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That was a lesson Melisandre had learned long before Asshai; the more effortless the sorcery appears, the more men fear the sorcerer.

I feel very privileged to have worked with a lot of outstanding actors: Alun Armstrong, Peter Mullan, Matt Smith and Andrew Garfield.

Make the acvocacy of radical causes sufficiently remunerative, and the supply of advocates will be unlimited.

Everyone brings their own particular skill set to the job, and acting training can work for a lot of actors, and it can't. I've seen ...

Back then," he says, "I was so addicted to you." He truly smiles, a very, very rare one. "I still am.

He has played some outstanding innings in the past, and I've got no [sic] confidence whatsoever that he'll come back and play very well in ...

Who are you, gaijin? What do you know about honor?''I'm called Chocho,' Will said ... 'Chocho?' Arisaka shouted, goaded beyond control. 'Butterfly? Then die, Butterfly!

Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing ...

In any group of people, no matter how hard-assed they might appear, there's always a geek.

God has given me the bread of adversity and the water of trouble ...

Perhaps one day the man in the black jacket will think about this too: why he only wondered if it was Kevin or Amat who ...

When I am dead, my dearest,Sing no sad songs for me

I've basically grown up with Harry Potter, as so many kids my age have. It's kind of a part of my life.

I was accused of always acting superior. Always means being, not acting.

The way Bernard Shaw believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many people believe in no God at all.

We are too frightened of shadows. We cannot abide our vulnerability, our utter dependence upon a world that can eat us. Vast in its analytic ...

Saint Guy of Anderlecht was the tenth-century Belgian saint of animals, stables, workhorses, and bachelors.

Lately, I haph startet painting my torso in pretty, motley hews. I sit in phront oph the mirror in the sleepy-room. I atmire my hantyworg. ...

ABDITIVE (A'BDITIVE) adj.[from abdo, to hide.] That which has the power or quality of hiding.Dict. ...

I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some kind of cardboard ...

Thurst [thrust] out nature with a croche [crook], yet woll she styll runne back agayne.

I've always sort of marveled at our ability to chat and match, because of, I come, honestly I think of myself of as a little ...

He -it- was a specter! I stepped back, stunned.

Most men - not just the men in Brentwood - are scared of powerful women with brains. There's something in a man that makes him ...

The view wasn't exactly breath-taking. Kind of boring actually. Unless, of course, you had a rare, strong appreciation for deserts, in which case it was ...

You are not aware of the consequences that would result (if you were granted what you desire) because what you seek might be to your ...

I've changed my mind, even against Omar al-Bashir. Whether he has to be charged or not, the Sudanese shall decide or the Africans.

I will roar argon into chlorine, xenon into fluorine, all the noble gases into reactive ones My lament will terrify even the stars.

Brightly woven, Diar,' Aileron said. And then dazzled them all with the warmth of his smile.

Egypt is the oldest, largest and most important Arab country in the region. What happens there affects them all.

We are not soul freelancers, but beings created to dance in the arms of the Trinity.

When I was fifteen, I used to run around reading 'Adbusters' and dumpster diving, trying to find ways to make the U.S. government unwind into ...

I believe faith is a journey, not something that we fix when it goes wrong or that we have to follow in a set required ...

When I first started, I would go to Weist-Barron, and I studied with Rita Litton and ACTeen. For teenagers, it's a really, really great school. ...

While she was exceptional, I was average, a man whose major accomplishment in life was to love her without reservation, and that will never change.

It is not enough in this world to be kindhearted, particularly if you are responsible for keeping children out of danger.

A true friend will tell you the truth to your face - not behind your back.

I was quite happy in Arkhangelsk.Subsequently, I was sent to a village. I liked it in its own way because it sounded to me very ...

I turned right onto the A410 which went north with suspiciously Roman straightness toward Aymestrey, which is less a village than a diorama of the ...

There is nothing that Nature seems to have inclined us to as much as society.

We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you.

Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.

Most of the dialogue in 'Speed' is mine, and a bunch of the characters. That was actually pretty much a good experience. I have quibbles. ...

I really dislike the sort of people who aren't like other people. It's true other people are so boring. But so are the ones who ...

But I killed you," said Alyss.Did you?" Redd turned to The Cat. "Why wasn't I informed?"The Looking Glass Wars

I started to listen to Japanese jazz musicians when I went to high school. Some people I listened to were Yosuke Yamashita, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Sadao ...

A perception is not a story, and no amount of sensitivity can make a story-writer out of you if you just plain don't have a ...

And they said if we help with the crisis, they would do a lot of positive acts. After we helped in those crises, they showed ...

Dimidium facti qui coepit habet: sapere aude" ("He who has begun is half done: dare to know!").

From this haunting feeling of being not wanted, which remained a recurrent haunt through life, I found two ways of escape, both of which in ...

Humor is ... despair refusing to take itself seriously.

History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, of different race, of diverse usages and customs, of ...

I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a ...

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 ...

I dealt with the White Council my whole life, so I'm used to being treated like a mushroom - " "Eh?" Ascher asked. "Kept in ...

Without a twich of exertion, Redd sealed his lips with glue. "Who wants to kill him?"The Cat raised a paw. Siren and Alistare raised their ...

We're not going to have Medicare for all.if we at least we can take a step in that direction by giving people 50 - age ...

Some people will humiliate themselves or their families just to be on television.

There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness.

[Censors] rake through the entrails of many an old good author, with a violation worse than any could be offered to his tomb.

These men think they can beat a woman physically and emotionally and get away with it because they think the love we have for them ...

He knows I'll like a song before I've heard it. He laughs before I even get to the punchline. There's a place on his chest, ...

The Lord help us!' he soliloquised in an undertone of peevish displeasure, while relieving me of my horse: looking, meantime, in my face so sourly ...

The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.

Your father has to die, better he dies in your arms.

Trying to be hot, but looking not

Friendship is an obstetric art; it draws out our richest and deepest resources; it unfolds the wings of our dreams and hidden indeterminate thoughts; it ...

I'm pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little ...

Basic fact of life: no matter how far you run, you always take yourself with you.

You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.

But I know that any man whose very presence incites me to nearly throw away my reputation-or whatever shreds of it remain-is someone I must ...

The damned cats like pushing the reset button on my computer.

The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing.

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth ...

Barrett strokes one of the chair's slick, bile-green arms. "You can get attached to just about anything, can't you?" he says.

Actors worry about bad breath, weight, receding hairlines and why their leading lady looks like their daughter.

It wasn't until we got our first office in Palo Alto where things became more like a company. We never went into this wanting to ...

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it.

Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor.

In health care today, we spend most of the dollars - in terms of treating disease - in the last two years of a person's ...

To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want?

What I am arguing, in effect, is that the full democratic system of the second half of the fifth century B.C. would not have been ...

We must come together in ways that respect the solitude of the soul that avoid the unconscious violence we do when we try to save ...

All I ever wanted to do was go to Hogwarts and have a mate to get up to mayhem with. Just like Harry Potter. And ...

Finally, Aamod said, "Finish him." Finish him? What was this Mortal Kombat?

She wanted the city to be full of exclusive places turning people away, as long as they always accommodated her. It didn't work like that. ...

Africa's agricultural sector has enormous scope for development, which would benefit both the continent's economy and its people.

Chrysoberyl. Among them twinkle hundreds upon

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. ...

Agitate him and ascertain the pattern of his movement.

Mr. Bird flung his food away and leaped to his feet, glaring around at no one in particular. 'I am not a dog!' he shouted ...

Grove Health Center, trilled the woman on the end of the line. She had the vocal automisation that comes to people whose job description might ...

Christ is the Divine answer to the Devil's overthrow of our first parents.

A woman who knows what she wants, Adelle always told me, is likely to receive it.

A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or ...

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps ...

But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust ...

Because I love you.

Arrogant pride (abhimaan) means public display of self-pride (maan).