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Bad luck. That is because what you focus
When parents are confident that their children will live, they have fewer of them. They invest more in each child's food, health and education.
Let it be clear to all: Greatness belongs to those who have mastered the ability to focus relentlessly on their ambitions and act decisively toward ...
I would have artists be convinced that the supreme skill and art in painting consists in knowing how to use black and white ... because ...
My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posteritya good strong figure. But I think itis rather leaving myself ...
There are few things truer in life than... you can not play a guitar after doing the dishes and you can't get anywhere in life ...
All good things have to come to an end, and the male cheerleader has come to an end
He'd never wanted to know, which is also a sort of knowing.
A pleasing countenance is no slight disadvantage.[Lat., Auxilium non leve vultus habet.]
There's no self-expression or joy in these joints no springboard to self-discovery, or adventure, like any decent night out involving men, women, alcohol, and taking ...
A South Carolina native, Miles was a lawyer, a mayor of Charleston, and a congressman. He was one of his state's "fire-eaters," a term applied ...
I'm just completely obsessed with Die Antwoord.
Unless they're a fugitive or a felon, or adjudicated mentally ill, we're not against them buying guns at all.
No, you can't force other people to change. You can, however, change just about everything else. And usually, that's enough.
We're never gonna be perfect, baby,but we'll always be like this.Whatever this is between us,it's always going to be here.I promise you.
When I was in high school, I started writing a serial novel, longhand, set in the Arthurian mythos, and influenced not incidentally by Marion Zimmer ...
And what,' he asked the dragons, 'so spurred their zeal?''Vengeance, of course. And Anomandaris.
My lungs taste the air of Time,Blown past falling sands ...
The secret of a happy life is to live a life with child-like simplicity, appreciate nature's beauty, and admire honesty.
An ordinary Turk, an ordinary Arab, an ordinary Tunisian can change history. We believe that democracy is good, and that our people deserve it.
I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent
The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a ...
Fear is an acid which is pumped into one's atmosphere. It causes mental, moral and spiritual asphyxiation, and sometimes death; death to energy and all ...
Our attitude towards ourselves should be 'to be satiable in learning' and towards others 'to be tireless in teaching.
Holy shit, Bird," I whispered through my teeth. "At least try to be normal. You have to at least try.
It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive thee of the ...
The girls show up wearing nothing. I can't lie, I'm 16, I don't hate it. I don't have a girlfriend.
An extraordinary and controversial interpretation of Shakespeare's origins, which certainly provokes much thought. A radical analysis of Shakespeare's text, leading to a conclusion which is ...
Why, that's like being told to go up in the hills to find lions, only you do not know whether there are any lions, but ...
It is highly probable that we choose our posture, not our problems.
If there were several ways to dwell with a perfect God, God wouldn't have had to leave His glory, entering a dead world to save ...
In our own lives, let each of us asknot just what government will do for me, but what can I do for myself?
There is no such thing as crazy, only the lack of understanding between normals and abnormals.
I could become a nun even if I am a non-believer. I'll learn to fake it like Nick did with me. I will minister the ...
Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs ...
I can play the piano. I started off with lessons, and then, as we always had a piano in the house, I would play around ...
If you try to send a clear signal to and call your SoulMate into your life, having unfinished business with your ex is like static ...
For though Duncan was a mere mortal, flawed as well, he'd accomplished a daring feat. Aye, he'd captured an angel. And she belonged to him.
During the 2008 campaign, I strongly endorsed Barack Obama for president. I did so early, when many Democratic leaders - including many prominent African-American politicians ...
I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of ...
I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving life in prison, ...
There isn't a story written that isn't about blood and money. People and their relationship to each other is the blood, the family. And how ...
In the movies, the person leaving you never has a blocked nose when they cry. And all the tears are pretty
Arin. I've wanted to do this for a long time."Her words silenced him, steadied him.Antecipation lifted within her like the fragance of a garden under ...
Don't think I am not homesick for America. I say 'homesick' advisedly because I am a man with two homes - America, which gave me ...
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Reality has a pulse, a rhythm, for lack of better words.
Eighty-two percent of Australia's bird species and two thirds of Australia's mammal species can be found on our (Australian Wildlife Conservancy) reserves. We put teams ...
As she sustained wound after wound ... the fairy should have fallen, but instead, she danced. This was Titania, the Fairy Queen.
I recognized the ugly and unwieldy form of the cook, whose very absurdness had now become unutterably tragic. The
You know, bud, I don't know you from Adam, but that's my baby sister you're hanging on to. So I'm thinking the wisest course of ...
For God, having given her power over his only-begotten and natural Son, also gave her power over his adopted children - not only in what ...
She knows, every part of her knows, that she wants to kiss him. That he wants to kiss her. All of her skin prickles with ...
The acomodador: Because according to the story we are told, there always comes a moment in our lives when we reach "our limit" ... there ...
History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people.
A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from level earth; ...
I think the main thing is trying to be fair, sometimes there has to be a little bit of discipline, maybe even punishment involved in ...
One of the things that I really like about young adult fiction is that you can explore the relationships between teens and their parents. I ...
I waded in the water and dunked a little and stood looking up at the splendorous night sky, Avalokitesvara's ten-wondered universe of dark and diamonds.
My dad was proud of himself when he farted. He sounds like he's strangling a chicken when he farts.
IDEAS ARE THE CURRENCY OF LIFE. Not money.
The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with complete disregard ...
Pedigree whose odor even the forest of air-freshener trees he'd hung from the mirror couldn't mask.
The child is right," she announced firmly. Arrietty's eyes grew big. "Oh, no-" she began. It shocked her to be right. Parents were right, not ...
Your customers are the customers of other brands who occasionally buy you.
Are your ass cheeks touching my desk right now?" "You don't even insult me the normal way that you used to," she said. "I actually ...
Labour once spent has no influence on the future value of any article; it isgone and lost for ever. In commerce bygones are forever bygones; ...
It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
The art of dressing is the art we all practice
You've got to stop thinking of me that way. When it's just you and me, I'm not a Five and you're not a Six. We're ...
I got to go! Bye!" "You're ammmmmmmmmmmaaaaaaaazing - " Click. This time when she put her cell phone back down, she felt as light and ...
Act with integrity.
Che came in 1963, shortly after I had come to power.
We all learn to carry so much unnecessary regret. We drag it around behind ourselves and wear it sewn into the inner lining of our ...
I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.
The child is right," she announced firmly. Arrietty's eyes grew big. "Oh, no-" she began. It shocked her to be right. Parents were right, not ...
Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
And what's the best of all," he said, "you've been more comfortable alonger me, since I was under a dark cloud, than when the sun ...
Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the ...
I reckon a man in a tight might let Bill Varner patch him up like a mule, but I be damned if the man that'd ...
A 66-YEAR-OLD woman has become the oldest new mum in Britain after giving birth to a baby boy. I'm amazed she needed to have a ...
Poetry must be human. If it is not human, it is not poetry.
Behind me, I heard my apprentice growl, All your base are belong to us, Niko.
Each truth we find (in life) leads us a step closer to God.
Grief is a little like being in a fresh snowfall. A light, cold curtain falls between you and the rest of the world.
By 'hate' I'd meant love. And by 'a little' I'd meant a lot.
I loved them too and while you might lay a greater claim to them, I defy you to miss your wife any more than I'll ...
When all the facts are in, swift and clear decision is another mark of a true leader. A visionary may see, but a leader must ...
Whatever comes what may ... take comfort in knowing that we were all born with the ability to rise above it all.
Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord.
You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.
We learn from failure not succes
It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who lived in it. ...
Drummond is many things, and one of those things is a magician. ( ... ) Art is magic, and so is pop. Bill Drummond is ...
Elizabeth Hurley and I had a lot of fun together. She's a very beautiful, confident woman.
What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world.
Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface.
April and May were painful, lonely months for me because I couldn't talk to you. I never knew that spring could be so painful and ...
Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.
My heart has always leaned towards England, and with the close friendship of Winston [Churchill], the hero who brought hope to the world, I could ...