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He would be damned if he fell prey to love's debilitating thrall.

Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place. It's like voodoo; we don't want things that are soaked in blood, sweat, and tears. ...

Also, there are seats in the diner that always fall off the table. If you have a scene where you're packing up at the end ...

Memorial branch had fallen on its side, but it was still visible, poking up out of the water below the Highledge. Brackenfur and Dustpelt waded ...

Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns.

A South Korean inventor has finally created the robot that mankind has been waiting for. Scientists who have been worried about the robot apocalypse can ...

I winced. "I shouldn't have said that." "You once put goose droppings in my shoes, Alina. A bad mood I can handle." He glanced at ...

Ruth noted that he had no coat on. Wherever he'd come from, it couldn't be far away.

A script arrived, and on the front cover - scrawled really big, as if it were a book report - is 'Django Unchained, written by ...

Yep. His epic good looks without succumbing to the adorable label had made him a man-unicorn in my mind. Or a merman. Or a Loch ...

Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in ...

But I got this far, didn't I?" he said slowly. "They thought I'd die in the attempt, but I'm here ... and you're in my ...

You think giving you a hug would give away too much?" he says."You know," I say. "I really don't care."I stand on my tiptoes and ...

God only gives men power to make wealth, meaning God does not give wealth, he gives the power to work for it. (Deut. 8:18)

When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, A fool cannot hold ...

[A]ny musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his ...

Few people know that I love local dhaba food. It is the best!

I have no problem dressing up ... because I know I'm a nice-looking guy. But as far as chains, I definitely feel that's a racial ...

For every African state, like Ghana, where democratic institutions seem secure, there is a Mali, a Cote d'Ivoire, and a Zimbabwe, where democracy is in ...

Most of the people I meet who are on unemployment are people who have had jobs for 25 years, lost them; they've been knocking on ...

The price of living seems to always be death."Tohin stood, joints popping audibly. "And that is why you become a dealer of death. You feed ...

If you're defending a lie, you can only defend it with obfuscations and other lies. You can't defend a lie with the truth.

Liam. We'll figure something else out. Please don't go.""Why not? Would you miss me?"Ty looked into his eyes and nodded jerkily. "Yes, I would.""So tell ...

If there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would amount to a ...

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 ...

What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the saint in a ...

Steak and its accompaniments - wine, vegetables, potatoes and generous desserts - is a primal source of pleasure to which many people can relate.

He leans against the doorframe. Some guys are born to lean. He's definitely one of them. James Dean was another.

Comic-Con is interesting because there's so much going on at once, it's literally impossible to do everything. You need clones and some sort of hoverboard ...

The strands of the DNA double helix are held together by hydrogen bonding interactions between the complementary base pairs. Heating DNA in solution easily breaks ...

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief ...

I didn't realize when I brought him back here that you'd inflict more damage." I said, once I'd finished the story."I was defending your honor." ...

Of course, I don't act in an extreme fashion in my day to day life. I don't think any of us live do. I think ...

At the heart of any poor soul not at one with the Force, there is only void.

The night I flew out from Rwanda, I landed in Nairobi, and I was on my way back home, and my left side started to ...

As you speed along the highway of life ... you might pause and consider. When everything's coming your way, maybe you're driving in the wrong ...

Changes to parliamentary procedure won't transform the lives of the people whom I represent. Decentralising, devolving decision-making and renewing civil society will.

What sets these - and all - racers apart from less daredevilish mortals is their complete lack of fear and their joy of doing something ...

There may be many Big Bangs that happened at various and far-flung locations, each creating its own swelling, spatial expanse, each creating a universe - ...

Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed

To do this job, you really have to love what you're doing.

The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become.

I don't know the first real thing about the dating game. I don't know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just ...

The thoughts and beliefs that you repeat in your mind when you are experiencing a negative situation become your reality. Your subconscious will make sure ...

When you look at - when you talk to people in Africa and across the Middle East, they're not satisfied with the way things are ...

As a child I had been so afraid of so many things, but as soon as I held a camera in my hand, I began ...

If I learned one thing in life it's:Some people think kindness is a weakness and will always try to take advantage of kind hearted people. ...

I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can ...

Consider that children grow more quickly in spring and summer than in fall and winter, and that this is apparently due to sunlight signals that ...

You're angry.""Wow. You really are good.""And guarded. You've been hurt, but you still crave connection. Understanding. So you throw yourself into risk in a calculated ...

Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore.

And my seven-year-old world humpty-dumptied, never to be put back together again.

David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her ...

This was how to help a family who has just lost their child. Wash the clothes, make soup. Don't ask them what they need, bring ...

I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of people do work ...

It is almost always a bad idea to use a reverse mortgage to pay for a vacation or to buy a risky investment, like stocks ...

To do this job, you really have to love what you're doing.

You're thoughtful, Barbara, but you're not open. You're passionate, but you're hard. You're a good, decent, funny, wonderful woman, and I love you, but you're ...

Be ever watchful. Be watchful of your thoughts, your deedsLest predjudice, resentment,hatred, and intolerance drive Her from your world ... Again.

Complex carbohydrates are always best, except, again, after a workout where you could take simple (sugar) carbohydrates to get an insulin spike. But at other ...

Let no man go beyond or defraud his brother, for, though it be hidden from man, it will be found that God is the avenger ...

You need to forgive people you don't understand; if not, try to understand people you want to forgive.

A free ride is life's most difficult journey.

There is a limit for everything. You can't just load tons and tons of peacock feathers in a cart considering it's light weight. If you ...

Darkness, you bring in the light.

Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries ...

I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can ...

Enforcement isn't about big government or small government. It's about whether government works and who it works for.

Every work has the bad side, and people will be mean to you, and when you're young, you don't know how to defend yourself.

I wouldna cross the road to see a scrawny woman if she was stark naked and dripping wet. ~Jamie Fraser

Go on, fair Science; soon to theeShall Nature yield her idle boast;Her vulgar lingers formed a tree,But thou hast trained it to a post.

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.

Ah, but I'm not a gentleman," said the Marquis. "I have it on the best of authority that I am only anobleman.""Good gracious, Vidal, who ...

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 ...

Dreams are just silly things that pass through your mind at night. "Dreaming" is out-of-the-body experiences where you are traveling through the different dimensions - ...

That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you ...

The pint would call the quart a dualist, if you tried to pour the quart into him.

If you'd never been born, then you might be an Isn't!An Isn't has no fun at all. No, he disn't.

It takes a certain kind of dog to willingly demote himself from alpha dog, and that dog was Carl. Holloway would have to speak to ...

Make a daily effort to nourish your soul with inspiration from the Bible for personal growth and transformation.

Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it.

To say it was a dark and stormy night would be a gross understatement. It was colder than witch's kiss, wetter than a spring swamp, ...

I live a dual life. On the red carpet, it's complete glam. But at home, I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. Simple can ...

Let go into His arms until you find yourself obsessed on things divine

The miraculous is always happening, even though we forget it or even when our faith is too small to trust God for miracles or even ...

The blessing that this film business has given me is that when I walk into a school I automatically have everyone's attention. They want to ...

Some girls are more special than others.

The daemoniac rattle and wheeze of a blasphemous organ, choking and rumbling out the mockeries of hell in a cracked, sardonic bass.

There. That is the answer to this riddle. The promises I can make, and the one I can't. Gwen. I will never leave you willingly. ...

My job does not define me.

Unfortunately, this category of secret is itself so secret that it's very existance is secret, and he can't actually reveal it to anyone.

Why, Andrew, why would it irritate me? Do you think that being loved by you is something to be ashamed of? I don't.

In the 40 years since 'The Amityville Horror', dramatizations of those supposedly-real events have gotten loose enough - special-effects laden enough, star-power re-packaged enough - ...

I like Dolce & Gabbana's fragrance Light Blue - it's my everyday perfume.

Sometimes kids used to give me a hard time. But they're on my side.

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.[Lat., Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina ...

I'll show Dunky he's not the only one in the family who can rush foolishly into danger!

They were as different as honesty and truth, but it takes experience to see the dissimilarities. Rocky was friendly, outgoing and boisterous; Charger was sullen, ...

The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the ...

I learned that telling the truth was a big part of loving yourself.