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Don't walk into the future looking backwards
She just couldn't bear to listen to the echo inside her chest. Nothing was lonelier than the limping beat of half a heart.
I am only as good as my last publication. Guess I am doing ok in that area.
I'm partial to stilettos. Stilettoes and long, flowing dresses are my new favourites.
Having had this kind of binge reading relationship with online content for 15 years we're starting to think 'Hang on, we only have finite time ...
There are lots of obstacles to peace... Before, people used to live in simple lifestyles. Simple food, simple clothes. Now it's more jealousy, more competition. ...
Killing life in whatever way, will drag you along the hell's way.
Betsy doesn't keep beautiful things to herself. I've learned from her that a pretty thing isn't worth much if you can't share it with anyone. ...
Practice writing and speaking about what you do.
All men dream, all men have a dream, all men want a dream.... I have none, What shall I put in its stead? I do ...
The first parts of Europe 'to emerge from barbarism,' Briffault says, were those most directly under the influence of 'Moorish' culture: the Spanish Marches of ...
If you have supportive family and friends combined with a strong will; there is no limit to what you can achieve.
Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies.
There is nothing new in state interventionism. It is as old and reactionary as societal organization itself. Always, when it permeates the body politic, it ...
You cannot choose what you don't believe in.
I can't think of a more philosophical time in a person's life than when they are children. It's the one time when ideas are really ...
The silence gets us nowhere, nowhere way to fast
The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and ...
That's why people who seek out group flow often join startups or work for themselves. Serial entrepreneurs keep starting new business as much for the ...
He drove to work, his car a sunny little island of calm in the middle of the swollen river of misery that was the morning ...
We don't deal in absolutes. We deal in probabilities.
In the current environment, we find it very difficult to defend America, and so we keep our silence. Because, to be very frank with you, ...
In a lonely and commercial world, sanctuaries still matter... (they) continue to speak to the deep desire for a set-apart place to rest and pray.
Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.
Real living is experienced only in the pages of books. Otherwise, it is the mere marking of time. 42
The commonest way to cheat an employer is not by stealing his money or loafing on the job, but by refusing to disagree when you ...
I put a spell on you and now you're mine. You can't stop the things I do. I ain't lying.
Even though I was fairly certain God wasn't Ted Bundy, I kept an open mind, since this phone call was getting a bit confusing.
See before you be.
To dance, above all, is to enter into the motions of life. It is an action, a movement, a process. The dance of life is ...
As a writer, I think your first job is to find a subject that you think you and others will find inherently interesting.
This little kid pointed at me and said, 'You look disgusting!' That was the first time I thought maybe I did. I decided I'd better ...
Life is a difficult thing to understand. It makes us too much happy and suddenly takes away the happiness. But we should smile in every ...
I been running up a bill with the devil ever since, and now he's come to collect on the debt.
Open yer mind to the world, kids. No point havin' yer windows open if yer don't pull back the curtains to let in the light! ...
You go to work, you go home, you've got a family and the sun's still shining ... you're happy. - Sherri L. Smith, (Flygirl, 2008)
We have the mentality of the hunter. We want to be the most enthusiastic team in the country. That's what we can control
You've become a fire within me." He pressed her palm to the center of his chest. "Right here. Bringing light to places I never knew ...
What the melancholy among us sometimes know, though may not be able to articulate, is that coming to the end of our resources may be ...
Sometimes the past is just better off staying there.
Let books take you somewhere you've never been before
Something different was happening to William alright, as if Winkleberry wasn't different enough.
He pressed a soft kiss down on the skin. I melted into a pool of desire, concealing it behind a demure smile. For such an ...
Your work is your identity, your life is your message.
Ralph played baseball and liked to read. His favorite color was green, and he absolutely loved ice cream. He was a pretty typical rabbit, except ...
When it stops being enough for you to simply be right, and you start thinking of your ideas as also being righteous - that's when ...
A gaze to stop still, wonder at the shimmering depths.A memory near the amygdala stored, an unforgettable tune,Such an image did it impress, your sweet ...
Sometimes you go into an audition and you'll do what you think the character is, and then if they agree, then it's awesome and you'll ...
Pre-Industrial Europe: Where Enlightenment Died In the sixteenth century there was a religious and political upheaval in Europe. As part of the chaos of that ...
And I would rather be alive, be real, be increasingly conscious of all that I am, than move around this planet all mechanical and unconscious.