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However superficially appealing, the idea that a religious tradition could be saved from crisis because a group of intellectuals radically reinterpreted its sacred texts is ...

The brilliant thing about swimming is that, while you're doing it, there's nothing else you could be getting on with, like the ironing or sorting ...

Angel blinked hard and bit her lip, trying to stop the quivering of her chin. "I feel like I've waited my whole life for him, ...

It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never ...

It was a mistake to not tell you how I felt. It's haunted me since the day I came home and found you gone. You'll ...

Also your mom. Bro, I saw your mom kiss you on the cheek this morning, and forgive me, but I swear to God I was ...

I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.

There is no place where espionage is not possible.

When I received the news of the Nobel Peace Award, I could not believe it. I told my father, 'I think they have the wrong ...

In 1971, 73 percent of incoming freshmen said that it is essential or very important to "develop a meaningful philosophy of life," 37 percent to ...

Chronic negative thinking and the emotions it invokes is, like many destructive behaviors, a form of addiction ... it may not be very pleasant, but ...

They have in me struck down but the trunk of the tree; the roots are many and deep - they will shoot up again!

There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of ...

He was impugning my virtue. I ought to have been offended, but for some reason the idea tickled me. That could be my next career: ...

Sugar, you've got so much heat locked inside, you make Mount St. Helens look weak." He dragged his thumb across her lower lip, and her ...

I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it. Then ...

You go out and obtain from your political allies and friends in the academic world to sign a letter saying that the offenses as alleged ...

Migration is a feature of globalisation. You can't stop it; so every time a political party says it is going to be tough on immigration, ...

I can wait. I am in love with you, Marie. You don't have to say it yet. I know you like to think things through. ...

It's always a pleasure watching you wake up," he commented. "But sometimes I wonder if you want me only for my coffee.""Well ... " She ...

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 ...

And one of the things I learned is that one should live in spite of. Although, one should eat. Although, one should love. Although, it ...

The actual God of many Americans ... is simply the current of American life.

There has been a most Providential Guidance which the want of prudence, vigilance, or judgement has not impeded, and it is here that we can ...

You have deep-seated survival anxieties. And you don't like bigots, bullies, snobs or hypocrites. Subconsciously there are many people you hate.""Consciously, sir, consciously," Yossarian corrected ...

I'm not... I'm not without a heart,' he heard Sophia say, her chin raised, eyes straight ahead. 'I'm not. I just don't have the luxury ...

Now the world has gone to bed,' Marvin droned, 'Darkness won't engulf my head, 'I can see by infra-red, 'How I hate the night.' He

I think they look like little pieces of green confetti decorating the grey cement walk and that seems all wrong.

One day I looked in the mirror, and I wasn't happy. If you're not feeling good mentally, emotionally and physically, you're just a mess - ...

Today I write,riots with insite!Tomorrow I read,take the lead!Sometimes I sleep, health to keep!But for now I write,and got no gripe!

[H]istorians have powerful imaginations, which are essential and dangerous.

Its not greener on the other side of the fence, its just a different shade of brown over there. Be happy with who you are ...

Of late years wealth has made us greedy, and self-indulgence has brought us, through every kind of sensual excess, to be, if I may so ...

There's always a latent or inferred image in my writing. And I can almost always assume if I do a drawing that it will eventually ...

Oh my God! Why did I leave India? I fell in love with a white man. That's what it was. It was the most boring, ...

God knows I'm not perfect, either. I've made tons of stupid mistakes, and later I regretted them. And I've done it over and over again, ...

Her internalization of Catholicism and its institutional disappointments suited a dental office perfectly, where guilt was often our last resort for motivating the masses.

Courage is not beating up the bully or letting the bully beat you up, it is standing strong before the bully and seeing him for ...

Canadian weather resembles a slightly spoiled beautiful girl with a good heart, but a bad disposition. After being horrid for much too long a time, ...

The insect-youth are on the wing,Eager to taste the honied spring,And float amid the liquid noon!

Half a thou too small," he said. "The difference between Right and Wrong. Half a thou bigger, and it'ld be Right. As it is, it's ...

I know that life, I've done all those things, and I can still tell you that just being you is perfectly fine.

Irix, my beloved klepto.

If you're not happy, just leave. Don't cheat. Doesn't take a genius to figure that shit out. - Kenji

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.

The greatest thing in the world is love. But the worst isn't hate, it's ignoringance.

The only incontrovertible fact of my work is the importance of life.

I tried to talk my daughter out of going with a hockey player but, he's a good kid. He asked me if he could marry ...

I don't know what kind of life you had, what sorts of joys and sorrows you experienced. But even if there was something that left ...

I'm talking about the language of flowers. It's from the Victorian era, like your name. If a man gave a young lady a bouquet of ...

Of all the thousands of gifts I received in my eight years in the White House, few were more welcome and needed than these twelve ...

What has he found who has lost God?And what has he lost who has found God?

The fear of death is that you are dying too soon. Nobody wants to, but at the point that you die you can pray that ...

I wasn't made with wings so I could fly away. So here I stand, fighting for a brighter day. That fight begins with me.

Everybody, be they female, whatever your religion, whatever your nationality, you're an individual, and if you perform well, we want you, and if you don't, ...

I am aware it's easy and may be fashionable to pose with a slum child, and the irony of getting the media along means that ...

Driveway basketball, playing against the boys, watching Magic and Michael.

Sometimes you win or sometimes you lose.I don't wanna lose you, Don't even own you.I just wanna stay right here, Until never dawns

I'd do it all again for you. Do it all over again. Go back to the very start. You're worth every risk.

Isis, the Egyptian goddess of renewal is symbolized for the Hindus by Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. Brahma is the creator, Vishnu the sustainer, and Shiva ...

The seductive power of sex and money is nothing compared to that of words.

The answer is that the question itself is strictly inapposite.

The best and most innovative products don't always win ... (it's an) aesthetic flaw in how the universe worked

When I was younger, I used to make resolutions which imagined were virtuous. I was less anxious to be what I was, than to become ...

God, would you just come here, Kate? I'll behave, I promise. It wrecks me to see you cry and not be able to hold you. ...

I think that'll always be there for [Clint] Barton, right? You have real life, and then you have fight life. And that's the character that ...

In spite of his capacity for concealing his emotions, I could easily see that Holmes was in a state of suppressed excitement, while I was ...

From the point of view of basic physics, the most interesting phenomena are, of course, in the new places, the places where the rules do ...

Orphans? Would you really? Adopt children?""There are advantages. If they turn out badly, we can blame their natural parents. We can also choose our own ...

I am a gypsy, Mahgen. What that means is that sometimes I do shit. On purpose. Shit, that pisses people off. And I like it. ...

Thou content to leave thy prayer in his hands, who knows when to give, and how to give, and what to give, and what 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 ...

But when Lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish arts of sin, Lets in defilement to the ...

Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability of that belief.

Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; ...

I worked with Marlon Wayans on the show 'They Wayans Brothers,' and we hit it off. One thing about Marlon, when he casts a movie ...

I had a dream about you. You were lost in a daydream, when I walked in and you began screaming. But I know that could ...

Once you've changed who you are or who you've portrayed in your music, the fans, they'll catch it ... Once I feel like the world ...

God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.

Let's be honest, I don't think anyone ever wants to settle down in Hollywood - it's a place you go to work. And once you've ...

Let them (the wicked) see the beauty of virtue, and pine at having forsaken her.[Lat., Virtutem videant, intabescantque relicta.]

Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker's reflection.

You promised me you would never cheat on me, that you'd love me forever and we would never get a divorce." "I still love you, ...

Beck's smile is intense and sincere, a smile with, not a smile at. Mom used to say you could tell a lot by the way ...

A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

Worry is a habit. It got into your mind because you practiced it, and anything you practice in, you can practice out.

If you thought when you got your job at 20 that it would never change you were misinformed. Retrain yourself to be curious.

I don't miss the bureaucracy of being in the Army. But I still love the relationships you can build. And it doesn't have to be ...

Let us bless thee at all times and forget not how thou hast forgiven our iniquities, healed our diseases, redeemed our lives from destruction, crowned ...

Being my dad's daughter has allowed me to do a lot of things that maybe another artist might not be able to do or wouldn't ...

I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me ...

I know my redeemer lives and that in the end he will stand on the earth(Job 19:25). Thank you Jesus, You alone are worthy our ...

You are a word doctor. Repair the breaches of the soul. Rebuild the broken walls of the personality. Comfort those who have lost their hearts. ...

In an economy where the only certainty is uncertainty, the one sure source of lasting competitive advantage is knowledge.

Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how ...

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invicible host against difficulties.

I would suggest that the prisons I incessantly create are not designed to lock me in, rather they are designed to lock the world out. ...

I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. ...

The real value - and the real effort - lies in helping business managers identify how to change the business and then helping them play ...