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I just don't get it. You've been in love with this bloke since you were a kid, and he's never once got his hair cut ...
His voice almost undid her. It was exactly as she remembered from school, casual, familiar, polite. Not arrogant, because arrogance implied one had to establish ...
I couldn't will my beloved Berlin streets across the world or make the people I loved appear when I needed them, but by summoning the ...
The thing I love about diving is the flowing feeling. I like a sport where the whole point is to move as little as humanly ...
I get invited to a lot more glamorous parties since I've been in 'Downton Abbey,' which has made me much more fashion conscious.
Donating a kidney to a woman I had never met was the greatest experience of my life. To give for the pure sake of giving ...
Do you ever feel like running away?" "Of course ... Sometimes I feel like I want to run away from everything." "I remember having that ...
About every six to eight months, I run into a man who astounds me sexually, but between escapades, I'm celibate, which I don't think is ...
Don't put off till tomorrow anyone you could be doing today.
At his neck, hanging outside his clothing, Demoux wore a necklace that bore a small silver spear: the increasingly popular symbol of the Church of ...
I like to be the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place. Being the right thing in the ...
Why the Christian life is so difficult to many is because they have a divided heart. They are double-minded, which makes them unstable in all ...
Educators committed to engaging in the long-term, often difficult work of strengthening their relationships with colleagues, students and parents and expanding their opportunities for personal ...
It was a black and white day of frost, which crawled along the dark trees and outlined twig and branch. The air was misty, and ...
Two things a wise man never discloses to the public; his money and his women.
I think there are definite parallels between sport and art. There's a real sense of sacrifice. There's a real sense of dedication that is needed ...
I began to encounter real-life stories of dogs protecting their wounded or dying or dead handler ... or dogs refusing to leave the bodies of ...
In those days, Doc Susie used medications interchangeably between humans and animals. That was before pharmaceutical houses discovered a fundamental economic principle. Label a medication ...
For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than ...
The internet is insecure by default. Netiquette and security certificates add a level of safety.
I'm not sure that Jesuits ever produce faithful Catholics. Because they're too fierce. It is Sturm und Drang, and it is guilt - it is ...
Grace does not lead us to overlook obedience. Grace compels and empowers us for obedience.
Do not try to stir and arouse faith from within. How often I have tried to do that, and made a fool of myself! You ...
I always said you couldn't trust those people from Purchasing," said the Deputy Financial Manager. "The bastards.
Dog lovers hate to clean out kennels. Horse lovers like cleaning stables.
Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's ...
Because (in principle) things outlast us, they know more about us than we know about them: they carry the experiences they have had with us ...
For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt ...
Dejardins was so stunned, he momentarily forgot how to speak English. Ce n'est pas possible. On ne pourrait pas-
Demagogues always do well in economic downturns.
Guy Boy Man," says Baby Doll15. "Violence is not the answer."I look down the hallway, steely eyed. "Then I don't like the question." Sweetie and ...
Gilles Duceppe avoids making campaign promises altogether so he can emphasize that his Bloc Quebecois has only one objective: to prevent Harper from forming a ...
You need to be, like, turning down high-paying illustration work because you want to work on your comic. That's when you know you're doing something ...
Off to California in that tired old VW with the disintegrating fuel pump like a family of dustbowl Okies?
Many pastors have been reduced to secular "mentors" and "coaches" in exchange for authentic disciplers of men.
You're the one person whose opinion I care about. When I'm with you, the past dissappears, and I'm a better person.
All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being ...
Doubt you'd find anyone as dashingly charming as me
My grandmother taught me how to make the basic pate brise pastry crust when I was young. The one thing I learned simply by eating ...
Wisps of arctic blue and green and purple buzzed and whirled within those sharp spikes, sending out a wild coruscation of coloured light. The aurora ...
Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.
There's a reason we'll all end up with just a handful of true friends in our life. These are the people that have taken the ...
He picked up the candelabra, pocketed the doily underneath, then put the candelabra back in place with the pocket watch hanging from it.
I want to attend a Pampered Chef party about as much as I want to go to a used auto parts party where you can ...
To laugh is to live profoundly ... The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness, that delectable trance of ...
Truth is such a rare thing it is delightful to tell it,
What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.
FDR, even weakened and near the end of his life, opted to allow disabled veterans to see his true condition. This allowed them to understand ...
The coke bugs were out in force, doing military manoeuvres, all jazzed up on their Bolivian marching powder.
I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware.
Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.
The best thing I can tell you about girls is that it is not so much how they see us, it is more how they ...
I had a lot of fun creating some restaurants with a casual note to it, such as DBGB, for example, where it was about bangers ...
Despite what you think you know, most people don't want to fight, especially when evenly matched. ... That's why you see those pissed young men ...
The problem with this generation is they are so quick to define who they are in the process of searching. It is their need for ...
All - all right," she said, looking dubiously at the chair. "I - um, I need to change, though.""I'll just wait in the hall." He ...
I'm gonna play this game the way I want to. It might be serious, it might be a comedy, it might be a dramedy, it ...
I always encourage authors (especially new authors) to be as generous as we are blessed. For one thing, it is a way to help people. ...
As surely as the dark gives meaning to the dawn, so does pain give meaning to pleasure, and sorrow to joy. All that we love, ...
Did life really matter? Could hopes and dreams and plans and life end so quickly, so terribly? She looked at the sky. Was anything there ...
Unfortunately, he still hadn't asked for my number, or a date, or my hand in marriage, and my drink was getting low.
Dreaming is what you do when your eyes are closed ... living is what you do with that dream once you open your eyes!
Even here, in the dark, God is busy making all things new.
Memory is not a simple replay. The bits of information that we recover from the past are often influenced by our knowledge, beliefs and feelings.
I try not to notice the exploded eyeballs or the ruptured tongue bursting through the blackened lips. This job is quite gross enough as it ...
I have dabbled with action, romance, dance, emotion and comedy. I think I've done well in all.It's important to keep doing something different and reinvent ...
There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all! ... These days of universal death must be days of ...
Looking desultorily about, his attention had been drawn by a dull glimmering on one of the tables; and he had extricated the queer orblike stone ...
The only way that America can protect its prosperity and political stability will be to depopulate the Third World? Should we be surprised that the ...
The secret is to believe in your dreams; in your potential that you can be like your star, keep searching, keep believing and don't lose ...
Will you not, as a loyal student of dear old Baylor, lay aside for a few days the usual cares of life, come back to ...
Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.
Sonia Gandhi and her husband have always been persons I look at with a lot of respect. Of course, one of the reasons we look ...
Upon Dibon even more, a lion for those of Moab
Dresses well. Pretends that dress is superficial - but knows that it isn't. 3.
Could a man walk while he was sleeping?
They used to send each other letters. The return address was always the same: Dept. of Speculation.
The simplest way to prepare Dungeness crabs is to boil them in the shell and set them in front of your guests with crab crackers ...
You are not going to see me puffing around the pitch. There is a saying in Bulgaria that great quality doesn't require much effort.
Is there any depression so deep as this? is there any night so dark as this first eclipse of the soul, this first conscious stilling ...
I started a PhD in English at the University of Chicago because I loved poetry-which I now realize is like saying I studied vivisection because ...
Twitter is really a hyper-distilled version of how the internet should work - short bursts of relatively useful information.
He was a detective, but he didn't detect anything. It fell into his lap, already broken,every time.
FREUDIANISM interprets man in terms of sex; Christianity interprets sex in terms of man.
I like the way you secretly send me a direct message when we're in the middle of a conversation.
If we blend efficiently democracy, demographic demand & demand, I believe that there will be a Vasco Da Gama on every street who will come ...
Carnegie believed in the survival of the fittest. He believed in Social Darwinism. He believed that you had to give an opportunity to the fittest, ...
Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't ...
As for his sudden change of heart, he had suddenly remembered the end of Mansfield Park, and how Edmund fell out of love with Mary ...
In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, ...
I do have hobbies - I garden and bike, for example - but there's nothing in the world that gives me even a fraction of ...
This is deeply disturbing. Congress provided loans to help businesses hurt by the Sept. 11 attacks, not to be used as an accounting gimmick to ...
It's about ladies, as usual. I'm telling the ladies I got the right temperature to keep them warm.
A fake is a copy, a duplicate, a facsimile of an original. The professional coach is authentic - the real deal.
Production was what I always wanted to do, even when I was skating. I'm a bit of a sponge. When I was going around competing ...
Then Ordinary understood why he hadn't recognized his Big Dream when it was right in front of him. The lovely city he'd imagined all along ...
Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive.
This is what they don't tell you about losing someone: It doesn't happen once. It happens every day, every moment they're missing from. You lose ...
If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the ...
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 ...