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What kind of Muslim are you? The question seems odd, but for those who seek to divide and conquer Islam, the answer has become increasingly ...

Cold has its own taste. It tastes of a bitten tongue. It coils around you, a living thing, a beast that means to kill you, ...

I love life. I wish I could live another 500 years, truly. There is so much to do. I don't feel bitter or angry or ...

We are born with everything we need for a life of fulfilment and success.

Embrace yourself and do what you can to look and feel your best. Don't put on so many fashion trends that create a ridiculous style ...

It is the unexpected note that makes the poem. You, Hugh, are the unexpected note. (pg 554)

We, the human beings in this world, if there is a spark of goodness or kindness in our hearts, avoid judging people. We prefer forgiving ...

Brass, stay down all summer.

Women call me all the time and tell me, 'You inspired me to get out of a bad situation,' or 'You inspired me to take ...

Of course it was Hamlet - The uncle kills the father, and the son has to avenge his father's death. So then we decided it ...

It was this night that he told me the strange story of his youth with Dan Cody - told it to me because "Jay Gatsby" ...

I watched as she, with a half-life-worth of anger and resolve, flickered into this dark night and tried with all her might to get back ...

You could run harder, longer. If the workout was four 200s really, really fast, they wouldn't seem as hard as before. You could cut the ...

You cannot imagine a more certain rule or a more powerful suggestion than this, that all the blessings we enjoy are divine deposits which we ...

There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away. REVELATION 21:4

Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the ...

The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, ...

I'd rather be a happy Hooters waitress than a depressed out-of-work actor.

You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest ...

I own the responsibility for determining my own value. I do not expect anyone else to make me feel valued and important. That must come ...

Jay was attacked with peculiar venom. Near his New York home, the walls of a building were defaced with the gigantic words, 'Damn John Jay. ...

You want the greatest trick for writing a novel? Here it is: imagine urgently whispering your story into one person's ear - and only one. ...

Sticks & stones never broke my bones, but words made me starve myself until you could see all of them. - ...

It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs.

In life you are going to make mistakes, you're going to fall down, but it's the getting up that counts. Just like in baseball: you'll ...

Unhappy poor people at least have the fantasy that money will make them happy; unhappy rich people don't even have that.

I didn't get my first pilot that I screen-tested for, and I really thought it was the end of the world. But it's fine, you ...

Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little ...

If you do not want to be forgotten as soon as you are dead...be read, or try coming back and pull the feet of those ...

Note to self: It's a good idea to ask, What am I not doing?

You are a true success if you can trust yourself, love yourself, and be yourself.

What you become is far more important that what you get. What you get will be influenced by what you become.

My God, is this a date?" Jeff had asked when I asked if I could bring her along."I don't know," I said. "She might still ...

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be ...

[A]ny ecstatic experience can be healing not just for you but for others. Therapy is good to help you think differently and break patterns of ...

Old fashions please me best; I am not so niceTo change true rules for odd inventions.

Get up," James finally said, his tone indecipherable. "I don't need a patient dying from pneumonia on me tonight.

The point of being a teacher is to do more than impart facts, it's to shape the way students perceive the world, to help a ...

In order to do great things, you must be unafraid to recreate yourself. You can't do that holding on to a glory from yesterday.

The Iraqi prime minister is an anti-Semite. We don't need to spend $200 and $300 and $500 billion dollars bringing democracy to Iraq to turn ...

I feel like I have to do the best job I can to basically say, "OK, I understand - you have every right to be ...

Participating in class, doing your homework, and basically just having your shit together and doing what's got to be done shouldn't be seen as a ...

When aerobic running becomes a daily habit, strength and confidence follow.

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all.

To see the full miraculous essentiality of the color blue is to be grateful with no necessity for a word of thanks. To see fully, ...

Shiroyama's heart stops. The earth's pulse beats against his ear. An inch away is a go clamshell stone, perfect and smooth ... ... a black ...

My future daughter is not going to go through what I did.

In my view, if you have good or bad technique, it doesn't matter. But you will survive if you can adjust your game at international ...

Last night, she had died.

Most actresses are always running late - I'm no exception.

We are simple-minded enough to think that if we were saying something we would use words. We are rather doing something. The meaning of what ...

I think of the company advertising "Thought Processors" or the college pretending that learning BASIC suffices or at least helps, whereas the teaching of BASIC ...

Submission to what people call their 'lot' is simply ignoble. If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take ...

Yes we dream of our selves, of what we will become," Chi Ling told me, "but it's the environment that tells us what is possible. ...

But I still remained paralyzed by indecision, reluctance, and endless second-guessing ...

Skulls are what people dont know to be good luck, they ward off bad.

It feels much nobler to feel guilty than resentful, and it takes more courage to express resentment than guilt. With expressing guilt you expect to ...

If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain ...

Our children will be told what Israel has done.' graffiti on the Wall in Bethlehem, opposite Aida refugee camp, 2008

He was a ship loaded down with a full cargo of emotion, riding low in the dark winter sea of death. Isao

I think fashion is a lot of fun. I love clothes. More than fashion or brand labels, I love design. I love the thought that ...

I think if you're a painter, you paint; if you're a golfer, you golf; if you're a fisherman, you fish; if you're a musician, you ...

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. ...

I was born and raised in California and benefited from California's excellent public schools, from kindergarten through medical school.

He doesn't need a donkey," says Ana Kuya. "He has a wife.

Grace not only embraces you at your most shameful, it's the most effective antidote to sin.

Music! Goddammit! Music!" Mom screamed."We have some lovely Enya. Very soothing," the midwife said."Fuck Enya!" Mom screamed.

I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly ...

I just happened to be in the neighborhood, walking my dog ... " This was sounding lame. "Several miles from my home,in the middle of ...

If there's somebody that I love that's in my life, I don't necessarily have to agree with their decisions or the decisions they've made to ...

Putting pressure on grand juries to indict in my view is un-American. A grand jury should be allowed to be fair and impartial. They shouldn't ...

A naked lunch is natural to us We eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness.

I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together.

Find your passion and live it.

When you read a supernatural suspense story or a ghost story, or a horror story, the evil at play is something that you can dismiss. ...

The religions in my portfolio weren't useless after all, he thought, the power flowing from him and remaking the world. None of them were. They ...

When you get a lot of money thrown at you, you can make some dumb decisions without the right advice.

I'm not sure what gave me empathy for animals, but I do know that I have always loved animals since I was a very young ...

You've got two witnesses here. Happiness is a wholeness issue. If you want to be happy, you need to be whole. If you want to ...

Where my tastes in music are concerned, I'm a real maximalist.

Wow," said Henry. "Awesome. And I'll help you with you know who.""Who?" Justin said again"Talking about Dr. Who, J. You know how we nerds love ...

Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad ...

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.

I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

Your Sister is a crazy bitch. She's fucking insane. We need help. - Dean

We must not confuse the command to love with the disease to please.

I was doing a civil rights musical here in Los Angeles, and we sang at one of the rallies where Dr. Martin Luther King spoke, ...

You have to learn to laugh all the time. It's a practice of life. It's a practice of happiness.

Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer hell laid out in alarms ...

Eh, I'll just get another computer. This will be my Disney trip computer." My parents had boxes of photos in their closets. Now we have ...

As once I loved you in my mortal flesh, without it now I love you still.

Through all people, the Music of Love would pour, bringing light to the swords that sped through the darkness. And the light of their blades ...

Dont you know that you are my Zarya? You always have been. I've been in love with you since the first day we met and ...

The first four months of my life were spent in care, before I was adopted by my wonderful parents - my mum and dad - ...

Most of the time, I get auditions for deaf characters where the scene has them communicating in really convoluted ways, like reading lips from across ...

When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of ...

The basis of a democratic state is liberty

Did you have an awesome time? Did you drink awesome shooters, listen to awesome music, and then just sit around and soak up each others ...

My last girlfriend was a Showgirl - But we eventually broke up because she wouldn't Tell me anything. Now I'm dating a girl who looks ...