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Et quid amabo nisi quod aenigma est? ("What shall I love if not the enigma?")
Just like I'm the king on the microphone, so is Dr. J and Moses Malone I like slam dunks, take me to the hoop my ...
As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence.
She had added medicine because her brother-in-law practised it, but did not forget that in her young days no one ever considered the doctor a ...
You make me want things I can't have.
My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she'd always act out the parts I did. My aunt, who played a ...
Superficial parallels were drawn between the Church and the Nazi Party, with its emphasis on active involvement by every member. The women's auxiliary of the ...
And I wish that I were not any part of the fifth generation of men, but had died before it came, or been born afterward. ...
It may look like the difficulty is going to defeat you. But you need to keep telling yourself, "This sickness can't take my life." "This ...
All I want to talk about is the oncoming apocalypse in my brain.
Non apibus dubitandem est.(You never can tell with bees.)~ Winnie ille Pu
The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn ...
I'm so lucky because I get to have all of these memories. I can have all of those pictures and different sorts of films and ...
Frankl wondered whether "there may be such a thing as autobibliotherapy - healing through reading." Frankl's
Sugar Ray Leonard's retirements last about as long as Elizabeth Taylor's marriages.
Tell me dear, what do you know about prescribing atypical antipsychotics to enchance the effect of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors?
Someone fish out dear Amren before she catches a cold.
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
In our interdependent world, our neighbors are not only on our street, but can be ten thousand miles away on an island in rising seas.
The financial system has been turned over to the Federal Reserve Board. That board administers the finance system by authority of a purely profiteering group. ...
A man's greatest moment in life is when his enemy lays vanquished, his village aflame, his herds driven before you and his weeping wives and ...
To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes and ...
Real success in the kingdom of God is not about being strong and looking good and knowing all the right answers. It's about continually yielding ...
NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.
The future will be a better tomorrow.
Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.
I feel like plenty of people have normal-seeming families that, as they're growing up, feel awful. I'd rather have one that looks weird from the ...
I'm just smart enough to know what it is I don't know and try to learn as I go along and accept that you're going ...
He has an interview going on, so if anyone asks you anything about anything, smile and lie.""So, if they ask how it feels to spend ...
It's not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it's how I want to be in 15 years.
I'm not extravagant, so I won't need to rein it in too much. Me and my friend make each other cards. I love being creative ...
I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking ...
Language betrays, in order to mean.
Smack me if we ever get that awful.""But I smack you so often," she said, "how will you know that's what I'm smacking you for?""We ...
It's a great medium for trivia and hobbies, but not the place for reasoned, reflective judgment. Suprisingly often, discussions degenerate into acrimony, insults and flames.
Furthermore, the Latin American nuclear-weapon free zone which is now nearing completion has become in several respects an example which, notwithstanding the different characteristics of ...
I am happy to see you, Masood.""Happy? Happy? What a pale, pathetic English word. You must not be 'happy' to see me. No, you must ...
I don't know if it's still taboo in our culture but counseling is a great thing because sometimes you need someone from the outside to ...
I had a nightmare last night. I dreamed Dolly Parton was my mother and I was a bottle baby.
Transmit your vision emotionally by gaining credibility, demonstrating passion, establishing relationships and communicating a felt need. Transmit it logically by confronting reality, formulating strategy, accepting ...
A Libra. Balanced. Diplomatic. Even-tempered.
The White Hand did not fry all the brain. He fried somefrom the right hemisphere and some from the left. Theremaining brain, The White Hand ...
CBS News on Tuesday had Bob Kerrey in a Vietnam scandal, Senator Bob Torricelli in a donor scandal and Arnold Schwarzenegger in a sex scandal. ...
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 ...
In ancient mythology," Langdon offered, "a hero in denial is the ultimate manifestation of hubris and pride. No man is more prideful than he who ...
When I grew older, I thought I would become an even more special person. But, it's not true. I eat more and I know a ...
Disabled people need more invested in their education, housing, job training, transportation, assistive technology, and independent-living facilities. Governments earn back this investment - and more ...
Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting 'O.K.' has deposed the more affirmative 'Yes,' so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of 'like' are a ...
All of my conjuring had led only to ruin and death. Now I was a wounded witch, waiting in the forest, undone.
Chapter 19 Where are you, Aeney? You slip away from me as you always did. Where are you?
A bulger of a place it is. The number of the ships beat me all hollow, and looked for all the world like a big ...
Were you always such a stubborn, blind, obtuse girl?""Are you calling me stupid?""Yes, but in a more poetic way!""Well, here's a poem for you. Get ...
Brazilians need to work on their own national pride. I always think that they suffer from national low-self esteem. It's a lesser-developed country, and they ...
You've no fear of heights," puffed the girl."None," I said."I've heard that about you.
Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair.
Being a successful student is about more than reading, writing, and 'rithmetic. It's about being a skilled negotiator, a keen observer, and a master planner.
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 ...
Well, in the sense of the traditional notion of God, coming out of Christianity and Islam and the Abrahamic religions, I do not hold with ...
It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.
As a woman, it seems you can't just be a comedian; you're always classed as something else, too, whether that's 'beautiful,' 'pint-sized,' 'larger-than-life' or in ...
We need to imagine the turmoil, disappointment, worry and sheer confusion in people who may outwardly appear merely aggressive.
A little while, we are in eternity; before we find ourselves there, let us do much for Christ.
Keep your dreams ALIVE. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how many people talk about you; they're going to throw dirt on you ...
Let us set apart special seasons for extraordinary prayer. For if this fire should be smothered beneath the ashes of a worldly conformity, it will ...
But if something did happen, it happened. Whether it's right or wrong. I accept everything that happens, and that's how I became the person I ...
You've been four of the dearest, sweetest, goodest girls who ever went together through college,' averred Aunt Jamesina, who never spoiled a compliment by misplaced ...
The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.
Something awful is always going to happen, Arton. It's Sanctuary. You're a Stepson. Awful is a big part of your job.
If I could make the same amount of money doing standup it would be no contest. The problem is that if you do make that ...
And so I found myself in a kind of love lock: pining for the wrong person, grieving beside a woman whose body I can't touch, ...
The idea - the fact of it, the fact that he even noticed and thought about me for more than one second - is huge ...
Mark Twain on George Ade's writing: I have been reading him [Ade] again, and my admiration overflows all limits. How effortless the limning! It is ...
It is a mournful thing to know that you are utterly isolated among millions of human beings; that not a drop of your blood flows ...
Apre' s le rare bonheur de trouver une compagne qui nous soit bien assortie, l'e tat le moins malheureux de la vie est sans doute ...
The most difficult thing in this world is to adopt the spirit and attitude of a warrior. It is no use being sad, complaining, feeling ...
Anytime a broken heart is suffered, and there is a crushing pain inside the chest, this is a physical manifestation of the emotional experience as ...
Bullys are the small group who should perish not by voilence, but by non violence, words not fists, thats the awnser to our problem.
You realize you've never walked in another person's shoes. Never have. Never will. The same is true in adoption. There are three sets of adoption ...
Let me clarify it through the national news agency that I am not joining Aam Aadmi Party. There has been reports that I will be ...
We weep as we witness the dead of a loved one.
Over your body the clouds goHigh, high and icilyAnd a little flat, as if theyFloated on a glass that was invisible.Unlike swans, Having no reflections;Unlike ...
Beware! Success is not what you think it is. It's a trap.
I have Twitter auto-post to my Facebook page, and I occasionally post things directly to Facebook as well. I've always noticed that the direct-to-Facebook approach ...
Ah! Indeed but! But he consumes too much spice, eats it like candy. Look at his eyes! He might have come directly from the Arrakeen ...
Whether you like it or not, alcohol helps to create emotional links between humans, too.
I, for instance, have a great deal of AMOUR PROPRE. I am as suspicious and prone to take offence as a humpback or a dwarf.
So you get two good hours on the field about every day, you get about an hour and a half in the meeting room and ...
He lay tensed beneath the worn blanket and tried, as always, to shut out the noise of the rumbling carts that, empty now, having deposited ...
Kids store 10.000 songs on the home computer, after having pricked them on the Net. The company, of the deputies, the senators find that virtuous! ...
Speak openly. There is no one I trust more than Lutian. (Adara)He's a half-wit, my queen. (Xerus)Half-wit, whole-wit, I have enough of them to know ...
Understand ... I don't hate her, I hate what she's become. I hate her illness.
It's easier to say (I'm going to be myself and if anyone wants to be with me, then she/he has to accept me as I ...
I spent many years trying to make up reasons about why I had the flashbacks, memories, continuous nightmares. When I finally decided to quit trying ...
'America's Next Top Model' is not a bunch of Barbies - it's a lot of girls that are atypically beautiful.
I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know ...
The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger is now brought home, smiling gamely, with a broken collarbone and incredible contusions- 'it ...
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of anextreme politeness is ...
Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends well.
His dagger was out, poised at her throat. Sing, little bird. Sing for your little life.
To go out in a gondola at night is to reconstruct in one's imagination the true Venice, the Venice of the past alive with romance, ...