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It's great to celebrate the victories along the way in living your dreams but never allow the praises of your past pause you from pursuing ...

Yeah. She'd manipulated the second most powerful vampire in town into taking her side against a psycho bitch-queen sorority girl. She'd talked rationally about putting ...

The difference between an "Atypical CIO" and a "Stereotypical CIO" is not about the physical identity but at the mindset level.

First feel sure of idea, then the execution will be easier.

Conversations with adults other than a person's parents had more of an outcome.

Random acts of kindness, however small it may be can transform the world.

My pride and my power of vision were all that I owned when I started - and whatever I achieved, was achieved by means of ...

I'm very, very private; I don't enjoy talking about myself to strangers. Particularly strangers with tapes going.

I think that i was a rat in rat wheel in my previous life ... can not forget the habit

But the moon doesn't say what it knows.

Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.

Shit, there goes our chance at winning." Pey laughed. "A cocky quarterback that's in love with himself. We'll be lucky if you don't stop every ...

President Obama told a group of school children that broccoli was his favorite food, and they believed him. Then he told them Obamacare would reduce ...

Change is no threat to culture.

NATURAL FLEA PROTECTION FOR DOGS An easy way to protect your dog from fleas is to apply a drop or two of eucalyptus essential oil ...

My parents have always been very concerned of making sure we know who we are and where we come from. I have to give them ...

I would love to saythat youmake meweak in the kneesbutto be quite upfrontand completelytruthfulyoumake my bodyforgetit has kneesat all.

When I talk about losing myself, which I did, it's losing my idea of who I was and my idea of what I was supposed ...

Wasnt it Startre who said hell was eternity spent in a room with your friends?

They say your hardcore's not yours, and it's not fate. Nobody's gonna tell you what shit like that means.

In all kinds of composition, there are two things necessary: first, to have something to say; second, to say it.

At one time in my life, a shapeshifted, demonically possessed maniac crashing through a window and trying to rip my face off would have come ...

The word enchant comes from the Latin 'incantare', meaning to sing or chant magical words or sounds.

The way you lose the gospel is not by denying it, but by assuming it.

Well, I was always ... I used to get 100% in physics and chemistry and mathematics (well, maybe a couple of points off in mathematics), ...

The other day I saw a guy with a sign that said, WHERE WILL YOU SPEND ETERNITY? Which freaked me out because I was on ...

Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.

The fanciful is as much a part of our reality as the factual.

Mike Dukakis? He's the salt of the earth.

It was easier to live under a regime than to fight it. But

Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.

Look here, because they were born you think they have to turn out to be men? That's just an old-fashioned idea. And who tells them ...

Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.

An idle genius is an oxymoron.

Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a ...

Whenever I think about the budgetary problems, I think about the problems of Errol Flynn ... reconciling net income with gross habits.

A constant flickering confetti of butterflies showered the town of Darwin. Designer insects, I think of them now: there was something enormously wasteful, extravagant even, ...

She wakes up loving him, but not hard enough. He has dandelion hair. Stars fall and zip between them, they can't stop laughing; she falls ...

What's your name.""Um ... " I don't know why I hesitate, but Betrise just doesn't sound right anymore. I have a chance to be remade ...

And it'll be longer still, now that you have those wings." Beliel grins, but his expression still manages to be cruel. "Women and children will ...

Even thirty years later, reflecting back on the competition, Jobs cast it as a holy crusade: "IBM was essentially Microsoft at its worst. They were ...

Your mind, like a bicycle, goes wherever you want it to go.

Sometimes there's just no justice. The bad guys do live, if not happily ever after, then certainly conspicuously.

My commitment to stand behind Datsun gained the trust of dealers and sold cars. My motto was: Dealers make money first, and then we make ...

My inclination toward an action always plummets in direct correlation to someone's demand. Call me contrary.

That sounded like an insult, but he wasn't sure. "What's a dillweed?" "You. You're a dill weed." Well, that cleared things right up.

To love human beauty is to love something whose very existence is doomed. Love should be based on permanence. On solid, secure things ... Love ...

I have a spiritual practice which helps to keep me grounded and centered. Yoga is vital because it keeps me in full awareness and connection ...

I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass ... to stand up against such social ...

Don't know whether I said the right things but I tried to! I have got to get used to it but I have said this ...

Since total skepticism about ultimate beliefs is strictly impossible, in that no belief can be doubted except on the basis of some other belief, indifference ...

I feel for the players.

Those are for us,' growls Detering. 'Don't talk rubbish,' Kat snaps back at him. 'You'll be lucky to get a coffin at all,' grins Tjaden, ...

But time and surprise are the two most vital elements in war.

Matters progressed.

I was doing telenovelas in Miami and Mexico, and everyone's dream when you're an actor is to be in Hollywood.

As you walk, hop, hobble, or wheelMeeting people of different kinds, Remember that being handicappedIs only a state of mind

The world is: fun, and familiar, and healthful, and unbelievably refreshing, and lovely. And it is the theater of the spiritual; it is the multiform ...

I love my mother dearly, but it wouldn't be suitable for me to live with her all the time.

I think the most important manner is just general kindness. When you go to big cities, sometimes people forget to just say, "Good morning," or ...

"God, you're a good kisser," he said. "Where'd you learn to do that?"I sat up and flashed him a deadpan look. "Books," I said.

It's amazing to me that we humans have the intellectual capacity to ask deep questions and to devise methods for learning how the universe works ...

The only thing that counts in life is solid, material assets. It's no time for theories when everything is falling to pieces around us.

Sometimes it is more comfortable to live in the past. It is where you have already been, what you already know. It is because the ...

We're going,' he said excitedly, and shivered with energy. 'Where? How?' said Arthur. 'I don't know,' said Ford, 'but I just feel that the time ...

Life is a dream of roses and the thorns prick us back to reality

There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music ...

My will exceeds my talents.

Sensation more complex than had ever before found itself consistent with sanity.

If you catch me lying, it's probably because I'm about to surprise someone for their birthday, or hide away the specific details about a company ...

The consumption of ice cream (pints per person) and the number of murders in New York are positively correlated. That is, as the amount of ...

The moderns say we must not punish heretics. My only doubt is whether we have the right to punish anybody else.

Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man's honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.

The White House says that the vacation in Texas will give President Bush the chance to unwind. My question is, when does the guy wind?

The Satisfactions of the Mad Farmer ... the quiet in the woods of a summer morning, the voice of a pewee passing through it like ...

Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet.

I have always lived my life by making lists: lists of people to call, lists of ideas, lists of companies to set up, lists of ...

Doors of my heart are always open with love and kindness.

We are adrift on a sea of moonlight sand, the silence as infinite as the space between the stars.

I think I mentioned to Bob [Geldof] I could make love for eight hours. What I didn't say was that this included four hours of ...

So if you do something, you should be observant, and careful, and alert.

They always stayed at the beach to enjoy the golden hour, that hour when the sun sank low enough to spangle the water and make ...

Popping off, I say, "I wouldn't mind." Even if it tastes like shit, I'd swallow Alex Waters' jizz. Then I'd get the T-shirt.

Made a decision. I will never let a sunny day happen without me again. Darkness is almost always guaranteed unless some strange thing happens. But ...

Which is better: to dare to look directly into the blinding present, no matter how painful, or to await the detachment of hindsight -- which, ...

But because their ancestors were men of righteousness, shall we consent to the abuses of their degenerate descendants? Because they did us a great good, ...

You're delusional to think that I could ever love someone as damaged as you. Hell, no one could.

We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable ...

For me coaching was all about being involved, and taking the best qualities from the coaches I had as a player and moulding them into ...

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

Love is fire. but whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house,you can never tell.

The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: the embryo becomes a baby, the bud becomes a blossom, the ...

The global network of DNA-based life emits ultra-weak radio waves, which are currently at the limit of measurement, but which we can nonetheless perceive ... ...

I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She's a city for the all senses, ...

Everyone in the class turned. On one of the tables, a frog had started to smoke, and the limbs were twitching spasmodically. Dr. Herbert rushed ...

I don't belong on this earth. I always feel out of place - like a visitor.

Of all the things I'd imagined in nightmares and dreams of dead things, the woman who gripped my leg was the worst and my last.

Oppression is opposition.

Hey amygdala, what's wrong with a nice vignette that features me enjoying a warm day on a Florida beach

I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made ...