Then you better start training. 'Cause, dude you're in for a marathon.

Richelle Mead

No," he said, voice thick and husky. His fingers dug into the chair's arms. "You'd better not get too close." I stopped, laughing softly. "You don't strike me as the assaulting type, Mortensen." "Yeah, well, there's a first time for everything.

Richelle Mead

Only what?” I asked. I could barely hear my own voice. He turned his gaze back to me, firm and unflinching. “Only… more human.” And that was it. All the anger and sorrow vanished. There was nothing in me. Nothing at all. I was empty. “Get out,” I said.

Richelle Mead

Don't touch her," he growled. There was a note in his voice that would of scared me if it had been directed toward me. He shoved me behind him, putting his body protectively in front of mine with my back to the table. Guardians came at us from all directions,and Dimitri began dispatching them with the same deadly grace that had once made people call him a god.

Richelle Mead

Are you sleepwalking?' A voice asked behind me. "I was testing dorm security," I said. "It sucks.

Richelle Mead

Roza." His voice had that same wonderful lowness, the same accent . . . it was all just colder. "You forgot my first lesson: Don’t hesitate.

Richelle Mead

Oh," he said to Kiyo, voice completely devoid of emotion. "I see. It's your turn again.

Richelle Mead

They’re waiting for you. Go on in.” Adrian leaned close to Keith’s ear and spoke in an ominous voice. “If.You.Dare.” He poked Keith’s shoulder and gave a "Muhahaha” kind of monster laugh.

Richard Ben-Veniste

Without the tape-recorded evidence demonstrating irrefutably, in Nixons own voice, his knowledge of and active involvement in obstruction of justice, it is likely that Nixon would have escaped impeachment and removal from office.

Samuel Rogers

Then never less alone than when alone.

Samuel Johnson

Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves

Vita Sackville-West

The true solitary ... will feel that he is himself only when he is alone; when he is in company he will feel that he perjures himself, prostitutes himself to the exactions of others; he will feel that time spent in company is time lost; he will be conscious only of his impatience to get back to his true life.

Sarah Hall

Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.

Witold Gombrowicz

Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal.

Witold Gombrowicz

I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.

William Allingham

Solitude is very sad, Too much company twice as bad.

Salvatore Quasimodo

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

William Drummond

Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove, Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own; Though solitary, who is not alone, But doth converse with that eternal love.