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Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: but rejoice, inasmuch ...
The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your ...
It is not the nature of man, as I see it, ever to be quite satisfied with what he has in life ... Contentment tends ...
I suspected he was a damaged soul, but he was a beautiful one too.
...The coarse rhetoric and reduction of women to violently empty reproductive organs isn't a great way to argue against Trump's vulgarity. The unhinged rhetoric, violent ...
I am a bundle of other people's histories, a creature of circumstance.
But it's no ordinary apple tart. It's the apple tart of hope. After you've taken a bite, the whole world will look almost completely different. ...
Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.
I look back at Danny and I think about what Ginny said to me: Friends act like friends. My stomach tightens.
She was a Seeker now, marked for life.She had thought this brand would be an eblem of pride, but now it meant something entirely different. ...
Aunts are to be a pattern and example to all aunts; to be a delight to boys (and girls) and a comfort to their parents; ...
Cinema has opened a world of possibilities up for me.
Let us have love and more love; a love that melts all opposition, a love that conquers all foes, a love that sweeps away all ...
The particular way he had of structuring his paragraphs, beginning and ending each with a joke that wasn't really a joke, but an insult cloaked ...
What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.
Every individual alive today, even the very highest, is to be derived in an unbroken line from the first and lowest forms.
You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few brief minutes and then the wind blows away your footprints
These descendants divined myths in what was really history, for true memories were forgotten in chaos as vast arrays of daivi astras used in the ...
Black Wind was Asha's longship. He had not seen his sister in ten years, but that much he knew of her. Odd that she would ...
We all have to start with ourselves. It is time to walk the talk. Take the journey of making very difficult decisions. Start removing things ...
People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs.
In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there's no patience for the long, slow rebuilding process: ...
The World we all share is given to us in trust. Every choice we make regarding the earth, air, and water around us should be ...
He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble.[Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.]
Most Allomancers didn't use whiskey in their metal vials. Most Allomancers were missing out on a perfect opportunity.
I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother, I was oppressed and broken-hearted with the sorrows and injustice I saw, because ...
My muse is my wife. It's not some vague thing that flutters around the astrosphere or wherever it is. Sometimes as a songwriter you need ...
Anathematization of the world is not an adequate response to the world.
They told me that, as a woman, I'd never get into graduate school in physics, so they got me a job as a secretary at ...
I'm a sci-fi fan, and I guess you have to let go of some of that at some point, and realize that as long as ...
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.
Despite my best efforts, I'm not quite perfect. Let's just say I'm like one of those Hopi blankets where they leave a tiny flaw so ...
But in the secret camps, the war against the Islamic religion was more than obvious.
The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.
Katherine. Pardonnez-moi, I cannot tell vat is like me.KING HENRY. An angel is like you, Kate, and you are like an angel.KATHERINE. Que dit-il? que ...
No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.
The U.S. uses most of its oil for transportation. We can limit U.S. demand for oil by requiring automakers to use the technology that already ...
Our worst can become our best if mistakes are gathered like twigs of a bird's nest, giving one true foundation, a spiritual home to build ...
We were sharing a rare point in time, contemplative, and the moment was made complete by his vintage sunglasses, bringing the night indoors.
Such power!" Adelaida cried all at once, peering greedily at the portrait over her sister's shoulder."Where? What power?" Lizaveta Prokofyevna asked sharply."Such beauty has power," ...
From the other side of the hill, two enormous black wings appeared through the mist. Then a pair of sharp, twisted horns. Slowly, Maleficent rose ...
Since the Middle Ages, people have been writing about angels. Angelology was actually at one point a scholastic discipline.
Bare Foot Folk and is full of really interesting songs, Ange Hardy takes folk tales and creates new folk songs that sound traditional around the ...
There's always time for arguin' when you're a Fuentes.
Sixteen pages! Full sixteen pages! If you don't want to read, use it to make paper bags.Sell the paper pabs and earn a profit. Here ...
Soon after George W. Bush took over the White House after losing the "popular vote" - which in other countries is called the "election" -
We are hearing the imams that are preaching in places like the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. The imam preached there to the migrants go ...
All the power [the State] has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another; there ...
Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by ...
On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper ...
Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal ...
Be honest, Do I give off a vibe that says 'No, handsome stud, I don't want you to make a pass at me,' while at ...
I believe that fortitude is key. More than anything, be consistent. Go at it. Go at it. Go at it. When you succeed, don't forget ...
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 ...
I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it - and I'm sure I can't tell you whether the ...
Because if one has an image, however dim and romantic, of a journey's end, one may, in the end, surely reach it, after no matter ...
For the most part, I do not go out all that often, so it varies.
Circumstance points to deeper meaning.
Despite my love affair with skyscraper heels, luckily for my feet I rarely wear them - preferring, instead, the comfort and child-handling practicalities of a ...
I can't promise you that this will be easy, but I can say that marriage - the way that God intended it to be - ...
I loved her, atom by atom, one burning cell at a time.
Sometimes I sit alone under the stars and think of the galaxies inside my heart and truly wonder if anyone will ever want to make ...
Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.
I'm a crybaby, which means I barricade myself in my house and scream for awhile, and when it subsides enough that I can leave, I ...
The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.
And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th ...
No land is more beautiful, and therefore more powerful. That is what I believe in, Aouli. I believe in Hawai'i. I believe in the land.-Haleola
If you lay a finger on our pirates again, I'm going to kick your ass!
May Allah bless you." Or had she said: "May Allah burn you?" He was not sure which: the two Arabic words sounded so much alike.
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I photographed Arthur Coble and his sons Milton and Darrel as they did chores, but the vicious winds made it difficult to see and breathe.
On Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the Intelligence Service?
If you don't like it, go somewhere else, to another universe where the rules are simpler.
The werewolf Senate hadn't been happy with the idea of a human alpha, and there wasn't a day that went by that I didn't think ...
Somewhere slightly before or after the close of our second decade, we reach a momentous milestonechildhood's end. We have left asafe place and can't go ...
There is no dream, and if there is, there is only one to see you my children struggling for the same and for which I ...
Tempore difficiles veniunt ad aratra juvenci;Tempore lenta pati frena docentur equi.In time the unmanageable young oxen come to the plough; in time the horses are ...
All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds ...
A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche ... Water brings death to the psyche, ...
Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions, his mistakes and weaknesses.
Determination is the fuel that propels one to higher virtues.
I happen to like being sad over nothing at all. I find it suits me. (Ewan)A smile would suit you better. My mother always says ...
If you were to gather all the minutes wasted on insignificant, immaterial yik yak spent throughout the day and add them up, how much misspent ...
I analyse in my own way, in very simple, no-jargon language. If somebody is talking in very complicated way, I never like that.
Aemon's blind white eyes came open. "Egg?" he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. "Egg, I dreamed that I was old.
Long gone was the cheery welcome of the seaside hotelier, replaced by a weary nostalgia for the good old days.
I wish I were like Facebook; being able to 'like' and 'share' everything I get.
Damn all false antitheses to hell, for they generate false gods, they perpetuate idols, they twist and distort our souls, they launch the church into ...
He turns me inside out, take me apart, and puts me back together - all in the span of one night.
Vulnerability gives us freedom, power and connects us to a network of injured souls. It is through the art of being real that we can ...
Soon I'll be thinner than all of you, she swore to herself. And then I'll be the winner. The thinner is the winner.
It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.
Besides taking jobs from American workers, illegal immigration creates huge economic burdens on our health care system, our education system, our criminal justice system, our ...
A real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.
Like an unfinished symphony, her story played on my mind for most of my life. It would rock to the tune of the passage of ...
Being a competitor, you always believe you can come back. I'll be up at 3 in the morning watching World Cup races in my hotel ...
The performance group The Ant Farm redoing JFK's assassination in Dallas was an event that struck a chord with me, especially when one of the ...
Every human being makes mistakes, so why should you be afraid? Go to the One who can get rid of the mistakes and tell him, ...
As one gets older, one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.
They were two very religious people. My father was a foundry worker and was a daily Mass attender, as was my mother.