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There's a limit that you will not be able to go past if you don't understand the importance of reading.
Sometimes I feel that I could stand in the middle of the square and scream and thrash about like a wildling, and no one would ...
I'm not usually this emotional," I say. He shrugs. "All women say that. It usually precedes an episode of batshit craziness.
She sits down at the end of my bed again. "Who were you with? Do you have a boyfriend now or something?"I can't help but ...
Imbodied spirits constitute the mankind. It is not restricted to the earth only but instead it inhabits all the worlds in space.
MG was nearly mythical, other than my entries - no interaction with users onthe off chance one was a Fernoza on the troll. And today ...
I pace the room, trying to figure out a solution. She can't stay here. But I want her to stay. I can't share a bathroom ...
Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear.
A man demonstrates his rationality, not by a commitment to fixed ideas, stereotyped procedures, or immutable concepts, but by the manner in which, and the ...
It strikes me that the power or capability of a man in getting rich is in inverse proportion to his reflective powers and in direct ...
[Traditions] give voice to what in some sense we already know, but inarticulately. When tradition is silenced, people have to work all these things out ...
Feminists amuse me more than illusionists. They are the only type of people that can make an illogical argument seem even more illogical with paintings ...
I do not drink from this jug every day. But sometimes at night when the wind blows and I am alone and feeling very solitary, ...
Pity us, yes, but we are brave, she thought, and wild, more life in us than we can bear, the fire infolding itself within us.
We found that our kids enjoy those simple adventures we take as a family. I'm driving, my wife's the copilot and we give one kid ...
He managed to create an atmosphere of sticky sentimentality that disgusted me.
I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol ...
Not that the writers weren't good. I believe in those books and those writers very much. It's just that in the climate it's really hard ...
The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.
She'd stopped reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about romance and knitting and started reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about ...
Hecate teaches us that the way to the vision that inspires renewal is to be found in moving through the darkness.
I doubted myself, and that made me doubt you. But you weren't the problem. You were never the problem. I should have trusted you, but ...
All your stress, pain, suffering, misery is due to your attachment with it. If you don't attach with the things, that doesn't serve you, either ...
All of what I told him was true - some people are just meant to break your heart, as if it were their sole mission ...
Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one ...
The thing is, what I'm tryin' to say is - they do get on a lot better without me, I can't help them any. They ...
I thought having a chronic illness would make my life detour in ways I didn't want to accept, but I've learnt that have a chronic ...
I never took my SAT's. I never applied to college. I moved right out here and jumped into the thick of things. Whether that was ...
We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up.
Now is the time to reinvent yourself and develop a new plan of action. Now is the time to create new actions and practices that ...
If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.
We are given one life. It's up to us to make it great or not. Average or spectacular. The choice is always up to us.
Teddy Roosevelt supported a progressive income tax. If I am sitting pretty and you've got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and ...
I have frequently said, and I will repeat again, in the manner of any well-meaning seriality, that I'm interested in mixing the ingratiation of wishful ...
In France today, people no longer eat as much heavy food and fat as they did 15 or 20 years ago. These days, French cooking, ...
Cynicism can be funny. But it's the easy way. You'll forget to enjoy anything. I try to make the evolving choice, the forward-moving, life-giving choice. ...
But her voice sounded wistful. It is one of her theories that a woman must never be jealous, never try to hold man against his ...
If any man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I ...
Diet cola is my absolute favorite drink in the world; I used to drink four cans a day. But to help me cut down, I've ...
One of the near-death experience truths is that each person integrates their near-death experience into their own pre-existing belief system.
The Robespierre women (as one tended to think of them now) were all on display. Madame looked actively, rather intimidatingly benevolent; it was her aim ...
Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed of mach 3.
I don't need a boyfriend to be happy. If I meet someone and I want to be with him, then I will be. I'm very ...
Steve, you want to be thanking all that's fucking holy I've got my girl in my arms, because if I didn't, the cleaners would be ...
And so it continued all day, wynde after wynde, from a room beyond came the whistle of a teakettle. Now, you really must join me. ...
I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not ...
What is timea November leaf a child's vacillating mouth a rose a left-over, half-drunk glass of water.
I clench my fists and try not to scream and I tuck my friends in my heart andrevengeI think has never looked so sweet.
Na Arean sat alone in space as a cloud that floats in nothingness. He slept not, for there was no sleep; he hungered not, for ...
I didn't like filtering the story through me, saying, 'Reader, you'll be safe with me. While it gets a little dangerous, it'll be okay because, ...
When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.
We must regain our vision and hope and move our country forward on an agenda of peace and justice.
Maybe love is a risk, but it's a risk I'm willing to take and as you said, it's not a choice. I never thought I ...
They are strong wives, devoted moms, and beautiful women, trying to find a way to earn and keep their wings because God knows, it's not ...
To now is to love, to see is a joy, but to lose is hurtful.
A key ingredient to achieving your goals is to make sure your goals are totally congruent with who you are as a person. Your head ...
I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree old age: iycri = fi (if you can't recall it, forget it).
My mother's view on love appalled me. It suggested love had more in common with the boiling of an egg than the discovery of another ...
I can't cook! It's genetic. My grandmother can't cook, my mother can't cook. I was raised to believe you eat because your body needs fuel ...
All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.
He [Riptide] sighed. "I said, 'What are you doing all the way out here?' and you said, 'Hey, sparkling teeth, I totally love three of ...
And finally - he was neither able nor willing to prevent it - the self-loathing dammed up inside him spilled over and gushed out, gushed ...
If YOU want to cheat me, I am ready to get fooled. But don't think I am weak!!!. It's bcoz I like you.
I love Chinese food, like steamed dim sum, and I can have noodles morning, noon and night, hot or cold. I like food that's very ...
I choose not to serve the Conglomerate as an ambassador, but that doesn't mean I've given up on humanity. Surrender isn't a word in my ...
We have broken down the self-respecting spirit of man with nursery tales and priestly threats, and we dare to assert, that inproportion as we have ...
Nothing is going to remain the way it is. Let us, in the present, study the past, so as to invent the future.
Age isn't a barrier to playing the bass, and I've definitely improved over the years, although maybe I'm not as flash as I once was. ...
Bill Gallagher's new version of 'The Prisoner' is an enthralling commentary on modern culture. It is witty, intelligent and disturbing. I am very excited to ...
It's life, that's all. There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no one ...
If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience, it may be true also that our own sordid view of our ...
I don't approve the informality in the world today, Mr. James. It's made strangers of us all.
You're right, I haven't walked in your shoes. But you haven't walked in mine, either.
I'm going to miss him like hell when he's gone," she eventually continued. "It's going to rip half my soul out. If you weren't here ...
They do not usually deal with amenities - features that are not essential but make living a little easier, such as drapes, washing machines, swimming ...
That's perfect," he said. "I'm sorry about that. It's genetic, I think. My mother had exactly the same problem, and a cousin of hers too. ...
If there's one thing I really love ... it's sad music.
It's hard to believe that you're really here, so I just pretend that you're not here.
Everyone is broken.
[About a conference on Systematic Biology] Many interesting statements were made that apply directly to the work of taxonomists. In some cases the interest lay ...
Just Keep Writing! Who cares if it's a Saturday, or if you left your laptop at home, or if you're around people? Just write one ...
I was not so sure but too tired and too relieved to go further that night. To reach one another again had been far enough.
Don't defend them like it's okay. Because it's not. I won't let them do that to you again. I'm just warning you, I'll make you ...
Indigenous programs and policy will come within the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet because Indigenous policy and programs should not be an add - ...
There's no mystery to confidence, it's just about self knowledge. It's savvy to know which of our flaws can be changed, and which ones to ...
I'm petrified. Because being this close to you is doing things to me. Strange things and irrational things and things that flutter against my chest ...
Some people think that nothing moves in this world without leave of the woman. Do not know more, but I can say that war never ...
I'm just smart enough to know what it is I don't know and try to learn as I go along and accept that you're going ...
This preservation of favourable individual differences and variations, and the destruction of those which are injurious, I have called Natural Selection, or the Survival of ...
To me parenting is all about trust. If you don't live by your words or actions how do you expect your kids to listen to ...
Complex carbohydrates are always best, except, again, after a workout where you could take simple (sugar) carbohydrates to get an insulin spike. But at other ...
The most effective reading teachers are teachers who read. According to Morrison, Jacobs, and Swinyard (1999), "Perhaps the most influential teacher behavior to influence students' ...
People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.
The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in ...
Tragedy was like that, a razor that sliced through time, severing the now from the before, incising the what-might-have-been from reality as cleanly as any ...
If you want to stop illegal immigration, you have to make it so that - so that the people that hire the illegal immigrants will ...
Allah in the name of The Most Affectionate, the Merciful.
The paradox explored in my book 'The Innovator's Dilemma' is that successful companies can fail by making the 'right' decisions in the wrong situations.
So what if you end up buying a size 6 instead of a 4? You can always cut out the label at home, and you'll ...
I just want to say that dreams do come true. Don't ever give up on your dreams. Sometimes it just takes a little bit longer ...