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Marvelous," she said. "Tell me about this tapestry."Arachne's lips curled over her mandibles. "Why do you care? You're about to die.""Well, yes," Annabeth said. "But ...
I wish people used wishes to modify themselves instead of others. Wish to be low maintenance. Wish to be autonomous, even.
I'm not the kind of person who needs to be a mother no matter what. Life brings you people. Maybe I'll nurture someone who's not ...
Politics is merely war by other means.-an old Andorian saying
In a real battle, atemi is seventy percent, technique is thirty percent.
To take part in the African revolution, it is not enough to write a revolutionary song. You must fashion the revolution with the people. And ...
Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever.Make another list of things done for ...
Narian scrutinised both me and the Queen, with eyes so deeply blue I could not break away from them. I was glad he was no ...
I am thankful for a new day, to live, to love, to talk, to smile, to laugh to walk, to dream, to share, to write, ...
Human beings are not animals, and I do not want to see sex and sexual differences treated as casually and amorally as dogs and other ...
I just don't think there's a lot of support for the woman's voice in cinema, and it becomes really difficult to raise that money and ...
Why is life so hard?""Because god is a spoilt child and this world is just a game he plays to amuse himself.
When you fall in love with a work of art, you'd die to meet the artist. I am a student of the galleries of Pacific ...
After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time with your family, ...
So this is how the merchant ship won't follow us," I mumbled, "They aren't insane enough to join the party.
The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.
One word is enough to destroy an entire city provided that word is backed by anger. Drop down the bullets of anger; it destroys at ...
To be happy with myself and always make others happy. To be confident and give others confidence in themselves. To smile, to surf, to laugh ...
The success of strategy management undoubtedly lies in the "timely execution.
There's no material safety data sheet for astatine. If there were, it would just be the word "NO" scrawled over and over in charred blood.
The dance community suddenly came alive with programs like 'So You Think You Can Dance,' 'America's Best Dance Crew' and 'Dancing With The Stars.'
You might not believe this, but there is no one like her at this school.""Oh I believe it," I said, thinking back to the time ...
For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.[Lat., ...
Trannies dress up like women, then try to bang straight guys. They're the adrenaline junkies of gayness.
To change the world, the best thing that you can do is to accept changes with love.
Like any great art, the culture of hip-hop has changed with the times. With the state of technology, music is more accessible and freely exchanged. ...
Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth.
Finally, thank you very much to Jeaniene Frost and Jill Myles. This book does have sex in it. Please don't hit me anymore."~Ilona Andrews in ...
First, you have to figure out who to copy. Second, you have to figure out what to copy.
One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long ...
After a while the scene started to fade, and I became dimly conscious, once more, that I was in London, stoned, hallucinating Agincourt on the ...
Owning something is becoming less important than the right to access it.
A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.
When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.
On the road of life ... Meet people where they are, Accept who they are. And there are some folks that you need to leave ...
I've written a book about my mother, and I don't remember anyone going to Antigua or calling up my mother and verifying her life. There ...
They say ... the stopwatch never lies. Speed kills but absolute speed kills absolutely.
You know, we queens loathed rain at the beach, small cocks, and reality, I think. In that order.
Manon told herself it was for an alliance. Told herself it was for show.But all she could see was the unconditional love in that dying ...
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 ...
I just have this feeling if I take pi, well past all this static, take pi to 10 million, 20 million digits, that I'll find ...
Life is a long road with lots of junctions and every time you chose to go one way, you may just have easily have gone ...
That guy should be in porn films." Barclay frowned. "Why's that then, Allan?" Ward looked at him. "Tell me, Tam, when did you last see ...
The poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.
Well I haven't seen any free elections in the Arab world. They may be coming someday, except for in Israel. In Israel, Arabs have a ...
We do not demonstrate against anything. Our group is about being for something, never against. No antis except on my family tree.
The phrase 'perception is reality' is overused generally. But perception can be reality in monetary policy. The bond market doesn't act merely on what it ...
In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water; we speak to ...
You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way. That's why I have to ...
Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
Surveillance isn't easy, though. You'll need warm clothes, a camera with telephoto lens, two Thermos flasks (one for tea, t'other for wee) and for God's ...
For a joint scientific and geographical piece of organization, give me Scott; for a winter journey, give me Wilson; for a dash to the Pole ...
Tasting a piece of bread that someone bought is like looking at that person, but tasting a piece of bread that they baked is like ...
Hope is a terrible gift. The return policy is heartbreak.
When you're looking around for metaphor or simile, I do think it's often helpful to keep inside the world of the book, to gather your ...
A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things ...
If we cannot sing of faith and triumph, we will sing our despair. We will be that kind of bird. There are day owls, and ...
Her Mao tse-tung t-shirt was stretched so tightly across her chest that the Chairman was grinning broadly
Surfing's a more profound kind of sport than it looks. When you surf, you learn not to fight the power of nature, even if it ...
There are many occasions in literature in which telling is far more effective than showing.
Effective communication requires active listening skills.
Second, to have a good life, it is not enough to remove what is wrong from it. We also need a positive goal, otherwise why ...
I didn't decide I was crazy until 1952. That's when I began making a steady salary and could afford to be crazy.
Don [Hewitt, 60 Minutes exec producer] told me, "You have set broadcast journalism back 20 years." Naturally, I was both proud and elated although too ...
If George W. Bush is the kind of person folks might like to have a beer with, John McCain is the guy you pray you ...
The power of a dream is that it frees up your imagination to think about the best possible scenario for your life.
The literature hardly helps. You remember it only when you are well, healthy, and in a positive state of mind. And you tend to blame ...
If you don't put a value on money and seek wealth, you most probably won't receive it. You must seek wealth for it to seek ...
No real fairytale scared me, but Freddy Krueger did. 'Nightmare on Elm Street' scared the living hell out of me, but no fairytale. Maybe 'Hansel ...
Childhood was not a time in a person's life, but a country, a country under siege, from which certain individuals were taken too soon and ...
The more closely our maps or paradigms are aligned with these principles or natural laws, the more accurate and functional they will be
God's love is meteoric, his loyalty astronomic, His purpose titanic, his verdicts oceanic. Yet in his largeness nothing gets lost; Not a man, not a ...
The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or ...
I intend to dance once with everybody - except the other Joy. I'm going to dance twice with the other Joy.""Why?""Because being unusually kind to ...
That man was Aldus Manutius the Elder (1450-1515) and I will happily admit I hadn't heard of him until about a year ago, but am ...
As we change, we sometimes outgrow our friendships. And, since we cannot change this fact, it is best to simply accept it for what it ...
Soft waves broke against the rocks.
I am made of a thousand ghosts. Only you can shoot me down.
Antitrust laws ought to be deployed, not against business, but to bust this two-party monopoly, which subverts competition in government and rewards the colluding quislings ...
Seeing that he owns absolutely nothing to 'repay' his debt, 'his own consciousness' of the fact 'that he is himself the very substance' of debt, ...
If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you ...
At first I thought I had a crush on her, but then I realized she's an android.
Social evils are dangerously contagious. The fixed policy of persecution and injustice against a class of women who are weak and defenseless will be necessarily ...
THE SOUTH AFRICAN ARMED FORCES RECEIVED EVER-HIGHER amounts of funding from an economy that couldn't afford it. In the end, a fifth of the country's ...
Sports provide girls with the opportunity to develop a better relationship with their bodies. They can be aggressive on the court, be strong and still ...
For entrepreneurs, ignorance is not bliss. It's fatal. It's costly. And it's for losers. You either get organized, or get crushed.
I have always pictured accupuncture like falling into a box of sewing needles, and then standing up refreshed and free of pain.
Simon: 'You know men. We have delicate egos.'Clary: 'I wouldn't describe Jace's ego as delicate.'Simon: 'No, Jace's is sort of the antiaircraft artillery tank of ...
An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these ...
I have stated it plain, an' my argument's thus ( It's all one, says the Sapper) There's only one Corps which is perfect - that's ...
Id like to be a lion ... they are very family-oriented. Unfortunately. too many wild animals are afraid at what man can do to them.
I am no more than a child, but my Father lives for ever and I have a Protector great enough to save me.
The migraine angel leaned hard on my shoulder and belched into my face.
In the silence, I sit alone on my throne and wait eagerly for all the satisfaction and triumph to hit me. I wait, and wait, ...
Sometimes writing is just rubbing words together long enough to make a fire.
It must be a great comfort tae him, and tae all, that you have helped so considerably with matters of the Clan," Aiden said. To ...
Estene aleera hesaad de viren aneda. And now, you are forever mine.
My first goal was to work up enough nerve to ask some of the most ridiculous questions I'd ever asked in my life. Here's how ...
AugustineThe wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. To love with sternness is better than to deceive with gentleness ... ...
There was a woman in Tunisia called Madame Pinot. She was a midwife and had helped in the birth of my siblings and me. I ...