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Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.
Enough," Curran said. An unmistakable command saturated his voice. Jim clicked his mouth shut. I crossed my arms. "I'm sorry, is this the part where ...
There are certain things for which civilization has no answer. But if you choose to meddle thus, then you must be prepared to facethe consequences, ...
Deem no man happy until he passes the edo fhis life without suffering grief.
Let fools the studious despise,There's nothing lost by being wise.
You have a very attractive revenge streak in you. I like it. A lot." ~Maggie Mae Castro to FBI Special Agent Clive Poole
It's better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on ...
The Lady: a fluty voice, sensible shoes, a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember.
Sometime, it's easier to love someone with flaws you can forgive in return for them forgiving yours.
The gods see the deeds of the righteous.[Lat., Di pia facta vident.]
It was a small town: Ferguson, Ohio. When you entered there was a big sign and it said, "Welcome to Ferguson. Beware of the Dog." ...
The blood of criminals fertilises the soil of liberty.
If someone comes into your house and does fked-up things to your kids and your wife, you're going to be capable of things you never ...
We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart- Lady Gaga 10/22/10
You have to conquer the mountain if you are going any futher
I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut ...
It takes both sides to build a bridge.
Beauty lies not in a flawless complexion, but in the stories that are told by each transitioning line on a woman's face.
The evidence never seemed to matter to those in power, who had already made up their minds and did what people typically do when their ...
Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.
I don't think my memory of that night is ever coming back.""Do you want me to hit you on the head with a coconut? It ...
My first novel, 'The Lions of Lucerne,' just poured out of me. It was an amazing feeling of accomplishment. My biggest fear and therefore my ...
A president is always cosseted by his staff.
Lionel Richie told me forget about the critics. But if you come back with hit after hit, you don't have to worry about anything.
All I've done is run fast. I don't see why people should make much fuss about that.
Integrity safeguards love, and love makes family life rich and zestful-now and forever.
It's how I fill the time when nothing's happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.
Formalism is music that people don't understand at first hearing.
For no amount of our screaming at the people in charge to change things can change them... the powers bent on waging war against the ...
But life isn't neat the way a story is. And if you try to pretend it is, then you just make yourself unhappy, or screw ...
Years ago when a man began to notice that if he stood up on the subway he was immediately replaced by two people, he figured ...
The seasons split at the seams: spring, summer, fall and winter. I've always pictured them as giant sacks filled with air and color and smell. ...
No. Sorry. You have spent months being the biggest jerk to me. You don't get to decide to like me one day and think I ...
She turned around to look at me with her enchanting gaze that further pierced my heart; a look I would never forget and I would ...
Any man would be forsworn to gain a kingdom.
Fine artists reflect, and then they act. Fashion photographers - we act, and then we reflect.
I have been much amused at ye singular phenomena resulting from bringing of a needle into contact with a piece of amber or resin fricated ...
If you find a man who trusts you, who isn't afraid, who sees you for who you are, and if it feels like he knows ...
Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.
To live and move and have her being in a flow of blue.
How can something feel so crucial in the moment and then seem completely trivial after the fact?
Contestants, whether it be for an army or a posse, we must be strong. We must face our fears, if only to save me and ...
For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me.
Vous travaillez pour l'armee, madame?' (You are working for the army?), a Frenchwoman said to me early in the Vietnam war, on hearing I had ...
It's mind-blowing and delicious and betterthan finding a pot of gold, a unicorn, and a leprechaun who shits diamonds atthe end of a rainbow.
I too was frightened the first time I felt I hated my father. I felt like a criminal. But could I help it what was ...
If you fall in love, make sure your landing is soft.
No cancer, if that's what you're thinking, she'd say if anyone commented on her runway-model thinness, which she ordinarily disguised with billowing dresses or caftans. ...
The best anti-aging advice I've ever received? Drink a lot of water and have a plant-based diet. I also do mindful meditation with my daughter ...
The Pike is the meanest and most vicious of fresh-water fishes. This is caused by heredity and environment, or unfortunate social conditions in the water.
Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are ...
My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All ...
I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from ...
RVM Thoughts for Today For those who love what they do , even working 18 hours a day, 7 days a week , is not ...
On respect for the Queen: When I lick a stamp I always do it with my eyes closed.
[T]he Papist and the Arminian on the one extremity, enthroneth Nature, and extolleth proud merit, and abaseth Christ and free grace. The Familist, libertine, and ...
The house had been torn down. Nothing is left but the old white fence. There used to be privet bushes everywhere. "The smell of privet ...
Forcing yourself to like something you don't like brings sorrow. - Hikigaya Hachiman
I'm a gambler, a farmboy, and I'm here to take command of your bloody army!Mat Cauthon
We serve the world as one beggar telling other beggars where we found bread.
Maria loved the way she and Liz could just sit in the same room together, each doing their own thing, sometimes talking, sometimes not. You ...
An avidity for more is built into the love of movies. Something else is built in: you have to be open to the idea of ...
I'd rather look a fool than be right and fail to act.
Sometimes, you have to make the choice to forgive 10 times a day when you have these pockets of anger come up. That's a lot ...
Why do you enjoy finding fault with others? Is there not a better way to feel good? Such
I can say for the first time that I am not afraid, and while this is a feeling that can undoubtedly change with time, I ...
It's so easy, To think about Love, To Talk about Love, To wish for Love, But it's not always easy, To recognize Love, Even when ...
Happiness is a habit,it's more than fleeting,more than a disintegrating lozenge.
Humans have yet to dwell upon the consequences of their actions. People have yet to admit the bad that they do to nature, for example. ...
Sometimes you might miss that person, sometimes you'll feel like running back to them ... sometimes you'll suffer from unbearable pain but sometimes you have ...
What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion. ...
You won't ever get ahead if you keep feeling sorry for yourself. You must stop all the negative talk and start thinking positive. You have ...
Location is everything, I'd rather camp in the Lake District or Scotland than sit in a five-star hotel in Frankfurt.
I would have much rather been in the jalopy with the kids, going to Hunt's for hamburgers. But, when I entered high school, all my ...
TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the millions of ways ...
If growing up means not seeing one's family and friends on the regular - all in the name of paying the bills, then growing up ...
[T]he most viciously intolerant campus I ever visited as a lecturer was Brown, where the humanities program has been gutted by a jejune brand of ...
No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in ...
But I have seen il Fenomeno do things that nobody else has ever done.
I don't think fine dining is dying, but I think those rare occasions when you really want the fanciness are diminishing ... I think a ...
It's funny how all the fussing and fighting turns into us f-king and flying.
Luckily, what you trade off in not being part of the comic book canon and not having some literature that you can use to your ...
I like the values in Flicka, and I wanted to do a movie my kids could see and be proud of.
Give a man a noble cause and he would fight to the death for what he believed in,but get the woman he loves to leave ...
The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.
You know, I don't think your brother dislikes you as much as you think. After all, he gave up a kingdom to stay with his ...
When there's no more room under the Christmas tree, Ken Foree will have a birthday.
And when all of the flourless chocolate cakes & chocolate mousse or ganache cakes have come and gone, there will still be nothing like a ...
If we ever talk to aliens, their civilisation will be far more advanced than ours (because of distances involved). They won't be religious!
In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
I think participating in GISHWHES is a crash course in facing our fears: people go to crowded shopping malls wearing scuba gear, order from a ...
I sincerely hope your Christmas ... may abound in the gaieties which the season generally brings ...
You know, there are just some things you never expect to face even on this job. A flying primate that shoots fire out its nose ...
My main regret about my years in football was keeping my mouth shut like a little mouse, not daring to speak out because I was ...
The south is very focused on family ... the musical heritage of Muscle Shoals especially and the bands from the region.
In France today, people no longer eat as much heavy food and fat as they did 15 or 20 years ago. These days, French cooking, ...
Once you start altering your body's blueprint, things start falling apart. Some players take steroids, and two years later, after they've broken records, suddenly they ...
The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.
It was a tough. Sixteen games into my career, we had a coaching change. It was something I never experienced before, and something I had ...