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Where there is hunger there is no hope. There is only desolation and pain. Hunger nurtures violence and fanaticism. A world where people starve will ...
The drowsiness returns. It is unwelcome. I recognize it as the sort of fitful twilight which has come over me of late, a twilight where ...
The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people ...
I'm chasing perfection.
No more diving into pools of chlorinated water lit green from below. No more ball games played out under floodlights. No more porch lights with ...
The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a ...
People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same.
I'm really looking forward to developing just really fun, complex, interesting stories about people who happen to be black.
Can we remain indifferent before the problems associated with such realities as climate change?
DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing.
'Blade Runner' was a comic strip. It was a comic strip! It was a very dark comic strip. Comic metaphorically.
Military people do not get what they want by being emotional.
In the world of animation, you can be anything you wanna be. If you're a fat woman, you can play a skinny princess. If you're ...
George W. Bush gave a commencement speech at Southern Methodist University this weekend. It was pretty inspirational. He said, 'As I like to tell the ...
Don't start from the good old things but the bad new ones.
The hand-plucked rose loses meaning as life is leached. Red love, once clutched to breast, putrefies and is thrown to the midden.The hand leaked life ...
Saying no isn't easy, but it's a required skill if you wish to have any degree of focus in your life. If you say yes ...
I feel there's nothing like a good classic book, except possibly its movie version.
And snow - snow is not my enemy, I tell him. Snow is God's way of telling people to slow down and rest and stay ...
How hard you work at correcting your faults reveals your character.
A life that matters is not lived by circumstance, but by choice. It is not where you start, it is where you finish. From this ...
Love is the overcomes the errors of humanity
What you lose in the world will not be a loss to your soul.
She was here, and she was stronger than this, harder than this. They could make her hate herself, make her doubt herself, but they couldn't ...
Don't let go now, Jay. One-by-one, place each piece of your soul back together, but this time, make it stronger. Close your eyes and do ...
A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be ...
I am not doing any favour, only performing a duty; this victory is a result of struggle of five generations.
I had nightmares I thought were really horrible until I woke up and remembered what reality was at the moment.
It's okay. Everything's going to be okay. You can let go of the sword.""I can't. I can't leave him alone. I have to protect him.""You ...
Some things need to be said. And sometimes they require strong words.
The first time I was spanked I cried. The second time I cried out for more.
You know what. You've killed me and sent me to hell, and you must descend to the underworld to find me and make me live ...
An art school is generated only by the intensity and heat of a common pressure.
By learning to contact, listen to, and act on our intuition, we can directly connect to the higher power of the universe and allow it ...
What I learned constructive about women is that no matter how old they get, always think of them the way they were on the best ...
I've never lost track of what I stand for and what I believe in. I'm proud of that.
David Spellman was born perfect. Eight pounds even, with a full head of hair and unblemished skin, he cried for a brief moment right after ...
You do not go out into the street in your underwear, although usually you are wearing underwear. The underwear is not visible but it is ...
Perfect endings... they don't exist, 'Phie. Only in stories, where nothing ever really changes. Here, right now, isn't a story. There is no happy ending, ...
Not just the normal back-and-forth. A prickle in the air, a slicing edge. I couldn't tell if it was about her, or just the day ...
You'd better not be trying to steal that," she said. The boy shrugged and reached for the small rolling suitcase at her feet. "I wouldn't ...
Adversity refined a man like gold.
That is all, Augustus,' she said, and dismissed me with a gesture of loathing, as if I had been a green-fly that had fallen short ...
Through one word, or seven words, or three times five, even if you investigate thoroughly myriad forms, nothing can be depended upon. Night advances, the ...
Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of National Geographics, is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to the cottage in Maine, ...
Love at infancy is the strongest and puriest of all, it is mixed with infatuation and deep happiness. Persistent smile brings out hollow dimples, and ...
Lust and learning. That's really all there is, isn't it?
Daniel Elkins. The man credited with hunting vampires to extinction, killed by vampires. Ironic way to go, but he wouldn't have it any other way. ...
I wanted more than life could ever grant
As she followed her dog through the side roads back towards Darkshines, her thick boots started to feel leaden, her legs prickly and sore; the ...
Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you ...
Knowledge has been a passion with me during my whole life, one which has not lost its charm to the present day.
I admit that thoughts influence the body.
I have read 391 books... please- Enlight Me- Enlight Me- Enlight Me- Enlight Me- Enlight Me- Enlight Me
Call it a character flaw when under attack, I counter attack. Always.
Everytime I say "sure" when I mean "no," everytime I smile brightly when I'm exploding with rage, every time I imagine my man's achievement is ...
We have seen the future, and the future is ours.
The benefit arising from moderate use of strong Liquor have been experienced in all Armies, and are not to be disputed.
Instead, they display projections, depressions, and openings.
It's a balance. Like, we are shooting the big car chase at the end and it's me with everybody. And I got my stunt coordinator ...
I admit to having an imagination feverish enough to melt good judgment.
Oliver: You turned me down. So why, I wonder, did you decide Amelie would be a better choice?Claire: She smells better. And she made me ...
I loved our mutual corny sense of humor. Underneath all his macho bravado, he was a dork. Just like me.
All dancers are, by and large, a photographer's dream. They communicate with their bodies and they are trained to be completely responsive to a collaborative ...
I don't regret the numerous pictures of Brigitte Bardot, but I'd rather have a good photograph of my father.
T'is true: there's magic in the web of it ...
We have deemed all these words necessary in order to explain that we have been traveling more slowly than was predicted, concision is not a ...
I used to take my morning tea at her kiosk and I took an interest in what she was doing. I later learnt she was ...
Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because ...
The value of any experience isn't in its positive or negative effect on his life but in the sheer luminous power of it, the vividness, ...
It only put me in Gryffindor," said Harry in a defeated voice, "because I asked not to go in Slytherin. . . ." "Exactly," said ...
The thing is, 'Discworld' had been going on for a very long time, and I've written children's books as well. Usually when people have a ...
The church has been planted as a paradise in this world.
My mother named me Deenie because right before I was born she saw a movie about a beautiful girl named Wilmadeene, who everybody called Deenie ...
The brain is the hardware, and the mind is the software, with the totality always in action, hardware plus software.
There is always a choice. No choice is still a choice.
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
One word was the method by which the state collected their information. They could reel in the informants and spread them out like tentacles, ready ...
First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Change means movement, and movement ...
We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, ...
In fact, Darwin's own grandfather anticipated the central tenet of Lamarckism by some seven years: "All animals undergo perpetual transformations; which are in part produced ...
It is a tremendous strength to be able to digest an insult.
Around me, the morning traffic neighed, brayed, and defecated on the street.
Before birth; yes, what time was it then? A time like now, and when they were dead, it would be still like now: these trees, ...
I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.
Expectations can ruin your chances for happiness
The vast majority of criminal cases are settled by plea bargaining. Only the rare civil case goes to trial, not least because most judges now ...
There is an ancient script that says, 'He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be ignorant.' But I took off the last word and ...
Cuz this is what happens when bad meets evilWe hit the trees till we look like Vietnamese people
Biology has progressed tremendously due to the model that Darwin put forth. But the black boxes Darwin accepted are now being opened, and our view ...
And so you paint pagodas and carp and phoenixes, but you also paint English country houses, and churches and coats of arms, the crucifixion, inscriptions ...
I am more afraid of doing what is wrong than of dying.
Once you get very clear about the things that are the most important to you in your life, those things that truly give meaning and ...
I had a salad. If I were to say that today's tomatoes were an index of the decline of Western man I should be thought ...
The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be fought.
Okay? You'll be a knockout. Listen, we'll buy a bottle of high-price Scotch and take it along. That Vat 69.' Frank,
In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.
The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, ...
Belief has the power to change your inner state and your outer world.
I try to stay away from stuff that's just action, action, action, action, action, and you kind of fast-forward through the dialogue scenes. I'm not ...