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To find and enjoy profound happiness, learn from nature and emulate her stoic calmness.
Charlotte Palmer is no sillier than Harriet Smith; and yet, how intolerable we should find it to see and hear as much of Charlotte as ...
Charles Darwin himself had written a whole tome about the parallels between human and animal emotional expressions.
Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent.
When I was 12, I got a manager, but my mom was against it. It took a lot of convincing. But when I got a ...
A developed and decent man cannot be vain without a boundless exactingness towards himself and without despising himself at moments to the point of hatred.
A good GI bill would increase the recruit pool.
Many things will hurt you and me for we are very much alike. But will these things hurt us less if we refuse to accept ...
Tra la la, Fiddle dee dee,Hope you get well soon.Ho ho ho, hee hee hee, Have a heart-shaped balloon.
So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much ...
I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.
I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our sense of who we are ...
There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit.
Live for others and love unconditionally to prove it. People will never forget how you touch their heart with your love.
Screwed blued and tattooed
I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to ...
To consider the degree of concord which ultimately prevailed as less than a miracle.
Kindness is weakness. Your weakness will delay the trigger by a moment. This world doesn't treat kindness kindly. - Koko Hekmatyar
The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.
NOSTALGIA IS A WEAPON
To be inactive while engaged in activity is the real inactivity (non-doership)!
I have much confidence that we shall proceed successfully for ages to come. My hope of its duration is built much on the enlargement of ...
Now, evolution is the substance of fossils hoped for, the evidence of links not seen.
The church's teaching on marriage is unequivocal, it is uniquely, the union of a man and a woman and it is wrong that governments, politicians ...
Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.
There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten's prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction.
Were I to spend my life commenting on the world that I see, I would never see the world.
Cheerfulness is a choice, just as depression is. If you choose the former, the later will take charge.
Delayed answers to prayer are not only trials of faith; they also give us opportunities to honor God through our steadfast confidence in Him, even ...
There are some poisons which, before they kill men, allay pain and diffuse a soothing sensation through the frame. We may recognize the hour of ...
The prosecutor uttered the party line that would distinguish revue from burlesque for the next thirty years. The difference is movement. On Broadway, unadorned female ...
There ain't no island left for islanders like me.
I was all, "Oh, dog, Countess gonna crack open a forty of whup-ass on you now. Oh, you in the sh*t now, wigga!" (I am ...
We don't know how much time one spirit will spend in our lives, but love is too precious to hide from it. A chance at ...
It is a human tendency tobecome what you attack.
Mortal duty has weight, things that have weight have gravity, and so the duty to bear mortal responsibility pulled me back.
Note even Moroi give licenses to infants, Sage,
My shirt bunched up around my waist, and the feeling of his hi-there against my hoohah was indescribable.
Love is the magic ink, which transform everyday life into a poetry.
My folks wouldn't read a book if you put a gun to their dicks. but they read people all day long and always get it ...
Yes, I went through a lot of pain, heartache,breaking. But I'm here berthing and my heart is beating. I'm thriving. I'm not alone. And I'm ...
I've always been interested in an idea of boundless love - an impersonal, big love.
The Revelation has vindicated the existence of God; and the light of the of the Luminous Form of Muhammad is enough and the most reliable ...
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 ...
Hi, Boston Center, TMU [traffic management unit], we have ah a problem here, we have a hijacked aircraft headed towards New - New York and ...
Calder, do you like me? And then I laughed, breaking the spell. Her eyes flashed open and blood flooded her cheeks. She pushed off, but ...
Accepting the Cross, entering into fellowship with Christ, means entering the realm of transformation and expiation.
I love classic beauty. It's an idea of beauty with no standard.
Goliath was a champion, a monster who had never been beaten, and then this young guy, David, came forward, a child who believed in God ...
It's not necessarily helpful to talk about poetry as if it were a device to be assembled or a religious experience to be undergone. Rather, ...
True love does not hurt. It's our imitation of it that does.
Kevin dragged his stare back to Wymack's face and said, "and my father comes to all of my games. That is enough." On
Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.
I know you don't want to scare her, but you can't pretend that her life isn't going to be hard. It's not fair.
If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.
It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a ...
Much like the Harbour Falls Mystery itself, the man at the center was a puzzle. And I longed to solve him piece by piece.
You can't own what belongs to the world.
One month flies by when you're falling love with the woman you're using for sex. Two is an eternity when the woman you love leaves ...
Your biggest hurdle isn't your opponent, it is yourself.
Believe it or not, that was the first time I recognized that in some ways she was just like the rest of us.
I guess I always have sort of general ideas, but the best stuff would be the stuff that comes to you in the moment, always.
I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, ...
No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in ...
The real power of silence is to keep silent. The real power of silence is in the works of silence!
Even if you are having a nightmare day during which nothing will go right, never cease looking for the ball. In the end everything will ...
To succeed in the game of power, you have to master your emotions. But even if you succeed in gaining such self-control, you can never ...
Humor is reason gone mad.
Others have falsely claimed to be the inspiration for Tom Booker in The Horse Whisperer. The one who truly inspired me was Buck Brannaman. His ...
Life wasn't like that neat classification system, Achimwene had come to realize. Life was half-completed plots abandoned, heroes dying halfway along their quests, loves requited ...
I've had plenty of jo-jobs. Nothing I'd call a career. Let me put it this way. I have an extensive collection of name tags and ...
Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.
Leaving my past is like jumping of a burning buiding. except jumping is a one way trip. You can't change your mind halfway down
In this way Byron's take on the human condition becomes closer to the fractured collage of 20th century existentialists: a conflicted human nature posited within ...
Certainly, affairs should not even be thought of before you are thirty.
If you see how a plant grows and you taste it in situ you have a perfect example of how it should taste on the ...
The first step toward the one true God is to acknowledge that we are not that God.
If no one ever broke the rules, then we'd never advance.
Let what comes come. Let what goes go. Find out what remains.
Baltimore's often called the most northern Southern town. It has a distinct essence. It's definitely post-industrial, definitely Rust Belt, very working-class. I grew up outside ...
When we can overcome our own personal battles, we can live confidently in situations we would have otherwise been too weak to handle.
Live in fragments no longer, only connect.
The largest outbreak of bird flu in American history was an H5N2 virus, which led to the deaths of 17 million domestic birds and cost ...
The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy.
We try to do what's right, or rather what other say is right. But sometimes, when that goes against who we are ... you have ...
He had a Halloween party and I dressed up as The King. One of the more enjoyable nights I've had. Nobody recognized me. They recognized ...
I was crazy back when being crazy really meant something ...
The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?
He remembered Simon warning him, with wryness, that Clary had the nuclear bomb of boyfriends.
Make good choices and always do your best.
If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.
What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer's life seemed the most inclusive.
I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.
Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the hard edge - toward redemption. Ted Lewis ...
When the negative thoughts come - and they will; they come to all of us - it's not enough to just not dwell on it ...
Hey, we've all been to high school We've seen the in-crowds. Most of us have been in the outer crowds, the people who weren't in. ...
Michael Harris opens the doors and gently guides you into a magic world. Once inside, you can't help but feel mesmerized, eager to see how ...
It is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself it is needful that you frame the season ...
She knew the effort it took to keep one's exterior self together, upright, when everything inside was in pieces, broken beyond repair. One touch, one ...