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Alan prayed she wasn't complying from some sense of obligation. He didn't want that, but neither could he bear for her to leave him to ...
We are ready to despair too soon, we are ready to say, 'What's the good of doing anything?' Hope is the virtue we should cultivate ...
If low taxes were the way that people like me created wealth, then we'd be starting our companies in the Congo or Somalia or Afghanistan, ...
At some time or another, everyone was failed by this world. Disappointment was the one thing humans had in common.
And on the last day, the bad days become so difficult to recall, because one way or another, she had made a life here, just ...
I've had to realize I need to distance myself a bit from relying on the feedback. I think it's wonderful but can also be poison. ...
In a great gasp, puts her head in her hands again and cries as if her throat were a cave, as if the howling winds ...
Me and my family growing up, we cleared our land built our homes and all that. So, I was very well knowledgeable in the construction ...
Revenge is undertaken by men who would repay in kind the evil done to them
Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
I have been accused of not taking seriously the FA Cup on Saturday. I have won four times the FA Cup. Who has won it ...
People should be more concerned with the return of their principal than the return on their principal.
It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there was a rumor ...
I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilized tribes.
Nostalgia [10w] Nostalgia is a time machineset to your perfect past.
It seems almost inherent in human beings that when you are thriving for a certain level of spirituality, you tend to reject clothes, and the ...
Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride ...
Crave the small, tactile simplicity of my new Kindle Paperwhite in its purple leather cover, which is currently home to what would make up around ...
It makes great conversation to discuss what's wrong with open-wheel racing today.
I knew I had looked into the eyes of a lost soul, Austin, the man's outward form remained, but all hell was within it.
Dixie Clay knew now that the world was full of secret sorrowing women, each with her own doors closed to rooms she wouldn't be coming ...
It is said that the difference between God and us is that God never thinks he is us. Genesis suggests some nuancing of that insight. ...
English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.
I left then too, more confused and hurt than ever and with a sadness tugging on my heart like a sinking anchor. If I wasn't ...
You shouldn't ask for forgiveness. Because if you ask someone to forgive you, and they do, then that's twice that you've taken something from them. ...
For however much the state may gain by not having to fund roads on its own, society would lose in aggregate if the open commons ...
In his voice resonated the timbre of a man who thinks he has convinced himself of an idea, but masks his own doubt by laboring ...
Jesus Christ seeks to save the lost souls.
Dogs are here to remind us life really is a simple thing. You eat, sleep, take walks, and pee when you must. That's about all ...
Delayed gratification helps to limit the animalistic desire of human flesh.
There are 22 million people who have, some point in time, played hooky from work or school, so it's already an unofficial holiday,
Hansen's disease" - that's the other modern name, I guess, for leprosy - "Hansen's disease was so rare in the America that in 40 years ...
If you want to be a good lair, tell people what they want to hear. (From Hot dogs under The Dakota)
Meeting you was not the first day of the rest of my life; it was the first day of the BEST of my life.
I'm always happy when I'm cleaning, and besides, I had just found out that I was going to have a baby.
Marc to Gabe: What do you know about the lemon stuff? You weren't in desert combat. You were a park ranger. I'm not dissing that. ...
When your mind is set in meditative equipoise, you can see reality exactly as it is
So you're mother? Nice to put a name to a face.
I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words straight and collect my A.
The voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it speaks, it lies ...
If he is not the word of God, then God never spoke.
Power is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice is love correcting everything that goes against love.
There really have only ever been a few people in each generation who step out, are willing to put themselves on the line, and risk ...
This was a Julian she'd never seen, a Julian with his expression stripped down to the elegant bones of his face.
Meanwhile, life passes on and time runs out. The culture of wanting more simply for the sake of more can occupy a person for an ...
Interest and enthusiasm are the wellspring of continually evolving community life: they create bonds which unite us whether we are young or old, nearby or ...
Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.
The subjects felt more comfortable if they played the role than if they had to be themselves.
Sandals are made out of rubber, and when lit on fire burn black.
India is not a capitalist nation and should never be a capitalist nation.
I have a garden in my backyard that's completely organic, which I'm very proud of.
Sometimes, you must play by the rules. If only so one can break them more effectively.
The well padded astrologer stroked his corpulent belly, as he stared down intently at his cowrie board. There was a frown on his moon shaped ...
I don't look at things goin', 'Oh, is this gonna make me rich? Is this gonna make me a star? Am I gonna win awards?' ...
I'm hardly the first person to say that you've [Jeffrey Rosen] written a book about a person who has more to say about the current ...
The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.
I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have ...
Linguistics is arguably the most hotly contested property in the academic realm. It is soaked with the blood of poets, theologians, philosophers, philologists, psychologists, biologists, ...
Peter to Austin:Hard-ons don't make you think less. They make you think stupid. Which makes me think you must have one 24/7.
I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother's cousin and they invited me to come ...
Oh my God, I think I purchased some Jimmy Choos, and they hurt like crazy. That's when I realized that fashion truly isn't about comfort; ...
I could go my whole life and say, 'I'm not going to do anything with a love triangle,' but whenever you have a romance, there ...
The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man.
I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a ...
The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it can expand to ...
Monthly, out of common courtesy, he went to inquire after the invalid Charles, who refused either to die or get better.
This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that ...
I was diagnosed with the illness right before the 1995 World Cup.
The first light had cast the first shadow.
One pattern to help yourself fight the mad dash for the mirage of being done is to think of a good day's work. Look at ...
We experience what life and death really are when we love, for in love we go out of ourselves, become capable of happiness and at ...
I think I have a better chance at getting an Oscar before a Grammy.
It's always good I think in general to have different energies on screen, like it's nice to have different characters go at different speeds, just ...
These days I love to take in the sunset because every time I do so I remember how lucky I am to be alive. That's ...
Holy mackerel, mother of baby fishes, is that a bed?
When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his ...
Tell me the story..About how the sun loved the moon so much..That she died every night..Just to let him breathe ...
There are some styles I do not want to take credit for and usually these hairstyles are on the heads of customers who are only ...
Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.
Responsibility and danger do not tend to free or stimulate the average person's mind- rather the contrary; but wherever they do liberate an individual's judgement ...
Software work is the most complex that humanity has ever undertaken.
We must widen the circle of our love till it embraces the whole village; the village in its turn must take into its fold the ...
I never had a "project." I would go out and shoot, follow my eyes ... I tried to capture with my camera, for others to ...
The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous.
Telling a dream is like undressing.
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods ...
Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!
To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people.
Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.
Whether you know who Denzel Washington is or you don't, when he walks into the room, you're going to pay attention, because he's just such ...
The head has no answers, and the heart has no questions, Jack would say.Quoting his teacher and good friend Jack Kakakaway
If life becomes hard, soften it with random acts of kindness.
Private property implies exclusivity, inequality, and difference.
A writer leads a hyphenated-life with words
Appleby was a fair-haired boy from Iowa who believed in God, Motherhood and the American Way of Life, without ever thinking about any of them, ...
History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the beginning ofthings, which ...
It is the full involvement of flow, rather than happiness, that makes for excellence in life. When we are in flow, we are not happy, ...
While I was studying film at the Academy, the problems started. I wasn't a political activist directly in the time of Saddam [Hussein], because the ...
Birds build nests because they cannot fly forever.