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Somebody always wants something from me," she said in a near whisper. "They're eating me alive.
Rhage!" She laughed some more. "You brought me out here just to-"He started kissing her mouth and putting his hands around her waist. "Outcome Engineer. ...
It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no ...
If women were in charge of everything, there would be women tyrants. If black people were in charge, there would be black tyrants. If Hispanics ...
Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.
The rule of the people has the fairest name of all, equality (isonomia), and does none of the things that a monarch does. The lot ...
Doctor Mengele is such a powerful character historically, as powerful as Nazism itself, so these subjects always tend to be the protagonists. What I think ...
Contrary to popular cable TV-induced opinion, aerobics have nothing to do with squeezing our body into hideous shiny Spandex, grinning like a deranged orangutan, and ...
I'm sort of the bossiest sister.
Obama might do well to remember that his fast rise from the Illinois state Senate was due in large part to an uncanny ability to ...
If you can hit your opponent's nose more than he can hit yours, you too will taste victory.
You're extending hospitality, and hospitality is a big part of how politics works.
Mr. Sue Me, one day we'll be reunited with our own two angels. If you get there before me, tell them I love them and ...
These were the things we would never notice were missing.
Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without ...
I now find myself looking at every sentence, every image, that purports to tell the West about the Arabs and the Muslims with this question ...
I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.
For thousands of years, we've insisted that art can make us better people. Unless a brief can be fashioned that, by its very nature, art ...
O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)
I can't express the truth about reality. I can only express my feelings.
I have set a standard, and I'm going to stick to the standard. I may have been able to grow faster and maybe my business ...
I myself become terrified of death when I am in a negative state of mind. But the thought of death ceases to bother me once ...
I'm so old, I don't buy green bananas any more.
She(Joan of Arc) put her dreams and her sentiment into her aims, where they ought to be; she put her practicality into her practice. Ine ...
My ability is greater than my disability.
Given the irreversibility of the death penalty, the possibility of a wrongful conviction can never be overstated
Most importantly fighters in my day knew the most important art in boxing - feinting.
This is the beginning and the end of the world right here. Look at those patient Buddhas lookin at us saying nothing.
A half-blood of the eldest dogs ... ""Er, Percy?" Annabeth interrupted. "That's gods. Not dogs.
Success and failure are largely the results of our habitual thoughts & many people create by default. - Marie Cunningham ...
Evelyn Waugh: How do you get your main pleasure in life, Sir William?Sir William Beveridge: I get mine trying to leave the world a better ...
Some will call this self-indulgence(They are lucky not to know its truth)Some will know the simple fact of painThis is becoming my normality
So you're sticking with me, and I'm sticking with you.
He who is infatuated with 'Man' leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, ...
There is a difference between being mad and being surrounded by retards.
The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success ...
When Angkorian society began, Paris and London were not much more than elaborate villages. Europe was crawling with barbarians, and here were the Khmer engineering ...
Christ, invisible to the bodily eye, manifests Himself on earth clearly through His Church ... The Church is the Body of Christ both because its ...
Made from divinity must mean mindstate to create is intrinsic - no fiction. Stop playin' with your power, your inner 'G', and build on purpose ...
General Boykin has requested that an inspector general review this matter. And I have indicated that if that's his request, I think it's appropriate.
I want to court your son." "What does that mean?" she asked. "It means I want to provide for him to prove my worth," Joe ...
Water is such a lifesaver into which we cannot breathe but without taking it into us we cannot live
Nevermind nomenclatures, boy! What a serendipitous situation this is!
I'm thirty-six years old, but I don't feel like it. Some days I feel like I'm twenty-one, some days I feel like I'm pushing sixty.
When I walk around New York now, there are so many ghosts. I find it very uncomfortable. There were many hard years, and I never ...
America seemed a virgin land waiting for civilization. But Europe had made the wilderness it found; America was not a virgin, she was a widow.
I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website - but on the internet people only look at pictures of ...
Fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to their faith before they explore it. As opposed to a curious person who ...
Sometimes people come up and they get infatuated with some little brief imagistic poem or something, and they say, "Oh, I really like your Zen ...
If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.
This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax.
I was born May 31, 1911, in Paris. My parents owned a small cheese shop, and my maternal grandfather was a carpentry worker. I thus ...
The leading cause of death is birth.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
The Dex Foray special involves two lubed fingers, a lot of tongue and a cigarette for afterwards.
And I meant to tell you: that was a one-in-a-thousand shot."She raised her hand. "Don't.""It was awesome," George confirmed. "It really was," Jack said. "His ...
He was a windbag. He made a great many orations, and I imagine he did a very good job, but he was still a windbag
Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for beauty such as ...
Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and ...
What kind of country is this where a woman can't weep her heart out on the highways and byways without being tormented by retired bill-brokers!
I nod, trying to get the image out of my head of Raffe dancing to some rock song. possibly buck naked.
Perfectly correct chess exists only in theory.
Many of you are gripped by the loony idea that your intentions are different from the results you create. It simplifies life enormously the moment ...
If you think that [Yale professor James] Saiers is in the greenhouse skeptics camp, then, if we can find documentary evidence of this, we could ...
My accent depends on whom I'm around.
When I write, I'm constantly putting myself in the position of someone else as I write using myriad voices; I think that's a life skill ...
Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed to absurdity by ...
We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before ...
I'm not sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize or not, but the Nobel Committee called me, and, 'You got the Nobel Prize.' So, ...
Who has the best features? This was a little game, conducted several times and always with the same results, in seventh grade, the time when ...
It's all about perspective, my friend. That and the ability to duck fast when life throws excrement at you."-Maris
An athlete needs to read situations before they happen.
Everyone runs around trying to find a place where they still serve breakfast because eating breakfast, even if it's 5 o'clock in the afternoon, is ...
Governments are out of control, irresponsible, never have enough money, never tighten their own belts, and when they are forced to, they always threaten to ...
Part of the challenge of being a girl living in the 21st Century, looking back, the danger is to not judge your character by your ...
You don't know what's behind that smile. You can't imagine who someone will turn out to be. We assume the sun will rise every morning ...
The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.
My father always said, 'You can do anything a man can do.'
The current leader of the free world had pissed off enough other nations that they were gunning for him en masse.
I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow ...
How can the daughter of an whore ever think to hold the heart of a King?
I don't mind people hating me, because it pushes me.
Okay, little car, you are protesting roads. They are death traps for animals. They are environmentally unsound impervious surfaces that cause runoff. I understand this. ...
Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald's, said, There are three keys to success: 1. Being at the right place at the right time. 2. Knowing ...
Courage cannot be gifted to you, but it is a choice you make.
Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.
I started out myself rather late you see, I was 18.
Illness isolates; the isolated become invisible; the invisible become forgotten. But the snail ... the snail kept my spirit from evaporating.
An authentic spirituality does not cater to culture; it calls culture to accountability.
I am a straightforward man.
When I was young I read 'L'Etranger' by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life.
To love is to recognize yourself in another.
Globally local commerce is a $12 to $14 trillion market. If we get 10 percent of that, we'll be very happy.
The three rules to writing a novel;1) Write2) Write more3) Keep writing
I'ma be here for a while. None of these clowns can hurt me.
We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.
I'm not religious. I love what Clive James said the other day. James is a brilliant writer, but he keeps on writing poems on stuff. ...
Everything was so broken, but it would heal. Saxonia will heal. Hollownot will heal. Everything will heal.I was broken. I will heal.It is certainty that ...
The moment you stop learning you're dying.
Eve followed him into the building. No one would dare frisk her, and she entered Beckett's inner sanctum fully armed - not that she needed ...