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Talk was like the vitamins of our friendship: Large daily doses kept it healthy.
Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one.
When going for your goals, staying motivated, enthusiastic, and flexible are daily deeds of daring.
Always doubtful is the one who always looks for certainty.
I think the real risk comes in being willing to try to be authentic.
I don't want to marry you,' Sansa wailed. 'You chopped off my father's head!
We can have all the food and water we need, but without the sustenance ofreal story, real art - without the wisdom, insight, and "life ...
For me, it's really like, okay, if you go far with the unexpected materials and unexpected proportions or volumes, then keep the colors quite simple ...
The beginning of all temptations to evil is instability of temper and want of trust in God;
Dating, after all, only ends one way: poorly. If you think about it ... all romantic relationships end in either (1) breakup, (2) divorce, or ...
No one lets dead poets lie in peace. We are like old meat on a crowded dinner table.
But you have so much in common. You're both from strange little backwater planets. You both have odd powers. You're male and she's female. What ...
Anyone who knows me knows my mom, Dorcina, has to sign off on any decision and that she will play a major part in any ...
Immensely clever story, and quite creepy, in a delightfully scary way.
As it turns out, American-made technology had helped Mubarak and his security state collect, compile, and parse vast amounts of data about everyday citizens.
The offering up or cleaning up ego stuff is called purification. Purification is the act of letting go. This is done out of discriminative awareness. ...
Tell me, where do I stand compared to Neil and the ankle biter over there? He's kind of hot, in a Howard the Duck kind ...
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were atomized at a time when the Japanese were suing desperately for peace.
Unfortunately, the simplest things - such as thinking for myself, creating my own reality and being whatever the hell I want to be each day ...
Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing and articulating the difference between how things are ...
Spare time is like spare change. It's hard to quantify, the definition of that phrase. What do I do when I'm not onstage singing, or ...
I wish to live a life that causes my soul to dance inside my body.
Further, the United States is moving ahead in the development of clean coal technology. There are vast coal reserves in our country, and when it ...
Fucking drunk driver had the balls to die too, so there's really no one left to hate. The asshole was speeding and ran a stop ...
We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the ...
Do you expect to learn anything at Shiz?" he asked. "I have already learned not to speak to strangers." "Then I will introduce myself and ...
Of course, I don't act in an extreme fashion in my day to day life. I don't think any of us live do. I think ...
I used to sit home with my computer and write. After the Newbery, I probably spend more than half my time on the road.
It is a life's task to find the ways you want to play an endless game of uncontrol- lable beauty
I had the strangest sensation of floating, of drifting farther and farther away with nothing and no one to cling to. I was standing right ...
You're the only thing I want most in the world yet the one thing I cannot have. Because to have you completely would be impossible. ...
Jason looked like her was trying to figure out an equation. Let me get this straight. Your table ran away ... because you polished him ...
What was a really private and nice relationship was judged and made to be something ugly.
The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help may be just that time when God can't give ...
You can put them in a room with QVC and they'll be as happy as clams." "QVC?" the demons said in unison. Simi looked at ...
Quality is not an absolute measure. It doesn't mean 'deluxeness' or 'perfection'. It means keeping the promise the customer wants you to make.
I'm a shareholder in three networks in Holland. That allows me to put ideas that we create in Holland on air in Holland, and if ...
He taught me that there is no shame in breaking something, only in not being able to fix it.
There is about as much educational benefit to be gained in studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners ...
Will you follow me, Darsal? Will you Silvie? Will you both follow me to hell and back because two fuzzy white bats told me you ...
PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.
Why didn't he say goodbye?I gave myself a bruise.Why didn't he say 'I love you'?
The masses of Negroes ... particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disasterously, with the result that the increase among Negroes, even more than ...
Every unit that is not supported is a defeated unit.
Is his manhood a sham? Does he love himself or hate himself? I don't think he knows. Or it changes minute to minute. Or the ...
For you, a thousand times over(Bareh tu hazar dafa)
Dr Iannis had enjoyed a satisfactory day in which none of his patients had died or got any worse.
What is thy sentence then but speechless death.
You don't believe me?" Jace asked. "Fine. Go ahead. Kiss me right now."Alec stared at him in horror."Exactly. Despite my staggering good lucks, you actually ...
What makes you my friend if you doubt my intentions?
She's definitely a romance writer. I've primed her to be a romance writer, subjecting her to so many romantic dramas it would be a miracle ...
You "met" this Moneta ... or whatever her real name is ... in her past but your future ... in a meeting that's still to ...
There is something strangely determinate and fatal about a single shot in the night. It is as if someone had cried a message to you ...
Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes ...
The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big ...
People are cooking less but obsessing about it more.
Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order ...
DaimlerChrysler made significant progress in the year 2005, but our earnings are still not where we want them to be. We intend to grow profitably ...
I'm a five-seasons griller! Did you know I added a new season? Living in Cali, I'm cooking in the yard all the time. I don't ...
Then, after I came home from Europe, I found I was under condemnation; and I was condemned at that time because I did not endorse ...
Let's detox our cluttered academic brain. That's what the poet does. People call it daydreaming, detoxing our minds and taking care of that clutter. It's ...
Creation and Free Will are constantly moving, hand in hand, like children traveling along a path full of impulses and inspirations.Through the use of the ...
HERE LIES BROMWho was a Dragon RiderAnd like a father To me.May his name live on in glory.
She jerked her hand back and shot me what could only be described as a 'bitch' look. Frankly, it was a fucking work of art ...
Since there is no single set of abilities running throughout human nature, there is no single curriculum which all should undergo. Rather, the schools should ...
Oh but the gods do so love me," I shared softly. "To give me a man who would allow his soul to be taken over ...
The lawn mower attends with defeaning shudder to the tonsure; a light odor of fresh hay intoxicates the air; the leveled grass finds again a ...
Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean.
Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair.
The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then ...
Those very superficial sensualists and profligates who lead the dance of Latin decadence have not seen, among their dancing girls and their pennies, that the ...
I hear about death so often that I don't even notice anymore. Have you ever heard kids talk about death? My seventh-graders argue about it: ...
It's language as a kind of structural system. A diagram of a sentence, now that seems like a kind of architectural model. I don't know ...
No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that ...
We must learn to think again. America floats on a sea of misguided philosophies, all competing for equality while the values that provide true freedom ...
It took me a good decade of hiding in my house and not going outside to even, like, get my arms around this idea of ...
Life is full of disparate details arbitrarily joined together by dreams, pain and yearning. I do not long for sense, but I call for emotion ...
Come all you young rebels and list while I singFor the love of one's country is a terrible thingIt banishes fear with the speed of ...
Does life have any meaningful purpose?
Mrs. Gruber said that happiness was not something she aspired to, that when we had seen as much of the world as she had, we ...
They took turns kissing necks and ears and stubbled chins. He had never found or expected gentleness from Tucker, but here it was, his for ...
When, as an undergraduate, I began experiments on these slime molds in 1940, only one other person, Kenneth Raper, was working on them at that ...
Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, and drefine it.
There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from ...
Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don't allow you to advance, then you're going to be a ...
Only you can determine your own worth. No one else but you, but they can certainly help when you need it. We are a family ...
The past ... is a dim avenue down which we may walk and find the diverging paths of terror and beauty and passion ...
I love watching her, watching her uncertainty and her hesitation. And her attempts at denying what we both know she's feeling. Teasing her is going ...
We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only have to read ...
Mortal through I be, yea ephemeral, if but a momentI gaze up at the night's starry domain of heaven,Then no longer on earth I stand; ...
I imagine how hard it might be to walk down the runway. Me in heels is, like, deforesting the forest, knocking trees, completely 'timber!'
The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he ...
Sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at a time is slowly assimilated. Continual intellectual study results in vanity ...
Don't give up, Chuck. We're gonna solve this thing, get out of here. I'm a Runner now - I promise on my life I'll get ...
I've always managed by walking around. Any CEO or leader who spends the majority of his time in his office is not doing his job.
But as I witnessed what Dakova was capable of, I cared less about what the Guild did and didn't allow. He did not need black ...
We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the ...
Spiritual leaders must help their people see beyond God's acts to recognize the way God consistently works with his people, time and time again. To ...
Emotions generally led to irrational and stupid actions. In this game, they were likely to be fatal. He regained his composure and became logical, rational, ...
But by the same logic as men become just through the possession of justice, or wise through the possession of wisdom, so those who possess ...