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The lie of the ideal has till now been the curse on reality; on its account humanity itself has become fake and false right down ...
I learned two very strong lessons from them: the grass isn't always greener elsewhere, and true love is worth fighting for.
No one knows anything about the fashion industry in Brazil. They don't care what you do. They just want the beach and the sun and ...
The enthusiast has been compared to a man walking in a fog; everything immediately around him, or in contact with him, appears sufficiently clear and ...
I eat beef jerky and ride with bare feet on the dashboard. We
They were almost never alone, and now that they almost-practically were, he felt kind of frantic for her attention.
I only worked theater jobs, but they were all really silly when I first graduated. I was a line monitor at 'Spamalot,' which means I ...
Artificial sweeteners may trigger cravings for other sweet foods. When your body is not fed nutrients, it asks again and again for more food, triggering ...
I spent many years trying to make up reasons about why I had the flashbacks, memories, continuous nightmares. When I finally decided to quit trying ...
Hasn't anyone ever told you," Jesse asked, in a semi-amused voice, " that a gentleman never lays a hand on a lady?" Which I thought ...
I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was ...
A guardian is broad-minded and understanding. A guard, on the other hand, is a vigilante, narrow-minded and most of the time despotic.
Our children that die young are like those spring bulbs which have their flowers prepared beforehand, and leave nothing to do but to break ground, ...
There are many young talents in Brazil. There is a lot of hope in Felipe Massa. It is very difficult to judge him in his ...
Love is an attachment which develops through human interaction.
Debatable how long the seduction took. The smarter the girl, the swifter these things go. Physical forwardness as intellectual high-wire act: the pleasure not of ...
It is well enough, when one is talking to a friend, to lodge in an odd word by way of counsel now and then; but ...
I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.
This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.
On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being shot: as Keram ...
As long as I can remember, I've been worried. Occasionally, this seemed like a strength. My obsession with avoiding risk helped me to dodge perils ...
Behold the Power of the peanut. His body mass may be small, but his influence is mighty. The last holdout in the Tower has officially ...
We get weak and we fall down. It's when we stand up again that we become stronger. You will learn from this and be better ...
Yoga is about balance, both mind and body, as well as increasing self-awareness, with by-products of better strength and flexibility.
For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.
For loose teeth the tooth fairy recommends tying your tooth to a brick and throwing said brick down the stairs.
My mind held fast to that hot morning and the moment of coolness in the cabin. I could so easily re-enact every moment. Again-why had ...
Finaly, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may ...
They say that family is the place of safety. But sometimes this is the greatest lie; family is not sanctuary, it is not safety and ...
Life should be a continual celebration, a festival of lights the whole year round. Only then can you grow up, can you blossom.
While I lay there in his arms, me his wife and he my husband, I realized I didn't know what the future held. But I ...
I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able ...
Don't stay in this now. You'll fall behind.
I'm fickle, tied to a life that doesn't exist any more - true love, perfect life, good friends. Everything is so damned difficult for me! ...
Miss Ross has room in her heart for the entire animal kingdom, she focusses principally on cats because she thinks they are victims of prejudice ...
I think many of us live in a rut. Stuck in a groove we can't get out of, whether it's our job, family drama or ...
When it comes to fighting for your rights don't fold hands but turn them into fists.
The nomadic lifestyle does work for a lot of working parents, but I've traveled and I've seen it, and I want to be able to ...
Everyone will find what he's looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.
Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all predictions. ...
I had so many older brothers who beat up on me, so I'm a tough kid. I love mixed martial arts, weapons training, guns, knives, ...
I've got my feet on the ground because I've got a lovely family waiting for me when I get home, even though they're not my ...
Take control of your future by taking a choice of starting it right now.
Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the ...
I was sorting through my mother's things. All the letters from friends had to go. I don't know why she kept them, and now they ...
The fascinated loathing which he (Jean Lorrain) cultivated for the decadence of fin de siecle Paris has a good deal of envy and ardent desire ...
My dad, like any coach, has always stressed the fundamentals. He taught me responsibility, accountability, and the importance of hard work.
Begin again as often as you need to in order to stay on track spiritually ...
Freedom! you askin me about freedom. I'll be honest with you. I know a whole more about what freedom isn't than about what it is, ...
Her blue eyes glowed headlight red into my leafy greens. Those eyes were freaky.
I paint landscapes, figuratives. I painted all my life. In fact, I started as a commercial artist.
Without love, things disperse around; love holds things tightly! It prevents them to move away and disappear on the horizons!
Persistence is important in every endeavor. Whether it's finishing your homework, completing school, working late to finish a project, or "finishing the drill" in sports, ...
A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For ...
My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn't do it.
Through fetishizing the inequality embedded in the romance story, women have somehow become convinced that being in, or even vying for, a relationship is something ...
Fobbit is fast, razor sharp, and seven kinds of hilarious. Thank you, Mr. Abrams, for the much needed salveit feels good to finally laugh about ...
When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. ...
Every writer dreams of writing a book that will touch people.
When I talk football with my friends, I don't talk about Tom Brady's hair. I talk about how he handles the blitz, or how he ...
A writer needs to write and a reader wants to read so this creates a symbiotic relationship, at least most of the time.
Of a sudden he felt that fraternity life was the only way to exist at college. How could he have doubted? (126)
Don't know why folks need diamonds and pearls, fur coats, first-class tickets, island adventures when simple shit like this is the best thing you could ...
It was a brave old world.
After my divorce, painting took me out of panic mode and into a serene, calm place. I could absolutely lose myself.
Force when aggressively applied is "violence" and is, therefore, morally unjustifiable, but when it is used in the furtherance of a legitimate cause, it has ...
I was playing the villain 'Falseface' on Batman, and I got wind that they were going to pay a young starlet $25,000 to be in ...
We may regard certain days as free days. Free days are however fee days. We will pay later
Though builders may build, in the main they follow the plans of architects. Teachers teach, but they must have a text. Politicians govern, but only ...
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Do not have expectations. We humans are created imperfect, which means that we have flaws
I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life ... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of ...
Note from the authors: Yes, we have lost our minds. Be forewarned: You will lose yours too.
I fall in love too easily, I fall in love too fast I fall in love too terribly hard, for love to ever last My ...
It is meant to be survival of the fittest, not survival of the most floral.
I'd guess that you have some purpose to fulfill and that is why you were saved. But don't get a swelled head over it. A ...
I'm not sure what kind of love you mean, baby, but if you mean do I want you to be with me forever, that I ...
Don't mind her," Kip said to Nicki. "She's just crabby from the long ride." "Yeah, I've been riding with...I mean on...a horse's ass all day," ...
Show me a country where the bombs had to fallShow me the ruins of buildings so tallAnd I'll show you a young landWith many reasons ...
I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the ...
The yoga pose is not the goal. Becoming flexible is not the goal. Standing on your hands is not the goal. The goal is serenity. ...
Happiness: there are a series of rules, and if you fail to follow them, your conscious mind will refuse to accept the idea that you're ...
Track coach Bill Bowerman decided that his team needed better, lighter running shoes. So he went out to his workshop and poured rubber into the ...
News is news and spin is spin, and when you introduce the second to the first, what you have isn't news anymore. Hey, presto, you've ...
We change our tools and then our tools change us.
The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers.
And when we think we lead, we are most led. - Lord Byron, The Two Foscari (1821)
Lovers think they are looking for each other, but there is only one search: wandering This world is wandering that, both inside one transparent sky. ...
The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.
You should know, I tried for many years not to be in love with you, but I failed. And I really did try very hard. ...
Bigger brands like Shinola are capitalizing on what all of us small companies did. Shinola is just totally fake. It's a corporate entity that's taking ...
I got so much advice; I just started tuning it out. If one more person told me what I had to do when the baby ...
I have never regretted our foolhardiness. Of course, we made mistakes, endless mistakes, but at least they were our own, just as the garden was ...
It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives; they are bound only to attempt the lesser ...
As the child once fantasized that its wishes governed the world, and the youth fantasized that heroism could manage to do it all, so the ...
Oh God, Mae," said Jamie in a hollow voice, descending the stairs. "I will never drink again. I'm only seeing in black and white. My ...
The '90s were extremely diverse, almost like a laboratory of the new century. There was much experimenting around, in politics, economics, gender and family structures, ...
In primary school, every day and especially on Fridays, I was supposed to say, 'I am Turkish, and I am righteous and hardworking,' But all ...
Life already has so many boundaries and pressures - why add more in the garden?
Discomfort is a pain. Boredom is a pain. A perfect piece of music can reduce us to tears. Every one of these pains is essential ...