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In the last eight weeks I had experienced two of the three best times of my adult life, assuming all visits to the Museum of ...
A mystical path requires courage as you must take a first step of faith so that the second may be of science.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and mental capacities, ...
For, of course, power is what Pride really enjoys: there is nothing makes a man feel so superior to others as being able to move ...
Mass Effect 3 is all about answering all the biggest questions in thelore, learning about the mysteries and the Protheans and the Reapers,being able to ...
Spacemen - men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such - are men who like a few million miles of elbow ...
Atisha says: Awareness inside, compassion on the outside. Compassion is the outer side of awareness, the exterior of awareness. Awareness is your interiority, subjectivity. Compassion ...
I'd be the first to admit that I have no shortage of faults.But if I had to pick one, the one that's gotten me into ...
Reading has made me more open, has improved my understanding, and has made me a better artiste, but it also makes me live in my ...
(UGO, about Crank) I see the addiction to video games because you want to win them and it's just hard enough so you'd want to ...
Increased physical activity enhances positive energy
My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to works ...
How strange or odd some'er I bear myself,As I perchance hereafter shall think meetTo put an antic disposition on.
If she'd kept up her AAA membership, she would have called them, but after the divorce, she'd had to cut some things out. Roadside assistance ...
Having spent many years working in New York's Chinatown restaurants early in my career, I have the utmost respect for the history and connection New ...
The burden she carried was different from yours, and it had worn on her for many years. When I knew her she had forgotten joy, ...
Islam will win with or without you, but without Islam you will get lost and lose.
Teenagers are people who act like babies if they're not treated like adults.
Keep in mind that the only person to write for is yourself.Tell the story you most desperately want to read.
Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action.
Happy indeed are the arahants! No craving can be found in them. Cut off is the conceit 'I am,' Burst asunder is delusion's net.
Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me?
Polly had always marveled ... that her country would name such a processed and unnatural product [American cheese] after itself, yet hungry Rose ... gleefully ...
True friends are to people what lighthouses are to ships. No matter how stormy it gets, they stay put and light our way.
My mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always called Hallie. My father, twenty-six, was Albert Horton Foote, named for ...
Most things may never happen: this one will.
The ocean sleeps. The ocean wakes. And the waking of the ocean is the waking of the soul. At midnight wakefulness springs from within the ...
For most people, honesty is such an unusual departure from their standard modus operandi - such an abherration in their workaday mendacity - that they ...
We will not open healed wounds!""My wounds are not healed!" I stated just as firmly. "They will never be healed until justice is done!
Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be ...
In the Fifties, my parents were known as 'America's sweethearts'. Their pictures graced the covers of all the newspapers. They were the Brad Pitt and ...
The pain is real. So too is the catharsis. In the end there is life and love.
Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles.
Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do.
Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War and Peace' in ...
There is no time so short as the time between when your kids stop wrecking your furniture and your grandchildren start.
I've taken the experiences that I've had in the theatre and applied them to film and television and now games.
If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically ...
One of the most terrifying things I fear is not my potential, but how much regret I'll die with should I never use it.
I like to make films where I learn along the way, like the audience.
'Miracle at St. Anna.' I was challenged by Spike Lee. When he offered me the film, he looked me square in the eye and said, ...
Aglaya just rolled her eyes. "You're like a ten year-old.""Ten-and-a-half," Kev defended. "But I read at a fourteen year-old level.
He said it to Laurent. Laurent said that from this moment on, any Veretian who struck an Akielon would be executed. He trusted the honour ...
I played for Almendares in Cuba. Guess who was trying out for the team? Castro. Fidel Castro, as a pitcher. He could throw pretty hard, ...
What is it possible to do well, in physics particularly, if things are not reduced to degrees and measures?
I hope to be judged as good a man as my father. Before I hear those words "well done" from my Heavenly Father, I hope ...
I suppose you'll not let me rest until I admit that I like your company?""You're getting to know me well ... ""Very well, I'll admit. ...
I actually don't hang out with any celebrities. My closest friends are old friends. And my real close friends, none of them are actors.
Why am I quoting myself?
I love controlling a race, chewing up an opponent. Let's get down and dirty. Let's fight it out. It's raw, animalistic, with no one to ...
This time, his gaze fixed on her and stayed. The wind blew, whipping her skirts about her ankles, as if he'd called up a gale ...
How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the ...
You make your work and you can't ask for approval when you're doing it. Otherwise, it's going to be untruthful in some way.
If you'll all just follow me over to our top sector here, I'll start your guided tour."Ellis got up, then followed Riley and Heather, who ...
What makes my father different is the fact that he calls himself mad.
One man's imagined community is another man's political prison.
Be able to go into his arms at the close of the day.
When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an ...
I try to dream about peaceful things, beaches, that is what I cannot understand. Why are they chasing me?
Nobody enjoys being on display," said Isabel. But then she thought: Some do, and so she added, "Except actors. And narcissists.
My fellow citizens, our nation is poised for greatness. We must do what we know is right, and do it with all our might. Let ...
It may seem hard to believe - unless you sit down and taste them - but some of the world's greatest sweet wines are made ...
There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. ...
I'm not sure I'd hire myself in anything. I certainly couldn't be an actor. That would be terrible. For everyone.
The banking business is no favorite of ours. When assets are twenty times equity - a common ratio in this industry - mistakes that involve ...
Do it, Nesy. Say the words. Pierce my heart. Send me to the Abyss and end my suffering. Please. I won't stop you.
It's amazing how books change. The chapter you're working on today would not have been the same if you wrote it yesterday or tomorrow.
If you are barking up the wrong tree, it doesn't mean you are acting like a dog. You may be accusing the wrong person, accepting ...
His neglected heart, forsaken, isolated, was more lonely than the ace of hearts in the middle of a playing card.
I've always tried to do my very best, and I want to be the very best age, whatever age I am.
Faith pulls the black mask from the face of trouble, and discovers the angel beneath.
Art is the creation of beauty; it is the expression of thought or feelingin a form that seems beautiful or sublime, and therefore arouses in ...
Unfortunately, we cannot live our lives according to the moral and religious convictions or petrified dogmas of our forebears. We have an obligation to live ...
This cocktail may be virgin, but you won't be after drinking it. Schisandra is a superberry, an adaptogen and ... an aphrodisiac.
Agile Project Management -like its lean development counterparts- streamlines the development process, concentrating on value-adding activities and eliminating overhead and compliance activities.
One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays. Those who hear, speak of shat they have heard; whose who see, know beyond mistake.[Lat., Pluris ...
Maybe I had picked a hole in the sky and the universe was all about to fall in on me.
A believer may pass through much affliction, and yet secure very little blessing from it all. Abiding in Christ is the secret of securing all ...
You don't want to be the smartest person in the room; you want to be the dumbest in the room. You want to be surrounded ...
Females of domestic reputation lounged upon the balconies they passed with faces gotten up in indigo and almagre gaudy as the rumps of apes and ...
The digital world offers us many advantages, but if we yield to that world too completely we may lose the privacy we need to develop ...
Presently a vagrant poodle dog came idling along, sad at heart, lazy with the summer softness and the quiet, weary of captivity, sighing for change.
I hate to express political ideas directly in a book. I don't want my books to be seen as an expression of this or that ...
Never give up the search to have back what was lost too soon.
TV is a language all its own, a land of one dimensional stereotypes that destroys culture, not adds to it. TV is anti-art, a reflection ...
A student is engaging, attentive, notes details, and shows effort in learning.
Now, don't get me wrong, I like men in all shapes and sizes, but let's be honest. There is a direct correlation between the size ...
There are a lot of fun vacation spots in the universe; the bug-pits of Aylorta Five are not one of them.
Anything that is within someone else's reach is also within yours. Set your goals no matter how impossible they may seem. Then focus on what ...
All five of them were short and bowlegged, making them look like a chorus line of wishbones.
Not trying to be arrogant, but if I walked down the street and a girl saw me, she might take a look back because maybe ...
Men respect women who have standards - get some!
I know when I sit with my band members and we're playing back a song that we've done, I know that they're experiencing it in ...
Cholesterol - which you get from eating too much of the wrong kind of fat - doesn't just help clog arteries in the brain, it ...
Easier is not always better." -Emzara
There's a lot more emphasis placed on torsion and coil and leverage. Basically, the women are being taught very much along the same lines as ...
And I didn't even try to fight the smile returning to my face, as I realized in that moment that I would eat a million ...
It is a river of ideas from which I fish out sounds that make my soul happy.
Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who came from white ...