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You add to the suffering in the world when you take offense, just as much as you do when you give offense.

She said that sometimes she uses a formula when writing a short story, which goes ABDCE, for Action, Background, Development, Climax, and Ending.

Against the wounded sky, a lone angel circles above us. No, not an angel. Light glints off curved metal on one of the edges of ...

It would be helpful if we opened up ANWR. I think it's a mistake not to. And I would urge you all to travel up ...

Good art and a good life answers questions. Great art and a great life asks questions.

She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.

No individual life is an end in itself. One can live fully only by participating fully in the succession of the generations, in death as ...

Matthew lists Rahab as one of the ancestresses of the Lord Jesus Christ (Matthew 1:5), and that may be one reason why there was something ...

Peace cannot be bought, Aleron," he murmured to LaFortier. "History teaches that lesson. I learned it. You should have, too." LaFortier

It's a simple world for her. A curtain fluttering - that's how she is - lives, moves - obediently, yet with every appearnace of freedom ...

Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.

A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the ...

Harry slipped down a few stairs in shock. It was packed, far more crowded than when he had last been in there. Kingsley and Lupin ...

Heinrich Himmler declared: 'Whether 10,000 Russian women collapse with exhaustion in the construction of an anti-tank ditch for Germany only interests me insofar as the ...

Now the baby boomers, i.e., us, are getting older, and were suddenly discovering that there are great things about getting older. You have time for ...

You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.

But Homer's words are as costly and admirable to Homer, as Agamemnon's victories are to Agamemnon

The regimes will fall because of something no one will see coming: when people stop using the imported language of others and discover their own.

I don't know what "Altmanesque" means, though I suppose I'm flattered by it.

You must show no mercy ... nor have any belief whatsoever in how others judge you ... for your greatness will silence them all.

There is no such thing as false or real hope. Hope is the brain's natural mood stabilizer. And an illusory friend that gives hope and ...

Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never ...

The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that [beauty] is nothing more than an accident.

When someone loves you or have good friendship, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.

Verily, the index finger that testifies to the oneness of Allah Azzawajal in prayer, utterly rejects to write even an alphabet, endorsing the rule of ...

What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of ...

I'm impressed you got up here so quickly - and without a pack of court ladies hounding after you. Perhaps you should try your hand ...

I don't think I'm an artist or that I'm doing anything superintellectual. What's important to me is to get a visceral reaction from people, for ...

The mathematical likelihood that God exists is astronomical. But the idea that our limited human mentality can understand the true nature of God borders on ...

It's important to accessorise. I always turn to the scarves, hats and sunglasses. But wearing too many accessories at once can look very bad.

One who knows nothing can understand nothing.

We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.

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.'

It's never been easier for audiences to skip, filter, or avoid advertising, so the best ideas are the ones that respect that the audience needs ...

One day," said Hermione, sounding thoroughly exasperated, "you'll read Hogwarts: A History, and perhaps that will remind you that you can't Apparate or Disapparate inside ...

I'm troubled by how much I like Rowan Williams. I think it reveals character flaws in myself that I'd rather not think about. The softly ...

I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I'll get ...

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and ...

Poorly dressed Anarecsian warrioress who looked chilly in every sense of the word.

I have called the co-host job at the 'Today Show' my dream job, and I would be lying if I said it was easy to ...

Canadian weather resembles a slightly spoiled beautiful girl with a good heart, but a bad disposition. After being horrid for much too long a time, ...

The parties involved. With one man's

Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine, No blood of living insect stain my line; Let me, less cruel, cast the feather'd hook, With ...

What is there beyond the sky?' I asked my mother.'Paradise.''What does it look like?''Like children's dreams.

Light-leaved acacias, by the door,Stood up in balmy air,Clusters of blossomed moonlight bore,And breathed a perfume rare.

It is a nice sunny day; his bunions have stopped hurting. There is always something to celebrate, in Gerrit's view.

Anything that smiles often needs to be reminded that the world is a cruel, dark place.

Sarah Palin is brilliant. She is a media magnet and a media magnate. She creates headlines and draws crowds wherever she goes, whether it's 98 ...

I searched so hard for a part that was so complex.

I burned so long so quiet you must have wonderedif I loved you back. I did, I did, I do.

Give me a few bits of wool to stick on the car, a good gust of mistral wind, and I could come up with a ...

Russia went into Syria basically to support President Bashar al-Assad. And the Western allies have said Russia's really done very little against ISIS. For his ...

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

In all that ever mattered, you are unchanged. Old? Yes, we must all grow old. Age is nothing but the sum of life. And you ...

A readiness to believe ill of others, before we have duly examined it, is the effect of laziness and pride. We are eager to find ...

Sergeant Missouri crouched close to the ground, pulling up his collar against the bitter, gusting winds. Show me, he thought tiredly, I'm from Missouri.

There is something unique about the size, and shape, and feel of a real physical book, and there is a real discovery about running your ...

Never fear a job, always respect it, and always leave yourself a hind door to escape. May your hind door always be open.

There are things that can be fixed with an apology and things that can't.

Trees [-] Inside their wooden samurai armor they are geisha beauties, each one a 'person-of-the-arts,' limbs dancing, arranging flowers, carrying the wind's music, the calligraphy ...

By all means read the Puritans, they are worth more than all the modern stuff put together.

History is no longer as it was for the Greeks, an anamnesis, a remembrance. It is rather a thrust into the future.

Now, every morning when I open my eyes, I long to see my old room full of my things, my clothes all over the floor ...

She was a beautiful woman dragging a crippled foot and I was that foot. I was bricks sewn into the hem of her clothes, I ...

It's wrong that members of Congress can purchase luxury airfare with taxpayer money when many families in my district and across the county are struggling ...

As the style of Faulkner grew out of his rageout of the impotence of his ragethe style of Hemingway grew out of the depth andnuance ...

So given a Time-Turner, I'd tell my 21 self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or archievement. ...

I wonder what God must have thought then / When He saw the work of Cain's hand / That the first baby born on the ...

Reading is actually plunging into one's own identity and, one hopes, emerging stronger than before. You see, unconsciously, we are seeking to find an affirmation ...

Speed masks accuracy

The world is changing so rapidly, and many people are paralyzed with fear and anxiety about the future. The angels can guide us through these ...

Every golfer has at least 14 enemies: his clubs.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. (Proverbs 15:1)

I suppose we all have our quirks." Her gaze travels over my outfit as she says "quirks." I'm in my usual hacker chic outfit I ...

It did not occur to Adya that like being competitive during exam times, while being competitive in matters of life also the boys would actually ...

If we sleep more than is needful for the refreshment of the body, it is wasting the time with which the Lord has entrusted us ...

Only he who asks the question, will be able to hear the answer.

Certainly it is not a democracy.

Driving is something really special for me. Even women doesn't excite me as much as racing cars! I guess I'm just becoming old.

The Third Reich is the first power which not only recognizes, but puts into practice, the high principles of the Papacy.

Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of anything, but just ...

The way that I sing, what I sing about, what I wear, who I am, this is me. I was born this way.

Dealing with sketch comedy and buddy teams like Abbott and Costello, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby - I just loved buddy comedies.

There are some days when history is made. Yesterday was one - and I was honoured to be in Washington to watch Barack Obama being ...

General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts to unify all ...

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

I cannot accept fraud.

You are not your father," I say, holding his gaze with my own. "You're Anded. You don't have to follow in his footsteps; you have ...

The Houston Astrodome was kind of a tough field.

Boys are marvellous creatures. Perhaps they will sink below the brutes; perhaps they will attain to a woman's tenderness.

The most consistent thing about Graham Wessit was his attitude of open experiment. Can you even imagine , she asked herself, plain, quiet, intellectual little ...

Escapism seems to be the order of the day ... Escape with drugs or alcohol, and the bitterness of living will be blurred ... We ...

I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident ...

If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp ...

I like to sing in the car with the windows rolled down and hair blowing all over my face.

There's a crack (or cracks) in everyone ... that's how the light of God gets in.

A panic attack is interesting the way a broken leg or a kidney stone is interesting - a pain that you want to end.

I was so fortunate to work closely with the designer Nolan Miller whilst on 'Dynasty' to create the wardrobe for Alexis Carrington Colby, and we ...

His shadow stretched out across the asphalt, a man on his way to make good an old wrong, his shadow, the dark doppelganger with stilts ...

I'll always be there for you.I promise to protect and nurture you.Hopefully one day soon, true Autism acceptance will besomething that just is.