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I don't think anyone looks into their family tree and expects it to come up smelling of roses.
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance ...
Our team has zero; has he got Close Air Support, drones, anything?
If you look at the evolution of the brain, the logic centers, they were growing at the same time as the creative centers were expanding. ...
Clara wore a dress of brown and cream velvet, and her feathered mask, in comparison, made her look like a sparrow
I don't go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it's contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I ...
I mean when you come into the set at 7:30 in the morning and you come out of make-up and the first thing you know, ...
There was no such thing as cheating in a fight to the death. It was all about who could cheat better. "Let's
I don't want to fuck you, Elle. I want to make love to you. Take me gently, angel." I moan at his words and come ...
The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
I remain detached and distant, but it is under my eyes and my orders that the work of art must create itself. Then, when the ...
I like to call myself an "equal opportunist," as I love both dogs and cats, but over the last couple years, both Howard and I ...
Bay in January 1788 under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip. On January 26, now celebrated as Australia Day, they set up camp in Sydney ...
He took two steps at a time, but slowly, holding onto the banister, putting his whole body into it, as if the act of climbing ...
Chess is a cold bath for the mind
Women are dirt searchers; their greatest worth is irradicating rings on collars and tables. Never mind real-estate boards' corruption and racism, here's your soapsuds. Everything ...
More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
Jared glanced at Dad, then back at Kami, and said, "I'll call you later."You have never called me once in the entirety of your life, ...
I'm sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first snow, the last ...
There had been nights in the desert where I was so sick with laughter, convulsed and doubled over with aching stomach for hours on end, ...
The formal definition of impact is a forcible contact between two things, and God has designed our lives for a collision course with the world.
It was cool at the rock camp - girls could just be themselves and they could be silly, they could roll around on the floor ...
Since I came to the White House, I've gotten two hearing aids, had a colon operation, a prostate operation, skin cancer, and I've been shot ...
One of the findings that really interests me is that, although we think we ACT because of the way we FEEL, we often FEEL because ...
Keep the environment clean and the waters clear as crystal.
Inaya showed up a little later with a clean tunic and trousers and long Ras Tiegan coat."Thought you'd hand me an abaya," Nyx said."Since when ...
As president I would actually name the enemy, radical Islamic terrorists. We've got a president [ Barack Obama] who wants to apologize for America and ...
But tonight I'll go alone. You're about as stealthy as a lame elephant. See you later." She patted me on the shoulder and took off ...
I realize that the decision might be simple. It will require a great act of selflessness to choose Abnegation, or a great act of courage ...
The world so quickly adjusts itself after any loss, that the return of the departed would nearly always throw it, even the circle most interested, ...
Treatments and therapies have never been better in the face of this disease. You have every reason to be optimistic, determined, and focused on the ...
I know this is going to sound corny, but I love my life. I love my baby, so I love getting to wake up with ...
Create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were already true.
Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.
On Thursday, a passenger forced his way into the cockpit of a United Airlines flight from Miami, but was subdued after the co-pilot hit him ...
It was true that there was no such person as Comrade Ogilvy, but a few lines of print and a couple of faked photographs would ...
And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness ...
Because you're mine, I walk the line.
I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.
I always wear a pair of colored jeans and fun boots. I have a really cute pair of stars-and-stripes Converse, and I love wearing all ...
While Roscoe made cups of coffee for Charlie Hubble and Finlay sat in the rosewood office,
We now live in a time when PEOPLE and profits must become equally valuable in the corporate leaders Mindset.Rethink your Leadership Culture to become a ...
Adept Lu spent a night at Stone Date, and the gatekeeper asked: Where are you from? From the House of Confucius, replied Lu. Isn't he ...
The dark tower. Childe Roland to the dark tower came.
Preacher's kids need another consistent voice in their lives over the years.
The highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is bearing arms.
The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old ...
In America there's a saying that children should be seen and not heard, .. In Cambodia, children should not be seen nor heard because you ...
Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would have died.
There's a way, a way way too long but reachable, not for everyone a way but possible ... Go and don't lose your way!
"That fucking cunting fuck of a whore." "Nikolas!" Nikolas shrugged. "It's only you who I don't like to hear swear.
It takes courage to get clear about what your vision of the work is and to be persistent about it and pursue it, whatever you're ...
You will find it a stronghold in the day of trial to plead your adoption. You have no rights as a subject, you have forfeited ...
One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.
The longer the test the better you feel when it's over.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
The courage to try again is a daring spirit.
I'm a De Niro fan. I went eleven years without seeing a movie; the last one before that, February 1980, was De Niro and Scorsese ...
I'd never have a facelift, as I have never seen one that looks good.
When she wound her fingers in his hair to draw her body against his, he stilled for breath, and she knew, as he knew, that ...
Liebenthal's camping, and he's got more dakka than you. You're fucked if you go in together. Claire Ashecroft
God does not step in and adjust minute details on a whim.
The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue as you go ...
The things we do are the most important things of all. They are more important than what we say or what we look like. The ...
Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes.
The stock market can be fooled, but not forever.
Truthfully, in this age those with intellect have no courage and those with some modicum of physical courage have no intellect. If things are to ...
I'd never seen that look on another face before, had never identified it in another person. I'd only met with it in fiction. But everyone ...
Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we've got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of creativity ...
I love the game. It's fun to play, period. I love running around and getting sweaty. I love trying to lead my team. I love ...
Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order.
Non-mainstream people seem to balk at the idea of 12-step. A lot of us think 12-step recovery means sitting in a church basement full of ...
My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of ...
The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.
The Myth is the Myth of the Blood, which, under the sign of the Swastika, released the World Revolution. It is the Awakening of the ...
Whether chocolate or vanilla, or you're somewhere in between,A cappuccino mocha or a caramel queen,Rejected by the black, not accepted by the white world,And this ...
If a person takes comfort in his or her faith upon divinity in times of distress, then who the hell am I to say, that ...
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
I bought a book of Mark Twain quotes. That's about my speed. I'll read a couple quotes and put it down.
I thought that that mission and the mission of taking care of those soldiers were my priorities, and I stand by the same today. There ...
Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
Shira turned and blew kisses toward her clients who had pressed their faces against the salon window like children in a candy store and she ...
The whole idea of a democratic application of skepticism is that everyone should have the essential tools to effectively and constructively evaluate claims to knowledge.
An opportunist ventures nothing, believes in nothing and invests in nothing, therefore he ends with nothing.
Problems are inevitable. Staying in control of your emotions is optional.
I just had to stay cool. Zen. No punching in the face. Punching would not be Zen.
Constantly scanning the world for the negative comes with a great cost. It undercuts our creativity, raises our stress levels, and lowers our motivation and ...
Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.
It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
Over the long term, symbolic attempts at appearing cool end up replacing honest charity that actually helps people. In most cases, social consciousness, really, is ...
Everything shifts as you move, and different things come into focus at different points of your life, and you try to articulate that.
Just to be clear, you're not using your mind powers on me right now, are you?" She blinked. "Of course not." "Just checking." Then he ...
Someone was playing piano nearby and the music drifted slowly in and out of my mind like the ebb and flow of ocean surf. i ...
I cannot stand this any longer. I don't know where I'm going. I suspect that I am not going anywhere at all, just away
Stability is necessary for our future economic success.
Hamish smiled and rubbed his hands together. "Sure we can. What do you say? Pigs in a Blanket?" He leaned over the cool counter and ...
One of the things I prize most about being a writer is its license - you could even say injunction - to be curious, to ...
I have women working in high positions. I was one of the first people to put women in charge of big construction jobs. And, you ...
You will never find a rainbow if you are looking down