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All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal ...

The bolt of Tash falls from above!''Does it ever get caught on a hook halfway?

We - by whom I mean anyone over sixty - commit two offenses just by existing. One is Lack of Velocity. We drive too slowly, ...

No. Sorry. You have spent months being the biggest jerk to me. You don't get to decide to like me one day and think I ...

Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.

I drive a Mustang and a Chevy pickup truck. Ann drives a couple of Cadillacs, actually. And I used to have a Dodge truck. So ...

Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot remain in the cradle forever.

The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally ...

Every actor's greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, ...

Network: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections [ ... ]Reticulated: Made of network; formed with interstitial vacuities.

If he had a bloody gash across his throat and a physiker was trying to sew it up, Lamora would steal the needle and thread ...

Habits are familiar and comfortable, putting our reactions on autopilot and often leading us, instead, to great discomfort.

This imbalance causes resentments within the over-responsible and dependency with the irresponsible person and this dynamic becomes the destructive life-pattern not conducive to happy families.

It doesn't seem to be worth wasting a lot of energy on attempting to rewrite the past.

Ripper in the front, ZZ in the back, Dirty in the mouth.

The north coast of Brittany is eaten into bays from which the sea retreats to considerable distances, and is fringed with reefs and islands. It ...

Rien ne se peut comparer a' Paris. Nothing can compare to Paris.

A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.

I am very strong & robust & not of the delicate sex nor of the fair but of the deficent in look ...

Fair play to all those who dare to dream and don't give up.

We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our , or fractured by a permanent, damming fault line.

Jess, I've got no business judging anyone. But I can offer you some advice if you don't mind. "Sure." Though my palms start to sweat ...

Southern hospitality and Amish cooking - Ya'll Come Back, Danki.

And it ain't a man, thought Slank.

The best way to keep relationships happy, healthy, and supportive can be summed up in one word: appreciation. What you appreciate, appreciates. When we demonstrate ...

The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. I'm on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to the ...

Even the rich aren't often happy. Their wealth is at best only a temporary distraction. It doesn't make them immune to emotional and mental suffering, ...

Life, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to read bad books.

If you only enjoy the journey of writing, that's reward enough.

The whole town's talking about the way Jax Stone sat in your hospital room and snag to you until you came out of your coma. ...

Nothing must be left to chance in a magical performance. Everything conducive to enhancing the mystery of the illusions must be arranged with painstaking care ...

I got to live out my 11-year-old fantasies - I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called my name from the ...

It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone who would have ...

I'd never seen that look on another face before, had never identified it in another person. I'd only met with it in fiction. But everyone ...

I told my father I would lay down my life, give all I have to my alpha except one thing, my heart. My heart belongs ...

I'm all about having one day during the week when I have an at-home spa day. That's when I like to do my nails and ...

Student: why do dumb people ignore wise people. Teacher: Because, the dumb people believe they are the wise people.

Every tree may or mayn't give fruit or flower but definetely gives shadow.every effort may or mayn't be sucess but a step towards a great ...

I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.

[Nicodemus] 'Magistra DeVega, can I ask for your help?'[DeVega] 'You can ask,' she said with her usual calmness, 'but the clerics haven't developed a cure ...

Nemo tam divos habuit faventes,Crastinum ut possit sibi polliceri.Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he can promise himself another day.

He reminds us that true renunciation is mental, not necessarily physical. We are not required to disown our husbands or wives and turn our children ...

The smallest worm will turn being trodden on,And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.

I'm not sure about 'absolute' happiness, but I am happiest when I go to bed at night knowing that I tried to do my best ...

I showed him the empty time where my memory won't go. I let him look there. He ran from me then. He ran, and I ...

Author says the ineffectual U.S. Navy of two centuries ago lost two thirds as many men to duelist bullets as to sea hazards.

We may bend sometimes, but we don't break. There's a lot of character in that room

Can we be blamed for feeling we're too old to change? Too scared of disappointment to start it all again? We get up every morning, ...

If you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, ...

Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be ...

If carrots are good for my eyes, how come I see so many dead rabbits on the highway?

All too often I try to skate away from the things I'm afraid of and things I don't like and am unwilling to accept. I'm ...

I swore never to use the emoticon ever ... until one day, offhandedly and without much thought, I used my first and, shortly thereafter, in ...

Edmund had obviously never yet experienced the speed with which news traveled round the docklands. "Is there anyone who does not know him?" "All

I soon learned that Dandakaranya, the forest I was about to enter, was full of people who had many names and fluid identities. It was ...

In three days," he continued, "I will be your husband. I will take a solemn vow to protect you until death do us part. Do ...

The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there's a truth in your heart that says you'll never leave me, and ...

[We're] told cars cause pollution. A 100 years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want? Would ...

A release on September 16 quoted the claim of the assistant secretary for labor at OSHA that tests show 'it is safe for New Yorkers ...

We divert our attention from disease and death as much as we can; the slaughterhouses are huddled out of sight and never mentioned, so that ...

I know your eyes in the morning sunI feel you touch me in the pouring rainAnd the moment that you wander far from meI wanna ...

What we are doing now is more than lovemaking, more than fucking, more than anything we've ever done. It's primal, it's need, but it's more. ...

Just because you won dose'nt mean you're a winner, and just because you lost dosent mean you're a loser

Dreams are not those which comes while we are sleeping, but dreams are those when u don't sleep before fulfilling them.

And what can we conclude from this lesson, Your Highness?"Alek glared at the man. "We can conclude, Count Volger, that discussing politics while fencing is ...

A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two. [A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two.

Dionisio arose reluctantly from his bed, went to the window to see what kind of day it was, and went to the telephone to call ...

I've bought DBSK's CD and every time I listen to their songs I feel very good.

Nowadays, the game is all bugged out,Phony, like back when Hammer tried to come thugged out.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of ...

Racism, prejudice and discrimination are an inexplicable collective stupidity

Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling, and Domine non sum dignus should be on the lips and in the hearts of those ...

It was me who was Bambi in deer season a couple hours ago, not her.

You are a fluid metaphor for existence. You are your own death and your own rebirth. Here is forever. It never changes. We bring perpetual ...

My people have a legend of the Dayslayer. It says that Artemis chose one of our own to be her personal guard. More beloved than ...

E.T.' and 'Extra,' they are too salacious. They go, Oooh, Katie Couric just broke up with X. 'Access Hollywood' is really good entertainment news. It's ...

As an actor, I'm always so excited about those things that I get to stretch my legs and really get to do something that's hard ...

The moment I felt my life return was when I took a breath and said to him, No thank you. Were I as perfect as ...

P3- everywhere not only education but society as a whole needs deschooling.

Kieran glanced at her with shimmering eyes. Neither looked quite human: The black eye was too dark, the silver too metallic. And yet the overall ...

Everything I have is dirty, but I'm sure I can figure something. Maybe I can make a dress out of a garbage bag. Lady Gaga ...

Love is when you don't care about your feelings but care for & respect the feelings and value of the one you love

I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time to look around, ...

Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons' outings with your children. As a family, go on campouts and picnics, to ball games and recitals, to school ...

Wouldn't it be most logical for her to change herself into a living thing, like a cat or dog, a bird or mouse?'That would be ...

Apparently God makes us all different. Some of us are happy to respond to His individual touch on our lives by remaining individuals, and others ...

Personally, I'm not much for symbolism. I never get it. Why can't things be just as they are? I never thought to psychoanalyze Seymour Glass ...

To be a baby elephant must be wonderful. Surrounded by a loving family 24 hours a day ... . I think it must be how ...

To discover your real questions, simply take a time-out. Stop looking ahead of yourself at where you're going or backward at where you've been. When ...

It is the prime responsibility of every citizen to feel that his country is free and to defend its freedom is his duty. Every Indian ...

This forms the nub of a dilemna that every Everest climber eventually comes up against: in order to succeed you must be exceedingly driven, but ...

As long as you want me, I'll be here. Right at your side.

What hope is there for medical scienceto ever become a true sciencewhen the entire structure of medical knowledgeis built around the idea that there is ...

Compassionate the mountains rise Dim with the wistful dimness of old eyes That, having looked on life time out of mind, Know that the simple ...

I'm doing my work in an environment that's ultimately about dollars and cents.

So I'm gonna write it down to scream it out, and I'm never gonna be the same again. Fear is the color you've all exposed, ...

The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.

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 don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least ...

He sopped other dies of bread in the gravy and ate piece after piece of kidney.