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The Revelation speaks powerfully today, and its message to us is the same as it was to the early Church: that "there is not a ...

If the thing you want beyond anything cannot be, it is much better to recognize it and go forward, instead of dwelling on one's regrets ...

If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and ...

The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging.

Benefit. A humble heart is a great help towards profitably hearing the gospel. The engrafted soul saving word is not received except with meekness.

The very essence of politeness is to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as ...

You have a wonderful child. Then, when he's thirteen, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives you not a ...

Reader look, not on his picture but his book.

I didn't realize," she said in a voice so polite it drew blood, "that fawning over you was part of the job requirement.

I was always a winner, but just didn't know it.

As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of how the United ...

This is where my heart is. I was human when my heart was stolen by him,and I was human when I longed to be by ...

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

(Another writer once asked me why I wrote about "nebbishes." I told him I wanted to write about "the common man.") Sometimes I even

You don't hear Metallica complaining about Pearl Jam.

I do what I want.

Unity does not criticize those who do not run as fast as I do, or those who do not meet my standards. Unity respects every ...

Let not adversity oppress thee: be rather like unto the nail; the farther 'tis hammered, the firmer it holds.

Conduct! Is conduct everything? One may conduct oneself excellently, and yet break one's heart.

I am too big and too small and too much and not enough and too frightened to change and too sad to stay the same.

Though Darcy could never receive him at Pemberley, yet, for Elizabeth's sake, he assisted him further in his profession.

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable. I ...

The pink-haired boy is scared, so incredibly scared - only the thing you've most wished for can scare you in that way.

Satan hates God for His own sake, and everything that is dear to God he hates for the very reason that God loves it.

Just once I'd like something to go as planned, ya know?

A new era will dawn in Africa, when the impoverished masses of a nation rise up to rescue their right to a decent life from ...

I don't know about you, but there is nothing that's scarier than young people who have no future. If you take away someone's future, they ...

The easiest decision you could make is judge, it takes courage to search for the truth.

If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other ...

He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be ...

I have the libido of a 15-year-old boy

You don't write. You get out of the way.

Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.

We all die at the end, but does that nullify everything? Would most people rather say, "I wish I hadn't been born?" Once you're born ...

Hard work is much more important than talent

There is mental conditioning in your mind put in there during this life by your parents, teachers, the society. You've been told what is and ...

Nothing and no one had ever belonged to him and only him - except Legion. Not that she would do anything necessary to save him, ...

When we meet an Imago match, that chemical reaction occurs, and love ignites. All other bets, all other ideas about what we want in a ...

[It was] better to set up a monarchy themselves than to suffer a sedition to continue that must certainly end in one.

(D)espair never lives long in young hearts

Led Zep played with light and shade, ear-splitting noise and echoing quiet. They could do it all.

It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.

Everybody wants to be pretty because that's what they've been told will make them feel good even though there's no proof that people who are ...

You've forgotten your little car,' she called, as I swept through the door that Nathan held open for me.'Why, does that need a bloody badge ...

And, dying, he declined to die.

Home runs come in bunches. You can go two weeks without one or hit four in a week. Sometimes, you just feel that stroke for ...

Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.

As fire's presence in our everyday lives has diminished, the social magnetism of the cook fire seems, if anything, to have only grown more powerful.

When the baby sees Ismay, she bawls. "She must miss her mother," Ismay says. "Maybe I remind her of her mother?" A.J. nods, though he ...

It isn't so much life's problems that challenge us but the emotional turbulence stirred up while trying to deal with them. People possessing the gift ...

It is that fundamental belief, it is that fundamental belief, I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper that makes this country work. ...

The desert preserves. What other lands destroy, the desert keeps. It accepts dead things, holds them close, and draws away the rot that would destroy; ...

The work of the artist is to heal the soul.

When trees mature, it is fair and moral that they are cut for man's use, as they would soon decay and return to the earth. ...

Let the rain of unhappy and tragic experiences fall, as sometimes it inevitably must, even in the lives of the enlightened masters. If your mind ...

There are some women who need a different kind of romance. They need the angst, Alpha male, who takes what he wants and makes no ...

Ari felt like, Hellooo, I have wings! I turn into a wolf! Blending is out is out of the question!

My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did ...

Talent is not enough, hard work makes the difference

Being seduced by a man on crutches was an interesting experience.

Others can make the rules, but it's my decision whether to follow them." Captain Hank Bracker

[E]very heresy is due to an overemphasis upon some truth, without allowing other truths to qualify and balance it.

The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.

I'm always chasing rainbows, Waiting to find a little bluebird in vain.

Who should I send for now?"Using the last of his strength, Sebastian managed to drag her hand up to his mouth. "You," he whispered, holding ...

Dear, dead women, with such hair, toowhat's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?

I am the daughter of a tall, strong tree. My timber forms a ship, but it is anchorless, flagless. I set sail for the shade ...

Everyone who deals with teens seems to agree that the most important and toughest job is staying in connection and conversation ... not delivering a ...

For the Kremlin, it is more feasible to preserve its great-power status in cooperation with the United States than in confrontation.

I am very lucky to have people who care about me and care about my music. I think it would be irresponsible to not show ...

I have one show biz picture in my house. It's with Mr. Hope. I have asked for one autograph in my life: Mr. Hope's.

I'm into indie music. I think indie is going to bring back the spirit in music. There was a time when it was all about ...

Ellysetta Baristani." Belliard's voice caused her to stop and turn back around. "Even should you clothe yourself in rags and dirt, you would bring honor ...

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

I just wanted you to know you were missed.

I'm sorry," muttered Locke. "I was so keen to come to Tal fucking Verrar." "It's not your fault. We were both eager to hop in ...

Some days, being J.D. Salinger seems like a good idea.

Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily ...

If you are having problems with money, the answer isn't cutting back. The answer is to make more money.

I'm a big reader, so I tend to already know the books when they're adapted into something.

Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.

I turn the tables and challenge our people, our scouts, and they respond. We had a meeting with our scouts this week and told them ...

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - ...

I want a priest, a rabbi and a Protestant minister. I want to hedge my bets.

We're hiding in a tree with people chasing us. Do you really think this is an appropriate time to make suggestive comments?

I'll do anything to keep everyone laughing. Things get too intense on film sets. I remember on The Elephant Man, I used to imitate a ...

My father, Dines Pontoppidan, belonged to an old family of clergymen and was himself a minister.

A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!

Neither's the one you get, less you want me to see if your apple's ripe, yet. - Yoren

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

Whatever I get involved in, I'm totally involved, you see.

Magic and art arise from an egomaniac's insistence that the artist is right, and the universe wrong.

The bliss that comes from ignorance should seldom be encouraged for it is likely to do one out of a more satisfying bliss.

No one ever saw all of him. It took me nearly four decades to allow my father his shadows, his reserve, to sit silently with ...

I want my students involved in learning to love and question art, not to live in fear of tests.

Christmas is a box of tree ornaments that have become part of the family.

For a moment, I almost felt sorry for her. Then the bitch blasted me with her water magic, and I got over it.

Poverty was nature surviving in society; that the limitedness of food and the unlimitedness of men had come to an issue just when the promise ...

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.