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Girl, you're on a roll today with the emasculation.
To wait on God is to live a life of desire towards him, delight in him, dependence on him, and devotedness to him.
The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process ...
Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and ...
Dogs are much crueler than BAFTAs
Only cops and vampires have to have an invitation to enter.
Changes to parliamentary procedure won't transform the lives of the people whom I represent. Decentralising, devolving decision-making and renewing civil society will.
I think ... I could walk part of the way," she managed to say. "You wouldn't make it down the terrace steps," Hunt said flatly. ...
It's practically common sense that men should have unrealistic expectations of women's looks, and yet here we see it's just not true.
I sing the body electric,The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,They will not let me off till I go with ...
I want to be the greatest player ever in my era.
Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap. We got to get out while we're young.
Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy.
TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.
Sometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you're in a fight.
I don't know what I'd do if I was making a romantic comedy; I wouldn't feel like I was earning my $100 a day.
Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, ...
The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause and effect, and ...
After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
So it is with statistics; no amount of fancy analysis can make up for fundamentally flawed data. Hence the expression garbage in, garbage out.
Mines lie buried just beneath the surface of every sentence my mother says.
Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first constitutional convention drafting ...
It's appalling how much money raised at some charity events gets wasted on paying personnel and admin staff.
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Love made room for conflict. It allowed for the expression of more than one view and invited the paradox that disagreement was vital to harmony. ...
I usually work seven days a week and rarely take vacations, which is both lame and unsustainable. I don't mind the idea of writing seven ...
It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled ...
Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.
Pianos tend to get better as they age, the more you play them. They grow into their sound.
The only way we can make this world a better place is to transcend it.
Surround yourself with amazingly intelligent men and women. The people I work with not only are smarter than I am, possessing both intellectual and emotional ...
It's developing a relationship with actors that makes it work.
On the contrary, having the amiable vanity which knits us to those who are fond of us, and disinclines us to those who are indifferent, ...
It is in the relaxation of security; it is in the expansion of prosperity; it is in the hour of dilatation of the heart, and ...
There was this about vampires : they could never look scruffy. Instead, they were ... what was the word ... deshabille. It meant untidy, but ...
You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in time of stress ...
Depression means self-loathing, self-disgust, and the kind of emotional numbness that feels like psychic death.
Love is an anchor -- it stops you from drifting away. Love is sticking up for your friends and family, or even your pets. Love ...
Even when light fades and darkness falls--as it does every single day, in every single life--God does not turn the world over to some other ...
The stars dehisce.By "stars" I mean, of course, tradition,and by "tradition" I mean nothing at all.A pronoun disembowels his antecedent.Stop me if you've heard this ...
When it comes to our precious poor children of all colors, maybe disproportionally in percentage black and white and red, but all colors, yellow as ...
Obama has placed himself in perfect political position: he spent the 2008 campaign convincing the American people that he's a racial unifier rather than a ...
What I am is a proud humanist. Atheism says what I don't accept, humanism says what I do. - Nathan Phelps
This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it.
Is there a God or not?" "Is God good or not?" "Does he love me or not?" "Is God all powerful or not?" "Am I ...
Just the kind of underclothes a person like me might wear, I thought dejectedly, so there is no need to describe them.
I am frightened to discover my past. What I have achieved, and what I have not.
I was piggy. But I'm not that person anymore.
We have to lie to ourselves as decathletes and say that we like all ten events.
When the writing fit came on, she gave herself up to it with entire abandon, and led a blissful life, unconscious of want, care, or ...
Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.
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 ...
Loving yourself ... does not mean being self-absorbed or narcissistic, or disregarding others. Rather it means welcoming yourself as the most honored guest in your ...
There is a certain strength in being alone.
Here, fire turns into water;Here, the dancing of the rain declares the sun.There's no opposition in existence, no contradiction;Everything supports everything else.
I never liked to work because I don't want no one to be a slave. I want to be worked in my mind. Every thing ...
If you rip, tear, shred, bend, fold, deface, disfigure, smear, smudge, throw, drop, or in any other manner damage, mistreat, or show lack of respect ...
I think dissonance in music makes you think. It isn't, 'Oh, that's a pretty melody I can whistle.' You have to sit down and listen ...
You really don't get how amazing you are, do you? Well let me make it really clear for you - so amazing that I would ...
Without a customer, you don't have a business - all you have is a hobby.
These were "fossil behaviors," Darwinian vestiges of earlier times brought out of physiological limbo by the stimulation of primitive brain-stem systems, damaged and sensitized by ...
Changes to parliamentary procedure won't transform the lives of the people whom I represent. Decentralising, devolving decision-making and renewing civil society will.
At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen,You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call ...
All children can do things to help, whether how big or small - by donating toys or lending a hand in the community.
Delivering a project isn't difficult. What's difficult is delivering a project without first taking the time to plan properly
The love between writer and a reader is never celebrated. It can never be proved to exist. But he was the man I loved most. ...
I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is ...
You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them. Read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
Be the hero of your children's story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and doing what is right is only reserved ...
He considered my question for a moment and then ducked his head to kiss me. He tugged me flush up against his chest , pulling ...
Some Western demographers have posited, due to the female shortage created by the one-child policy, that China will be forced to field a vast force ...
Take the classic experiment of using ordinary feedback: just take the output of something and feed it back into the input. Those of us who ...
Okay, so this had all the makings of a cluster fuck, but there was a Dairy Queen Oreo Cheese-Quake Blizzard waiting for me somewhere.
Joy might be God- in the marrow of our bones.
What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's ...
There is absolutely nothing we can ever do that will cause God to forsake us. He will never turn away from us.
Once I became a cop and it's like when I got back into drumming; if I focus on something I become that, so I became ...
People get DUIs, people get in fights with their boyfriends, it happens, life happens, but it's about being accountable for your actions. I don't know. ...
I was bullied from grade one to six. Even middle school was tough for me. Everyone had these pre-existing friendships, and I was the new ...
Any politician or scientist who tells you these [GMO] products are safe is either very stupid or lying.
The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.
CAPM pioneer Bill Sharpe remarked, "I have concluded that I may never see an empirical result that will convince me that it disconfirms any theory," ...
Because Mr. Mandela's early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could ...
How characteristic of your perverse heart that longs only for what happens to be out of reach.
It is not proper, you being closeted up here with him ""Delphinia, don't be absurd. I am so firmly on the shelf that the maids ...
But I could not bear to look into this man's eyes any longer and see such voracious need, because what if I realized that I ...
We take better care of the maintenance of our cars than we take care of the maintenance of our bodies.
Dear Asshole: Thank you for keeping your word and believing me. It was more than I expected. Also, I'm sorry you were inconvenienced by my ...
They weren't a centuries old hunter and a seventeen year old girl, sitting here at the edge of the world. They were just two people, ...
Monday is great if I can spend it in bed. I'm a man of simple pleasures, really.
You've got my come drying between your thighs right fucking now. And bruises in the shape of my fingers on your body. You. Are. Mine. ...
The Internet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhoea - massive, difficult to re-direct, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of ...
Life is what you make it. Today is the first day of the rest of your life. You can't change the past, but the future ...
The silence of the night awakens my soul
Forgiveness is not an occassional act; it is a permanent attitude.
My movies are film-paintings - moving portraits captured on celluloid. I'll layer that with sound to create a unique mood like if the Mona Lisa ...
What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It ...
Acquaint thyself with God, if thou would'st tasteHis works. Admitted once to his embrace,Thou shalt perceive that thou was blind before:Thine eye shall be instructed; ...
The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and ...
The Sanskrit word for awareness is smriti, which no one can pronounce. This may explain why awareness has not become as well-known in the west ...