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Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.
Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.
The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the middle of what our contemporaries have ...
In sleep, you do not know whether you are a man or a woman, he said. "Just as a man, impersonating a woman, does not ...
We are all emigrants from the same country - the land of childhood. What I want to do is write about the journey all of ...
It's so much fun to fight the odds, but it's so draining to fight stupidity.
We want to learn all the game and play the best way and take to our advantage.
And while you was bangin on tables, I was bangin Snow White.
My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
Every great novel begins with a single word. One word, followed by another and another and another. Sentences forming paths to that dream.
As a father has pity on his children, so has the Lord had pity on us; because He is good, because His mercy endures forever.
There is room in my mind for unpleasant thoughts just as there is room in the sky for a thunderstorm. I just need to relate ...
If your relationship with someone is based on your desire for them to change into something radically different, there's no real closeness there, no real ...
When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile.
After my head has been chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment , the sound of my own ...
When you make music you do it for the right reason: love. Love is the desire of well being, desire to heal the wounded, the ...
For me an adventure is something that I can take an active part in but that I don't have total control over.
Fear is the assassin of dreams
I never had an imaginary friend, just imaginary circumstances. I was so into the Indiana Jones movies and I would constantly reenact circumstances. I broke ...
Just stamping out anti-science and bad science will eliminate an enormous amount of business waste
Backyards are as Australian as the Hills Hoists they host, and as individual as those who work and play in them. Whether haven, pantry or ...
God is as really present in the consecrated Host as He is in the glory of Heaven
Respect the building blocks, master the fundamentals, and the potential is unlimited
If words allow themselves to be handled, it is with the help of infinite carefulness. One has to welcome them, listen to the, before asking ...
The Priests are famous mathematicians; they can demonstrate that one is equal to three, or that three equals one; three eternals is equal to one ...
The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes ...
I don't want to put out something I'm not psyched on just because I finished it. That's the stupidest reason to do something, really. I ...
There are some great roles mostly in Shakespeare's tragedies which no one can play at full strength from beginning to end. One simply hopes that ...
Now you've gone too fast. Now, you've made me leave me behind.
The dead in Nigeria are always waking up. When somebody dies there, they only seem to die for a little while,
There is no better friendship booster than the ability to listen. The ability to show genuine interest in others is an admirable quality of a ...
I love Japanese and Thai food, especially seafood, and eat out with my wife two or three times a week.
I'm going down in history with Star Trek. It's a great feeling.
Any desert land that will grow big sage will produce more fortunes thatn most gold mines -- if you can only get the water.
Pride in office without competence is as much a sin as competence without confidence.
100 squats 50 ring dips 30 L-pullups 3 rounds of: 100 squats 20 ring pushups 12 pullups 5 rounds of: 50 squats 15 ring pushups ...
Babi (alt. spelling Baba) is a bloodthirsty Baboon God.
Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details in everything you do and excellence will come.
Falconer's grasp of period and places is almost flawless ... He's my kind of writer.
The difference between civil servants and private businessmen is that when a central planner makes a mistake, he is likely to disrupt the whole economy ...
We're all frightened. We go through life like little children. Every single one of us pretending to be an adult. All you can really do ...
Why should anyone make a living to maintain a life not worth living?
I figured that in the minute and a half they had been in the room, they were probably already halfway to oblivion.
A world at prayer is a world at peace
There seems to be this assumption that when we have "found ourselves" we have centered on one single version of who we can be. Why ...
When our embarrassment level is exceeded by our desperation level, we are a good candidate for God's grace.
Everybody is damaged goods. Everybody got bumps and dents, ja? But sometimes two people fit together, and the bumps go into the dents, and you ...
Why should we remain innocent of what lurks in the shadows? How can we live in the world if we don't understand how dark and ...
From the woman who musters the courage to ask her husband to wear a condom, counter to cultural pressures, to the woman in Parliament who ...
I go to third grade, and I'm scared to death. I'm just 6 years old, and the kids are so much bigger than me.