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A habit leads a man so gently in the beginning that he does not perceive he is led - with what silken threads and down ...
There were the things he used to sustain life: a box of fish food. And the things he'd used to take it: a pair of ...
I always knew I wanted to have children. When I met my husband, Rande, I thought, 'This is the guy.' When you are getting ready ...
You would be amazed how many magicians have died after being bitten by mad rabbits. It's far more common than you might think. -Angela the ...
An annibabtist is a thing I am not a member of.
The beauty of traveling solo is that you wonder unexpectedly, but almost certainly into the direction you were meant to go.
I thence invoke my thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar above the Aonian mount, while it pursues ...
The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of our collective interdependence.
Some men just aren't cut for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
I tried to talk my daughter out of going with a hockey player but, he's a good kid. He asked me if he could marry ...
An alternative modernity worthy of the name would recover the mediating power of ethics and aesthetics. This would be accomplished not by a return to ...
Maybe what made me cry in class was how tired I was and how sad and hard it is, and how rare, to undertake an ...
Human anatomy is horribly unsuited for outer space. The astroengineers lost sleep over this but not the science fiction writers, who being artists simply didn't ...
You know, sometimes I envy you. It must be nice to be a wolf. Just for a while." "It has its drawbacks." Like fleas, she ...
What was it about Halloween that gave every girl license to dress as slutty as possible?
Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.
I suppose I might never have known or believed that love could be so strong if I hadn't seen it dragged through this hell. Now ...
The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student ...
I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't warm up, and I don't know how ...
The one thing perhaps that technology hasn't always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology.
Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Contiguity suggests layers of ...
Daddy, I don't like military parades. I never want to be like those people who march rank and file to music - they were given ...
This book is dedicated to all those who fell by the airside, for nothing is wasted, and every apparent failure is but a challenge to ...
ACTUOSE (ACTUO'SE) adj.[from act.]That which hath strong powers of action; a word little used. ...
My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of ...
I really miss the Australian lifestyle and being around my friends and family.
There's an enormous amount of corruption, and as one American adviser put it to me, "The police in Afghanistan are thugs. We equip them, we ...
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
I wonder if I'll ever forgive Evandar? I wonder even more if I should bother," Aderyn said."Of course you should," Nevyn said wearily, "but for ...
Who are we to wish for Paradise? It will be enough if Allah spares us his wrath.
Comic book fans have loved Wolverine, and all the 'X-Men' characters, for more than the action. I think that's what set it apart from many ...
Some unifying principles bind all Christians: that God became a man and died for our sins, and that without that sacrifice, all of us would ...
Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.
A Hedge Knight is the truest kind of knight, Dunk. Other Knights serve the Lords who keep them, or from whom they hold their lands, ...
The only candidate I'd allow to play my music would be Bigfoot, and unless we're talking about foraging for squirrels, he's notoriously apolitical.
With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I ...
Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary ...
Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spectre of thousands of memories imprisoned between its ...
Nelson Mandela was in jail when I was really young, and Winnie Mandela was one of the biggest faces of the movement. In South Africa ...
I was clearly fascinated by him, but had the strange sense that he was equally fascinated by me. As far as he was concerned I ...
I am basically a shy person, so performing sometimes helps me focus - having all those people concentrate their attention on you. I don't see ...
Something about family and trying to relate it to the movie with, 'Oh, if I was to have a child how many kids do I ...
You are the strongest argument, yet, against cloning.
But more importantly, you are a gift, to all who know you, whether or not they realize it. If they don't, they are blind. You ...
It's a good thing you and your pills weren't around a few hundred years ago or there never would have been a Vermeer or a ...
We were not told how Alexander the Great was the last person in history to successfully 'pacify' what would become Afghanistan, over 2,000 years ago.
I think it's a rule that it's socially acceptable to wet yourself when aliens enter your mind for the first time. If it wasn't already, ...
I find myself doing fieldwork physically, in the tradition of anthropology. I literally go to the opposite end of the world, to the most exotic ...
My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had almost lost my ...
A lot of people come up here and they thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to ...
By the exercise of his will he has set his course, and on that course he will stay as if guided by an automatic pilot. ...
When I'm near you, I can feel you in here."She pressed her hand against her heart."And when you're gone, there's an emptiness there. And it ...
It's as if the universe has a sense of humor, since at a deep level it's impossible not to lead a spiritual life ... the ...
Be Aunthentic. Be yourself. And most important of all..make it personal
The parasite of art, the virus of art, never ceases to gnaw awat at your brain, never ceases to torture you with the knowledge that ...
Emailing a meaningful photograph to someone who is not expecting it can change a relationship forever.
In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread,Till thou return unto the ground; for thouOut of the ground wast taken; know thy birth,For ...
In evil times, when public virtue has left the earth, ancient writings are of little account, and no one cares to disturb the silence of ...
I was so urban-centric once. I did not want to see a patch of grass. I did not want to look at a tree. I ...
The goal of medicine is peculiarly, the goal of making itself unneccessary: of influencing life so that what is medicine today becomes mere commonsense tomorrow.
A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.
But I'm not sure it actually matters what we read. Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out for us. Fiction ...
Words have power, and sometimes, they stay withyou for life. It's up to you to allow those words to define who you become.
Someone who cannot abandon everything cannot achieve anything.
Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez was a major part of my early career.
In any society, the way a woman gives birth and the kind of care given to her and the baby points as sharply as an ...
I don't know what the point of that would be. We can't just declare war on people because we don't understand what they do." "That, ...
If you spend a thing you can not have it.[Lat., Non tibi illud apparere si sumas potest.]
Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise to the challenge ...
Comic book fans have loved Wolverine, and all the 'X-Men' characters, for more than the action. I think that's what set it apart from many ...
What the fuck happened to you? [...] You look like you lost a fight with a lamprey. Hickey, hickey...bruise, bruise, bruise...bite. I thought that thing ...
What on earth is the current morality, except in its literal sense - the morality that is always running away?
People with a lot of money don't dress as well as people who have to make do, who have to be inventive. Those are the ...
I advocate the abolition of all religions, without setting up anything new of the kind.
One of the problems of our youth is that the family unit is broken up. When we'd sit down to dinner together as a family, ...
Our siblings push buttons that cast us in roles we felt sure we had let go of long ago - the baby, the peacekeeper, the ...
I'm relevant because I fill a void for people who aren't doing what they want to do in life.
When my father died of AIDS, I knew I had to do everything in my power to prevent others from going through what he endured. ...
We could see the children's toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers ...
In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state's failure to hire minority contractors for ...
I've fought for religious freedom and I can tell you that anti-gay 'religious freedom' bills aren't it.
If you avoid all of life's abrasions you will never be polished enough to shine.
Your bestfriend, at angryness, is your real and true mirror.
I don't want to talk about Nicki Minaj anymore.
I'm a grown woman. I've earned my experiences, my scars.
If he'd known how long he was going to spend in the airport lounge of his own life, he'd have made different travel arrangements..
How significant is Aristotle? Well, I wouldn't want to exaggerate, so let me put it this way: Abandoning Aristotelianism, as the founders of modern philosophy ...
Water, the Hub of Life. Water is its mater and matrix, mother and medium. Water is the most extraordinary substance! Practically all its properties are ...
But I am the real Strider, fortunately. I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will.
Didn't it often happen, she thought, that aged parents die exactly at the moment when other people (your husband, your adolescent children) have stopped being ...
The author apologizes for being unable to afford a ghost writer, which explains the lack of a distinctive prose style.
Diamonds are supposed to be a girl's best friend but it's impossible to know for sure where they have come from so I find it ...
But oh! each visitationSuspends what nature gave me any my birth,My shaping spirit of Imagination.
There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
Nullum ad nocendum tempus angustum est malis.No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors.
There will never be another Mariano Rivera. He was a friend and a champion of a teammate. He really cared about the game of baseball, ...
I have come to accept that if I have a new haircut it is front page news. But having a picture of my foot on ...
California has rules against assault weapons. It's just those rules are inherently so technical and have to do with cosmetic features, you can easily get ...