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I never dreamed of being a flagbearer. Every athlete has a wish to get to the Olympic Games. I had that wish, but to carry ...
You want to grow. To compete effectively - - even if you weren't going to grow, just to maintain your position - - you look ...
When I've mentioned things that I thought only happened to me, or thoughts that I felt had only had crossed my mind, the audience response ...
Quand notre coeur a fait une fois sa vendange, Vivre est un mal. Once our heart has been harvested once, Life becomes miserable.
Because they have shamefully trampled underfoot the grace of God, they have forfeited all rights to compassion.
And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an incubator for the ...
Rather than complaining about inconsequential little irritations, I'm asking God to get right to the root of the problem, to eradicate the dry rot and ...
People spend thousands in therapy digging and digging in the past. When you dig and dig, you find relics. Try to forgive yourself and get ...
Seek one woman whom thou canst trust, and to her who lovest thee best, tell thy secrets. She will deliver thee from the hands of ...
The perfection of her success, decidedly, was like some strange shore to which she had been noiselessly ferried and where, with a start, she found ...
Alan Kay's famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual's brilliance. It's not ...
Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.
At forty-five degrees, the sky will burn. Fire to approach the great new city; in an instant, a great scattered flame will leap up, when ...
Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness.
Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.
Ever since my mother sent me to Saturday morning grammar classes when I was 7, I wanted to become a famous actor. I loved the ...
Now, any other man in Cedar Dell would catch hell for wearing a pink shirt. Not Nicholas Sutherland. He'd still ooze masculinity if he wore ...
A necklace of pearls on a white neck.We had lost the sense of discovery which had infused the anarchy of our first year. I began ...
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and ...
Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, ...
This is Quilty's audition ritual: whenever he feels it is time for it, he calls upon himself to audition for love. He has no script, ...
Through the Adult the little person can begin to tell the difference between life as it was taught and demonstrated to him (Parent), life as ...
Worse still, he doesn't know how to follow the piper anymore because it's a path Tom has lost faith in.And the piper knows it. Tom ...
The time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled ...
What the eyes are for the outer world, fasts are for the inner.
The man who fears war and squats opposingMy words for stour, hath no blood of crimsonBut is fit only to rot in womanish peace
A leader in sports, business, or any other field of endeavor should possess and provide the same qualities inherent in a good parent: character, consistency, ...
Death is an old friend; I know him well. I lived with him, ate with him, slept with him; to meet him again does not ...
I've always been a big fantasy nerd.
Geloof wat je wilt en je zult zien(Believe what you want and you shall see)
Women have tongues of craft, and hearts of guile,They will, they will not; fools that on them trust;For in their speech is death, hell in ...
Should those whose actions lead to the death or injury of a child get a free pass?
We have a lot to gain through furthering stem cell research, but medical breakthroughs should be fundamentally about saving, not destroying, human life. Therefore, I ...
There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.
Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks ...
I wanted to be a forensic scientist when I was younger. For a long time, I was studying because I wanted to do that sort ...
Fusion food as a concept is kind of trying to quite consciously fuse things that are sometimes quite contradictory, sometimes quite far apart, to see ...
Step and land, step and land. That's all travel was. Throw in some running and a change of scenery. No big deal, right? And so, ...
Let those who have deserved their punishment, bear it patiently.[Lat., Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferant.]
I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when ...
He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man ...
I don't think I really realized what being an adult and being a real grownup was until I was at least twenty-eight.
Chase him down and stall for time. I need two more minutes. " "Chase him down? How? The Neon has a flat." "With your own ...
Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off.
I was reaching for one of the handles when I heard Heidler's voice from behind me. 'It would not be wise to enter. It is ...
I am committed to creating a vision of the world that reflects how I believe it is: diverse. It is not an effort to diversify ...
Life could take on any number of shapes while you were busy fighting your own demons. But if you were changing at the same rate ...
This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that ...
The festivity had reached that apogee of joy when you face the happy fate of being crushed to death.
Faking a smile is easier than explaining whay you are sad
Pakistan's foreign policy should be discussed on the floor of the Parliament, not behind closed doors.
I'm all for the Fairness Doctrine, whatever that is.
Kenzie took two staggering steps backward, staring at the feeline as if in a daze. "O-kay," she breathed, shaking her head slightly. "A cat. A ...
The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air was filled with the low ...
Likewise, most of the world goes to bed at night under the assumption that if they were to die in their sleep, they would find ...
People ask me if my shoes were too small when I was a kid and I say it wouldn't matter how fight my shoes were, ...
Everyone starts out with a clean slate to soil.' (Daisy, 'Friendship on Fire', p. 280)
It is better to adopt the simplest explanation, even if it is not simple, even if it does not explain very much. A bright light ...
The art of investing is not about figuring out what has already happened. It's about anticipating the futureand creating the future that others will read ...
You have to love animals for what they are or leave them alone. The best thing you can do if you love them is leave ...
Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
Everyone seemed to think that violence was an acceptable risk and a foregone conclusion for prostitutes, call girls and streetwalkers alike. There was almost an ...
The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was ...
God is able to create particles of matter of several sizes and figures and perhaps of different densities and forces, and thereby to vary the ...
He called her: mother of pearl, barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weef She called him: fawn, roebuck, stag, courage, ...
It would feel good to work at the Benjamin S. Ross Foundation for Not Eating Fruity Pebbles. But I know there isn't actually anything to ...
If someone tied me down and made me answer the question, singer, actress, clothing designer, I most likely - it could change on any given ...
Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
My father's grandparents came from Norway and settled in the Scandinavian bastion of Minnesota. As a little girl in Tempe, Arizona, I daydreamed about picking ...
But our forest is sacred & magical with many unusual creatures & plants.We don't want people to destroy everything!
I was always very grateful to 'em and am grateful to 'em now. I went back a couple of years ago and did their 20th ...
This is the myth of finding "the One": the one partner you're "meant" to be with, your soul mate, your Prince Charming, the girl of ...
The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.
One of the blessings human beings take for granted is the ability to remember pain without re-feeling it. The pain of the physical wounds is ...
I believe in the support of the public school as one of the cornerstones of American liberty. I believe in the right of every parent ...
Father Mapple uplifted his closed eyes, and offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed to be kneeling at the bottom of the sea.
Know the difference between famous and great.
I've said a lot of stuff in the past, but not with any intentions to hurt anybody. It's all a bit tongue-in-cheek.
Of course there is nothing that cannot be done incorrectly.
Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and considerably more muscular. Just as female authors ...
O, you the goldfish ofthe swamp of my blood.Let your drunkenness be pretty.You are drinking me.
Best friends are the chicks who make your problems theirs so you guys can form a gangsta posse and beat those problems to hell.
He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.
Flavius's foot catches on a metal grate over a circular opening in the floor, and my stomach contracts when I think of why a room ...
His fierce appreciation of female beauty, the unrelenting desire he felt for their company, the pleasure he both derived and sought to give, had led ...
It's an unwritten rule that best friends take care of each other, and best friends' husbands understand.
You know, when someone hurts my feelings, somehow it does not comfort me to know that it was deliberate ... On the other hand, knowing ...
When an answer I did not expect comes to a prayer which I believed I truly meant, I shrink back from it; if the burden ...
Here's the funny thing about the response I've been aware of to my dating famous people: It's been very negative. I'm either not good-looking enough, ...
No means yes in grasshopper language.
Is love a fancy or a feeling.... or a Ferrars?
Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, ...
The problem with stage magic is that it looks really good, but everyone knows there's a trick box.
We must worship God before we can reverence parents or women, or root out flunkeyism and money-worship.
If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be ...
I always like to keep busy, otherwise my brain starts ticking.
There is to the poetical sense a ravishing prophecy and winsome intimation in flowers that now and then, from the influence of mood of circumstance, ...
Anger rose in me. Didn't they know how hard I'd been working to overcome my family background? Now all my efforts were wasted.
But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times, have had lessons ...