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More than once Jesus deliberately addressed certain issues that quickly diminished the number of onlookers. It was commitment that thinned the ranks.

It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.

Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires a strong watchdog ...

Way back in 2008, when the iPhone was new and Instagram was a gleam in Kevin Systrom's eye, I was involved in creating a service ...

Advantage, spent the chief of her time with her two elder sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement was ...

I always run the stories by Capcom. They read the scripts and give their comments. I would never want to kill a character that they ...

I'm more of a comedian. I wouldn't mind being on SNL (Saturday Night Live). I think that would be cool.

Look at it this way," Ms. Terwilliger said, after several moments of thought. "The callistana thinks of you two as its parents.

The black rock was sharp-edged, hot, and hard as corundum; it seemed not merely alien but impervious to life. Yet on the southern face of ...

The association of Mount Ararat and Noah, the staunch Christians who were massacred periodically by the Mohammedan Turks, and the Sunday School collections over fifty ...

If i was a woman these days, i'd be killing motherfuckers. my handgun would never cool and my hands would be covered in testicular blood. ...

I'm a big believer in what's called personalized medicine, which refers to customizing your health care to your specific needs based on your physiology, genetics, ...

When you do a film, you know you're shooting for 6 or 9 weeks, you've got your cast and crew. Overall, no one can just ...

Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.

The only Commandment I ever obeyed - 'Consider the Lilies. ...

It got so ridiculous that I was like, there's no way this is going to last.

It's neat how God puts things in front of us to get his point across.

So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires.

I always thought it would be a great thing to do an art carwash. So you can actually go and get your car washed, but ...

Is it nice, my preciousss? Is it juicy? Is it scrumptiously crunchable?

No simple cherry picker for me, she thought. I get a time-traveling genius who comes with a world of problems and sends me back through ...

Don't readjust your contacts. No, that is not the slow hyena from The Lion King. That is my four-pound best friend.

Instead of politicians, let the monkeys govern the countries; at least they will steal only the bananas!

Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.

To great sections of the Church the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing ...

When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.

There was a time when Stone would have rated a platoon of crackerjack killers coming for him by land, sea and air. Those days apparently ...

So small, so blue, in grassy places / My flowers raise / Their tiny faces.

She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he had for his ...

Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!

It's a civil war, and Arjuna knows a lot of people who are on the opposite side of the battlefield - they've been his friends.

Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.

Short-sellers perform a useful function in the market as conduits of negative information, and shorts often complain that they are discriminated against by regulators.

Karamakate says, "to become a warrior, every Cohiuano man must leave everything behind and go into the jungle, guided only by his dreams. In that ...

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 ...

We've got a lot of pressure going. This is for my Latin counterpart.

Never can a room look comfortable without books ... Books ought to be scattered all over the house, even in the passages, in the bedroom, ...

Needs that do not get met in childhood become adult needs.

Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East ... The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled ... This confrontation is willed by God, who ...

We must practice consistent, reliable, predictable, effective, thoughtful, compassionate and even courteous communication every single day to successfully sustain, develop and grow our business.

Though experience should be our guide ... and we see mistakes are common at the age of twenty-three, it must be acknowledged that not every ...

I think the prosecution had all the evidence in front of them to have won the case.

A taste of whiskey had changed her mood, as a touch of acid will change the color of blue litmus paper.

I didn't have enough voice left to scream. And it wasn't like anything was going to change. No matter how much I cried, even if ...

Where are my guards? (Wulf)Oh, one is right here, but he's not feeling very talkative. Death has a way of making even the chattiest of ...

I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world.

Vakill's like Columbians sitting in a circle, my name has a dope ring to it

I'm still on the move, I'm getting better because I'm still studying. I still want to be a better horseman.

If I'm in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe, the most uniquely ...

History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies must be strong ...

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, ...

If I put my name on something, I'm going to be involved. I'm not just going to put my name on it and not pay ...

It was official. I really was Senorita Fucktard.

We can all agree that no American should lose their life savings or their home because of illness or injury and that the rising cost ...

The time has come to challenge our obsession with doing everything more quickly.

One time he (Cool Papa Bell) hit a line drive right past my ear. I turned around and saw the ball hit his ass sliding ...

Condiments are like old friends - highly thought of, but often taken for granted.

SM Seaside City Cebu: soon to be the Philippines' Largest Mall and the 4th Largest in the World

It's a pity that the land of great leaders like Chandragupta Maurya, Ashoka and Akbar, has to be led by a dummy PM. - Shruti ...

The bones of cirrus clouds stand out like ribs against the sky - an angel is stretching ...

He trailed off as he saw the books. Piles and stacks of them beside the sofa, another stack on the coffee table, a sea of ...

The city governments of the United States are the worst in Christiandom - the most expensive, the most inefficient, and the most corrupt.

Of course, we all inevitably work too hard, then we get burned out and have to spend the whole weekend in our pajamas, eating cereal ...

It is of course lawful to learn of the Enemy; but is it sensible?

I don't know much about technology anymore.

A cloudy morning does not signify that the entire day is gonna be rainy! What's pressing you down today has nothing to change about your ...

This fact provides a rebuttal to the argument "What if a young woman aborts a baby who would have gone on to become a doctor ...

Friction makes sparks and sparks start creative conflagrations.

There lives no man who at some period has not been tormented, for example, by an earnest desire to tantalize a listener by circumlocution.

Out of the drearinessInto its cheerinessCome we in weariness,Home.

Girls who wear certain kind of dresses, who show certain areas of the body, are not going to like my clothes. You can't please everyone.

But you can't help who you fall for. The heart wants what it wants.

I'd guess that you have some purpose to fulfill and that is why you were saved. But don't get a swelled head over it. A ...

Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.

You can think of creativity as applied imagination.

The hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for being unlikeable.

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

You summon us, we follow. You order us to be free and so we will be.

I think the biggest, saddest thing that happens in our lives is that we just don't embrace the things that could make it better because ...

Everyone I know, men and women alike, would love to see the world changed so that boys and girls, men and women are valued equally ...

Most corporations have human-resources processes that involve discussions with your manager, performance evaluations, calibrations for performance and potential succession planning.

You can make fun of yourself and people will laugh at you. If you're smart, you'll end up as a comedian. If you're not, you'll ...

Actually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning upon itself. But what a marvelously insidious, subtle image of life a coiling vital ...

Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire.

Politics, poverty, riches, etc - these are but backdrops for the grand cinema, the opera: the glory of your life. Sure, change the backdrops, make ...

The United States is the result of an enlightened philosophy; China is the outcome of traditions and history.

I don't think anybody would be interested in my memoir - and my memory isn't very good either!

Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first in the happy ...

Instead of asking WHY you had to do it, how about just thanking Him for safely bringing you THROUGH it.

For things to change you need to change. For things to get better you need to get better. The good news is you can change, ...

For some people, the way that they're perceived by the outside world is not a priority.

Good God! To think upon a childThat has no childish ways,No careless days, No frolics wild,No words of prayer and praise. - Land

Catholic education aims not only to communicate facts but also to transmit a coherent, comprehensive vision of life, in the conviction that the truths contained ...

My evenings are taken up very largely with astrology. I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth.

Creativity is in everyone; it just manifests itself differently with each person. My CPA, for example, is one of the most creative people I know.

We [-women and men-] are all equal in our creaturehood, whatever our sex, color, age, background, or abilities. But we are all different in the ...

The Grimm collections were never intended for children. Not because kids were excluded, but because the division we make today of children's literature didn't exist ...

I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially 'Now', 'Voyager', 'Casablanca', 'Mildred Pierce'; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and 'Paper Moon' ...

Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew ...

The world is changing quickly and we must be ready to change with it or risk being left behind.