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If he thought at all, but I don't believe he ever thought, it was that he and his shadow, when brought near each other, would ...

My biggest problem is that my flight is to depart from Denpasar International Airport in Indonesia, where the penalty for drug trafficking is death by ...

In the years just before ... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control ...

Reality, my strange and precious one. Reality is fabric. Fabric isreality. And your reality here is far easier to live with than where Iwas on ...

This quality of Jewish folk music [- it can appear to be happy when it's tragic-] is close to my idea of what music should ...

Darkness is not forever, eventually there will be stars.

God works according to the law of gradual growth, so don't be discouraged if your progress seems slow,

I've worked really hard, but I know people who have worked even harder but didn't have the chances I've had.

The landlord was trying to explain that there were a great many English people in his house, all fighting duels or having hysterics.

The deep spaces between stars , Fathomless as the cold shadow His mind cast.

But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment ...

Being friends with anyone for 30 years is no easy task - people change, they drift apart, they move on.

On the contrary, I think making you happy should be taken very seriously.

Meditate.Live purely. Be quiet.Do your work with mastery.Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds!Shine

The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim ...

I've actually been compared to every female singer going from Britney, Christina, Mariah, Duffy, Amy Winehouse, everyone. And they are so different, so I think ...

I glance back as I am pulling the door shut. I can see Mrs. Kasperek on her bed, in the apartment denuded of the books ...

We're talking about a world where the PC is no longer the center, but just a devicewhere your new devices need to be more portable, ...

When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most ...

Nothing can touch the one who is oodasin (one unperturbed by worldly life). After attaining Knowledge of the Self, if one applies awareness of the ...

The Cobra is my personal favorite car. The original 289 Cobra is the car I respect the most. I like to drive the 289 better ...

We state and commend the faith only in so far as we go out and put ourselves inside the doubts of the doubters, the questions ...

In Bonn, where I studied for a year, I changed from classical to Romance philology, taught there by its great founder, F. Diez, and at ...

You can tell how high a society is by how much of its garbage is recycled.

There are 41 million people who do not have access to a toilet in Pakistan and as a result they are defecating in the open. ...

Curiously, the most serious religious people, or the most concerned scholars, those who constantly read the Bible as a matter of professional or pious duty, ...

But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust. ...

The seventeenth, Desmond! Come along at once; everything's all right. We're going to buy a huge bracelet for my wife, an enormous cigarette-holder for Madame ...

The song 'If I Had a Hammer' is geared toward people who don't have a hammer. Maybe before I had a hammer I thought I'd ...

Eve didn't choose to eat the apple. She was tempted by the serpent.""Yes," I argue, thoughts coming out half-formed. "But ... she didn't have to ...

It is ethanol that everyone is after when they drink alcoholic beverages. That is what gives us the euphoric feeling, and that is what all ...

The job of the brand is to make that nameand that logo stand for something. To live its founding principles each day. To stay true.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

Whoever had said in the guidebooks that the bum bag was a sensible device against theft had lied; no single item of dressware ever invented ...

Whatever life hands you, deal with it. You can't hide. Whoever you are, whatever you've done, whatever the circumstances, own it. Be yourself, don't try ...

It is not the project but the living process that will be the measure of our actions.

You can see wealth in people no matter what they're wearing. It's in the cut of their chins, a certain gloss to the skin, a ...

YOU COULD LOCK the Gasman in a padded cell with some dental floss and a bowl of Jell-O, and he'd find a way to make ...

I will conduct a respectful debate. Now, it will be dispirited it will be spirited because there are stark differences. I am a proud conservative, ...

Living for oneself is a bad thing. The keenest intellectual pleasure comes from being able to return to the self after being absent from it ...

Memory is that trick by which we see the awful events of the past loom over the good, like mountains over mouse. We don't recall ...

Some people need to be in the presence of truth, I think, others beauty, and we were each discovering on which side the other one ...

Worrying about the dunya is a darkness in the heart, while worrying about akhirah is a light in the heart.

Maybe it's better this way-that we keep our darknesses close, hidden in our minds, protected by our hearts.

We don't take on Google Glass or the self-driving car project or Project Loon unless we think that on a risk-adjusted basis, it's worth Google's ...

Don't be wasting your sympathy on me, kid. I did pretty damn well, I'll tell you what. You snag a woman like that, you don't ...

I always wanted to be a dentist from the time I was in high school, and I was accepted to dental school in the spring ...

James 4:11 Detract not one another, my brethren. He that detracteth his brother, or he that judgeth his brother, detracteth the law and judgeth the ...

The key is to never recognize these imbalances. To not let the dauntingness daunt us.

More broadly across time and cultures, it seems, one perennial piece of advice to father has been the importance of acting tenderly toward their children. ...

He was realist enough to know he might never find the life partner he longed for, and dreamer enough not to quit looking

The One created us all to be free. To learn. To find common cause with others and to grow stronger and wiser. But the ancient ...

Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.

Okay, so I'm not exactly a morning person, but first impressions should never have to be made before dawn.

Precious souls as young as three or four, raised on the misplaced multicultural priorities of Sesame Street," he claims, "are doomed before they even enter ...

I may juggle the composition, as the strength of a picture is in the composition. Or I may play with the light. But I never ...

All my best friends live downtown in New York City. I was made in Soho.

I don't know how to fix a car. If the car breaks down, and the gas tank does not say "E", I'm screwed. But if ...

I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?

Angelina Jolie and I love each other. IF that's unusual these days, that's sad.

How difficult it is to find solitude in a world that constantly demands your attention.

You've always marched to beat of your own drum, and I know you do things in your own time and your own way.

It's (Politics) rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But it's the only sport for grownups.

I shall tell you a truth ... your lips taste of sweet ripened berries. I should be so forward as to take them in degust. ...

I love being in an arena that has like 10,000 people and huge crowds. I want to do a show at like the Viper room ...

. . . all delight being in the present and its past, all truth too, and all fidelity in the word, the flesh, the present ...

Let us remember the loving-kindness of the Lord and rehearse His deeds of grace. Let us open the volume of recollection, which is so richly ...

Doctors and nurses, with their training and their experiences, they would be able to detect unusual patterns of disease. That's why we say it is ...

Experimenting with drugs, drinking, doing this just enough to be accepted as one of the crowd, but I hated drugs, and I hated the taste ...

I see young quarterbacks just coming into the league, and they're throwing screens and layoffs right away. As funny as this might sound, I really ...

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in ...

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Love your haters - they're your biggest fans

What you had left before I saw you, of course I do not know; but I counsel you to resist firmly every temptation which would ...

There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any.

I've never met a woman ever, anywhere, bar none, that was more feminine than Dixie Carter.

There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

King Cygnus dozed in his chair, and a dark shadow curled up in the window seat. That dark shadow happened to have a name, which ...

As a very young person, I was ready and willing to explore and try new things, unhampered by the daily routines that adults so often ...

It's the masters who despise the slaves, and the slaves who hate the masters. I don't know who is which. Maybe it doesn't fit here. ...

Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science ...

Let us designate anarchism1 anarchism as you define it. Let us desiginate anarchism2 anarchism as I and the American Heritage College Dictionary define it.

Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes, naturamque nouat. (to arts unknown he bends his wits, and alters nature.)

I've got no problem with octopuses. It's bugs and spiders that I don't like. Octopuses are cute, in their own 'nature did a lot of ...

Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of the gap between, ...

I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with ...

Amy is so correct that a good personality can make a guy better-looking.

No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.

Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.[Fr., Coups de fourches ni d'etriveres,Ne lui font changer de manieres.]

The only good writer was a dead writer.

Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and ...

I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility and statesmanship to governance. If you ...

No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them ...

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?

Therefore we will not listen to the source itself in order to learn what it is or what it means, but rather to the turns ...

Alexia, did you know there is an entire regiment decamping on your front lawn?Laddy Maccon sighed. Really, Ivy, I would never have noticed.

Eve: Shut up, we have zero time for you and your bullshit dramaticsMonica: Or what, you'll bleed on me, Emo Princess of Freakdomonia?Claire: Fine. You ...

Zombies don't bother me, sir," Faith said, dimpling cutely. "They're insane, hungry, angry animals. They won't kill me from professional courtesy, sir.

To shine and outshine the shining stars, to take your abilities to the greatest height, to sit on top of the world, you must fortify ...

You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable, the ...