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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a ...
In L.A., I called every scrap yard and surplus place that was listed, about 50 or 60 places, and only at one of them did ...
I'm a poster child for feminism whether I like it or not, but I was resistant to the part of me that was a woman.
Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and beheld a flying roll.
Compensate Compassion
I'm gonna catch you with your head down tonight. I'm gonna take it off.
A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the size of his heart.
Charlie wanted to swear. ****, he thought, remembering how his father had told him that one reason you shouldn't swear is because then when you ...
It's a chore sometimes, isn't it? Wake up. Prepare food. Eat. Every day is just something checked off the long 'to do' list until we ...
I don't like meeting bands that I like, because in the slight case that they might not be cool, it kind of ruins it for ...
So many women come to me saying, "I have lost too,and this one, and this one". So many embryos retreatto flesh: the live cell of ...
Oh beloved, Take away what I want. Take away what I do. Take away what I need. Take away everything, That takes me away from ...
I tend to be a kind of left federalist. There's a value to more power of certain kinds being positioned at a more local level.
Loving, like prayer, is a power as well as a process. It's curative. It is creative.
Pessimists thrive while optimists starve.
Consider suffering's simultaneous self-absorption and incitement to empathy. The former refigures the the self by reducing you to symptoms, conditions, enduring. The latter refigures the ...
In Tel Aviv the weekends last 48 hours. In Jerusalem they last 6 months.
Lighten up. Brighten up - that's my mantra, and it gets me through the rest of the afternoon.
Due to Multi-Tenancy our gross margin by over 70%.
Wow...that was SQUISHY.
The biggest room in this world is room for development.
The only thing we cannot reasonably tolerate, is intolerance
Those affiliated with the plot have no need to hope for a far off better future; they know a sure means to pluck joy immediately: ...
I have multiple identities. I'm British. I'm Pakistani. I'm a Muslim. I'm a writer. I'm a father. And each identity has rich overtones. So I ...
My girlfriend and I went to a dinner party the other night and we ended up playing charades. There was another couple there that was ...
I now see that it is possible that I can receive a fair trial even with Americans as jurors,
I work hard and support myself.
If you don't think like a winner, you're not going to be a winner.
It must have been a curse because it meant my heart didn't belong to myself. It belonged to someone other than myself. It belonged to ...
Being of service does not mean we are less than or subservient to anyone or anything. It's a way of being that invites grace and ...
There is a difference in having head knowledge about the Holy Spirit and being surrendered to the Holy Spirit.
My arm was extended upward pleading for peace and the Union of our Fathers. When my hand came down, it fell slowly and sadly by ...
I think this is why Ellis took so many moving pictures of us. Because he knew that people come in and out of your life, ...
I did what I had to do, and you should be very proud of that. It is a great honour and you will see the ...
I love you. You're my voice of reason.
I think women of our generation went through Cultural Revolution, went through hardship, coming from nowhere, and suddenly see China's amazing opportunity. So women just ...
...she called, 'Mother, come out, someone's here, he brought the rain.
It's never too late for fatalism.
What kind of maggot grows in the corpse of a day?
O God, since thou made Zhou Yu, why did thou also create Zhuge Liang?
The moon, white and voluptuous like a proud, fat bride on her wedding night, had just cleared the horizon. From
Doesn't God also want you to love the partner you are with? You can't help who you fall in love with, Mum. Be it a ...
12. I realize my thoughts about others are also reflections of how I view myself.
In our quest to prove ourselves, we forget that there is a life beyond those corporate walls
It looks to me as though these politics mean Serbs, Croats and Muslims. But they are all people. They are all the same. They all ...
I'll walk away from you because I have to, but I won't walk away from my daughter. If I do, I'll never forgive myself. So ...
If only they could stay young & beautifull like most of them desire, then we would probably stay young too
It seemed odd no one had thought of it before but in general there is no accounting for the bovine stupidity of mankind.
Surprising as it was within touching
You have filled every fibre of my soul and the spaces in between