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I write what I would like to read.
British men are peacocks. You see a lot more style on the streets here than you see anywhere else, on every level.
Expository preaching means you can't completely predetermine what your people will be hearing over the next few weeks or months. As the texts are opened, ...
If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually ...
I see you've got an unwanted visitor." He walked to stand beside Doris just as she poked at the gator with the table leg and ...
I do my best work under pressure, so I'll nick an artery, and my husband isn't allowed to stanch the bleeding till I've banged out ...
But let's be real: feminism has mostly worked hard for those things for white women, and that is one of the main reasons why it ...
The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire ... driven by a ...
He explained how ridiculous the clowning was, and there and then I decided to settle down and play seriously.
The night wears on; the fire dwindles; the wind shifts and my heart aches with nostalgia - summer camps and catching lightning bugs and August ...
An American diplomat is sometimes like a bull who carries his own china shop around with him.
A will to be unkind is like a sickness. It can be healed or driven out. But to be unkind because you are thoughtless is ...
Cinema serves as a constant reminder to us of who we are and what we are made of.
Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to ...
When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just doesn't like that ...
I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.
It's a juggling act. Every time I get going on the album stuff or being musical, acting kicks in and I book a job. It ...
Nicholas wrestled a grocery cart free from the queue and pushed it into the produce section at Publix. "They make really good subs here," I ...
That's why we call this a dark age. It's a dark age in the sense that there are so many people on the earth who ...
White is The color for innocence, but iT can Be So Dangerous.
I recognize Eric for what he is: an Erudite disguised as a Dauntless, a genius as well as a sadist, a hunter of the Divergent.
The hard part was living the contrast between being rich and being broke. It was like being smart, and waking up one day to find ...
Sometimes I imagine that there's a binary division going on in contemporary practice that has to do with chromatic versus diatonic. I notice that I ...
Empathy is wonderful, but you can still overdose on it if you try too much to fast.
People are hungry not because there aren't enough farmers or food, but because they don't have access to it or can't afford it.
Thankfully, God's plans also happen to be much better than my own.
It's brainless to assume that making changes to your window's view will give a new perspective
I'm not much of a crier but it is mildly soul-destroying and exposing to do something physical that you are terrible at in front of ...
There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.
Wherever we are, we are as one
I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the ...
The truth shall make thee fret
Keep a sense of humor. Over and over, I see that levity helps diffuse practically any difficult situation - which
History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain somethingthrough aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more andmore and more.
You discover your identity and purpose through a relationship with Jesus Christ.
If there's age discrimination - and there may be - I've always felt that the person who discriminates is hurt more than the person being ...
We must fix our broken immigration system. That means stopping illegal immigration. And it means welcoming properly vetted legal immigrants, regardless of their race or ...
You reach a point in life where you realize that you might as well do what you need to do, because your being loved or ...
To know other people thought he'd made a mistake vindicated me. I wasn't a bad girlfriend, he was simply going through a period of temporary ...
I'm astonished how little fright I have of my own imagination. It really does baffle me that I don't get more scared because I'm capable ...
Cork, promise me something." "What?" "You won't do anything that'll get you hurt." "I'm not what you'd call a brave man," he assured her. She ...
I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs.
One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.
Talking to him was like playing upon an exquisite violin.
There was nothing the matter with them except they were dead tired. It was not the dead-tiredness that comes through brief and excessive effort, from ...
Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.
We couldn't spend $91 billion if we wanted to.
When we look at the past from beyond the perspective of sadness and error, without judgment, without right or wrong, understanding it was part of ...
Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?
I don't think kids or grown-ups should be so eager to punish "geek" enthusiasm with shaming, even if the enthusiasm is for arcane things.
Presumptuous bastard,' Tak said. 'Sunset? He might at least wait and see if there's a tomorrow morning.
No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in her own: and were some ...
Convention is another name for the habits of society.
Sediments of stones scatter as the ego hath crushed, weather of life changes every form , be it rock or a human!
Chromatacia ... society ... ruled by a colortocracy ... social hierarchy based upon one's limited color perception, society is dominated by color. In this world, ...
I am a sick man - oh, not my body. It is my soul, my brain. I seem to have lost all values. I care ...
Death doesn't discriminate between the sinners and the saints, it takes and it takes and it takes, and we keep living anyway....
Vampires, real vampires, didn't nibble on the necks of nubile young virgins. They tore people to pieces and sucked the blood out of the chunks.
Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It's bright and vivid, and the rest ...
There's something about the first time an actor runs the material over his or her face, when they kind of run it through their eyes ...
The meaning of existence is to evolve. To change. That is what we are biologically equipped for. To recognize and adapt to our ever-changing world.
All the roles I play, I don't see any of my roles in films that they're typically leading men.
It's important that our children are raised to be educated, well-rounded tax-paying citizens that understand the importance of technology and science.
True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person ...
I'm only concerned with making music that I love and that my fans will respond to. I am happy to see other really good young ...
I'm like a Dilbert cartoon.
Spring water is pure in an emerald streammoonlight is white on Cold Mountainsilence thoughts and the spirit becomes clearfocus on emptiness and the world grows ...
You had to have happiness to miss happiness!
A most mechanical and dirty hand. I shall have such revenges on you...both. The things I will do, what they are, yet I know not. ...
I will come back to you, I swear I will;And you will know me still.I shall be only a little tallerThan when I went.
With brothers you become friends. Some you hang out with more than others. You talk to one about the other a little more. You get ...
She steeled her spine. "Like Boleyn to the chopping block." Anna smirked. "Queen of England, are we?" Mara shrugged. "Something to aspire to.
People keep asking me whether I'm going to vote for Obama or McCain in the election. But I'm like, why bother? There will never be ...
For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, ...
It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands ... but empty cages; not traditional animal agriculture but a complete end to all commerce in ...
Better hope deferred than none.
And you'd be left there like a fucking dumpling. You'd be standing there. A fucking dumpling man I'm telling ye.
An Arabic proverb: One insect is enough to fell a country. A Japanese proverb: Even an insect one-tenth of an inch long has five-tenths of ...
We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
History has taught us that the idea of superpower is for a political maniac to design the art of control over other countries.
In the trees this afternoon, he was a giver of bread and teddy bears.
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
Grieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end.
This preservation of favourable individual differences and variations, and the destruction of those which are injurious, I have called Natural Selection, or the Survival of ...
There are times you feel the world has turned its back on you, you feel so alone, no one to turn to. There is one ...
If any one hates to be alone with himself, the chances are that he has not much of any self to be alone with.
I have a life without you. You're not my entire world. You're just the part I loved the most ...
Factions are a sign of illness in a party.
Despite our disapproval with what God allows us to endure, he still remains the same God that is not interested in our convenience, as much ...
Just because it fits doesn't mean it looks good.
Pride is never sinful when it is Justice.
We find great things are made of little things, And little things go lessening till at last Comes God behind them.
As men begin to grow civilized, they cease to be satisfied with mere taboos.
You wanna blow money? Put it in a 'blow' category in your budget. But at least admit it on paper!
I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death.
Don't measure what you can. Measure what you should.
Friendship is more important than truth.
Any creature, even one as unassuming as a fish, can become something mighty. When they courageously endure their trials, they meet their destiny.
Better crawl than being stuck at same place
It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says.