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The only relationship where you'll never have your heart broken is the relationship between you and Allah.
I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the ...
Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
Everybody who I play always wants to use me, so I always tell them that I'm the only one who knows how to stop Portis, ...
That knowledge has become the resource, rather than a resource, is what makes our society post-capitalist.
The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or ...
I ordered a hot chocolate and Chandler got a black coffee. He smiled over at me. "Still no love for coffee?"I shook my head. "Nah, ...
An unused conscience is no conscience at all.
Favoriting tweets has become a form of acknowledging that you've read what someone else has written.
When you look back from your Olympic experience, you never want to question whether you could have done more. The one thing you can control ...
Guidebooks used to write the name of my city in two ways: Gjirokaster in Albanian, and Argyrokastron for foreigners. The classical-sounding name somehow gave it ...
The senator was the kind of man who, having expended all his empathetic capital on marrying someone surprising, wanted to make sure no other people ...
I was raised on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Something about this genre - hard-boiled-private-eye-with-heart-of-gold - never failed to take me away from whatever ...
Turned back to the case at hand - a juvenile bear shifter who stood accused of stealing honey from the neighbors' hive - wondering for ...
In silence the three of them looked at the sunset and thought about God.
Everything you want is cheap or free. If you went to a venture capitalist and said: "I need money to buy tools." You flunked the ...
No real fairytale scared me, but Freddy Krueger did. 'Nightmare on Elm Street' scared the living hell out of me, but no fairytale. Maybe 'Hansel ...
He's got a terrible marriage and doesn't want to go home, and don't ask how I know that, everyone knows when you've got a terrible ...
Sayeed was a quiet man - not awkward, as Arbeely could be, but possessed of a calm and steady nature that complemented his wife's heartfelt ...
If you want to be a great writer, you have to be a greed reader.
Everyone moves for reason. You need a reason to leave everything behind.
Meeting obstacles can be a blessing! Just know the lesson and change something with the lessons and you shall see a new lesson with a ...
Rather in a gutter than on a pedestal.
A lot is gained through experience, but experience teaches some and not others. Effectiveness and excellence, whether or not they were attained by simply having ...
I mean, if we're regulating cigarettes and sex and cuss words, because of the effect they have on our younger generation, why aren't we regulating ...
We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.
No, but I've never been one for wise ideas," he says. "I believe in irrational, fleeting decisions that keep life interesting. And life needs to ...
The first step to finding a God-written love story is handing the pen to the true Author of romance.
Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.
My life is never perfect, but life is always a beautiful thing. I choose to see the beauty out of it. I choose to make ...
Needed to get shit-faced and forget everything that had happened.
Who the Hell is Lane? he asked. Unmistakably, it was the question of a still very young man who, now and then, is not inclined ...
Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.
Accept me for who iam or leave me the way iam, for a true image of God needs no Photoshop and the core of who ...
What's interesting to me is that in the late twentieth century it seems that there's scarcely a part of the world that doesn't have some ...
Basher shook his head. "No, we climbed in through a ground-floor guest bedroom all ninja-like. Snuck up the back stairs.""Then you might be the cavalry," ...
The appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony.
Better passion and death than any more of these'isms'. No more of the old purpose done up in aspic. Better passion and death.
Great. First the anonymous call. Now letters. Body parts all over town. It was like a scavenger hunt for psychos. Running after clues with a ...
The door with a little more force than necessary and stepped inside the cool air-conditioned living room, leaving behind the
I love to dance. Don't get me started, because you will never get me to stop.
Everyone goes through all kinds of relationship situations. I'm lucky that I get to be on two comedy shows [during divorce].
In these pages your imaginations, your desires, your passions are given life; Thoughts take shape that turn into dreams and our aspirations all start with ...
Hey," said Jace. who was sitting on an overturned speaker, looking at his cellphone, "do you want to see a photo of Alec and Magnus ...
I got the idea [for Anthem's theme] in my school days, in Soviet Russia, when I heard all the vicious attacks on individualism, and asked ...
How'd you come up with cemetery?" Julian asked Nick."Call it divine inspiration.""Yeah, I'm betting God was invoked a lot last night," JD said under his ...
Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, ...
Does my character hate Bree? Well, let's just put it this way. Bree hasn't seen the last of me. I gave that drunk gal a ...
Lets not push it under the rug, or push it to the side because, no matter what, it's going to keep coming up. You know, ...
Lately, I haph startet painting my torso in pretty, motley hews. I sit in phront oph the mirror in the sleepy-room. I atmire my hantyworg. ...
I'd rather welcome change than cling to the past.
The argument that 'boys will be boys' actually carries the profoundly anti-male implication that we should expect bad behavior from boys and men. The assumption ...
I figure if people don't want to make the distinction between a Muslim and a terrorist, then why should I make a distinction between good ...
I think there's a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or ...
We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes ... The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
To purposely concoct older characters of a sunny disposition would be as much of a solecism as deliberately fabricating arrhythmic blacks, spendthrift Jews, slacker Japanese ...
I know that if I am to move forward like the professional that I am, I must first see the past with mature eyes. And ...
Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt.
Music to me is a voice, my voice, it's my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas ...
What yesterday was still religion is no longer such today; and what today is athesim, tomorrow will be religion.
I'm afraid to look in the mirror. I'm afraid I'm going to see an old lady with white hair, just like the old ladies in ...
When you're in a car which can win every race, or fight for a win every race, that is pressure.
As someone who has faced as much disappointment as most people, I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, ...
We're all just marionettes, Ashline," Eve said softly. "Dangling, dancing, waiting. You can pretend like you pull your own strings, but in the end your ...
Your average chocolate bar now is full of genetically modified sugar, genetically modified soy bean lecithin, and dairy products (super allergenic for kids); not to ...
What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? ...
I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at ...
When I was young, my favorite picture book was 'Fletcher and Zenobia,' written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It's long out of ...
I'm not at all interested in the brave who fight against the odds and win. I am interested in those who accept their lot, as ...
With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.
Even a moderniser like Alexander II - who emancipated the serfs in 1861 - had no intention of devolving real power.
You'd think the Angel would have been foresighted enough to give us a birth-control rune, but no dice.
And remember it takes great courage and heart for a man who knows no kindness to show it to another. Even the wildest of beasts ...
I'm not just a college professor. I'm the head of a department. I don't see myself fleeing an airborne toxic event. That's for people who ...
My first glimpse of the Adelaide Oval was given through the Victor Richardson Gates and up the ramp, and there it spread out before me, ...
I am so tired of waiting.Aren't you,for the world to become goodand beautiful and kind?Let us take a knifeand cut the world in two and ...
The poverty line is like the age of consent: if you find yourself parsing exactly where it is, you've probably already done something very, very ...
You can either let it wreck you, let it get you killed like it nearly did with the Weaver, or you can learn to live ...
Heart disease is not a Lipitor, Crestor or even an "anacetrapib" deficiency. It is a complex end result of multiple factors driven by our diet, ...
In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and infrastructure, on its ...
Aerotechnik Super Vivat Icarus motorgliders had an enormous wingspan and looked like a typical side-by-side pilot/passenger configuration sailplane that had been crossed with a small ...
Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, ...
I went to University of Illinois. Big school. 35,000 students. 800 black ... I was the only black in every class. Hard to be absent.
Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
Everyone's mind wanders, without doubt, and we always have to start over. Everyone resists or dislikes the thought of or is too tired to meditate ...
It's the unknown that I fear, the bites of memories that still have no connections.
Always one to accept a compliment graciously, Wright.
Through the window a broken fingernail of moon was visible.
But how can psychotherapists purport to dispel the illusions of their clients while protecting and maintaining their own? Furthermore, a therapist's belief in and commitment ...
Its form doesn't matter: no form manages to circumscribe and alter it. Mirror is light. A tiny piece of mirror is always the whole mirror.
To make a name in the language of the Bible is to construct an identity for ourselves. We either get our name - our defining ...
We must not confide in the armour of God, but in the God of this armour, because all our weapons are only mighty through God.
These steel monstrosities screamed night and day, blotted out the starlit skies and Northern Lights with flashing red strobes, slaughtered thousands of bats and entire ...
Nothing else can fill better colors in one's life like the magnificent nature does
I think," said antonio , "that the world is astage. Everybody has a part to play , and my part is sad part .
There are anthropogenic state risks at the existential level as well: the longer we live in an internationally anarchic system, the greater the cumulative chance ...
Aggressiveness was a fundamental to success in airtoair combat and if you ever caught a fighter pilot in a defensive mood you had him licked ...
Sober alkies are often asked: When did you hit rock bottom? but a more informed question might be: How many times did you hit rock ...
No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin ...
All that could run or leap or swimWhether in wood, water or cloud,Acclaiming, proclaiming, declaiming Him.