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We've never been your typical family. We've moved a lot.
I want young women to think about different possibilities for their lives.
It would be foolish, I think, to judge a whole people by the actions of a few vile souls. Foolish as well as misguiding.
Unmet promises are rarely empty; rather, they're filled with the unspoken things people don't want to do or can't do.
The bonds of friendship dwindle with age, Oliver. But a little blackmail lasts forever.
For the next month, I worked from 4 am to 9 pm. At the end of the month, when the calculations were done, I had ...
While never ultimately commercially successful, the Dreamcast is home to the most expensive-to-produce games made to date. Shenmue and Shenmue 2 cost more than $70 ...
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.
You're very beautiful, dear', she said, 'what nationality are you, Indian?''No', I smiled, 'I'm Aboriginal.'She looked at me in shock. 'You can't be,' she said.'I ...
From a crude rocket in a weedy field to Explorer and beyond, the human race had broken the bonds of gravity to which they had ...
Your only limitations are the ties you allow to bind you.
Such questions have never been discussed in scholarly publications because the Nazi laws, policies, and practices have never been adequately documented. The record establishes that ...
If all shy, soulful young women who dreamed of becoming writers for a living actually could do that, imagine the library we would have.
Bird's nest of curly salt-and-pepper
People can look at me any way they want to. If somebody meets me and hangs out with me, they can see what kind person ...
You won't shoot nine under unless you birdie the first two or three holes. You just start firing at everything.
Polls are like perfume-nice to smell, dangerous to swallow
Sam, you always have a choice. Always.
Life mash, Lucia has said, when Eva told her Christopher had gone to war. Eva had asked her what it meant, and Lucia explained it ...
To attain, and to keep, a professional-managerial job requires class-specific human capital. Developing and displaying that capital is a central preoccupation of upper-middle class life.
If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today.
In the last 10 years, children have been locked inside their rooms, glued to their PCs ... But now with mobile technology, we can actually ...
Ludwik Szatera was a passionate lover of nostalgia. He could never come to terms with the eternal passage of men, objects and events. Each moment ...
Two feet tall,the crimson-budded roses,their young thornstender inthe soft spring rain
Living on purpose means stopping to make sure your actions still match your big goals.
Not a drop in her eye because the pain in her heart was too much to cry!
Either a mother and daughter know each other very well or they are strangers.
My problem is trying to find the desire to fight and be on the court ready to fight. For a few weeks, I haven't felt ...
I wanted to drop the emotional hammer on Steph and tell her my thought: that I would very much like for her to try to ...
Comfort leads to complacency, and complacency kills. For this reason, I believe that we all should be a little uncoomfortable in our jobs.
Writing The Breastplate was a labor of love and inspiration. Hopefully Ican get inspired for a sequel that readers are asking for. Shirley McCracken author ...
One's course in life often pivots on small incidents.
Sex or sleep? What will it be, Lila?
Virgo: Your teddy bear will reveal that he is pregnant and will require counseling.
Do that, and the best you can hope for is that people will ignore you. More realistically, you'd be skinned alive, or possibly sentenced to ...
The death of that ape. She was wearing a light blue dress
I had played so poorly recently, I started thinking that maybe I should do something else. Then I saw my friends going to work everyday ...
Not only do you have to trust the definite, you must also trust the uncertainty.
Life is a process, not an endpoint.
Train all your talents, for you never know which one will save your skin.
It is easy to program in Ruby, but Ruby is not a simple language.
If you can't do what you really want to do, then do the next best thing!
After a sound drubbing followed by half a day's fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was ...
When I am old and addled I will make coronets like Cad, that have nothing to do with history, but represent the whimsy and cobwebs ...
As fire is covered by smoke, mirror by dust, and embryo by amnion, so is knowledge covered by desire.
Our politicians, by their words and policies, either expand or contract the frontiers of freedom. We the people either monitor and encourage its progress, or ...
The ability to engage the reader, to stir feelings deep within their being, is the ultimate goal of erotic fiction. When the reader takes the ...
The basic difference between the two phenomenon is that, global warming causes heating effect in the earth's atmosphere, whereas global dimming causes cooling effect.
Because the goal in writing is always to get to the truth of a character, dig inside and find out what drives them and how ...
My husband is from Finland, so every so often I'll throw a Scandinavian-themed party.