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I think it's easy to hold on to this romantic hope that communities such as Niaqornat won't change, because we're in this world where progress ...
If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.
If you just stop and think, baby, honey, love is a funny thing. Whatever you put in, that's what you expect to gain.
Carl Jung said that only an introvert could see "the unfathomable stupidity of man
I gave to a [Hillary Clinton ]foundation that, frankly, that foundation is supposed to do good. I didn't know her money would be used on ...
I love a blouse that's dumb. I love to use the word 'dumb.' It's not knowing, and the word 'blouse' is so out of fashion ...
I ask myself, "Why am I so serious?" Everyone else asks me, "Why are you such a joker?
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
I just realized how long it was since the last album, and where did the time go? You know?
Obstacles are Opportunities in disguise.
I have no idea what happens next
Jimmy McGovern - I love his writing, and I'm a big fan of him and Alan Clarke.
The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers.
It [his brothers assassination] made Robert Kennedy, a man unprepared for introspection, think for the first time in his life, what he wanted to do, ...
President Obama is in China now for an economic summit in Beijing. The president wore a traditional purple silk shirt along with Chinese President Xi ...
As strange as it seemed, I knew in my heart that one day her death would affect me, and stranger still, that mine would affect ...
The Jets seem to be a franchise in freefall.
I've been very physical my whole life. I've done a lot of ballet, fencing and karate, and everything.
Christian literature makes reference to many episodes that parallel the experiences of those going a yogic way. Saint Anthony, one of the first desert mystics, ...
I have discovered an astonishing truth. God is attracted to weaknesses.
Kitsch of course only comes into existence when we recognize how and why it works.
What would his father do then? Go on, Johnny supposed. People had a way of doing that, just going on, pushing through with no particular ...
The best all-around [running] back in the league is Jamaal Charles. He has the ability to hit a homerun from anywhere.
I'm not James Bond. There's your headline! It's very clear to me that he's the furthest from my character that it's possible to be. It's ...
Always evaluate and determine the product of your life
It's love that enslaves us.
Tagged by a whiny little vamp. Rache, take this sword and stick it in me. Just go and stick it in me. I'm a back-drafted, ...
Perfect endings... they don't exist, 'Phie. Only in stories, where nothing ever really changes. Here, right now, isn't a story. There is no happy ending, ...
Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence.
Poetry lies its way to the truth.
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 ...
From the CEO to the receptionist to the office manager, everybody at your startup business should know that one-minute elevator pitch.
There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautifulmany more.
We want a strong, growing economy
The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to ...
I don't care anymore. Even if she never speaks to me again because of the press, she's worth it. She makes me a person, not ...
I am a Christian, you know, Julia.'So am I. But I'm not above staying out of jail any way I can.
Pessimism is not good for the soul.""I sold my soul years ago.""To whom?""The bitch goddess Success. She cut town before paying off.
A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor ...
I hate mice. The mouse involves you in arm motions that slow you down. I didn't want it on the Macintosh, but Jobs insisted. In ...
Judging books by their covers is seriously underrated, and any book nerd who claims never to have done it is probably lying.
How did you tell a man that you'd grown up, that you'd learned true love wasn't a night of passionate sex under a sky lit ...
I would rather be strong at heart than strong at mind
You keep doing that, and you'll find yourself mated quick enough.""It's no' for me. I'm perfectly content just as I am."Ryder made a face. "Are ...
Is there a God? Yeah, but there's not just one God. There's a whole lot of gods, because one God couldn't have possibly made so ...
He was insane, he thought people were trying to destroy him, to suck out his guts, but, she noted, in the rare event that someone ...
The Jedi shackle themselves in chains of obedience: obedience to the Jedi Council; obedience to their Masters; obedience to the Republic. Those who follow the ...
Bird of Wide Experience I
I did listen to 1920s jazz or Al Johnson and a lot of early singers coming out of England. I would branch out a little ...
If you took some famous religious leader, for example, and said it would be nice to clone them indefinitely so you have a dynasty of ...
When I started writing, I was reading people such as Tom Clancy or Michael Crichton, who did 'Jurassic Park,' which is possibly the most action-filled ...
I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
When I moved to Los Angeles, I was straight out of grad school, and I didn't have a single credit to my name. I knew ...
I know enough about Satan to realize that he will have all his weapons ready for determined opposition. He would be a missionary simpleton who ...
She'd never been big on church before, but as soon as we landed on cancer planet she went so over-the-top Jesucristo that I think she ...
Thinking about writing isn't writing. Planning to write isn't writing. Neither is talking about it, posting about it, or complaining how hard it is. These ...
Iranian women are very consciously aware of gender-explicit oppression. Therefore: with so much more at stake, Iranian women have each other's back: on the street, ...
That's one way we differ, Jaime and I. He's taller as well, you may have noticed.
Jesus. 7For we havea great joyb and consolation in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed by you, brother.
You have very short travel blogs, and I think there's a split among travel writers: the service-oriented writers will say, 'Well, the reader wants to ...
Because now there's time enough not to hurry, to light the lamp and open the window to the moon and take a moment to dream ...
Many good people read the manuscript and offered valuable suggestions, corrections, encouragement, and information.
I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were ...
A person (or an animal) who feels there are no alternatives will fight even when violence isn't justified, even when the consequences are perceived as ...
Who's got my Jaffa Cakes? You know I can't function without Jaffa Cakes.
If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, 'That is out there.'
The image of Jiao's face when she was told he had been drowned with a half-naked woman tied to his body made him giggle and ...
The basic postulate from which I start is that the goal of the social sciences is the liberation of man.
A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends, And the first salmon and the first green peas.
And if one day there's distanceBetween your hand and mine,When our hands join once again,My heart and soul will shine.
It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according ...
The entire Habitat family mourns the loss of our founder, a true giant in the affordable housing movement. Our prayers are with the entire Fuller ...
I love working with an audience. I love working with actual people who, you know, if they're moved, you see it. If you say something ...
So you never got to wherever it was. Weren't you terribly disappointed, Sebastian?Julia Flyte
There isn't any wall, however high, however wide or however big, whatever it is made from, that can bar you from achieving a better life. ...
Different people have different opinions, and it's okay to respect all of them.
People ask me to describe how I play, and the most obvious answer is that I'm a jazz influenced guitar player. But I'm not a ...
If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.
I think in English history a very interesting character is John Lilburne. Very interesting character because of the way he managed to develop the whole ...
I think the big evolutionary step for me is directing my own movies.
Those professions which are not so much involved in life itself as concerned with abstract truths are the most dangerous for the young man whose ...
Kids and adults have sex for many, many reasons ... Put out a question box.
My tastes went all over the place, from Strauss to Mahler. I was never a big Wagner or Tchaikovsky fan. Benjamin Britten, Tallis, all the ...
Girly' products can spur Japan's growth in this century every bit as much as, if not more than, the 'manly' technologies.
Me? With only one woman forever and ever, blah, blah, blah. I don't think so, brother. I am having too much fun with all the ...
The second paradox, and the subtler of the two, is that while information is ubiquitous in wealthy societies, it is often too hard to find, ...
There's a massive glitter ball in my head and it has never stopped turning
Between the journeymen, vampires crouched like monstrous gargoyles: hairless, corded with a tight network of steel-hard muscle, and smeared in lime-green and purple sunblock. Bubble-gum-tinted ...
Carpe Jugulum," read Agnes aloud. "That's ... well, Carpe Diem is 'Sieze the Day,' so this means-" "Go for the throat
Cyril, church warden and lead tenor in the choir, lives with mother, banned from unsupervised contact with schoolchildren; Harold, drunk dentist, early retirement, pretty thatched ...
In 'Bush v. Gore,' five justices had a partisan outcome in mind and then made up the judicial principle to justify it, while claiming that ...
How do ou feel about your prophesied destiny? Imust know, if I am to compose this epic.""Feel?" Rand looked around the camp, at the Jindo ...
Little minds try to defend everything at once, but sensible people look at the main point only; they parry the worst blows and stand a ...
Nerve cells communicate with one another at specialized points called synapses. And these synapses are plastic - they can be modified by learning.
Only mass education, he used to say, would free my people, arguing that an educated man could not be oppressed because he could think for ...
The dot was introduced as a symbol for multiplication by Leibniz. On July 29, 1698, he wrote in a letter to Johann Bernoulli: I do ...
Tapping a finger against the flesh of her elbow, she deadpanned, Jacin Clay, there is an assassin under my bed.
Advertising is the art of persuasion.
What makes you so special? Why should you get it and all the rest of us be in the dark?"The momentum of the argument abruptly ...
I drive. That's what I do. All I do.