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All the Disney lead male characters always have this kind of John Davidson kind of look to them. They all look like the same guy, ...
I write to invite the voices in, to watch the angel wrestle, to feel the devil gather on its haunches and rise. I write to ...
I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.
To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.
I promptly fell in love with scientific research and soon had assigned myself, as a major vocation, the task of elucidating the mechanism of action ...
During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, but after ...
It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.
In a relationship with God, our most secret places once thickly cloaked and meticulously hidden away now stand before us utterly and entirely exposed. And ...
It was an actual Christmas tree farm. We had, like, 15 acres. It was really fun as a kid. I also spent my summers at ...
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard; we just saw how hard he worked. I know ...
Call me Autolycus. Well, no, don't. Although I am, like that unfunny clown, a picker-up of unconsidered trifles. Which is a fancy way of saying ...
Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.
I do have an impulse to sort of leverage what I say against something I disagree with.
On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into the March mist, ...
As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always ...
So what if your custom car shop tanks and you've gotta take a crappy job at an auto parts store, dealing with ignorant, pushy people. ...
I didn't cry, because, actually, I was an intercontinental ballistic missile, with an atomic warhead; they don't cry. Why
Think about it. When you die you'll be surrounded bu the people you killed. Who the hells goes around killing people they like? In the ...
Do you know what is our problem? We know everything about our weapons, but we know nothing about how to use a telephone.
I'm a slave to the culture, so I see an Audi, a Denali, or an Escalade, my neighbor got the four-door Porsche. I have a ...
Like nature, women are the creative power behind all of creation.
It is only in revolutionary struggle against the capitalists of every country, and only in union with the working women and men of the whole ...
The dying man doesn't struggle much and he isn't much afraid. As his alkalies give out he succumbs to a blest stupidity. His mindfogs. His ...
Regardless of whether we are in an upturn or a downturn, our goal is to ensure the Volkswagen Group reaches the top of the automotive ...
That's something I learned from both my stepdad and my grandfather - that there is a thing called chivalry, and it doesn't have to die ...
It is because they have no Oyarsa,' said one of the pupils.It is because everyone of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,' said ...
You may succeed in silencing me, but that silence comes at a price, you may succeed in silencing one man, but the howl of protest ...
All these years, I found that being a good wife for Jeb is my most important role, no doubt.
Books seem the most potent source: each one is the sum total of a life that can be inhaled in a single day. I read ...
Unless he had whiskey running through his veins, Willard came to the clearing every morning and evening to talk to God. Arvin didn't know which ...
God's part is to put forth power; our part is to put forth faith.
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let Your requests be made known to God; 7 and the peace ...
Only the people who have gone beyond the world can change the world.
What are we? What is our life? Our goodness? Our righteousness? - THE ASHAMNU, the Jewish shorter confession
What I am proud of, what seems so simply clear, is that feminism is a way to fight for justice, always in short supply.
It is no common mortal who speaks to us in this music.
I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!
Love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on ...
The book did not say anything about a statue, valuable or otherwise, and so I stopped reading about the Bombinating Beast and got interested in ...
Before is the only time you own, the only before you can trust is now, and you don't even know how long before is.
A firm belief atthracts facts. They come out iv holes in the ground an' cracks in th' wall to support belief, but they run away ...
The public is never wrong.
Life is a miracle and every moment is miraculous.
As you grow older and young people come up to you with their history books, you realize that some of the things I have been ...
It will be the mistake of your life if you go into print in your own defence [sic]. Your denial will reach a new set ...
Few cards with the Adjutant General personally. We were at the Staff College
I try all things, I achieve what I can.
There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can ...
This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience ...
I believe in the support of the public school as one of the cornerstones of American liberty. I believe in the right of every parent ...
I have been in Washington for a while now, and most things don't surprise me. The fact that twenty 6-year-olds were gunned down in the ...
People come to the Bible with expectations that do not fit the Bible, and this clash becomes one main reason, though not the only one, ...
One of the things I prize most about being a writer is its license - you could even say injunction - to be curious, to ...
It's hard to split a man down the middle and always to reach for the same half.
As a young boy, I was very interested - as I still am - in all sorts of adventure and exploration. I thought about being ...
The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself to the greatest extent possible. ...
It is always better to make your own mistakes and not someone else's.
I just want to be able to sit on grass as long as I want to, without anybody telling me to leave. Everything is so ...
Verily, I say unto thee, many are the adepts that have looked upon the back parts of my father, and cried, our eyes fail before ...
Truth cannot be found, son. It finds you.
Stubbornness leads to strong will.
I've always liked the romance of sitting on a bench that so many other people sat on before me.
There's a reason we'll all end up with just a handful of true friends in our life. These are the people that have taken the ...
I have a poorly done tribal armband that i got when i was 16, i love showing it to people because it totally sucks
Being comfortable is nice, but there is a price to pay. We only get to live this life once, so why not make it count?
Rather than studying the most complex form of memory in a very complicated animal, we had to take the most simple form - an implicit ...
If life has taught me anything it's to appreciate what you've got. Take something for granted and it could be gone before you even realized ...
I decided that I was going to go to the Olympics to see if I had made the right decision to retire because I knew ...
Whether I'm on or off the field, I know the importance of getting enough sleep and starting the day with a wholesome breakfast like oatmeal ...
Every time I see a guy walk out of an over-the-top sports car, I think they need a cold shower.
I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues ...
I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.
I didn't set out to do something different so much as do something that interested me. I wasn't trying to be avant-garde - that's being ...
Beauty you're born with, but brains you earn.
Remember guls," preached Mrs. Gulbenk, always holding the most perfect red tomato in her hand for all of us to admire, "you can fry 'em, ...
And do we also have, do we have ... a party of minor deities from the Halls of Asgard? Away to his right came a ...
I'm not a big fan of inspiration. I'm too old to sit and wait for the muse to give me a little kiss ... I ...
Self-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to study composition in general. Having a basic understanding of composition would help construct a ...
It's at the very moment you want to give up on your dreams that you must expand them until they move you again.
Where would the memoir be without bipolar writers? I mean, that's what - that whole oversharing thing is really a very clear symptom of bipolar ...
True happiness consists in eliminating the false idea of 'I'.
You can admire people for sure, and they're worth admiring, but you need to find that special thing about yourself. It takes working hard, getting ...
I have no control over the audience. I have no idea what they think. My heart's pure. I can't do anything. I really can't do ...
I don't lie and cheat, but I don't always avoid actions that would be lying and cheating if someone else did them.
There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path ...
Be with those who help your being. Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath comes cold out of their mouths.
Talk to me about your plans, Bram," Ailean said as he walked into the hall. "Come back to the war room." "You have a war ...
One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another's ambitiousness.
If you wanna be selfish, so be it and be acceptive of it. Don't hide in disguise and pray that no one will notice, because ...
If I know Mom,' she said, 'she'd have refused any surgery anyhow.''It's true,' Amanda said. 'Her advance directive basically asked us to put her out ...
Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance.
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
I think the best comedy is tragicomic. Yeah, I suppose if you were to look at everything I've done, there is a bit of a ...
Every great achiever nurtures a positive mindset.
I know some people find the idea of soul mates romantic, or comforting, but to me believing in soul mates means absolving yourself of any ...
I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.
Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th' ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' ...
I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was ...
I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't.