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I'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in.

Such watering pots,' Lord Ragsdale commented as he handed each of them ahandkerchief, then pressed a third to his eye. 'See here, you have set ...

Yes, she'll admit that her charm is somewhat artificial. Et alors?

Most of us spend our lives convinced that there's something missing: "If only I had a bigger barbecue, more money, a bigger car, a different ...

The preaching of God's word is hateful and contrary unto them. Why? For it is impossible to preach Christ, except thou preach against antichrist; that ...

He is a blind man and I am his book of braille. His breath against my collarbone raises goosebumps on my arm as I let ...

This is a very insulting tributeBut take it in good heartCongratulations Mom and DadYou've reached Silver together ... apartLots of love etc

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal.

My dad is from Queens. I remember visiting as a kid. My grandparents grew up here. All the actors I respected were coming out of ...

You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, ...

I'm never the smartest guy in the room. I'm willing to work harder than most people around me, come earlier, stay later.

Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and ...

How can I take away somebody who means the world to someone else? Even if she is my enemy.

The world is now adayes, God save the Conquerour.

The older women, the married ones and the widows, wear black clothes and no makeup, as I used to do. When I was in the ...

In Christ Jesus, we all start on a level playing field. What we make of ourselves in the Christian race depends entirely upon us.

Don't start that again. It's not my fault you don't have any masculine aprons.""That's because aprons aren't masculine, genius.""Don't make me have you for dinner, ...

If you aim for only wealth, beauty, fame, & power, you aim too low. Humility, gentleness, gratitude, & service is aiming high.

The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals. Once they're your friends, you can do no wrong.

The law is not abstract, impartially arbitrating between conflicting social classes; it is a tool in the hands of those who govern.

All you have to know is mathematically how many times to scratch it and when to let it go - when certain things will enhance ...

I love you," Kenneth said, with terrible dispassion, "but I would not burn the Library of Alexandria for you"; and Anita, drily sobbing, cried, "You ...

Religion does three things quite effectively: Divides people, Controls people, Deludes people.

Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.

And to be honest, most actors are incredibly solipsistic.

In love, no question is ever preposterous.

No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.

Today you are fulfilling another year of life and I will do everything to make it a memorable day for you.

But it has perks -- personal pride, financial security, and the feeling of accomplishment and control that comes when you just swap in a new ...

Attention is love, what we must givechildren, mothers, fathers, pets,our friends, the news, the woes of others.What we want to change we curse and thenpick ...

It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art student.

I think that was one thing I definitely brought to the table, my aggressiveness and my style of play, and I think that's one of ...

How's your head?" the larger man asked."Do me a favor and cut it off," Black muttered. "It's more pain than it's worth rightnow.

Ramil met Tashi's eyes with a mischievous look. "Now Wife we have a long voyage ahead of us with no interruptions, no affairs of state ...

War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement

I think that the United States should be the leader, not only militarily. We need to stand for freedom; we need to stand for justice ...

If I had to pick one tribe to go back and live with permanently - and I hate doing this, it's not a contest - ...

Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or ...

I've done five films directed by women. I did like it. They had qualities, particularly in the romantic tenderness of scenes. I felt sometimes they ...

The way I was brought up 'he needed killing' is an airtight alibi.

If you are able to discover your own keynote or chord and play it over gently to yourself, you will revive as if by magic. ...

I'd been beguiled by the new technology - a toddler crawling toward a gun.

I have 5 teenage daughters, and I learned the hard way - it's difficult to talk to any person under the age of 25 without ...

In the schools of small Midwestern towns, the only aristocracies are of beauty, intelligence, and athletic prowess.

Fit in where you don't: make your own space..be different..don't give in. Exist somewhere you're not suppose to, or where you don't want to. Be ...

Well, we're afeared. And what of it? Do we sit down and weep and tremble? Life must go on. And what will be, will be. ...

Love Is An Act Of Valour.

Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.

The liberal arts inform and enlighten the independent citizen of a democracy in the use of his own resources ... They enlarge his capacity for ...

U is gone. I suppose you're aware. The 1st aeiouy to go. Up until now the other graphemes were not aeiouys. When the aeiouys start ...

I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. ...

In many ways, each of us is the sum total of what our ancestors were. The virtues they had may be our virtues, their strengths ...

Joyful, all ye nations, rise. Join the triumph of the skies. With angelic hosts proclaim Christ is born in Bethlehem!

Those whom God calls to such a ministry - and a call is essential - must be prepared for a pathway of unpopularity and misunderstanding. ...

Never be frightened! Be fearless! There is no room for fear. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is adharma and fear ...

Joblessness is an opportunity to fulfill purpose

Politics is when people choose their words and actions based on how they want others to react rather than based on what they really think.

Amanda thought about her addiction to being on the move. about whether she was running away or running toward.

Life isn't burger king. You can't always have it your way.

Canada Day comes and goes modestly every year. Sure, there are retail sales promotions and a long weekend. But there isn't bluster or commodity in ...

When journalism is silenced, literature must speak. Because while journalism speaks with facts, literature speaks with truth.

I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, ...

There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.

We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact ...

Country music is just country. It's going to shift around a little bit, doing some different instrumentations, different production styles. But it will always come ...

When you can't stop what you're doing long enough to improve it, you will never stop what you are doing.

Table. He could not help seeing the dead thing. How still it was! How horribly white the long hands looked! It was like a dreadful ...

I don't think any business has to give up legal protections in order to simplify. The main consideration is that whatever protection, rights and remedies ...

When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to ...

What else was I meant to do? Leave you to die?""You might've.""I wouldn't have.

The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as ...

Can you get it? (Jaden) If I swear myself to eternal slavery to Artemis. Yes. (Acheron) I'd rather trade places with Prometheus and have my ...

Appa enjoys our current prosperity with considerable hesitation, as if it were undeserved. He's given to quoting a proverb that says wealth shouldn't strike suddenly ...

Love and I once had a great relationship, but I fear we've broken up. It cheated on me, wrecked my heart, and then went on ...

The love of reading can be contagious.

You have to stretch your soul to find your potential strength.

You can have the most advanced and efflorescent cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This is not ancient ...

In politics and in war, monsters are defined by which side of a fight a man claims. He is still a man to those who ...

Edward Conard's book represents the most cogent and persuasive analysis of the Financial Crisis to date. It is deeper and likely more accurate than what ...

Through the last few decades it [the art object] has been ripped off the wall and twisted through every conceivable permutation, yet back to the ...

It's always difficult to see yourself as other people do, but I'm realistic about my appearance. I wasn't born with one of those pretty, pretty ...

I pulled my suitcase out of the backseat of my bug, along with Cannoli's new travel case, a spiffy animal print pet backpack on wheels. ...

The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to ...

I have stood on the line in Everett, Wash., where we have thousands of workers who go to work every day to build these planes. ...

Ancient rock paintings remind us that there are no unclaimed lands, that people have always lived here. They are wayposts along the river journey to ...

If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding ...

If you can't hurt the ones who hurt you, sometimes hurting anyone will do. All

In those strange days when if anything unexpected could happen it probably would.

I know the Muslim psychology. It is all pomposity and bravado. I give you my word that if Islam is ridiculed publicly and systematically, it ...

The simplicity that all this presupposes is not easy to attain. I find that my life constantly threatens to become complex and divisive. A life ...

Outstanding past work in photography, and in fact in all the arts, is very important to today's photographers. But it should be used for inspiration ...

Jews have been in Egypt since Biblical times, and Alexandria had once been, at least partially, a Jewish city.

Adso of Melk: The Koran, the Bible of the infidels, a perverse book ... William of Baskerville: A book containing a wisdom different from ours.

No one is like me," Sadie agreed. "My amazingness is unique.

There were plenty of reasons to do the things I'd done, but Aiby had always been my reason.

I think people know Steve Jobs the showman. I think people know the guy who stood up and gave the keynotes. The magician. The salesman.

It's super cloudy right now but I think I can see the northern lights from my room. Another observation: Every light is a strobe light, ...

They both wore flat, creased faces that looked like abused rubbery masks.

But even if governments adjust their policies to a more individualistic age, the on-demand economy clearly imposes more risk on individuals. People will have to ...

The iron ring is worn out by constant use.[Lat., Ferreus assiduo consumitur anulus usu.]