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I am sure I have summer depression; the heat makes me instantly regret being alive.
My view is rather than just rage at your impotence you find the best way of achieving as much as you can within whatever constraints ...
People who have never had a broken heart will never understand dead roses, Tolstoy, airport lounges, Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor, neat brandy, the moon ...
Doing the weekly shopping, I stock up on stir-fry kits, Amy's meatless burgers, and armloads of onions and garlic. I put onions and garlic in ...
Julian gave his brother a slow, sweet smile. In that smile was all the love and wonder of the little boy who'd lost his brother ...
A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.
Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is ...
Are you loving having these great iconic stories back as much as I am? 'One Life' is back in action and I love putting my ...
The only simple gift but meaningful you can give to everyone are smiles..
I like to dress up and look nice. I'm not quite at the stage yet financially to do that too often, but it's nice to ...
The third boat was quite pretty, too ... this one was an Adirondack fishing boat, and even though it was only half finished, I could ...
If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.
But a lady forced is never a lady won
Your age is your No. 1 risk factor for almost every disease, but it's not a disease itself.
A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
Out the window in the distance, contradicting the prairie, a mirage of downtown Chicago ascended to a kind of lurid acropolis, its light as if ...
Alltami (n.)The ancient art of being able to balance the hot and cold shower taps.
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an ...
When I was twenty-five, I went on exactly four dates with a much older guy whom I'll call Peter Parker. I'm calling him Peter Parker ...
Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee.
When I read the book [The Adderall Diaries] I loved it, and I maybe had an inkling that there was a lot of good material ...
I have often repented of having spoken, but never of having been silent.
His conversation was full of imagination, and very often in limitation of ther Persian, and Arabic writers, he invented tales of wonderful fancy and passion. ...
Obviously there have been historically many different theories of the atonement and I think each of them has a part. But I think fundamentally it ...
As silver in a crucible and gold in a pan, so our lives are assayed by GOD.
Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body.
Life can be cut short in an instant, so make sure to live with no regrets and love with all your heart.
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry is a breezy, big-hearted treat, especially if you've ever wondered about the inner workings of America's national treasuresneighborhood ...
Formed on the good old plan, A true and brave and downright honest man! He blew no trumpet in the market-place, Nor in the church ...
Webster and I are very aloof. The two of us go and sit there by ourselves. I sit by myself in the corner with my ...
Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. ...
My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posteritya good strong figure. But I think itis rather leaving myself ...
I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it's ...
Really, I'm trying to care, Artemis, really. But I thought it was all supposed to be over when the fat lady sings. Well, she's singing, ...
General Patton, upon seeing the Roman ruins at Agrigento, remarked to a local expert, "Seventh Army didn't cause that destruction, did it, sir?" The man ...
A bit of mist and light suffice for life to overpower nothingness. A bit of hope and time suffice for you to cross the mountain ...
The streets of Aqaba are shell spirals and, on summer nights, crowded and complicated as a woman's heart.
Catch several hares and you won't catch one.
In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes ...
Never was there a dingier, uglier, less picturesque city than London ... it is really wonderful that so much brick and stone, for centuries together, ...
There are times when I myself no longer know whether I said and did the things I report or whether I dreamed them up. Anyway, ...
I don't think Jennifer Lawrence deserves to be in this category [leading role]? Joy is a great movie, obviously. She's a great actress and I ...
It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a bad writer - ...
I picked up the corpse and dragged it down and down the winding steps of the tower, into the stinking dungeon, and threw it to ...
Is it still cool to go to the mall?' she asked. 'I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's cool,' I answered.
JUNE 22 I am sure of this, that He who started a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day ...
People say I'm controversial. But I think I lead a very balanced and normal life.
We know that appropriators will fight these cutbacks. But by eliminating earmarks, we can stop the horse trading that grows agency budgets.
Biologically and physiologically, we are not equal. Some of us learn better at different times of day. Some learn best visually, some auditorially, some tactilely, ...
'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group ...
I want to commend the [Federalist] Society for bringing together the best minds from right, left, and center to debate the most pressing legal issues ...
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Marx called religion an opiate, and all too often it is. But philosophy is an anaesthetic, a shot to keep the wonder away.
Maybe i'm ashamed because it's hard not to feel ashamed, when just being born is something you can be killed for.
60. It is He, Who takes your souls by night (when you are asleep), and has knowledge of all that you have done by day, ...
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 ...
Sometimes good people make bad choices. It doesn't mean they are bad people. It means they're human.
When you lie there's always going to be a consequence. Lying never wins at the end.
When people say that animal rescuers are crazy, what they really mean is that animal rescuers share a number of fundamental beliefs that makes them ...
What's this?" Amarantha said, her voice lilting despite the adder's smile she gave me ... "Just a human thing I found downstairs," the Attor hissed, ...
The magic will not solve your problems. It will only add to them. The magic will not make people like you. It will increase their ...
Instead of asking yourself whether you believe or not, ask yourself whether you have, this day, done one thing because He said, Do it! or ...
Good. I think I'll go for the sole almandine with garlic-scape mashed potatoes and pineapple-mango salsa.
In our circle, stress was a valuable status marker: I stress, therefore I am.
This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.
Money is a means to wealth, not the wealth itself.
His face contained for me all possibilities of fierceness and sweetness, pride and submissiveness, violence, self-containment. I never saw more in it than I had ...
She looked sideways at Aleck, taking a peek at the future walking beside her, and realized her life would never be the same.
I thought I saw Anny smiling. I try to refresh my memory: I need to feel all the tenderness that Anny inspires; it is there, ...
These religions that are so freighted with their own pomposity are no better than inspired guesses.
The smaller the government, the less the need to manipulate politicians.
Performing tai chi in space - it is comfortable; we got more outer space chi.
I could feel myself peeking over at him. He was like a seatbelt for my soul.
At Andreessen Horowitz, we talk about the notion of being 'too hungry to eat.' That's to say, we often see startups that are so entrenched ...
I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - ...
I ... can't go to dinner with you on Wednesday.""It's almost four in the morning, Abby. What's going on?""I can't see you at all, actually.""Abs ...
In certain states, if a woman makes $12,000 a year, and lives with her quarter-of-a million dollar boyfriend and they don't get married, as long ...
Van, Van, we're only simple, fallible mortals - we aren't saints, we aren't angels - we fall on our faces and make errors and sometimes ...
My stroke of insight would be: peace is only a thought away, and all we have to do to access it is silence the voice ...
I been doing music my whole life.
If I say you're a goatherd's son, you say, 'Yes, Lord Ralon.'"Alanna gasped with fury. "I'd as soon kiss a pig! Is that what you've ...
Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen ...
Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out and living my ...
Dorian looked down at the boy and felt the trapped leopard inside him rise in a protective crouch. Then I guess he stays with us. ...
In a world where you can be anything, be yourself.
Threw you the obvious and you flew with it on your back, A name in your recollection, down among a million same. - A Perfect ...
The only way out of the current crisis is to amend the Constitution.
Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in ...
Absolute silence of the courtroom,
Secondly I would like to make continuous efforts of stabilising cross Strait relations, eventually reaching peace across the Taiwan strait and stability and security in ...
Are Russian cannibals worse than the English? Of course. The English eat only the feet, the Russians the soul. "The soul is a mirage," I ...
On angel's wings, love flew in.
The public education movement has also been an anti-Christian movement ... We can change education in America if you put Christian principles in and Christian ...
Don't be intimidated by people who try to belittle your ambitions. Most of the time they are just jealous of your success or determination to ...
[T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.
Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of ...
You speak from your heart, young Firepaw. This will make you a stronger warrior one day." said LionheartTigerclaw growled. "Or it might make him give ...
God's message extends beyond borders. Anyone in the world can learn to forgive those who have injured them, however great or small that injury may ...
Our lover is the sun, and we the stars forever floating in their glow. We push and push, yearning for our sun's rays to reach ...
Always remember that with privilege comes responsibility. You must go to Casa Azul and see the place you came from. Only then will you be ...