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Picture the person who intimidates you most. Now picture them crouched like a dog, pooping on the sidewalk, looking up at you, all vulnerable. We ...

The worst kind of pain is when you're smiling just to stop the tears from falling.

Gimme an S! A T! An O! A C! Followed by a K-H-O-L-M! What's it spell? HEAD FUCK.- Jane

Sit your affections, your heart and your precious time out on the doorstep without so much as making him ring the doorbell first, and he'll ...

Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.

If I had an ordinary illness, I'm sure they could fix me. But I've seen demons rip my world to pieces. Nobody believes that, so ...

They act as if their religion were a celestial gumball machine, taking no blame for personal failures because they won't manifest their will in the ...

I growled softly. "Why are the French so rude?"She shrugged. "We're French, it's in our blood to 'ate Americans.

I never quit until I get what I want.

Never allow impatience to prevent you for reaching your full potential.

My stomach hurts, but if it's guilt or impacted stool, I can't tell. Either way, I'm so full of shit.

In the wilderness, God performs His mighty miracles.

Fake friends believe in rumors, real friends believe in you.

I think exactly the same qualities as men [women role model needs], exactly the same, which is kindness, courage and intelligence.

May God be your strong defender.

Smack me if we ever get that awful.""But I smack you so often," she said, "how will you know that's what I'm smacking you for?""We ...

The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections.

Inevitably, malaria parasites developed resistance to commonly used drugs, and mosquito vectors became insecticide-resistant.

The Jeep windshield was doing its damnedest to stay clear, but the amount of water flowing over it threatened to overwhelm the ionizer.

The verbal patterns and the patterns of behavior we present to children in these lighthearted confections are likely to influence them for the rest of ...

Great is the man who can overcome the world, but greater still is the man who can overcome himself, for he will have the world ...

I swear I won't touch you even with a finger until you ask me yourself.

Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.

The best advice is to be yourself, but to be your best self.

Fashion brings out what you are inside. A lot of people think it's got to be blue jeans, a Black coat, three inch heels. But ...

If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called 'sex' is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already ...

Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in ...

We are taught to take the bread into our bodies as proof of Jesus's body.

Your decisions determine where you will or will not be in later days to come. Rise up and direct them well!

Innovative solutions to new challenges seldom come from familiar places

Perhaps death is nothing but a calm and eternal dream

Nekhludoff laughed as he compared himself to the ass in the fable who, while deciding which of the two bales of hay before him he ...

Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.

There's something really sweet about the way he's playing the part and he's kind of irresistible in a way. They're both really lonely. That's kind ...

I think, perhaps, you are more free than I am.

For a pediatrician to attack what has become the "bread and butter" of pediatric practice is equivalent to a priest denying the infallibility of the ...

I have agreed to lend my voice to Nature's Guard, an animated series which hopefully will go into production in the near future. The characters ...

If you're about to become a stepmother or are currently filling that role, you are gambling that the love you've found and the strength and ...

We met less than a week ago and in that time I've done nothing but lie and cheat and betray you. I know. But if ...

What is a blade but a conduit of death?What is a life but a conduit of death?

The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates ...

Socialism means keeping account of everything. You will have socialism if you take stock of every piece of iron and cloth.

Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let ...

They, and we, are the legacies of an unbroken chain of proud men and women who served their country with honor, who waged war so ...

If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.

Sex is meant to be, if not addictive, at least a very compelling behavior.

Cereal when high is always a great option. I don't even have cereal for that reason.

I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of ...

Before me now there is only one real fact Death. The truth I have been seeking this truth is Death. Yet Death is also a ...

I wasn't one of those hideous children who make their parents sit through hour-long performances when you're seven. I didn't do anything like that thankfully.

The desire not to be impinged upon, to be left to oneself, has been the markof high civilisation both on the part of individuals and ...

If I am proud of anything, it is that I have been granted the privilege of living in the land which God promised our forefathers ...

Given that self-improving strong AI cannot be recalled, Yudkowsky points out that we need to "get it right the first time," and that its initial ...

For lack of a few pinches of ordinary iodised table salt in the diet of a third world pregnant mother, a child can lose up ...

Narian scrutinised both me and the Queen, with eyes so deeply blue I could not break away from them. I was glad he was no ...

They just expected it to you know ... Paul, Steve and I could have hired our own publicist, if we wanted to, but I kind ...

I like to invest in people that I like to hang with.

Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and ...

When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'

It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.

Naive conclusions to draw from man's brutality! Because man is a brute, woman has to be locked up so that she will remain unharmed.

I have a 2-year-old son, and I know I'm dealing with a big, grand word when I can't point to the thing when I define ...

If you look at the actual movies that I've done, the whole struggle is to get to that point, so it's not something that you ...

I think a lot of the shame-based religious and political methodology has more to do with keeping people contained than with setting them free. And ...

What happens when the sowers of mistrust become its reapers?

Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.

Emily wondered whether Artie would be so carefree if he knew The Book Club was performing grand theft imagination.

Sometimes it's worth lingering on the journey for a while before getting to the destination.

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.

Can you just tell them we don't need Jesus, Girl Scout cookies, or whatever the Mormons worship, and let me lie here in peace?

Shamanic journeying is the inner art of traveling to the 'invisible worlds' beyond ordinary reality to retrieve information for change in any area of your ...

I got along as well with the cool kids as I did with the nerds. That spirit of forced tourism, along with my quickly learned ...

Your image is your brand and you have only one opportunity to make that first impression. Choose to make a positive first impression.

I guess there are some rights of parents with what they choose their children to learn, but I'm biased in favor of freeing children to ...

We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.

Marrying means to halve one's rights and double one's duties

Sassenach," he said against my shoulder, a moment later. "Mm?" "Who in God's name is John Wayne?" "You are," I said. "Go to sleep.

I haven't seen it this busy since I've been an IndyCar driver. So I think that's a great kind of thing that's happening for the ...

There are some wounds unreachable by words, some sins immune to apology.

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology ...

To embrace an attitude of humility is to free myself from myself. And that is likely the great liberation of all.

Attitude is the difference between ordeal and adventure

The person who masters himself through self-control and discipline is truly undefeatable.

What I hear about the book does not sound like the Scott McClellan I knew for two years. I can say, without fear of contradiction, ...

As a part of their conditioning, women voluntarily prostitute themselves into the auction and groom themselves toward the highest exchange.

A small crack in a wall, the wall might fall. A small crack in a relationship, several walls get created.

Ignore the bad habit and put your energy toward building a new habit that will override the old one.

Glamour is a beautiful illusion - the word 'glamour' originally meant a literal magic spell - that promises to transcend ordinary life and make the ...

Why don't the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.

I have been a lifelong stutterer, and when I was young, I experienced some very difficult times.

Only the poor can create art.

How did I know you ran a 4:30 mile in high school? That's easy. Everyone ran a 4:30 mile in high school.

I can't face losin' ya, Riley. Yer all I got left in this world.That brutal honesty again. He'd peeled away more armor, and this time ...

Rule Number One in the India Savage Life Code: When in doubt or possible trouble, lie.

When I look beyond the mind, I see the witness. Beyond the witness, there is infinite intensity of emptiness and silence.

Trying to find solace in the remainingparks and lakes.Now we're forced to get away,take trips to the realplaces. The forest.The ocean.

In the Land of Romance, cheap candles are more valuable than ingots of gold.