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The most serious failure of leadership is the failure to foresee

Understanding the value of time is understanding the true essence of life

The Attolian waited, far and away the best non-speaker I think I have ever known.

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

Rhetoric is communication that attempts to coordinate social action...Its goal is to influence human choices on specific matters that require immediate attention

So now do not worry, take what you have, and do your work and you will have a long life and a very merry one.

100 years ago, buying something you could make was considered wasteful; now making something you could buy is considered wasteful. I am not convinced this ...

Only someone you know is going to assume you know them by saying 'it's me.' It's strangers who use names, since they know you don't ...

God, what is man's best gift to mankind? To be beautiful of soul and then let people see into your soul.

He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. ...

True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.

We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we're not afraid to say that we happen to be the ...

I'm not as famous as Stephen Hawking, but certainly in the U.S., I have a very high profile for a scientist. It is an awesome ...

Buffett also teaches investors that there is one important caveat to the multiyear test: Underperformance in the late stages of a speculative bull market is ...

I don't think there's a mountain that can't be climbed. I don't believe in giving up. It's just that sometimes when you get to the ...

I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.

My memories of him did not do him justice. He's not merely good looking ... he's the epitome of male beauty, breathtaking.

He shook his head and said, "No, He just went up," pointing his index finger to the ceiling of the room.

In acoustic culture, the world, like sound, is all around you, and comes at you from all directions at once. It is multilayered and nonhierarchical; ...

In a pine tree behind me, an eagle waits out the rain, hunched into himself, brooding. Crows squabble, a murder chasing a raven. Seals cruise ...

Laughter enlightens our hearts and lightens life's burdens.

One of the only TV shows that I really love is 'Twin Peaks.' Kyle McLachlan plays Agent Dale Cooper, and I love Dale Cooper, so ...

Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much ...

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.

I find supermarkets fascinating places. It's extraordinary, you can buy anything there.

Our meals, our actions, were only a shadow of what had already happened there, a lagging ghost of where Mr. Pirzada really belonged. At

The easiest lie ever told is a truth no one believes.- Sixteen Seconds

We are not killing the planet. It is our arrogance that makes us believe we are capable of such destruction. The earth will be here ...

I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.

Despite their inglorious end, the legions remain to this day, thousands of years after their creation, the most pre-eminent example of how detailed organization, tight ...

I am never needlessly obscure I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure.

I'm not that interested in female superheroes.

An alien landing would unify the world, just like in a science fiction movie. But "angels" had the potential to splinter humanity into a thousand ...

I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their ...

When you see in places like Africa and parts of Asia abject poverty, hungry children and malnutrition around you, and you look at yourself as ...

Ha. If given a choice of dodging a bullet or stepping in its way, I'll choose dodging when I can. Anyway, to face death, you ...

The well-meaning woman was in fact possessed by two devils--the one the stiff-necked devil of pride, the other the condescending devil of benevolence. She was ...

How grateful we should be that a wise Creator fashioned an earth and placed us here, with a veil of forgetfulness of our previous existence ...

Let this truth go as deep in you as possible: that life is already here, arrived. You are standing on the goal. Don't ask about ...

You know, I think I had a great career; there's not much I think I'd do different other than get a title shot much earlier. ...

I set out to do a horror film with 'Dog Soldiers,' and what I came out with at the end of the day was something ...

Follow-up, but the ugly bitch beside him

Suddenly, he caught another image.

You can't always do the extraordinary, in between you have to do the ordinary. Because if you didn't, what would constitute the extraordinary?

When I was 17, I was told I had the choice of enlisting in the Navy or going to jail, so I spent the next ...

Don't be afraid of being the person you have become.

In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept ...

Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.

The best gig in the world is a packed bar on a Friday night. Reason: Everybody gets paid and everybody wants to get laid. Any ...

He closed his eyes and saw her again. A stack of freckled heart shapes, a perfectly made Dairy Queen ice cream cone. Like Betty Boop ...

Perhaps I could change my fate, but in the end, I realized, my destiny may have already been written.

Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student.

These Outwallers that killed Hector - the Sossag - they were serving a Power of the Wild called Thorn. Aye?""Naming calls. But yes." The captain ...

When I get into a zone, I obsess and I don't care about anything else. I have to make the work.

I live out of my van, which gives me a first-hand appreciation for power and lighting. A few years ago, I rebuilt the interior of ...

I'm not trying to snowboard for other people anymore. That just kind of comes with age and growing up. That's helped me a lot. Some ...

Now, we're just imitating and imitating and imitating what we've done before. The real revolution on how we make clothes and how we wear clothes ...

If you've been trained to listen to mistakes your whole life, you forget to listen to opportunities.

I think that our lyrics are definitely dark, but I know for a fact that we pull our inspiration from a million different influences. We ...

One interesting conclusion is that money does indeed bring happiness. But only up to a point, and beyond that point it has little significance. For

I remember once doing a gig in Ireland, and there was a woman jumping around and screaming, 'I don't know what this is but I ...

I'm from Texas and actually went to a regular high school, but every day after school I'd run to dance class and practice a lot ...

Being a celebrity can be very intoxicating and very addicting. And I've always been afraid of that, because I've grown up post-almost every child star ...

We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.

I couldn't really relate much to my younger sister, because she was born in 1992, and I was born in 1986. And then my older ...

There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.

I'm not trying to be a finger-wagger at society. I sort of start with myself.

Here and there, plumes of dark smoke reach into the sky like the fingers of a drowning man reaching up for the last time.

Photons are accurately and legitimately described as waves and particles at the same time. They are genuine wavicles.

That mental states can be inferred from actions. That's in history - Henry VIII and all that. Whereas in the private life, I think the ...

At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Baalbec ...

Put your manuscript down, I'd recommend at least two months. Six would be ideal. You really need to get away from it long enough to ...

Be careful what you speak . . . only your thoughts are safe.

Life is happening whether you embrace it or not. You need to let go of the past, the pain, whatever holds you back from having ...

At that moment I would have welcomed spider-rats nibbling on my toes about as much as the idea of chatting with a missionary priest.

And then she was lying naked beneath the rain and the storm, the angry heavens and Simon of Navarre's golden eyes.

Winry: So I guess you'll miss having her around, huh?Al: *Glares* Why are you smiling?

I'm always for lower taxes because lower taxes make people want to do things. Less burden, more fun, and economics is about people wanting to ...

Learn the rules. And play by the rules.

The Taliban is the worst ... great heroin though.

I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.

Virgin," he whispers, and there's a catch in his throat, like he's so relieved to see someone, even me, that he might cry.

The right thing to do would be for you to acknowledge that you feel something for me that's remotely close to what I feel for ...

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.

It was strange, how readily authority could be conjured with nothing but a bit of strutting jackassery.

When the heart is flooded with love there is no room in it for fear, for doubt, for hesitation.

You don't have to take it anymore: Turn your resentful, angry, or emotionally abusive relationship into a compassionate, loving one / Steven Stosny.

There is only one way to be revived and healed from our backslidings so that we may become fruitful even in old age. We must ...

The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those who feel they ...

Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

When we neglect the artist in ourselves, there is a kind of mourning that goes on under the surface of our busy lives.

There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter.

Oh, my God! Gwen suddenly burst out, startling the bears in the room, which made the rest of the predators nervous.

Freedom is not free. It is bought at a high price. It can be squandered cheaply.

States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and ...

What I have learned is that when you are sick, much of healing is in the hands of doctors and science, but part of it ...

Everything about you fascinates me, Sophie. The smell of your skin. The sound of your voice. Your long legs. Your sense of humor. Your personality. ...

Because maybe, the best of times were yet to come. You never knew.

I remember I had a fight with my friend when I touched a boy for the first time and I didn't tell her. She got ...

I am no longer a criminal. I gave up that practice years ago.