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Sparkles also make everything better. Well, except alicorn poop.""I don't know. I think sparkly poop is way better than regular poop.""That's because you've never fallen ...

By meditating, you are beginning to act and every action which is pleasing to God brings you closer to the actualization of your God-given vision

Across the hall, Paul was either fucking the girl or murdering her, I couldn't tell which. I smelled mothballs. The afghan was going to have ...

When I was 20 and ran my first race, I told myself I don't know how I'm going to do this for a living. I ...

For me, my awkward phase corresponded to an interest in rock n' roll. From experience, I'm guessing an insecure childhood is probably quite a common ...

Me personally, I side more with punk rock bands. I grew up with The Misfits, The Dead Boys, The Damned, Dropkick Murphys, and early AFI. ...

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 ...

Love is like jumping off a cliff, even when you know you're acrophobic.

Riches and power, what is there more in the world? For money answereth all things-that is, all but soul concerns. It can neither be a ...

You should have felt the buzz the moment all five of us got together in the same room for the first time again. We all ...

If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, ...

A thousand laughing suns are in your eyes. A thousand crying stars in mine.

I always encourage people to pay themselves first, so I really advocate setting up direct deposit for your paycheck and establishing an automatic transfer so ...

I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees ...

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

The future is an anachronism.

There is no lobbying interest on behalf of a low-paid worker. Nobody. Nobody represents them, yet somebody obviously represents Wal-Mart in Washington and McDonald's in ...

I want to be someone she respects. Admires. But in order for that to happen, I'm going to have to change. To become stronger. As ...

When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do ...

Memory gallops, then checks up and veers unexpectedly; to memory, the order of occurrence is arbitary

Refugees come from many different backgrounds and live in many different circumstances, so I wouldn't like to generalise. But I think refugees from the U.K. ...

So much of what folks want in the world turns out to be just a thing they say. Words change the way you feel for ...

True Christians are those who carry out Christ's doctrine in their lives.

Casillas saying he wouldn't sign Messi for Madrid? Messi has a place in every team in the world.

Relevance is a big, big question. It's more about what's your definition of being relevant. In the music world, agism is a big issue. It's ...

Consciousness of the world itself is nature. And when you destroy nature you block off consciousness from the world.

I'm not a disciplinarian. I simply enforce other people's decisions.

Women, are a map, Avik. You've got to understand their longitude, and how much latitude you can take.

All of my art is suitcase-sized. I always paint in mediums that dry pretty quickly because I've got to throw them in my suitcase and ...

When we get to what happens when we die, we don't have any video footage. So let's at least be honest that we are speculating, ...

It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life,from its very beginning, is a mystery to you.

Africa has a genious for extremes, for the beginning and the end. It seems simultaneously connected to some memory of Eden and to some foretaste ...

I have spent my spare time studying literature popular with young women of this planet. One should always study the battlefield."Sean glanced at him. "And?""I ...

Now. But I still act like a cop sometimes.

To find his own salvation, a man must first find the fool locked inside himself and set it free.

The lemming types came out of their houses with flashlights. Going to light up the world with those flashlights, I guess." He laughed. "I stopped ...

Canadian weather resembles a slightly spoiled beautiful girl with a good heart, but a bad disposition. After being horrid for much too long a time, ...

I'm not adopting a baby.

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal ...

It was not so difficult to understand the warped view the Azadians had of what they called "human nature" - the phrase they used whenever ...

Before the Internet came along, most people rarely wrote anything at all for pleasure or intellectual satisfaction after graduating from high school or college.

Like manchurian candidates, we have been made into manchurian consumers, who subconsciously buy when we are triggered by our brand masters.

We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs.

I don't believe in a heaven or a hell or an old man sitting on a throne. I believe in a higher power bigger than ...

A lot of things depend on your attitude. If it is good that you seek, it is good that you will find.

There are a lot of great players from Europe who have never played Augusta, but all the guys in America have all played St. Andrews. ...

If there's one thing I learned in Alanon, it's that you got to face the music because it just grows louder when you ignore it.

So are you conscious?" The alien robot - the skin the Miller construct was using - shrugged. It was strange how well the gesture translated. ...

This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.

There is nothing lonelier than adventure.

I was always an Alabama fan growing up, but when the Alabama recruiter told me I would probably not be able to play until the ...

Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early ...

What is interesting is that elephants can accurately and reliably figure out who is friend and who is foe. Compare this to us humans, who ...

That's what tears are for, after all. A way for the soul to bleed. Pg. 109

United decidedly is not an innovative, adaptive organization.

Fourteenthly, if infinite active power doth actuate corporeal and dimensional being, this being must necessarily be infinite; otherwise there would be derogation from the nature ...

The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into ...

My problem with most athletic challenges is training. I'm lazy and find that workouts cut into my drinking time.

The two-minute disparity prematurely aged Adam Parrish. He liked it when people knew how to do their jobs. "Say something," Gansey said. "That bell.""Everything is ...

Healthcare is growing now at about 10 per cent per annum in the U.S. top line, versus 3 per cent for the economy. As someone ...

What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 flight to Oslo?

Sex is the ... tremulous and bewildering and nerve-racking and delicious and myriad-adjectived soul-condition ... generally known as love. Ninety-nine point nine repeater percent of ...

The creation of NIT has ensured some seats for admission in undergraduate courses for students of Arunachal Pradesh, which will bound to uplift economics of ...

Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.

I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps ...

Justice was done, and the President of the Immortals (in Aeschylean phrase) had ended his sport with Tess.

Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities. -Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes

The panther that has stalked yousince you were a childis old now. No longer wild,and tired of guarding the treasureyou yourself left behind - blind ...

No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why ...

Professor Khupe felt his chest swell with pride. It was doing so without his encouragement. If an electrical fault had stopped the elevator from rising, ...

After joining as a youth trainee at 16 from school, in my first two or three years the club was on a financial downward spiral ...

To find love, joy and peace for the humanity, let us promise to build a peace loving and a kind family.

To me, every fundamentalist Muslim, no matter how peaceable in his own behavior, is part of a murderous movement and is thus, in some fashion, ...

In all, I was in 16 movies, including 'The Bishop's Wife' with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven; I was in 'Rio Grande' with ...

Guided towards the writings of a 1930s Danish-Norwegian author, Aksel Sandemose, for a better understanding of how best to 'integrate' into the workplace in Denmark.

Serpine: No, my old enemy, I think for the moment anyway, we're all alone. And you have something I want Skulduggery: A winning sense of ...

He was highly annoyed by the series of triumphs by the marvelous colored American runner, Jesse Owens. People whose antecedents came from the jungle were ...

Revolution? Change? What I really want, with all my heart, is for the atonic clouds to stop greyly lathering the sky. What I want is ...

I'd always thought that if I could get sober and stay sober, I would be able to have a career making music. My drug and ...

I have spent my spare time studying literature popular with young women of this planet. One should always study the battlefield."Sean glanced at him. "And?""I ...

Reba is very, very close to everyone around her. She's a classy lady.

Homosexuality gave us Adolph Hitler, and homosexuals in the military gave us the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war machine and six million dead Jews.

Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of second. -Eleven Minutes

My kids are around pit bulls every day. In the '70s they blamed Dobermans, in the '80s they blamed German Shepherds, in the '90s they ...

Damn, cher, you still smell like a blossom. Been so long since I've seen a flower that I'd nearly forgotten what they smelled like." He ...

PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place.

I told you not to confuse forgetfulness with stupidity," Allen said. "She's extremely intelligent. Did you use the audio binder? Give her the Amneoset?

You'd like to see your team reasonably happy, but that's not your job. Gain their respect and get them to accept their roles

Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie in the bottle.

India does not have a problem of people grabbing share from a fixed pie. India is one of the few nations where the pie is ...

You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.

As Froi crossed this icy tomb, it occurred to him that he might never see Lord August and Lady Abian again. That he had never ...

For two people to commit themselves not simply to marriage, but to a lifetime of mutual love and submission in imitation of Christ is so ...

First smile!! An unseasonal little shower of rain fell here, and a lot of butterflies drowned, so we put them in the sun and they ...

So this world, I think, and an indefinite number of other worlds of our creation, are also - we're here for fun; we're here for ...

Usually step one in a recovery is admitting that you have a problem. I think that's an important thing for the Republican Party to do.

To birth, to death, and that wondrous thing in between. And to auld lang syne.

Bad bets sometimes pay off.

My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.

The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, he, faithful to his oath, ...