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I pretended I was a Kez colonel pretending to be an Adran colonel," Olem said. "It was disturbingly easy.""They didn't ask for papers or proof?""In ...

It isn't August. The moon is asleep and I'm sitting on my porch roof like a frozen gargoyle, wondering if the sun is going to ...

If there is electricity in every village, people will watch TV till late night and then fall asleep. They won't get a chance to produce ...

Without Ace of Base, I kind of feel Backstreet Boys would have never found their sound.

In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

In studying ourselves, we find the harmony that is our total existence. We do not make harmony. We do not achieve it or gain it. ...

People used to ask me how I got my jollies, and I guess I'm happy when what I'm doing is helping people and unhappy when ...

Some men are wise and some are otherwise.

Egoism [Ahamkar: Aham=I; kar=did] means 'I did'. Where one is not the doer and he says, 'I did'; that is egoism. To do egoism and ...

One day a pickaninny was happy and the next the light was gone from them; in between they had been introduced to a new reality ...

If a lion could speak, we could not understand him.

No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole ...

I want to be born and reborn as a cherry tree so that I may beautify this world with my blossoms, feed everyone with my ...

I'm such a closeted nerd.

Mrs. Nixon and I share the sorrow of millions of Americans at the death of Louis Armstrong. One of the architects of an American art ...

Bad things happen when angry people grieve.

No guy is ever gonna be like, 'Well, I'm not into her because she just doesn't seem into me!' That's never been a complaint for ...

He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.

My fellow citizens, our nation is poised for greatness. We must do what we know is right, and do it with all our might. Let ...

Make each day a beautiful day of your life.

Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!

The birds are the saints, who fly to heaven on the wings of contemplation, who are so removed from the world that they have no ...

The craft's occupants clutched their armrests, and more than one of them closed their eyes. But not Artemis. He couldn't. There was something morbidly fascinating ...

One single great player doesn't make anything for a team; it has to be a team. I think [American] football is the greatest team sport ...

Time is always wanting to me, and I cannot meet with a single day when I am nut hurried along, driven to by wits'-end by ...

One age is like another for the soul.

I take every opportunity I can to speak to librarians.

But she's still afraid that the more she misses himhis face, his skin, the way he looked at herand the more hope she has that ...

Ayer may be considered a practical atheist: one who sees no reason to worship an invisible deity.

Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself. It is beauty that animates aesthetic experience, making it so seductive; but aesthetic ...

The removal of his infected adenoids and tonsils had not cured Keziah's deafness, but had improved it markedly. He

Levin tried to drink a little coffee, and put a piece of roll into his mouth, but his mouth could do nothing with it. He ...

I ran track in high school very competitively, and then ran it D-1 at Boston University. I ran there on an athletic scholarship and chose ...

Where there is no love, put love and you will find love.

My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.

The spring in Boston is like being in love: bad days slip in among the good ones, and the whole world is at a standstill, ...

The Anthropologie brand continues to succeed in emotionally engaging its customers while delivering strong financial results.

We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest antiquity. ...

The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then ...

Any time you can gain clarity and higher meaning, you allow more inner peace and more prosperity.

This sounds fine with me, I like the idea of seeing a shrink once a week as maintenance. It's another chance to talk about myself ...

Gretta sits herself down at the table. Robert has arranged everything she needs: a plate, a knife, a bowl with a spoon, a pat of ...

When interest rates are low we have conditions for asset bubbles to develop, and they are developing at the moment. The ultimate asset bubble is ...

And thus was their burial of Apollo, god of the sun.

Pestsov maintained that art is one, and that it can attai its highest mainfestation only in conjunction with all kinds of art.

She told them simply and directly that the meadow was a place of peace and beauty, where indeed if one came to it in a ...

Until we see the 'this- advantage' in the disadvantage we shall always be looking at the disadvantages in life. life does not present us with ...

I've always thought that one of the least successful encounters is meeting a writer one admires. For one thing, writers are generally much kinder, more ...

Two of my fav pieces of wisdom from Phoebe:- Men are like parking spots. All the good ones are taken, and those that aren't are ...

Giving cancer to laboratory animals has not and will not help us to understand the disease or to treat those persons suffering from it.

Why,' said he, 'does not the emperor, who has devised so many clever and efficient modes of improving the art of war, organize a regiment ...

It is impossible for any culture to be sound and healthy without a proper respect and proper regard for the soil.

The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.

Appreciated. In any case, Satan, the Archdevil and ruler of Hell, looms

The more of me I be,The clearer I can see.

It is not a large exaggeration to say that everything else in a computer exists in order to bring information swiftly to the ALU for ...

In fairy-tales, witches always wear silly black hats and black cloaks, and they ride on broomsticks. But this is not a fairy-tale. This is about ...

I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.

I was so adamant about proving myself for so long and I've gotten to the point where I don't have to do that as much.

Certainly the heart has always something to tell about the future to those who listen to it. But what does the heart know? Scarce a ...

The reactions of the many should not affect the actions of the few.

The truth is I do love you. Admitting that means opening myself up to all that pain when you leave. After you realize this wasn't ...

Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades.

Clarke, define resplendent. I think it's shining, sir. Pithy, Clarke, but adequate. McCourt, give us a sentence with pithy. Clarke is pithy but adequate, sir. ...

Sam Snead was born with a natural ability to keep his bar bills as low as his golf scores.

What I do find surprising is that other people do not think in the same way. I find it hard to imagine a world where ...

Without a plan, even the most brilliant business can get lost. You need to have goals, create milestones and have a strategy in place to ...

I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious.

Sure flattery never traveled so far as three thousand miles; it is now only for truth, which over takes all things, to reach you at ...

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

The wind came up and changed us all..

It can hit at any time [anxiety/panic attack]. You feel like you're in an open field, and there's a tornado coming at you. And you're ...

One of the main reasons America should re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to cooperation. He appointed Republican Secretaries of Defense, the ...

I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.

Never belittle love

As it so happens, I like your mouth.""It doesn't ""Challenge me?" He set the bottle down and moved to the end of the bed. "An ...

The economy has made me think I have no power. That is not true. I control the power to change my future.

Thank you," he whispered. "At least I can know for certain that, for one brief moment of our time together, you and I felt the ...

Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has not ...

I've always worked. I have always been too responsible. But I don't know how to live any other way. I think that this discipline was ...

'Jersey Boys' has been the most amazing experience ever and has exposed an entire new audience to the music. It's great to see people of ...

Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal, intimate, artistic reasons ...

True treasure is inside your heart - it's a soul that is at peace with God. So live your life for God. Not for your ...

Other people sing in the shower, but I don't.

He was a mild man, and gentle and good, and did no justice. [Said of King Stephen, 1135-1154.]

This reminded him of Alvis Bender's contention that stories were like nations - Italy, a great epic poem, Britain, a thick novel, America, a brash ...

A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly.

She asked why I was so black. I asked why she was so white. She said she was born that way. Same here, I replied.

Adults usually think you can only feel real love when you're fifty or something and have lived through a war.

In total, I was diagnosed with depression by eight psychotherapists and psychiatrists over a period of thirteen years. Diagnosed wrong. Absolutely wrong. My accurate diagnosis ...

These composers," Captain Nemo answered me, "are the contemporaries of Orpheus, because in the annals of the dead, all chronological differences fade; and

My dad has given me the best gift anyone has ever given me. He gave me wings to fly.

All the hard times in your life was just preparation to help you appreciate the good times

Focus on your own goals and how to achieve them. No one took your spot, there's room for all of us.

We need a common enemy to unite us.

I am a person. I am Raven Stirling. They are monsters.

It's not that I have no shame. Rather, I'm exhausted with shame, slippery all over with its sticky albumen taint. It is not an emotion ...

Throughout the nation's history, the national destiny of the United States has been understood in antimilitaristic, libertarian terms.

Ah, one doesn't give up one's country any more than one gives UP one's grandmother. They're both antecedent to choice - elements of one's composition ...

We can't rely on others to be our teachers anymorethe future belongs to individuals who decide to become great bosses (and teachers).