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Styles be fat like Jackie Gleason, the rest be Art Carney.
I will journey to the black heart of a corrupt empire to root out my foes. But Rome wasn't built in a day and it ...
Objectivity is the subject subjugating the object. That is how you assert yourself. You make yourself the active voice and the object is the passive ...
A man who cooks is very sexy. A woman who cooks is not that sexy. Because it's associated in our mind to the domestic cliche ...
It's hard ... to shake off something that's already under your skin,
All beasts of prey are strong or treacherous.
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
Taking Flora to his room, rather than any other, amounted to a public declaration of his intentions. She was his, and he was saying as ...
He is a songwriter Composing notes that hold together eternity
Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant ...
Never make a person feel, that he/she is very (extra) special.. Cause, then that person starts feeling that 'You' are not worth him/her.
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
Attitude determines your altitude, if you have a bad attitude, even if you are way up there, you will come crashing down, and if you ...
Some of the best things about being a vegetarian include, of course, contributing towards the welfare of animals. Being a vegetarian can also make you ...
One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful as a gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me; ...
Twice damned, in truth, and yet by quirk of timing and fate accepted into that society denied to so many others.
This woman's size protected herfrom the hurts of the worldbut it also imprisoned her soul. As the merry-go-round revolved, she ate another French fry,as a ...
A big fat zoo of snorers is snoring in all different rhythms
How sweet the harmonies of the afternoon!The Blackbird sings along the sunny breezeHis ancient song of leaves, and summer boon;Rich breath of hayfields streams thro' ...
As a boy, I had two small aquaria in our backyard in which I watched, each spring, the nest building and other fascinating behaviours of ...
I do not want art for a few; any more than education for a few; or freedom for a few ...
Jackson and I spent the day together, just me and him and his children. Little underlings came and went. The PR person came and went. ...
'VERY WELL,' I SAID ANGRILY, 'START THE MAN, AND I'LL START THE SAME DAY FOR SOME OTHER NEWSPAPER AND BEAT HIM.'
Organizations worried about the potential for e-voting problems have long-advocated for audit procedures by which votes cast by e-voting machines could be verified through audit ...
He wanted to hurt his wife for what happened. Punish her. Hurt her badly.Why not? his daughter was dead.
We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.
Wow," Jake said, his face going blank. "Assface. Is that a technical term? Maybe some kind of psychiatric diagnosis I'm not familiar with?
A girl never forgets two things: the day she started her period for the first time, and the day she met the love of her ...
After two decades there she was, in front of him, almost within touching distance, not faded like in his dreams, but bright and clear and ...
And I really wanted to see you, too," she said. "When I couldn't see you any more, I realized that. It was as clear as ...
To paraphrase Woody Allen in Annie Hall, love was too weak a word for what I felt for that tiny crying creature who had my ...
Carried on the brisk winds of faith, guided by devotion, navigated by love, it arrived fresh and bright at the very feet of the Archangel ...
Did you know that writing stories down kills them?Of course it does, words aren't meant to be stiff, unchanging things.
Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God.
The city of Rome is called the "city of seven hills" and the Vatican is located within its confinement. These are the hills: Palatine, Capitoline, ...
Facilis descensus averno - The descent into hell is easy
Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the ...
Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that.
She knew nothing of the massacre that went on around her, but when she released the wail of a broken hearted mother, one man heard ...
A strong man does not need a silent wife.
[B]y far the larger number of the dreams ... occurred towards dawn; sometimes even, after sunrise, during a "second sleep." A condition of fasting, united, ...
APOPHTHEGM (A'POPHTHEGM) n.s. remarkable saying; a valuable maxim uttered on some sudden occasion. ...
It was as if nothing quite erased the initial shock of being kissed by someone who was not hers, a kiss that was stolen, claimed ...
World barista champions use the AeroPress to make coffee on the folding tray tables of airplanes.
That was how the tears went down Cherry's face ... a teaspoon full of ten years' sorrow.
People shouldn't analyze their passions. They should just live.
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Loveis giving everything too easilythen staying to try and claw it back
Believe fuels unending blessings.
People who take risks like Amy Winehouse and Norah Jones take a second to catch on, but eventually they do because they're different and honest ...
She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf would fall and drift down and touch her skin, and it ...
I love leather and it's great to be a bad girl at times. But there is a time and place for everything. When I'm with ...
You are alone my evil and my good With you I have everything - without you nothing
If Obama was white, he'd be up by 17 points.
It's simple, really," Alaric Wulf said. " Lucien Antonescu is the prince of darkness." Jon nodded. "Yeah," he said. "We know. He's got a castle ...
At ground level Alexanderplatz is a monstrous expanse of grey concrete designed to make people feel small. It works.
And, anyway it's not always about fitting in.""It's not?""Nope. Sometimes, it's about reading your environment real quick, and then finding the bits that fit you.
The government cannot put a chocolate on every one of their pillows and tuck them in at night.
To focus on the objective price rather than on the subjective experience of consuming the good itself stabilizes my behvaior toward it.
Speaking success into existence is the prerequisite for achieveing any goal in life.
Just because people tell you it can't be done, that doesn't necessarily mean that it can't be done. It just means that they can't do ...
It was so surreal. We're on the road and a split second-BAM-we jump a median-BAM-we jump a curb.And then there was this house.And these sounds.Splintered ...
Your good friends can write a book on you; but Your best friends can create an embarrassing full fledged 3 hours movie on you, with ...
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
If someone would have talked in school about safe touch and unsafe touch, I believe I would have spoken up as a child and not ...
Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
When I find something at a flea market or an antique store, it feels more special and I'm more inclined to want to wear it.
We study the past ecological history, with the conscience of the present ecological conditions. The key to predict future aquatic ecosystem changes.
Greatness and Truth can never be in danger from these murdering wretches. To perform one's duty, be it now, be it clean, and be it ...
War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that ...
That's something that drives me crazy. When people say something twice that way, after you admit it the first time.
I've always been a sucker for a dog called an Alaskan Malamute. It's like a little husky ... my dad had one when he was ...
Since I was a kid, I've never found joy in living. I've always struggled just to feel okay. Everything was a fight against darkness.
Love is only thing that can make it and break it any thing..in this world..
No accident of environment or circumstance need cut us off from nature ... It does not matter how shut in we are. Opportunity for wide ...
Men sholde nat knowe of Goddes pryvetee Ye, blessed be alwey, a lewed man That noght but oonly his believe kan! So ferde another clerk ...
I have a series of exercises in which I do a lot of core. I enjoy an ab workout. I practice every day and do ...
Middle-age should be shot. Things about it gall me. First, that those younger despise the thought of getting old, and, hence, me. Second, that those ...
Who looks in the sun will see no light else; but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but the centre is ...
If you ask someone out and they say no, try it again in a few minutes wearing sunglasses and smoking a cigarette.
You don't want to be the smartest person in the room; you want to be the dumbest in the room. You want to be surrounded ...
Avacados, prickly pears and papayas used to be gulped down whole, seeds and all, by fridge-sized armadillos called glyptodonts.
The Ainu youth came upon a band of Ainu hunters passing through the area. "What is this area called?" he asked them."Do you really think ...
We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is aparticipatory universe.
Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.
The technique of tredding the success path is making a single step, and if you are kinda afraid to throw the second leg, hire divinity ...
If you give a good thing to the world, then over time your karma will be good, and you'll receive good.
Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Apparently they're going to bring in Super Asbos. But Asbos already sound too cool. Teenagers see them as a badge of honour. They should call ...
When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.
Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.
If you give a good thing to the world, then over time your karma will be good, and you'll receive good.
All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition ...
When Aquatics are overwhelmed, they seek out the tallest object in view, lie on their backs, put their heads against it and look up. The ...
'The Irish Duke' is a sequel to 'The Decadent Duke' about Lady Georgina Gordon who married the Duke of Bedford. 'The Irish Duke' tells the ...
He was arguably the best-qualified FBI director since J. Edgar Hoover; he thought Clinton was the most talented politician since Richard Nixon. That made their ...
China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.
And if you insist on continuing to make assumptions about my character, I'll advise you only this: assume you will always be wrong.
It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly when ...
We bwlive that feminism is a transformative philosophy that embraces the amelioration of life on earth for all life-forms, for all natural entities