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But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the ...
Sugar got her beauty from her mama, was Theo's first impression, but this woman did not strike him as having a heart of gold. She ...
I require something so horrifically alcoholic that it makes livers tremble with fear and run for their lives when its name is uttered.
When I was 22, I finally reached that huge goal. Now I'm going for another one. It's so satisfying. It's something that I worked for ...
I can cite a few cases of where people have tampered around with magic and witchcraft that they've been very severely frightened and traumatised by ...
Humans are not disabled. A person can never be broken. Our built environment, our technologies, are broken and disabled. We the people need not accept ...
The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct
Horas non numero nisi serenas,' 'I count - no - hours but - unclouded ones,
Pope John XXIII's motto might be heard here: "In essentials unity, in nonessentials liberty, and in all things, charity." That is second-half-of-life, hardwon wisdom.
Our special task, as French Canadians, is to insert into America the spirit of Christian France.
I'd volunteer to go to prison, as long as there are books. Because with books I am free.
Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is ...
Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.
Lost a great innocence when I understood that I and my mind were not going to be on good terms for the rest of my ...
To no one, he knew, not even to Willem. But he'd had years to learn how to keep his thoughts to himself; unlike his friends, ...
It's amazing how books change. The chapter you're working on today would not have been the same if you wrote it yesterday or tomorrow.
The interests of the deaf child and his parents may best be served by accepting that he is a deaf person, with an elaborate cultural ...
My sister has decided to become an actress too. It has ruined the close-knittedness of our family life.
It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened.
Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city as a whole ...
Fear is to the mind what sickness is to the body.
A man's moral character may be completely sapped; that is the dreadful part of it.
I live by three simple words: compassion, love and gratitude. We need to act on these three words daily. Doing so will irrevocably change your ...
It is not the natural movement of film that gives the objects their expression, but the artistic movement, that is to say, a rhythmical movement ...
The Brain is just the weight of GodForHeft themPound for PoundAnd they will differif they doAs Syllable from Sound
I don't want to make music alone in a dark studio and make me feel awful and depressed. I want to make music and feel ...
The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be ...
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 ...
Hemmingway was a jerk.
We tell stories of other people's marriages, Detective Hastroll thought. We are experts in their parables and parabolas. Be can we tell the story of ...
One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.
They really are something else together.""Something else? That's the nice way of saying they're bat shit crazy.""Hey! You listen here, woman.""You can listen to my ...
We've found that customers are very open. They'll tell you what's going on, what's working and what's not. They're looking for help.
They say I'm worth either €200 million, €100 million, €50 million or €10 million, but that's something between God, the HMRC and myself.
The appeal all too often is to the gallery, hungry for sensation.
But you don't have to fit in to be okay. Believe me! I am the not-fitting-in world expert. I have not fit in in maybe ...
True, he had dreamy visions of possibilities: there is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequence of his ...
I'm going to start from the beginning. All I ask is that you don't interrupt and you silently pray Luke returns with a milkshake quickly, ...
ALways be careful what you say. You can always say you're sorry, but you can never take back what you said.
My dearest Pudding pie" I read aloud."Yes, my little turnip?" "Hilarious," I muttered. "If you ever call me anything of the sort again we shall ...
Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left ...
We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have a sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, ...
Is it ghosts that truly haunt us, or the memory of our own mistakes that we wish we could undo?
Everyone has a mad half-hour once a month.
Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
Leaving home does something to your sense of identity. Either you become more of that place than you ever were while you lived there, or ...
Comedy is the only hope for humanity.
I'm Adron's baby sister. Dad just told me about the marriage, and I had to come meet you and make sure Dad hadn't snapped a ...
You're never too old for me to look out for you and to make sure that every guy knows that if he tries to screw ...
As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.
Fun, fun, fun, got you, got you, and got you again! Here, you're dead, here, I broke your forepaw, here, your blood runs out! Got ...
He who, with strong passions, remains chastehe who, keenly sensitive, with manly power of indignation in him, can yet restrain himself and forgivethese are strong ...
To find love, joy and peace for the humanity, let us promise to build a peace loving and a kind family.
I think the official name for such activity is procrastination by chocolate hobnobs. Successful authors are the type who type and who do not indulge ...
Hans Moravec's book Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind.
I had never thought of a tomato as a fruit - the ones I had known were mostly white in the center and rock hard. ...
Sometimes legends can be true.
Your connection to yourself is also your connection to the divine. The more you are connected to yourself, the more you are connected to the ...
From the tiniest experience of your daily life to your grand perception of the universe, in various situations, the human brain tends to create its ...
They don't have to be big goals. A small one each day. They're like handholds and toeholds as you climb the bigger mountain. Ultimately, you ...
Carmen blinked and shuddered like someone chewing a lemon ring, enduring a throat culture, challenging a habanero mano-a- mano. "Unbelievable." She spat the word out.
What do you say we go find a hotel near here, have a nice dinner, hot showers and call it a night. I'd like to ...
Woman's narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man haslong overcome the superstitions that ...
I don't consider myself dovish and I certainly don't consider myself hawkish. Maybe I would describe myself as owlishthat is wise enough to understand that ...
You see tragedy requires persons of heroic stature. It works on the principle of people being more than humansuper-humanand also being only too human. But ...
Of course it would be hard. But I remembered what my nurseryman grandfather used to say when I didn't want to go to school: half ...
I have to tell him how much i miss him when he's not here. So I snug my face against his pulse in his neck. ...
I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is ...
I cry a lot when I feel empathy. I can feel heartbroken by life, and I cry quite easily, sometimes for no reason. It's healthy, ...
Too many times we stand aside, and let the waters slip away. Til what we put off til tomorrow has now become today.
We cannot use electric lights and radios and, in the event of illness, avail ourselves of modern medical and clinical means and at the same ...
The one thing I hate more than being with you, is being without you.
Thank God for the tough times. They are the reason you are there - to be the leader. If everything was going well, the people ...
I like a lot of glasses about it highers the tone.
Your burden of life becomes much heavier when there is no one around you to appreciate how heavy the burden you carry!
Behind a very sturdily built and staunchly defended facade of practical, unromantic hard-headedness towards life, there was just that little pool of softness that would ...
I met Rob in Austin, Texas. He was hitchhiking to California and I was driving to California, so it seemed like a perfect match. He ...
I have no regrets about my work. To be a photographer was a gift of the gods. I can't imagine anything that would have been ...
What I think is not necessarily, what I feel and what I feel is not necessarily, what I think.
Freeside is Las Vegas and the hanging gardens of Babylon, an orbital Geneva and home to a family inbred and most carefully refined, the industrial ...
Fame was like a drug. But what was even more like a drug were the drugs.
I knew little about short story writing then so it was rough going, but I did find the experience very memorable.
Dromedary." She has three-year-old Mark in her arms. The fake
Fancy that thou deservest to be hangedthou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged ina hair halter, ...
People would ask if I wanted to host things and I was like, "No, I'm a writer, I don't host things." Just thinking I wouldn't ...
Yeah, but before anything, I think in 6 years somehow I've grown up to have a beautiful home, 2 beautiful stepchildren, a beautiful husband, my ...
We can talk in here. Dodgson led him to a glass-walled superintendent's booth, in the center of the building. The glass cut down the sound ...
Seeing your own name on the book cover is like hearing your book saying, Hi. Thanks for writing me!
Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.
People are going to think and take things how they're going to take it, and I have no control over that, so it's kind of ...
One has no protecting power save prudence.[Lat., Nullum numen habes si sit prudentia.]
The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare.
Really? That would be a first. I'm the son of Hades, Jason. I might as well be covered in blood or sewage, the way people ...
Sam gave Captain Suicide a droll stare. How did you die again? Oh wait, I know this. 'I can take 'em. I don't need to ...
I want to experiment; I want to keep growing. I didn't want to just sit back and rest on my haunches and do the things ...
If I was an exceptional human being in Detroit, then I saw no reason why I couldn't be an exceptional human being in Mississippi. In ...
When I was a kid I used to hate getting picked for team sports. It would be the fit and sporty guys over there. And ...
I wanted to escape, Ehud, my mouth constantly starved for your mouth, life was splendor and marvel, unparalleled glimmer when you touched me, and sinister ...
The day you let go of fear and instead embrace understanding, is the day you begin to live.
Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. ...