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Take my hand when you are worried Take my hand when you're alone Take my hand and let me guide you Take my hand to ...
Work like a slave; command like a king; create like a god.
What you doin' with this gun?
Black churches minister to social needs out of necessity.
You could clearly tell that the country had no sovereignty: this was still colonization in its ugliest face. In the so-called free world, the politicians ...
The idea of having one ensemble do everything is what was on 'Sea Lion' and that's what I tried to make happen for 'Metals,' which ...
Some men over-tweeze their eyebrows, and it's just too perfect. Men are meant to have kind of a bushy brow. Too much aftershave is also ...
You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.
I've always associated consciousness with artists like Bob Marley or Joni Mitchell or Bob Dylan. You know, artists that really talked about what was going ...
A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.
The cheerful loser is the winner.
How I envy writers who can work on aeroplanes or in hotel rooms. On the run I can produce an article or a book review, ...
I'm the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have pursued medicine as ...
This assignment could damn well project all the words across my face and the ink stain my hands a gory mess before I finished it.
I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and ...
There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields.
CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, author of 'Cogito ergo sum' to demonstrate the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved 'Cogito cogito ergo ...
You don't want to be the smartest person in the room; you want to be the dumbest in the room. You want to be surrounded ...
I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month.
Periplus of the Erythrean Sea, written
Redwoods flourish in fog, but they don't like salt air. They tend to appear in valleys that are just out of sight of the sea. ...
Certainly if we hope do enhance and extend whatever natural assets we were given, we must expect to make an effort, if not actually great ...
I had to have my first kiss in front of, like, a hundred people. I didn't know what to do. So my sisters told me ...
Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.
I'm sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I'm still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
Thunder rolled ... It is said that the gods play games with the lives of men. But what games, and why, and the identities of ...
We grow to deserve what we need to believe ... Since I've known youI've been careful not to pray out loudWishes have a way of ...
Respond kindly even to unkind treatment.Respond prudently even to imprudent treatment.Respond justly even to unjust treatment.The world surrenders to an enlightened mind.The stars surrender to ...
And they were going to end up in bed. It was just a matter of finding the right time and a half hour of privacy.
With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.
We're making it more difficult to obtain the necessary ingredients to produce meth and tightening criminal penalties for those who deal in this dangerous drug.
When I go to the mountains, I intuitively know my place in the world much better through these experiences. The more intense they are, the ...
I believe that's when God first started speaking to my heartthe very day I started speaking to His!
One who looks outside, dreams. One who looks inside, awakens.
That is the most godlike feeling a human can experience; being ignored by rebellious child.
A wolf cannot outrun its shadow.
People don't understand real musicians anymore. Jack White is great - he's the real thing - but he isn't having hits.
The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.
It must be that there is something in the hearts of human beings, some natural fluid perhaps, that insists on happiness, even confronted with the ...
He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.
We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it ...
I once started a detective story to make money-but I couldn't get the murder to take place! At the end of three chapters I was ...
Death is a part of the orderly process of human life. There is nothing as final as extinction.
I ignored the teachings of our Messenger, that all men are brothers, and that there is no difference among them save in the goodness of ...
Sweet like syrup of ipecac, she leaves my system with my guts in her hands.
Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human, ...
Don't wait until you're faced with someone's absence to acknowledge the importance of their presence. Love them now. Realize that the flaws, irritations, bad habits, ...
Make an effort with tenacity to make real impact that works and don't just create an impression with deception
The idea of quick methods to success in this life or the Afterlife is a deception, unrealistic and unislamic.
Anytime you hear different things - whether it's trade rumors or people saying you're not living up to your complete potential - you're obviously going ...
The ability to have our own way, and at the same time convince others they are having their own way, is a rare thing among ...
Isaiah 9:10: "The bricks have fallen, But we will rebuild with hewn stone; The sycamores have been cut down, But we will plant cedars in ...
No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in ...
No matter how scary the road ahead may seem, never be afraid to chase your dreams.
I go to my Room and I drink and I smoke some cigarettes and I think about her. I drink and I smoke and I ...
The most important lesson I have ever learned is that I haven't learned anything.
If you can pick up a ground ball you'll play for any team you want.
The very first time I kissed you, I got a taste of your soul and it was everything that I am not; it was light ...
The only failure in writing is when you stop doing it. Then you fail yourself.
Affliction is a bruising of a blessing; but it is a blessing from the hand of God.
Red tape has killed more people than bullets...
In this same library we saw some drawings by Michael Angelo (these Italians call him Mickel Angelo,) and Leonardo da Vinci. (They spell it Vinci ...
Michelle Obama blows my mind. Form and function, style and grace.
Rick stared at him. "Your brother is an alien.""Yeah, but he's a cute one.
It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he ...
In 1596 a man called William Wayte claimed to have been set upon by four assailants outside the Swan Theatre
What a rush you're in to show me the last dregs of your vile soul!
Once more into the breach
It had come to him that no one would ever look from these eyes but he: that among all the lives, numerous beyond imagination, in ...
As our Father makes many a flower to bloom unseen in the lonely desert, [let us] do all that we can do, as under God's ...
I was born in the island of Ireland. I have Irish traits in me - we don't all have the traits of what came from ...
New media technologies can open up new opportunities for self-expression. But yoking one's identity too closely to certain characteristics of these technologies - and lacking ...
May we catch enough of a vision of Christ that we will not be satisfied unless we know him more fully.
When all is said and done, what must be remembered is a newspaper is a business. It used to be a fabulous business that made ...
Wrote a science fiction novel about a man who wins an argument with his wife, but it was rejected for being too farfetched.
The fans treated me royally.
What's truly importantand what I find myself forgetting and having to relearnis that right here, right now, I am free. Free to be myself and ...
We learn about life by exploring the texture and depth of space that composes our private inner world. In solitude we revisit our wounded feelings, ...
I have never doubted the importance of melody. I like melody very much, and I consider it the most important element in music, and I ...
No task is too small to not chase perfection and excellence!
The nice thing about enemies is you know where they stand. This is not always true of friends."--General Sergey Voloshin
Many Liberals are rightly dismayed that on this vital issue of climate change we are not simply without a policy, without any prospect of having ...
Why did I get married in a ballpark? My wife wanted a big diamond
A person could resist popular belief and stand up for personal principles, and though there may be consequences, not everything would necessarily be lost. In ...
The more you practice, the better. But in any case, practice more than you play.
My watch buzzed and told me I had ten minutes left to live. I turned my wrist to glance at it. Yep. This sucks.J.M. Friedman. ...
The forest fires are the worst disaster in California since I was elected.
Tides is a rich, taut, suspenseful, and funny exploration of two worlds, selkie and human. It's full of mystery but it's also so fully imagined ...
Richmond's newspaper questioned how a senior general could not even get two of his own generals to cooperate with him. They nicknamed him "Granny" Lee ...
The people that are making this world worse don't take a day off, how can I?
Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden ...
Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich that is the democracy of capitalist society.
If you got to have a dream, you may as well dream big.
You know when you're sitting on a chair and you lean back so you're just on two legs and you lean too far so you ...
It's difficult to root for America when the villains of the story live in a ditch and are armed with jagged rocks. At some point ...
Both Moscow and [Kiev], the modern and the ancient capitals, were reduced to ashes [by the Tartars]; a temporary ruin, less fatal than the deep, ...
Gods strength is manifestly perfected in your weakest weakness
The first song that I wrote was when I was with The Del Rios. I was like 14 years old but I was always putting ...
The truth is that I am a very independent person and I've always been. That probably damaged some of my relationships with men.
It can be annoying not to know who you are, where you came from, or what you're doing. To try to create a character without ...