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This is a book about lost faith and blaming God when He allows bad things to happen to good people. But, it is also about ...
A storm was brewing. The wind has picked up and a mass of purple clouds was coming in from the West. It felt good to ...
To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.
Happy he who forgets what cannot be changed.
There's no moral issue for me. I did the best science I could. I was struggling to survive and didn't have the luxury of being ...
Someone has said that after age forty, each of us pretty much deserves the face he is wearing. He designed it form the inside.
Maybe the goal in America is to have an easy life, and so we find it too disgraceful to tell the truth. I meet a ...
Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.
Human beings tend to be conservative,so if you lie, you'll probably be closer to the truth.
Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.
I'm a great believer in stunt doubles. They do an amazing job.
But fundamentally, I don't think of it as an alien-invasion movie; everybody's here, kind of, right? So, I think it's probably more of an action-adventure ...
It's interesting to me; you do four, five or six of these Comic Cons or things like that across the country a year. Obviously, I ...
That's a sound design thing but then we wanted to do music that would not disturb it and at the same time drive it.
Yes, alas, I've been on some recording sessions where the music wasn't good. Not so many, really, considering how many I've done. It's a very ...
Love is the art of hearts, and heart or arts.
Even if one is familiar with the precise meaning of everything one recites, the act of worship can hardly have any significance at all unless ...
Many people are walking along the shore, turning poetic springtime faces towards the sea; they're having a holiday because of the sun. [ ... ] ...
I Know an easier way to fix though,Oh Yeah? I am all ears, because it's giving me a fit. Trade it for a chevy
Now, are you happy? Have you finally achieved all you set out to do? What will you do next, little assassin, with no one left ...
Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living ...
The best way to filter out the bad seeds was to place a job ad for Prime Minister in a national newspaper and all those ...
That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness.
I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. ...
I'm one dude that writes his adlibs. I don't just go in there and say "Gimme a track." I say what I'ma say here [then] ...
For what else is nostalgia but this? That immense ache in the heart that seems immeasurable, massive, spilling over the future that longs for things ...
I'm not one for being too profound, but I will say this. If you wanna have a good time, if you wanna drink a little ...
The saddest fact in the world was that you could meet a person who changed your life forever, and they weren't the one you ended ...
Sure, one can always get the students to relax and be happy - entertained, but although being laid back and relax can also lead to ...
Here I sit, sober and perhaps even lucid, on the sort of winter's day that makes you realize a New Year is just around the ...
Can't you see that you had to be a reckless drifter to bring ... people a bit of child's folly and child's laughter wherever you ...
The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but ...
I am the lover's gift; I am the wedding wreath;I am the memory of a moment of happiness;I am the last gift of the living ...
In theater, you go in-depth with your character, so coming to the States, it was inevitable to dig into the pilots I liked. I knew ...
That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the ...
What religion is he of?Why, he is an Anythingarian.
Thinking is contagious ... so choose whom you surround yourself with carefully! Or at least take precautions so as not to infect yourself with other ...
You think about, like, [20th-century classical composers] Alban Berg, Schoenberg, and Webern sitting around in some living room in Vienna and being like, "We are ...
They just expected it to you know ... Paul, Steve and I could have hired our own publicist, if we wanted to, but I kind ...
He wondered if this was what people were doing - were they making dinners with their family, holding babies, recounting days? Was this what life ...
I'm in agony: I want the colorful, confused and mysterious mixture of nature. All the plants and algae, bacteria, invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals ...
If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color ...
Weigh each heart on its own," I shouted, "for how many of us would pass into the Afterlife if Osiris weighed our hearts with those ...
The word "mathematics" is a Greek word and, by origin, it means "something that has been learned or understood," or perhaps "acquired knowledge," or perhaps ...
I don't know what I expected from my first meeting with Peeta after the announcement. A few hugs and kisses. A little comfort maybe. Not ...
Having a daughter and a grandson, I certainly could relate to the fact that this child, who you simply dote on, being taken away from ...
I grew up in the '50s, in New York City, where television was born. There were 90 live shows every week, and they used a ...
They fled. The American louts fled. Indeed, concerning the fighting waged by the heroes of the Arab Socialist Baath Party yesterday, one amazing thing really ...
Communication and Connection Skillful Self-Expression What Do We Want? The Culture of Disparagement Appreciative Inquiry Gossip Paying Attention The Realm of Email Teamwork The Ripple ...
I believe that my experience as an HBO executive responsible for global marketing and communications should serve our country well as we tell America's story ...
I've heard it said: 'By his home you shall know him'; and we all know that we must pay attention to anyone who reverses the ...
If he were any other man, I might have suspected him of substance abuse, of being coked up or something. But Barrons was too much ...
The amazing thing about an artistic collaboration is that it is as intense and intimate as a romantic one. Sometimes even more so.
To be a black male is to be always at war, and no flight to the county can save us, because even there we are ...
The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination - not vice versa.
I'm not a representative of the military establishment. I came in with the Reagan Administration in 1981 as a presidential appointee.
He was big ... all over. The lioness in her purred, and she was disgusted with the animal. Looks were not everything. So what if ...
People ask me if my shoes were too small when I was a kid and I say it wouldn't matter how fight my shoes were, ...
Is it possible for white America to really understand blacks' distrust of the legal system, their fears of racial profiling and the police, without understanding ...
Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.
Oh God, that hurts," she whimpered."What hurts?" Kye asked, sounding concerned. "The invisible man pounding spikes into my head.""That doesn't sound good. Maybe you should ...
A creative writer is one for whom writing is a problem.
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
I don't believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The ...
Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter.
One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ...
The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.
The wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as asults, to our grudge against our ...
Keep off your thoughts from things that are past and done; for thinking of the past wakes regret and pain.
No, don't draw away from me. Whatever else I am, I am your son - your most wretched son. If you do not hate me, ...
It's morning when I go to sleepIn the distant dawn a church bell ringsAnother day is coming onA baby's born, an old man diesSomewhere young ...
How could they possibly be Japanese planes?
I think, therefore I am. My fingers that caress these rose and frangipani petals are a result of my thoughts. I feel content, tender. I ...
I have been under the influence- of boggling information over the years.
Dose who love deep never grow old ... Dey may die of age, but dey die young.
Covert action is by definition outside the ambit of democracy.
Automattic's mission has always been very aligned with WordPress itself, which is to democratise publishing.
We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.
When 'Foyle's War' ended in 2010 after seven series, I was sad but not despondent. After all, ITV had already axed the show once in ...
I wish for a moment that time would lift me out of this day, and into some more benign one. But then I feel guilty ...
The early 1990s was a time of great advancements in precooked bacon technology. Pork producers, food labs, and agricultural schools such as Iowa State University ...
It seems to me that so much unhappiness in life comes not from a lack of answers, but from a lack of knowing the right ...
I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.
Again, if I was going to call Romney and the Republicans stupid, I'm certainly not going to call the Democrats and President Obama stupid.
I cannot give any assurances. I'm not in that business. I haven't been, and I don't intend to get into it. People who try to ...
Are you . . . are you the athask? The great one?" "Maybe," said Mogget. "I can't remember." "Mogget,
We create eternity out of crumbs of time.
An old advertising maxim says you've got to spell out the benefit of the benefit. In other words, people don't buy quarter-inch drill bits. They ...
I feel like because black Cuban artists don't have the kind of pressure to thematize race in the way that African-American artists do, there's more ...
People are drawn to preaching that is passionate and offered with conviction. Passion comes when the preacher has spent significant time with the text, and ...
They travel through the heartland, past cold factories and drifty towns, to the old, old mountains slumbering east of Tennessee.
You find the wrong boy, you ask for trouble. You find the right boy, you find love.
Amanuensis. A rapt
Hay una estrella mas abiertaque la palabra 'amapola'?Is there a star more wide openthan the word 'poppy?
SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. ...
Tchotchka. Amorta. Heart of my heart. Speak to me.
I think today's athletes generally are spoiled by what's happened to salaries, but I also think that golfers have maintained the best demeanor of any ...
I stood in the wind and tried to get through the moment.
These women need to feel that we're all aware of what they may be going through, to give them the confidence to speak out.
However, even the healthiest human heart skips a beat now and then, and so does music.