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McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.
My blood ran cold. Twenty yards away a hooded figure was crouching behind the oak tree, flashing a pinpoint light into the office where Walter ...
It would be helpful if we opened up ANWR. I think it's a mistake not to. And I would urge you all to travel up ...
As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.
If movies and music are vehicles for emotionally "hooking" people into Hollywood worldviews, then the best countermeasure is to create more compelling, more beautiful forms ...
You may never see a Rembrandt or the Sistine Chapel, but aren't you glad as a human being they are still there? Probably the only ...
As Christians, we should be the best collaborators in the world. We should be quick to find unlikely allies and subversive friends, like Jesus did.
Getting angry can sometimes be like leaping into a wonderfully responsive sports car, gunning the motor, taking off at high speed and then discovering the ...
Be thankful, joyful and prayerful.
Only that which serves no end is beautiful; everything useful is ugly.
I always wanted to be a renaissance woman, do as many things as I possibly can and hopefully do them well or don't do them ...
I am blessed to live and work in [France,] a country where women filmmakers are by and large not unfairly treated. So I wouldn't have ...
... when people love you, they show up. Sometimes that means that they get to bail you out of trouble. It's not bad when that ...
In planning anything, the best place to begin is at the end. What outcome do you want? How do you want the story to end? ...
I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just as ...
I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It's 'cause ...
There I was, clinging to the scraps of happiness that I could finally feel again: coffee and books and an afternoon with my best friend. ...
THESE ARE BEAUTIFUL PROPERTIES with basketball courts, bathroom facilities, toilet facilities. Many young people would love to get the hell out of cities
The journey to the light starts with a candle. Once it's lit, darkness has gone forever.
Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.
We created a new kind of agency ... We had to retrain our people. But the corporations that will be successful will be those that ...
I believe that it is the task of social science to produce nuanced and people-centered forms of knowledge, correcting asymmetries of information and helping to ...
Yellow joy was radiating from her. When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over. It was ...
I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own ...
Among the cognoscenti, though, it is not just about elaborate new flavors. I always consider the main test of ice cream to be the simple ...
I've had a blessed life. I've pulled back from trying to control my destiny and gone back to accepting whatever fate has in store for ...
A person whom one has loved seems altogether too significant a thing to simply vanish altogether from the world. A person whom one loves is ...
You lose, you smile, and you come back the next day. You win, you smile, you come back the next day.
Our job is to become more and more of what we are. The growth of a poet seems to be related to his or her ...
I guess that's the thing about a hero's journey. You might not start out a hero, and you might not even come back that way. ...
Our love is perfect. And even though we may not be, our love creates a bridge that spans over our imperfections and joins us where ...
Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like, so that the ...
I'm very low-maintenance, and that is a problem. I'm not demanding at all, and sometimes I feel that I should be throwing tantrums. But since ...
You know, you kind of lose some self-confidence after having kids because you'll never be the way you were. But I feel good.
We create our own reality. The blessing (or problem) with this is that when one creates one's own reality, one must live it! Are you ...
Some of us teach ourselves and our children to love the superficial outer; our looks, hair, skin, clothes rather than the greater beauty that resides ...
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 ...
Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever ...
I'm weird. I'm not too focused on the physicality of a man. They just have to become my best friend, and then I start to ...
I know there's evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don't need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. ...
Your mother doesn't make mistakes." I hear her blow out the smoke. "Baby, I know what I'm doing.
If you have a brother or sister, tell them you love them every day - that's the most beautiful thing. I told my sister how ...
I feel like I have to do the best job I can to basically say, "OK, I understand - you have every right to be ...
It's rare to see a man step up and say "I can be a great father and learn about gymnastics with my daughter and take ...
It's really important to not allow rejection to define who you are. Just because someone did not value or approve of you does not mean ...
There is no such thing as justice, all the best that we can hope for is revenge.
Sacredness and profanity and prayers and wishes: they're all held together by the broken limbs of this dead tree, raking the night sky with its ...
For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and ...
Imagine the week ahead unfolding in an ever-increasing flow of miracles. Allow the image to sink into your heart. Receive it with a big yes!
Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.
Enjoy the blessings Heaven bestows, Assist his friends, forgive his foes; Trust God, and keep his statutes still, Upright and firm, through good and ill; ...
Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from ...
I like a fragrance that you notice and want to find out more about - get a bit closer. I don't want to walk in ...
You know, I like to think my life is kind of like the books I read, only I'm the author. I can write the story ...
She sits down at the end of my bed again. "Who were you with? Do you have a boyfriend now or something?"I can't help but ...
Julian gave his brother a slow, sweet smile. In that smile was all the love and wonder of the little boy who'd lost his brother ...
Hubert's wife, Mindy, was a tiny powerhouse of a woman with a halo of wild blond hair and eye makeup so complex it took me ...
This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
I get scared when I approach teachers and tell them that I'll probably be able to attend only half the classes, .. I'm scared that ...
No matter what transpires between us, in this life or in any other, I will be with you always. You really are my soul mate. ...
I think the best thing I could ever teach my daughter is that she's not an object or a trophy, and that she can trust ...
Nature is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best when others are asleep. In the still dark hours before sunrise God tells me ...
The beauty of a society is not just in the laws upon which the society revolves, but how the society regards, upholds and obeys the ...
My mom could be really fierce. A regular Frau Badass.
Ashes are all around the desolate ground. What beauty could behold the darkness of a soul? -Keeley ...
So when they win, it's their hard workAnd when they lose, it's their bad luck
Whatever else the election of Barack Obama represented - some have called it redemption, others have called it the triumph of style over substance - ...
Won't You guide me through the dark night of the soul That I may better understand Your way ... Let me purify my thoughts and ...
I've always said people say on a dramatic show, 'I was crying. It was so emotional when he went and grabbed that little girl from ...
Caroline smiled and waved and blew kisses to both of them as she exited the building. But once outside she felt sad and let down, ...
Emotional states are fairly quick bursts of neuronal gossip. Traits, on the other hand, are more like the neuronal equivalent of committed relationships.
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
We all draw different lines. Sometimes they intersect. Sometimes they don't. We agree on forms of evil, but judge degrees of it, saying only the ...
You don't want to be the smartest person in the room; you want to be the dumbest in the room. You want to be surrounded ...
The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day ...
And I'm comfortable being who I am, so I think a lot of people who take over from a founder worry about how they compare ...
Cultivate the habit of zest. Purposefully seek out the beauty in the seemingly trivial. Especially in the trivial. The colors and shapes of the foods ...
My Akri says that tragedy and adversity are the stones we sharpen our swords against ao that we can fight new battles.- Simi
The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so ...
I don't need a boyfriend to be happy. If I meet someone and I want to be with him, then I will be. I'm very ...
You've got to be strong enough for love. It's very easy to be cool and cynical. It's very difficult to just let yourself go and ...
My son walked up to Nicole on the beach and I was throwing the ball for the dogs in the ocean. I was like, 'Max, ...
That one smooth black eye stared, and reflected in it I fancied I could see the cyclopeon city, and the endless column of the marching ...
Some of us teach ourselves and our children to love the superficial outer; our looks, hair, skin, clothes rather than the greater beauty that resides ...
Where we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright. ...
It sounds old-fashioned to say, but we have some kind of purpose for being here, not poets or writers, but all of us humans.
Never act in fear nor lose hope.
Everything that happens to us can be looked at as a gift. Although it's quite difficult when you're in the middle of a hard struggle ...
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 don't miss the bureaucracy of being in the Army. But I still love the relationships you can build. And it doesn't have to be ...
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 ...