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One of the most famous split infinitives ... To boldly go
The pure products of Americago crazy ... ... [] No one to witnessand adjust, no one to drive the car
The Australia to 2050 report highlights something that is well understood by South Australians, that infrastructure plays a key role in long-term economic expansion.
Forgive us for relying on our own wisdom and strength; for the hours we spend trying to rescue ourselves from pain, suffering, and sin, when ...
I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.
We don't win what we don't fight for.
I got my own way of praying.
Americans really don't know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like ...
I'm sorry, I mouthed to him before I said out loud, The file's exactly where it should be. Stuck so far up your ass that ...
Ever since we'd found Wilson, his cousin's calmness bothered me. I realized now I felt less unease with angry outbursts from grieving relatives, than I ...
Explore new adventures.
I will gladly spend the rest of my days learning your secrets.
I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.
To contest an author's right to create a poetic or realistic work is to want to force him to change his temperament, challenge his originality, ...
He looked at her as if she were already one of the ugly nameless bodies in the mortuary, and with a medical man's sober, somewhat ...
Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
I would never tell you what to believe, Daniel, so please don't tell me that my opinion is wrong. We should be allowed a few ...
All that I can tell you is that nothing can justify it, not even the most sacred ends in the world, not even peace itself, ...
Whatever my situation is, I want to show that I'm not perfect, and perfect isn't real. The youth need to know that, especially.
The good news is your surgery was a success and now you look like a movie star! The bad news is that movie star is ...
I'm a serious geek. I mean I seriously want to own a unicorn when I'm older ... or a Pegasus ... yeah Pegasus sounds better.
As parents know, little children are, by their nature, without guile. They speak the thoughts of their minds without reservation or hesitance as we have ...
I hate to lend a book I love ... it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me ...
There's only one life I want to take, and it was never yours. I came to kill the Tyrant.
Ok, this is the most unfun threesome I have ever been a part of. Nobody's having sex and someone is yelling. I'm out of here.
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.
Even the most heartening of philosophical vistas is no match for, say, a toothache, if it happens to be your own.
I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.
This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the ...
I would like to take revenge but I'm not looking for excuses for having lost to her
The 'squaring of the circle' is one of the many archetypal motifs which form the basic patterns of our dreams and fantasies. But it is ...
Sometimes I'm so smart, I almost feel like a real person.
I feel the flutteringof dragonflies - summer creaturesthat have no use for words.
Begging in the Name of Jesus is an insult to His Name. Use His Name as a king, with boldness!
People did terrible things to each other- and half the time they did it by accident.
Some of the most important caves, like Lascaux in the Dordogne region in France, have had to be closed down. There had been too many ...
I felt like Dirty Harry, only, my weapon wasn't as big as his! I don't know what it is with guns, but once you've got ...
The less you feel and the more firmly you believe, the more praiseworthy is your faith and the more it will be esteemed and appreciated; ...
You can't use Shakespeare to denigrate Shakespeare, you silly clot. ...
I was thinking", he answered absently, "about Euripides; how, when he was an old man, he went and lived in a cave by the sea, ...
Another way of approaching the thing is to consider it unnamed, unnameable.
Reincarnation is a cyclic process. There are endless levels of creation, different universes. In each one something similar is taking place, the evolution of spirit ...
I thank God there is a height in that Book [Bible] I do not know anything about, a depth I have never been able to ...
Despair covered me like a Klingon invisibility cloak.
Even if one turns away from harmony for just one night, suffering ensues.
There is no crueler or more inappropriate present to give a child than estrogen and a big pair of tits.
Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He ...
Angel," he whispered, stroking his finger under her chin. "Tonight I'm going to be the teacher. And you're going to learn some things.
God is taking a nap within my soul. I ponder whether to wake Him or not.
When I'm interviewing someone, I want to make sure that he thought enough to take care of himself - to dress appropriately and to groom ...
He's seriously good looking. I was kind of hoping he was into guys because I've never seen him take an interest in girls before-but he ...
To be right is just one more reason not to achieve any success.
A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.
What we take anything to be profoundly affects how we go about describing it, and how we describe something profoundly affects how we go about ...
To be fair he is Lord Byron," Jane said. "I don't know many people who haven't slept with him at one time or another." Jane ...
I watched Ricki Lake's documentary, 'The Business of Being Born,' and that led me to call a midwife, and not an ob-gyn, when I found ...
The New Testament is a commentary on the Old Testament, in the light of the new revelation given by Christ and the Holy Spirit.
The person that takes over needs to have the skills to manage that ... I believe Andrea [Leadsom] has the edge.
I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions ...
It's hard to split a man down the middle and always to reach for the same half.
There's four sides to every story ... If these walls could talk, they'd probably still ignore me.
At the outset Verna had not intended to kill anyone.
When the devil wants to cause offense against the true doctrine and faith, he does not do so through insignificant people, who do not rate ...
The social system tends to be dominated by images ... especially of the future, which act cybernetically , constantly guided by perceived divergences between the ...
Not prejudging things, listening to what's going on, keeping your ears, heart, and mind open.
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
In the 1930s, there as a stretch here you could borrow more against the real estate than you could sell it for. I think that's ...
I was never meant to save a soul, and no one was purposed as a project. We were meant to be comrades, mutually passing around ...
What I am is a heretic who's recanted and, thereby, in everyone's eyes, saved his soul. Everyone's eyes but one, who knows deep down inside ...
I know the Haitian people because I am the Haitian people.
From the 17th to the 19th century, a cult in India strangled tens of thousands of travelers as a sacrifice to the goddess Kali.
In sum I'm not what either parent or I had in mind. One hoped I'd be astonishing, forceful, triumphant - heroical in other words. One ...
That there is little hope of international order or lasting peace so long as every country is free to employ whatever measures it thinks desirable ...
The leaves were half-gone now. The Norway maples still hung on to their yellow, but most of the orangey-red of the sugar maples had found ...
I stared up at him, trying to memorize this moment. Every sensation. Making love on a mountain in the moonlight, under the galaxy of tiny ...
Preventing radicalization that leads to violence here in America is part of our larger strategy to decisively defeat al Qaeda.
I came to hate the complainers, with their dry and crumbly lipsticks and their wrinkled rage and their stupid, flaccid, old-people sun hats with brims ...
I like this marriage thing, because it's the best of all of us. We get to be the whole meal. The appetizer, the entree, the ...
Books are cold but safe friends
To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd, In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd.
Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.
The aim of Positive Psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in life to also ...
My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live ...
Do not be afraid for yourself, Darrel. You can make the same journey one day - you can join her if you choose to do ...
I'm very involved with all the executives at Televisa.
A promise is something that has been given but not yet realized.
Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.
There's a reason we'll all end up with just a handful of true friends in our life. These are the people that have taken the ...
When people don't know me any more or want my autograph, then I'll think about retiring.
I did it, Finn. I did it. I was ready to jump, and now she's jumping with me.
Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.
I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect ...
The next time you have a choice between chasing the charts (whichever charts you keep track of) and doing the work your customers crave, do ...
Goes black. Agony. I breathe in and out, waiting for the white-hot agony to pass. Dear God, please. It is all I can do not ...
The American people have made it abundantly clear that they want less government, not more. They want problems solved in a bipartisan manner, not the ...
I hoped to burn out, through Hella, my image of Giovanni and the reality of his touch - I hoped to drive out fire with ...
I don't spot junk neighbourhoods by the way they look, but by the feel, somewhat the same process by which a dowser locates hidden water. ...
But in the end it comes down to a matter of respect, and the simplest way that respect is communicated is through tone of voice, ...
Nevertheless the joy of being with Dinah would triumph - it was like the influence of climate, which no resistance can overcome.