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A true leader must be able to command with an iron fist, not just a humble heart.
While you, the leader, can teach many things, character is not taught easily to adults who arrive at your desk lacking it. Be cautious about ...
Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to what is known in nature. - St. AUGUSTINE, LATIN PHILOSOPHER AND THEOLOGIAN
So, just for one more merry day To the great Tree the leaflets clung, Frolicked and danced and had their way, Upon the autumn breezes ...
I liked books - the respite and privacy of them - books about plants and the formation of ice and the business of world wars. ...
I'm not going to be the Alabama coach.
The river runs through the heart of the city, and braiding around and over and under the river, the city's rail system is a welter ...
Avoid any Dom with a large ego. Do not mistake arrogance for confidence.
The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or ...
It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when ...
My mom had me at 16 and took me every place she went. I remember going on peace marches. She tried to take me to ...
My favorite type of pet has always been a dog. They're loyal, kind, and offer endless affection. My friend Eric says, 'The more people I ...
Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long ...
There is an aesthetic dimension to virtue. In real life, as opposed to in celluloid, we are attracted to the good and repelled by the ...
When Marvel approached me about possibly bringing back a She-Hulk solo series, a few touchstones for a take immediately popped into my head - make ...
If you're not paying for something, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold. - Andrew Lewis, under the alias Blue_beetle, on the Web ...
Bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a giant, angry eagle with razor-sharp ...
Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other ...
What a bright sunny day, and I don't know what to say ...
You know, as most entrepreneurs do, that a company is only as good as its people. The hard part is actually building the team that ...
A real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.
Jesus comes not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and the weak-kneed who know they don't have it all together, and who are not ...
We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace; ...
One can seldom admire what one loves.
Your identity should not be fully defined by what you do, by being a manager, a wife, a mother of children or a computer programmer
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
Today is a good day to be a GIANT!!! Hell everyday is a good day to be a GIANT!! Y'all have a blessed day
But for all we've lost, hope is in fact one thing we Japanese have regained. The great earthquake and tsunami have robbed us of many ...
You do what you love, what you need
Why hadn't she been a detective instead of a goddamn stupid third-class civil rights lawyer? She hated the law. It took an aggressive, assertive personality. ...
Rather than being afraid to ask for help, remember this: When you ask someone to help you, you are actually doing them a tremendous favor ...
... That little narrative is an example of the mathematician's art: asking simple and elegant questions about our imaginary creations, and crafting satisfying and beautiful ...
It's like reading a good book. The kind where you don't want to skip pages to see what happens at the end. Each moment is ...
To know that children are suffering and going without food is intolerable in a society such as ours. I hope that all our leaders, in ...
I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of ...
I want to be the purveyor of a certain silhouette or a way of cutting, so that when I am dead and gone people will ...
Tom Cruise shouldn't try to win Oscars. He should just smile and kick people in the face and leave the acting to Hugh Jackman. Why ...
For me, being a woman suits what I want to talk about and what my audience wants to hear. Maybe I'm a dying breed.
Don't always consider all your options. Don't necessarily go for the outcome that seems best every time. Make a mess on occasion. Travel light. Let ...
When I was in High School I fell for pretty much any girl I ever met. But I was so desperate that I couldn't get ...
Teaching our children is more than just imparting information. It's helping our children get the doctrine into their hearts in a way that it becomes ...
Some animals on Earth regurgitate as opposed to vomit, i.e., stomach contents flow up into the esophagus without any forceful abdominal contractions. What I experienced ...
I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists ...
You can create opportunity out of importunity.You can create prosperity out of adversity.U can create something out of nothing
I mean, you can't have sex until you're married if you're Mormon. The first time I had sex, my parents found out. They were listening ...
My mom worked for Lockheed Corp. in Burbank as an inspector of airplane parts. To help make ends meet, Dee, a friend of my mom's ...
Always a bridesmaid never a bride my foot!
Listen, Peaches, trickery is what humans are all about," said the voice of Maurice. "They're so keen on tricking one another all the time that ...
I attribute my wife's language to the fact that she's one-quarter spaniel. She says she's only an eighth, but, come on, the ears say it ...
So much of what folks want in the world turns out to be just a thing they say. Words change the way you feel for ...
Never settle on a life you don't want when God is trying to give you a better life.
A dollar saved is a dollar earned but seldom vice versa.
Am I, or the others crazy?
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 ...
If truth prevails, the contributions of a courageous physician and a brilliant engineer to the conquest of waterborne disease will still be remembered in another ...
No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can define or measure any value. But if no one ...
It's no longer about the Lost Boys. They keep trying to make their way out, then they meet other people and empathize with them. It's ...
To achieve what you want, you have to be stronger than those around you
Tupac gave us validity. Tupac made the kid getting beat up every day realize that it was okay to be smart. Tupac made the knucklehead ...
Somebody came up to me after a talk I had given, and say, "You make mathematics seem like fun." I was inspired to reply, "If ...
You can be courageous in admitting your sin precisely because God is richly abundant in his mercy. He comes to you in mercy not because ...
Secrets and lies, they eat your insides until all you have left is a hard thin skin that covers you like the shell of one ...
Never give anyone permission to hurt your feelings. Always face them by standing up for what is right and you will feel strong. If you ...
My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm-as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, ...
Acceptance is the letter sealed within the envelope of inner peace. - Charmainism
Duane: We are not enemies! We are Aldishmen! Aumut vaosa -- six years I've longed for a Tainish word from a friendly tongue!Quigley: Keep longing.
When my creative side isn't being fulfilled, I see it affect me in a negative way and I'm not able to become that father/husband/man that ...
We visited the unlucky in the hospital and went to funerals, always remarking on the tragedy. But every time we stepped too close to it, ...
That one won't crack, though, Mendel decided with approval; one of your flabby oak trees, Smiley was. Think you could blow him over with one ...
Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and ... it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with the greatest ...
When you've lost a loved one, you realise how grateful you are for any help in those moments, and any scheme that tries to help ...
Gimme the fucking creeps, Doakes grumbled. I began to appreciate the man's finer qualities. Of course I gave him the fucking creeps. The only real ...
The truth is, Ari, I miss El Paso. When we first moved there, I hated it. But now I think about El Paso all the ...
In other words, it was a struggle with himself. And the product of that struggle: anger, bitterness, resentment, envy or transformation, aspiration, hope, decency..the product ...
This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so ...
I held up my hands. 'I thought you could use a punching bag.' See, this is me, the new and improved Nick Pardee, available to ...
I think one of the big issues with, you know, people who have strong faith in addition to competing is that conflict between accepting things ...
This was one of the consequences of the civil war. People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy.
A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.
Testimony is not something you have today, and you are going to have always. A testimony is fragile. It is as hard to hold as ...
Ah took a pish oan the cunt, then ah felt bad aboot Albo's cel so ah sais tae him oan the wey oot, cunt's only ...
Gratitude is a sign of maturity ... Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others.
A good coach can change a game. A great coach can change a life.
Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) has called for an audit of the Pentagon, so that we finally have some transparency and accountability in how DOD ...
Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind.
I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it's nice to be in a room ...
Late nights, bloodshot eyes at school, walking around like a Flare-infested Crank,
If a man, in a lifetime of 50 years, can point to six songs that are immediately identifiable, he has achieved something. Irving Berlin can ...
For Michael Wright and Frank Darabont to cast me as the ultimate good guy and Eddie Burns as the ultimate bad guy, and really switching ...
He took her hand in his and kissed her fingers, then shook his head. "I wouldn't have let you get away. I was angry and ...
Even now I know it: yes, all my hopes will be fulfilled ... yes ... the Lord will work wonders for me which will surpass ...
But what is a dream, Conor O'Malley? the monster said, bending down so it's face was close to Conor's. Who is to say that it ...
I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land ...
Surprise, surprise! I have a band! I'm really excited that we have a song on the soundtrack of 'American Reunion' for that very reason.
The Arab and Islamic nation has lost a great man and one of its fearless men who dedicated his life to the service of the ...
She may resemble a mythical angel, but she moved like an x-rated wet dream
If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It's had ...
You've been acting like Jesus owes you a favor, but he's a little smart for you to fool.
If truth prevails, the contributions of a courageous physician and a brilliant engineer to the conquest of waterborne disease will still be remembered in another ...
A soldier is a killer painted hero.