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Although characterized as uncultured and unread, Hitler comes off in his demands to create a monumental signature for a Greater Germany as historically and artistically ...

Every time the Tories get a bit of power, they rip off all the things I love ... The mining industry. Milk.

Look at your body - A painted puppet, a poor toy Of jointed parts ready to collapse, A diseased and suffering thing With a head ...

All the itch and clutter of the world, its bother and fuss, its nagging pettiness, can wear you down so easily. And this is why ...

Physicians tell us of hectic fever, that in its beginning it is easy to cure, but hard to recognize; whereas, after a time, not having ...

I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a ...

I'd like to debrief you."She raised an eyebrow. "Aren't you at least going to take me to dinner first?""Come on. Let's go to my rooms ...

How could I not be in love with a man who folded something after strangling me with it?

The way that I write novels in particular is I don't usually outline; I just write. Part of the fun is discovering what's happening in ...

Obviously, I want it to be legally downloaded, and I myself have spent a fortune on iTunes because, for me, that's the easiest way to ...

If all the sins of the flesh are worthy of condemnation because by them man allows himself to be dominated by that which he has ...

My first name was inspired by the character of Aslan, the lion in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia.

Maybe we have lost the ability, that sixth sense that allows us to see miracles and have visions and understand that we are something other, ...

The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold.

Of course WE never had to do nude scenes. I'm glad, too, because I'm susceptible to pneumonia.

Oh! Do not excite yourself. Shall I say that he interested me because he was trying to grow a mustache and as yet the result ...

Last year, six of the seven teams with the lowest AGL won at least 10 games (the Jets were the exception).

Self-actualization is the important thing. And my personal message to people is that I hope they will go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization. I ...

I pledge to lead by example, to be brave and true.

A lot of women want to be married and have kids one day, but before we get there, it's so important to establish who you ...

Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren't taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint

I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.

Man only remains hypnotised with the false idea of an ego. When this ghost is off from us, all dreams vanish, and then it is ...

Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.

I never want to be the producer that I too often got.

In listening and stillness there is nobody who is still, and this stillness doesn't refer to any object; it is absolutely objectless; it is our ...

Our modern history begins in 1788 with the dumping of the human detritus of Britain ... Yet repositioned in the sunlight , they flourished. ...This ...

To say it was a dark and stormy night would be a gross understatement. It was colder than witch's kiss, wetter than a spring swamp, ...

Ask questions. Stay curious. It's much more important to stay interested than to be interesting.

My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.

Here the trees surrounded them with an invisible, anechoic blanket, so that every word seemed sucked into silence the moment it was uttered.

There is no shame in asking for help; it is one the most courageous things you'll ever do and will lead to greater connection with ...

The biblical word for personal change is repentance.

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

It's better not to make a promise than to make one you can't keep.

The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much time on a ...

A determined soul can never be defeated in life.

Harold, Julia - are you kidding? There's nothing - nothing - I've ever wanted more. My whole life. I just never thought - He stopped; ...

I like to style myself, as my first job out of university was working at 'Vogue' magazine in NYC, and I grew up attending the ...

Give him what he wants," Jorg had said. "Then take what you want. Nobody is more vulnerable than in their moment of victory, and you ...

Blame is for God and small children.

The Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and the Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long" "How to Find Your Purpose and Do What ...

Time is your most valuable possession.

I had my share of critics, and I wash my hands of the whole lot.

I've definitely been in relationships with friends where I wanted to do something different than I know a friend has. It's that complicated balance between ...

When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if ... What if ... ' Thus my imagination can move from the likely, ...

Education is huge for me. I went to public school until I turned thirteen, and was lucky enough to afford college once I became successful ...

In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture.

Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose.

Once you find a warmup routine that works, repeat it as habitually as possible.

These included the top of Mount Everest and up the chief's rear passage.

Comedy is crowded. There are hundreds of comedians in every place in the world.

He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed bydesire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned welltogether, and they ...

There is an Arabic writer who wrote philosophy and poetry and who brought all religions and all the world together.

Her happiness, fear, and pain- even her thoughts - become yours and you need to do everything to make sure it stays that way.

I wasn't the most popular girl in class, I had my friends, but I was comfortable with myself. There's always those most popular girls and ...

I'm happy to be told that I am beautiful, but I don't gain anything from that.

My wife and I, we like to ride where there's not much traffic.

Schinkel was not arbitrary in his use of historical modes but rather eclectic in the best sense of the word. He could search the past ...

Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.

No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support our troops, law enforcement workers, ...

Make yourself happy and surround yourself with people who are cool with that.

Chelsea, for the love of everything good and holy, please...please stop ruining my friend." ~Jay

All of this was mine, simply for agreeing to marry a man I did not love but who was, in the end, the only man ...

While you are busy growing up, don't forget your parents are growing old.

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem.Josef Stalin

We being round thee, forget to die.

He starts to hum, a haunting melody. No words ride the music, only the familiar notes of a forgotten song.

There's the constant concern with what happens to you when you die. Every society thinks about that and makes things to deal with that.

What a mystery we are to ourselves, even as we go on, learning more, sorting it out a little. The further on we go, the ...

Good advice, if there's any good in suffering. Quickest is best when trouble blocks the way.

You trust God, and no matter what happens, you refuse to let your faith be shaken.

2. E-mail Signature. Your e-mail signature is an opportunity to create another branding impression. But be careful. If you include too much information, it just ...

I like talking about sex. Especially when I'm horny, but even when I'm not.

When I smell pho, I just automatically think of my mom. All these nostalgic feelings and memories come rushing through my head.

You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.

The foolish families worry over blood. I care nothing for purity of family or ancestry. That is a vain thing. I care only for strength. ...

A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography?

Tired of life, afraid of death, not unlikeA lost brig, toy of ebb and flow on the ocean,My soul weighs anchor for a frightful shipwreck.

The fundamental attribution error is the tendency of human beings to attribute the negative or frustrating behaviors of their colleagues to their intentions and personalities, ...

Confront your greatest fearsvoice your biggest problemsacknowledge your tiniest issuesthe longer you stay silentthe louder they becomethey won't disappear if you ignore themthey will spread ...

She says screens are the cigarettes of our age. They're toxic, and we're only going to realize the damage they're doing when it's too late.

There is no old Adam Young, there is no new Adam Young, merely different colors and different brushstrokes over the same canvas.

What a teacher doesn't say ... is a telling part of what a student hears.

We have to become more digitized and based on data, but ideas and passion will last forever.

Supporting the definition of marriage as one man and one woman is not anti-gay: it is pro-traditional marriage. And if support for traditional marriage is ...

Live an adventurous life. Every adventure freshens your life anew, and you do not get bored. An adventurous person dies only once, but a coward ...

I'm always happy to have the President visit North Carolina. Unfortunately, the citizens of North Carolina who could be most adversely affected by the President's ...

I criticise by creation, not by finding fault.

Life plays a role of oxymoron. You can't predict the actual sense of it unless you feel it.

But it was the closest thing he had to a home. His

It's not about money. The money will flow. It's about power and influence.

Not all novelists are power-hungry madman. Some are power-hungry madwomen.

One of the things that I noticed in war was how difficult it was for our soldiers, at first, to realize that there are no ...

If I'm not telling you something, it's for a reason. Just because you trust me, it doesn't mean I have to automatically trust you. Trust ...

All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.

Thunder Point, Oregon, because

Maybe someday I'll be his and he'll be mine. And space or time won't matter because we were meant to be.But I won't hold my ...

All around, everywhere you look, is dullness and uncertainty. Even something born of beauty soon leads to boredom and banality, commonplace, the human ritual, the ...

The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match.