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Our Guardian Angels are our most faithful friends, because they are with us day and night, always and everywhere. We ought often to invoke them.

Rather than trust her reflexes, she programmed for auto. And hoped the jokers down in Maintenance hadn't played any pranks with the mechanism. Still, she ...

When we seek to escape from inner conflict and pain, we are running away from unresolved childhood trauma or original pain. Most people with serious ...

Like Abraham you will believe, like Sarah you will conceive, and like Moses you will rise from your isolation and exile. You will live again. ...

It's the person that calls you up because they're eating at 'our favorite spot,' and it made them think of you and miss being there ...

But define 'completely ridiculous shit,'" Duvall said. "Does space travel count? Contact with alien races? Does quantum physics count? Because I don't understand that crap ...

Footballers can be like artists when the mind and body are working as one. It is what Miles Davis does when he plays free jazz ...

Apology is pointless. Apologies are for when you forget something. Or bump into somebody. Apologies are for accidents. You can't apologise for something you chose ...

The world is full of CEOs that think that just because they write a memo or they write a letter inside an annual report or ...

A photograph permits a first viewing, and then an individual reflection. It solicits participation, and encourages individuality in interpretation. Television is an autarchy, a dictatorship.

Am inteles ca un om poate avea totul neavand nimic si nimic avand totul.

Glorious the northern lights astream; Glorious the song, when God's the theme; Glorious the thunder's roar: Glorious hosanna from the den; Glorious the catholic amen; ...

Good sex isn't complete without cuddling and aftercare.Women instinctively know this. Men, if they're smart, figure it out.

There is no safer vault than our minds.

McDowell has pointed to three common reasons people reject Christianity: pride, moral problems with how Christ would impact their lifestyles, and ignorance.

You can grow softly, lovely and delicately amidst the hard surfaces. Not all who passed tougher times in life have a hard heart, kindness and ...

No act loses us; no violence we're subjected to destroys us; no debasement chases out the divine, and no one can take the divine from ...

The old man asked again. "When I'm gone." His eyes blinked from behind his glasses. His neatly trimmed beard was gray, and he stood slightly ...

I draw strength from spirit, from the divine light. I draw strength from the love my sister and I have for each other, from my ...

The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human ...

Unless the old adage must be verified, That beggars mounted, run their horse to death.

New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media.

Lord Edward took a scientific interest in the sexual activities of axolotls and chickens, guinea pigs and frogs; but any reference to the corresponding activities ...

I have to admit that talking authoritatively about my students' stories can make me feel, at times, like an astronaut who has just landed on ...

Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.

Our mouths meet in another kiss. Soft this time. Agonizingly slow. It's not enough. I'll stop it soon, any second now, but not yet. Not ...

The man is angry, the manIs destructive, the man wants more.The woman is more, the woman is all.

I often said that never in the history of the world did one man receive so much faith and trust as Hitler. Similary, no one ...

The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we ...

You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely ...

Big surprise. You didn't dress up.""I came as Awesome Sauce," I say. "You probably wouldn't recognize it.

We need women to go through apprentice programs. I've seen women who did, and who are now highly trained electricians and welders. These are jobs ...

I think a lot of snowflakes are alike ... and I think a lot of people are alike too.

By the time the last few notes fade, his hope will be restored, but each time he's force to resort to the Adagio it becomes ...

Well, from an acting point of view, I bear no relation, I don't look like Alfred Kinsey at all, but I thought somewhere in my ...

The hidden benefit of antifragility is that you can guess worse than random and still end up outperforming.

I'd like to go on a hardcore safari in Africa, something off the beaten track with anti-poaching people and camping out in the savannah.

The city of Paris is determined to promote the happiness-on-a-bike fantasy. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo wants to turn the city into the most bike-friendly capital ...

Yes, that's a brilliant idea. Choose the career path most likely to lead to an early, painful death, and you're sure to find job satisfaction.

Standing in the middle between the idea of an event and the actual event, a strange kind of physical reality just in the middle between ...

Because only the greatest fool alive would rebuff a love such as yours. And I should like to think I am not as stupid as ...

Why tell me to be reasonable when you should be telling me to be courageous? [Arlana to Dave in The Battle for Halcyon]

God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to ...

God does not measure everything by numbers or dimensions. He has another scale of values, according to which-asJesus Himself told us-one human soul is worth ...

The brut first knows death when it dies, but man draws consciously nearer to it every hour that he lives; and this makes his life ...

New interfaces are most understandable when they build on what users (and audiences) already know.

I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited ...

Hard information on the quantity of bogus art sold is difficult to come by, in part because fraud, when discovered by dealers and auction houses, ...

The fact that he might have other things to do with his time than spend it shepherding his master's head-strong, thousand-ducat-a-night anguisette through one of ...

My mom passed on her obsession of all things antique or vintage. I love to go thrift store shopping or explore any sort of garage ...

You're unnerved by me, so you wish I'd leave the two of you alone to talk?" Vlad snorted. "Your personal discomfort means nothing to me, ...

Hosting is an art form. Like acting, singing, or comedy hosting is a craft. It's a delicate dance of timing, the ability to read the ...

Of course, I don't act in an extreme fashion in my day to day life. I don't think any of us live do. I think ...

There was a time in my life when I tried a lot of different things, different looks. Between the ages of 17 and 22, there ...

Alack, there lies more peril in thine eyeThan twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet,And I am proof against their enmity.

(Stoop) if you are abcedminded, to this claybook, what curios of sings (please stoop), in this allaphbed! Can you rede (since We and Thou had ...

Arkardy went on,with the air of a man who has got into a bog,feels that he is sinking further and further in every step, and ...

CD4 being the level of the lymphocyte that indicates the level of your immune function.

My favorite figure of the American author is that of a man who breeds a favorite dog, which he throws into the Mississippi River for ...

Unfortunately being born princess doesn't autimatically make a girl graceful or confident, a fact I've lamented for most of my fourteen years

This time, there was no escape, I could not turn away, could not leave without accepting what I had done. There was only one way ...

April showers bring May flowers

When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, ...

This would never have happened in my day," Archeye commented from where he sat in front of the elders' den. "What's next? Kit warriors?

I get a lot of calls from families and people who have served time and they say, 'Thank you, Sheriff. I hate the tents.' That's ...

With: Go Ferchios off to Allad out of this! An oldsteinsong. He threwed his fit up to his aers, rolled his poligone eyes, snivelled from ...

Writer's block is like a full moon behind the rain clouds.

People with a lot of money don't dress as well as people who have to make do, who have to be inventive. Those are the ...

Someday, I'll make a movie with a British accent.

A person is both wise and wealthy when you master the art of appreciating what you already have.

Dude, you're such a geek. And that's coming from an overweight Star Trek fan who scored a 5 on the AP Calculus test. So you ...

I would never presume to give anyone advice.

We love dogs and eat cows not because dogs and cows are fundamentally differentcows, like dogs, have feelings, preferences, and consciousnessbut because our perception of ...

I have a real problem with watching movies where I see this perfect woman who is married to the man in question, who has a ...

My granddad was an evangelist, and my grandma, she was as tough as nails. She watched 'American Bandstand' every day when she was in her ...

We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, ...

Brushing my Grilzz Before I Booty Pop. A Woman's work is never Done!

Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect diveTo the dead Mother's face, whose subtile downYou had not seen take amber light alive.

We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.

Given the chance to throw off a brutal dictator like Saddam Hussein, people will rejoice.

With one last lingering look at Anastasia Steele - the first woman I've ever slept with - I head out for my run.

Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could not quite explain ...

I saw America's economy last night, people raiding dumpsters at a higher rate than normal in my home town. Digging through garbage shouldn't be a ...

Religion is an experience, not a bunch of doctrines.

Don't make a sound I'll be your voice You don't need to be afraid Anymore I'll shine a light out in the dark Guide you ...

I think that our lyrics are definitely dark, but I know for a fact that we pull our inspiration from a million different influences. We ...

He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the day, only raises ...

The idealism and adorability of Rob Lowe and Bradley Whitford had made me long for a civic-minded beau who is constantly making long, important speeches ...

It's like looking through a microscope your whole life," he (Justin) said. "You miss the whole picture. Sometimes you need to get lost in order ...

I thank God, I have been able, by adopting Principles of strict Economy and Frugality, to keep my principal, I mean my Country-Estate, unimpaired.

I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.

The general opinion of Revenge of the Sith seems to be that it marks a distinct improvement on the last two episodes, The Phantom Menace ...

While the elective use of angioplasty and stents has skyrocketed over the past ten to fifteen years, there has been no change in the rate ...

I realized people would soon forget me once I was dead. I couldn't even say that this was hard to stomach; really, there's no idea ...

I spent six years in the army. That's the reason I am like a drill sergeant sometimes.

When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up.

To love one's neighbor and not to despise him is impossible.

The book is closed, the year is done, the pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, along with dreams, are written ...

For me, being alove it is being close to nature, either by the beach or near the ocean. When I look around and see how ...

All subjects are the same. I memorize notes for a test, spew it, ace it, then forget it. What makes this scary for the future ...