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It's as if the universe has a sense of humor, since at a deep level it's impossible not to lead a spiritual life ... the ...

Who wouldn't want to be an 'American Idol' judge? It's an awesome, awesome show.

I hate to go out on a limb after only one viewing, but Nashville strikes me as Altman's best film, and the most exciting dramatic ...

Solvitur ambulando ... it is solved by walking.

I have trespassed upon your time too long. I will take my departure with a thousand thanks for your amibility.Not at all. I wish you ...

Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.

But Tolkien doesn't ask the question: What was Aragorn's tax policy?

My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you ...

Life's best adventures are as close as your nearest bookshelf. Tour Europe with the Count of Monte Cristo. Dance a ball with Mr Darcy. Hunt ...

That's why Priscus is wisest of all: silence cannot be judged. Silence masks all things or no thing. Only Priscus can tell us what his ...

Our Lord tells us that the Sabbath was made for man (Mark 2:27): it is a witness to our creatureliness, to the fact that we ...

If you have friends or family who are not practicing, give them your company and not your judgment. They need your patience and your love. ...

There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds ...

What you absolutely must not do is turn around and walk out. Otherwise, you will miss the party, and that would be a pity, because ...

We have all been guilty of complaining, but God does not look at it as lightly as we may think. Complaining was the reason the ...

Believe in yourself, what you think, what you feel. believe in the truth, in the good, in the ideal.belive that your dreams can someday become ...

Adversity introduces man to himself.

I used to have dreams that everything would get better. Do you remember, you used to say that you wanted to be an astranaut? Well, ...

I'm one of those people who had Christmas and my birthday always combined, and generally, my birthday was pretty much ignored. But my parents are ...

If a man wants to be an artist, he should never look at pictures.

The selective activation of compatible memories explains anchoring: the high and the low numbers activate different sets of ideas in memory. The estimates of annual ...

Saudi Arabia cannot go pedal-to-the-metal on the way toward Sharia, although some might say they're there, because they have a relationship with the United States ...

Corruption can only prosper with a people's ignore-ance.

Conversion requires an alteration of the will, and an alteration which, in the last resort, does not occur without the intervention of the supernatural.

Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.(Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)[Said on his deathbed]

I think everyone has been annoyed at school or in their life, that's a type of bullying. So, you can take those feelings and make ...

A magpie can be happy or sad: sometimes so happy that he sits on a high, high gum tree and rolls the sunrise around in ...

I wonder how many such men in America would know that Communism, the New Deal, Fascism, Nazism, are merely so-many trade-names for collectivist Statism, like ...

Andrew was right. We probably wouldn't have any problems if I didn't go out of my way to create them.

You have access to everything that has ever happened or ever will happen if you can only open your consciousness to receive it.

In choosing not to be a beast, I discovered my humanity. I became autodidactic, self-educated - a critical thinker.

Liv held out her right index finger. "I've got a splinter that I can't get out. It's killing me and affecting my duty.""Uh-huh." I examined ...

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

Schindler crossed limits that he didn't need to cross." Still, in the end she finds for Schindler: "Amon Goeth and Oskar Schindler, they both had ...

Biology textbooks tell you the opposite action of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. One produces cold, blue-white anger, the other flushed apoplexy. Roy's was the ...

The first story I ever sold was to 'Argosy' magazine, which no longer exists. That issue also contained work by several other more celebrated writers, ...

Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond ...

Far from being laws to protect women, antipolygamy statutes may really do more to protect men.

Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past.

Jace: Feels like I just woke up from a bad dream. Max Guevara: I know. One of the reasons why I don't sleep. Let me ...

I give ye my body to protect ye, my heart to love ye, and my soul for all eternity. I am yours.

I'd like to see the bay cleaned up before I die.

It is absolutely correct to say that if you can't learn from the events of Nazi Germany, you will not be able to grasp the ...

You don't understand! Gilbert turned his back on me, but he wouldn't have turned his back on God." Ariah

Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and ...

This is what we love in friends. We love to the point that human conscience feels guilty if we do not love the person who ...

I've had a blessed life. I've pulled back from trying to control my destiny and gone back to accepting whatever fate has in store for ...

Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.

I grew up near Strasbourg in Alsace, where my family were coal merchants.

The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill.

Nyarlathotep ... the crawling chaos ... I am the last ... I will tell the audient void ...

The definition of a true friend is not someone who swoops in when you're going through a rough patch. True friendship is when someone can ...

I wouldn't say Hollywood is anti-Republican, I certainly haven't experienced that.

Anxiety," Kierkegaard said, "is the dizziness of freedom.

They call me 'sweet,' and 'gentle'; and some of the men go the length of calling me 'endearing,' and I laugh in my sleeve and ...

The pediatric autodoc scanned him, considered for the longest five seconds of Naomi's life, and declared the baby safely within standard error.

The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they ...

The Cubist paintings in the Centre Pompidou in Paris were strange but amazing. The big fat magical cat said they made her eyes hurt.

Seek to know God and thy sacred self.

I think the violence in 'The Hills Have Eyes' and 'High Tension' is much more traumatic than 'Piranha.'

You are an immensely ancient, complex, and continuous character, for which reason please treat yourself with respect and

The problem was that such simple, ordinary bliss seldom formed memories. It was too smooth and silken to adhere. It was the bad stuff, ragged ...

Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but ...

Ahhh, you two are special friends." Nick"How do you mean?" Kyrian"He thinks we're a couple" Ash"No No No Definitely not. Not that Acheron is not ...

Such is the disconcerting miracle of good acting; at its best it implicitly challenges our faith in who we are, who anyone is.

The aquilegia sprinkled on the rocksA scarlet rain; the yellow violetSat in the chariot of its leaves, the phloxHeld spikes of purple flame in meadows ...

The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.[Lat., Quem ...

Just as we will spend large sums to preserve cities like Venice, even though future generations conceivably may not be interested in such architectural treasures, ...

Amputees suffer itches, cramps and even severe pains in a leg that is no longer there. It can be the same with love ...

I am addicted to sport. Without sport, I feel bad.

These are the times described in the Holy Bible as the "Last Judgement" and in the Koran as "Kiyama", the Resurrection time. Astrologically it is ...

After a breakup, it takes a couple weeks for the fog to settle, but it's always a period of self-priority and growth. Life presents you ...

To reaffirm the statement on the choosing of my identity, I come from two beautiful cultures which I have embraced, bridged, balanced, and identify with. ...

I turned down the lead role in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, because that idiot Oliver Stone didn't think the character should play the alto ...

Liquor and loss were a desperate combination but particularly for my family, where the precipice between darkness and lightness was mired in the uncertainty of ...

Did you hear about the accountant who became am embezzler? He ran away with the accounts payable!

Whatsoever you are doing ... be double-arrowed.

The Internet is not so different from a highly interactive videogame with competitors set to be offed.

For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.

It's true," I said softly. "You are stronger, wiser, infinite in experience." I leaned forward and whispered, my lips brushing the shell of his ear. ...

I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. ...

Making an Irishness to be proud of in a real Republic. It is the vision of a real Republic where life and language, where ideals ...

What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion. ...

Why don't I like you?""Because you think I'm an asshole, and I'm not really, I'm just British and, well, you're not.

Even a priest may doubt. Even a prophet may know terror. Aeron Damphair reached within himself for his god and discovered only silence.

Many of us take better care of our automobiles than we do our own bodies ... yet the auto has replaceable parts.

An API that isn't comprehensible isn't usable.

My name is Matt Besser, and I'm an Arkansas Razorback. My father is a Jew from Little Rock, Ark., my mother was a Christian from ...

North-South imbalances and the exploitation of men and raw materials, combined with the resignation of the peoples of the North, produce a much more devastating ...

Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff. During a briefing military stuff in which officials began telling him about ...

I didn't have a teenage or early-20s experience that was free and without worry. I missed the screw-everything, have-a-good-time phase.

Bad news doesn't hurt as much, if you hear it in good company. It's like, if somebody pushes you out of a 5th floor window ...

No matter how many miles I move away, my love will always remain within the boundary of your heartLines from Love Vs Destiny ...

Let people hate you so long as they fear you.

I should point out that I have a picture of Asbel Kiprop as the screensaver on my phone. Is that embarrassing?

It's life, that's all. There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no one ...

Before New York, the cracks were already there, but now they began to split open and gape, and the difference between how a thing or ...

I play mostly guitar, and I played drums in my brother's band for a while growing up.

That Billy was her only child was testimony to death of the romance.

What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense ...