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That was happiness. Not the framed greatest hits, but the moments in between. At the time, I hadn't pegged them as being particularly happy. But ...
An affective response more appropriate to another's situation than one's own.
And here is a bed of roses for the great king now beyond us and our petty little world.
If there is destruction of hope, there is freedom from gods [lha]; if there is destruction of fear, there is freedom from spirits ['dre, demons].
When you're learning how to do magic, the first rule is 'never reveal a secret.' In a way, by telling someone I'm a magician, it ...
One might have complained about the soot and ashes or about the pipes and curtain rods that hung crazily from the ceiling, but patients never ...
Improv classes were too expensive, so I just started going to open mics. And the day I did it, I did, like, three because I ...
True love and a mean spirit cannot coexist in a relationship. They are two opposing forces. Someone who is consistently and/or intentionally mean, in my ...
Secrets carry weight, like lead.
Telling someone who is manic that she's manic is like telling a dictator that he's a dick. Neither is going to admit it, and both ...
Europe is as fearful of Islam today as she has been in the past. She now knows that the strength of Islam (which in the ...
Each time one of the medicine men dies, it's as if a library has burned down.
A lot of producers and creative types want to see you be you. Throw something else out there and show them where you would take ...
I can live on thin rations but not without hope
The good thing about being on a show like 'Justified' is that you stick to the premise, but not necessarily every single word that's on ...
I've noticed that men get unhappy about women talking about something other than men, or love, or babies.
There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.
Israel was God's chosen people, the nation whose God was the Lord. This unique status has not passed to America or to any other earthly ...
Ground-nuts to keep you alive till I return. If any of you do not know how to clean and cook them, Captain Grant will show ...
Their [the new atheists] treatment of the religious viewpoint is pathetic to the point of non-being. Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion would fail any ...
...No, the gentle will not have to kill the table-pounders, thus stultifying their own instincts, for the noisy, being bullies, will melt away at the ...
You look and sound like you could you use a stiff one.Mark Willburn
I was born in Brooklyn, delivered by a Chinese doctor on a table in a boarding house on Sept. 23, 1920.
She should have known never to love anything so much she couldn't bear to lose it. That was life's lesson.
Every word written is a victory against Death.
A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to ...
Writing is a mixed blessing. We, who are addicted, berate ourselves and feel guilty when we don't write and at the same time put it ...
Strength is not measured in muscle, but in will.
One of the common themes you will read in interview after interview is the call to keep fighting for your vision. This is a message ...
My biggest challenge was moving from photography to film without losing my way of working - which is very intimate and learning to collaborate with ...
Leave it all on the track. Live with no regrets. Spend less time looking in life's rearview mirror and more time looking ahead at the ...
It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like listening to Pavement it's just The Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got ...
The only reason for this treatment was that they were Jews.
If your like a powerful modern thriller with an historical core in the Scandinavian style of many separate threads which eventually come together, Purple Killing ...
Time is like an egg and life is like a chicken that lays the egg.
There's no need to get rid of literally hundreds of thousands of books that are fine simply because you have a problem with an isolated ...
...life, like a wire, requires tension on both ends. You care to live and someone else cares that you live. What's the point of holding ...
An ambitious effort to build the first handheld computer, the Newton, seemed to sputter even before the first version was released.
No matter how much time you spend climbing up, you may still fall in an instant.
So that's my philosophy: If you believe in yourself, the chances and the opportunities will come around.
WITNESSING: God loves it; Satan hates it. So do you think you should be doing it?
Love of prayer is the barometer of religious vitality.
With every beat of my heart, I believe she thought keeping her secret was in everyone's best interest. She thought the secret would be buried ...
It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something mysterious about the ...
Simple is good." - Jim Henson, creator of The Muppets
Nature is your friend; it helps you to win. Your enemy will have unnatural movement, therefore you will be able to know what he is ...
What makes you wise is not what you learn, but what you practice. What makes you wealthy is not what you earn, but what you ...
Power rides her fingers, she moves from datashell to datashell, walking the nets like the ghost of a shadow, her trail vanishing behind her as ...
When you do something good, the Argentine people really attach themselves to you. They have so many problems back there that they're looking for somebody ...
The need for meaningful symbols, beliefs, stories, and rituals by which to organize our lives and understand our purpose has not disappeared. In fact, we ...