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When I retired, I was at an in-between age. I wasn't a child anymore, I wasn't really a woman yet, and they weren't really writing ...

If my life had no meaning there was no reason not to end it.

My money slow, my money stupid, money ditzy

Welcome to the ring. Enter those who dare, and let them share the spoils. Only they have earned it. Will you win? The ring offers ...

These "doyennes of society" were no different at bottom than the leading dames among the gossips of her own village. Within that little "society," their ...

People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd ...

Powerful new drug-free treatments have been developed for depression and for every conceivable type of anxiety, such as chronic worrying, shyness, public speaking anxiety, test ...

I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big ...

Regaring Politics: You've got your cats on one side and your dogs on the other; someone has to walk the fence and feed the animals. ...

If you are sitting there waiting for someone to tell you how wonderful you are, you'll never get anything done. Women need to get over ...

It takes a lot of energy to teach.

Would-be income guarantors ignore or despise the capitalistic system that makes their dreams dreamable and gives their redistribute-the-income proposals whatever plausibility they have.

One needs plan, support and lots of love. A lots of doa too!

Don't be like the rest of them, darling.

It is bad religion to deify doctrines and creeds ... Doctrines, let's not forget, supported slavery and apartheid ... Moreover, doctrines can divide while compassion ...

We even commissioned a smaller pair of these statues for the baggage claim area in the regular lobby. Gives all those Normal conspiracy nuts something ...

Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the ...

I fought windmills with such heavy weapons that I risked dislocating my arm ...

I've stopped watching TV news. They couldn't pay me enough money.

Who knows how many artists fail because the light that shines through them is defracted in a thousand directions and not concentrated in a single ...

And who shall you be once you don your grand disguise?""La luna," she said with a smile."Then I shall be la notte to your moon" ...

He invited people to sign a petition that demanded either strict control of, or a total ban on, dihydrogen monoxide ... Yes, 86 percent of ...

But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer,Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleepIn the affliction of these terrible ...

But the truth is, I can't sip from an hour-long church service on Sunday morning or dash off a hasty prayer or gulp down a ...

In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.

This is the truth. I have been in love. I have been in lust. I've made good choices and bad ones, I have been smart ...

His [Daniel] fast broke the power of the delayer and released the angels of God so that God's purposes could be revealed and served.

'Why do you think it is ... ', I asked Dr. Cook ... 'that brain surgery, above all else-even rocket science-gets singled out as the ...

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.

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 ...

He was just an idea - a collection of responsibilities with a mailing address.

My mother always says, "The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak." I can be very focused and determined. But, I can also be ...

Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas ...

I have stopped being a misanthrope.

That divot is so deep, I will need a sod cutter to fix it.

If there is one path above all others to war, it is the path of weakness and disunity.

Mr Zhu says what makes him a diaosi is that he is the son of factory workers. He is not fu er dai - second-generation ...

I stay awake so i dont dream ,just to wake up and realise my dreams will not come true ,but being awake i am also ...

Once labeled schizophrenic the pseudopatient was stuck with that label. - DAVID ROSENHAN,

You must never lower yourself to being a person you don't like.

You know, there is something I'm looking for when I'm writing. But I couldn't tell you what that is.

What a mistake those who do not hope make! Judas made a huge blunder the day in which he sold Christ for 30 denarii, but ...

Is there anything about cyberspace that particularly screams Air Force? Not really. If cyber warfare is going to be as all-encompassing as it's made out ...

Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.

Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.

After you have done a great thing for a great glory, sit and think and understand the journey thereon, for a little mistake can erase ...

What's interesting about writing is the invention, the creative thing. Writing about myself is a yawn.

Every time I open the drawer, it's a trip down Memory Lane, which, if you don't turn off at the right exit, merges straight into ...

I like crime movies where the crime is so incredible that, attractive as it seems, you don't wanna do it because it's just too dangerous.

At last I managed to haul it aboard. It was over three feet long. The bucket was useless. It would fit the dorado like a ...

The best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. - Aristotle ...

Life makes beggars out of those who have joyful hearts, taxing the living with hardship and tribulation, but the charity of companionship, the currency of ...

I truly love the game; I wouldn't be playing if I didn't love the game. I'm not getting paid astronomical dollars; it's truly for the ...

If there's a thing I've learned in my life it's to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What ...

You know, there must be happiness somewhere, when a lawyer dies.

Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do ...

Could you be nostalgic for a friendship that wasn't over yet or did the fact that you were nostalgic mean that it already was?

Poker is war. People pretend it is a game."~Doyle Brunson

This is Deirdre," said Addison. "She's an emu-raffe, which is a bit like a donkey and a giraffe put together, only with fewer legs and ...

You can never give up or get down on yourself. A true champion keeps his or her chin up and always takes life one race ...

Bob [Crane] was driven to success, and he sought perfection in his work, right from the start.

Despite the differences between our species and cultures, there is an order that we all share. The development of a civilization is a scripted event. ...

Advertising is the life blood of the digital economy.

My desire to self-destruct is a one-night standon Groundhog Day.Fucking repetitive. Repetitively fucking.

It had replayed in her mind, over and over, growing in importance till it seemed her whole life could be slotted into two categories. Life ...

I am not in love with you," she said. "It is an infatuation. I have heard of such derangements happening to elderly spinsters.

With so few clothes to choose from, getting dressed was no quarrelsome effort. It was almost an argument for not acquiring more blouses and skirts, ...

Come in, my dearFrom that harsh worldThat has rained elements of stoneUpon your tender face.Every soulShould receive a toast from usFor bravery!

People go to mediums and they get in touch with spirits outside of the body. Most of these spirits are pretty malevolent and unenlightened, although ...

What happens to a dream deferred?

In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.

Don't start with me right now, internal monologue.

Some people think that nothing moves in this world without leave of the woman. Do not know more, but I can say that war never ...

Fear not, daughter Zion," Stephen whispered. "See, your king is coming, seated on a donkey's colt ... " He spun to me, eyes flashing. "This ...

As frustrating as my time in grad school felt, it also helped tremendously because it challenged me to figure out what it was I thought ...

I don't go into my dentist and say, 'Are you gay?' I don't say to contestants on 'So You Think You Can Dance,' 'Are you ...

I'd like to have another opportunity to serve. I believe in service. I enjoy it. I also like coming and going, you know, because I ...

And you know what, Thin Elderly? Sad parts are important. If I ever get to train a new young dreamgiver, that's one of the things ...

And spare me the jokes about scoring.""Dammit, woman, you read my mind," he said. "Is there no filthy wordplay you can't forsee?""It's my special magical ...

Nobody really metamorphoses. Cinderella is always Cinderella, just in a nicer dress. The Ugly Duckling was always a swan, just a smaller version. And I ...

Yes, no. I don't know. It's all so confusing. I'm just a kid."Abuelo smiled. "You kept saying that while you told me your story, but ...

I clench my fists and try not to scream and I tuck my friends in my heart andrevengeI think has never looked so sweet.

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out ...

People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs.

More times than I can remember I look around and I ask why the hole I'm in looks so strangely familiar. Probably because it looks ...

How do you get beyond the self-doubt and indecision? How do you find the truth?" "You can never know for sure, Dors, you just choose ...

I was proper, proper fast at one point, and obviously I'm not now, so I've lost certain things, but when I was that fast I ...

It can be really weird to say, 'Hey man, let's make a record and start with this horrible zither sound.' But I was obsessed with ...

What you absolutely must not do is turn around and walk out. Otherwise, you will miss the party, and that would be a pity, because ...

I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a ...

I don't know if I'd call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high school, and then during college I spent ...

I don't fall in love very easily. It takes a long time, and then, when I have fallen in love, I'm still not sure. I'm ...

Grade A objectivity won't come from those who are closest to us. It will come from outsiders. That's where we'll find divergent thinking, unexpected questions, ...

Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!

The word 'Chicano' was originally a derisive term from Mexicans to other Mexicans living in the United States.

This love beyond time and space, it knows only it's own truth. Immortalis Amor, Darkest Secrets

The polished oak floors reflected the light of the overhead crystal chandelier and gleaned under the plush deep red Persian rug.