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Please don't go away. You--you matter. To me.
Big Cyndi crossed the room with an agility that belied the bulk. She wrapped me in an embrace that made me feel as if I'd ...
The devil on my right shoulder must have brutally strangled the angel on my left ...
Corporations can have no soul but they can love each other.
I don't want to give too much of it away, because I haven't cleared it with Bob, but the treatment is twenty years, and she, ...
The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, ...
I was born in Toronto and studied with the National Ballet of Canada. I went to school to study dance, slept on the floor, ate ...
[Y]ou were too alert to the figurative possibilities of words not to see the phrase [angle of repose] as descriptive of human as well as ...
Don't let anything disturb your inner peace and tranquilly.
Ron pointed Helen's gun at me. What kind of name is Ron for such a menacing figure?
Like your sweet, affectionate house cat, Alice Dahl is easy to underestimate. It's not until the songbirds in the yard show up eviscerated on the ...
What she did have were Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, Drooble's Best Blowing Gum, Chocolate Frogs, Pumpkin Pasties, Cauldron Cakes, Licorice Wands, and a number ...
We are called to see that the Church does not adapt its thinking to the horizons that modernity prescribes for it but rather that it ...
A lot of people who were the best in their fields. I was fortunate enough to be friends with Sammy Davis, Jr. - I spent ...
Jean-Luc glanced at the coach. "Who is that man? What is that machine?""It's a dunking booth.""Ah, I understand." Jean-Luc nodded. "If he dose not drown, ...
Admiral Farragaut upon entering Mobile Bay Damn the torpedos. FULL SPEED AHEAD!
The costs can't be borne by smaller counties particularly, so if the crime occurs in a large county you might be charged with the death ...
It is an unfinished society that we offer the world-a society that is forever committed to change, to improvement and to growth, that will never ...
Sometimes you panic and find yourself emitting remarks so profoundly inane that you would be embarrassed to say them to your dog. Your dog would ...
Loving you has been worse than an addiction to drugs. At least I don't have the drugs c r a w l i n g ...
What people can get you or do for you will never replace a person that will influence you to be a better person.
Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding it in my hands, so precious, so ...
Diamond Dallas saved my life. He didn't have to, but that's the kind of guy he is. He's helped so many people with his DDP ...
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, ...
We could say that the word mindfulness is pointing to being one with our experience, not dissociating, being right there when our hand touches the ...
Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.
I look at what I have as a challenge and I could list a whole bunch of different challenges. And I choose not to be ...
Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind - the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading one indulges in. ...
Dont take me for granted again, your been watched - thirteen reasons why
The central problem of biological evolution is the nature of mutation, but hitherto the occurrence of this has been wholly refractory and impossible to influence ...
We've accumulated a lot of things over the years and many things from our grandmother. Hopefully it'll be all right. I really don't want to ...
In my hometown, the sky seemed endless ... but there was nothing to see.
Use of analytics is accelerating, and that means more data-drivendecision making and fewer hunches. Evidence-based managementcomplements analytics by adding validated cause-and-effect relationshipsbetween policies and effects.
All government, without exception, conceal from the people everything that might further their emancipation, and encourage all that degrades and demoralizes them: all manner of ...
I don't read reviews, as a rule. I can't, because I can't control myself. But I've heard that [the Duplasses] were happy, so that's good.
What am I doing in this eternal winter?
You are intelligent if you know what you do not know.
Kelsier said haughtily. "What's this?" "From your brother," Dockson said, pointing at a large map laid across the desk. "It arrived this afternoon in the ...
Britain has a lot of wind. It's our wind. We don't have to import it.
All play and no work makes me a happy girl
Writing a novel is just like life ... it's only in the doing of it that I find out what works.
That is the way I have always worked. I draw a plan and work out every detail on the plan before starting to build. For ...
According to a recent study, ten percent of 'Star Trek' fans meet the psychological criteria for addiction. Deprived of their favourite show, some Trekkies disply ...
When you love people and have the desire to make a profound, positive impact upon the world, then will you have accomplished the meaning to ...
I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me."His pupils contract to pinpoints, dialate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling ...
As a rose blossoms despite being surrounded by thorns, bloom despite being surrounded by troubles.
This process of professionalising the obvious fosters a sense of mystery around science, and health advice, which is unnecessary and destructive. More than anything, more ...
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 ...
To make America great again, we need a strong military. To have a strong military, we need to allow them to defend themselves." 7. ...
Believe it or not, the number one fear in America remains public speaking. And, in some ways, I think that is a real shame because ...
I'm as prone to 'declinism' as the next over-mortgaged middle-aged guy.
I think a mantra I always told myself is, "No matter how many times somebody pitches the ball at you, if you swing every time, ...
When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, and he believes in the ...
While NCLB drove important progress on transparency and data disaggregation, I think it's clear that the status quo in public education is not working for ...
And I am flawed but I am cleaning up so well.
One, your hair is stupid. And two, I don't know what it's like where you come from, but if you ever do anything that could ...
I'm very grateful for the people that I work with, because I don't get to choose them.
Minute. Eliza called out after Thomas, "Thank you, Tom!
For all of my life, I am digging deep in my heart to find the liquid gold of love to share.
Orange Juice? Sure. Toast? Sure. One last time on the couch? Sure. Phone number? Sure. See you again? Oooh, absolutely. That was the lie I ...
She was everything he'd ever wanted, beauty and fire arching againsthis despoiling hands.
My parents had torn through my innocence and left me with a tar-like substance that was corrupting what was left of me. I could feel ...
In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.
Thanks for agreeing to watch Fat Rabbit. Hope you're prepared for lots of farts in your future. From the dog, of course.
I couldn't love anyone more than I do you, it would kill me. And I couldn't love anyone less because it would always feel like ...
Now c'mon - if we die, we die cool.
Trust you? Ruetrust you? You counterfeited your own death rather than wed me. You told me you'd rather die than stay in Darkfrith. I can'tI ...
I actually think that the dotting of the i's and the crossing of the t's is what separates the United States, the United Kingdom, our ...
One need not be a prophet to be aware of impending dangers. An accidental combination of experience and interest will often reveal events to one ...
My room was in one of those turrets and at night I could hear the sea and the faint rustle of eelgrass in the soft ...
Never tell your problems to anyone ... 20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.
A man who honors God privately will show it by making good decisions publicly.
People with dirty jobs are happier than you think. As a group, they're the happiest people I know.
For by a kind of mutual bond the Lord has joined together the certainty of his Word and of his Spirit so that the perfect ...
Hello." He smiled and snuggled into his pillow. "Is this the voice mail of the beautiful Kenzie Denune or the real thing?" "Well, Highlander, ye ...
But those coins are wishes! You're stealing other people's wishes!"The look Matteo gave her was so flinty, she could have chipped a tooth on it. ...
Whatever you are doing, put your whole mind on it. If you are shooting, your mind should be only on the target. Then you will ...
In my dreams I am sleepingI am sleeping in my dreamsI wish to dream in my sleepJust wish to dream in my sleep.
The difference between punishment and discipline is a powerful child.
Bram was staring at me in dibelief, as if I were trying to persuade him that his entire existencce as a dead man was simply ...
The innumerable fools have made the learned very scarce
Its APPOINTED to live once, you wanna live twice? ... u've been DISSAPPOINTED
They say that time is relative. I think the way it's treating me it's a distant one, maybe a bad uncle, and not welcome in ...
I never considered disobeying an order or even a request from Daddy. I loved and admired him, and one of my preeminent goals in life ...
There's not a man on Earth who doesn't wish he was me right now. Your mind and your body will never forget the things I'm ...
Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.
It is easy to romanticise, say, tigers or lions and cats. We admire their magnificent beauty, strength and agility. But we would regard their notional ...
New Orleanians are notoriously late showing up, if they show up at all, because by and large they don't keep calendars. Calendars are tools for ...
I've learned in my life that things change. Seasons changes, times change. We take different jobs. Our children grow. So, we have to study the ...
They say some people ' cast a thin shadow', a turn of phrase that fitted my father like a glove. Too weak, too kind, he ...
Percy!' Annabeth scolded. 'You just opened another Monster Doughnut shop somewhere!
I never would've thought seeing a hundred naked people around a swimming pool would have been dullsville, but it is.
Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?
When you pursue great flavor, you also pursue great ecology.
There is always something behind patience and impatience! Be careful enough to understand these two things any time you meet anybody; the patience and impatience ...
Whatever you imagine, God is the opposite of that.
If a work of art is to be truly immortal, it must pass quite beyond the limits of the human world, without any sign of ...
Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh..apologiz e..let go of what you can't change.
The right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and on the ...
You are not prime minister of Australia because of some kind of process of divine selection. You are prime minister of Australia through the gift ...