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Lydia shook her head. "This is my life. Getting yelled at in a Walmart parking lot on a Friday night by somebody doing a bad ...

Consciousness-Based Education is just plugging us all into the beautiful, eternal field within, and then watching things get better, which is what happens. It's a ...

Well, I'll tell you, one of things I'm proud of is for someone from Southern California, who didn't grow up around coal mines, I learned ...

She was wet for him. Ready. This is a mistake. Julia raked her nails down his back. "Fuck, you feel good." This is the best ...

The last time anyone did anything wrong in this town, Hades's men found those responsible and dragged them back here in chains. You would have ...

This is not the proper place to begin speaking of this new passion of Ivan Fyodorovich's, which later affected his whole life: it could all ...

Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career.

I have read only the first 'Harry Potter' book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since The Hobbit. I ...

I nearly fell asleep over Dickens in English. Mind you, he's snoozeworthy at the best of times.

We are alike in many ways, you and I. There is darkness in us. Darkness, pain, death. They radiate from us. If ever you love ...

Follow your heart a little more and listen to your head a little less.

Not everyone understand everything.

It's the lack of ambition that cripples most people, and makes them so pedestrian in the advertising/creative business

A hungry man can be a fast learner. When you come to a table with nothing but need, you are grateful for things you might ...

Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling ... we made the discovery (some people never make it) that real ...

Probably the most fun I've ever had, actually, acting. Because it was the perfect extension of the stuff that I'd started to do on Late ...

I play Dr. Karen Boyer in 'Spies Like Us.' She's strong, intelligent and dedicated and just happens to be beautiful.

And it's true. It's so true. All those years of loving Zik because he never asked about Eve ... I never realized, I never understood. ...

You can do everything you can to try to stop bad things from happening to you, but eventually things will happen, so the best prevention ...

And mine's a bubble not blown up for praise, But just to play with, as an infant plays.

I'm not good at living in the grim places ... when we did Gatsby, I lived in Claridges, that's where I wanted to live. I ...

Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.

In tennis, at the end of the day you're a winner or a loser. You know exactly where you stand ... I don't need that ...

It wasn't like I ever said, 'I want to be an actor.' I was in the right place at the right time. I went to ...

For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, ...

Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.

The black instrument on the hall table trilled its hysterical note over and over, like a nervous bird.

A feeling erupted in my stomach, like nothing would ever be the same again. Like good karma was catching up with me. Like someone had ...

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat ...

Such a slender moon, going up and up, Waxing so fast from night to night, And swelling like an orange flower-bud, bright, Fated, methought, to ...

Pigpen is in his late twenties and thinks he's all handsome with his blonde hair and big muscles. Because he was a Navy SEAL or ...

It's better to be a pirate than to join the navy.

As you get ready to walk out under the bright lights of the improvisational stage of the rest of your life be bold. Don't always ...

I will always believe in love and I don't care what happens to me or how many times I get my heart broken, or how ...

Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together; it doesn't end there.

Today, if you're an American business, you actually get a benefit for going overseas. You get to defer your taxes. So if you're looking at ...

We are doing what Prince did. Everyone that comes to a show billed as An Evening with Journey will get our new CD. We figured ...

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as ...

As you recognize that you already own the wholeness you seek, and no one outside you can give you more than you already are, dysfunctional ...

The fans are bad everywhere you go, with language, and with behavior. You can't put enough cops in the stands, but you ought to give ...

We learn the language of prayer by immersing ourselves in the language that God uses to reveal Himself to us.

AMELIA: To my friends, and family: You all may be batsh*t crazy, but even if I got to choose, I'd still choose to be with ...

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 ...

And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges ...

My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to works ...

Perhaps the best of us are the silent ones; those who believe in themselves and understand their place in the universe with no desire to ...

The sleeping beauty in the fairy tale was awakened by the kiss of her prince. Finley woke up to the over-whelming and oh-so-not-delightful smell of ...

Ladies, let this be a lesson. People always say you need to be nice to nerds, because you might end up working for them some ...

Remember that nothing is so damaging to self-esteem as waiting for a telephone or door-bell that doesn't ring.

For once, I wished I wasn't so broken, so Rhian had a best friend who was strong and not afraid to love, to hold up ...

The book of Jonah is one of the shortest books in the Bible. Yet, something beneath the surface whispers to us, hinting that there is ...

When spring knocks at your door, regardless of the time of year or season of our lives, run, do not walk to that door, throw ...

The best way to get a sense of what kinds of emergencies might present themselves in your community is by contacting local chapters of the ...

Storytelling explores the problem with people. Stories without conflict are bad stories that no one repeats. Conflict describes the reality of human life and interaction ...

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

It is better to be feared than loved. - MACHIAVELLI

People should be nice to you, Leonard. You're a human being. You should expect people to be nice.

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 ...

Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the ...

There is nothing to fear. There is no such thing as death. Death has nothing to do with us. But you said something about being ...

I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake ...

The beauty of being a woman, as the French say, "of a certain age", is that I can be invisible. Young people, both men and ...

When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened ...

In the past generation, the American educational system has decided not to seek the very best teachers, give them lots of kids to teach, and ...

I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.

Violence, as it is for the mafia and most other criminal organizations, was bad for pirate business. By doing battle with prey, pirates risked damage ...

There is such an overvaluation of technology stocks that it is absurd. I would include our stock in that category. It is bad for the ...

I don't want any man I can run over. What I love about a man in control is it allows them to be the kings ...

Sometimes, we use the term 'growth' as a number and sometimes as an abstraction, but the underlying implication is always that, if the country grows ...

At its core, every battle worth fighting is a spiritual battle. Those men were able to succeed only because they humbled themselves and entrusted the ...

How much better if life were more like books, if life lied a little more, and gave up its stubborn and boring adherence to the ...

The issue isn'tnor should it ever behow weak our child is, but rather how strong our God is.

Your potentialities are a great deal better than anyone ever permitted you to believe.

Let your dreams be bigger than your fears, your actions louder than your words, and your faith stronger than your feelings ...

There is pressure that comes with everything being a big deal. I remember thinking, 'I need to survive the Shins. I don't know what I'm ...

An army isn't made of its officers, you know, though we officers like to think it is. An army is no better than its men, ...

I believe that if you go on a date and get to second base and then you go home alone and rub one out, that's ...

We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.

Let us make of our homes sanctuaries of righteousness, places of prayer, and abodes of love, that we might merit the blessings that can come ...

Brains are an asset, if you hide them.

How will the fact of being women have affected our lives? What precise opportunities have been given us, and which ones have been denied? What ...

Money needs to be sown into a fertile soil as a seed. We need to invest it for it to benefit us.

The legends on the tombstones are eventually worn away as the stone is eroded by rain and wind and centuries. Better to slip away quietly ...

Being vegetarian here also means that we do not consume dairy and egg products, because they are products of the meat industry. If we stop ...

You must always, always tell the truth. If you are mad, say so. If someone asks you anything, try to find the exact words to ...

You know that feeling just before you're going to laugh? That thing where you get all bubbled up? ... It's like a bubble of laughter, ...

If doing the most you can for others means that you are also flourishing, then that is the best possible outcome for everyone.

The time will come when all people will view with horror light way in which society and its courts of law now take human life; ...

Each being in the universe yearns for the free energy necessary for survival and development. Each existence resists extinction. The consequent history of violence in ...

The battle against the devil, which is the principal task of Saint Michael the Archangel, is still being fought today, because the devil is still ...

I have always liked the contrast between being blonde and having dark features.

No. Sorry. You have spent months being the biggest jerk to me. You don't get to decide to like me one day and think I ...

Nothing is black or white, nothing's 'us or them.' But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There's incredible acts of kindness and ...

If this country [America] is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to produce wealth not health.

I was doing an investigative article on arms trafficking that was taking me through Eastern Europe and the Middle East. And after I had interviewed ...

Let the radiance of light be your guide.

To give you an idea what it feels like to be going in with some of the best baseball players of all-time, I mean it ...

I get pressure from my audience and my agents to be a 'good girl,' and I'm in the public eye, so if I mess up, ...

I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving life in prison, ...