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And Amber?"Cade looked stricken at the mention. "I knew her before she had breasts, so she doesn't count.""I'm sure she'd love to hear that.""She won't." ...
Love your body. Be kind to it, nourish it, tender it. It is the pure instrument of expressionthat allows you to experience life on this ...
3,2,1 ... Launch! A lot of preparation goes into launching a rocket ship. No short cuts or cheating will get that rocket to its destination. ...
The majority of modern medicines originate in nature. Although some mushrooms have been used in therapies for thousands of years, we are still discovering new ...
Fantasyland was designed as a home for some of the classic characters [from those films], and as a symbol of the magic, hope and beauty ...
The cut under his eye and the split skin on his lower lip only enhanced his profile. He didn't look defeated. He looked like a ...
As a pale-skinned, dark-haired Celtic sort, he didn't care for the heat.
Boys and girls need chances to be around their father, to be enjoyed by him and if possible to do things with him. Better to ...
But attack can take strange forms. And you will remember the tooth. The tooth. Duke Leto Atreides. You will remember the tooth. -Dr.Yueh
I have no illusions about myself, about my life, about leaving a legacy, or making a mark in people's lives. We are so insignificant. We ...
Because no one needs to live for ever. I think that sometimes you can outstay your welcome.
If the material consumption of a fraction of humanity is already harming the planet, is there an alternative path that enables all of humanity to ...
Life is not about things we do or do not have to do; it's about doing what we should do, about doing the right thing.
The antagonists of finance's future, the diaboli ex machina, may have no face at all.
It takes a lot of work to keep someone oppressed and it takes a heroic effort to get out of such an oppression!
I don't really control the story. I just let it go where it wants to go. I have no idea what's going to happen in ...
Stories are a kind of theme park of mortality. Deadnyland.
Private-sector firms are increasingly active in the prison industry and they and the militantly unionized correctional officers, almost all unskilled labor, constantly lead public demands ...
Thus while he spake, each passion dimm'd his face Thrice chang'd with pale, ire, envie and despair, Which marrd his borrow'd visage, and betraid Him ...
It's even hard for people to imagine today that telephones were wired, and they certainly were and you went to the end of a wire ...
Eagles may soar high, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.
Success is the accomplishment of any number of possible aims, dreams, aspirations or goals. It's very personal and unique to you. Your greatest desire could ...
We owe it to our troops to let them sleep in their own beds, wake up in the morning, have a delicious breakfast, and drive ...
I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.
Open marriage' is an invention of a feminist era. The idea is to have a marriage where dalliances are tolerated or even encouraged for both ...
Oh, drat the men! No matter what they do, it's the wrong thing. And no matter who they are, it's somebody they shouldn't be. They ...
There was no place else she'd rather be than slow-dancing on a beach with the sexiest, sweetest, most attentive man she'd ever been with.
Don't give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no good son has ...
The smattering of candles about the dark room gave the illusion of dancing in starlight. The moment made her believe that if she spoke her ...
To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda.
Like world describers before me, those mapmakers in the seventeenth centure, I had laid down my first faintly drawn border. With that one tentative mark, ...
When you see around you the human form suffering or dissolving, you have empathy on the human level. You share the suffering because it has ...
When my daughter Paula died, I was in the deepest pain, and my mother said, "This kind of sorrow is like a long, narrow, dark ...
Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek or to give explanations for what ...
He ran the back of his fingers along her flushed cheek. His touch was soft, and she leaned her head in his direction. "My beautiful ...
I no longer have the energy for meaningless friendships, forced interactions or unnecessary conversations. If we don't vibrate on the same frequency there's just no ...
Fierce, and what capitalists sometimes call 'ruinous' competition tends, therefore, to produce leap-frogging innovations that more often that not lead capitalists to fetishise technological and ...
Our failures make us who we are; they build our character, we are defined by what we do with them, and how we respond to ...
There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him ...
You know, if you find a person that you've never seen before getting in a crop-duster that doesn't belong to you, report it.
Emelina and I took each other in. All morning I'd felt the strange disjuncture that comes from reconnecting with your past. There's such a gulf ...
My grandmother died from Alzheimer's, and it was a big shock. For the families left behind, it is not an easy closure. It's not a ...
George used to say that Granny wasn't a time-optimist, she was a time-atheist, and the only religion she believed in was Do-It-Later-Buddhism.
A headline last year, after the death of Saddam Hussein, read: 'Tyrant is hanged'. My auntie looked at the newspaper and sobbed, 'Who's going to ...
If you're playing someone who's impeded by fear, or shyness, or has whatever dysfunction your character might have, you have to achieve the dysfunction first, ...
She was uncertain about taking his hand in marriage after he'd revealed to her that his deceased father was a big-time hustler, and his twin ...
Demonslayer planted every step with care, keeping as silent as he could moving through the grass. Teenagers slung insults at each other beyond the hedgerow ...
I respect Gloria Steinem enormously. But I never wanted to be in any kind of movement - and if you're over a certain age, you ...
The Panza is here," said Sancho, before anyone could reply, "and Don Quixotissimus too; and so, most distressedest Duenissima, you may say what you willissimus, ...
I always heard 'whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger' growing up. How so very foolish. In fact, what doesn't kill you is only delaying ...
OUT OF AN INFINITE LOVE, you, O Lord, have made me an heir of your kingdom and joint heir with Christ. O Good Jesus, to ...
In my opinion in art nothing can go too far as long as you don't physically hurt people or animals. Art is there to push ...
To the thing that hurts you most. To the paranormal and to never being normal.
Rastafari means to live in nature, to see the Creator in the wind, sea and storm. Other religions pointed to the sky, and while we ...
Yet the love we experience through other people is just a shadow of the love of the inner self. There is a sublime place inside ...
We are a nation of 20 million bathrooms, with a humanist in every tub.
You ever go to shop for tuna, and it says "dolphin safe", and you look at it and kind of go, "Yeah, but"-like somehow you ...
At first, all is black and white.Black on white.That's where I'm walking, through pages.These pages.Sometimes it gets so that I have one foot in the ...
Come to the stable. Come to where the horses are, and the sweet, grainy, pungent smells.
I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.
There's really not much in life that's as violent or traumatic as an encounter with somebody who really surprises you and opens up that strange ...
Baseball. If there's a more beautiful word in the English language. I have yet to hear it ... baseball has served as such a powerful ...
Go to where you do not know what you do not know. That is where you will find all your opportunities.
Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!
There is, of course, a world of difference between cricket and the movie business ... I suppose doing a love scene with Racquel Welch roughly ...
We know everyone we love is going to die, but we don't know it, can't possibly believe it, she thought, or long ago I would ...
The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs.
Peeta" I said "Stay with me"I heard him say one word before the drigs pulled me under, I realised later that what he said was ...
Memories lurk like dustballs in the backs of drawers. The stereo is a special model that plays only music fraught with poignant associations.
Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
A planar geometrical figure with more than three vertices can be decomposed into a set of triangles, and it can be reconstructed from a set ...
So damn beautiful."She grinned. "So you've said."Perched on his elbow, stretched alongside her body, he'd say it again and again until she tired of hearing ...
Pretty soon, I'll be decomposing into phosphorous, calcium, and so on. Who else will you find to tell you the truth? All that's left are ...
I think the universities as we know them will be dead in a future years. I'd like to see them replaced by something better, instead ...
Do what you love and love what you do. Don't do anything for money. Everything should be for love.
Don't be scared to walk alone. Don't be scared to like it.
He [Kenneth Branagh] is the nicest guy. He is absolutely fantastic. Hes really down to earth, really friendly, and he has a great sense of ...
If you don't try, if you don't do something for yourself, you won't get anywhere.
Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour.
When you love, whatever you do is because you want to do it. It becomes a pleasure, it's like a game, and you have fun ...
The great object of the Christian is duty; his predominant desire to obey God. When he can please the world consistently with these, he will ...
I have two children. I have a Down syndrome child whom I love very much, and my wife that I love.
Desmo is my guard dog, but he has a sweet side, too. Nothing entertains him (or me) more than when I blow bubbles and he ...
'The Devil's Dictionary' reads like a collection of great Twitter posts. And as people do with tweets, they can swipe Bierce's best lines and recite ...
We are alike in many ways, you and I. There is darkness in us. Darkness, pain, death. They radiate from us. If ever you love ...
I may be deprived of eloquence, but my mind can never be a dumb.
The world's natural calamities and disasters-its tornados and hurricanes, volcanoes and floods-its physical turmoil-are not created by us specifically.What is created by us is the ...
A pesemist sees the difficulty in every oppertunity, but a optamist sees the oppertunity in every difficuty
If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most ...
One of the library occupants was Lawrence Beesley, a Dulwich College science master seeking new chances in America (his small son grew up to marry ...
We picked the Red Sox because they lose. If you root for something that loses for 86 years, you're a pretty good fan. You don't ...
What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that ...
When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.
The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.
A Peace to End All Peace.
My daddy was the type that if you asked him, "Dad, am I going to get off punishment soon?" - he would extend it. It ...
Drama is a good book
It wouldn't have been failure to be bankrupt, dishonoured, pilloried, hanged; it was failure not to be anything.
The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites.