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After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.
If you abandon the political arena, somebody is going to be there. Corporations aren't going to go home and join the PTA. They are going ...
Anytime a broken heart is suffered, and there is a crushing pain inside the chest, this is a physical manifestation of the emotional experience as ...
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
The years would not wait for Zealers and saviors, not for chance nor hope. The erratic line would scribble on until Nyra washed away from ...
More than anything, having adventures with my siblings and spending time with my family and my husband make me happy.
Long scenes of emotion are quite difficult - you've got to build up to them and make sure you're in the right emotional space.
The clear and safe path leads evermore into stagnation
Welcome to the Carnival of Life, where dreams are a reality and reality is dreams gone mad.
All you need is coffee, some cigarettes, and a Twitter account and your writing career begins! How far you go is determined by the followers ...
Presidential campaigns are exhausting. Once they're over, we all heave a sigh of relief that we have our lives back, the constant emails and news ...
It is impossible to avoid the suspicion that historical Jesus research is a very safe place to do theology and call it history, to do ...
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
To succeed in hockey, you need teamwork.
There is a natural hootchy-kootchy motion to a goldfish.
The majority of Americans receive health insurance coverage through their employers, but with rising health care costs, many small businesses can no longer afford to ...
You know ... confessing to avoid prosecution is a time-honored strategy.I don't want to be honored with time. Honor me with "slap-on-the-wrist," or maybe even ...
When you're casting a movie and when you're shooting a film, the eyes are the most important feature of any performer, really. Any great actor ...
Consciousness-Based Education is just plugging us all into the beautiful, eternal field within, and then watching things get better, which is what happens. It's a ...
Hekate smacked the mirror down. "I'd never fancy you," she retorted to Hermes. "And if you ever try to kiss me, I'llI'll keep a snake ...
If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as ...
I realized how trapped I was by all the talk of the end of the world.
There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of '68. Being a ...
What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming ...
I see now what they mean by "holding your head high," and I am sometimes surprised by how much interior transformation a ramrod posture can ...
Californians tend to be outspoken. When the great migration began, the more timid people must have stayed home, and the bolder ones headed west.
During the civil war, the Sudanese government armed the Misseriya nomads as proxy. Even though both groups had coexisted quite well prior to the conflict, ...
Off the field, a real man doesn't bully the smaller or weaker person. A man rises above all such nonsense, you know? It's what being ...
Hope's interesting, isn't it? I can't turn hope off, it's hopeless.
I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it resonates with the ...
I get a lot from great '90s artists like Juliana Hatfield, The Pixies, and bands like That Dog and The Breeders.
Preparations for the slaughter of mankind have always been made in the name of God or some supposed higher being which men have devised and ...
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
It's like they suddenly don't understand what it is they have created. I touch the haemanthus blossom in my pocket and feel the wedding band ...
The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was his name. He ...
It was bad enough not having a boyfriend for New Year's Eve. Now I had to cope with Valentine datelessness, feeling consummate social pressure from ...
For the first few years after I lost weight, I would feel for my hip bones every morning when I woke up so I would ...
With dreams, with drugs, with waking nightmares, alcohol and cock and endless balls
I bet all I had on a thing called love; guess in the end it wasn't enough. And it's hard to watch you leave right ...
I liked, as I like still, to make words look self-conscious and foolish, to bind them by mock marriage of a pun, to turn them ...
Then I figured it would be a good plan to hire a few sailors to work for me, get them out to my yacht, get ...
Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer, and this ...
Flattery," Wendy told him, "is when your daddy says he likes my new yellow slacks even if he doesn't or when he says I don't ...
The energy of the Kennedy years was completely compelling ... I had a sense of a generous society eager to change the world. Idealism was ...
She switched the headlamp on and saw bats clinging to the side of the cave inches from her face. Someone whimpered. She supposed it was ...
The recognition of virtue is not less valuable from the lips of the man who hates it, since truth forces him to acknowledge it; and ...
Let me repeat that in case you missed it:ALL GUYS TALK TO THEIR FRIENDS ABOUT SEX.If a guy tells you he doesn't? Dump him, because ...
No Jewish blood runs among my blood,but I am as bitterly and hardly hatedby every anti-semiteas if I were a Jew. By thisI am a ...
None in this age will amass wealth except those having five traits ofcharacter. High hopes; abnormal greediness; excessive miserliness, lack of fearing Allaah; and forgetfulness ...
I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love, and when I love, I love ...
Tighten my headband for an extra rush.
You may not always change your situation but you can always change your perception. For better or worse, it will change the situation.
I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' ...
The Ego is a veil between humans and God'.""In prayer all are equal.
You are a hookimaw. Happiness is not yours to have.
I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why ...
I don't recall seeing your friend, either. What did you say he was? A zombie? A mummy?""A skeleton.""A skeleton, yeah. Haven't seen one of those ...
O Lord, you are all that I have needed!
It must be that there is something in the hearts of human beings, some natural fluid perhaps, that insists on happiness, even confronted with the ...
We've all loved someone way too freakin' much.
Honor is a balancing act and only the heart can strike that balance.
If you're happy in a dream, does that count?
Meat is produced under HACCP plans. Meat and poultry are required to be produced under standard food safety plans and they have been since the ...
We're trapped on this very thin slice of perception ... But even at that slice of reality that we call home, we're not seeing most ...
The finest glasses for both technical and hedonistic purposes are those made by Riedel. The effect of these glasses on fine wine is profound. I ...
'Why do you think it is ... ', I asked Dr. Cook ... 'that brain surgery, above all else-even rocket science-gets singled out as the ...
They rode out together from the shadows of the trees, leaving the Bala Hissar and the glowing torch of the burning Residency behind them, and ...
The Royal University will get along fine without me." "And the Malcontents won't?" "If I'm away too long, they tend cause trouble. Set fires. That ...
I DIDN'T KNOW what she was thinking or feeling. Her body had become unfamiliar to me. And yet, at the very same time, I recognized ...
ROSE: I think I've spent too much time around Dave.ROSE: I've also probably spent too much time sharing his genes.
Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.
A lover makes you smile like children smile. That smile that was only meant for you. The half smile. The big shiny smile full of ...
Lift that scimitar against me, you Hyrkanian pig and I'll gut you where you stand!
I've talked a lot with Greg Raymer and Joe Hachem. Being on Team PokerStars with them has helped me out quite a bit. I've traveled ...
Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union ...
But the moment I saw you, I knew there was something more. There was something behind those big, beautiful brown eyes that I had to ...
I have a problem with that silver medal. It's like, 'Congratulation s, you almost won. Of all the losers, you're the number one loser. No ...
Television happens very quickly. It was like a shot of adrenaline into me, as a filmmaker, and my career. You can hit town, do the ...
Are you happy?' she asked.'Honour... I've been happy since the moment I met you.
That's right. Watch closely, so there's no fucking way you can miss how indisputably beautiful you are, because I don't intend to argue about this ...
Always remember, no matter how big you get in life, God is still bigger; when you feel to be at your lowest point, Satan is ...
They were building a Ferrari for every launch, when it was possible that a Honda Accord might do the trick.
Consider that the overwhelming majority of those 40,000 near-Earth asteroids are small enough to fit on the parking lot at the mall. And while these ...
I have three phobias ... : I hate going to bed, get up and hate hate being alone.
If you've been banging your head against a brick wall, wipe the blood off, take a couple of pain killers and try it from another ...
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Hakkai: Your footwork is lacking.Gojyo: It's hard to control such long, sexy gams.
At the best of times, democracy is a seesaw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion. You see, to make a democratic omelette you have to ...
Though the weather was cool, the beach at Herringsdorf was dotted with quite a few diehard nudists. Primarily men, they lay walrus-like on towels or ...
Making stuff: The folks at Instructables have put up some killer HOWTOs for building the technology in this book. It's easy and incredibly fun. There's ...
Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord. Was Father Tom thinking about vengeance now? The possibility amused him. Perhaps the next time he went to confession ...
I just meant maybe you could set here and drink one of em with me.He squinted at her. You ever notice how women have trouble ...
Look, we ought to do this for our kids ... We ought to have a high school so that every kid who grows up here ...
Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and ...
There are different paths that one can pursue as a painter. I work with the thesis that I have not as yet reached my goal. ...
YOU ARE BOTH DEAD TO ME!" I shout."Then this is me, speaking from beyond the grave when I remind you to trim your bush while ...
But seriously, what were his parents thinking? Naming their son Richard Updike? Did they want him to get beaten up his entire adolescence?
The consequence of the demand for fast answers to complicated health matters is the endless demand for tests, diagnostics, and pharmaceuticals.
If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.