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I'm collector of stuff that people make with their brain. I keep them in little jars and I take them out and play with them ...

They encouraged me to always look for the good in people instead of assuming the worst and trying to find fault.

Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been ...

I fearthat both dictators [Hitler and Mussolini] think their present methods are succeeding because of the gains they have made in Albania, Hungary and Yugoslavia.

He clasped his hands to his ears as if he would tear his very brain out!" A sample line from Shadow my psychological/horror compared to ...

If your soul needs healing, the prescription you need is not Chuck Norris' tears, it's Jesus' blood.

As soon as one stops searching for knowledge, or if one imagines that it need not be creatively sought in the depths of the human ...

My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life.

We only want to link up with people whom we like, admire, and trust ... We do not wish to join with managers who lack ...

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

I relate to Nora's transformation in Henrik Ibsen's 'A Doll's House,' and I also relate to both sisters' journeys in John Madden's film 'Proof.'

Soon her ice dragon would come for her, and she would ride on its back to the land of always-winter

Think ye by gazing on each other's eyes To multiply your lovely selves?

The Poet in his ArtMust intimate the whole, and say the smallest part.

There has been a marvelous joyous carnival of mourning for Edith Piaf and Jean Coctaeau, and it was real! They died as they had lived, ...

Christ was crucified by the Jews who had wanted a temporal ruler to rescue them from the oppressive Roman authorities. Instead God sent them a ...

A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the ...

I'm a crier, let me know if you need some tips. I could cry every day, in a good way.

It is better to be a sad poem than a blank page.

You are tied on [to God] with a bond that cannot be broken. And when you are tied on to God... you do not have ...

Life is short and a man should take pride in his work, even if his work makes him feel like a total loser

He has no ABCD friends at college. He avoids them, for they remind him too much of the way his parents choose to live, befriending ...

People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer.

I do think that people yearn for connection and intimacy, and that they're hard things to achieve.

What I don't want to do is to go and buy a bunch of exotic-looking drums and set up an Afrikanische Musik in New York ...

I'm trying to have a moment o' existential dreed here, right? Crivens, it's a puir lookout if a man canna feel the chilly winds o' ...

To love means to give, and to give means to build, while to hate is to destroy.

He looked from the phone to the unconscious figure of the Salesman. "What did you do to him?" he asked."He got the wrong number," Alex ...

On the three pigs he and his wife own: We acquired the pigs last year. My wife was born on a pig farm and has ...

S:uch is Heaven on Earth, in all landA:s the sun brightens to the moon N:ails the Creation in a palm of a hand, D:ancing IT ...

We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.

Aethe, near my heart.Without vanity, the ribbon.Without duty, the wind.Without blood, the victory.

The task of the architectural project is to reveal, through the transformation of form, the essence of the surrounding context.

You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep ...

I studied adab for thirty years and I studied knowledge for twenty years.

So you need an alarm system because you gonna be in bad neighborhoods?""Actually, I sort of stole a car, and I'm afraid the owner will ...

I'm an organism of the earth, a Taurus. I was never born of air, of water, or of fire. I'm a creature of gravity and ...

Good plan," Freddy was saying. "Let's get some decent sleep. Tomorrow we can shake our gravy asses into town and do some sluething.

Nature inspires us. Not being able to reach out and touch it, or see it, makes me get really antsy.

Then I thought, Whoa. If there are no photographs, then there is no history. I'm going to get in there. I'm going to make these ...

Annabeth realized that if six of them went on these two quests, it would leave Percy alone on the ship with Coach Hedge, which was ...

Times Mayor of Abingdon - was, no doubt, a benefactor to his generation, but I hope there are not many of his kind about in ...

Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee you are a business with one employee, you. Nobody owes you ...

You're probably also wondering how in the hell I can possibly be twenty-five years old when just yesterday I was four. I know, it's a ...

True maturation on the spiritual path requires that we discover the depth of our wounds. As Achaan Chah put it, "If you haven't cried a ...

If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other, ...

Technology has given the dumb a tongue

The ability to communicate is not something we are born with. We have to learn it and earn it.

The woman went on. She had not looked back. She went out of sight up the road: swollen, slow, deliberate, unhurried, and tireless as augmenting ...

This "freedom" put a proud people in chainsAnd turned free men into slaves"Independence" made us weakAnd slaughtered usIn the name of kindnessThis is democracy by ...

At some point, I went to the studio and nothing happened. It can be really depressing to sit there and wait for the inspiration that ...

I will strive to make this not the highest-spending country in the world, but instead the lowest taxing o-ne.

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

Everyone has an idea. But it's really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you work on the idea.

Self-seeking, self-glory, that is not me. No. Many people say I embarrass them with my humility.

I love stories about people that, whatever situation they're in, you can relate to them in a way.

It is not the constant thought of their sins, but the vision of the holiness of God that makes the saints aware of their own ...

The West sometimes doesn't understand Bollywood, but they can definitely understand how Bollywood influences people.

Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

You just have to say over and over again: 'I am a director.' Nobody gives it to you. Nobody anoints you.

An old advertising maxim says you've got to spell out the benefit of the benefit. In other words, people don't buy quarter-inch drill bits. They ...

[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause.

Mother's particular devils had remained mysterious to me for decades. So had her past. Few born liars ever intentionally embark in truth's direction, even those ...

I want people to feel conflicted. I want them to feel for characters they started out hating. I want to start conversations about what it ...

Never would I take what I'd been given for granted. I'd never look at her through indifferent eyes, listen to her fears and worries with ...

Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor abroad and unfair ...

At least we have the record, Henry thought. A reminder of a place where people didn't seem to care what you looked like, where you ...

I'm sure if the punishment fits the crime, or is more severe, you're going to start stamping out a lot of things that are going ...

Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path ...

Is it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so.

If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling ...

I feel incredibly lucky at this moment in my career to get paid to do basically exactly what I always wanted to do. I appreciate ...

Possible controversy for the Obama campaign. Republicans are now accusing Barack Obama's campaign of voter fraud, because some of the people they've registered sound like ...

Remember that thing I alluded to on the plane?" he asked, eyes glued to her. A tiny smile played at her lips. "Jog my memory, ...

Old Enochian running on neural wetware is not the fastest procedural language ever invented, and it's semantics make AppleScript look like a thing of elegance ...

He discriminated against neither the avaricious nor the prodigal: both were committed to the asylum; this led people to say that the alienist's concept of ...

Many men are like unto sausages: Whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them.

The United States is such a potent political, cultural, and economic model in the evocation of the contemporary world, that to come here, select some ...

The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.

You can easily discern whether someone is truly interested to learn & know when s/he asks you or cornering and ambushing you to stumble...

Wearing my tee over her shorts, she studied the sink counter. "You smell like chocolate." I handed her the Axe spray. "It brings all the ...

I'm 23 right now and I feel like I'm still trying to figure it out. Maybe in another two years, I'll have it all together. ...

People often say that, by pointing out to a man the faults of his mistress, you succeed only in strengthening his atachment to her, because ...

It seemed to me that one should make an effort to banish artificial classifications from chemistry and begin to assign to each element the place ...

Protesting against illegal activity is not piracy.

No way! Everyone knows he's in love with that Raven girl. But get this. I saw that ghost guy at the movies last Friday. Alone. ...

Alas, I had always loved sorrow and grief, but only for myself, for myself; for them I wept in my pity. I stretched out my ...

It's easy to confuse motion with progress.

To make sure that votes are never canceled out by illegal votes, we instituted a photo ID requirement. And don't you think it's fair to ...

It would be easy to become a victim of our circumstances and continue feeling sad, scared or angry; or instead, we could choose to deal ...

Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world.[Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.]

Did you love Paul Ivory?""Yes.""I suppose it ended badly.""Yes.""You must have been very unhappy.""I died, and Adam resurrected me.

In a society where women are truly equal to men, a kid bred by a theist mother and an atheist father is born an agnostic. ...

I'm allergic to stupidity.

[Mead described the Arapesh as a culture in which both sexes were] placid and contented, unaggressive and noninitiatory, noncompetitive and responsive, warm, docile, and trusting.

My legs turned to jelly as I collapsed against him, my breathing ragged as aftershocks of ecstasy spasm through me. I looked down, surprised to ...

He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.

Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.

I thought I'd won the match when she'd fallen into my arms, heart and all. The truth was, she'd beaten me. Snatched my soul and ...