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Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not ...

I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have ...

Less doth yearning trouble him who knoweth many songs, or with his hands can touch the harp: his possession is his gift of glee which ...

Aleksey and I have gathered together a bunch of kindred spirits who are also versatile musicians. We have a violinist who eats fire, another who ...

I do not believe in the TRANSFER of an individual. I believe in the TRANSFER of entire villages.

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 ...

Smartass Disciple: Master, why heaven is up there and hell is down there ?Master of Stupidity: If otherwise, it wouldn't be celebrated as ascension day.

If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.

It is hard enough for anyone to map out a course of action and stick to it, particularly in the face of the desires of ...

BE GRATEFUL, FORGIVE PEOPLE, LOVE MORE, BLAME LESS AND BELIEVE THINGS WILL WORK OUT!

A writer is always working with whatever she's managed to store in the brainpan or puzzle out about the world.

Let me tell you, you can paint pictures and get people indicted for just about anything.

Apple"Sometimes when eating an apple I bite too far and open the little room the lovers have prepared, and the seeds fall out onto the ...

I was so fortunate to work closely with the designer Nolan Miller whilst on 'Dynasty' to create the wardrobe for Alexis Carrington Colby, and we ...

An inability to understand the weakness in his fellow men that left him barely more than competent in the internecine feuding at the heart of ...

In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.

When I was very young in London, I had a bank account, which didn't have a great deal in it. I should think at least ...

If you really want to engage in policy activity, don't make that your vocation. Make it your avocation. Get a job. Get a secure base ...

Those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said ...

Animal testing is needless, especially in cosmetics.

A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't get ...

This process was also used on beautiful daggers with bifurcated blades, which look ahead to the Old Kingdom forked instruments known as pesesh-kef used in ...

But thats not love, he thought, thats not what she wants, nor what any of them want, they do not want you to find yourself ...

Almost 30 years ago, I started seeking help from a counselor with a master's of social work in New York City, but we were never ...

Accepting the loss of a loved one is difficult. But reconciling with the living is just as important.

I'm always happy to have the President visit North Carolina. Unfortunately, the citizens of North Carolina who could be most adversely affected by the President's ...

Every time a message seems to grab us, and we think, 'I just might try it,' we are at the nexus of choice and persuasion ...

There's a kind of amateurishness among French actresses, but I don't share that completely.

Agricultural sustainability doesn't depend on agritechnology. To believe it does is to put the emphasis on the wrong bit of 'agriculture.' What sustainability depends on ...

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

We must [it has been arued] go beyond reductionism to a holistic recognition that biology and culture interpenetrate in an inextricable manner.

I don't have the body for this," I quipped, lifting my chin to a voluptous woman nearby who shook her hips zealously to the beat. ...

Learn from them, because I will always be there, one step ahead of you, programming more difficult and advanced patterns into the computer so that ...

It seems so impossible that someone could look at [Andy and Noah], see how plainly they care for each other, and find anything ugly or ...

Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than ...

I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can ...

If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.

There does need to be a speed-up of the process.It takes entirely too long to addres5 some of those concerns and, in the process, it ...

Sign your work ... If you're not proud of it, don't ship it. If you are, sign your work and own the results. We'll know ...

A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

A beautiful person is someone who stays true to themselves and their spirit; someone who is self-confident and can make you smile.

I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United ...

Washington's adventuristic policy, whipping up international tension to the utmost, is pushing mankind towards nuclear catastrophe.

I light up, fumigate my alveolar sacs and think dark thoughts

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

[She] had a habit of putting things in that way, as though she had accidently set your house on fire and had no choice now ...

Excellence means representing the reputation of Christ well. It means doing all things as best as you can.

The thing about love is one can never define it exactly. And as much of a mystery as that is and as familiar it is ...

No other ethnic group has even come close to matching the abilities and accomplishments of Jews.

In an age of infinite digital documentation, paper was the last safe place for secrets.

I was consumed by a selfishness and arrogance that I didn't dare let go of until I found a new persona to hide behind.

A Sikh woman takes the surname Kaur on baptism. Kaur was also a common surname for Rajput women and means both a princess and lioness.

Each man was born to his degree, and a happy man was one who did not question his place in life.

Hell,' I said, 'love is an American cult. We take it too seriously; it's practically a national religion.

The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there's a truth in your heart that says you'll never leave me, and ...

Bring your army, little god! My sword is hungry!

In fact, you could say that I became a poet by renouncing poetry.

They have, and bring with them, that upper-body strength. They have apparently developed that in their childhood and growing up, and they've further advanced in ...

On the whole, when the unexpected danger happens to you, you're thinking so fast, you're thinking so hard, every bit of you is alive to ...

If a man, notoriously and designedly, insults and affronts you, knock him down; but if he only injures you, your best revenge is to be ...

Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no ...

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the ...

I'll be writing as long as I can hold a pen in my curled, crimped arthritic hands and then I'll dictate it, if it comes ...

Cliches and stereotypes such as "beatnik" or "hippie" have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue to be. But one does ...

Wonderland is violent and bizarre, but charming in its way. AnyElsewhere is a whole new level of cruelty.

Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

A MILLION THOUGHTS POUR THROUGH MY HEAD, BUT LIKE HER, I STAY SILENT. THERE'S SIMPLY NOTHING TO SAY.

Is everything right because the law allows it?

Music herself should be silent when Nicholas speaks. (on why he had stopped playing during a performance with Tsar Nicholas I in attendance)

Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote.

I've got a basketball signed by all the greats from Julius Irving to Oscar Robinson. It was at an All Star game I got them ...

I am not in the business of pointing fingers or making excuses. However, recent history has shown that I, like thousands of others in Ireland, ...

The Church's role should be separated from the state's role.

To find the deep meaning of life, you must get lost in the blue sky and go beyond your comfort zone.

Abby, I don't know who you are, but I do know that you're a remarkable woman. Come what may, I would love to meet you ...

Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want.

To want a gift and not receive it,that is a life of torture. To have a gift and lose it--that is eternal hell.

I think for me when you look at the idea of being able to create a limitless world and use it almost as a playground ...

As she walks through her problems, miseries and bad days, she couldn't help but notice how her gait has become more poised and elegant. Earlier ...

Most voters would rather have their purse or wallet stolen than be audited by the IRS.

Yes, I believe that the art of winning is through intimidation, and not necessarily do you have to speak about it.

Nobody knows for sure how many ahoritas there are in a single ahora.

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 ...

Audrey had an angelic quality about her. She didn't act like she was better than everyone, she just had a presence, an energy, a sort ...

I think records and music are more appropriate and more respectful of the human soul than the churches are. And more respectful of the needs ...

Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. ...

According to a new survey, 90% of men say their lover is also their best friend. Which is really kind of disturbing when you consider ...

A metamorphosis had come over us. It was something internal, an electrical pulse in the brain, some slight variation in the aortic rhythm that had ...

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, ...

And, all these things need to be coordinated; so we all need to work together, have timers going and everything so we're all coordinated and ...

I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking ...

Aquarium fishes even if they only imagine going to a lake, the windows of that aquarium will become thinner than before.

America and its allies are engaged in a war against a terrorist movement that spans all corners of the globe. It is sparked by radical ...

When we approached the Man of Action guys, we said, "We're not really interested in what's come before, except in the way that we want ...

We may believe in the state's responsibility to alleviate the crushing poverty that afflicts 40 percent of Latin America's population, but most of us also ...

I noticed, rich people never toss away their pennies in their driveways, middle-class always chuck them there, and stray dogs lick up what little pennies ...

One of the most touching things my mother said to me was that if I ever wanted to come back to live in India, she ...

I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.

Music is a right, but only for those who deserve it!

The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls up some repulsive ...