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A proper disposition of time leaves a man at leisure in the very bustle of affairs; without delaying the attention of his concerns to the ...

Look for the silver lining whenever a cloud appears in the blue.

Sing me to sleep, sing me to sleep. I'm tired and I want to go to bed. SIng me to sleep, sing me to sleep, ...

He would think of Heaven and London and Our Lady of Acoma and the rows and rows of babies in clean bottles and Jesus flying ...

I'd love to have the opportunity to sing in a Disney movie.

When I was a single, working mom with a newborn, I learned just how vital it is to have comprehensive, affordable health care.

Our brains are obviously capable of astoundingly fast and complex calculations that happen subconsciously. We can't explain them because most of the time we hardly ...

My aim is to show the visible as possibility in a state of perpetual becoming.

Attention Morte. I have a question. Do you have a destiny? Apurpose?""Is Annah still wearing clothes?""Affirmatory.""Then the answer is yes.

The sacrifices of time and money that Chinese friends will make for one another often go far beyond what is expected or accepted in Western ...

Now, we ain't got nothing to do with God's business, she says, sitting back in her seat. She adjusts herself and straightens her scarf, contenting ...

If this code works, it was written by Paul DiLascia. If not, I don't know who wrote it ..I'll be laughing when I'm old and ...

You can look at a person's attitude and know what kind of thinking is prevalent in his life ... It's better to be positive and ...

As a manager your job is not to teach people talent. Your job is to help them earn the accolade "talented" by matching their talent ...

Language consists in equal parts of speaking and silence.

Truth can be told in an instant, forgiveness can be offered spontaneously, but reconciliation is the work of lifetimes and generations.

To me, the coaching profession is one of the noblest and most far-reaching in building manhood.

Love hopes for happy endings.

Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.

I had rather get a root canal without anesthesia than to call your customer service office for help.

Whoever takes me captive won't live long enough to enjoy it

And then, I made myself sick to my stomach for an apologie that never came.

Critical design can never be truly popular, and that is the fundamental problem. Objects that are critical of industry's agenda are unlikely to be funded ...

In modern life the world belongs to the stupid, the insensitive and the disturbed. The right to live and triumph is today earned with the ...

You become strong by doing the things you need to be strong for. This is the way genuine learning takes place. That's a very difficult ...

The film is a romance with songs and dances, aimed at a family audience.

I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves

What a sacred journey?

Europe's history of trading relations with India is borne out in the writings of the ancient historians Herodotus, Pliny, Petronius and Ptolemy, and

In spite of her superficial independence, her fundamental need was to cling.All her life was an attempt to disprove it; and so proved it. She ...

Darwin was a dreamer, I can assure you. No evolution or anything of the sort. For every one who can reason, I have to battle ...

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk ...

Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.

AMELIA: To my friends, and family: You all may be batsh*t crazy, but even if I got to choose, I'd still choose to be with ...

The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.

Agence France Presse says the Communist Party doesn't endorse Barack Obama, but that's just the media covering for him again. Because they do endorse Obama.

I've always been a geek, so I've always used the Internet, perhaps at first for autopromotion, as many authors do.

You could go so wrong with a 'Planet of the Apes' reboot; you could make it melodramatic, you could make it campy, you could fall ...

Teenagers learn best by doing things, they learn best in teams and they learn best by doing things for real - all the opposite of ...

Peculiar. Allergies he expected, and that anti-septic smell never failed to make his head spin. Despite what his many Doctors would tell you, Nathan hated ...

I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn't been done. Miss Hepburn only won ...

People seem to think themselves in some ways superior to heaven itself, when they complain of the sorrow and want round about them. And yet ...

Testimony of all ages forces us to admit that war is among the most dangerous enemies to liberty, and that the executive is the branch ...

Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a ...

As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue.

Only I don't close my eyes these days, because it hurts too much when I open them.

Don't know why folks need diamonds and pearls, fur coats, first-class tickets, island adventures when simple shit like this is the best thing you could ...

To us, our house was not unsentient matter it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes ...

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.

In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.

Elizabeth Lutyens was the first professional composer that I ever knew. I sent someextremely infantile pieces that I I'd written and got marvellous encouragement andinterest ...

He could not help knowing that when he thought of death, he thought with all the force of his intellect. He knew too that the ...

I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact.

Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard.

The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has ...

It's not like you do 'SNL' and then get handed movie roles. You work, you audition for stuff and try to get it. I think, ...

Let us love silence till the world is made to die in our hearts. Let us always remember death, and in this thought draw near ...

Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in the imagination of men, and ...

You're such a little moron, aren't you? They will hunt you down to the ends of the earth. It's nothing personal, just business. It's all ...

The reason why God doesn't show his face is because he stands behind a wall that can be broken.

Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.

Who thus translated the Chickasaw title meaning "The Man"; which translation Ikkemotubbe, himself a man of wit and imagination as well as a shrewd judge ...

Half the world cries Half the world laughs Half the world tries To be the other half

Some churches, sects, cults, or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigidly identified with their mental positions as the followers of any political ...

The path to paradise begins in hell.

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.

I'd feel kind of like a rat abandoning ship." "Rats are intelligent mammals," he answered calmly, almost with amusement. "They will probably outlive us. Their ...

Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness.

Are you happy?' she asked.'Honour... I've been happy since the moment I met you.

The Fela Kuti Queens - the band members and wives of the late African musician Fela Anikulapo Kuti - are my fashion icons.

The goal of Australian foreign policy should be to promote the maximum harmony between the U.S. and China.

Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image ...

Maybe he does have a choice to make, but everything I feel, everything I know says absoloutely that choice will be you""She speaks French and ...

Social networking technology didn't really exist until 2004-2005. I had the idea to use this technology to bridge this gap between a general interest in ...

What has that little tramp got that we haven't?" asked the brunette archly. "We've got a whole lot more." The red head ran her hands ...

There is now doubt in our minds that Nasser, whether he likes it or not, is now effectively in Russian hands, just as Mussolini was ...

Count Vronsky: I love you! Anna Karenina: Why? Count Vronsky: You can't ask Why about love!

Those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly we are not the same afterwards.

Presentation, not reference ...

Sonya's a real person, like your Mother. Thirty years ago, that was your Mother's biggest flaw in my eyes, and now that's the thing I ...

Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those ...

I don't like the selfie because it's too close. There ain't no people with arms long enough to do a selfie of me.

Like dark, soft water, sadness took over Aomame's heart, soundlessly, and with no warning.

Every issue of life is determined not by external conditions and things, but by one's consciousness.

People who strongly value the pursuit of wealth and possessions report lower psychological well-being than those who are less concerned with such aims.

I pretended like all the oranges rolling everywhere were her happy memories and they were looking for a new person to stick to so they ...

The kingdom of God . . . does not mean merely the salvation of certain individuals nor even the salvation of a chosen group of ...

If I knew what it was going to look like, I wouldnt be so excited to be a part of it. Jazz is a music ...

I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently ...

Australia has always encouraged the little bloke to have a go, the Aussie battler to get up.

I hope that, in a small way, I am interesting people in animal life and in its conservation. If I accomplish this I will consider ...

Let go into His arms until you find yourself obsessed on things divine

We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.

Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we were put in this world to rise above.

I have not lost [Allah's] hope in us to show compassion where none exists and to extend mercy in the most difficult of circumstances. We ...

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.

There is something eminently Chilean about avoiding confrontation, or about not clarifying the way you feel sometimes. It's a particular culture, where emotions are not ...

The author apologizes for being unable to afford a ghost writer, which explains the lack of a distinctive prose style.

Death by love is fairer by far than death by illness, said Amenhotep III.