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To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.

Give a drink of water as alms to the birds which go forth at morning, and deem that they have a better right than men ...

Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped ...

Marvelous," she said. "Tell me about this tapestry."Arachne's lips curled over her mandibles. "Why do you care? You're about to die.""Well, yes," Annabeth said. "But ...

Alp Arslan: "What would you do if I was brought before you as a prisoner?"Romanos: "Perhaps I'd kill you, or exhibit you in the streets ...

Till tomorrow good sir one must but gaze at stars

New Jersey Mayor Corey Booker last night personally rescued a woman from a burning building. Or as Fox News reported it, 'black man loots house, ...

I'm a John Denver freak, and I don't give a sh*t that he looks like a f***ing turkey.

The left-wing, which consists of armoured and motorized forces and has no enemy in front of it, will be stopped dead in its tracks upon ...

I'd rather fight Arona cause I don't know him and he's in the ******* video game and I'm not.

You're the one who made the bargain with Apollymis that I have to live with. Personally, it irks the shit out of me to be ...

Politicians cannot create jobs or wealth. Such is axiomatic to straight thinkers.

People often confuse leadership with managerial skills.

Who among us is not ever-changing? Ever evolving into someone new? Maybe someone better ... or someone worse.

You keep doing that, and you'll find yourself mated quick enough.""It's no' for me. I'm perfectly content just as I am."Ryder made a face. "Are ...

Nosegays! leave them for the waking,Throw them earthward where they grewDim are such, beside the breakingAmaranths he looks unto.Folded eyes see brighter colors than the ...

I had no right to be in love. I had nothing to offer her. But reason drowned in the beat of my heart, and I ...

He who does not attempt to make peace / When small discords arise, / Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey / ...

President George Bush declared a National Day of Prayer for Peace. This was after he had carefully arranged and started the war.

I think they look like little pieces of green confetti decorating the grey cement walk and that seems all wrong.

Especially once those poetry events began, because, yeah, the stuff was still on the page, but the page was starting to spill into real space, ...

Plague in the city, Master Azereos, the Counsels

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

You astound me, Ava. I've never met a girl who would order what you just did in front of a guy.""You mean lunch?

But it was difficult to remain faithful when all about you was blackness and exertion.

Asexual, aseasonal, rectangular, slick palette of blacks, touches of pure grays and intense dark blues.

The Rising is not what you imagine, it's not Aberations and Anomalies and rebels and rougues running free. It's a structure. A system.

Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as ...

I don't feel alone with you. I feel like I have a family and a home again. You're my home. All of the dark shadows ...

We went to high school together; he was a year older than me. I remember him there ... he was very tall and skinny, wore ...

It's typical of record companies. They sign you because you're unique, and then they want to put you in a mold so they can sell ...

I've done a lot of Fox shows since then - Married with Children, Living Single and a whole bunch of other Fox things.

Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.

Ever helped a Magician before? No? Well, you're not helping one now, either!

Above me, wind does its bestto blow leaves offthe aspen tree a month too soon.No use wind. All you succeedin doing is making music, the ...

I'm extraordinarily passionate about the idea of asteroid mining in the future. Asteroids out there, we know them from those that have fallen on the ...

For a long time I've wanted to apologize for my behavior that year, but I'm not sure how or even if it would be sincere. ...

You're the most annoying girl on the planet. You make me want to throw myself off a bridge. And, unfortunately, I am one hundred percent, ...

I don't like Paradise,As they probably don't have obsessions there.

I'm used to a very busy schedule. Right now it revolves around training and preparing for Nationals in January. I'm usually at the rink from ...

I believe the best influence you can have is not by being preachy, but by trying to live. For example, knowing you're not perfect, but ...

It's no use analyzing your life the whole time. Those analyses won't help you when you're dead

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's ...

There's no eye shadow so i just smear a tiny bit of the mascara around my eyes for that sultry emphasis

I believe in the support of the public school as one of the cornerstones of American liberty. I believe in the right of every parent ...

While travelling near Tampa, Florida I passed the "Jehovah's Witness Assembly Hall" and was struck by the fact that that must be where they make ...

Since I'm not dead yet I can talk back.

You're supposed to say, 'All I want is your happiness. I'll do whatever it takes, even if it means being without you.'""Sorry," Noah said. "I'm ...

The affair between Margot Asquinth and Margot Asquinth will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.

For when the One Great Scorer comesTo mark against your name,He writes - not that you won or lost -But HOW you played the Game.Alumnus ...

President Obama spent Election Day away from any press coverage, attending closed-door meetings inside the White House. But on the bright side, it is nice ...

Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, 'Children's Letters to God.' You can open it anywhere. One I read recently said, 'Dear ...

I've got a quick mouth, and I set my boundaries. Nothing ever happened that I couldn't handle. Once when a guy came on stage making ...

The president [Barack Obama] is not willing to send in apaches and spotters if the Iraqis say they don't want them and if it means ...

Don't approach a dragon from the front, a jakkar from the back or a norn from any side. Annuan saying.

Fear is the worst kind of grave, because it buries one alive.

I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.

There are four kinds of people to avoid in the world: the assholes, the asswipes, the ass-kissers, and those that just will shit all over ...

The lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and the steed wishes to plough.[Lat., Optat ephippia bos piger, optat arare caballus.]

No matter the circumstances, I encourage you to go forward with faith and prayer, calling on the Lord. You may not receive any direct revelation. ...

Religion is caught, not taught.

You can't tell how much spirit a team has until it starts losing.

My future was mapped in negatives. Next year, I could be anywhere but here.

There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it." He shifted slightly in the ...

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when ...

It doesn't really matter what "genre" your book is. What matters is that it's a good book of its kind. Whatever that kind may be.

What's the best part of acting? It's the indescribable feeling of being someone you are and someone your not, all at the same time. Acting ...

Never play a blame game. Your feet are aching because you put them into a tight shoe ... Nobody has it on; it's you who ...

Screw you in the ass with an anglepoise lamp,

A large praying mantis was performing ablutions on the springy stem of the kid's cowlick. The gunslinger snorted laughter-the first in gods knew how long-and ...

Match me such marvel, save in Eastern clime, A rose-red city'half as old asTime'!

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

When people talk about the stuff of mine that's frightened them onscreen, they're apt to mention Pennywise the Clown first, then Kathy Bates as Annie ...

The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do ...

Sometimes the only option is to raise the stakes, to throw yourself the other way, to force your opponent further down the path they've chosen, ...

I write in praise of the solitary act: of not feeling a trespassing tongue forced into one's mouth, one's breath smothered, nipples crushed against the ...

The natural principle of sowing and reaping is always at work. Whatever you plant , whether physical, spiritual, mental, financial, relational, or emotional, will grow ...

If someone tied me down and made me answer the question, singer, actress, clothing designer, I most likely - it could change on any given ...

It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue.

It is miserably clear that the video has been shot by a third conspirator who is burdened with a consumer-grade camcorder and reeling from some ...

Antony said to Poemen, 'Our great work is to lay the blame for our sins upon ourselves before God, and to expect to be tempted ...

There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and sprig of genius ...

The Saint is a medicine because he is an antidote. Indeed that is why the saint is often a martyr; he is mistaken for a ...

Per ardua ad astra. Through adversity to the stars.

I have to give birth to be a good Ameican? No. There are more than four million babies born in this country every year. The ...

When I wanted information, it was silent; when I didn't want to hear from it, it got chatty. It was alost as irritating as Fang.

I don't want little girls to have the same ambitions as me. But I want them to know that it's okay to be ambitious.

I think in life there is only one absolute truth. Death ... It's the only definitive horizon, sometime it leaps, runs across mountains and vanishes ...

People told me I'd have to deal more with losing at this level. I understood that, but I didn't want to start accepting losses.

In all the woes that curse our race there is a lady in the case.

We feel confident that, were Apple and Adobe to work together as we are with a number of other partners, we could provide a terrific ...

Copp's Hill Burying Ground, which could not be many blocks away from this very house, was a favourite scene.

Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.

Everybody alive is a lost and disastrous mess ... the scattered moments of kinship we feel with others are, when reduced to their most basic ...

Like a stage magician, the con artist misdirects suspicion. While everyone's watching for him to pull a rabbit out of a hat, he's actually sawing ...

My analyses and conclusions differ diametrically from those of the Southern Research Institute/National Cancer Institute report wherein it is concluded that amygdalin 'does not possess ...

Hell is also the memory of starving children in the slums of Armaghast and the smile of politicians sending boys off to die in colonial ...

The more emphasis we put on wanting things to change, the more unpeaceful we will be. The more emphasis we put on accepting and having ...

In ancient times people mistook us for gods, but we peculiars are no less mortal than common folk. Time loops merely delay the inevitable, and ...

If in this lifetime,I wont get to have you,I'll make sure that ifI meet you in my next lifeI wont have to think twice on ...