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I think that the question of how power can be exerted from the lower reaches has never been more important. It will ultimately determine whether ...

Grandmothers died. It was to be expected. You weren't even allowed to be that upset about it. Please don't let Frannie have died. Please don't ...

The earth laughs in flowers.

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.

Weeds grow sometimes very much like flowers, and you can't tell the difference between true and false merely by the shape.

The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions of past days,mere ...

We have found that the values of the constants of nature have not been fine-tuned for life by accident, but that these values are constrained ...

In the end, I didn't get a dime of the money I was shortchanged.

If I were born in other generation, I would be a singer rapper, dancing is also ... I was famous as a good dancer. My ...

Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames.

Hitler was never more than average as an artist. His great talent was for the games of politics.

Cooking is an important part of a good, stable family life. I like to get the family together; there's a huge nurturing element in it.

My dear man, there's nothing I'd like better than to be by myself occasionally ... I suppose you expect me to sit here and dream ...

I wish I could say courteous flatteries to you," the farmer continued in an easier tone, "and put my rugged feeling into a graceful shape: ...

The smell by now was indescribable, a compound of burnt aging automobile stinks and the natural odors of death and blood - sweet as garbage, ...

And so I urge you: carry on an ongoing conversation with God about the daily stuff of life, a little like Tevye in Fiddler on ...

Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered."Yes, Piglet?""Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.

I was in shock. Funny how the world works. You don't get the something you really covet, but then the universe provides unexpected compensation. Here ...

The world is growing old;Who would not be at rest and freeWhere love is never cold?

I know they say (Stalin) killed 20, 30, 40 million people. It's bullsh*t. (I have yet to find) one crime that Stalin committed.

What is most amusing and can happen only in India is that the most posh and big households that I've seen in Mumbai, the 'big ...

Put simply, 'Interstellar' has a strong undercurrent of cheesiness.

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.

I was against felonies when a misdemeanor would do.

...this would be my greatest fear: imagination giving up before the body does. I guess I'm not alone in this. Humans are a strange breed ...

Events that look unfortunate or challenging at the human level are actually taking us to higher levels in the evolution of our soul.

A dream isn't worth living if you don't have friends to live it with.

Crashing through the world like a falling stone. It is his color and his light. It is the vessel into which he pours

Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all ...

We have our hands, we have our brains, we have the challenge all around us, and we have within (from whatever source) the will to ...

Celebrating your achievements and applauding your triumphs is a sure way to refuel your enthusiasm and keep yourself motivated for your future endeavours.

The life my people want is a life of freedom. I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses or railways or clothing or ...

Most of us happily disavow fairies, astrology and the Flying Spaghetti Monster, without first immersing ourselves in books of Pastafarian theology etc.

I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain ...

And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go ...

But [Patrick's] character is partly based on a boy named Mark who lived across the street from me when I was growing up ... I ...

Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.

The first time I went to see a Second City show, I was in awe of everything. I just wanted to touch the same stage ...

In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before the ...

My best stories come from well-placed sources who point me in the right direction.

In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.

A man's greatest joy is crushing his enemies.

Because God created male and female, we women are innately feminine. Granted, a woman can accentuate her femininity or she can detract from it, but ...

The main premise of appreciative inquiry is that positive questions, focusing on strengths and assets, tend to yield more effective results than negative questions focusing ...

Spandex bodysuits, huh?" His eyes twinkled. "If that's what turns you on - I'm all for giving it a try.

Be patient, if thou wouldst thy ends accomplish; for like patience is there no appliance effective of success, producing certainly abundant fruit of actions, never ...

You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team.

Ethan was loyal and funny and protective. When we were little, he was the brother most likely to make me cry - and mostly likely ...

I can become so interested in what I have that I forget the needs of my soul.

Their eyes find mine and they freeze. Emotions flicker across their faces quicker than I can identify, until finally they settle on one I recognize. ...

Back then, Black churches were a small piece of peace. Church was a world where, even with its imperfections, the offer of equality and common ...

When we place our faith in Christ, God becomes our Father, we become his children, other believers become our brothers and sisters, and the church ...

And then they kiss.Slowly, gently.Because with the right person, sometimes kissing feels like healing.

True power wasn't convincing a cowardly lot to be afraid of something that people were already afraid of; it was giving them a complex that ...

I have not suffered a lot for Christ, but I want to tell you that those times that I have suffered and I knew it ...

How long has it been since you looked into the eyes of your mother and, holding nothing back, spoke those welcome words, 'Mother, I truly ...

I didn't know anything until December 2004 when I went to purchase a vehicle and was told there was a foreclosure on my credit and ...

Then let no man attempt to number Israel today, but let everyone have a heart of flesh, a heart of tender sympathy, a heart that, ...

I was really young when I started on 'One Tree Hill,' and the encouragement from my friends and family has been crucial in my development ...

In the time it takes for her to walk from the bathhouse at the seawall of Fortune's Rocks, where she has left her boots and ...

If you're driving your car and someone winds the window down and gives you the finger and calls you an asshole, instead of giving him ...

That of all the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede, Suche as men callen daysyes in her toune.

I think that comedy is a good defense for a child. Because you know childhood is a nightmare as it is. And so why not ...

His persistent nostalgia depressed him, aged him, and yet he couldn't stop feeling that the most glorious years, the years when everything seemed drawn in ...

Directive design gives an either/or choice, similar to a traffic sign. Interpretive design allows for personal choice, in the same way symbolism allows for individual ...

I was introduced to the world of modern food production in the mid-1990s, while researching an article about California's strawberry industry for the 'Atlantic Monthly.'

Small earthquake in Chile. Not many dead.

Buck is a mammoth, like a yeti. A huge perverted, hairy whore of a yeti. According to the sportscasters, Buck's an excellent hockey player. I'd ...

At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts.

Five minutes later she had rearranged them into several words, none of which made any sense."Nosy tennis?" she said. "No, wait. Sticky cabin? Shitty chicken?"Driggs ...

I'm writing a political comedy that takes place in Canada in Quebec. It's funny. Saying political comedy is a little redundant but it's a first. ...

I need to retire from retirement.

I do not believe that the Duke will find those terms acceptable. Might I convince you to reconsider - " "Dear God, go faul yourself, ...

A lot of people say I'm not very friendly, that I'm cold. But I'm just the opposite. I live a very simple life. I'm a ...

One trait stands out in nearly all meteorites: metal; they've got it. So, the best way to find a meteorite is to hear it first.

Wo Hunger herrscht, ist auf die Dauer kein Friede."("Where there is hunger, there cannot be lasting peace.)Speech before the United Nations General Assembly, September 26, ...

I don't want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

The teachers liked me. In grade school, they make you copy pictures from books. I think the first one was Robert Louis Stevenson.

It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.

My father was a very humble and down to earth man, and was known for being very honest and trustworthy.

Did I collect baseball cards? I've got 10 books full of plastic in my mother's house. All the Upper Decks, the Fleers, the Fleer Ultras. ...

O grant me a house by the beach of a bay,Where the waves can be surly in winter, and play With the sea-weed in summer, ...

The movie industry is failing women. And until the industry starts making serious changes, nothing is going to change.

Why is it always the self-righteous pricks who turn out to be complete perverts? You know it gives the rest of us a bad name. ...

In the U.S.A., technical innovations come out of universities and the research produced by Ph.D. students. We don't have that happening in India.

It didn't get better, not in my book. I mean if you weren't looking too hard at what just happened or who might be down ...

That's Xenophilius Lovegood, he's the father of a friend of ours,' said Ron. His pugnacious tone indicated that they were not about to laugh at ...

So...you really feel a difference from drinking it?" Lad asked. I nodded. He nearly jumped out of the chair and charged past me to the ...

The method of authority will always govern the mass of mankind; and those who wield the various forms of organized force in the state will ...

Anybody who has anybody in the armed forces, I don't care how well-trained they are, there's nothing safe about it.

Daniel Clemente offers family shows that are specially designed for people of all age groups. Family magic shows can be performed anywhere-camp ground or indoor.

Don't forget that in the midst of all your pain and heartache, you are surrounded by beauty, the wonder of creation, art, your music and ...

Heaven Has No Favorites

Could you be nostalgic for a friendship that wasn't over yet or did the fact that you were nostalgic mean that it already was?

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If you're running because you want a job that's prestigious or because you have this vague knowledge that you're better than everybody else, you're easier ...

My father and I rarely saw eye to eye when I was growing up. We saw the world differently. It was only when we were ...

I'm a firm believer that if the other side scores first, you have to score twice to win.