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I'm not an Adonis, that's for damn sure. I've never really thought of myself that way, and it doesn't matter to me. My favorite actors ...

A mathematician experiments, amasses information, makes a conjecture, finds out that it does not work, gets confused and then tries to recover. A good mathematician ...

Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution, tolerance and moderation, ...

The person who did most to give to analysis the generality and symmetry which are now its pride, was also the person who made mechanics ...

If I could come out in this book and advocate complete revolution and the violent overthrow of the United States of America, without being thrown ...

Learn to recognize true wealth. Money itself will not make you financially free. That comes as a result of only that powerful state of mind ...

There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have ...

It had not had much effect, but that was beside the point. "Love is like a flame; it burns itself out eventually," Sabiha had told ...

I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and at the bottom ...

I can't explain why I think I can get there, when all the odds are against me. But I do. Even when a big part ...

With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is the universal machine ...

She'd make them wish they were never Alison DiLaurentis's friends in the first place. She didn't know how, and she didn't know when, but at ...

The romantic stuff comes a lot easier when you're experiencing true love. It feels better, it feels more natural to record love songs when you're ...

Honor LostAmbulant sunshine piercedthe soot covered glass ~the feeble man wandered byin this ritual morning pass ...

Nothing good was learnt too swiftly. Knowledge should be a purposeful accumulance of observed experience, applied and tested to the full.

Usually I try to suppress any emotions that savor of regret, because they are invariably aperitifs to a main course of depression, and for the ...

History had been man's effort to accomodate himself to what he could not do. Amereican history in the 20th century would, more than ever before, ...

I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely.

Cannes is a sort of gladiators' arena, and that's the fun part of it. When you accept to come here to open the festival, you ...

I'm glad she's not faking affection. It's more honest than what her husband is doing, at least. Dislike is an emotion I can respect.

People think because it's photography it's not worth as much, and because it's a woman artist, you're still not getting as much - there's still ...

Kahlan sighed impatiently. "Richard, you promised Zedd we would go to Aydindril." "I did. But I didn't promise him when.

If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in ...

Sri Krishna says whatever role we have in life, we have to play it to the hilt. We have to take it all the way. ...

It will be politics that determines the material welfare of future generations: the pace at which we advance toward "our destination of economic bliss," andnperhaps, ...

After a world of death, he seemed to apreciate love more.

One of the advantages of reading books is that you get to play with someone else's imaginary friends, at all hours of the night.

He caught her eye. 'And? I'm jealous-minded and I sleep with too many women.'Fire's smile grew. 'Luckily for you, I loved you long before either ...

The indignity of it!-With everything blooming above me,Lilies, pale-pink cyclamen, roses,Whole fields lovely and inviolate,-Me down in the fetor of weeds,Crawling on all fours,Alive, in ...

My answer is yes. Whatever the favor is, my answer is always yes. Whenever you need me, I'm there, Kellan . . . I'm always ...

Anomie is not a danger only for the young; it may surface in what is now conventionally called the "crisis of mid-life" or anywhere else.

My nerves will come when I have to take off my top.

You look beautiful," Alodia says. I startle at the compliment. Then I smile. "I'm beautiful to the one person who matters."She nods. "Hector's mouth is ...

In the beginning, said a Persian poet Allah took a rose, a lily, a dove, a serpent, a little honey, a Dead Sea apple, and ...

A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.

Funny how mishearing things-or not hearing them at all-can really screw things up

At my age, any day above ground and vertical is a good day.

All the doors and all the roads are closed for the cowards!

My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in ...

And it occurred to me; I was not part of the action. Oh God, I thought, I'm not an anthropologist. I'm the lonely voice-over narrator ...

He was just one of those Englishmen who was always saying silly things to sound less pompous, and pompous things to sound less silly.

Germany stands in the fight against terrorism at France's side, united with many, many others. I am convinced that, despite all the difficulties, we shall ...

I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to ...

Struggle is the meaning of life; defeat or victory is in the hands of God. But struggle itself is man's duty and should be his ...

Bottles of wine aren't like paintings. At some point you have to consume them. The object in life is to die with no bottles of ...

Ballroom dancing: it's a wonderful thing at so many levels because you've got to follow the rules. They used to call those rules etiquette once ...

When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.

It is a ridiculous notion to assert that because the United States is on the offense, more people want to hurt us. We are on ...

Can you see the future, Kerbouchard?""Who would wish to? Our lives hold a veil between anticipation and horror. Anticipation is the carrot suspended before the ...

One of the fun things about being an actor is stepping outside yourself and outside of your own experience. It's challenging yourself to totally commit ...

The duty that we owe to the Universe is our religion.

Snowden was horrified to discover that behind bars he would have no access to a computer.

I was 26 when I went to my first acting class. I'm naturally quite shy. I'm a quite private person. There's this really strange acting ...

I love dogs. I absolutely adore them. When I'm teaching in Mexico, I rescue dogs from the streets and make my students adopt them.

The US spends more on energy R&D than all other countries put together, and I personally consider it quite inadequate. In fact, I would have ...

I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of ...

Kanye West talks about being Axl Rose, being Kurt Cobain, being Jim Morrison. Adam Levine is selling acne ointment to teenagers.

Go ahead, work hard and never be afraid to try something. Even if you don't make it, at least you can say you tried.

I get a good shot in maybe I'll know some fuckin' sense into you. Then maybe you'll be thinkin' of Ava when you fuck her, ...

I lay no claim to advancing scientific data other than advancing flying knowledge. I can only say that I do it because I want to.

Make yourself worthy of money and money will make itself worthy of you.

This book is dedicated to everyone who has ever been told they can't. Let's jump off the cliff together.

I started off doing fiction in 1993. It didn't occur to me to do nonfiction because it wasn't a thing yet. So I was bumbling ...

We are not scholars researching an ancient Chinese emperor - a matter of objectivity and disinterestedness; we are sons and daughters who want to get ...

AUGUST PULLMAN'S PRECEPTEveryone deserves a standing ovation because we all overcometh the world. Auggie

Who cares if virtually the entire world views Obama's drone attacks as unjustified and wrong? Who cares if the Muslim world continues to seethe with ...

Every company has room for the man who has a definite plan of action which is to the advantage of that company.

The eternal being ... , as it lives in us, also lives in every animal.

By brain is meant, in the first instance, something more than the pink-grey jelly of the anatomist. It is, even to a scientist, the organ ...

He stares at the them, mid mouthful. 'Please,' he says, after he's swallowed. 'It's bad enough that the middle-aged are having sex, without thinking of ...

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and today -- all without seeing him. It is a long time to be alone; still, it is better to be alone ...

His broken heart was unfeeling, like shattered glass in an acid bath.

The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work ...

If this be the Messiah, then I do not wish to see his coming

They did not hear Grimble, as he lay dying, chant in the true voice of the Boreal Owl, in tones like chimes in the night, ...

You can't sit on two chairs at once.

Laws are the silent assessors of God.

What I have done up to this is nothing. I am only at the beginning of the course I must run. Do you imagine that ...

If you're an alcoholic or a drug addict or something, we flirt with death. We pull ourselves to the brink of destruction and if we're ...

The Rom believe you should take the road that calls to you, and never turn back. Because you never know what adventures await." ... "So ...

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

Sense of pleasure we may wellSpare out of life perhaps, and not repine,But live content, which is the calmest life;But pain is perfect misery, the ...

Does that new man in your life call his ex "a slut", "a whore", "a bitch", "psycho" , "crazy", "a nutter" etc etc. Chances are, ...

Can we talk about the miracle that is the Small World ride? It's like an acid trip drag show.

They are pretty good at improvising, but God help us if they are given time to think. Dean Atchison

Sing, Marie of Arras. Do not forget, Marie of Arras.

You kin tame arything, son, excusin' the human tongue.

All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its ... motivation. Thus vampires spend a lot of time ...

U2 are a great band; they've given us an unbelievable body of work, and all of us musicians owe them at least something. I can ...

It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.

Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, ...

When confronted with the facts of foreign atrocities, the experience is often consigned to the realm of the unimaginable. Fiction makes the unimaginable imaginable.

The vision is for the right time, although it takes time, wait for it , it will come true.

Michigan State already has one of the coolest mascots in college football, but if Sparty ever needs a day off, Javon Ringer could do the ...

God works through people by stirring their hearts and sometimes people never know how they are helping others.

Giving up also takes courage.

I miss Manchester, especially the apple crumble and custard they served at Carrington after training.

I'm scared to death that I'll never be afraid.

Thou shalt not steal unless thou hast a majority vote in Congress ... I'm healthy; subsidized prescription drugs won't do me much good. I'd be ...

The serious thoughts of our short stay here would be a great means of promoting godliness. What if death should come before we are ready? ...