Quotes By Famous Authors: [T]
Oh deep winter snow, pale executioner, thou who delights in a slow, torturous death.
In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
This is for everyone who has ever looked at the stars, or gazed from atop a hill, or across the sea and wondered ...
The STORY has one great advantage over the HISTORY, and that is that once you learn the story, you never have to learn anything new! ...
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Jedi Masters do not crack up- they just get eccentric.- Luke Skywalker
These were his peoplea strange thought. Maybe not his very own people, as in father, mother, brother, sister, but people just like him. He was ...
A rainy day is a good day to be in bed with a good book - or with someone who has read one."T.K. Lukas
By the close of 2015, the queen had visited 128 countries. Her most popular destination was Canada (27 visits), followed by Australia (18 visits). When ...
It's a disappointment to lose key players. On the other hand it creates an opportunity to play other players.
Shutting out all external objects, fixing the vision between the eyebrows, making even the inward and outward breaths, the sage who has controlled the senses, ...
If college graduates can no longer be counted on to lead reasoned debate and discussion in American life, and to know the difference between knowledge ...
Mel Gibson was lovely. He was on the edge of both scenes that I had with Danny Glover.
We have to understand that the closer you get to the corridors of power, to the Oval Office and Congress, the more you become a ...
The past can never be changed, but the future, by the Grace of God, can be.--Tom Blubaugh
Yet we choose to remember history very selectively, favoring foresight over failure.
No matter how angry she makes me, she's still my mother, and I have to protect her if I can.
It is necessary to recover the primeval force of the shock taking place at the moment when opposite a man (the viewer) there stood for ...
In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.
There's no need to fear the oblivion after we're gone if we never cared about the oblivion that came before we were born. Cheer up. ...
The war on drugs thrives on ignorance of drugs and misplaced faith in the power of the law to regulate human vice.
Why did people think military relationships were romantic? If anything, they were more work than most relationships.
Between the pages of a book is a divine place to be.
I think when you're dealing with faith, you want to be as responsible and sensitive to the material as you can.
Eric Boocock had been England's No.1 for a spell in the late 60s and early 70s. He reached three world finals and in 1974 put ...
I love seeing other channels counterprogram the Super Bowl. PBS: DAMN RIGHT we're airing a new 'Masterpiece Classic'! Fuck off, sports!
Virtue's guard is labor; ease, her sleep.
The change most needed in our lives isn't change in our situations and relationships but in us. The thing God is most intent on rescuing ...
Soren, this is my mother, Jenna Glyn. Mom, this is Soren, my ... ' She blinks and shakes her head before saying, ' ... my ...
There are things that science as presently conceived does not help us to understand, and which we can see, from the internal features of physical ...
Being always right is knowing what you KNOW, knowing what you DON'T know, knowing what you NEED to know and then defining the relationship between ...
Having seen all of their fathers and husbands walk out the door[...], each woman understood most completely the nature of women's interconnectedness. Being reliant upon ...
Those of you who knew me more personally will notice small changes in how a look.
An oft-quoted statistic from the [United Nations] reports is that the amount of literature translated into Spanish in a single year exceeds the entire corpus ...
Pull the trigger.
Learning is retarded in conditions of high anxiety and low acceptance. For most tasks, people have the intellectual knowledge to perform well; they just have ...
I know what it feels like to miss everything about himthe way he smells, the way his mouth curls up when he laughs, his voice.
His was the strong soul, gentle, but tempered with fire, fervent, heroic and good, the helper and friend of mankind. It is such as he ...
You scared, sweetheart?
Let me tell you, it's a lot easier to raise money for a governor. They have all kinds of business to hand out, road contracts, ...
The disciples of Jesus were not to practice politics through the use of coercive power, but through servanthood.
The car business is a lot like football. In football, you have to win once a week. In the car business, you have to win ...
By the time I received my doctorate in American studies in 1957, I was in the twisted grip of a disease of our times in ...
If you give all your perceptions over to the Holy Spirit, this world of perception will become the tool for your return to the truth.
Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, but certainly will burn out vital ...
The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.
He opened his mouth to protest, but she gave him her angry-black-woman death stare until he calmed down. She then strapped her grenade launcher to ...
The Roman character had a strong streak of snobbery: effectively, citizens preferred to vote for families with strong brand recognition, electing son after father after ...
She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.
Like one's own children, golf has an uncanny way of endearing itself to us while at the same time evoking every weakness of mind and ...