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I have two teenage sons, and they're both surviving, thriving, and having a great time, and they're always on social media.

Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.

Strange, isn't it, that it's always more difficult to talk people out of killing each other than into it?

Cooking and eating food outdoors makes it taste infinitely better than the same meal prepared and consumed indoors.

You think? I snapped, jumping when Newt slammed a side kick into the barrier, her robes swirling dramatically. Great, she knew martial arts on top ...

I just don't think I'm a very good singer.

It is not by sin that we attain happiness, nor is it by virtue, nor is it by that kind of divine fire by which ...

Are we still friends? Can we be? Now?

Love pats are soft punches of encouragement that are admistered on the knee, shoulder, and arm.

From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular condition it will ...

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

The laws I love; the lawyers I suspect.

The children's happy cries rise and fall in the evening light as imperfect and irrevocable as the past, and he stands in the yard of ...

Hip-hop, which is my generation's blues, is important to the characters that I write about. They use hip-hop to understand the world through language.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he ...

I played Jonathan Livingston Seagull in a musical version of 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull' in Austin, TX. It was pretty special.

After-sales service is more important than assistance before sales. It is through such service that one gets permanent customers.

Xander and Ethan are sex gods ALL THE WAY. - Nonna8359

Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces.

It would take little more than $50 billion to raise every poor person above the official poverty line, yet the percentage of the population classified ...

The villains are all parts of me. For years I've been wondering what it would be like if all those negative elements were forced onto ...

Looked like he truly believed they could pull off an amicable breakup, remain friends, and still live under the same roof. Clearly, testosterone made men ...

Julie Christie was absolutely amazing in Away From Her. Brilliant movie. It was the moving story of a woman who forgets her own husband. Hillary ...

If you want to give the devil a message, write it on the bottom of your shoes.

Making someone happy is perhaps the humblest way of approaching happiness.

Monday 29 January 1821 [Halifax]I love and only love the fairer sex and thus beloved by them in turn, my heart revolts from any love ...

Knowing that there is no future that is possible or desirable, I experience the solace one feels on going back to sleep when the alarm ...

If life is a game, then the people who play in center with their own style only make the real name; but for others the ...

Life is a long road with lots of junctions and every time you chose to go one way, you may just have easily have gone ...

Kaname: Ichijou ... about Aido ... Ichijou: Hmmm?Kaname: He's beginning to get on my nerves ... Ichijou: Well, he's in love with you.

There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.

I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time build ...

I thought the fart was a human thing. It's something to do with like, arse cheeks, or whatever.

Aggies have a really interesting way of admitting defeat. We've never been outscored. We just ran out of time.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

There are a lot of people for whom psychedelics have been really beneficial. But I wouldn't recommend it to everyone. Some are just not ready ...

Oliver's expression darkened. "I know what you are," he said, pointing at Ewan accusingly. "Since when are you a homophobe," said Ewan. "What?" Oliver asked. ...

AnatasiaYou Are My More My Love, My LifeChristian

Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with ...

Every once in awhile you find a novel so magical that there is no escaping its spell. The Night Circus is one of these rarities ...

He went out of the compartment and returned a few moments later with a small spirit stove and a pair of curling tongs. "I use ...

I actually remember my grandfather better as a woman than as a man.

I'm not only a fan of Apple products, I have stock in the company. I think Steve Jobs has started one of the greatest corporations ...

They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies ... the medium doesn't ...

Hate is like a swordfish, working through water invisibly and then you see it coming with blood along its blade, but transparency disarms it.

What I say goes. I'm hitting shots that I want to hit. I'm doing the things that I want to do. I play it my ...

I had one really memorable line. It was all the words you're not allowed to say on the airwaves, so it's one long list of ...

New England has two factors to get them ready to play. They've consistently been, if not the best, the second best team all year and ...

Adina appealed to the sky. "We asked for rescue and you sent us incompetent rockstar pirates with a broken ship and perfect abs?""Thank you, God," ...

Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education ...

We're always pitching ideas and being told "no thank you." No offense taken, because I would so much rather be told the truth that they're ...

Whoa! If I'm gonna be a doorman, I gonna be the mos sabotagin doorman ever guarded a plantation. Ooo-wee. The cotton fiel be burn to ...

The more she thought about it, the more she realised both sides had lost an important alternate perspective. And maybe that was what she'd been ...

You will be able to say you have done your best at selling when you satisfy your customers' needs on a steady and consistent basis. ...

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.

It's not hard to get a girl if I wanted one. But it doesn't mean you want it, and even if you did, you're certainly ...

Antiliberals endlessly berate their enemies for "instrumental thinking." But they do not clearly explain the evil of producing better goods at a lower cost.

I don't want to be in some relationship that's just about trading apologies when things get hard. Doing that won't make it all OK, you ...

A kind heart is like a slow poison for a warrior.

I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.

Solitude is a gift you give yourself every day.

Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.

It is always imagined before it is lived. In the world of thought, imaginations are lives, but people kill them before they grow to have ...

I knew they would kill him, or try any way to hurt me or make me upset, so I just was standing there trying my ...

You only break out the good stuff when you want something. Usually something that includes blood, death, and/or mayhem.

Accepting what others see as your strengths is crucial to your continued growth. Compliments are a gift. They are an opportunity for you and another ...

How to make spiced rum. Place rum, allspice, cloves, cardamom, star anise, cinnamon, nutmeg, orange peel, and one vanilla bean - split lengthwise - in ...

Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles

I've gone through a really hard divorce, and anyone who has gone through a divorce will speak about how hard the journey is from start ...

You can't worry if it's cold; you can't worry if it's hot; you only worry if you get sick. Because then if you don't get ...

Having a baby is different from all the ordinary ways of being hurt. it's worth it all. Other pain isn't worth anything, but that is.

To wear the arctic fox you have to kill it.

If it's time to party, it's time for hip hop. I love Drake, Jay-Z, Kanye. If I'm chilling at home though, I'm listening to Massive ...

The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. that ...

Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What ...

When we hear some beautiful piece of Mozart or admire a wonderful building, we suddenly become present in ourselves. That's unusual nowadays because dishevelment and ...

Syn grunted and pushed his ass back for more. Furi knew the man was thriving under his words of praise. Syn was that type of ...

If it is a woman's function to give, she must be replenished, too.

That is what true love is. True love is saying to someone "Forget about us. We will be okay," when it might not even be ...

Failure is an event, it is not a person.

In Russia, if a male athelete loses he becomes a female athelete.

The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful nostalgia.

Think of your mind, your emotions, and your spirit as the ultimate garden. The way to ensure a bountiful, nourishing harvest is to plant seeds ...

Somewhere down the line, I realised that dairy products were giving me acidity, so now I am a vegan.

End of the sixties, Keith Blazey interested me to work on GdAlO3, an antiferromagnet on which he had done optic experiments. This started a fruitful ...

Stud males might be emotional, temperamental, and developmentally stunted, at the mercy of their androgens, but that didn't make them incapable of generosity, friendship, cleverness, ...

If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with

The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, ...

Hold the freaking phone! I am clearly missing something here, Lori said, still holding a confused expression.

You didn't have to tie us up!" Shay shrugged the frayed ropes off."Yes, we did!" Adne's hands were on her hips. "You would have torn ...

Mission 31 pays homage to my grandfather's work and all aquanauts who have since followed his lead in the name of ocean exploration.

It stems from my Australianisms and belief that everyone is a fundamental cog in the wheel.

Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?

Rules are for the stupid, the clueless, those who cannot be trusted to do the right thing.

That man is my Arthur, a great warlord and a hero who fought against impossible odds to such effect that even fifteen hundred years later ...

A woman in her glory, a woman of beauty, is a woman who is not striving to become beautiful or worthy or enough. She knows ...

Then I reminded myself that I was always willing to listen to arguments in favor of avoiding an unpleasant chore, and I shook my head.

I don't believe you can reduce the world to a mathematical formula. I start with the world, assume it's complicated, and ask where can I ...

In love one had need of being believed, in friendship of being understood.

16. aHonour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may ...