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I'd studied Latin for five years now, which meant that I could, on rare occasions, actually translate something.
I would not be standing here today if my skin were white or my religion were Presbyterian. I am here today only because my skin ...
Vengeance cannot abide the agony of grace.
The progression of a painter's work ... will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and between ...
I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles ... like Audrey Hepburn.
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
The cafe door opened. A young man in dusty white leathers entered, and the wind blew in empty crisp packets and newspapers and ice cream ...
Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.
A lot easier to seize the day than it is to seize a Tuesday. You have errands on Tuesday. On Tuesday you eat pizza again. ...
You need to raise your frequency to match the vibration of the one you want to tune into.
The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration ... they think it ill manners.
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.
Light is safety; light is lifeThe first rule of the Arclight.
Put your hope in the right thing, and it would be a lifeline. Put your hope in the wrong thing, and it would be a ...
The best way to get over a dog's death is to get another soon.
Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissarro. Here, in the Louvre, before the canvases of Manet, ...
Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the human spirit can ...
Perhaps the story of the human race is best understood as a journey through particularly hazardous terrain, in the dark, in a not very well-serviced ...
I'm not a coward." He tries to convince me, as if I'd already called him the name. "It wasn't the fear of death that drove ...
The journey has to be based on passion. Put yourself in something you love to do. If you love what you do you're able to ...
I think the personal satisfaction of doing good in the community and increasing value and holding true to the Hippocratic oath and being able to ...
Dude, writing, acting and directing are such easy jobs. But to do them all as awesomely as Zach Braff does, well that ... that's something.
Living in any other time than the present and living on anyone else's terms but your own is a categorical waste of a human life.
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
The writer's object should be to hold the reader's attention. I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end. ...
Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?
It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us, but it is a better thing and a ...
Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.
Great stories happen to those who can tell them
Sometimes you only need to have a few words with a person to know you would like to have many more.
The Princess Saralinda thought she saw, as people often think they see, on clear and windless days, the distant shining shores of Ever After. Your ...
For me, the romantic comedies I love are the ones that pay homage to the genre, but also find their ways to twist it and ...
The day before I was famous in Denmark, nobody looked my way. The day after, everybody wanted to talk to me.
I really was very impressed with DMX during the whole experience on 'Romeo Must Die.' I like working with him. I liked him. And I ...
What type of teammates do you want to play with? Be that teammate yourself
Among the countless people in the world, two will find each other against all the odds and beat as a single eternal heart.- Not First ...
After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made boat and began ...
If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on ...
As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside ...
The doctrine of the Church cannot be fully understood unless it is tested by mind and feelings, by intellect and emotions, by every power of ...
Kovaly experienced the two supreme horrors of what Hannah Arendt called this terrible century.
It was more than love at first sight. For Mallory it was as if a dam had burst and the impounded emotions of a young ...
God is concerned that Christians live consistent with their profession even in the seemingly small and insignificant areas of life.
Little mouse, you were so quick, so bright, so sweet, so full of life. And you still are everything you were then. None of it's ...
There exists no God. What exists is godliness, and that godliness surrounds you. We are all in the same ocean.
I love London and Los Angeles equally. I was born and brought up London and then I went to Los Angeles as a teenager to ...
Finally I had a place where I could express my pain and I felt safe because I didn't have to put my name on it. ...
Instead of helping women in Roe v. Wade, I brought destruction to me & millions of women.
Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which ...
Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one's own life.
I was just a folk singer. I cut my teeth on the streets, you know.
For me, as a mother, I am just, you know, I just can't put into words how important it is for every American, for every ...
I had been attempting novels since I was 14 but always ran out of steam. High hopes, poor craftsmanship.
Nature, you always think she won't get any better, but she proves you wrong, again and again. She will prove you wrong until you take ...
Hold yourself.. why Winter is coming. Eddard Stark
I cannot remember when I became exhausted instead of merely tired.
I am not wrong in the belief that its public funds are more secure than those of all the European powers.
I'm fortunate now that I coach at Duke University and we've won a lot. I have some kids who haven't failed that much. But when ...
You are going to dieeveryone you ever knewwill diebe kind, and be true - and be fearless of what makes your private parts go boom
Christians must allow no unclean thing to interfere with a harmonious relationship with Christ.
I learned during the three weeks after my surgery that when you are in rehab, willpower and determination are key.
The Simpsons was pretty experimental at the time, but it attracted a lot of sitcom writers that felt confined by the limitations of live-action sitcoms ...
Better and happier those who, recognizing that everything is fictitious, write the novel before someone writes it for them and, like Machiavelli, don courtly garments ...
What we expect rarely occurs; what we don't expect is what happens.
Climb the ladder to success escalator style
So this is how the rich bleed--elegantly.
People are always like, 'Oh, 'Jurassic Park' is on ... ' or 'Oh, 'The River Wild' is on ... ' I actually haven't seen any ...
You who reject the faith (kafirun) I do not worship what you worship And you do not worship what I worship I am not a ...
Does everyone collectively dislike beetroots? I feel like they do.
Gather all your effort to achieve a single goal and you will be bound to succeed
I have a constant kind of soundtrack going on at all times. I almost always have a song in my head. I'm very musically inclined. ...
Be guided by the love of enjoyment, rather than the fear of making a mistake, when things are perfect, in a way, nothing has been ...
I can edit into infinity. It's such a joy. I'd probably edit until the last word. Until there's only one word left.
People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably ...
No evolution is accomplished in nature without revolution. Periods of very slow changes are succeeded by periods of violent changes. Revolutions are as necessary for ...
The main benefit of the book for the more experienced practitioners is as an evangelical tool. The book will give you some ways of expressing ...
To belittle, you have to be little.
Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision ... In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker.
If we don't like what's happening to us in the world, all we have to do is change our consciousness - and the world out ...
If things are ever going to get better, we have to acknowledge our underbellies that fuel our unglued reactions.
The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale ...
You don't know if you ruined your kids or if they were born that way.
The true poem is the poet's mind.
For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.
Other classic experiments conducted by social psychologist Solomon Asch show how adults readily adopt the opinion of others in simple tasks, such as matching a ...
My grin was feral, matching my savage best friend's.
Feelings, rationale and values are the top qualities that make a person exceedingly human.
How strange to be in a dream one moment and in the world the next, and to know the difference in the blink of an ...
Only those with something to hide ever answered question for question and tried to sound outraged to disguise their nervousness.
Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
Why did you date all of those girls?" "Sometimes, you're just looking for something that's right." Oh, it was a line. It was so a ...
Even the wisest don't know what's hidden in the depths of their being
Mr. Hitchcock did not say actors are cattle. He said they should be treated like cattle.
When you step beyond thought and intellect and all reasoning, then you have made the first step towards God; and that is the beginning of ...
Sell yourself before you try to sell your company or your product.
After defending the value of prepared prayers, the author cautions against over-reliance on them. Just as David could not fight in the armor of King ...
By making careful preparations, by foreseeing possibilities, Doc hoped to make this party as non-lethal as possible without making it dull.
Pac-Man? Or is it Donkey Kong?" In truth, it looked a little more violent and military.A slow grin spread over his face. "Baseball. Think maybe ...