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A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and unalone.
It doesn't matter how old you are, how old your child was when he or she died, or the particular manner of your child's death; ...
A cat has to be in a very bad mood if a human cannot coax him to purr.
Our lives have no outcome other than death, just as rivers have no end other than the ocean. At the moment of death, our only ...
It's not supposed to make you distracted from your life, it's supposed to make you challenge the ongoing distraction with focused intention. Simply discussing how ...
Mankind is unkind, man.
...she knew again that her humour had saved her only for larger destructions; that the mad and the murdered, the living, must learn to hold ...
Europeans hate the way Americans talk. They think we're loud and uncouth and they don't like our jokes, except for Michael Moore. Plus, they resent ...
Where would you be without etymology'? Lea asked sarcastically.'I think I might find words a little less interesting,' said Mr Ruche.
The principles of the United States Constitution are, because of Senator Byrd, still the heartbeat of the US Senate.
I believe in God, because he believes in me.
This is perhaps the hardest truth of any to grasp. Do we wake up every morning amazed that we are loved by God?
The better you are, the closer they watch.
Your balls + my gun, you rat bastard.
Human societies are based on the human tendency to want things, and are geared to satisfying those wants: possessions or facilities to bring ease and ...
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long ...
Marketing is the lifeblood of your small business. It's what makes the cash pour in.
The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear stories.
Some necrophobes earn their own fates.
Originality is when you mix two things that haven't been mixed.
Transformation and deliverance are most definitely laborious!!!
They always circle back to talking about what ails them and what their kids are up to these days - the two subjects we all ...
Give yourself permission to adore life...
They pay me to play my drums and I love it!
As far as he can achieve it, readability is as important for the scientific writer as it is for the novelist.
Socks may eat wherever they want to.
She kissed him tonight, just like she had the first time twelve years ago, with everything she had.
Love can do funny things to you. It can make you happy; it can make you sad. It can even make you downright miserable.
The closer you can get to your setting and to primary sources, the more authentic your history is going to be ...
Ultimately when you have the perspective of why you're competing and what you're trying to pursue, the rest just falls into place.
You can make a difference in another person's life and not realize it, just by giving them One Moment of your time, One Memory to ...
The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.
24 hour broadcasts have to stretch limited material to fit 24 hours worth of space.
Truth telling is an investment we must make in relationships - whether personal or professional. It takes a lot of time and thought, and sometimes, ...
If the world could predict who the villains and heroes were going to be, the crisis wouldn't exist in the first place." They
Evil is to be found not within things, but in the value judgements which people bring to bear upon things. People can therefore be cured ...
All life is conscious, but it is not conscious of being conscious
I always wanted to host a show, throw whipped-cream pies. Theater is not my cup of tea.
To get the music the way you want it, there's a lot of work involved.
The only people in the world allowed to keep real secrets are the security organisations owned by governments.
No beasts of darkness, no demons from beyond the realms of death will hold us back. If we have to tarnish our swords with the ...
I don't remember Sherlock Holmes ever mentioning what you are supposed to do when you've eliminated everything improbable, and nothing is left.
Evil wasn't a force from some horrible underworld. It was the force inside people that allowed them to act in horrible ways.
I like the feeling of not knowing where to look when you are only performing for one person or watching someone practice. It creates this ...
I've got this thing with skating and school - to see how much I can accomplish.
Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.
I always fancied someone might call me 'Red,' like Katherine Hepburn.
My parents are in many ways embodiments of the American Dream. They came to this country with basically nothing but the clothes on their backs, ...
I became amazed at how much my men would tolerate if someone just took the time to explain the why of it all to them.