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Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other ...

The only religious opinion I feel sure of is this: self-awareness is not just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.

The Answer is that I am afraid...Afraid of Connection with human beingsAfraid of Being AloneAfraid of be with my opinion

In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain.

You've been making a regular habit of flinging yourself in front of bullets," she remarked amiably. "It's really not a good custom. Curb this tendency ...

I have great friends around me that are positive and I think that's the key to life is making your own path. Set your own ...

The destiny of [Google's search engine] is to become that Star Trek computer, and that's what we are building.

Hold it down until you come up

My advice is to give up stevia, aspartame, sucralose, sugar alcohols like xylitol and malitol, and all of the other heavily-used and marketed sweeteners unless ...

Your thighs are appletrees. Your knees are a southern breeze.

--Writing Mystery and Macabre--

There are two unknowns in the World. The Poles and the Turks!

Can't sleep 'cause all the dirt make my heart hurt

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when ...

I finally understood that I didn't lack pen and paper but my ownmemorizing mind. It had been given away with a hundred poems, calledrote learning, ...

It was a bitter and biting iron-gray afternoon, that clanked like armor and was as cold as a frosty axehead.

Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man ...

So you must learn to follow your destiny, whatever it may be, with joy. As flowers grow, they show off their beauty and are appreciated ...

Back home in Florida, in a small town in Apalachicola National Forest, everyone had known who she was.

I was born in Amersham, England on 6/4/58. My family moved to Australia when I was eight, and I went to Box Hill High School ...

My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit ...

No task will seem trying, and no sinner unattractive, to one whose heart has been thus possessed with the Savior's heart of love.

He that is not with his God is against Him ... Hence, as there cannot be in any soul a non-Christian state which is not ...

Do not allow the adumbrations of Aristotelian logic to prevent you from seeing a vast spectrum of truths; the post-Boolean continuum of shades of grey ...

I like sunrises, Mondays, and new seasons. God seems to be saying,"with me you can always start afresh.

Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.

Silent as a flower, her face fell in dismay, aware that the ghost of lust ate and left, sensing that there was a different scent ...

Saying sorry too much is an anchor on your upward mobility.

Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course by a clear sign, on ...

There is in Ammiel Alcalay's work an unabashed tenderness for the world as it is, and that makes him courageous, different.

I'm not so in a rush to direct just anything because I'm lucky that I can make a living so far as an actor and ...

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as ...

The picture is not a documentary, ... It's a drama that has to be crafted. Reality is not art. You have to make choices when ...

Is it not indeed a pleasure to acquire knowledge and constantly to exercise oneself therein?

I want my kids to have a good work ethic. I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.

I've always been about the power of a woman - accentuating the positive, deleting the negative, whether you're talking her body, her voice or her ...

The monster towered ten or twelve feet tall. Its bright green leathery skin was covered in dirt,moss, leaves, and patches of grass, the stench repulsive. ...

The very concept of imitation is suspect to begin with (if children are general imitators, why don't they imitate their parents' habit of sitting quietly ...

I know it sounds strange to say, but the very technologies that have made traveling easier for most people - GPS, automated ticket machines, online ...

There were a group of people before the Ascension known as the Astalsi. They claimed that each person was born with a certain finite amount ...

Here's a tip, Alyconeus. Next time you choose the biggest state for your home, don't set up base in the part that's only 10 miles ...

A furry, for the uninitiated, is a person who identifies very deeply with, and dresses up as, an anthropomorphized animal. There have been quite a ...

Many people learn how to talk, but they don't learn how to listen. Listening to one another is an important thing in life. And music ...

I was a huge fan of 'Avenue Q' long before I ever dreamed of being a part of it. I saw it off-Broadway at the ...

His father looked wistful. 'And you don't feel anticlimatic?'What's that?'Somewhat the opposite of elated.'What's elated again?'Good feelings. That is to say, very good. You can ...

We've been really lucky. We've gotten a lot of airplay over the years. I guess people keep requesting our songs on the radio, because Lord ...

Your best authorial self is always one about to ruin the story.

A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.

Moses challenged parents both to teach the faith diligently and to maximize normal encounters or ongoing discussion.

You keep a grip of my heels, Pole, and Scrubb would hold on to yours. The we'll all be comfortable.

The acting director of the Secret Service, Joseph Clancy, said they may make the fence around the White House taller because of the recent security ...

A heavily armed citizenry is not about overthrowing the government; it is about preventing the government from overthrowing liberty.

It does not matter how old or wise you get, life is about believing and listening to your inner voice. I still believe in angels, ...

Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, ...

Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls ...

The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of ...

Armus: 'No need for interogation if you'd tell me this earlier.'Samarga: 'You wouldn't buy it if I gave it away without squeal.

I have anecdotal evidence in my business that MBAs tend to blow up in financial markets, as they are trained to simplify matters a couple ...

Give it to 'em!" Take 'em down!" First Aleran!" Kick their furry" Assault formation!

All photographs are about light. The great majority of photographs record light as a way of describing objects in space. A few photographs are less ...

God's voice is still and small, the voice of a sparrow in a cyclone, so said the prophet Isaiah, and we all say thankya. It's ...

Always have faith in yourself and the universe, for one will not get you anywhere without the other. Both must be equally strong to reach ...

As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.

I speak to my childhood friends almost every day over the Internet.

Taking Mum's hand, I whispered Are we really safe, here?

It may be, after all," said the Student Anselmus to himself, "that the superfine stomachic liqueur, which I took somewhat freely in Monsieur Conradi's, might ...

Ethos anthropoi daimona man's character is his fate.

The human race can be roughly divided into two categories: ailurophiles and ailurophobes - cat lovers and the underprivileged.

It's a balance. Like, we are shooting the big car chase at the end and it's me with everybody. And I got my stunt coordinator ...

What happened?" he demanded. "I heard an explosion!""Yeah.That was me. I set the boat alight.""What?""I set fire to the boat.""But we're on the boat!""I know.

If Republicans are going in the wrong direction, I am still willing to stand up against them.

One thing that struck me early is that you don't put into a photograph what's going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out ...

Sometimes, when it seems like the pain is never going to end, I wish I'd gotten a different suite of magical talents from my mother. ...

Auschwitz?! That is a name I had heard before. There is not much time for thinking. It had been raining here not so long ago. ...

And just like that he took me away into another world. A place where I was cherished, and where I could forget about a time ...

"Where should I apply Perfume?" a young lady asked. "Where you want to be kissed."

When I visit a new bookstore, I demand cleanliness, computer monitors, and rigorous alphabetization. When I visit a secondhand bookstore, I prefer indifferent housekeeping, sleeping ...

It wouldn't be me if I didn't get a little nasty.

...when a man like Ethan finally learns to love, it's forever.~ Fiona MacCarrick ~

What almost no one understands is how every level of severity in this diagnosis is underpinned by shame. Which means we don't "fix it" by ...

In that moment, Dan was reminded why he wanted to write in the first place. It was the same reason anybody does anything to impress ...

Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.

Some people get to live life. Some people survive it. We're survivors. We can carve out our piece of happy, and, I swear to God, ...

Lots of people feel more alive when they're riding a roller-coaster relationship. But while this might be fun for a while, it can't possibly last.

I'm never going to be with a guy that can't deal with my friendship with him.

I am visible-see this Indian face-yet I am invisible. I both blind them with my beak nose and am their blind spot. But I exist, ...

Vietnam should remind conservatives that whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for ...

Love is the most powerful healing energy. Everything you do with love spreads healing. So feel it,be it, and spread it.

The informational density of the inner planets is visibly converging on Avogadro's number of bits per mole, one bit per atom,

My whole life's been stability. People who have worked with me have for a long time. Air Asia is the same people who started it.

Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure ... another chance in life.

He's not the only one who's got people to worry about," Rachel said. "I have a family. Weall do.""Not me," Tobias said softly. He smiled ...

It was another of the Great Bastards: Ser Aegor Rivers, called Bittersteel. Perhaps it was his Bracken blood that made Aegor so choleric and so ...

Let go of the heavy pains of yesterday and you will feel lighter to float on top with your values. Arise and float!

Developing a genius mindset essentially comes down to two things: operating at speed and using the subconscious mind more than the conscious. This intuitive or ...

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive

For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't ...

Be like a river in generosity and giving help. Be like a sun in tenderness and pity. Be like night when covering other's faults. Be ...