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With many sovereign states, with no system of law enforceable among them, with each state judging its grievances and ambitions according to the dictates of ...
If there's a new HBO series, you know there's going to be a certain level of storytelling mastery - that you can trust it.
Men like him should be required by law to carry a heart defibrillator. He
He wasn't just Gat. He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. All that was there, in the lids of his brown eyes, his ...
Like mythology, Greek philosophy has a tendency to personify ideas. And the Sophist is not merely a teacher of rhetoric for a fee of one ...
After I consumed Frost in his entirety, my days of exploration began. I read The Diving Comedy while leafing through E. E. Cummings. I read ...
We're raising our girls to understand the real meaning of Christmas, and to know that it's most important to have Christmas in your heart. We ...
Few now would associate de-roofing with the police, but the verb 'to detect' originated in detegere - a detective raises the roof, figuratively.
Conscience is just a polite word for cowardice. No civilised man regrets a pleasure.
It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks.
Don't be afraid to be weird, don't be afraid to be different, don't worry too much about what other people think. Whatever it is that's ...
I had that trapped feeling, like some sort of a poor insect that you've put inside a downturned glass, and it tries to climb up ...
Command the murderous chalices ... Drink ye harpooners! drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bowDeath to Moby Dick!
He smiled at me shyly and took a step closer. I froze, heart pounding, as he put one hand on my cheek and leaned toward ...
Men who've made choices always feel they own their destiny. Few ever think to ask who shaped and offered up those choices. Who dangles the ...
I love you, Esmeralda," he said."I love you, too," she whispered back, and he couldn't help smiling. At least he would die with those words ...
Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn.
If we could somehow end child abuse and neglect, the eight hundred pages of DSM (and the need for the easier explanations such as DSM-IV ...
Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around.
Thinking, writing are ultimately questions of stamina.
Don't let anyone knock you down. Keep your head up.
In sum, what have we learned? First: grit, talent, and all other psychological traits relevant to success in life are influenced by genes and also ...
I'll take my alkaloid diuretics wherever I can get them. If there isn't a 7-11 in the vicinity, a Winchell's donut shop is Plan B. ...
Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do; for ...
Don't wait for someone to enable you to make something.
It is better to live alone, there is no companionship with a fool.
If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our ...
I've been a military lawyer for 33 years. A member of al Qaeda or their affiliate group can be detained under a law of war ...
Sterling Holloway, the actor who had originally voiced Pooh, decided to retire in the mid-1980s. Disney decided that they wanted to continue this character with ...
Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.
I'm not sure (whether Demetriou did anything wrong). I wouldn't have thought so ... but I'm not the ACC (Australian Crime Commission), I'm not ASADA. ...
I've always been a fan of Nigerian artist D'banj. He's now signed to Kanye West's Good Music label.
It's pretty simple, really: having fun can only led to having more fun it cannot led to injury, pain, or dismemberment.
So during the rainy season the prudent person carries an umbrela, while the reckless person does not and, of course, gets wet when it rains. ...
The reason that extended solitude seemed so hard to endure was not that we missed others but that we began to wonder if we ourselves ...
I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. ...
New York means many different things to me. It certainly means cheesecake, more species of cheesecake than I ever knew existed: rum, orange, hazelnut, chocolate ...
Erhaps it was the difference in age between the countries - America with its expansive youth, building all those drive-in movie theaters and cowboy restaurants; ...
My business partner gave me a drone, a small helicopter you pilot with an iPhone, and also it has a camera so you can see ...
Write, write, write! Get your you-know-what in the chair and write more books: write the books of your heart and don't let stress steal your ...
The proper method of playing mixed doubles is to swipe the ball accidentally and straight at the woman opponent as hard and as accurately as ...
I like to do my research, get in the right mental state for the person I'll be portraying. A lot of time, it's just incorporating ...
Heaven has appointed us dwellers on earth a time for all things.
I am a ham. I've no business being rock 'n' roll. I've said it over and over again that I'm a classical composer, dishevelling my ...
There are as many kinds of missionaries as there are human beings. There are the terrible, colonialist power-grabbers, still, and there are plenty of the ...
He wrote me a prescription for more diazepam and advised I take things "one day at a time," as if there were another way for ...
A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.
Positioning is finding the right parking space inside the consumer's mind and going for it before someone else takes it.
Everything was eternally dreary, dismal, damned. Even the weather was insolent and bitchy.
Science has already proven the dangers of smoking, alcohol, and Chinese food, but I can still ruin soft drinks for everyone!.
Saying "I'll start managing my money as soon as I get caught up" is like an overweight person saying "I'll start exercising and dieting as ...
Why did you even bring a whip?""Because Tristan wouldn't let me bring the Thor hammer. Besides, you never know when you'll need a whip. What ...
Are we safe from human exposure? I don't want the owners to find a busted-up angel and a buzzed vampire lurking in their shed and ...
On the principle laid down by Gilbert and Sullivan that when everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody; if everybody is abnormal, we don't need to ...
The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.
Crisis' seems to be too mild a word to describe conditions in countless African-American communities. It is beyond crisis when in the richest nation in ...
In my hometown, the sky seemed endless ... but there was nothing to see.
A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.
Dr. Cox mentors the rookie doctors with a spoonful of dirt and then a cup of sugar. I see him as an archetypal descendent of ...
Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.
'Othello' was my first Shakespearean discovery. I was obsessed with drama at school, and I studied the play for my English GCSE. Desdemona is the ...
Time doesn't need to be found, it is in plain sight ticking away loudly all the time. How we use it is the only question.
There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in ...
Like going to the dentist, where you write: "Dental appointment today. All of the dentists in Boulder are 'holistic.' They can't fill a cavity but ...
Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be cheerfully paid and ...
All that is known for sure is that endometriosis is endemic and that it cannot be cured. Management is the best hope. This makes for ...
It is light that cheers us when we are downhearted, it is light that brings us solace out of suffering, it is light that beams ...
As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.
In the, Dei Verbum, there is a great statement of Vatican II: The bible is the word of god but in the words of men.
Don't fall in love with your wit. Your cleverly turned phrase may not, as you hope, show off how much gray matter you have, especially ...
That meek darkness be thy mirror, and thy whole remembrance.
Don't be afraid to speak up for yourself. Keep fighting for your dreams!
What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I think of that. No big deal. I've ...
Unlike people of my generation, my children and my grandchildren have grown up living with, knowing, people who were outwardly gay and lesbian. And they ...
Love transforms and love cures;but,sometimes,love builds deadly traps and can end up destroying a person who had resolved to give him or herself completely.What is ...
So if you're black or brown, you can make money in America, you can get rich in America ... but whatever you decide to do, ...
When we read or hear how some professed Christian has turned defaulter, or lapsed into drunkenness, or slipped from the communion table into open disgrace, ...
The fact that mammalian crying serves as a cue for maternal support, rather than as a dinner bell, is a major evolutionary difference.
I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil ...
Am I gonna traumatize the fat cat if he sees me fuckin' you?""As you know, his name is Spot, and he's immune to trauma. You ...
Was there anything more inspiring than being able to look up and see oneself surrounded by thousands of books all the way to the ceiling ...
I really hate it when I can't score runs from a ball.
My delusionary hell does not agree with yours.
He's holding a squirming Jamie in his arms, but her efforts to wiggle out of his grip are futile, because her daddy's strong as fuck.
Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of decorum;at least they ...
To deny someone's feelings or experiences it to literally deny their reality.
Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers ...
With a Latin saying that sophistication is born out of hunger (artificia docuit fames).
The Witch was too much afraid of the dark to dare go in Dorothy's room at night to take the shoes, and her dread of ...
Fall for me, as an apple falls, as rain falls, because you must. Use gravity to anchor your desire.
I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That's a horrible existence for people.
I read somewhere that dedications are like coded love letters, but I always seem to lay us out bare.Sorry for the poems.
I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try ...
(Cabbages were a Kel idiosyncrasy. They were adamant about their spiced cabbage pickles.) Appearance-wise
I wanted to be Emma Goldman. I wanted to digest Doris Lessing's Golden Notebooks like biscuits. I felt like Harriet the Spy, looking for a ...
Music journalists are some of the lazy, most uninspired, dull people I've ever met.
Magic, Quentin discovered, wasn't romantic at all. It was grim and repetitive and deceptive. And he worked his ass off and became very good at ...
Just like the car headlights impressively illuminating the dark streets, wisdom words powerfully enlighten the dark minds!
I was writing fiction steadily, but I found that the stark determinisms of code were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of literary narrative.
It's a heck of a responsibility to look after a spirit. So give kids the best of who you are. That's the most you can ...