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Some of Mozart's Andantes emanate an ethereal desolation, a sort of dream funeral in another life.
Taking a couple of deep breaths, he knew he had to choose his words carefully - in spite of the fact that his adrenal gland ...
There is silence and then the familiar smack of Beatrice Muriel's palm against her forehead. "A love marriage," she says. In her opinion, love marriages ...
The queen's prized artic wolf. Once an alpha male." He turned to Scarlet. "But you need a pack to be an alpha, don't you?
Some persons resemble certain trees, such as the nut, which flowers in February and ripens its fruit in September; or the juniper and the arbutus; ...
Religion is a medium to reach the Unknown. What is the Unknown? Ask Religion
Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity ...
Accepting responsibility for the actions of others contributes to your own greatness.
Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.
Why is this so hard?" I whispered.His pulse leaped crazily at my admission. "Everything worth fighting for is hard.
I don't quite understand what Tolstoy's actual personal view of Anna is - whether he likes her or hates her, whether she's the heroine or ...
It's an interesting and demanding art to do voices. I have been told so many times that I have a distinctive voice, but of course, ...
Aedion snorted. "Hurry up with the eggs. I'm going to die of starvation.""Make the bacon, or you don't get any."Aedion could hardly move fast enough.
What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?
Not to know what happened before you were born is always to remain a child. For what is a man's life if it is not ...
Within alpinism's narrow framework we seek transcendence and relentlessly pursue what remains hidden from us on flat ground: our true selves.
I think the Freudian impulse is in everything, so I just accept it. I don't always believe what Freud is saying but it sounds like ...
If we get it wrong about Jesus, it doesn't matter what else we get right.
I'll always be Alice Toklas if you'll be Gertrude Stein.
To see a man's true colours, tell him that you don't plan on having sex with him. To see a woman's true colours, tell her ...
God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually ...
Power breeds responsibilities, in international affairs as in domestic or even private. To dodge or disclaim these responsibilities is one form of the abuse of ...
When I couldn't speak English, I loved silent films circa 1914-1929, Abel Gance being my favorite director.
Life is a merciless bully for children born into circumstances of grinding poverty, to unhappy families broken apart by crime, drugs, alcohol. It brutalises the ...
We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young ...
If sub specie aeternitatis there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can approach our absurd ...
Too often we pray ASAP prayers - as soon as possible. We need to start praying ALAT prayers - as long as it takes. ...
For it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid.
In July 2011, U.S. Soccer announced that they'd fired Bob Bradley and hired Jurgen Klinsmann as head coach. Jurgen had once been a world-class German ...
I never think of myself as an attacker, only as a defender - usually of rights - mine and others.
Quick question. Does this magical skill with gray matter come with a total lack of compunction for your kind, or is it just you who ...
The artist should fear to become the slave of detail. He should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it. What avails ...
I only write first editions.
Nothing is absolute in security.
I never realized before that taking care of someone makes you love them more than when they take care of you.
Ella was vapid and worthless at least nine-tenths of the time, but when she got really mad, her face became sharp and purposeful. Almost vicious. ...
The more she was absolutely in need of external friendship, the more disposed was she to reject it, and to declare to herself that she ...
The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. that ...
We get so caught up weeding the yard that we completely miss the tulips that nature gives us for a few precious weeks. We postpone ...
Arafat's whole life has been governed by struggle and a cause. Everything he has done as leader of the Palestinians is to always leave his ...
Do not say about anything: "I am doing that tomorrow," Unless you add: "Should God so wish! Remember your Lord whenever you might forget, and ...
Anyone but Aes Sedai would have gaped at her. As it was, Romanda very nearly spluttered.
Since the Second World War, rates of common mental illness (depression and anxiety) have been increasing in the industrialized nations, whereas rates of recovery from ...
What's the point of a houseful of books you've already read?
Maybe instead of stalking her, you should go out with someone else."He sighed. "You don't think I've tried? How can anyone compare? You might not ...
I don't think anyone could really know her, just as the peak of her struggle blooms, she again appearered to have held it all together ...
The scale of time for a politician runs between one primary and the next, and in Israel, this means two to three years because elections ...
According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do ...
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Mister, I don't want no trouble. I just came downtown here to get some hard rock candy for my kids, some gingham for my wife. ...
Good teachers must inspire children to work hard - make projects and give them good marks even if genuine projects look crude and unprofessional.
I understand, gentlemen," John Kennedy said. "If you find that life it's not easy, let me tell you, death is worse.
He had lovely eyes, really - not assessing, at all, but big and dark and ... waiting.
My favorite poem ever was 'Annabel Lee' by Edgar Allan Poe.
If she can't stand the heat, she needs to stay out of the kitchen," Mr. Rush insisted."Or you could air-condition the kitchen," I said. "Or ...
I think that light and shadow have exactly the same duality that exists between life and death.
The Truth about America's Silicon Valley-Angels in the SiliconRiveting and insightful regarding progressivism and the social upheavals living in the Silicon Valley.-John Yoo, UC Berkeley ...
It is impossible to repeat in one period what was done in another.The pointof view isnotthesame, anymorethan are the tools, the ideals, the needs, or ...
A mix of revenge, sadness and anger funnels into a decision that's so simple and neat, it could fit in my pocket. I will help ...
You got amphetamine eyes.
And even the aches and pains that had joined her as she got oldershe'd liked them. They were remindersthe back, the knee, the achy wriststhey ...
I averted my eyes, looked around, and stumbled through all the faces in the room till they finally rested on his. He was standing like ...
The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
I read annual reports of the company I'm looking at and I read the annual reports of the competitors - that is the main source ...
You ... You had always made the future feel safe. As long as you were in it too, beside me, I could be okay.
If you actually relax your vocal cords they actually work better.
Normally, if someone's legacy will outlast their life, it's apparent when they die. On the day when Alexander the Great, or Caesar Augustus, or Napoleon, ...
How did you know I was here in town?""The old quarter here in Cadence is my neighborhood now," she said smoothly,"Let's just say I have ...
Yeah, Atatsuki, don't call him by that name. It's rude! Kuran-sama is handsome, well-behaved, and a perfect honor student. Calling him "gang leader" would ruin ...
Whatever you do, Alditha, wherever you go, trust God, and never stop smiling. Your life will be hard, and bitterness will be the easiest thing ...
I think the networks, in general, have to evaluate what's happening around them. I'm sure they're scared about a lot of things: Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, ...
I can't ever lose what I just felt." He kissed my cheek. "I'm afraid if I did, I'd come looking for you too. I'm afraid ...
If I want to be up for an Academy Award, I'm either going to have to play a tour de force of some kind or ...
Art is the only place you can do what you like. That's freedom.
Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.
Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in ...
It is ethanol that everyone is after when they drink alcoholic beverages. That is what gives us the euphoric feeling, and that is what all ...
Be a Gardener. Dig a ditch. Toil and sweat. And turn the earth upside down. And seek the deepness. And water plants in time. Continue ...
I studied audio engineering at university. The background I am from, music was never seen as a viable career; it was always a hobby.
In DC Comics, Blue Devil is a superhero who came out of a movie.
For whom do you cry, my son?" the Great Spirit asked."I do not know.""Yes, you do.
I wasn't the greatest reporter in the world, but I wasn't starting at zero.
I hunt around in my purse. There are no more caramels or fuzzy Altoids, but I find what might be a cough drop. I hold ...
Look at that. There one family lives, kitchen is in China, bedroom is in Myanmar. In this way, this family eats in one country, sleeps ...
So much of what folks want in the world turns out to be just a thing they say. Words change the way you feel for ...
Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. Keep it simple.
Everybody always wanted me to be sorry, I guess, and I am. And I'm tired of it. And I want to play football and, well, ...
After Cannes every year, I end up going to some foreign country I've never been to before and introducing myself to a new religion - ...
Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the ...
We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free.
The film is a romance with songs and dances, aimed at a family audience.
Theater isn't there to provide answers. Only possibilities. I just ask the questions. But I believe hope comes from the fact that there is a ...
A fly is as untamable as a hyena.
It was like finding Attila the Hun at a yoga class. Like finding Darth Vader playing ultimate Frisbee in the park. Like finding Megatron volunteering ...
You can't show me the Earth from space and fly right past the moon, entice me into this magical machine and invite me to come ...
Everyone else on the planet, from the lowest amoebae to the great blue whale, expresses all their component elements in a perfect dance with the ...
A lot of people just thought I'd be a .260 hitter all my life. I was kind of like, 'Let me make some adjustments and ...
Braden arched his brow as Maggie walked away. She was truly something else. What she was, he couldn't say in polite company, but never before ...
For desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.
How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity.