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Her sentences were icebergs, with just the tip of her thought coming out of her mouth, and the rest kept up in her head, which ...
In his play "Long Day's Journey into Night, " Eugene O'Neill has one of his characters utter a powerful statement toward the end of her ...
I may not be able to say these words to you but that doesn't mean I can't say it to the rest of the world. ...
Clouds of a different sort signal an environmental holocaust without precedent. Once again, world leaders waffle, hoping the danger will dissipate. Yet today the evidence ...
The human birthright includes the possibility of an easy death at extreme old age if we are healthy. Alternatively, we may experience a lot of ...
By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained.
That's right, fall in one pit and start over from the beginning! Well, thankfully my buddies practically tied me to my chair until I put ...
Einmal ist keinmal. What happens but once might as well not have happened at all.
When at 15, my girlfriends started dropping out of their beloved sports teams, because they didn't want to appear muscle-y, when at 18, my male ...
Demanding historical (or scientific) veracity as a prerequisite for truth is another kind of tunnel vision. To do so is to mistake poetry for prose.
Reporters no longer ask for verification, thus they print charges no matter how outlandish they may seem, and once having done that, when the truth ...
So, we experience life in terms of changes, we feel diminishing sensitivity to both gains and losses, and losses sting more than equivalently-sized gains feel ...
America has become so tense and nervous it has been years since I have seen anyone sleep in church - and that is a sad ...
Our age has need of violence, he writes. And he is violence.
Contained within the breadth of my heart where you belong unto me and I unto you.
The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
You can't fight hearts and minds with money.
Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.
You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate it, and move somewhere else.
At fist he didn't say anything more, and we had a little staring contest there in the darkness. but I liked staring at him, and ...
The issue of snacking is complicated. In principle, "grazing" is probably a good idea. It would even out the insulin spikes and things like that ...
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
You have to put work into relationships to keep them fun.
Finally, the complexities of black relationships are being portrayed in television and film.
I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when ...
He liked to talk about the criminals he had put away, and how a person never knew, and how he had to protect his family, ...
The army from Asia introduced a foreign luxury to Rome; it was then the meals began to require more dishes and more expenditure ... the ...
I want my kids to know that they're just as good and just as American as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, or Dr. Martin Luther King. ...
Germany stays and falls with the success of the policy of Hitler.
What better way to exorcise rejection demons than to screw the person who rejected you?
Politics sure is the ruination of many a good man.
Never underestimate a situation. Chance is random and is able to undo every preparation.
The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws in ...
You've got to have something in your life you don't sell to others.
My favorite color is you.
When we start at the center of ourselves, we discover something worthwhile extending toward the periphery of the circle. We find again some of the ...
To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, ...
If the past is older than the present, then the future must be younger. And we must all go backward with each passing year.
You are in no position to make threats to me.""I don't have to be. Even if you shoot me, you can be sure you'll never ...
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
Love is the essence of life and ultimate attractive energy behind all creation.
It is possible for the assembly-line worker consigned to tightening the bolts on the transmission and the office worker who processes medical insurance claims to ...
Even if you are facing a bitter aspect of life ... Drugs and murder are foul, without any excuse. Deserve a red card, for a ...
The eternal God asks a favor of his bride: "Hold me close to your heart, close as locket or bracelet fits." No matter whether we ...
If you don't furnish your brain with what everyone knows, then it will furnish itself with what no one else knows!
If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?
You see, I'm a juggler with words myself.
The world is in a mad dash of personal peace and affluence. Sadly, too often the evangelical church is not much different. Of course, we ...
27. Of all the means which are procured by wisdom to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is the ...
May God always keep us this wayIn peace, love and affection.
Organised brigandage has ceased to exist, but murder and highway robbery are still far too common in the less frequented districts. Travellers rarely suffer to-day, ...
I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
He knoweth nothing as he ought to know it, who thinketh he knoweth anything without seeing its place and the manner how it relateth to ...
That other woman may have entered his thoughts every now and then, but only as a regret. I was the one who had his full ...
If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think ...
And the weird weird thing about this story of Angela's Ring was that it didn't even have a point to it, no happy ending, no ...
Extend your loving and kind hands towards others. In return you will find that the whole universe will be kind to you.
Here's one thing I can't understand: people who are friends with their exes.
I can be inappropriate at times.
With five chances on each hand and one unwavering aim, no boy, however poor, need despair. There is bread and success for every youth under ...
I have a lot of passion. I have a lot of pride. I think I do get that from my family. But you can be ...
In your 40s, you shed those who bring you down and surround yourself with the most positive people you know.
A Romantic ideology that predates rock glorifies the self-destructive artist as someone who's too honest and delicate for this world ... It's not an easy ...
Contemporary novels can have a fleeting existence within the current multiplication of medias and the technological rapidity with which art is delivered and consumed. A ...
The English, he thought, had once conquered most of the known world, but their cooking hadn't improved as a result.
After all, man may be fond not only ofwell-being. Perhaps he is just as fond of suffering? Perhaps suffering is just as much in his ...
For in today's generation of teenagers finding acceptance is hard, especially for those who dare to be different-then it's impossible.
Miriam - I'll give you any flowers you want!' Rhapsodising over the thousand scents of her body, I exclaimed: 'I'll grow orchids from your hands, ...
Churchill's 2,054 page book "Second World War" makes no mention of genocide or the murder of Jews. Coincidentally, Churchill was a strong proponent of eugenic ...
Chris Guest is the godfather of improvisational comedy.
For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.
With 'The Mummy' it was a fantasy action adventure. You get taken away for a few hours and come out and feel revamped and ready ...
No one can stop me.
The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as ...
Live on the divine Eucharist, like the Hebrews did on the Manna. Your soul can be entirely dedicated to the divine Eucharist and very holy ...
Be the authority on your product/company. You should know more about your product than anyone else alive if you're writing a blog about it.
Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little ...
I hope America sees I am a goofy guy andI'm kind a crazy, I hope they see that I am a musician aswell, that I ...
President Bush says he is looking forward to the testimony of Condoleezza Rice. Yes, he is very excited about Condoleezza Rice's testimony before Congress. Well, ...
Do the best you can, and then to hell with it!
When you have multiple personalities, you never drink alone.
I want to get to the point where one day I don't have to have anything but a rug and a microphone stand on stage ...
You've fought off a gang of men twice your size, killed an angel warrior, stood up to an archangel, and wielded an angel sword." Raffe ...
You can have all the external experiences but you have to be the love first.
Poetry is a finikin thing of airThat lives uncertainly and not for longYet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.
The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as ...
May your glass always be full, may there always be a roof over your head, and may you dirty sinners be in heaven a half ...
Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television.
There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence ...
Clarity clattered into my thoughts and brought about a satori, an enlightenment, if you will.
So rainbow-sided, touch'd with miseries,She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf,Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self.
The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
She thinks of him lying there, the beautiful moment never arriving, never ruined, never disappointing, over. It must be sublime dwelling in that house of ...
Death is always equal but never fair
Liberty is the act of making the Government Fear what you KNOW!
At some point, I realized the horrible truth - the United States and its allies could win every single battle in Afghanistan and blow up ...
I really have a secret satisfaction in being considered rather mad.
Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of ...
Sterile, splendid torture of understanding and loving ...