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Not only has photography so thoroughly saturated our visual environment as to make the invention of visual images seem archaic, but it is also clear ...
I felt like we were tiptoeing over a sheet of ice that could break any minute.
Julian gave his brother a slow, sweet smile. In that smile was all the love and wonder of the little boy who'd lost his brother ...
And the sun comes out, like a kiss on the cheek from God.
I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.
I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We're in a very self-destructive state where we're addicted to ...
A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish I'd said something cool, but ...
If I were suddenly to become known, and (put into a position to) conduct (a government) according to the Great Tao, what I should be ...
You must try to change some things in your society and all good changes first start attacking old rotten ideas, storming common cultural stupidities and ...
At first, being a female role model really terrified me. But it hasn't turned out to be an awful burden. I get a lot of ...
Why prove to a man he is wrong? Is that going to make him like you? Why not let him save his face? He didn't ...
Light, why did the Pattern have to catch me up with you? Why couldn't I have something safe and simple, like being shipwrecked with no ...
I think you've all heard my story about my daughter and how we felt Children's Hospital saved her life when she was less than a ...
I'm terrified that I will never be able to put him from my mind. I don't love him but I'm afraid that he will make ...
Understand the place of love in a spiritual life. A powerful and blissful type of love has no conditions, no ownership and no people involved. ...
In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole ...
Where. Is. He?" Alphonse repeated, although it sounded more like "Don't make me eat your face.
Kids have so much screen time, and it's a concern. I know how overloaded I can feel sometimes.
There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance.
Power is like a knife. It can be used to cut bread to share with your neighbor or stab you in the back.
We must remember in our struggles that our duty lies outside of trying to understand God's plan. He never asks that of us. Instead, He ...
Try as i do, i can't recall her surname. Indeed, her very abstractedness and insubstantial personality seemed to say 'forget me'; she seemed to live ...
At the final judgment, everyone will stand before God alone.
This land is a monopoly of erroneous ideas.
Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.
The defence and air defence ministers were both replaced and more than 2,000 officers lost their jobs.
Let's do, let's get some handles. I don't know why I'm talking about this stuff. Look, I love you and I miss you and you're ...
Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.
Give your clients the earliest delivery consistent with quality - whatever the inconvenience to us.
One man's imagined community is another man's political prison.
Liebenthal's camping, and he's got more dakka than you. You're fucked if you go in together. Claire Ashecroft
Every woman had a breaking point and Maliah's was incredibly high when it came to Danny. Granted,
As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is a vestige of ...
Yeah, I know my way around some guns, which is weird because I have no time for them. I don't like them at all but ...
You're always a bit blind. If you look at stuff a few years later, you get a more objective look at it.
Cheshvan starts tonight," Rixon said, "What are you doing arsing around in a graveyard?""Thinking.""Thinking?""A process by which I use my brain to make a rational ...
Cupid is naked and does not like artifices contrived by beauty.
You spend months barely acknowledging someone's existence and then BOOM, you're emotionally addicted to her. Science would probably blame it on chemicals, genetics or something ...
The young (Somali) women were very inquisitive as to European customs, and listened attentively to descriptions of the manners, education, and clothes of white ladies, ...
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
Malum quidem nullum esse sine aliquo bono, Tin noted in the journal he was sporadically keeping then. Every cloud has a silver lining.
TIMON A fool of thee: depart.APEMANTUS I love thee better now than e'er I did.TIMON I hate thee worse.
'Angels in America' - which is composed of two three-hour plays, 'Millennium Approaches' and 'Perestroika' - proved to be a watershed drama, the most lyrical ...
What was it about needy girls? Jules wondered. They felt like they had the right to be needy, because they knew that other people would ...
My house seems remarkably full of people," he observed. "Is it possible we were expected.
In effect, I was asking that if Russia mobilized against Austria, the German Government, who had been supporting the Austrian demand on Serbia, should ask ...
History is a treadmill turned by rising human numbers. Today GM crops are being marketed as the only means of avoiding mass starvation. They are ...
Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.
In some way the god had to be appeased and satisfied; for his worshipers had made him in the image and dream of themselves, and ...
Each member of this shadowy network resented the others, who were irritating reminders that nothing was more American, whatever that means, than fleeing the American, ...
The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real resistance has real ...
I sleep 75 percent of all plane trips I take. I love red-eyes from West to East. I take Ambien to make sure I sleep. ...
The Cabala may be defined to be a system of philosophy which embraces certain mystical interpretations of Scripture, and metaphysical and spiritual beings ... Much ...
I want to make affordable shoes of quality that are very fashion forward, chic, and that I'm going to wear.
Competence comes when successful outcomes are produced by values-driven, purposeful behaviors.
A lot of my work comes through accidents or circumstances that just happen to present themselves. I have to realize that something is presenting itself. ...
I was born in Georgia. That's where my grandparents-and all my people-are from. But my family traveled a great deal because my dad was in ...
The greatest enemy to the movement of Jesus Christ is Christianity.
I was born in Hoboken. I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for Truth my obsession.
He charged in, raising his ax above his head, and the boar rammed his tusk straight into Ankaios's crotch. Ankaios died, and he was remembered ...
Do not allow the adumbrations of Aristotelian logic to prevent you from seeing a vast spectrum of truths; the post-Boolean continuum of shades of grey ...
Our Father Who Art in Heaven gathered more meaning for me as my own father joined the Maker when I was still in school.
For much of American history, the worst classes were seen as extrusions of the worst land: scrubby, barren, and swampy wasteland. Home ownership remains today ...
Let every girl, let every woman, let every mother here [in Israel]-and there in my country [Egypt]-know we shall solve all our problems through negotiations ...
My aunts told wonderful stories. Not to me, but to each other. We had a very strong family. My mother's sisters loved each other intensely. ...
Controversial performance as a corrupt detective in Training Day - would be seen holding the Oscar for best actor, almost four decades after Poitier's
I'm not drunk, Andrew. I'm Percocet." "Ah. So dangerously relaxed?
I also feel fairly confident that the original Texaco Salvatore was a good family man, with perhaps a propensity for wearing his wife's panties and ...
Yes!" Torin threw an arm over Reese's shoulder. "Smell that in the air? A grand adventure awaits.
If you are not proving yourself, you are proving yourself!
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that ...
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 ...
Loving myself and thinking joyful, happy thoughts is the quickest way to create a wonderful life.
Neurotic anxiety, therefore, is that which occurs when the incapacity for coping adequately with threats is not objective but subjective - I.e., is due not ...
Spatial intelligence is virtually left out of formal education. In kindergarten we give children blocks and sand with which to build. Then we take those ...
Politics, poverty, riches, etc - these are but backdrops for the grand cinema, the opera: the glory of your life. Sure, change the backdrops, make ...
At the departure gate, a drunken airport security woman was handing out box cutters to the passengers.
Shakespeare is to me the purest voice of nature, and he does no meddle with nature. His plays provide us with the greatest variety of ...
After a year, the aromatics in an olive oil are gone. Sometimes the bottles on the shelf in the supermarket are there a lot longer ...
You know how alchoholics who go to AA are always using that phrase "one day at a time"? They say that because to say "I ...
Holding onto negativity makes you sick, I strongly believe that. So I release negativity by writing.
Stop whimpering and snapping at me, I'm sick of it. Keep your mouth shut and do as I tell you, and maybe we'll even be ...
It's time to accept that I am average, and to stop making this acceptance of my averageness into a bereavement.
'Tracks' is based on the book by Robyn Davidson who, in the mid-Seventies, decided to leave the city, go to the outback, learn to train ...
I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early.
Who's the best person you know. Of all the people you know personally, is there anyone who has a sense of right and wrong and ...
Steve Perry versus Arnel Pineda. At his confused expression, I explain, The guy on YouTube who gained a following for covering Journey songs ... then ...
He's not here.""Not here like he just popped around the corner to the bodega for a six-pack of Diet Coke and a box of Krispy ...
Each and every one of the security measures we implement serves an important goal: providing safe and efficient air travel for the millions of people ...
I'm always in a state of trance, I'm not very often in the real world.
Pursuits become habits.[Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]
It's something like 70% of American adults are obese, and the rest of them are women on Ally McBeal.
To the user, the interface is the product.
See the light of beauty and love,See the magnificence of life,Enjoy the charm and mystery of creation,Enjoy the little beauty around you,Appreciate every little thing, ...
Managers in most companies are already overwhelmed with good ideas. Their challenge lies in prioritization and execution,
Dante 19 had it wrong. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here leads to awakening, not to the realms of hell.
As for him "feeling dead", that's probably just a consequence of him being gone from your life for so long. In some sense he no ...
Therefore, I have attacted [the problem of the catenary] which I had hitherto not attempted, and with my key [the differential calculus] happily opened its ...
Stay sunny, we said.Because if you don't everyone will know you're a monster