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Destroying your enemies - even destroying a planet - was understandable. But this wasn't simple destruction. It was annihilation; obliteration. The very fabric of the ...

When I play discos in Belfast or freshers' week in Oxford, there are 1,800 kids dressed as me. It's odd, it's funny, and it pays ...

She is no longer a person in his life; instead, she is a person that other people will remind him of.

In art school, I started to see Pettibon in magazines, and I figured it out backward. I was into the idea that someone could show ...

I do not preach doubtingly, for I do not live doubtingly.

Everyone praises Sachin Tendulkar. He may be a genius in his own right but in my book, Rahul Dravid is the artist. Dravid's defence tactics, ...

The fierce pulsation of resurgent pride that disclaims servitude may one day cease to throb in the heart of Ireland - but the heart of ...

I confess I found it somewhat insipid when I last went ... it was all so prosy - so bonnety - so whisty and teacuppy ...

There can be no doubt that the development of a practical method of water disinfection during the last two years marks an epoch in the ...

I love DKNY. I love her sweaters because I can take them and just wear nothing underneath and just wrap them.

We are all in the same cart, going to execution; how can I hate anyone or wish anyone harm?

Persons who have a strong sense of efficacy deploy their attention and effort to the demands of the situation and are spurred by obstacles to ...

Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children ...

It was politics and religion, in van Dyck's private view, that made men dangerous. Trade made them wise.

I would like to do something dark or small. I love independent films. I love emotional scenes. I love people who are struggling with something. ...

Wasn't it odd how children could be so fascinated by magic? It took them time and the lessons of the Chantry to learn real fear.

No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most.

Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover; it's totally unpredicatable, a constant surprise.

What we need now is the description of the "describer" or, in other words, we need a theory of the observer.

I just don't get it. You've been in love with this bloke since you were a kid, and he's never once got his hair cut ...

She'd make them wish they were never Alison DiLaurentis's friends in the first place. She didn't know how, and she didn't know when, but at ...

We laugh. Bec stares at us uncertainly, then joins in. She sounds a bit like Bill-E when she laughs, and for a few happy moments ...

Every day, people settle for less than they desearve. They are only parially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has ...

The man who has been wealthy is dunned more civilly than the fellow who has ever been poor.

I'm a very ordinary girl, Moses. I know that I am. And I always will be. I can't paint. I don't know who Vermeer is, ...

Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me ...

Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me ...

I like animals, all animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog - or a chicken or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone ...

Life is a balancing act. While we have all the rights to be in freedom, peace, harmony and bliss; we do have a responsibility to ...

Start your day with and in prayer. Communicate with the Lord and listen for instructions. Hooking up, plugging into, and connecting to the POWER SOURCE ...

His Holiness brings a wealth of experience to this exalted office. The United Nations and the Holy See share a strong commitment to peace, social ...

You've got to be happy, you have to do this thing [music] for the love. It's not like you go into music because it's going ...

I liked anything that was a little bit weird, a little bit different. I always went for the psychotic, weird, 'dingey' bands.

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.

It's weird to say, but every time I look at my daughter and I see this little living breathing thing that came from me, that ...

Wrath was in a bad mood, and he knew this because the sound of the doggen waxing the wooden balustrade at the top of the ...

Siddhartha's priority was to get down to the root of the problem. Buddhism is not culturally bound. Its benefits are not limited to any particular ...

The development of capitalism consists in everyone having the right to serve the consumer better or more cheaply.

All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.

A dream is a place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same we call the ...

Nil desperandum, Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, ...

I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving life in prison, ...

I'm no fan of jam bands. You can take your Gov't Mule, your Phish, your Rusted Root. But Derek Trucks is a special musician - ...

If you stick in the business of being creative, you get hurt. And creative disappointment seems so much harder to take than any other kind. ...

Stop spying on the lawful citizenry. Democracy and dossiers go ill together. It is all right for God but all wrong for the State to ...

Draughtsmen may be made, but colourists are born.

If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.

When people get married young, you don't really understand the true definition of marriage.

In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. One day somebody in the ...

The time has come to challenge our obsession with doing everything more quickly.

I can honestly, and proudly, say that I never was on the casting couch. Oh, of course there have been advances from certain men in ...

Today, in the age of standardized testing, thinking and acting, reason and judgment have been thrown out the window just as teachers are increasingly being ...

I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live ...

Depression was a very active state really. Even if you appeared to an observer to be immobilized, your mind was in a frenzy of paralysis. ...

We don't need to invest all of our faith in every concept, in every symbol, in every opinion that forms the totality of our knowledge. ...

It is because God loves the world he has made, and especially his human creatures, that he hates everything that spoils, wrecks, or defaces it.

I will take all my rights! Can you deliver them to my house?

One of the marvels of personality is its resistance to prediction. One man's paralyzing trauma is another man's invitation to take control of his life; ...

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start ...

Dream stompers are people who want to stomp on your hopes and dreams. Lose their phone numbers

I take on daunting tasks.

General Dempsy despaired. The prophecies were impossible to argue since no proof could be offered to discredit them. They were sacred and above reproach.

I think in the long run the money that s been put into the space program is one of the best investments this country has ...

I'm an artist, a designer, a craftsman, interior designer, half-architect. There's no one name that fits me very well.

But Dataran and the boy in the holograph both had pronounced cheekbones and slender frames that suggested a particular grace. And they had both made ...

The beginning of revolutions is psychologically strikingly akin to that of certain relationships: the stress on unity, the sense of omnipotence, the desire to eliminate ...

Time is running out for nature and wildlife around the world

He didn't just kiss, he claimed ownership. Took her mouth with urgency, as if his life depended on his kissing her.

After my parents' divorce when I was 4, I spent weekends with my dad before we finally moved to California. By the time Sunday rolled ...

A standing army is like a standing member. It's an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure.

As long as you are stationary, no one will complain. Dogs don't bark at parked cars.

Enza studied the photograph of her parents on their wedding day as if it were a map. In a sense it was, as they were ...

The challenges should be familiar. They should have some relationship to the feelings - like, if a movie's about being demoralized at work, it should ...

My focus is anything that allows me to express myself. Rap, dance, photography. Those are my forms of expression.

When you buy bargains and they become better bargains, it is easy to start to question yourself, which can impair your judgement. Real or imagined ...

The best employees are those who bring real energy and initiative to the job. I like to know whether you're the kind of person who ...

Sun lighting a child's hair. A friend's embrace. Slow dancing in a safe and quiet place. The pleasures of an ordinary life.

Wingardium Leviosa!" he shouted, waving his long arms like a windmill."You're saying it wrong," Harry heard Hermione snap. "It's Wing-gar-dium Levi-o-sa, make the 'gar' nice ...

If you truly love someone, don't waste your time finding reasons to hate them. Spend it remembering why you love them in the first place.

When I did finally live in the Dandenongs, the mountain ash forests became an important part of my life.

Don't take tension, take ninesion

I think that the power over death and life is the greatest strength that any person can have. It trumps sex and wealth. If I'm ...

Philosopher and author Dr. Wayne Dyer calls the ego "edge god out." It is the process of disconnecting with the creative, true force of the ...

So all of this agony was for nothing?""You exposed us to malicious gossip for nothing.""You were cruel.""So were you.""You hurt me.""And you hurt me. Is ...

Soldiers manage by dividing themselves. They're one man in the killing, another at home, and the man that dandles his bairn on his knee has ...

Success is not a doorway, it's a stairway.

Oh . . ." I nodded faintly, my throat suddenly dry. I attempted a smile.

Don't sit and wait - For the world on a plate - (It's not a stroke of luck or chance) - Just draw a bead ...

There is a time to be chic and sportive, there is a time to be sexy and feminine, but it's hard to find the balance, ...

The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustainedthe science is supposed to take its name from its superiority to physics. The ...

Don't let your dreams stay hidden inside of your mind, free them.

Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy.

Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing ...

It wasn't much to most kids. I mean, I was basically getting recognized for being straight dogshit, ignoring that I was straight dogshit, and doing ...

For as laws are necessary that good manners may be preserved, so there is need of good manner that laws may be maintained.[It., Perche, cosi ...

The twelve months ... Snowy, Flowy, Blowy,Showery, Flowery, Bowery,Hoppy, Croppy, Droppy,Breeze, Sneezy, Freezy.

Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a taste for the ...

Many young people don't know what Versace represent. I want to show what makes Versace an iconic brand.

I'd never admitted before how much I wanted to hear those words. How much I wanted to be treasured, cared for, loved. Not just loved ...

In the dark, Dave reached for Roger's hand as they watched the shadowed lovemaking. "Were we ever that beautiful?""You still are," Roger told him."Maybe we ...