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If we go somewhere on foot, we know the way perfectly, whereas if we go by car or airplane, we are hardly there at all. ...

For, has not the world come to an awfully sophisticated pass, when, after a certain degree of acquaintance with it, we cannot even put ourselves ...

Ahmadinijad was stupid enbough to be a wolf in wolf's clothing, to expose his teeth and nails and alert the west. I can be a ...

That, apparentlu, was what happened when one fell in love. One's brains were sucked away, or turned gelatinous.

Pray to God. She will help you.

Baking may be regarded as a science, but it's the chemistry between the ingredients and the cook that gives desserts life. Baking is done out ...

The future comes one day at a time [so don't fear and try to solve all the worries and problems of the future today].

Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.

Human beings are like the screwed-up children of alcoholic parents in that way, picking up the pieces afterward and trying to make up reasons why.

Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests.

Make movies you love because it's miserable. Every movie I've worked on at one point or another is exhausting, and you feel like you're making ...

He looks up, sees me in the window, and jumps a little. Good. Let him think I'm a weird Mexican place mat ghost.

The best criterion by which to decide whether someone has been forced outside the pale of the law is to ask if he would benefit ...

Sam was saying it didn't matter, but it kind of did, too. "Save your kraut poetry for Grace," I said, after a pause. "You're getting ...

Each human being has the right to two blessings: getting things right and getting things wrong. In the latter case, there will always be a ...

Perhaps Zeus was king, but I was Spartan, a princess twice over, and queen of Athens besides. I knew my duty. And I would rule ...

The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the possibility of having ...

In America, millions of dogs and cats euthanized in animal shelters every year become the food for our food (twice as many such animals are ...

I wished I could take her to the library and hand her over to the librarians. Please teach her about everything, I'd say.

Nothing was anything until someone defined it. Nothing was inevitable. Nothing was inviolate. Everything existed, perhaps, by the act of faith, and we were always ...

Alfriston is a compact village set around a rather traffic-weary High Street, mainly of old, timbered buildings. The principal sights lie to the east on ...

I haven't baked a child in ... decades!Aunt Maddy from Anbgela's Coven #covenbooks

Go to hell, I'm reading!

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the ...

Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.

The atmosphere of our time is fast being cleared of the fumes and deadly gases that arose during the carboniferous age of theology.

Sometimes a thing is - too much - and it has to be isolated and put away." Martin shrugged. "So what's in the boxes is ...

Men of success meet with tragedy. It was the will of God that I won the Olympics, and it was the will of God that ...

Anorexics never have boyfriends ... That's one way to know you don't have anorexia, if you have a boyfriend.

The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glassBut my alchemy has transmuted glass into flintPharaohs of today have stalked me in vain

4Behold, as for the aproud one, His soul is not right within him; But the brighteous will live by his 1faith.

Ah, dream too bright to last! Ah, starry Hope! that didst arise But to be overcast! A voice from out the Future cries, "On! on!" ...

Dash is for sure straight!" Boomer announced. "He has a super-pretty ex-girlfriend named Sofia, who I think he still has a thing for, and also, ...

A lot of characters now on TV have moved into being anti-heroes, but I wanted to be the hero.

My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target. The best example of this was the Apollo project in ...

Passion and hunger are the two ingredients that I look for in first making the judgment on - whether an athlete, an assistant coach, or ...

Faith is the andtidote for fear

In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.

No real fairytale scared me, but Freddy Krueger did. 'Nightmare on Elm Street' scared the living hell out of me, but no fairytale. Maybe 'Hansel ...

A lot has been written and said about why he was so great, but I think the best way to appreciate his greatness is just ...

God has always been hard on the poor.

Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all ...

We agree that it's the same for everyone; not only for us here, but everywhere, for everyone who is of our age; to some more, ...

The eternal God asks a favor of his bride: "Hold me close to your heart, close as locket or bracelet fits." No matter whether we ...

Knowledge is a funny thing, Auron. The more of it that's in your head, the more your head can hold. It breeds on its own. ...

The Holy Apostolic See and the Roman Pontiff have primacy in the entire world. The Roman Pontiff is the Successor of Blessed Peter, the Prince ...

All green was anished sae of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue; Sae the green holly with its berries red, And the ...

Snake my way into her bed? You dont' know your roomate well do you? She jumped me and rode me til I was cross-eyed!~Jack

Education is education, be it verbal or written.

We all die one day, but jewels never fade or perish. Through our children we live. That's how we cheat death.

Christmas can be the end of emptiness and waywardness; The beginning of happiness and purposefulness.

No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven here today to make ...

The author apologizes for being unable to afford a ghost writer, which explains the lack of a distinctive prose style.

Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time ...

There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture, which tends to be very slow, accretive kind of ...

Well, I never been to HeavenBut I been to OklahomaWell, they tell me I was born thereBut I really don't rememberIn Oklahoma, not ArizonaWhat does ...

Then I have an ivory chair high to sit upon, Almost like my father's chair, which is an ivory throne; There I sit uplift and ...

Whereas orthodox Christianity answers Jesus' question to Peter - "Who do you say I am?" (Mark 8:29) - by affirming that Christ was both God ...

Each person may see a fight in different ways ... They can see more to a primal way. Others they can see in a pure ...

There are many Welsh who are taciturn, truthful, well formed, open minded, handsome and peaceful, even if no particular individual immediately springs to mind.

There is only one way to kill capitalism - by taxes, taxes, and more taxes.

As any doctor can tell you, the most crucial step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If the disease is precisely identified, a good ...

What's this shit?" Ray demanded, looking at the salesclerk. "Honey, truth hurts, but ain't no way you're a Magnum." "Well, I ain't no medium!" The ...

I shall hold myself particularly answerable to my constituents for my present conduct, and in general to all my fellow Citizens throughout these States, when ...

Like every comedian, if I heard a joke that I thought would work, I used it.

It doesn't matter how many times you leave, it will always hurt to come back and remember what you once had and who you once ...

He'd tried fishing, dancing, gambling and drink, allegedly four of life's greatest pleasures, and wasn't sure that he saw the point. Food he was happy ...

Despite the enormous role that local government plays in our daily lives, the constitution makes not one mention of it.

Evolution is more about adaptivity than adaptability.

I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of ...

My dream of happiness: a quiet spot by the Jamaican seashore ... hearing the wind sob with the beauty and the tragedy of everything. Sitting ...

It's really hard when people write nasty things about you all the time. As much as good things are said about you, it's always those ...

Empower the people around you, from the janitor to the athletic director. You do that by being sincere, caring about others, and then putting it ...

Heart broken-he felt a deep ache in his chest, like that of a sore muscle, and each beat of his heart pained him

Knowing how to age and not being afraid of aging is very healthy.

Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.

You see, the richest people I know don't always understand what is going on. They don't always like what they see. But they have a ...

Alexandra Horowitz's book Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know should be required reading for anyone adopting a rescue dog or buying ...

Catholic education aims not only to communicate facts but also to transmit a coherent, comprehensive vision of life, in the conviction that the truths contained ...

There is so much to say. It is like shoving all the sand of the world into an hourglass. Or trying to get it out.

I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where ...

Followers of another political party tell us that we will strengthen ourselves by ignoring our history, our traditions, our mythologies, our culture and vision, and ...

For a moment the image before us is frozen: our world, our lives, reduced to a handful broken stars half lost in uncharted space. Then ...

Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.

Among the aimless, unsuccessful or worthless, you often hear talk about 'killing time.' The man who is always killing time is really killing his own ...

He was a portly man, aslop in coffee and gravid with Danish pastry.

I think when something becomes a comfortable genre, it's against what street art stood for in the beginning - breaking out of genres and taking ...

I'd rather argue with you, angel, than laugh with anyone else."Jesus. It took me a minute to be able to swallow the last bite in ...

January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Year's resolutions. February is even better, though, because ...

She can paint a pretty picture but this story has a twist. The paintbrush is a razor and the canvas is her wrist.

We live in a nation where education and free thought are tantamount to treason, and I have to ask, under these circumstances, is treason such ...

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

A society can never be free without women's liberation

How many people have died for the Boy Who Lived?

I've always tried to not let movie, television or theatre be all that my life is about. I've always tried to get involved in the ...

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, ...

By morning she was dead. She had not died of starvation or committed suicide by any conventional means. She had simply willed herself to die, ...

If we accept a mere tenth of what animal-rights activists are claiming, then modern industrial agriculture might well be the greatest crime in history. When

I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a ...