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My mother drove me to Boston and bought me a beautiful blue dress that touched the floor, spilling out in waves; I wore the ocean ...

Life is a merciless bully for children born into circumstances of grinding poverty, to unhappy families broken apart by crime, drugs, alcohol. It brutalises the ...

I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success - I have no problem with their success. They've earned their success, for the most part. I have ...

Thank you God for helping me to overcome the bad to live the good.

We don't do things we aren't good at by nature. I wouldn't play basketball because I'm only 5' 1. Find what you enjoy - whether ...

I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out ...

Good Morning! Good Afternoon! Good Night! These are not just mere greetings.They are powerful blessings, setting the best vibration for the day. Hence, whether it ...

Marriage can, should, and must evolve. Don't be alarmed, and don't resent it. Be patient and kind, unflaggingly. In the long run, it's the unasked-for ...

The only thing standing between her and her beautiful new home was her own silly insecurity and Matt Reed.

I will never cut it as a Quaker - I cannot find it in me to renounce all violence, not with two daughters under my ...

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. ...

To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.

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 ...

In learning and argumentation, the quality brain is similar to a facility of maximum security. What passes the logic test, free of fallacy and pretense, ...

When a caterpillar bursts from its cocoon and discovers it has wings, it does not sit idly, hoping to one day turn back. It flies.

The quality of a person's character can be known partly by the attitude of his ally who likes him TRULY and, probably full, by understanding ...

OUT OF AN INFINITE LOVE, you, O Lord, have made me an heir of your kingdom and joint heir with Christ. O Good Jesus, to ...

I'm a cartoonist, it's what I am at heart, so cartoons take reality and deform it and make it grotesque, you make it funny, but ...

You've got to be happy, you have to do this thing [music] for the love. It's not like you go into music because it's going ...

My teammates at Duke - all of them, black and white - were a band of brothers who came together to play at the highest ...

The concept of virginity is a social construct. If you're wondering if my commercial value, self-respect, and/or quality of my immortal soul has been affected ...

I believed God had wired me as a writer for a purpose, and I was squandering that purpose. I finally repented of doing things my ...

When you come to the spiritual needs, the emotional needs, the needs of our inner life, then politics and business and technology are completely impotent. ...

A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in ...

It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.

It hadn't been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she'd been an altogether different person back then.

A man asked Gautama Buddha, "I want happiness."Buddha said, "First remove "I," that's Ego, then remove "want," that's Desire.See now you are left with only ...

She had once believed that she'd been born to be a queen.She had since learned that she'd been born to be a wolf.

It's been a long time since anybody caught me saying something stupid.

No doubt this works well enough for The Tale of Benjamin Bunny or The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, but I can readily ...

Sometimes, we are so focused on what we want that we are blind to the things that make us happy. It's just incredible, and when ...

Don't hide behind the Constitution or the Bible. If you're against gay marriage, just be honest, put a scarlet 'H' on your shirt, and say, ...

Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and ...

Books are our best friends we say, so can we call 'Paragraphs' as our 'Just Friends'?

You have to believe in yourself and only trust your own vision and instincts. If I'd listened to what other people thought about my work ...

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 ...

A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved ...

Albert Camus's 'La Peste' - 'The Plague' - had an enormous impact on me when I read it in high school French class, and I ...

You want something by Bach? Which one, Johann Sebastian or Jacques Offen?

You won't find me dancing in a club at night but you will find me climbing mountains to see the sunrise, with a glimmer of ...

Like flowers we grow, bloom, and whither - each day and each life. In our next life we'll grow, bloom, and whither even more beautifully. ...

We have a lion, tiger, liger, which is the father is a lion and the mother is a tiger, black and spotted leopard, mountain lion, ...

I don't think you're happier if you're thin or beautiful or rich or married. You have to make your own happiness. My heroines do not ...

One person's enemy is another person's best friend. My favorite food might give you a rash.

There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the ...

His workplace has become a rat's nest of empire building, turf defense, careerism, backstabbing, betrayal, and snitchcraft.

You know you can't be a nice girl inside if you're a dirty slut outside

When we are young and restless to be free, home is the place from which we long to escape. But if there is still a ...

Women lose their delicacy and refinement, when they are compelled night and day to haggle with their destiny over things pitifully small, and for this ...

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

No more tears now; I will think about revenge.

We can always be sure of one thing - that the messengers of discomfort and sacrifice will be stoned and pelted by those who wish ...

Antony said to Poemen, 'Our great work is to lay the blame for our sins upon ourselves before God, and to expect to be tempted ...

I guess if you're independent, not afraid of much, and extremely stylish, that makes you a pretty good candidate for being a New Yorker.

I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure of a beautifully ...

I love funny people. I met and became friends with some of the funniest people ever. Gilda Radner, bless her soul; Martin Short; Dave Thomas; ...

But I can't help thinking of the shock I felt when I finally realised it was winter, on exiting Mizuko's apartment. The summer was long ...

If you want to open a supermarket chain and put your face all around the globe, selling your baby and your dog, if it makes ...

Children are touched by heaven - their every breath, every laugh, every touch a sip of water to the desert wanderer. I could not have ...

I read 'Sabella or The Blood Stone' by Tanith Lee, which was hugely influential to me. I love Tanith's writing. She's just really lyrical, beautiful ...

The assumption that women in hijab are less enlightened or empowered than those rocking daisy dukes is arrogant at best. Feminism should fight for all ...

When you meditate you can stand back from your desire. When you silence the mind and there is stillness, only then can you tell if ...

History was what had happened; class was something you read about in a book.

How can you go on stage and shout 'Yeah! Rock'n'roll forever!' and then go to bed at 10 o'clock with a nightcap on, a candle ...

But the struggles make you stronger and the changes make you wise ... And happiness has its own way of taking its sweet time.

The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil, ...

I tend to avoid the shows that focus on politics, just to get a break from it all, i tried watching the first couple episodes ...

Crazy must run in your family," he says."You do know Fia!" I blurt, then bite my lip.

Just really be passionate and stick to your creative vision. Because it's competitive, and there are so many mind games and so many things that ...

Apparently Lo- badass lady boss of fucking Hailstorm who had just negotiated a deal that saved two people I cared about after neutralizing an entire ...

Half the spiritual life consists of remembering what we are up against and where we are going.

Why is it that we feel bad when "all" we can do for a person is pray for them? We feel like we need to ...

I worked hard at that through most of the '80s, and in 1990 my house burned in New Hampshire, and my studios and my offices. ...

No touching Baby Jesus.""But we're his parents!" proclaimed Mary Beth, who was being generous to include poor Joseph under this appellation."Mary Beth," Barb Wiggin said, ...

Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success.

If America is to be strong in the future, Americans must see America as home, not divided by race or region. Build American jobs for ...

Ain't nobody's business, if I bark like a dog.

Whose SUV is this?" I asked once we were out of Carnal."Mine." He answered.I looked at him. "You drive a Harley.""Not big on puttin' bad ...

I'm not leaving, Kitten. You're going to do this.My mouth opened as did the door behind us. Stomach dropping, I turned to see Mom standing ...

Oh, sorry. My excitement must be clouding my ability to judge comedic hyperbole.

Since neither of us needs sleep we take night buses, sharing earphones and listening to knitting podcasts. If anyone else on the bus notices anything ...

Of course I am very proud of being a Tory. Yes, in my head and in my heart I regard myself as a Tory. As ...

The future of our fragile, beautiful planet home is in our hands. As God's family, we are stewards of God's creation. We can be wantonly ...

It was a bitter cold winter, with long, hard frosts and heavy gales;

Angels, please help me remember to direct blessings and prayers to everyone I meet today. Please send extra healing energy through me to all my ...

Does he not feel the fire between his body and mine? Is that all me? How can it be all me? It feels like a ...

It's not the number of contacts you cultivate but the diversity and depth of connections that leverage your opportunity to use best talents more often ...

Do not let the fame come near to you! Protect your freedom! Fame must be avoided so as to breathe freely! Stay in the shadow ...

As Edward Glaeser put it, 'Thoreau was wrong. Living in the country is not the right way to care for the Earth. The best thing ...

The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it is manifested by ...

You cannot prevent a major catastrophe, but you can build an organization that is battle-ready, where people trust one another. In military training, the first ...

It takes strength to be gentle and kind.

I remember confuting one of Westminster's favourite maxims, "better the devil you know than the devil you don't". In the annals of popular wisdom, this ...

The foundation stone of all philosophy is self-knowledge and being true to thy self. A person must address an inner necessity in order to realize ...

The secret of spiritual success is a hunger that persists ... It is an awful condition to be satisfied with one's spiritual attainments ... God ...

It takes strength to be gentle and kind.

We do not accept the Western way of thinking that there are two ways of life. At the same time, the police (here) are not ...

I've always wanted to be an actor. I didn't get into this game to be the best improviser in the world. I didn't choose improv ...

I wish i were a little girl again, because skinned knees are easier to fix than broken heart.

This kid's excited because he's with Bad Company and I'm excited because I'm with Chuck Berrys' son.