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The apostolic church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death and heaven. The early Christians were looking, not for a ...
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
Have the courage to make a mistake.
Sometimes the hardest people to love are the ones who need it the most.
IT IS IMPORTANT, when killing a nun, to ensure that you bring an army of sufficient bravery. For when Sister Cage of the Sweet Mercy ...
She rose. 'You mean,' Catherine d'Albon said, 'I have agreed to marry a libertine?''Everyone marries libertines,' Lymond said comfortably, rising and taking her elbow. 'But ...
How come I can't make her happy, how come she can't make me happy? Simple: the atomic reaction you expect isn't taking place, the beam ...
Ravenpaw might have made a fine warrior. His death has come too soon, and his loss will be felt by many of us for a ...
If the children acquiesce, they may learn to suppress their anger to avoid retribution. But the rage remains inside, often just below the surface.
The young man, who intends no ill,Believes that none is intended, and thereforeActs with openness and candor: but his father, having suffered the injuries of ...
What was everybody's business in the end proved to be nobody's business. Each one looked to the other to take the lead, and the aggressorsgot ...
Action orientation is the mark of the superior executive.
Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist.
I never got tied down to any social scene. I was just into creating stuff. And I think, even today, that's how I'm able to ...
There's no easier pitch to hit than a splitter that doesn't do anything.
Each of us has an inner compass. Its voice calls us to our highest good. Sometimes it requires that we alter a longstanding but stifling ...
Oh, but I am quite resigned to taking second place in the shadow of my husband. I am humbly aware that the wife of a ...
The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love-if your so consumed with hatred for someone, you might as well ...
To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.
Ice melt when heatedEyes melts when hated
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we ...
To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. ...
I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad ...
IF YOU DON'T GO AFTER WHAT YOU WANT; YOU COULD SPEND YOUR ENTIRE LIFE SETTLING FOR WHAT YOU CAN GET
If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.
Putting something called Nature on a pedestal and admiring it from afar does for the environment what patriarchy does for the figure of Woman. It ...
How is it that a kiss can say so much?Saying I love you is huge, but to kiss someone who has told you that means ...
You don't always get to chose who you fall in love with
You're bloody insane, Karede," Mat said. "Unfortunately, so am I.
Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together.
It's the power of the brand. We've never formally advertised.
The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are ...
All mothers go through the exact same things.
Th'invention all admir'd, and each, how he to be th'inventor miss'd; so easy it seem'd once found, which yet unfound most would have thought impossible.
I lost my balls! Aarfy, I lost my balls!
The taste of the more recent accessions to the leisure class proper and of the middle and lower classes still requires a pecuniary beauty to ...
But for the hours of the night, I was helpless; powerless to move as a dragonfly in amber.
It's only a story.' As if such words made it less real. But I did not believe him even then, for stories were written down, ...
Denying the existence of God leads us to preposterous conclusions so that, in the end, the amoral world of the skeptic who simply cannot explain ...
That's the biggest problem with personas. A false self can never rest. It looks like a real person, but a persona is actually just a ...
Are you sure you're not looking for an excuse to stay in the smokestack with me?""If we attempt to check on the weapons now, in ...
It has been shrewdly said, that when, men abuse us we should suspect ourselves, and when they praise us, them. It is a rare instance ...
Now we were united, strong, friends, and something more.
It was down in Jake's old barroom Behind the Patsies' park; Jake was settin' 'em up as usual And the night was agittin' dark. At ...
Perhaps the most that can be said is that HCM had become a prisoner of his own creation, a fly in amber, unable in his ...
Servitude is not easy. Obedience is not a one-time decision. Obedience is alife time discipline. But it does bring a cimplicty to life because it ...
The full ashtanga system practiced with devotion leads to freedom within one's heart.
It is well-known what an orphan's life is: although he is little and has not yet a man's wisdom, he will follow every trail, try ...
If someone tied me down and made me answer the question, singer, actress, clothing designer, I most likely - it could change on any given ...
Only God can set the soul in bondage free.
No one who has lived side by side with animals that have plenty of room can ever visit the zoo.
I wasn't a stranger to dealing with thirty-plus-year-old adolescents
I don't have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.
I had a massive amount of self-belief when I did stand-up.
Sammy Davis, Andy Williams, Tony Bennett ... their records sell in the millions; when I do it, it just trickles. But for the composer and ...
He had a fascinating technique of gnawing his cigar from one corner of his mouth to the other, as if his teeth were equipped with ...
We hope we have it contained. So far, it looks as though Afton, Wyoming, and Cedar City and Kanab in Utah are the only hot ...
Knowledge can be a curse.The moment you gain it, you thirst for more.
Satan turned Eve's eye to the apple, Achan's eye to the wedge of gold, Ahab's eye to Naboth's vineyard, and then what work did he ...
You know, I said I have this problem that I need to more carefully read Akron's text because it's too much, too much fantasy, and ...
Genes are little items that are found in every living thing except Sen. Alfonse D'Amato.
That girl,' tutted Alsana as her front door slammed, 'swallowed an encyclopedia and a gutter at the same time.
I will age for you, if it pleases you. I will match you, wrinkle for wrinkle, grey hair for grey hair, crease for crease, wrinkle ...
Madness has no sense of humour
Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility ...
Q: Which one of Santa's reindeer is the cleanest? A: Comet!
I read slave narratives, books like Bullwhip Days, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. [The Root's chairman] Henry Louis Gates has an amazing ...
I have the most amazing and supportive family. My parents always encouraged us to aim high and follow our dreams. They instilled in us that ...
Good night. I adore you. Sleep well.
I lived in Rome for about five or six months during Life Aquatic.
The airline industry is full of bullshitters, liars and drunks. We excel at all three in Ireland.
Was I wrong? Was I imagining a problem where there wasn't one? Of course my great aunt Maureen always said even a broken clock is ...
[Measure for Measure] leaves me with the sense that life is all there is, so we might as well live it as best we can; ...
It makes me feel so amazing to know there's people out here that support me and follow me on Twitter and watch my shows on ...
I am now determined to do really weird parts but I think I overdo it in auditions so nobody really trusts me!
"You only live once" is also an equally compelling reason not to do something
The Christian faith does not call for us to put our minds on the shelf, to fly in the face of common sense and history, ...
The crowd is wonderful. There is always a superb atmosphere in the finish area. It's good for the World Cup. I missed it a lot ...
Well, how did you die, then?" the old man finally asked. "Die?" Matthew threw back. "Are you crazy? I'm not dead. I'm just very late.
If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France ...
In spite of the enormous complexity of macroscopic bodies when viewed from an atomistic viewpoint, one knows from everyday experience as well as from precision ...
He had Oly letter a little card that he taped on his wall. The thing read, 'The only liars bigger than the quack are the ...
Allthough that doesn't happen often lately, I like to read exciting thrillers and those kinky magazines.
There's Tommy, Tommy Lee the rock star, and Tommy the dad. I'm wearing several hats these days.
So many QBs throw the ball down the field, that's wrong. Watch Aaron Rodger throw it up the field
God is building a mighty army to vanquish the forces of darkness. These soldiers of the light are initially conceived and nurtured in the wombs ...
The truth never takes a backseat
I look upon a year lived as a year earned; and each year earned means a greater treasury of experience and power laid up against ...
Food of Acheron. (Grave.)[Lat., Pabulum Acheruntis.]
In the half-reclined bed, Yaz slept, mouth open, snoring - probably doped. Mike turned on the TV. For twenty minutes, he watched retired generals on ...
His eldest sister (who modestly prefers to be identified here as a Tuckahoe homemaker) has asked me to describe him as looking like 'the blue-eyed ...
Look not so deeply into words and letters; for this Mystery hath been hidden by the Alchemists. Compose the sevenfold into a fourfold regimen; and ...
I do not answer to a scarless Pixie whelp. I am a Peerless Scarred. ArchPrimus of the 542nd class of the Institute of Mars. I ...
I got a letter from a lightning rod company this morning trying to out the fear of God in me, but with small success. Lightning ...
The crypto currency community hasn't decided whether they want to be anarchist rebels or to replace the establishment.
Anyway, you don't have to be terribly intelligent to complete a PhD," Karim grumps. "You just need to be stupidly persistent. If anything, being too ...
Halfway through his reclusion, Arredondo experienced more than once that almost timeless time. In the first of the house's three patios there was cistern with ...
Upon common theaters, indeed, the applause of the audience is of more importance to the actors than their own aprobation. But upon the stage of ...
The question I should have asked is not what is the rule, but what is the principle.
When people conclude that anger causes abuse, they are confusing cause and effect. Ray was not abusive because he was angry; he was angry because ...