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The quest for enlightenment illustrates the paradox of desire - the fact that you must have desire to be motivated to transcend being ruled by ...

It took us 2,000 years to find Noah's ark. Do we ever find Flight 370?

Curiosity is the hunger of the human mind.

By the time I retire, I will have fought the best. I will have made my money. Maybe I'll be a boxing commentator. I'll go ...

Oh, I thought. It's on, bitch!

One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don't know how to do, to keep learning.

If there's a man on second, I'm trying to get him in with a base hit. The doubles and homers will come. Sooner or later ...

I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace.

I was born and raised to entertain other people. I've heard laughter and applause and known a lot of sorrow. Everything about me is based ...

Try to have a good day today, wherever you are, whatever you do, whoever is near, if no one is near. Try to be happy, ...

Base metals can be transmuted into gold by stars, and by intelligent beings who understand the processes that power stars, but by nothing else in ...

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.

As for breaking up, once the relationship is over, you never really know what went wrong; you just feel nauseous whenever the subject comes to ...

When I was a kid, the people of my generation didn't want to be writers, they wanted to be rock stars. Rock and roll was ...

Charm is the next best asset after looks and brains - and can almost make up for looks.

We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature ... In this scenario, Man ...

Dear God ... I, I have caused a miracle. I gave her the eyes. I gave her the blue, blue, two blue eyes. Cobalt blue. ...

Until the Quiet Revolution gave women back their bodies and Quebeckers back their lives. It invited the church to leave the womb and restrict itself ...

I have little patience with anyone who is not self-satisfied. I am always pleased to see my friends, happy to be with my wife and ...

In America, freedom and justice have always come from the ballot box, the jury box, and when that fails, the cartridge box.

I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a ...

FINANCIAL TIPFor guys buying the stupid flowers when you're supposed to will be way cheaper than what you'll have to buy and do to make ...

An idea can be born from many things. Dreams, food, people... Ideas are everywhere. It's up to you on how you utilize them.

For false christs and false prophets will arise and o perform signs and wonders, p to lead astray, if possible, q the elect. 23But r ...

Humans are the only animals that draw ... Practically every human being draws at some time in childhood.

William James said, The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.

Whatever I lack in size and strength and speed, I kind of make up for in being grittier. When it comes to something like basketball ...

Counter football is not something weak teams only can do by the way. It is sometimes said in a way as if counter football is ...

I'm a color person, I've never been known to play it safe. Plus I like big bags. My eyeglasses are so big; they don't fit ...

The literary fairy tale became an acceptable social symbolic form through which conventionalized motifs, characters, and plots were selected, composed, arranged, and rearranged to comment ...

I was a wild child. It's nice, though, now to have grown up and be normal and domestic. I've become very traditional. Conservative, worldly and ...

The bottom line is, if you stay home, your message stays home with you. If you stand for justice and equality, you have an obligation ...

As I handed her the bag, the old scars on my wrist throbbed with buried memories.

We are all in Love in the same way that we are all in air. Don't forget to breathe.

Some people get to live life. Some people survive it. We're survivors. We can carve out our piece of happy, and, I swear to God, ...

You can only be connected to others if you are connected to yourself and the truth inside.

In country and R&B, there's much more of that division between writers and performers, and that's where you see more of those [crossover] songs, but ...

You have to want to have taste. Some people have inherently bad taste. Their problem is really not the bad taste that can be fixed ...

When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing ...

Over the years, I've become barraged by comments from people, such as, 'Beam me up, Scotty!' and I became defensive. I felt they were derisive ...

Boldly they rode and well,Into the jaws of Death,Into the mouth of hell.

I was known as a Yankee killer. My best year against them was 1953. I beat them five times and shut them out four times. ...

What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body that ...

The wandering elephants, giraffes and buffalos of Tsavo will be kept at bay by a 1.8-meter reinforced concrete and metal mesh fence.

The burly woodsman who attaks the diminutive pine of the east must experience remorse, as would a strong man who made war upon a boy, ...

A company has integrity when its words and actions consistently match the branding effort.

Constant prayer is the bridge that leads to life

It's every manager's dream, I suppose, to build a team by coaching young players of 15 to 17. That's why I started a youth scheme.

Want a Coke?" Abra asked. "Sugar solves lots of problems, that's what I think.

My first song, 'Just Becuz,' was co-written by the awesome Baby Bash.

What had she learned about verbs? In the past and future tenses, the verb came at the end. And in the present it followed the ...

I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors.

You should spend more time reading the Good Book and less reading all those novels. What are you going to tell the Lord on Judgement ...

I think by around the time I was about 8 or 9, the idea of filmmaking probably took hold. I made little Super 8 extravaganzas ...

There are no simple congruities in life or history. The cult of happiness erroneously assumes them.

My grief is tremendous but my love is bigger.

It's often a razor's edge you'll walk between coaxing adaptation while avoiding exhaustion (or injury). Master this, and you'll unlock the key to continual progress.

But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as ...

Maximoff." His deep voice pitches me from a fantasy.I lift my eyes.He smiles."What?" I combat.Farrow bends a knee. "Are you thinking about the philosophical meaning ...

Being from Boston, I think we have to get the 'Good Will Hunting' poster tattooed on our backs when we're like 16 or 17; it's ...

Pretty armour doesn't make a warrior.

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 ...

This beautiful, perfect in every way, eternal creature was finally about to be his forever. The smile that crept onto his lips felt unreal, like ...

You've got to stay in the game. Your luck's bound to change. Be a shame to miss it,

It was the height of the Depression, and suddenly I am earning pots of money.

If you're going to do anything great in life, there will be opposition, setbacks, delays and critics. When you have big dreams, you're going to ...

Equal rights for the sexes will be achieved only when mediocre women occupy high positions.

I was 26 when I went to my first acting class. I'm naturally quite shy. I'm a quite private person. There's this really strange acting ...

The eye is the window to the soul, and from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks, why can't we all be blind and ...

Being is so significant that it is irreplaceable. You are just yourself. Do something that comes out of you - not to assert, but to ...

In my study I can lay my hand on the Bible in the pitch dark. All truly inspired ideas come from God. The powers from ...

Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.

A fake is a copy, a duplicate, a facsimile of an original. The professional coach is authentic - the real deal.

But he hated to see his people people unhappybecause he was a good king, not because he was a nervous one

I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit.

I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is a ...

Your fate lies in your hands.

[Voicing a cartoon] feels like going down a mysterious but joyful black hole. Once you relax for 15 or 20 minutes, and really go, "I ...

The thing we want the most is always the thing we cannot have.

As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a ...

Batman doesn't have any superpowers. He's not superhuman. He's not super. So therefore he can't be a superhero.

A storm began to brew within Faith. "Why no, Mr Waite. I have only just begun.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole ...

It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a ...

This is astounding, amazing, so incredibly thrilling. Only today a world travelling cabaret performing drag queen took me out for lunch and named me as ...

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental ...

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or ...

Twentieth century history of Christianity will name Oral Roberts as the voice that brought the Pentecostal movement to be taken seriously by mainline Christianity.

In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at ...

Humor and profundity are not mutually exclusive, and life can be, and mostly is, serious and funny simultaneously. It's not always easy to capture that ...

The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.

The best place for puffin watching is Sumburgh Head, at the south end of the Shetland mainland. There used to be a lighthouse there, but ...

Not in the stupid-ass Miley Cyrus poser-sex way - and

O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets!

There is no breakthrough without breakage"--Love's Body

Justin Butterfield of Illinois, a Federalist-turned-Whig, said of the Mexican-American War, said, "I opposed one war and it ruined me. From now on I am ...

The pieces that have survived, the ones that we all love, were not all popular in their time. Just look at Beethoven's late string quartets. ...

It seems to me that people have far more unread books than they once did, ranging from three to more than forty.

He would change my life and behave with selfless cruelty as he prepared to set out on a journey with no hope of return.

I decided we should get married no more of this running-through-the-rain shit. We should live in the same place, sleep in the same bed at ...