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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy ...
There is no age barrier when it comes to Christlike service.
It's fun conjuring what people will be wearing in the future. We exist in this world today, and yet there are people walking around who ...
I honestly think you're the most insane and infuriating woman I've ever met. I knew from the moment you gave me a tour of my ...
The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It's all about: Take responsibility, don't blame others. Be ...
There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.
Only when I heard her bedroom door open and close did I give in to my beast instincts and do a wild animal dance around ...
No one will touch you." Not ever. Even after death he would protect his woman with the sheer force of his motherfucking will. "Tell me ...
I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely. You do that and you go through some withdrawals in ...
For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?
Lara Jones never fails to tell me that my reading about war makes me weird, but I can't get her fascination with reading abour fairies ...
Dagny, why is it that most women would never admit that, but you do?""Because they're never sure that they ought to be wanted. I am.""I ...
Glib tongues frill up their hash of knowledgefor mankind in polished speechesthat are no more than vaporous windsrustling the fallen leaves in autumn.
I've had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me. Or it did, anyway. I think I've gotten over it. ...
There is definitely something sexy about a girl with an attitude and a pair of leather pants.
Fortune, how fickle and how vain thou art,
This town must learn,even against its will, how much it coststo scorn a God's mysteries and to be purged.So shall I vindicate my virgin motherand ...
There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves. People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after ...
I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very ...
The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.
DREAMS are the ones that WAKE you, SHAKE you and make YOU..........................................
I wondered if there would ever be a day when I didn't think about Alaska, wondered whether I should hope for a time when she ...
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn ...
I'm grateful for my whole family, but my dad is like Obi-Wan Kenobi, Superman, and Evel Knievel all at one time. I can think I ...
You should've just gotten a kids' meal." Adrian told me, pointing to my half-eaten burger and fries. "You could've saved me a lot of money. ...
Think of me that way," he continued. A slight shimmer glinted acrosse his eyes. "In a sense, I'm giving my life for those ... I ...
These composers," Captain Nemo answered me, "are the contemporaries of Orpheus, because in the annals of the dead, all chronological differences fade; and
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, ...
I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to ...
Jane saw the little note and ignored it, for she was very angry and hurt and mortified, but - she was a woman, and so ...
Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or ...
The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some ...
His foe was folly and his weapon wit.
Democrats' attack on the Republican majority leader is nothing but a coordinated agenda to stop an effective leader from accomplishing the people's business.
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
Luke doesn't see the scar on my face; perphaps he never did. He saw the scars on the inside. We were equally damaged, me and ...
There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
Roland of Gilead responded as he ever had and ever would when such useless, mystifying questions were raised: 'Ka.
Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking ...
As long as amoxicillin is given to our children who have pneumococci in their noses and throats, whether harmless or not, antibiotic resistance is inevitable.
Someone so annoying didn't deserve to look that good.
The greatest sin of airline management of the last 22 years is to say, "It's all labor's fault."
Shoot for the moon, the worst that could happen is you land amongst the stars
Most people are overconfident about their own abilities. That is probably a good thing. But we would be horrified if a physician's aide engaged in ...
It wasn't every day a girl lost her virginity, not to mention to a delicious, perfect specimen of man. One who had wings, to boot.
Any time a running back reaches the age of 31 or 32, he has to lose a step. No one is a freak of nature. ...
Deep down Kelly, I think you want me here. I think you're too damn scared to admit you need me. And I think I'm the ...
What had once been grand houses were divided meanly into many small apartments, let at prices out of all proportion to what wages it was ...
I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride ...
I didn't feel like I'd really won anything, but I had come through the day no worse off than I'd come into it, which, as ...
There are no more battles between good and evil, no more monsters to slay, no maidens in need of rescue. Most maidens areare perfectly capable ...
I'm not pretty. The truth is I didn't think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on ...
The workouts have positively impacted the astronauts' bones and muscles, and they are coming back in really good shape. But some are losing bone and ...
To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a ...
This is the man who called the fire department when the toilet backed up, and I'm asking him for help. What was I thinking? Why ...
I've traveled. All over. I've never seen anything like you. How could anything be put together like you? Do you know how beautiful you are? ...
We are much better able to evaluate someone else's behavior than we are our own.
You've read accounts of attempts by the Sixth University at Arcara to capture a stone eater for study, two Seasons back. The result was the ...
Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
The only relationship where you'll never have your heart broken is the relationship between you and Allah.
Children are not unforgiving. You can punish them and they will hug you in a few minutes.
I love TV. I watch more TV than most people you know.
But one need not believe in psychic powers to cut through the illusion of the self. Accomplishing this can be elusive enough. If I've met ...
Akagi, the man named Akagi Shigeru. Money, fame, power... all the things that most people desire... he never set his sights on such things. All ...
I want to towel off, leave my heart on this beach and walk the sand into a lake of stars, while never looking back.
I'm like an American Girl doll on crack.
Love is when you don't care about your feelings but care for & respect the feelings and value of the one you love
Continues in book 3 of the series: Long Night Moon. If you'd like to know when I publish a new book, visit my website to ...
Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our ...
Physician of the Iron Age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear And struck ...
In 1856, shortly before his death, Lord Ellesmere gave the painting to the new National Portrait Gallery in London as its founding work. As the ...
Don Jose Avellanos depended very much upon the devotion of his beloved Antonia. He accepted it in the benighted way of men, who, though made ...
Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.
Israelis are a mix of North African, Levantine, and Eastern European, which inflames the politics but does amazing things for the women.
I don't know what I'll be in the future, Anakin, but I know you'll be a great Jedi Knight."- Jacen Solo
Your very great pardon, Cousin," said Sphene, "but this having meetings so we can plan to have meetings business is bullshit. I want to talk ...
If I die of heatstroke, I want to be reincarnated as a beauty queen, I thought. Ma-experience ko man lang na sumakay ng pink na ...
They [NPR] are, of course, Nazis. They have a kind of Nazi attitude. They are the left wing of Nazism. These guys don't want any ...
I have been thinking about the girl I met last night in the mirror: dark on the marble-ivory white: glossy black hair: deep suspiring eyes ...
When it comes to foreign policy, it is important to remember that politics stops at the water's edge.
It was dark inside the apartment, the lights were dimmed completely and the sky outside the bay window was a starless void. It was as ...
I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.
When you're leading, you're generally trying to lead change, and I think it was Roy Amara, who said about technology, "We tend to overestimate the ...
Those are not the tears of repentance! ... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, ...
The moment Kafka attracts more attenetion than Joseph K., Kafka's posthumous death begins.
Love, it turns out, is as undemocratic as money, so it accumulates around people who have plenty of it already: the sane, the healthy, the ...
Every player has the option to have metal spikes or other spikes or whatever they feel most comfortable in.
For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.
I understand that the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, astatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the ...
When someone loves you, there's nothing they won't do for you. When they stop loving you, there's nothing they will.
Suddenly, stupidly, she started singing: "If Adelita went off with another man.
Fine." Patrick muttered without confidence. "Anything is better than waiting around here." "Time for a little family reunion." Johnny remarked. At the agreement, the four ...
It almost contradicts itself," she says after a moment. "It's as if there is love and loss at the same time, together in a kind ...
You'll never truly know what alone is, until you're on the brink of death with no one to rely on. But after finding the strength ...
In the long history of male and female relations all the way back to the Garden, I can't think of one in which a woman's ...
We all grieve in our own ways," Avasarala said. "For what it's worth, you'll never kill enough people to keep your platoon from dying. No ...
Two messengers covered with dust come to bid me fly, but I wait for him.
The thing that makes me happy is that I know that on Mars, two hundred years from now, my books are going to be read. ...
The association with allergies also serves to imply a genetic predisposition for the illness, and this can help to predict who may be at risk ...