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My career was obviously cut shorter than I wanted it to be.
We have far too many kids. At one time in the playpen there was standing-room only. It looked like a bus stop for midgets. It ...
Obviously it was happenstance, but it did change my opinion of human nature. I now saw war as a constant, akin to wildfires. They break ...
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, ...
Zane sighed. "I was so hoping this would be a normal vacation."Ty smacked him on the side of the head. "Don't use bad words.
I like exotic guys who have a lot of sexual energy. I drive army tanks and I snowboard, so he has to keep up.
But frost, like the crystallized dreams of autumn, began to coat the clearing with its sugar glaze.
To have a girl two thousand miles away going to pieces over you, weeping at the mere memory of you, losing her appetite, losing herself ...
I push him from my mind. This is no act of easy omission on my part; I do not consign him casually to a forgotten ...
Today an applicant who couldn't pass the typing test blamed it on me for giving her a trick keyboard because the keys weren't in alphabetical ...
Maa tujhe salaampher lete hai nazar jis waqt bete or bahu..ajnabi apne hi ghar me hae ban jati hai maaa..
Remember guls," preached Mrs. Gulbenk, always holding the most perfect red tomato in her hand for all of us to admire, "you can fry 'em, ...
Aunt Helen Beck had many intentions about her death. She was about being dead the way some people are about being British - she wasn't, ...
I got plans for you, and they all involve my cock." Jake Thompson
I wouldn't like Greece to stay recession. I do think that everything has to be undertaken to reconnect with growth.
It's an unavoidable truth. Fear of life closes off more opportunities for us than fear of death ever does.
It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.
A man who will misuse an apostrophe is capable of anything." Con Houlihan
Within those confining walls, teachers - a bunch of men all armed with the same information - gave the same lectures every year from the ...
We anathematize those who presume to teach or explain any other creed.
If our goal is to slow migration, then the best way to do so is to work for a more equitable global system. But slowing ...
In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
When the enemies of Spire Albion were in the walls, the great-great granddaughter of old Admiral Tagwynn had refused to have a good lie-down, and ...
1Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done.
When one has once had the good luck to love intensely, life is spent in trying to recapture that ardour and that illumination.
I'm very wary of fawning too much over heroes. There's an old adage that heroes are best kept at arm's length, and in a few ...
For the record, telling your boyfriend that your not-as-dead-as-you-might-have-implied mother has been arrested for murder doesn't go over well
The analytical nature of science gives us the ability to perceive the anatomy of the universe and every molecule in it, but it is the ...
Dear God, I know I am a sinner. Forgive me and pardon me for waiting so long. I receive your love and salvation and ask ...
Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
When I was in junior high I read a lot of Danielle Steele. So I always assumed that the day I got engaged I'd be ...
There is light suddenly everywhere, the light of your life speaking to you. What it tells you is almost the same as what happened.Never mind ...
Words taken literally or held as ultimate truth can keep us stagnant and stuck, holding on to old ideologies. I now know that everything I ...
If you wanna look good and not be bummy, girl you better give me that moneyAooow ...
The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.
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I bet if cancer of the penis was more prevalent there'd be a cure for this fucker. I bet if dicks were being amputated or ...
The Obama administration will continue to fight for a comprehensive immigration solution that includes AgJobs and a stable workforce for our farms.
You reek of lust," Arys commented. The fresh energy rolled off him and tantalized my senses. "What have you been doing in here without me?
Giving up all notions about country, caste, blemishless community,asrama (status as a bachelor, family man, ascetic or one who has renounced the world) and associated ...
When both are sincere and good, no men so penetrate each other, and so amalgamate with each other, as an old priest and an old ...
I was still too weak to understand his chess ideas at that time but I remember being covered in smoke.
If you work for Google or Apple, stock options give you a chance to share in the increasing value of the company. In the N.F.L., ...
Somebody call Janet Reno - I think I just saw Donato dragging Doug Flutie into a locker room closet!
Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.
I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo me; have no ...
He who does not cherish life, does not deserve to be among the living.
In golf, it's almost impossible to be perfect on each shot; that's the fun and challenge of golf.
People only accept change when they are faced with necessity, and only recognize necessity when a crisis is upon them.
It was like they were rubbing it in her face. They were lively, passionate and happy. She was bored, single and lonely.
I've been awkward forever. I have really low expectations for myself. When I do perform to some sort of social standard, I leave feeling really ...
12 Wherefore, as by one man asin entered into the world, and bdeath by sin; and so cdeath passed upon all men, for that all ...
Ransom really looked at the other man for the first time, shook his head, stared again."Holy hell, your eyes are like a fucking viper's." Venom ...
We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we ...
A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - ...
I am life which wants to live admidst of lives that want to live.
Witnessing the extreme poverty in remote parts of Affrica can make you feel sad and powerless until you realize how little it takes to change ...
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
I figure it's a European thing to eat cheese and crackers before a meal - that's my afternoon snack, or I do it before dinner.
Something about him called to her, like one of her wounded beasts, and she could not turn him away. She needed his name and protection ...
You may notice when arguing with someone on the left that every time you begin to make a point, that leftist begins shouting about George ...
On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing.
You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.
Burning is no answer.
I think it's nice if someone respects whatever their endeavor is, whether it's dance or art or stand-up comedy, to not assume that they're gonna ...
Do not seek victory, for victory in itself will not serve you. Seek to understand what made the victory possible.
Love and appreciate your parents. We are often so busy growing up; we forget they are also growing old.
Walk through pain, face it, lay down in it and rest. Get up and walk again, repeat until you reach the end.
San Francisco is a city that requires a fine pair of legs, a city of cliffs misnamed as hills, honeycombed with a fine webbing of ...
But this lump does not absolve me, because I got it through heedlessness, not though courage. I run my tongue over my lip and what ...
Our demise may instead result from the habitat destruction that ensues when the AI begins massive global construction projects using nanotech factories and assemblers - ...
Every great genius has an admixture of madness.
PART TWO I IN October 1805 the Russian army was occupying the villages and towns of the Archduchy of Austria, and yet other regiments freshly ...
Quid confert animae pugna Hectoris, vel disputatio Platonis, aut carmina Maronis, vel neniae Nasonis? Of what benefit to the soul are the struggles of Hector, ...
A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as ...
The designer must be able to see - make a concentrated effort to absorb the essence of the project. Seeing is a very difficult thing ...
Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them.
Follow your heart a little more and listen to your head a little less.
It's my mission to tell the Australians from abroad in my work that Australia is a wonderful place.
I don't like abrasion while I'm working. I don't thrive on chaos. I enjoy what I'm doing, and it seems to work better when I ...
Hitch your unconscious mind to your writing arm.
You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then ...
The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.
I'm a big Aqua fan. 'Barbie Girl' was a big deal growing up.
When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them ... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era.
Fighting with your fear is not less than an adventure and finding yourself is not less than a treasure hunt
I'm actually not a huge circus fan in the traditional sense, but I like a lot of the circus trappings of striped tents and caramel. ...
[Freedom is] the societal condition that exists when every individual has 100% control of his own property.
At this stage of my life, I had reached the conclusion that I would never be the protagonist of any story. The only thing I ...
When all is said and done, we regret only the chances we didn't take, not the ones we did and failed at.
Swami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West.
I save on food, on water, on fire and on adjetives.
If I describe a person's physical appearance in my writing, which I often do, especially in fiction, I never say someone is "black" or "white." ...
And that's when I realised that a mans' ego was like fruit; easily bruised ...
But it's not enough to just "discover" the meaning of life. What really matters is whether we live according to our values, and that takes ...
God forces us to quantify our religious tenants by measuring them against the family problems they solve. If your religious beliefs aren't solving family problems ...
I really hate it when I can't score runs from a ball.
On August 26 the Assembly responded by conferring French citizenship upon Joseph Priestley, Jeremy Bentham, William Wilberforce, Anacharsis Cloots, Johann Pestalozzi, Thaddeus Kosciusko, Friedrich Schiller, ...
Maybe tweeting is a more appealing method of getting your thoughts out to the masses a little bit more often. That's the only way I ...
For good-intentioned people making decisions, there's no such thing as a bad choice. So it doesn't matter what you choose. Choose something, then deliberately line ...