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Mario Cuomo famously said that we campaign in poetry and govern in prose. We also critique the government in poetry - angsty, adolescent poetry, but ...
I sat on the barn floor wishing that the storm would gather me up and hurl me against the mountains, smashing me into a thousand ...
It's obviously not impossible, because it's happening...
Reasonable ideas which find their sanction in the conscience of the righteous do not die; they are consequently realities and active forces, but they are ...
You have what it takes! Believe! You are the one with the dream. You own it. And you will walk through the open doors. Nothing ...
I never thought my cotton gin would change history.
I've got a right to knock down anybody holding a bat.
I may err in judgment, but I hope not in intention.
The problem is just too big to solve. This life is much easier if we all just pretend to have a heart.
Between 1994 and the year 2000, when the Republican majority was in control of the House of Representatives, President Clinton played House Speaker Newt Gringrich ...
If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of ...
Vegetables when not sufficiently cooked are know to be so exceedingly unwholesome and indigestible, that the custom of serving them 'crisp' should be altogether disregarded ...
Mother: "He used to say that you could lock me in a closet and I'd still get something out of it. I guess that's true." ...
The artist's view of the world and mankind is that which seeks as far as possible to lose itself in its object, illuminating it not ...
You don't seem the type to endorse the obscure dictates of polite society," she noted, thinking that he only played at being a gentlemen. There ...
In times of life crisis, whether wild fires or smoldering stress, the first thing I do is go back to basics ... am I eating ...
America faces a new race that has awakened.
Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens ...
Television is such a staple of modern society that for most voters,it's not real unless it's on the tube.
Anything will worry me. I may not get a check for the light bill off in time and I just get to worrying. I'm a ...
Never judge a book be its cover
By endurance we conquer.
An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which ...
In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements could be, as ...
Ronald Reagan's biographer wrote of the former president's final days: "for all the intimate familiarity of that face and body, I did not feel his ...
Let no one drag you so low as to hate them"-Martin Luther King Jr.
Food tastes better when you wear it!
Destiny might play some of our cards, but we are the choiceswe make, Gregorii.
You are never a victim, unless you think you are
You don't lose your temper and throw the cat out the door. You don't lose your temper and throw a dish at the dog and ...
The tyranny of the living body.Listen -- those cells are at it again.Gossiping.Her veins are singing. Belting out gospel and disco. Amazing Grace.And her tired ...
Developing spirituality is critical to our eternal progress. The fruits of eternal progress are manifest in joy, peace, love, hope, increased confidence in the Lord.
I couldn't very well make a special delivery to the door of the constabulary now could I? And he'd have made the perfect scapegoat. That ...
It's in my blood, as magic is in yours." His mouth is still smiling, but his tone is somber. "I couldn't stop writing even if ...
If it's not a "Hell Yes!" then it's a "Hell No!"...it's that simple.
Be attentive to the voice of grace.
I hate being bored when I read a story. Even a well-trod theme can be made fresh by a different perspective or fresh writing.
Today with the Internet, I search for film and video archives online. It's an ever-growing moveable visual feast of delicacies from all around the world.
A meal becomes good by starting with quality instructions. It becomes great when you add a quality chef.
How, then, did Virginia gentlemen persuade the voters to return the right kind of people to the House of Burgesses? How could patricians win in ...
The best types of problems are those that seem harder at first than when you think about it.
We have an epilogue, remember?
Everything about Boots Kelly's will was designed so that Boots would remain in control even beyond the grave. The bombshell Ryder Ford, the Kelly family ...
Once you go plant, you never go back.
What we pluralists have to do is to say to the people standing on the faith line, particularly the young ones, no, pluralism is the ...
There is no doubt something will be done sooner or later to enable us to put on a house every day, just as we put ...
The more stupid one is, the more he thinks he thinks he knows.
I'm obsessed with heels.
Wisdom was knowing what to do. Skill was the ability to do it.Virtue was doing it. When wisdom didn't subdue anger, anger destroyed everything.
I got over my wave of giving a shit and then regained my senses.