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You cannot get all your desires assuming the hidden secret standing somewhere scrutinizing your soul.

So could we please not mob the three-thousand-plus-year-old reaper like tweens at a boy-band concert?

To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life ...

I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family ... and that's really important to me. Things can get ...

Wearily she went to bed, wearily she arose in four or five hours' time. But with the morning came hope, and a brighter view of ...

Failure and pain and hardship have the meaning we choose to give them.

We must wholeheartedly believe in free will. If free will is a reality, we shall have made the correct choice. If it is not, we ...

I do want someone, need someone. You're right. And, when I'm with you, I feel like I'm a better person. I feel happier. Less alone, ...

Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen between guilt and ...

She wanted to be someone's muse - to be worshipped and adored, body and soul. She wanted to play Beatrice to a dashing and noble ...

If people are sitting in the barbershop talking about my butt, it's conversational. That's what people are gonna do.

When you live life and you are living the experience, you tend not to appreciate them as you are living them. It's only when you ...

Bridging innovation gaps is a strategic imperative for business execution.

A true leader inspires by being among the people, not above them.

I'm guided by my enthusiasm.

You skin is so soft. Smells like ... "She had to tilt him to get this other arm free and hated knowing how badly she ...

Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm ...

Anybody looking at the history even of the 20th century would not single out Islam as the bloodthirsty religion; it was Christian/Nazi/Communist Europe and Buddhist/Taoist/Hindu/atheist ...

I'm telling you, Ivy, this is the best thing to happen to her since that boy band she liked got run over by a pack ...

Man is guaranteed only those rights which he can defend.

It cannot be denied that Fascism and similar movements aiming at the establishment of dictatorships are full of the best intentions and that their intervention ...

It doesn't really matter to me what the rest of country is doing. I'm not caught up in trying to make a record that sounds ...

Am I just a mosaic of myself, held in the shape of a whole person?

Those who devote themselves to the study of Sacred Scripture should always remember that the various hermeneutical approaches have their own philosophical underpinnings, which need ...

There is a special bond between twin soul mates - unconditional love, respect for each other, bringing out the best in each other, and highly ...

The Unknown is scary. I'll always have some fear about what's going to happen next. The thing is, the Unknown can also be exciting. Your ...

Pierre little foresaw that this world hath a secret deeper than beauty, and Life some burdens heavier than death.

No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case ...

It may be fashionable to assert that all is holy, but not many are willing to haul ass to church four or five times a ...

There are several really interesting clocks in Berlin.

By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countries in the world for attempting to overthrow ...

Biblical, Talmudic, or Koranic literalists remind me of children wrinkling their noses at Belon oysters and asking for more Chef Boy-E-Dee. They want the world ...

The Catholic Church is a weird church. Much mysticism is sown broadspread from its ritual mysteries till it extends into the very lives of its ...

That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood.

We hear the most brilliant ideas and suggestions we failure comes our way

We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.

If we are to keep our flock at the highest pitch of excellence, there should be as many unions of the best of both sexes, ...

I was obsessed with Batman as a kid. I did the film in part just to be near the Batmobile. But I also think [director] ...

Grace means you're in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.

How do I read so many books?Let's keep it as a secret!How do I know so much?Okay, this I will reveal, I have curiosity most ...

It was easy to imagine the beginning of time here, but also, perhaps, its end.

Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.

My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.

Aristotle compiled the first known comprehensive list of all winners of the Olympic Games. Which means that quite probably he was sat in a bar ...

Brahmos accept a formless deity who is invisible to the eye. You accept idols who cannot be heard. We acccept the living who can be ...

No matter how much time you spend climbing up, you may still fall in an instant.

The person who truly wants nothing except his destiny no longer has others of his own kind; he stands completely alone and has only the ...

I used to imagine that if I got up early enough in the morning and went to Pebbly Beach, I'd find my special someone walking ...

Doing things for yourself (self-preservation) are ok in in small doses and when necessary but over-burdening you life with your own self will weaken your ...

He thinks I love him. As in ... in love with him. Yeah. Go fig. Me in love with Qhuinn ... a guy who, when ...

His blood is bad. He needs to be leeched. The leeches suck away the bad blood, all the rage and pain. No man can think ...

It came to Mary now that her mother had been right, after all; Mary had been born for this. In sixteen years she'd shot along ...

It's the opposite of that. Engineers in lab coats have created a musical experience that is so crisp and clean, it can literally improve your ...

Without purpose your sharp perceptions and subtle noticings are just an excuse to swim around inside your own head like a goldfish whilst the real ...

It's no fun getting older. I might be wearing beautiful diamond earrings, but they can't take away the pain of losing my hearing.

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly lies to the bone. Beauty dies and fades away, but ugly holds its own! Create and cultivate Inner ...

There was a best-selling book in the late '60s and '70s called 'The Adventurers' by Harold Robbins. The lead character's name was Dax. Anyone that's ...

In a way, my design works as much because the belt is comfortable for the user as it does because it is safer.

I count myself really fortunate that I have some lifelong friends. The best thing about a friend is when you are being your own worst ...

Mature, healthy people need other people; they don't isolate themselves ... Needing love isn't being immature. Rather, it gives us the energy we need to ...

There is a good look that I wearlike a blood clot. I havesewn it over my left breast.I have made a vocation of it.

I die. I breathe in and breahe in and cannot exhale. I explode all over my friends. They forget my name and pretend it is ...

I'm not the marrying type, but I always want to be with someone who is a fan.

I folded myself against her body, breathing in the smell of my new life and matching my heartbeat to hers Sam, Linger

Did he know that she was so dissatisfied with herself that she was always pretending to be different? Probably he did, and despised her for ...

A tiny sliver of gold appeared between shades of gray on the horizon.

Never look back on something bad, yesterday is gone, today is now, tomorrow doesn't exist.

Girls developed eating disorders when our culture developed a standard of beauty that they couldn't obtain by being healthy. When unnatural thinness became attractive, girls ...

Andrew Carnegie noted in 1891, "The parent who leaves his son enormous wealth generally deadens the talents and energies of the son and tempts him ...

Ellysetta Baristani." Belliard's voice caused her to stop and turn back around. "Even should you clothe yourself in rags and dirt, you would bring honor ...

Come and help to carry the tray down and we'll have breakfast. What a mercy I thought of bringing the breadknife.

People should be concerned about installing a more sensible, responsible government. What we [the burmese] need is a government that is accountable and transparent, so ...

We are selling dreams. We are merchants of happiness.

My only wish would be to have 10 more lives to live on this planet. If that were possible, I'd spend one lifetime each in ...

There is not a man in power at our Bethlehem steel works today who did not begin at the bottom and work his way up.

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

Be the night. Not the wind that stirs the trees, not even the soundless owl a-wing or the tiny mouse crouched motionless. Be the night ...

It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.

The pigeon here is a beautiful bird, of a delicate bronze colour, tinged with pink about the neck, and the wings marked with green and ...

I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.

Life, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to read bad books.

If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be ...

Let's just be smart this time. I'm looking for smart.

I had to be the world's biggest loser, writing about hair, and stuff about my body. No wonder I stopped keeping a journal. It was ...

You are not with your luck but he is with you forever and your life proves it.

Education is the great growth industry of the Third World. Since the Second World War, we have multiplied the number of children in school by ...

You will remind yourself, she will remind you, you will remind each other, that this is for the best, that you are physically incapable of ...

I have been watching and drawing the surface of Mars. It is wonderfully full of detail. There is certainly no question about there being mountains ...

When I'm playing comedy, I never do 'jokes.' Sometimes I'll deliver a line in a way I think is more likely to get a laugh, ...

Running for president is hard. But it's good preparation. Because being president is a lot harder.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

The things of Catholic life are never boring because we have such a rich tradition and so many stories to tell.

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.

Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all.

I am not my past. I am my present. I am my future. The past can chase you if you let it.You can spend your ...

The Republicans in the House and the Bush administration are bankrupting this country.

I was obsessed with The Who. I would have accepted a marriage proposal from Roger Daltrey on the spot. I went to all of their ...

I'd have all the cars made in the Carolinas, and I'd ban the ones made in China.

She could tell he was exhausted, maybe half as much as she was, but he was still willing to do anything for her. It made ...

As actors, we're a little faster than other people, with breaking down the walls.