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He had known in times of the greatest misery or danger that his dreams of home, in which all things seemed beautiful, were in essence ...
In one moment, God feels the pain of the victims of unspeakable violence, and God feels the agonizing pain of seeing a beloved child executed ...
I want to look good, obviously. I don't want to look at the screen and go, Oh, my skin looks terrible, or, I look exhausted. ...
Socially inferior animals are the ones that make the most strenuous, resourceful efforts to get to know their keepers. They prove to be the ones ...
Maybe that's why young people make success. They don't know enough. Because when you know enough it's obvious that every idea that you have is ...
They make a desert and call it peace'.
Selfish - a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.
The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the ...
Diplomacy should always be our first option. Most politicians only talk, not fight. I've fought; talking is far better than fighting.
The best gift, and investment, you can give your child is your time
That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody.
God! She was tempted to take a picture of her middle finger and send it back. Her fingers flew across the screen. Heading to first ...
I pledge allegiance to the frog of the United States of America and to the wee public for witches hands one Asian, under God, in ...
Those who bless and serve life find a place of belonging and strength, a refuge.
We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.
You're the most incredible girl I've ever known. You're gorgeous and smart, and you make me laugh like no-one else can. And I can talk ...
Katie leaned forward conspiratorially. Oh, sweetie, I just said that because Alice is an old bag. You go after Devon. The man is fine. I ...
Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them.
That's where they'd gone right after the train station, where Malcolm (Malcolm!) had poured his bloody heart out and begged Owen not to leave. Bed. ...
But the truth is that I dislike most men as much as I dislike women. If anything, I am an equal opportunity misanthropist.
The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same time.
Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that mysteries emphasize motive ...
You're an investigator - can't nobody find stuff out like a woman. Y'all put the police to shame, make the little investigative tricks they show ...
The Greeks said the artist doesn't actually have to travel and look around. You stay where God has put you, and you dig as deep ...
I've been pilloried so many times that I begin to expect it now.
Somethin' like four thousand bottles have been thrown at me in my day but only about twenty ever hit me. That does not speak very ...
Repetition makes reputation.
A person who has not completely lost the memory of paradise, even though it is a faint one, will suffer endlessly. He will feel the ...
I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite ...
My own face had now assumed a deep tropical burn.
Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of.
I'll never starve.
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye ... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
Charles Darwin wrote a famous book in 18 gibberish. And that book was an interesting book, cuz it was called "Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-You"
The book is so rich and yet it is well done. A rare achievement indeed!
Night never judges, but morning never forgives ...
Terri's death brings to a close a very tragic, human and personal event that has left everyone with a feeling of emptiness, regardless of what ...
I've met Tony Danza. He was really nice. And he looks ... I feel like he hasn't aged. He looks exactly the same. He's just ...
The greatest of men must turn beggars when they have to do with Christ.
Often you hear stories about never working with children. I disagree because children still have that residual magical thinking. They haven't had their imagination knocked ...
Perhaps it has been too uncomfortable for those with vested interests to acknowledge, but we have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically ...
I know who I am. I don't have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did. You think you can do ...
As a radio DJ, I was on WRIN-WLQI. And even when I repeat it, it's horrifying. My morning sign-on, because it was in Rensselaer, Indiana, ...
I'm gonna love my son until the end.
I'm a bloody fun-seeker. Whatever the role is, I'll find a way to deliver the line that is confounding.
Indeed this gentleman's stoicism was of that not uncommon kind, which enables a man to bear with exemplary fortitude the afflictions of his friends, but ...
One day, I will look up and all the people I know will be dead or abroad.
Can there really be a form of verse where all that counts is the number of syllables in a line? No patterning of stress at ...
We can't just drop everything, sir!""Mister Lipwig. Is there something in the word 'tyrant' you do not understand?
The chief imagination of Christendom,Dante Alighieri, so utterly found himselfThat he has made that hollow face of hisMore plain to the mind's eye than any ...
I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
The comic impulse is sometimes a reaction to sadness. You feel like you can make one choice or the other.
We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child ...
A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted.
It is a glorious thing to know that your Father God makes no mistakes in directing or permitting that which crosses the path of your ...
A young girl she might be, but Daenerys Targaryen was the only thing that held them all together.
One thing I learned is how much easier it is to write about clothes than it is to make them.
When gods die, self-respect buds', murmured Orland Fank. 'Gods and their examples are not needed by those who respect themselves and, consequently, respect others. Gods ...
All you can do is the best you can do.
In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.
The most good you can do for yourself spiritually is to live your life with total love, conviction, and purpose.
Your biggest failure is the thing you dreamed of contributing but didn't find the guts to do.
Fidelity is a gift not a requirement.
The mindset (perspective) is the consequence of "rules.
The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!
I had a little bit of resistance to the idea of taking energy away from my work, and the baby comes along and, lo and ...
Israel is the number one rogue state threat to Middle Eastern peace with its nuclear arms and acts of outright aggression towards its peaceful neighbours ...
Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. ...
Everyone grows and changes. It's not even to say that you become a better person than you were, but you're morphing. This whole thing is ...
You're always looking for good scripts and when they're not always forthcoming you go mad.
What can I have that I still want?
In any case, it is not love, but friendship, that truly eludes you.
Love is the unfamiliar NameBehind the hands that woveThe intolerable shirt of flameWhich human power cannot remove.
Repentance leads to refreshing times.
Whenever possible I avoid talking. Reprieve from talking is my idea of a holiday. At risk of seeming unsociable, which I am, I admit I ...
This is an age of superstition and wishful thinking. The sky is full of evening's empires, and every one of them is founded on sand.
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in ...
I had to sever my emotional cord to escape the anger and shame that silently slithered through my head, disconnecting myself from the stares and ...
Everyone is told to go to high school and get good grades and go to college and get good grades and then get a job ...
It is my fondest wish that the gift of song that God has given me will flow from my soul to yours and help ease ...
A book can take you to another land, even if just for a few hours. Cat Spydell
There's gonna be a lot of great songs, but there ain't going to be another 'Trap Queen.'
I've been solo since 1996, so I've been doing it for a while now.
Dreams can exist but not come trueAnd if you don't believe me just ask yourselfHow can the universe know what you want,If it never hears ...
I'm sure there will be business ventures and things down the road, but I definitely don't want to be a team owner.
Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good - and amazingly underutilized - resource for understanding what people read, why, and how ...
I don't want my grandchildren to go through what I went through.
My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.
In a country like America there are places, many states here still where coming out means you lose your job, where coming out means division, ...
A friend of mine defines prayer as a declaration of dependence.
You are the one who gives me reason to wake in the mornings, who infuriates me, who enrages me, who enthralls me. You are my ...
With the company of just myself, my thoughts presented themselves like unwelcome houseguests.
She was a pious Buddhist and every day in her prayers asked Buddha not ro reincarnate her as a woman. "Let me become a cat ...
So I guess I'm ready to ... start dating. I want to get married again. Have a family." Ethan leans forward, causing Fat Mikey to ...
I'll say whatever I want. I'm not a book. You can't burn me!
I don't need any more press. I get enough when I work, but environmental causes is one place where you can get me to open ...
There is always room at the top.
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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