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It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or ...

If you believe you have a foolproof system, you've failed to take into consideration the creativity of fools.

A data bank holding all the information that is in this universe can be found in God

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man has said it ...

We all fall on hard times," he said quietly, removing his fist from my chin. "It's just lucky for you that you fell in the ...

All close friendships are marked with competition. Our earliest tests are against our siblings and playmates, and some of that rivalry endures amongst friends into ...

In the middle of this journey, we lose a bit of ourselves. We do not know where we are or where we're headed. We look ...

When I get older losing my hair many years from now,Will you still be sending me a Valentine, birthday greetings, bottle of wine?If I'd been ...

So much has broken today. So many things, I don't know how to begin fixing them all.

Some people have food, but no appetite; others have an appetite, but no food. I have both. The Lord be praised.

Imagine yourself sitting on top of a great thoroughbred horse. You sit up there and you just feel that power. That's what it was like ...

We are as tired of each other's company as we are of the cold monotony of the black night and of the unpalatable sameness of ...

So: this is where we are going to become parents. You walk into the building as a couple, and leave a few minutes later as ...

If it's easy to be friendly she will be. If the wind blows the other way her friendship will be gone. And I'm thinking the ...

Go on, have a pasty, said Harry, who had never had anything to share before or, indeed, anyone to share it with. It was a ...

Follow your heart a little more and listen to your head a little less.

The reason God made February short a few days was because he knew that by the time people came to the end of it they ...

I am purely evil;Hear the thrumof my evil engine;Evilly I come.The stars are thick as flowersIn the meadows of July;A fine night for murderWinging through ...

If you feel so lonely you could cry, take the focus off yourself. Think of how much God loves you, and find another person whom ...

I think, don't you, that a girl with any delicacy of feeling couldn't bring herself to marry a man indirectly responsible for her father's death. ...

Sitting beside Abe was Adrian Ivashkovmy more-or-less boyfriend. Adrian was a royal Moroiand another spirit user like Lissa. He'd been crazy about me (and often ...

In Antiochus and his daughter you have heard of monstrous lust the due and just reward; In Pericles, his queen, and daughter, seen, Although assailed ...

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before ...

It has been my experience that women tell more intimate details to their friends than men do. Men may brag more, but women will talk ...

...go forward with the inclination to live with a faith that embodies action, help a neighbor, fight for a cause, love your family.

Your future is ahead of you. Imagine the notion of the past fifteen years of your life being a blip in your story.

Everyone's favorite breakfast dish can be prepared in a moment's time with just a few ingredients and minimum effort.

My message behind this album was finding the beauty in imperfection.

I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, ...

I think we've got a lot players in the squad who are more suited to European football at the moment.

All men are dogs, Nichelle, and if you don't feed your dog, you can't be surprised when he's in the neighbor's trash looking for food.

Forget your troubles and dance! Forget your sorrows and dance! Forget your sickness and dance! Forget your weakness and dance!

Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by ...

I was not so sure but too tired and too relieved to go further that night. To reach one another again had been far enough.

The story is told of a famous German chemist that his marriage did not take place, because he forgot the hour of his wedding and ...

...he didn't know if he was Chuang Tzu who dreamed he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Chuang Tzu.

At this moment I am feeling disappointed with myself and I am hurt and numb

It was in her nature to love and to nurture; she would not leave those feelings within herself to fester and sour, but instead she ...

In football you can make it if you've got the 'I'm-going-to-get-up-off-the-ground-and-kick-your-ass' attitude.

The battle is always the same, just with different chapters.

Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.

If you are standing in one place waiting for something to change, you may be there for a while. You've got to move. Step up ...

Failure is a stepping stone to success.

Atheist n. A person to be pitied in that he is unable to believe things for which there is no evidence, and who has thus ...

I always say if I weren't a fashion designer, my other dream job is being a rock star!

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; ...

After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that ...

When Jesus describes Judgment, the famous separation of the sheep from the goats, he does not mention religious affiliation or sexual orientation or family values. ...

Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right.

Was it so wrong to relish the feeling anyway? To enjoy the way it lingered, leaving her with a wistful awareness, a pleasant unease, as ...

He thinks I'm a good cook, and will eat anything I set before him. He is regular in his habits and not once through our ...

The savagery of the picture strange and alluring, Frank smeared with blood and absolutely at ease. Barbarian, primitive, visceral; if Tony had been given to ...

It is one of God's blessings that we cannot foreknow the hour of our death; for a time fixed, even beyond the possibility of living, ...

In America, Walt Disney opened an amusement park.And in Florence, someone was savaging the remnants of a Tuscan nobleman's family.

The moon is high up in the sky and it's spring. I think of you and within myself I'm complete.A light breeze comes to me ...

Nothing lasts forever. But there is new life; new colours, fresh words, new tunes to compose. There is now; time present, time future. We build ...

When I do a festival, I want everyone to have a party, I think it is kind of similar to a club where everyone is ...

We have struggled with terrorism for a long time. In the Reagan administration, I was a hawk on the subject. I said terrorism is a ...

I've gotten books published. I've met famous people that are very nice. I look back and I say, 'Wow. Thank you, God, for giving me ...

When Devon Donovan's family buys Isabelle Cooper's florist shop as an investment, she isn't sure if it's the worst thing that could happen ... or ...

Sometimes we and the members of Coldplay have an orgy together, (Martin) insists we don't invite any women, but I always invite a few. Usually ...

May the Lord grant you tender kind heart.

Dirty Freds ... I love this filthy old place. I love the dust and the dirt, the crappy old books and the objects of art.

If you want to become a fossil, you actually need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the ...

When you give a feast, do not invite your friends or your rich neighbors, in case they might invite you in return, and you would ...

As long as someone remains standing with a noble heart there will always be a way for good to triumph over evil.

I do feel good doing them [family-friendly movies], but it's not going to be my way of life. I'm a comedian.

My mother plants her hands on her hips, peevish. "Is that the best welcome you can come up with? Why don't you come over here ...

Travis Hunter's blood froze in his veins at the piercing female scream that echoed through the forest. He was moving just as the sharp scent ...

That's what they do, psychopaths. They figure out your language, your currency, your needs, your dreams and fears. Then they figure out how to use ...

We would make mistakes, we would argue, we would make up. We would lose the people we love and find new ones, and hold our ...

A father teaches his children that the battle is not determined by the enemy that stands around them, but by the God Who stands within ...

Some feeling had started in my stomach and was traveling up to my face, and I knew that when it got there I would turn ...

Soul Mountain, the story of one man's quest for inner peace and freedom.

The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions -- knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions, and ideas -- become, after voluntary communication to ...

What! Did Sir W[alter] R[aleigh] believe that a male and female ounce (and, if so, why not two tigers and lions, etc?) would have produced, ...

The combination of lentils with rice or bulgur is the absolute height of Levantine comfort food. I could eat it every day.

When you travel alone, no one knows who you are, there's no predetermined idea about how you should act, you are free, and you can ...

Google is famous for making the tiniest changes to pixel locations based on the data it accrues through its tests. Google will always choose a ...

There is nothing to me but you. I know it's pathetic but, oh darling, it's true.

Let's talk about happy things.What should I be for Halloween? I can't decide between a sexy vampire or a sexy fairy.I've got a whole tub ...

Probably my favorite job that I've ever had and probably will have - although I'm reserving judgment on Manhattan Love Story, Tuesday nights at 8:30 ...

What I've been telling everyone that loves Carolina football is that we are going to put a team out there that, number one, is in ...

No matter how much restitution she paid with every word and deed, her blood-stained hands could never really be clean, even if no one else ...

Lady beware. Fan not the harmless glow Of admiration into ardent love, Lean not with red curled smiling lips above The flickering spark of sinless ...

Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings.

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the ...

If you're fighting against a minimum wage increase, you're fighting an uphill battle, because most Americans, even most Republicans, are okay with raising the minimum ...

No one else seemed to feel this kind of passionate attachment to other humans. Not to a newchild, not to a spouse, or a coworker, ...

You would have made a fine warrior, you know that?"I am one. Death is my enemy."Yeah, it is, isn't it." God, it made such sense ...

People are fed up with Labour for taking them for granted for far too long, they are fed up of too much spin, and the ...

A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or ...

There is something, like a feeling, that reminds me of happy days filled with exploration and imagination. Days where the rest of the world fell ...

The twin guardian angels whose eyes and hands and wings had focused protective attention on the souls that lay there no longer faced each other. ...

I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.

In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such ...

Vision is a romantic thing. We have got into 'talent identification'. I am much more interested in passion - finding people who are really excited ...

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 ...

You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a ...