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Smack me if we ever get that awful.""But I smack you so often," she said, "how will you know that's what I'm smacking you for?""We ...

It's very different. You do so many things in this play. You can't just focus on acting or singing. You have to be good at ...

When put in a room with both parents, would almost always embrace the abuser.

Even the Quran, which Sufis respect as the direct speech of God, lacks the capacity to shed light upon God's essence. As one Sufi master ...

Certainly we have to find some kind of warning to put on guns for sale. And that's not too far-fetched. But what I really want ...

Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that ...

I am blessed to live and work in [France,] a country where women filmmakers are by and large not unfairly treated. So I wouldn't have ...

Time and space are but physiological colors which the eye makes, but the soul is light; where it is, is day; where it was, is ...

In sum, what have we learned? First: grit, talent, and all other psychological traits relevant to success in life are influenced by genes and also ...

Often, what makes my job so exciting is designing for the mother whose dream has been to wear one of my hats at her child's ...

The young man called the waiter and paid. Then he got up and said to the girl: 'We're going.'Where to?' The girl feigned surprise.Don't ask, ...

My mind wanders a lot, but fortunately it's too weak to go very far.

Foresight is the cause of Europe's present wars. If one would take pains to forsee nothing, the whole world would be tranquil, and I do ...

AKHLYS LUNGED AT PERCY, and for a split second he thought: Well, hey, I'm just smoke. She can't touch me, right? He imagined the Fates ...

Each time that we respond unmercifully, our malevolence reveals our lack of faith. If we believe that Jesus will set all things right in the ...

He had a simple maxim for all competitive or adversarial situations: work out what the other party least wants you to do, and then do ...

We prove God by showing active faith, which puts to flight all adverse appearances

I don't want to intimidate people. There's nothing bullyish about me, you know. If there's anybody who's anti-bully, it's me.

The thing about 'Watchmen' that people should know is that when it came out there was absolutely nothing like it. Up until then, comics were ...

I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

The greatest failure in life is the failure to participate in life.

Look at me, here I am. Hitler is nothing but ashes.

So the cold barracks were spared, lonely as they were, and the armories were unscathed, empty as they were, and the larders went unmolested, depleted ...

One thing I have seen, regardless of the method of aprehenesion of the dimensional plane one is in, is self-giving and how effective it is.

I have six brothers, and in the past I've done quite a few girlie films, like 'Wild Child' and 'Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging' - ...

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such ...

Whenever I have a bad performance, I look at it as a learning experience.

Let no man dare, when I am dead. to charge me with dishonor; let no man attaint my memory by believing that I could have ...

Sometimes go around with guys who are scuffling for awhile. But usually they end up marrying some cat with a factory. This is the way ...

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something ...

In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful ...

The purpose of our book,

Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here, and the city, ...

Growing up around Amish farmland, I enjoyed the opportunity to witness firsthand their love of family, of the domestic arts - sewing, quilting, cooking, baking ...

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds:And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleasedWith melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave;Some chord ...

Like any great art, the culture of hip-hop has changed with the times. With the state of technology, music is more accessible and freely exchanged. ...

It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to ...

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery

Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.

If you're a guy who's always been the fun-to-be-around teddy bear, then all of a sudden people are viewing you as sexy, it's nice. It's ...

As a matter of fact I presume I gave little attention to seeking an excuse, for I love a good fight too well to need ...

For my sustenance at night,the whole that my hands can gleanfrom the gloom of the oak-gloomed oaksthe herbs and the plenteous fruits ...

Stepping into the smell of a long-abandoned aple crop, Cameron called towards the house, hoping to catch his mother's attention in the window where she ...

Last week John McCain said the fundamentals of our economy are strong. This week, he said it's the worst crisis since World War II. So ...

I would say I don't like people who are really into themselves or are very materialistic. Just always talking themselves up. Not being real is ...

Omnipotence convinces one that all his decisions are infallible. Can you aid a fallen God now that he sees the error of his ways?

Hey maybe you have Alice in Wonderland Syndrome!

Not really. It's called OCD and - 'Yes, yes, so my psychiatrist tells me.''You have a shrink?''Apparently, I have some repressed anger and unresolved abandonment ...

Dance is not an exercise. Dance is an art.

Life is too damn short to not tell someone how you feel. Don't let someone because you're afraid or you'll lose them forever.

Our supremacy on Caladan," the Duke said, "depended on sea and air power. Here, we must develop something I choose to call desert power. This

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

First they applaud you. Now you have become VICTIM. Just to get their applause, you will lie more and more. You will start fulfilling their ...

With you, I want it all. If I get a taste of what it could be, I won't ever want to let it go. I ...

'Animal Kingdom' was an amalgam of two people that I had met-slash-known, not particularly well. They were both very, very scary people for very different ...

So rest a while, we can talk in the cool of the evening. Or the cool of the morning. There 's seldom as much hurry ...

Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.

In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above ...

The right to know is the right to live.

I like photography as a recording device. It's the best possible two-dimensional representation of 3D living things that we have.

Green Lantern: "What are your powers anyway? You can't fly."Batman: "No."Green Lantern: "Super-strength?"Batman: "No."Green Lantern: "Hold on a second ... You're not just some guy ...

Had Dr. Seuss been a slightly insane pornographer, he might have written a book like this.--reviewing Nicholson Baker's House of Holes

Behavioral economics tells us that people often focus too much on the wrong things, and tend to focus on aspects of the job that are ...

There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.

People ask me if my shoes were too small when I was a kid and I say it wouldn't matter how fight my shoes were, ...

Lilac won't talk to me again. There's a tremor. Lilac won't kiss me again. I won't hear her laugh. My lungs constrict. Why am I ...

The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.

From one small spark a bushfire grows.Sellers of misery are our foes.Merging ruthlessly tongues of flame.Point your finger at those to blame.

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, ...

Breast cancer is being detected at an earlier, more treatable stage these days, largely because women are taking more preventive measures, like self-exams and regular ...

Atlee is a very modest man. And with reason.

You don't return your phone calls." The vampire leaned forward, tapping my doodle with a scimitar claw. "Is that a lion with horns and a ...

Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.

The best way to get over a dog's death is to get another soon.

As they say on my own Cape Cod, a rising tide lifts all the boats. And a partnership, by definition, serves both partners, without domination ...

Let me out Aphador.' Penteluck said smoothly.'So you can attempt to run away, I think not.

I'm more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what's going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities.

We'll never Walk Alone.

Jesus Christ knew the only way He would stop Satan is by becoming one in nature with him ... He became one with the nature ...

I've seen a baby born. And, ahem, I know what made it. But I'm not telling, you'd never believe me.

If Luce had to rank the worst moments of his existence, Abaddon's betrayal would be up there with the day he was cast into the ...

I don't distinguish between magic and art. When I got into magic, I realised I had been doing it all along, ever since I wrote ...

There were times when depression, anxiety, whatever, would keep me from writing. I still get depressed and anxious, but I just don't let it stop ...

Vengeance cannot abide the agony of grace.

Death's brother, sleep.

She has no past, no future. She exists purely in the moment. Drunk

Prayer is the only way to amend your life: and without prayer, it will never be mended.

I have spent my spare time studying literature popular with young women of this planet. One should always study the battlefield."Sean glanced at him. "And?""I ...

In its heart, America knew that racial segregation was wrong. In its heart, America knows that human life begins before birth.

To avoide the tediouse repetition of these woordes: is equalle to: I will settle as I doe often in woorke use, a paire of paralleles, ...

A man and his dog is a sacred relationship. What nature hath put together let no woman put asunder.

In terms of the secrets that imbue and underlie 'Fall on Your Knees', they were as much of a mystery to me as I was ...

I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail, poisoned in the bushes,blown out on the trail; hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the ...

An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home.[Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.]

Aitisi nai poroja," replied Veikko, a pleasantry long grown routine, meaning, "Your mother fucks reindeer.

That is what the opposites do, cross the swords invariably and unknowingly.

Everybody is clever, just in their own ways

I think Atom Heart Mother was a good thing to have attempted, but I don't really think the attempt comes off that well.

I will lay my bones by the Ganges that India might know there is one who cares.