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India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's ...

In the strength of God, you can crush any army

When I was a kid, I used to think pork chops and karate chops were the same thing.

I was going to be a scientist.

We were all the same. Kids from nowhere going nowhere. He always saw a light through the darkness. Knew the cracks let that light in, ...

Her throat ached: adoration, heartbreak, in equal measure. "Kiss me," she said. "Please.

While reason is still tracking down the secret, you end your quest on the open field of love.

I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and realised there's no good reason for ...

My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that ...

She was already moving down the hall in the opposite direction from Deke, and so once again any protest I might have made was largely ...

Baby talk has tremendous potential, despite its obvious dangers and its near-total incomprehensibility. The only reason you don't embrace it is your abject terror.

My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to ...

Heaven is dancingDancing and laughing,Ocean and landAre dancing along,Undulating to the breath of the sky.

I developed 'Trapped' because I was fascinated with the idea of a terrible crime in a small town cut off from the rest of the ...

People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy and I can't do that as Bruce Wayne. As a man I'm flesh and blood, ...

Vodka is kind of a hobby.

Yoga is about working with what you've got on that day. Some days you may find certain positions easier to get into than others. It's ...

One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh realities ...

Making a film from the point of view of a young boy's eyes opened the door to another universe with lots of freedom and to ...

An expert is a man who tells you a simple thing in a confused way in such a fashion as to make you think the ...

The weather is entrancing, but in my heart there is no sun.

To maximize our lives we think that we should get up and join in the race. Yet, we rarely consider that maybe it's less about ...

Life is just too beautiful if meaning is attached to it, and useless when meaningless!!

I always work hard to have a very close connection to the fans.

I bind the Sun's throne with a burning zone, And the Moon's with a girdle of pearl; The volcanoes are dim, and the stars reel ...

In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.

Back home Chinars sniff autumn breeze,and green leaves blush to crimson frangibility;Yet it is me here drinking coffee, thinking airplanes;

The hard bed, the stool beside it, the stark cross on the wall, each cast shadows. Only the man in the bed seemed shadowless. He ...

Throwing Ronald Reagan out of office at the height of his popularity, with inflation and interest rates down, the economy moving and the country at ...

He was afraid of nothing. Until he'd met me.

You are only one prayer away from a dream fulfilled, a promise kept, or a miracle performed.

By definition, fifty percent of every large group that let's anyone join is below average.

Why would anyone want to be called a size zero or even aspire to being a zero? I don't even understand the thinking behind it, ...

I'm calling the police," she said, showing him the phone in her hand.He smiled, and for a moment she forgot about the phone. "You don't ...

Late-stage capitalism isn't reformable.

Zart the fart, you start.

Peace demands more, not less, from a people. Peace lacks the clarity of purpose and the cadence of war. War is scripted: peace is improvisation.

Despite her unrepentant aversion to Italian food, which her husband put down to her nation's historic distrust of Italy, she suddenly declared: All I want ...

Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.

At that moment i felt lonelier than i'd ever felt before, and that loneliness seemed to squat in my lungs and crush all but my ...

This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination.

You have to drop all your defenses, only then is intimacy possible. We are all hiding a thousand and on things, not only from others ...

Count blessings and discover Who can be counted on.

[W]hatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.

I did some thinking." "That is a very dangerous pastime," Ghastek said.

How could you watch someone floss one minute, and the next minute share your deepest passion or most ridiculous, trite little fears?

He [Jimmy Connors] has one weakness. He can never say his opponent played well. That's why it feels good to beat him and that's why ...

I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married in real life. So both ...

Credit should go with the performance of duty, and not with what is very often the accident of glory.

There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.

The only people I ever met who were sensible all the time were so boring that watching them could put you to sleep.

Computer monitors can operate in many different video modes. In most cases, the decision about how many pixels and colors to display is yours - ...

To spend more time with God is to discover his larger purpose

The last thing reporters and editors want to be told is what to do and how to write. They don't want to be some politically ...

It's lost time that matters - the time between time - the moments when you forget time and life just happens.

If each person in this world will simply take a small piece of this huge thing, this amazing quilt, and work it regardless of the ...

Nothing's occurring in animation - you manufacture everything.

I just think women are funnier than men.

I felt like Frederic Moreau arriving late and uninvited at Monsieur Dambreuse's elite salon in Flaubert's Sentimental Education - a

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

In North America, many fans know Cristiano Ronaldo's smirk and can recognize Didier Drogba in a commercial. Maybe they know too much for the good ...

If no one in the entire world cares about you, do you really exist at all?

My own style influences have to do with where I grew up, in the Bronx, and I still like to wear bangles and big hoops!

Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories.

I'm in a kind of weird position where I want to prove that I can do smaller movies.

I use vaporizers a lot. It cuts down on the heat and the smoke. And for a singer that's not a bad idea.

The atoms that so liberally and congenially flock together to form living things on Earth are exactly the same atoms that decline to do it ...

To summarize, when we experience difficult or stressful situations, especially if we have had significant stresses earlier in life and if we are unable to ...

Van Gogh cut off his ear gave it to a prostitute who flung it away in extreme disgust. Van, whores don't want ears they want ...

Without suffering, we do not have the opportunity to cultivate compassion and understanding; and without understanding, there can be no true love. So

You'll be happy to know that the universal law that created miracles hasn't been repealed.

I have a suspicion that you are all mad,' said Dr. Renard, smiling sociably; 'but God forbid that madness should in any way interrupt friendship.

Mentally there's no question about whether I still like the sport and love doing it. I think it's pretty clear to everyone here that I ...

The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

I've yet to see any problem, however complicated, which when you looked at it the right way didn't become still more complicated.

One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've ...

I'm keeping my power to myself and my glow. I'm not giving anybody my glow anymore.

In America, money takes the place of God.

Thee times their size

The universe, it balances. It makes sure you don't get a head that's too big. I love it.

So many people who think they know only know what they don't know, as time passes by, they may get to know what they don't ...

When there's so much choice, it can get overwhelming and it's hard to make a choice.

I've never been one of those who wanted to fill my calendar up 90 percent of the time.

I was determined to dance. That's why I lasted so long.

The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in ...

We know that service is indispensable for bringing us close to the Savior and letting us feel his Spirit. In nothing do we resemble the ...

How far can you push a rope? Not very far. That's why true influencers don't push.

O cowardly amd tyrannous race of monks, persecutors of the bard, and the gleemen, haters of life and joy! O race that does not draw ...

It's not the FUTURE your afraid of, it's the PAST that makes you anxious.

Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.

Poetry was a barrier against rawemotions. It distilled them into bearablemusic, allowed one to accommodate thema little at a time.Alexander Moncrieffe

It is not being out at heels that makes a man discontented, it is being out at heart. To be contented is to be good ...

There seems to be a great propensity in this business to write tear-jerkers, 'You-left-me' songs. I thought, 'Why don't I count my blessings by looking ...

As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or ...

If you can figure out where you fit into any particular story, you'll be okay. When you're not quite sure where you fit in, you ...

I am not handsome but I can give my hand to someone who need help ... Because beauty is required in heart not in face ...

The bravest soldiers aren't unafraid, but they're the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.

If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! ...

It's not that I'm so smart,