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The quality of taking responsibility does not come naturally. It has to be taught more by example than by anything else.

Dodie: "Mama, Jamie's up on the hill and he's f***g a goat!"Mama: "Well, it's Jamie's goat, ain't it?"-Peter Manso illustrates the brash wit pervasive in ...

I am one of many people documenting damage and looting at ancient sites from space - it is such a crucial tool.

It made me alive to the fact that the most important thing sometimes is what isn't said - to prepare for moments of revelation that ...

For the first seven years of my life, I listened to nothing but The Beatles.

All I can say is ... she's been a good friend. And in her own special way, she's a ball of insecurities, but so aren't ...

I noticed long ago that Amin has the tendency to concentrate power in his own hands but I did not attach any particular significance to ...

A righteous God isn't bound by time. He has an eternity to make things right.

Time should always by used well to maximise personal desires.

When we say "people worry" about inflation, it's mainly bondholders that worry. The labor force benefitted from the inflation of the '50s, '60s and '70s.

Love is just a scar you can't see.

I feel it is a tremendous compliment to a natural competitor to hear "I just don't believe you're natural," because it means you just look ...

But if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't.

A certain kind of shittiness, a certain kind of stagnation, a certain kind of darkness, goes on propagating itself by its own power in its ...

No, Alina. You came here for Ravka. For the firebird. To lead the Second Army." He tapped the sun over his heart. "I came here ...

How to become a millionaire? Become a billionaire first.

Just as some books are so beautiful and intriguing that you never want to put them down, forever eager of what lies beyond the scope ...

Be a loving soul.

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.

In Mongolia, the nomads always told me that wolves were the most dangerous things on the steppe, and I didn't believe them at first.

If the hearts are pure, they will never have enough from reciting Allah's words (the Qur'an).

And yet Praecursoris is not punished the same way, only because it is not practical, and he is needed for breeding?

Business leaders must find ways to infuse mundane business activities with deeper, soul-stirring ideals, such as honor, truth, love, justice, and beauty.

In Los Angeles, individuality is very big, because people live in secluded bubbles. People don't walk around. They're very insular, and that allows for people ...

Doctor, if I put this here guitar down now I ain't never going to wake up.

I think maybe they are watching, he said. They are watching for a thing that even death cannot undo and if they do not see ...

Nature is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best when others are asleep. In the still dark hours before sunrise God tells me ...

Though you wear your fingers to the bone with service, weep your eyes out with repentance, make your knees hard with kneeling, and dry your ...

Losers break the rules. There's no point in obeying them because if you obey the unwritten rules of civility, you're going to lose anyway. So ...

It is the prime responsibility of every citizen to feel that his country is free and to defend its freedom is his duty. Every Indian ...

They were certainly a pair. Cincinnati in a dead man's suit, Mother in a dead man's wallet.

Pope John Paul didn't die - he pre-boarded.

Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything

There may be losses too great to understandThat rove after you andfaint and terrible rip unknown through your hand.

We cannot approach beauty. Its nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things, which all have this ...

We are quick to give up control of ourselves to those who have the power to rule us as long as they also have the ...

Fantasies are absolutely safe, as long as you never try to make them a reality.

I think those who have wanted regime [of Bashar Assad] change have made a mistake.

When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything.

Maybe stories and memories are destined to be incomplete...

Also, bad quality causes big disruptions in my river system.

Wicked companions invite us to hell.

Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.

This day was yesterday to-morrow nam'd: To-morrow shall be yesterday proclaimed: To-morrow not yet come, not far away, What shall to-morrow then be call'd? To-day.

Only enormously talented people could have made Death to Smoochy . Those with lesser gifts would have lacked the nerve to make a film so ...

For millions of years, an ancient conversation has continued between the chorus of the ocean and the silence of the stone.

And in those moments, Park thought about pulling back from her.Not breaking up with her. That phrase didn't even seem to apply here. Just ... ...

Call me a nature nut. I love nature. I like to walk in nature, I use natural remedies, and I practice natural medicine as a ...

The balancing of the budget will not in itself place a teaspoonful of milk in a hungry baby's stomach, or remove the rags from its ...

The English have no exaulted sentiments. They can all be bought.

And as a director, you make 1,000 decisions a day, mostly binary decisions: yes or no, this one or that one, the red one or ...

Half-truths are like half a brick - they can be thrown farther.

The moment the frightened people understand the sweet dailiness of their lives - the swallow of morning orange juice, the tilting curve taken on a ...

Everything has two aspects; the current aspect, which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly and metaphysical aspect, which only ...

Casillas saying he wouldn't sign Messi for Madrid? Messi has a place in every team in the world.

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.

If I want things to change, I have to change how I do things. And probably drastically.

Between the pages of a book is a lovely place to be.

My grief has burrowed into me like a dark thing that eats away at my life.

Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.

That's the trouble with living things. Don't last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And then just memories. And the memories fade ...

It really does look like the rings of a tree," she said. "No," said Kaz. "It looks like a target.

Every drop of water in an ocean contains the flavor of the whole ocean. So too, every moment in time contains the flavor of eternity, ...

None of us are ever far from death. Try as we might to convince ourselves otherwise, our vulnerability is profound and intrinsic, our time on ...

It is, I know, for I have experienced it perhaps twice in my life, an awful privilege to be too much loved and perhaps the ...

Life only demands from you the strength you possess.

If a soul is not honoring his or her journey by dimming his or her own light, a Guardian of Light steps forward on behalf ...

Once you have a Dex in your lap, you can't go back," I said. I looked over at Perry. "Ain't that right, kiddo?

Probably the label 'Jesus freak' is fine with me. Because I know who I am.

There's a huge difference between love and need. Someone who needs you will put themselves first. Someone who loves you will put you first.

He gave Marcie a spare to the Jeep - I should park this thing in the ocean, twenty feet under.

I like the laid-back, polite, respectful courteous personality cowboys have. Guys almost lay down their life for you if they're your friends. You exist on ...

When everything is good, maybe I think it's the time to do something else.

This is what's so terrifying about being lonely: the instinctive sense that it is literally repulsive, inhibiting contact at just the moment contact is most ...

I travel and climb about eight months a year. That's pretty great training in itself. When I am home, I do a lot of bouldering, ...

What a crazy way to be buried, he thought as he hunted. Get your body burned up and then poured into a box that looked ...

I considered, quite seriously, strangling her to death while I fucked her and then throwing myself in front of the 8:11 bus. The idea was ...

There's no question that jihad historically means war.

What I knew for sure was that he had a quick temper, a cocky attitude, and a southern accent ... Apparently he also has a ...

Stop validating your victim mentality. Shake off your self-defeating drama and embrace your innate ability to recover and achieve.

Fashion is not about before, it's not about after, it's about now

Smile in the face of adversity, be contemptuous of danger, undaunted in defeat and magnanimous in victory.

He insulted me' -this knowledge binds one with terrible demerit karma.

Though I cannot promise to take you home," said North Wind, as she sank nearer and nearer to the tops of the houses, "I can ...

To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in ...

Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains ...

Whether it's a relationship or what you're wearing, or how much you weigh and what you said when you didn't mean it, like - it's ...

There has never been anything worth obtaining without grief, or suffering, and disappointment.

Why not stop trying to prevent posterity being silent about you? You were born to die, and a silent funeral is less bothersome.

As long as I have my feet, I can dance; you know what I'm saying?

I've raised my voice at a human only twice in my entire life. Both times at the same human. Put differently: I've known only one ...

God doesn't waste anything for those who are yielded to him.

No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism.

A president just can't make much showing against congress. They lay awake nights, thinking up things to be against the president on.

His most characteristic detective stories end with the realization that no rational account of events is possible, and his suspense stories tend to close with ...

The police still found this earlier omission in my statement hard to understand, but they weren't the ones who had been the victim of the ...

Rich by nature, poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.

The thing we would remember from meeting a truly gospel-humble person is how much they seemed to be totally interested in us. Because the essence ...

When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.