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The dotted line my father's ashplant made On Sandymount Strand Is something else the tide won't wash away.

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.

In wretched little lives like that, someone must intervene. Or at least mark their sad comings and goings. Mark and if possible permanently record so ...

At17, balanced on that precarious walkway between adolescence and adulthood, the world is a crazy obstacle course paved one day with broken glass, the next ...

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.

I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next ...

Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them!

Glass half empty, glass half full. Well, either way you won't be going thirsty, count your blessings not your flaws ...

I just try and get the best out of an artist - we all have a responsibility to fill the world with awesome songs!

If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.

You've given aid and they've received it. And yet, like an idiot, you keep holding out for more: to be credited with a Good Deed, ...

Allowing yourself to be vulnerable makes you weak but also opens you to the nuances of beauty ...

The key finding in the study was that the twenty-four-flavor table attracted more attention yet it resulted in fewer buyers. Shoppers flocked to the exciting ...

I'm allergic to chocolate. I never tried it, and I can't try it, ever.

Justice is like the kingdom of Godit is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.

Some women," Dahariel said in that same hard tone devoid of any hint of humanity, "getunder a man's skin until digging them out makes you ...

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

From the time I can first recall the rain falling on the red clay in Florida. I wanted to make things. When my brothers and ...

I read in 'Life' magazine that Asians had developed an operation to enlarge eyes, and I yearned to have this done. I wanted to dye ...

There are many organizations and individuals advocating for the public interest online - what's good for ordinary people - but other interests are more numerous ...

Back in the Aerie she popped her lips percussively as she examined her booty. 'P-ilfering P-adgett's P-ockets Pr-oduces P-ossible P-ath to ... to - ' ...

Clary?" he thought.Her voice came through, tinged with alarm. "What is it? What's happened? Did my mom find out I'm gone?""Not yet," he thought back. ...

Introverted wounds bleed in our minds and hearts, and bleed out in our behaviors, actions and relationships.

After two rounds of chemo, I've started to notice, slowly, but surely, my hair has started to appear more regularly in my shower drain, sink ...

To be a mother, after all, was to know the most perfect fullness on earth followed by the most terrible emptiness.

The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping the ...

Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.

Beware of economists who hide assumptions.

Christians have always been fodder for comedians who have tended to portray them as anoraks - slightly clammy, beatifically smiley dullards with barely a personality ...

The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of them. Well, this ...

Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none.

Every time you turn on your new car, you're turning on 20 microprocessors. Every time you use an ATM, you're using a computer. Every time ...

It's a false choice to say we either have job safety or job growth. It's a false choice to suggest that the only way for ...

In order to thrive as artists we need to be available to the universal flow. When we put a stopper on our capacity for joy ...

I wanted to the best player in the state - [the best] the area has ever seen. That's always been my goal. Guys like Elgin ...

I believe that even 'returning-to-nature' and anti pollution activities, no matter how commendable, are not moving toward a genuine solution if they are carried out ...

The instinct of worship is still so strong upon us that, having nearly worn out our capacity for treating kings and such kind of persons ...

I often compare putting a hotel together to old-time movie production. You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the ...

The angry customers must be calmed and controlled while the lethargic employees must be energized.

Almost all the other fellows do not look from the facts to the theory but from the theory to the facts; they cannot get out ...

1 Do not let your heart be troubled; abelieve in God, believe also in Me.

You're a real firecracker, Astrid, aren't you? Firecracker is what people in certain social circles say when what they really mean is asshole.

Sun lighting a child's hair. A friend's embrace. Slow dancing in a safe and quiet place. The pleasures of an ordinary life.

They travel through the heartland, past cold factories and drifty towns, to the old, old mountains slumbering east of Tennessee.

We should look for the light, the good, the grace of Heaven wherever it might be, even admist the filth we are so quick to ...

Magic is antiphysics, so it can't really exist. But is shares one thing with science. I can explain the principle behind a good science experiment ...

In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You can't ...

In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before the ...

I love the camera; there's something very special and sensual about it, and I have a tendency to call it a he, like it was ...

I had three days to screw over Nicodemus Archleone and his crew and get this thing out of my head, without getting myself or my ...

'The Leaves Are Fading' had something of a vogue when Antony Tudor made it in 1975, largely because of Gelsey Kirkland's ravishing performance.

Some people seem to put the devil on a par with God. Actually, Satan is a fallen angel.

If you are barking up the wrong tree, it doesn't mean you are acting like a dog. You may be accusing the wrong person, accepting ...

Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

Steve Jobs was probably mildly on the autistic spectrum. Basically, you've probably known people who were geeky and socially awkward but very smart. When does ...

Future generations may or may not judge Wittgenstein to be one of the great philosophers. Even if they do not, however, he is sure always ...

I've always been drawn to a certain kind of dark aesthetic in cinema and in film, to what's abjected or considered abject. I've been tremendously ...

You wanted a family. It doesn't get much more typical than an eccentric cougar sexually assaulting a hot, yet quirky uncle at a family gathering,

In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make, ...

My cardinal belief is that it is the natives of the land that till the land best, with passion and meaning. The advanced nations of ...

If you work hard, and give up certain things, and yes, resort to bribery now and then, you'll be an arborist, or a sea anemonist, ...

Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word, so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the ...

To her amazement,Ellie breaks into an ear-to-ear smile.Oddly enough, it's this moment I realize that despite her husky voice and Parisian attire,she's sort of...plain. But ...

When you have had nothing most of your life, you learn to appreciate the small things in life. The real challenge is appreciating the small ...

By making college more affordable for all and more accessible for minority students, the first new higher education authorizing legislation in a decade will help ...

Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.

And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.

The bleeding, dying, rising Saviour, is the only star of hope to a sinner. Oh for grace to come now and drink, ere the sun ...

I hate it when people tell you you're good when you know that you're not.

When providing people with the direction and expected behaviors, you need to be alert to the fact that they will hold you accountable. People want ...

I don't need to be liked, but I need to be vital - on set or on stage - and I think that probably would ...

I think making a movie is like drawing or creating an art piece. The artwork reflects part of your personality, but not all.

Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?

I cannot imagine a life without books.Without Father's stories of the ancient Greek gods and goddesses, without pirate stories and fairy tales and poems. Without ...

Strike all the adjectives from your bio. If you take photos, you're not an 'aspiring' photographer, you're not an 'amazing' photographer either. You're a photographer. ...

It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.

Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under ...

Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight.[Lat., Raro antecedentem scelestumDeseruit pede poena claudo.]

It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love ...

Ashurbanipal." Oh, baby, keep talking dirty to me.

Indeed, the Philippines has been described as a "gambling republic" where politicians "hold power without virtue," dominating by means of "capital" and "crime."13

A black Mercedes Benz 450 SL pulled up. It was your classic hood auto beloved of terrorists, pimps and African dictators.

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Jake? Do me a favor. Don't ever say 'so far, so good'. The only time anyone ever says 'so far, so good' is right before ...

Then Rhage kissed each and every scar. She

People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.

If believers feel that their faith is trivialized and their true selves compromised by a society that will not give religious imperatives special weight, their ...

Pressure only makes you sick. You won't get anything positive out of it.

Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming ...

The art of conversation lies in listening

Admit when you're wrong. Shut up when you're right.

I know that I might die but that seems a happier end than being without you and anyway it seems to me that looking in ...

Muhammad (PBUH) is not the father of any man among you, but He is Messenger of Allah and the last of the Prophets. And Allah ...

Awake! thou that sleepest, arise from the dead! The Lord still lives today. His power has never abated. His Word has never changed. The things ...

The art school party in Liverpool, in a flat in the students' accomdation, was the first all night party I ever went to ... I ...

There's a kind of training, when you are sitting in a session in the Japanese tradition or any of the Buddhist traditions, taking your lotus ...

We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.

Future Farmers of America. Group who take ag classes and are going to inherit the farm. Hot shit around here, they have a couple guys ...