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And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it ...
Nothing: a landscape, a glass of wine, a little loveless love, and the vague sadness caused by our understanding nothing and having lost the little ...
The other work we started in 1992, it is called Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River in the state of Colorado, we haven't ...
If a child is given love, he becomes loving ... If he's helped when he needs help, he becomes helpful. And if he has been ...
A man who will misuse an apostrophe is capable of anything." Con Houlihan
I wish more Italian literature were translated and read in English. I've discovered so many extraordinary and diverse writers: Lalla Romano, Carlo Cassola. Beppe Fenoglio, ...
When I was sixteen I was pretending to be Charlie Musselwhite. I had a long raincoat on, my hair slicked back, and the shades.
Both threshold capability and distinctive capabilities are capabilities that organizations have and are closely related to competencies.
We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.
He swallows a soothing mouthful of Jim Beam and rubs at his face, trying to rub away the familiar regret, that he can't take back ...
We must lift our hands to God in prayer, crying out to Him to help us fulfill what He has called us for, to fulfill ...
So much of what folks want in the world turns out to be just a thing they say. Words change the way you feel for ...
Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.
There was something elemental and, all right, fundamentally sexy, about a guy building a fire for a woman. Maybe it went back to caveman times. ...
From a misanthrope Bacchus makes me sociable ... Yet on the other hand I had already bowed and smiled; I had performed at least the ...
I felt as though I were snorting cocaine, or rappelling down a cliffside, or cliffsurfing off a cliff of pure cocaine.
I started out doing multiple characters from day one, when I got my fist job in 'Dumbo's Circus.' I'm used to getting in an argument ...
I had come out of the city, where story-telling is a manufactured science, to the country where story-telling is a by-product of life.
Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are.
And there I suddenly found my articulate self in a dazzling land of smiling, jostling people wearing and not wearing all sorts of costumes and ...
There are always those who say legislation can't solve the problem. There is a half-truth involved here. It is true that legislation cannot solve the ...
In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one ...
The Cruellest things do not hide in the dark.
Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.
Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - ...
This Celtic football club is much more than a football club to a lot of people its a way of life-
She would drink until the trembling stopped. Then she would wilt over the piano like one of Celia's spinaches when Tam Lin forgot to water ...
I got invited to the Playboy Mansion with the Lonely Island guys after their first season on 'SNL,' and I sat in the corner drinking ...
It's interesting because a lot of my 16-year-old kids' friends know me from 'Wedding Crashers,' and not so much Bond. My kids have a good ...
Can I have another beer? It's amazing, it doesn't feem to have any essect on me, no matter how much I dnirk. Helps me think ...
I paused, folding the top corner of the page to keep my place. My dad used to wince every time he saw me do that, ...
Peter Chelsom and Edgar Wright are totally different directors and worlds apart, but both really accomplished directors who are certain of how they want to ...
The good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths ...
It's a real smug self-righteous punk kid saying nobody has the right to tell him what to do and how dare you put a sign ...
God is continually, literally, second-by-second covering our sin under His Son's blood and forgiving us our sins. God cannot love us unless He forgives us ...
I've always loved and enjoyed the theatre, but I have to say that none of our sponsorships have been done because I'm one of those ...
Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern ...
The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatants
Coding is today's language of creativity. All our children deserve a chance to become creators instead consumers of computer science.
I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds ...
O heaven! were man, But constant, he were perfect.
My choices, it seemed, were to be branded a sinner and live my life alone; to abandon my faith, the one thing I held most ...
As long as the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand; when the Coliseum falls, Rome will fall; when Rome falls, the whole world will fall.
To betray is to act against, I just haven't acted at all - China Sorrows
Claircognizance is the ability to know without trying.
The Fine Arts are five in number: Painting, Music, Poetry, Sculpture, and Architecture--whereof the principle branch is Confectionery.
What strikes me as funny about Elvis is that all the impersonators choose to do the Vegas Elvis, not the young, cool guy ...
Unfortunately for our esteem, societies of the West are not known for their conduciveness to the surrender of pretensions, to the acceptance of age or ...
The real sin lay in thinking that any power to help and transform came from me. Of course it was not my wholeness, but Christ's ...
Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat ...
Emily pinned him with her eyes. "Custody battles are war without the Geneva Accords," she said. "Greg got nasty. I got nasty back. You do ...
In strongly opposing the world of play to that of reality, and in stressing that play is essentially a side activity, the interference is drawn ...
Some girls are sweeter ... Others have a tinge of bitterness ... It is as if I can smell their souls. Their experiences and relationships ...
The water won't clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek.
Adams's proclivity for truculence and curtness probably emerged early. Uncertain of his abilities and laboring under an exaggerated sense of inadequacy, he probably fashioned such ...
I took acres of fertile ignorance up to that place. And they started to pour preconceptions all over it. Like forty tons of cement. No ...
The crew of the caravel "Nina" also saw signs of land, and a small branch covered with berries. Everyone breathed afresh and rejoiced at these ...
God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
People were tired of wasteful government programs and welfare chiselers; and they were angry about the constant spiral of taxes and government regulations, arrogant bureaucrats, ...
Jousting with an obvious hoodlum couldn't hurt.
I love being the underdog. It's one of the reason I like making horror movies, because a lot of people don't like them or are ...
I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.'
Of bird and prophet and his light shall lead On through the darkness to eventual light, To undiscovered wealth, to newer need ...
It was as if that long-healed wound was raw again; all the complex memories crowded once more to the forefront of her mind. An old ...
The mind is like a lake. It reflects eternity when it's very still. If ripples appear, lots of them, then the reflection is not clear. ...
Kaladin followed [Shallan]. What else could he do? Explain to Adolin? Yes, princeling. I let your betrothed wander off alone in the darkness to get ...
One person's crazyness is another person's reality.
In truth I don't like Cornish pasties.
Charm is the enchanted dart, light and subtle as a hummingbird. But it is deceptive in one thing: like a sense of humor, if you ...
The first 10 days of a cattle drive were the most critical, as a stampede was most likely when the cattle were closest to their ...
Part of me wanted to run away from him screaming, Fire! A more reckless part was tempted to see how close I could get without ...
Diet cola is my absolute favorite drink in the world; I used to drink four cans a day. But to help me cut down, I've ...
Another thing to strive for: reading your history should move the melancholy to laughter, increase the joy of the cheerful, not irritate the simple, fill ...
You're not going to see me in a bikini again, that's for sure. I was horrified to wear that. I was mortified. I was like, ...
My life is full of broken halos.
Worship must be - Christ centered, Holy Spirit led, a Response to the Father, about Intimacy and Service and always lead to Transformation!
Christ was crucified by the Jews who had wanted a temporal ruler to rescue them from the oppressive Roman authorities. Instead God sent them a ...
Truly Christian conduct is not predicated on whether I have the right to do something, but whether my conduct is helpful to those about me.
I'm just one of those hopelessly romantic people so I don't think I'll ever run out of stories. I'm always looking for love. But I'm ...
If we don't trust one another, then we aren't going to engage in open, constructive, ideological conflict.
You cannot simultaneously want to eat a chocolate cake every day in front of the TV and want to be slim. You cannot want to ...
(Cinderella can't walk around her new castle covered in cinders, after all).
My father retired to San Francisco, and I got a chance to know him and be around him. It's always been someplace where everything changed ...
Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition of ...
The brain is behind the really big questions we have. Who am I, what is my identity? What is that based on? If memories are ...
I was always the girl who wore the mismatching socks, frizzy hair, ponytail I wouldn't take out for a week, and cutoff jean shorts that ...
Dona Crista laughed a bit. "Oh, Pip, I'd be glad for you to try. But do believe me, my dear friend, touching her heart is ...
I'm just interested in what makes a photograph.
Abandon the idea that you will forever be the victim of the things that have happened to you. Choose to be a victor.
Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of ...
I don't know. I can't tell the future I just work there.
In all candor, the Court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege ...
You have very short travel blogs, and I think there's a split among travel writers: the service-oriented writers will say, 'Well, the reader wants to ...
I am sick and tired of publicity. I want no more of it. It puts me in a bad light. I just want to be ...
If the architecture is any good, a person who looks and listens will feel its good effects without noticing.
A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental ...
No, that's because there are more interesting things to do."Her grandmother looked at her sharply. "Like cutting into dead bodies"Carmeryn swallowed back her irration. "Yeah-the ...
Father expected a good deal of God. He didn't actually accuse God of inefficiency, but when he prayed his tone was loud and angry, like ...
I was counting my toes" Stebbins said companionably. "They are fabulously good company because they always add up the same way".
It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work.