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If others had not been foolish, we should be so.
I think broken people gravitate toward one another, like our shattered pieces connect on a level that unscarred people never know.
I want to move from what we let go of to whom we hold on to. I want to explore not just the gravity of ...
The most intense skeptics and the most intense believers of our age share a common conviction: that beneath all superficial appearances lies a deeper truth.
When a customer walks in to by a drill, they actually don't want the drill, they're trying to create a hole.
Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the targeting of civilians ceases immediately.
You can't be a bad boy without somebody scolding you.
What if Jesus' secret message reveals a secret plan?. What if he didn't come to start a new religion-but rather came to start a political, ...
The kids all literally think I'm Spider-Man, and they ask me how I shoot my webs. It's flattering and crazy, but it's Spider-Man they're in ...
Like the priestly cult of the Middle Ages, the modern priestly cult of "scientific" psychotherapists exist overwhelmingly to stultify or blunt a too-acute insight into ...
My part in AC/DC is just adding the color on top.
Amazingly talented singer who sang like an angry angel
English restrictive legislation merely hastened the process and inadvertently pushed Americans toward self-sufficiency. At
My ideal date would involve painful silence. My ideal date wouldn't involve me.
Words are inaccurate pointers to reality and should by no means be trusted.
I can't go back and wait and wait ... if [he] isn't going to come.
So, what do you think, my dear, will it be a girl or a boy?""It will be a soul-stealer, apparently.""What!" The earl reared away from ...
As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool other people about ...
The courage to be yourself is the essence of hip hop
Two humans and a betrayer. They had taken his past, shattered his mind, and imprisoned him in a living hell. Worst of all they had ...
Jesus is no draughtsman of political blueprints, he is the one who vanquished evil through suffering. It looked as though evil had triumphed on the ...
The Bible begins with paradise lost, at which time pain, suffering, and death first entered the human race. The Bible ends with paradise regained, at ...
The gap in the fire which had opened up before him, so that the twisted grimace on the face of existence had become visible through ...
His mouth made him feel like he was gonna win. Not his hands, I had my hand. He had his lips.
I never speak ill of dead people or live judges.
I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him ...
Screenwriting is still a challenge for me. It's more technical than creative. You have to be a very good journeyman plumber and put the proper ...
Nathan "N.R." Gaddis did not say ::2109 fellow Goodreaders [can't be wrong] gave [King Lear] 1 star. Many call it boring. Some even say it ...
It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.
Stanford professor Jennifer Aaker's work shows that setting obtainable goals is key to happiness. Instead of perfection, we should aim for sustainable and fulfilling.
We feel secure with things we can see or touch.
When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.
Physically, mentally, emotionally it seems like every part of me is broken in one way or another.
I wasn't doing any work that day, just catching up on my foot dangling.
Sympathy is the charm of human life ...
It is almost as stupid to let your clothes betray that you know you are ugly as to have them proclaim that you think you ...
Nobody will tell me what I can or I cannot do.
Always at home. - One day we reach our goal, and now point with pride to the long travels we undertook to reach it. In ...
When I was about eleven, I went to stay with Grans in Montauk for four weeks while August was having his big jaw surgery.
In many criminals, especially youthful ones, it is possible to detect a very powerful sense of guilt which existed before the crime, and is therefore ...
Because all actions and expressionsstem from the mind, it is vital to know themind as well as decide in what way we'll use it. Everyone ...
A 'alf-litre ain't enough. It don't satisfy. And a 'ole litre's too much.
Don't feel bad for me. I think I'm, like, so pretty.
UNDERSTANDING Everything is a game of beliefs; 'Understanding' is the whole thing.
If you can't solve a problem, manage it.
Shouldn't the low strings be at the bottom?
In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With Instagram, the focus ...
Mueller and Stewart estimate that expenditures on domestic homeland security (i.e., not counting the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan) have increased by more than $1 ...
There may well be writers who roll up their sleeves and say, 'I'm going to write a post-9/11 novel' but I wasn't one of those.
What the fuck happened to you? [...] You look like you lost a fight with a lamprey. Hickey, hickey...bruise, bruise, bruise...bite. I thought that thing ...
When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, 'cause ...
Adam looked at Them. They were his kind of people, too.You just had to decide who your friends really were.
And I'd have you know, through all of it, I still had perfect nails! Because I am completely swell.
That's gross! Mister Hop had his tongue in your mouth!" After which he instantly turned to his father and kept yelling, "You do that to ...
A challenge to the right of Israel to exist can be construed as a challenge to the existence of the Jewish people only if one ...
As soothing as it would be to rip off his arm and beat him with it, it would really slow things down.
I'm afraid of plenty of things," he said. "I just do them anyway.
Without coffee, nothing gets written. Period.
He's got claws!" Ben shook his head, hard."All the better to rip into prey." Jude took a step forward."What's up with his eyes? Why are ...
The thing that seemed to me so important about the psychedelic experience was that it happened to me. I wasn't reading John Chrysostom or Meister ...
Writing a song is almost like cheating-writing because you don't have to finish your sentences, you don't have to use any punctuation, no one's going ...
Avoid the things in your life that take away from your stillness. Find things that add to that stillness. Bring them more into your life. ...
Is it safe?" Gansey asked. "Safe as life," Adam replied.
Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement.
When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a ...
I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.
The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity.
I like The Smiths as well. They took a cue from The Buzzcocks. They have jangly guitars instead of distorted guitars. All the Manchester bands ...
Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.
She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.
The first profile piece on myself came about after my Rabbi sent information to the Jewish Chronicle on what I was up to. The story ...
My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist's most ...
I always was a funny guy, the class clown. I had a very funny dad and an extremely funny grandmother.
The Holy Spirit is not "the Doer," but rather the "Helper." He will not do it without us, but if we engage He will help ...
Everybody wants to be American, it seems; I travel enough to know.
Philosopher is becoming God in the process called life.
It was the first morning of the first day of the new century. Snow blanketed the ground. Anything was possible.
Our planet is falling victim to a rigorism, so that what is done in any remote corner affects - nay, menaces - the whole. Resiliency ...
Raising awareness. It's a good thing. Makes people think twice.
I think that winning creates chemistry, as opposed to other way around. I've been on a lot of friendly teams that couldn't win, trust me.
Fear manifested itself as a physical presence that seemed to dominate the public sphere. Time almost stopped. Even without confirmation I could sense that something ...
In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said It is the trade entering his body.
All hands drowned, except the Red Hound of Mykenos, who bit the sea until it spit him back. Old
The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.
A woman should never underestimate the power of the child in the man. Sometimes the child seems to be in the driver's seat at the ...
Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
Hmmm,' the King said, making a face. 'I'm not sure this is what we bargained for, boy. We expected the girl to be attractive.' If ...
All those commodities are going to have to rise in value as we are in short supply and we are printing too much money.
We stand a professional distance apart, as if I can't feel his pain screaming in my head. Mine amplifies his; they share a joint sound ...
Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.
I believe if a sentence is to retain its strength over time, it needs to be carefully made.
Cornell changed my life; getting in there was one of my pinnacle moments.
They have the qualities of water: flowing around rocks, adapting to the course of the river, sometimes forming into a lake until the hollow fills ...
Of course, the slightest little mistake on the wire will deprive me of my life, so in that sense, yes, it is a dangerous profession. ...
There's enough work in the Kingdom for everyone.
Never let your wife prevent you from buying equipment. A car will not buy a synthesizer, but a synthesizer can buy a car.
This is what it means to be in the middle of love, I thought. Being in the middle of love is like being in the ...
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 ...
It may at first appear strange, but I believe it is true, that I cannot by means of money raise a poor man and enable ...
You are a rare kind of crazy, man.