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After all, when our egoism lets us go for a while, when it comes time to throw it off, the only women whose memory you ...

Every reformation must have its victims. You can't expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal's return.

Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.

Nila? Did he dare trust the security system? **** Nila hurried into the living room, "Lydia, where could I find the church newsletter from last ...

I didn't want to do my mathematics homework back home. Or mend the fence or mind the chickens. But I did it anyway. Just because ...

Yummy had been hiding under a layer of cranky-pants. I really hoped I would see less frowning and more abs from now on.

When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I ...

You can't make people stop loving each other just because a law says it's wrong.

The citric acid in lemon juice makes it perfect for bleaching, disinfecting and cutting through grease. And olive oil is a great alternative to furniture ...

The Confederate Constitution was almost identical to that of the United States.

In spite of his capacity for concealing his emotions, I could easily see that Holmes was in a state of suppressed excitement, while I was ...

He tells them he and his wife are keeping the baby, because it's the last link to their little girl or some cowpuckie like that.

When we speak of the perfection of art, we must recollect what the materials are with which a painter contends with nature. For the light ...

Love with uni-consciousness.Live with purposefulness.Laugh with joyfulness.

On a huge hill,Cragged and steep, Truth stands, and hee that willReach her, about must, and about must goe;And what the hills suddenness resists, winne ...

Men are like wine,not good before the lees of clownishness be settled.

There was silence on the other end. The static crackle from one hundred kilometres of telephone lines. Crows sitting on them, shivering, while people's conversations ...

All patched up out of parts and lowslung and bumping over the ruts. Filled with old lanky country boys with long cocks and big feet.

Widows tend either to fade away when husbands die, committing emotional suttee, or else find that a new life burgeons. Here in Christchurch, a lot ...

The way in which a group of people solves problems.

Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's ...

I think the things I wanted answered have been answered by people in the know that we can't talk about, so I'm perfectly happy with ...

Drinking all dayBig chiefing at nightI keep my eyes red and tightSo that my teeth can look white

A man must claim responsibility for his own temptation, and not pin it on the woman who arouses him. It's a gown, Sir Mark. Not ...

Of all the criminal cases in which Philo Vance participated as unofficial investigator, the most sinister, the most bizarre, the seemingly most incomprehensible, and certainly ...

More smoothly than you have done this

For example, you can eat a Caesar salad and say, "Wow, I ate so healthy today." You forget there was a quarter-cup of oil in ...

Now you know " the crow whispered as it sat on his shoulder. "Now you know why you must live." "Why " Bran said not ...

You can create viable ventures out of turbulent adventures.-You can creste prosperity out of adversity

It's time to stop letting your history control your destiny.

Smith, you don't realize it's a privilege to practice giving presents to others.' The way he did it was charming; there was nothing glittery and ...

A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' ...

Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society which ...

The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the ...

I thought, possibly, that what I really needed was to go where nobody knew me and start over again, with none of my previous decisions, ...

I need COFFEE to help me change the things I can ... and WINE to help me accept the things I can't!

A Christian is not somebody who stays away from all the wicked things he loves and clings to all the righteous things he hates so ...

I wrenched open the windows. I stood while the cold air poured around my face like dark water, as if I was a rock and ...

Campground supervisor Stanley Goldstein announced that sandwiches were coming into the Hog Farm compound by National Guard helicopter.

The clouds are thick as cotton and laced in silver from the sun, and she thinks back to what Oliver said on the plane, the ...

As storytellers, you're always somehow creating history.

As computers have become more powerful, computer graphics have advanced to the point where it's possible to create photo-realistic images. The bottleneck wasn't, 'How do ...

I have scars on my hands from touching certain people ... Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.

For having expressed an opinion, however far-fetched, we straightway become its slave, ready to die defending it, and even ready to believe it. And many ...

People used to envy me my inspiration. I hate inspiration. It takes you over completely. I could never wait until it passed and I got ...

But why? Why do you care about our class's history?" "I just do. Besides, I need something to put on my art-school applications besides 'Locks ...

Holy fuk." Lieutenant Jarret snorted. "Private Checya, I think you've just expressed the official reaction.

Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the loverwhat is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it caneasily be deceptive ...

An elaborately jointed array of bones landed in my lap, spasming like a broken crab. My cry was every bit as manly as that of ...

There is within you, waiting to be called, a great source of power called courage. Call its name and it will give you the strength ...

As for restaurants, one of our favorites is the Silk Road next door to the Tibetan Choijin Lama Museum. It's a very exotic setting. The ...

Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when we mix it ...

Where I come from, family's defined as those who don't screw you over a paycheck. Blood makes no difference. If you can trust them with ...

That spring, Amelia takes Maya to the drugstore and lets her choose any polish color she likes. "How do you pick?" Maya says. "Sometimes I ...

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we ...

Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled.

The actions of the police division today will be to assist the church for the funeral. We anticipate that a fairly large crowd will be ...

I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while.

Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one ...

Turks and Caicos is one of my favorite places to go. I've been to some really cool places and it started out when I was ...

A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.

I like the girls in Ecuador. They are more gentle and trusting, more innocent. They are not as suspicious of strangers as Colombian girls.

His voice was cloves and nightingales, it took us to spice markets in the Celebs, we drifted with him on a houseboat beyond the Coral ...

My grandfather understood one of the curious conundrums of globalization: exposure creates not only opportunity but competition, and it can make us question and eventually ...

These are the stories of travelers on a spiritual quest between worlds. Part mythmaker, part poet, Omar Castaeda is an original, and these stories are ...

Y'all should come to Cowboys Stadium and watch us beat the Giants' asses.

Sit me at the keyboard of any computer in the world with access to the Internet, and in just 24 hours I'll earn at least ...

No. Sorry. You have spent months being the biggest jerk to me. You don't get to decide to like me one day and think I ...

... it struck me that maybe the young girl had just been a prostitute. I felt a momentary sigh of gratitude, and then the awareness ...

The first rumors about Zenith came from the Czechoslovakians.

Pure intuitive faith differs as much from fanaticism as fire from smoke, or music from mere noise; those who confuse the two are like the ...

Many people don't focus enough on execution. If you make a commitment to get something done, you need to follow through on that commitment.

The world is me and I am the world.

China has become a major presence for most countries around the world but notably for its neighboring countries in Asia. So I think it is ...

You can imagine in China it's like: 'Ching chong hugong, ching chong kong, Danny Devito. Ching chong chong chong chong. The View. Ching chong!

Non-violent resistance activities cannot succeed against an enemy that is able freely to use violence. That's pretty obvious. You can't have non-violent resistance against the ...

The course of morality is subtle and even the most illustrious, wise people in this world fail to always understand it.

Darwin says your mother's a whore. Simple as that.

Only a person without principles can be so complaisant towards grief.

Mommy do princesses seem at all like me?look inside yourself and you'll see.

Ottolenghi sells lots of delicious sweet things, but my daily addiction is their unbelievable dark chocolate salted caramel biscuits. They're the best things in the ...

Gethen shouted threats as they left, but the warnings were as empty as his sandy cell. His final words to Keefe were the only ones ...

Maybe the kid gravitated to Zeb for the same reason children like dinosaurs: when feeling abandoned in a world of forces beyond your control, it's ...

One night is awaiting us all, and the way of death must be trodden once.[Lat., Omnes una manet nox,Et calcanda semel via leti.]

The stranger, with an unlit cigarette between his teeth, turns first. The unflattering elevator lighting enshrouds him in jaundice yellow and a heavy veil of ...

It was a circumambulation of such precise, ritualistic grief no one interfered.

A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and ...

Wait a minute while I think," said Miss Peavey. There was a pause. Miss Peavey sat with knit brows."How would it be ... " ventured ...

Linnaeus had it constantly in mind: 'The closer we get to know the creatures around us, the clearer is the understanding we obtain of the ...

If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant pastSecurity in human systems we're told will always always lastEmotions are the sail and blind ...

Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.

Never let a few people that don't get you, shape you, into their limited knowledge of what you can become.

I hesitate to say because it sounds silly, but the first play I did was 'The Caucasian Chalk Circle' by Brecht.

The biggest thing separating people from their artistic ambitions is not a lack of talent. It's the lack of a deadline. Give someone an enormous ...

His witch had finally arrived. He knew it within his heart and he danced, giddy as a schoolboy on the first day of summer vacation.

What's universal is the texture of our relationships. It's evolving. Times are changing with the women's movement. Men's roles are being redefined and, in some ...

I try to use the attention that I get to help and to serve, and that's really what I'd see as my work - to ...

A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.

I remember when I started off, my first car was a Kia Spectra. With a spoiler kit and some rims.