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When life happens, you can be either the author of your life or the victim of it. Those are your only two choices - accountable ...

For me, one of the really cool things about this is that throughout these movies, there have been - and I enjoyed it this way ...

Knowledge is the raw material of production and value in this age. It used to be that the main difference between people in our society ...

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

Behold, I am writing anew, through scribes on Earth who are willing to listen to me again with new ears, in the light of the ...

I will not know that day has come because I will not stop trying.

By 'consumer society', I mean one in which commodities are increasingly used to express the core values of that society but also become the principal ...

Real life doesn't always need to be posted online.

Work hard and dream big!

I think, a secret love is something none of your friends would understand. And it's like a fairy tale, but more serious.

I think the best friendships are those that can stand the test of time, where the friendship is based more on who you are than ...

Change is a sheep in wolf's clothing

Your greatest strength is love. Your greatest weakness is fear.

Don't let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.

Most of us will perish before knowing who we are and why we came here.

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

We labor hard for certain but the work is rote and our tomorrows are mostly settled and the way we love one another is cast ...

I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.

I'll go get the horse and buggy," you'll say. And I'll say, "But I thought we were taking the hovercraft?

I think it's ridiculous when people say, 'I don't date actors.' It's about the right person, and no matter what that right person does for ...

When a man has a birthday, he takes a day off. When a woman has a birthday, she takes at least three years off.

What you cannot control, you must accept.

Hee that looseth his due, gets not thankes.

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

How is it possible to feel exiled from a language that isn't mine? That I don't know? Maybe because I'm a writer who doesn't belong ...

One of the very difficult parts of the decision I made on the financial crisis was to use hardworking people's money to help prevent there ...

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Armstrong lives as he rides - surrounded by a cocoon of aides and helpers, his gimlet eyes focused on victory ... The self-described atheist has ...

When a caterpillar bursts from its cocoon and discovers it has wings, it does not sit idly, hoping to one day turn back. It flies.

We assure you there is no separateness between you and God/Goddess/The All That Is other than your perception.

To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.

Easy now," says Pigpen in a smooth tone.

Filling life exceedingly is called ominous.

I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was ...

All of creation expands and evolves.

Theology must have the character of a living procession.

If businesses don't know from state to state what the requirements are for taxes, they have to waste a lot of money on accountants and ...

If we allow the negative to take over, it will quickly consume us to the point we will lose control.

Clearly no one knew the socially correct way to deal with a brawl in a ballroom that had been started by a lady.

You should try these things, for these things are fun, and fun is good.

Swimmin in the money come and find me, NEMO.

[I]t's the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul.

Live for the moment. For tomorrow you could be dead.

One of the essential characteristics of the state of exception-the provisional abolition of the distinction among legislative, executive, and judicial powers-here shows its tendency to ...

I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just ...

All films are learning processes. I am still trying to work out how you make a movie. I didn't study at film school or any ...

In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.

You are alive, so take your life and enjoy it. You were born with the right to be happy, to love, and to share your ...

The Internet promised a truly global egalitarian age. That was the idea, anyway. The international and unstructured nature of the thing was vital to these ...

I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.

His hand shone dully in its light. No good for throttling eunuchs, but heavy enough to smash that slimy smile into a fine red ruin.

Don't let the things you don't have prevent you from using what you do have.

I'm standing here, holding a half a lemon in my hand. I'm speechless, I'm excited ... I'm a wreck. Caleb wants to be where I ...

The gospel of Jesus Christ is worth living for, yes, and it is worth dying for, of course, but we show it is supremely valuable ...

For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one ...

None of the rest of my life figures here.

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all things is emptiness.

Too young for a lot of things, but that didn't stop them from happening.

You can't save dollar by dollar to become wealthy.

I'd get demolitions experts to rig mother to implode like a skyscraper.

How do we not have money? This is a country of organizations. Everywhere you look people are organizing themselves into groups, one joining many and ...

We are each responsible for our own emotional well being.

Anyone who has become entranced by the sound of water drops in the darkness of a ruin can attest to the extraordinary capacity of the ...

The lesson learned: never take your loved ones for granted. And if you're ever lucky enough to find that one person in life who makes ...

For those who are walking in their purpose, even the great tribulation will be a minor event. There will be far more attention on what ...

Don't wait for a genie to grant your wishes. That power is yours.

Sometimes writing is like talking to a stranger who's exactly like yourself in every possible way, only to realize that this stranger is as boring ...

The advocates of literal interpretation have been the most efficacious enemies of those doctrines whose nature they profess to venerate.

Probably nothing, but it was one of those thoughts like toothpaste: Once it's out, you can't squeeze it back in.

I think with the smaller-scale projects, the burden for success falls more squarely on the shoulders of the actors and the director and the script.

I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions.

I'm going to suck you and fuck you until you come. Your only job? Don't make a mess in my car. Keep it right here, ...

If we had a starting XI that no one could argue about it wouldn't say a lot for English football. We'd probably be on a ...

Even to smile at the misfortunes of others is to do an injury.

We may not know where we are or where we are going, but we have to go.

If you want reality take the bus.

Sin, for instance, is an effort to gain something against the will of God; but the will of God is all that holds us in ...

Don't get me wrong, she was an attractive girl, but the last thing she needed was to get mixed up with me.

Henri grabbed my face, looking deeply into my eyes. "Love you," he vowed. "Love you." Then he turned and clutched Eikko's arm. "And love you. ...

You welcome your children into the world knowing that if all goes the way you plan, you won't get to see the end of their ...

For a scientist, this is a good way to live and die, maybe the ideal way for any of us - excitedly finding we were ...

The life of a winner is the result of an unswerving commitment to a never-ending process of self-completion .

Falling in love can be likened to someone, falling from a high building. The possible result will be unconsciousness if not death. Take it that, ...

Your worth depends on my blood that bought you, never on what you do.

I lie there for a while in the dusk, then make a decision, little knowing how it will affect every facet of my life and ...

The new specialty at the Iowa fair this year is fried butter on a stick. Of course, if you're like me and you want like ...

A man's thoughts and the ability to express them come from God, and if my words find favor, may it be to his honor.

Credibility is a basic survival tool.

I almost laugh. My great act of heroism, the only important thing I have ever done, and they think I was working for the Erudite ...

You're gay," wash stated.Rhodes nodded, a short jerk of his head, dropping his gaze to his beer."As in, you-like-men gay."Still eying his beer, Rhodes gave ...

The first time I ever saw Arnold Palmer, I said, There's a star. The first time I saw Jack Nicklaus, I said, Superstar. I feel ...

It was one of those plays in which all of the actors unfortunately enunciated very clearly.

I just have a serious problem with business for business' sake: this bottom-dollar mentality. I have a serious problem with evil.

In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.

... I'm a half-empty kind of girl.

If what you want to do is make good art, decide what's good and try to imitate it.

The book is the book and it will always be there. It's a quiet ending. In the book it's a contemplative ending which I think ...

The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish to land here, ...

Love has never been understood, though it may have been fully experienced, and that experience communicated.

On many issues, empathy can pull us in the wrong direction. The outrage that comes from adopting the perspective of a victim can drive an ...