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She'd been only eight when Arobynn Hamel, her mentor and the King of the Assassins, found her half-submerged on the banks of a frozen river ...

A Rod: An attractively painted length of fiberglass that keeps an angler from ever getting too close to a fish.

Death does frame a person and somehow it is the good that stays.

Today's Declaration: I am courageous. I am willing to act in spite of fear.

The halcyon days of childhood, a time when everything lay open before him, when the most minor episodes could be construed as events and every ...

And now the fight continues for all orphans and children who need families who will love and care for them - until they too can ...

I use improvisation as a writing tool to help produce material that goes into a script, but a well-crafted script shouldn't sound scripted, and oftentimes ...

Just as [he] had expected. The preacher retreated to authority as soon as he feared his ideas could not stand on their own merit. Reasonable ...

The fact is, an America's Cup team is more than a sailing team. It's anywhere from sort of 80 to upward of 100 people; of ...

Ryan chuckled. "You're going to be my trouble this year, aren't you?" he asked softly. Hell yeah I was.

The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in ...

My greatest life lesson has been to not wait for the opportunities to come to me. I realize how important it is to be proactive ...

Combine the dual qualities of empathy and ambitionin every sales relationship.

We often gain awareness through a baseline comparison between now and next.

People grow up by living.

Poetry is practically the only intellectual pursuit which we can be positive was highly developed and much practiced in pre-Islamic Arabia. It seems certain that ...

I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable ... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could be reading ...

James Jesus Angleton, the legendary "Gray Ghost.

A word of wisdom to you, akribos, you need to learn to accept gifts. (Catera)There's no such thing as a gift. If I were to ...

The paradox is that we can become wiser and more compassionate and live more fulfilling lives by refusing to be who we have tended to ...

Tell me what you want" he [Warner] says desperately. "Tell me what to do," he says, "and I'll do it.

Is not thy home among the flowers?

O Virgin most holy, none abounds in the knowledge of God except through thee; none, O Mother of God, obtains salvation except through thee, none ...

When I got the episode where Spider-Man meets Aunt May (voiced by Misty Lee), it was another one of those things where I was like, ...

I'm determined, and I'm passionate and driven about whatever I commit myself to do. If I don't know something, I'm going to ask, and I've ...

The moment of realization is: When what you thought you couldn't be without, becomes a part of the past, rather than the start of the ...

Gods can screw anything and anybody. For reference, see history.Atticus O'Sullivan

An old cardboard box: you think it but you don't say it.Leftovers, that are swept up and glued together.I am your alipte, I say, I ...

THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF GASTRONOMY There's a rule for proper dosesin the dinner-eaters lore:one should stop the filling processwhile one still has room for more. ...

I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. ...

Sometimes, you don't realize what you have until you wake up and go 'Damn.'

Drop dreaming and you are there where you have really been always, but you were never aware. All meditation techniques are just antidream efforts, just ...

A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.[Lat., Vulgus ignavum et nihil ultra verba ausurum.]

Now that system has weakened to the point he and his worst disciples are able to be free. He wants total mayhem and bloodshed. Most ...

Art brings out the grand lines of nature. Antione Bourdelle

It took a while to find a passion for another career that was as strong as the passion that I had for football. Once I ...

The nicest part is being able to write down all my thoughts and feeling; otherwise, I might suffocate.

Going public for the sake of going public is not really an optimal thing. You're going public because as a company you believe it is ...

Are you not going to talk? Just sit there and stare at me like a creeper?"Aiden cracked a half smile. "You called me that once ...

I know for sure that appreciating whatever shows up for you in life changes your personal vibration. You radiate and generate more goodness for yourself ...

The fundamental misunderstanding of humanity is believing that we can achieve all our desires without limitation.

I argued that she wasn't even alive when My Little Pony originally aired, but she retorted that she wasn't alive now, either, and there's just ...

Autointoxication was the gluten of the early 1900s.

If I am totally honest, I would have to say that 'Allo 'Allo!' was not my cup of tea, even though lots of people loved ...

Perfume heralds a woman's arrival and prolongs her departure.

Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.

Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete.

If we want to build the Iraqis' confidence about our intentions in their country, if we want to stop adding fuel to the fire of ...

Perhaps that same concept applied to people as well. Did we love them more when we knew their full story? How they came to be ...

Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in ...

I'm not coming out trying to prove anything to anyone, like, 'Oh, I'm in assless chaps!' or 'I can't be tamed!' I've already been through ...

Others dreamed of finding a person in the world whose soul was made in their mirror image, but Almondine and Edgar had been conceived nearly ...

I recycle. I have a house in the south of France and I have a small garden. My name is Dujardin - 'from the garden.' ...

Give me dome dome da-da-da-da-da dome dome dome I aint trippin on ya money money long long long

Ain't no deserving, or otherwise,' Silo said, his bass voice rolling out from deep in his chest. 'There's what is, and what ain't, and there's ...

I saw within Its depth how It conceivesAll things in a single volume bound by Loveof which the universe is the scattered leaves.

Have strength in yourself always .think and remember not just what you should do, but also what you want to do. (Ageha , Basara, Vol. ...

How useful Mr. Carver's Esperanto would be, she thought. (Only if everyone spoke it, of course.)

And then there was Johan Cruyff, who at 35 has added a whole new meaning to the word Anno Domini.

Mrs General had no opinions. Her way of forming a mind was to prevent it from forming opinions. She had a little circular set of ...

Messi is undoubtedly a gifted footballer, like Maradona and Pele, and he's playing for the best club side in the world at the moment. He's ...

I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care.

Brown responded that he could not conceive of recommending that Britain join the Euro to advance his own prospects at the expense of the economic ...

I have to get better, but I can't change the way I play.

There is no fury like an ex-wife searching for a new lover.

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

Give a man with a death wish a bottle of whisky and a loaded gun, you get a dead body. Give a martyr a quote ...

I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against.

In all of Western civilization, there have been societies that celebrating the homosexuality, the ancient Greeks. But they, in fact, protected the institution of marriage ...

I don't think I've aged gracefully.

You make it a production. Slam doors. Knock things over. Scream. But I just leave. Even if I'm still standing there, I leave. I am ...

You won't tell anyone, will you?' began Emily, knowing well that of all openings on earth this one is the most certain to provoke interest ...

I feel great. I'm right there for the top two. I know my long is a very strong program and I've had lots of success ...

Wouldn't it be good to forget everything even if it's just for tonight? Indulge in pleasure ... breathe a sweet poison deep into your lungs ...

We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe.

Cara burst into a hearty laugh. She clapped Richard on the back as he walked passed. I like her, Lord Rahl. You may keep her.

This year, U.S. airlineswill carry a record 143 million passengers, who will be in the air for 382 million hours, during which they will be ...

Scarecrow thin, but immaculate in black long sleeved shirt and slacks, with his big black hat and that grin just a little too wide to ...

In all honesty, if somebody asked me the secret of auditioning for Americans, I don't know. Often, I do what's called self-taping for America. I ...

There is something strangely determinate and fatal about a single shot in the night. It is as if someone had cried a message to you ...

Jesus called disciples so He could send them out as apostles. They were called together to learn so they could be sent out to teach ...

We ask the education system to expiate the sins of the rest of the society and then condemn it as hopelessly broken when it doesn't ...

A relationship is a journey and many would think the destination is marriage. Well, no it is not! Marriage is another phase of the journey.

I have always gotten a thrill, a kick, from learning new things.

It's a lot of fun to be a part of films that you don't exactly know how they're going to turn out.

Eid happens twice a year - Eid ul-Fitr or "Small Eid" marks the end of the Ramadan fasting month, and Eid ul-Azha or "Big Eid" ...

If we can't be cordial to these creatures' fleece, I think that we deserve to freeze.

The day before yesterday I spent the night at Arzamas and something extraordinary happened to me. It was 2 o'clock in the morning. I was ...

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.

Sheesh, I'm surprised you've survived out here this long. Tell me, are you normal for a warrior or are you like a special day-release case ...

When I start a story, I don't know where it's going.

No one will touch you." Not ever. Even after death he would protect his woman with the sheer force of his motherfucking will. "Tell me ...

He must have a magical dick because there's no way I'd keep dating someone who cheated on me every week.

I've had some Democrat African-American leaders tell me they're really not all that comfortable with Obama as the lead at the MLK festivities 'cause he's ...

Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.

I have died and gone to the land of bad novels.

The Russians are not as addicted to coffee as the Americans. We should work on that!

I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don't like their feet, I don't like ...

Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires

This unreal feeling was heightened when, after half an hour, she reached another High Street, more or less the same as the one she had ...