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Marian Palaia is a writer of startling grace and sensuous lyricism - reading her, you feel as if you've never heard language this beautiful and ...

Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.

There was a mission: To match the cover of 'Extraordinary' to the cover of the paperback 'Impossible,' which was commercially successful. Consider the outdoor natural ...

Something in her expression made Covenant feel that he came from a very poor world, where no one knew or cared about the healing of ...

I wanted to talk," he said."I don't want to talk," said Jared. "And I won't want to talk. Ever.""Can we just - ""Talk?" Jared asked. ...

Stevens, who knew that mouth could do more thana rgue? You're a true blue friend, a red-hot lady and all that other good yearbook shit. ...

It's always difficult to see yourself as other people do, but I'm realistic about my appearance. I wasn't born with one of those pretty, pretty ...

If I woke up in a different body every dayif you never knew what I was going to look like tomorrowwould you still love me?

I'm very low-maintenance, and that is a problem. I'm not demanding at all, and sometimes I feel that I should be throwing tantrums. But since ...

Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices ...

The end of the idyll was implicit in the beginning: I at least knew that, though you might not. And also that the more enchanted ...

Once, she had been her parents' daughter. Then great, unlucky Ias's wife. Her children's mother. At the last, her mother's keeper. Well, I am none ...

Thou the stars are fire. Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar. But never doubt I love,' he quoted.

The Devil is a Five-headed Snake, says the father. The son says, Nay, it's a Six-headed one. And then their hearts burn with hate for ...

My friends and family have always been extremely supportive, but the support I've received from fans has been so overwhelming. I love hearing all of ...

I guess I'm sort of spoiled because, most of the things that I get to do, people know that you're a good improviser, so they ...

The masculine/feminine look fascinates me. It is not only an issue of empowering women, but I think the shapes look great.

After he'd gone, she'd suffered a momentary, nearly immobilizing flash of panicwhat if the Hunters somehow managed to find her while he was gone?but it ...

To me, charity often is just about giving, because you're supposed to, or because it's what you've always done - or it's about giving until ...

Creative ability is often mistakenly attributed to inborn talent. It is about all the ability to connect one thing with another.

Sitting on couch, lying legs apart Dark dirty naked. Smiling at me, Wicked lazy lusty eyes. I moaned, When saw movement inside his silent, The ...

God looks out for fools and niggers.

Power just makes you reject destiny and devour your fate.

I was a little bit of a slob who was sort of surrounded by dirty laundry. I can trace the exact moment that I became ...

So you would literally take a bullet for me.""No," Claire said, with zero emotion."No?" Ryan said, surprised at her answer.Claire rolled her eyes, annoyed that ...

You can get a new phone or new trainers (sneakers) but you've only got one body so you have to look after it. I don't ...

Microsoft has gotten so big that it can put out a Preview that will install itself without checking first to see if it has expired. ...

The historian is an indissoluble part of his history, as the poet is of his poem, as the shadowy biographer is of his subject's life ...

One of us," said Malcolm, "is worth five hundred of you. I can burn you to the ground in six seconds flat and use the ...

I'm here to inform you that you have been recalled to active duty, Staff Sergeant, by special authority of the SOCOM initiative you agreed to ...

I say that I'm not into you like that, Camryn, because..," he pauses, searching my face, looking at my lips for a moment as if ...

I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself.

Flying radio-controlled airplanes is the only time where I am able to focus and concentrate on nothing but looking up. Only God would give me ...

Ignoring phone calls leads to a simple life with more free time. Ignoring emails works well also! I do both when I am trying to ...

I believe that success brings responsibility. It also does not bring immunity to the consequences of our quickening march towards oblivion. The bottom line is ...

There's no direction I can go in. If I met someone else, what meaning would there be left? If the pain goes, does that mean ...

My goals may seem impossibly far-fetched when really they're not. Break them down into steps and see how I accomplish great things. I can easily ...

To be a great fast bowler, you need a big heart and a big bottom.

The funeral was not a funeral. Her family called it a memorial service, because they hadn't found Diana's body yet, but everyone in New Iberia ...

Democracy is interactive ... It's a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.

I'd rather argue with you, angel, than laugh with anyone else."Jesus. It took me a minute to be able to swallow the last bite in ...

Philosophers have argued about the strongest emotion known to man. Some say 'love', others 'hate', others 'fear'. I am disposed to put 'curiosity' on a ...

One night I was meditating in such perfect stillness that two mosquitoes came and sat on each of my cheekbones and stayed there a long ...

We become like those pious people who, over time, accumulate a sense of their own virtuousness so powerful as to make them believe the bad ...

It's hard to find peace with your thighs, but when they chafe, try to be grateful for them. Your thighs let you run and get ...

As the world of science has grown in size and in power, its deepest problems have changed from the epistemological to the social.

The first years of my life are of no imprtance. At the age of nine, I was packed off to a preparatory school in the ...

Nobody ever cares what I say! I feel badly about it, I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

I wash the clothes, rinse them and then scrub them again. Will that square little box do that? I am not using any fancy machines ...

You don't have to just hit nails with hammers, you know; you can use a hammer to beat somebody's brains in, to make armor or ...

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail. All you need ...

I feel ashamed that the new, nuclear, neo-liberal India thinks of itself as a 'natural ally' of Israel. Ever since India began to call itself ...

If you can look back at your entire life and at the end of the day and say, 'You know? My life was good. I'm ...

There is a difference between a poem and a writing incrusted with a feel of Poetry to fall within range

Jefferson found in the religion phrases of the First Amendment no vague or fuzzy language to be bent or shaped or twisted as suited any ...

Your higher self is always nudging you toward a resolution of the conflicts that you experience in your life, so that you will have room ...

Please be SILENT and LISTEN.I am the SCHOOLMASTERand you are in the CLASSROOM.Just like ELEVEN PLUS TWO equalsTWELVE PLUS ONE,And even a FUNERAL can be ...

There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity ...

Do you still want me to go to hell? I must admit, I don't know the way.

When conscience is immobilised, public trust has disappeared. At that point, by default, institutions become omnipotent.

The explosion of companies deploying wireless networks insecurely is creating vulnerabilities, as they think it's limited to the office - then they have Johnny Hacker ...

I don't want to pass because I can't stand insincerities and shams. I am just as much Negro as any of the others identified with ...

My dad was a longshoreman in the Port of Miami. Tough job. I worked down there in the summer once. One day. Never again. My ...

Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat ...

Many organizations have put off critical upgrades or new projects to make sure ICD-10 was survivable.

The institutions of psychiatry, law enforcement, and goverment have proved that no matter what our resources, you cannot reliable control the conduct of CRAZY PEOPLE. ...

Often, it's hard to identify an economic event risk until it's too late.

I am not embarrassed to say that when I was at my worst I took anti-depressants because I think people need to hear that. I ...

The only thing that will ever be real, is this moment,' I turned to the statue, 'when you made me feel alive, when you made ...

When I left the band I said Look, I am ready to move on. I was interested in playing with some of the other people ...

None of us clearly know to whom or to what we are indebted in this wise, until some marked stop in the whirling wheel of ...

I want to get comfortable with my insecurities until I am no longer insecure. I want to be comfortable in my skin so that I ...

Give me the waters of Lethe that numb the heart, if they exist, I will still not have the power to forget you.

I never talked about you much. I said to Hardy. My voice sounded odd to my own ears.Hardy stared into my eyes and nodded, understanding ...

Uniqueness does not come from external things that people do to themselves or other things like what they wear. All the uniqueness that radiates to ...

It isn't about knowing the most stories, child. It is about carrying the ones that are most important and passing them along.

It's like painting the same blank canvas over and over and over and over and over. Once the concept is known, you don't need to ...

You know, Roland and I were just talking about how we don't have any pyromaniac friends. And everyone knows you need a good pyro to ...

I know that's what people say you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, ...

Style is attitude, attitude, attitude!

Well, now that I'm thoroughly and diligently queer, I expected more manly love-talk, you know? Not like Pretty Baby and feeding you grapes and stuff," ...

Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo.

I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to ...

My mother was a stay-at-home mom until I was about 11, when she got a job - and it was like a light came on ...

Human beings are infinitely fallible, completely unreliable. Science is not. Science is absolute. Under strict principles, if you do A and B, then C will ...

Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.

I support same-sex civil unions and I believe no should be denied their rights

Okay, it is what it is and I am what I it, but its isness and my itness seem to be stretching the meaning of ...

I think things are more confused now than in several years, and I think the reason is that the governor is vacillating on it. He's ...

Sorry, I just want a quick little summary of what you do."Wick chuckled. "He already knows you're long-winded, mate."Dov glared at him. "I'm sorry?"Wick's smile ...

Sometimes I just want to write a really intense love scene. But I can't do that in my books for teens, or parents will complain ...

I'm excited about seeing a bipartisan plan to reform education in the United States. The only other option is to protect the status quo and ...

Every human being makes mistakes, so why should you be afraid? Go to the One who can get rid of the mistakes and tell him, ...

I'm not a U.S. citizen. I mean, I'm an earth-izen. Borderline policies are crap to me.

Letters do love one another. However, due to their anatomical differences, some letters have a hard time achieving intimacy.

Everybody that went away suffered a broken heart. "I'm coming back some day," they all wrote. But never did. The old life was too small ...

If I'm in a relationship and my girlfriend is sleeping with other people, I don't need to know who it is; I just want to ...

When we have no families, we must find support elsewhere. Sometimes in strangers. We're all alone on this earth. We must take any hand that's ...

The only ones to profit from illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing are the owners of the fishing fleets who remain hidden behind veils of corporate ...