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Ian cleared his throat. "Lady Elizabeth." He reached behind him and handed her a single red rose. "A rose... for the bonniest lass who ever ...

It paid barely a living wage, but he stayed with it - gradually and in the end gratefully arriving at the point in life when ...

The instinct of acquisitiveness has more perverts, I believe, than the instinct of sex. At any rate, people seem to me odder about money than ...

To certain temperaments, especially when previously agitated by any deep feeling, there is perhaps nothing more exasperating, andwhich sooner explodes all self-command, than the coarse, ...

We dangle by a flimsy thread,Our little lives are grains of sand:The Cosmos is a tiny sphereHeld in the hollow of God's hand.Give up your ...

...the atmosphere after a March storm is always dour and pessimistic; we get them every year (and two or three in April for good measure, ...

You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying ...

A friend of mine who works for naval intelligence said an aerial satellite revealed that 1.9 million attended the event in 1995. But if they ...

Give your soul to touch their hearts.

According to my parents, I was supposed to have been a nice, churchgoing Swiss housewife. Instead I ended up an opinionated psychiatrist, author and lecturer ...

No matter how rich and prosperous, a nation without independence, cannot be subject to any behaviour before the humanity, at a higher level than serving.

We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.

Don't worry. I have insurance. And battery-operated accessories that don't cheat on me or stalk me. Can't beat that!

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.

How to be happy starts with self love, being proud of who you are and making happiness a daily choice.

People come up to me and say, 'You are such a great bad guy.' The fact is that the antagonist in a movie is usually ...

...trying to think of every good thing he had inside himself that he could transfer into the creature. Things like the wisdom he had gained ...

She is like a meteor shooting off by itself, traveling through space, knowing no bounds, who knows ehere eventually to come to ground, on another ...

I never use the word "cheap." Instead, I say, "more affordable." Never detract from what you can add to in measure!

The headdresses of the Egyptians have great symbolic and emblematic importance, for they represent the auric bodies of the superhuman intelligences, and are used in ...

It's not the money that makes you rich. It's the knowledge that the other person loves you and is always there for you, no matter ...

We wish that we could take magic drugs, play around all day, read, and do nothing strenuous, and be the smartest, happiest people in the ...

Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for communication with the dead, including our dead selves, the ...

Happiness is living by inner purpose, not by outer pressures. Happiness is having a sense of meaning, not a feeling of futility.

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'm afraid you may have to put up with some more," I said, looking at my test tube. A thin line of precipitate had formed ...

I wanted to play the piano, but my fingers weren't long enough, so I took up the guitar.

China not only fights for her own independence, but also for the liberation of every oppressed nation. For us, the Atlantic Charter and President Roosevelt's ...

There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.

I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got ...

Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun.

You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver ...

You now have learned enough to see That Cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed of various types ...

I was too young to be an avid enthusiast for the franchise, but like billions of people I remember as a child sitting around with ...

I'm weird. I'm not too focused on the physicality of a man. They just have to become my best friend, and then I start to ...

I had one of those light bulb 'a ha' moments while screening 'Good Will Hunting' in Camp David in 1998 - Madeleine Albright and the ...

What I always do is just look at the players, look at the best 11 they can put on the pitch.

He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each.

The car bomb is the poor man's air force.

Let us truly be a temple-attending and a temple-loving people ... .Let us make the temple, with temple worship and temple covenants and temple marriage, ...

I'm sort of shy, and Twitter feels like chatting all day with a group. I like to follow people. I'm following Joel Osteen, Steve Martin, ...

The sculptor represents the transition from one pose to another he indicates how insensibly the first glides into the second. In his work we still ...

I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my ...

The name Charlotte was a favorite of bettors, along with Diana and Elizabeth, and the British news media reported that bookmakers could be facing huge ...

Now Malcolm was back again, but he came once too often, and was killed at Alnwick in 1093.

Every time you turn on your new car, you're turning on 20 microprocessors. Every time you use an ATM, you're using a computer. Every time ...

A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.

I was a big TV kid.When I was a kid, I would go home at 3:00 and watch TV straight through to the end of ...

There are conservative values where certain lifestyles are imposed and everybody should have 2.4 children and a dog and a cat and a house and ...

Euripides long ago said, 'who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.' I nominated myself as an 'infidel' as a challenge to thought ...

Do not try to prove that you are the most important person or that you are the lord's anointed

The scientist knows very well that he is approaching ultimate truth only in an asymptotic curve and is barred from ever reaching it; but at ...

Hominids are all the Neanderthals, australopithecines, Homohabili, Homo erecti, etc., the upright-walking apes of which we arethe only surviving species.

No one has the luxury of deciding "when" to travel; you wait prepared to travel whenever the border is open, which could be today, tomorrow ...

Unprovoked attacks on Israel's borders, murdering Israeli soldiers, taking Israeli hostages and showering rockets targeting and killing Israeli civilians are not furthering any legitimate goal.

Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously ... and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.

When he came to, the eels were still being removed from him and Anvar was congratulating one of the rivermen. The man had smashed open ...

When you've lost a loved one, you realise how grateful you are for any help in those moments, and any scheme that tries to help ...

It's very hard to understand what's happening in someone's brain and what goes into their experience and their death, and the music has to say ...

And here we must narrowly watch ourselves, seeing that banquets can scarcely be celebrated blamelessly, for almost always luxury accompanies feasting; and when the body ...

Aimery's cheek seemed to twitch, as though he was on the verge of laughing, yet his voice remained as smooth as caramel when he spoke.

How about," Jane suggested, "some dumb question as to what a refinery does?" "Good idea," fired back Col. "What does a refinery do?" Connie asked. ...

I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have a good, strong ...

Violence is not just an abstract noun.....its a way of life.

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember ...

Here's a woman who had survived the centrifuge, the vomit comet, hard-landing drills and 10k runs. A woman who fixed a simulated MDV computer failure ...

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

The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage.The desire to build a boat is ...

Each human being has been granted a virtue: the capacity to choose. For he who does not use this virtue, it becomes a curse - ...

I look upon Virginia as a rib taken from Britain's side ... While they both proceed as living under the marriage-compact, this Eve might thrive ...

The classic statement on polarization comes from Christ: 'He that is not with me is against me.' (Luke 11:23) He allowed no middle ground to ...

I am a believer in angels, though not the picture-book kind with wings and harps. Such angelic accoutrements seem as nonsensical to me as devils ...

Of course, I don't act in an extreme fashion in my day to day life. I don't think any of us live do. I think ...

We was sneakin' in and it was general admission,Now we ownin' the arena and decidin' who allowed in it.

I don't think even when you find a person, you can be completely honest, ever. There's still pieces of you that you don't give away. ...

Someone is going to figure out how to make this work and when they do, all the anti-gambling, over-regulating authoritarian governments will be exposed as ...

It is said that my art has some typically Nordic features: the curving lines, the convolutions, the magical masks and staring eyes that appear in ...

I admit it: I'm a freak who sits obsessively in front of my computer typing my name into Yahoo Search over and over again. I'm ...

It is hard for me to believe that a human being could have done what I have done." Jeffrey Dahmer

I think a lot of bands go on way past the point where they're relevant. Some of them keep doing it because they're making millions ...

In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.

I enjoy the oohs! and aahs! from the gallery when I hit my drives. But I'm getting pretty tired of the awws! and uhhs! when ...

I don't exactly set out to only play creepy characters, it's just that a lot of those roles come my way.

While a psychiatric diagnosis can serve a purpose in treatment plans, it should not become a tool to discredit a person's disclosure of abuse.

I often wondered how it would be to tramp off into the mountains and keep going until I was exhausted, then simply sink into the ...

Dear God, I surrender this relationship to you," means, "Dear God, let me see this person through your eyes." In accepting the Atonement, we are ...

A smile is nature's freeway: it has lanes, and you can go any speed you like, except you can't go back

I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect. The anything-goes, anarchic ...

Some of the most effective segments are interviews with various staff members, including Aila, who works for the center's legal department. She explains the difficulties ...

O my people, I disavow all that you associate [with God]. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who created the heavens ...

Love is the most powerful healing energy. Everything you do with love spreads healing. So feel it,be it, and spread it.

If there is one lesson I've learned from failure and success, it's this. I am not the outcome. I am never the result. I am ...

There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case.

When death becomes an escape, when it becomes attractive, the purpose of life is fulfilled. To teach one it's futility, it's worthlessness, that is the ...

If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you ...

Doc went automotively groping in this weirdness east on Olympic, trying not to flinch at what came popping up out of the gloom in the ...

She was a Roman Cardinal, chaste, but for the perfect choirboy.

Primitive does not mean stupid.

The kindest way of helping yourself is to find a friend