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Many politicians used their positions for the benefit of themselves and their friends rather than the patriotic
I'm everybody's friend, unless they don't like me. And then, I just totally can't understand that. I actually can't. I get really hurt if someone ...
I don't fight for legacy. I don't fight for none of that, I fight for that check. I'm in the check cashing business.
What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.
Mark Twain said "all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources.
Record stores keep the human social contact alive it brings people together. Without the independent record stores the community breaks down with everyone sitting in ...
I have a scar on my forehead. I was three years old, jumping on the bed with my brothers, and I fell off and hit ...
The head-master made a
You know what I do on Sundays? I sing in a choir. I sing in a Greek Orthodox choir, and I'm the only hillbilly tenor ...
No! Oh, my God, stop going for my nipples!" Aidan screamed, hitting all the high notes and making Lucifer shake his head in disgust as ...
I read therefore I write.
Jamie reached across and took my right hand in his, his fingers linking with mine, and the silver of my ring shone red in the ...
We may be touched by the most powerful of suppositions--even to a certainty--as we stand in the rose petals of the sun and hear a ...
We need someone in Washington who knows how to build jobs from the ground up.
A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing ...
As long as we fail to face up to the past and deal with it accordingly, the future will smack of corruption.
When I walk the streets I want to call to the spirits that are mine and know they will love me not only for my ...
A soooooooooooooooooooooon! I'm having a sooooooooooooooooooooooooon!
It was then that she realized she still had God. He was the only one who hadn't left her. He knew who she was, even ...
Women don't want all that. Women just want a partner who is considerate and attentive, who will spoon with them while reciting Keats, and feed ...
I'm so glad I didn't die on the various occasions I have earnestly wished I might, for I would have missed a lot of lovely ...
All life is energy and we are transmitting it at every moment. We are all little beaming little signals like radio frequencies, and the world ...
I added that it was no fun to grow old, but that the compensation for it was that time turned your mental shit-detector into a ...
It's OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, ...
Oh, where is the innocence I must never lose?" ~Antonio
Life is too short to spend in negativity. So I have made a conscious effort to not be where I don't want to be.
I don't do well with snakes and I can't dance.
I would celebrate the Holy Communion service in my pajamas if I thought it would help someone to find faith.
Being in Hollywood and having a love for Christ is hard. I mean, it's hard anywhere because Jesus is about the Upside Down Kingdom. You ...
Harmony would only come with destruction.
There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.
Don't read a book and be a follower; read a book and be a student.
Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
I like listening to good music - and I can't stop playing my album.
They had stumbled either upon a serious flaw in modern financial markets or into a great gambling run. Characteristically, they were not sure which it ...
The pleasure of other people is a byproduct of the pleasure that comes from yourself so I cannot judge or look down on someone who ...
Some day I will show all the [people] who say I was a success just because of my pretty face. Sometimes I wish I had ...
The God of popular religion is not holy.
I don't need a boyfriend to be happy. If I meet someone and I want to be with him, then I will be. I'm very ...
Witness each moment in astounded jubilation. Take every holy breath in gratitude. Rejoice in life!
My story! Didn't you know? I was the poor stupid groom who was jilted at the altar."These Lines of Mehendi
Every inch of you was sent to me from heaven.
Make room for who you are by knowing who you're not.
The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.
What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either.
Since God doesn't do anything for them ... Do I have any choice but to help them on my own?
Midterm elections for first-term presidents are notoriously difficult.
Politics is everywhere. It's in your shirt, it's in your pants. It's everywhere.
First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.
Maybe money gets you killed in the end." "No, no," he said. "Money is what gets other people killed. By you.
Mylife might be little and boring, but at least it's mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life.
Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit ...
If fretting was an Olympic sport, I'd own the gold medal
If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.
You can't always choose which. Sometimes you have to BE which.
One can't teach a cat not to catch birds
Your time is your life. Don't waste either of them.
I don't like the idea of [having] a thick skin. I think we [should] be more childlike.
I'm healthy and excited to play. And I think this year can be a big year for me if I get the opportunity. I can ...
Absolutely not. It's just that I kind of work for Ethan, and it will be really hard to face him if I have to hear ...
(the term 'lunatic' derives from luna, the Latin word for moon). Many writers, from antiquity onwards, maintained that the mad were directly affected by the ...
Color is a very personal thing. You need to make sure to choose a color that makes you happy. But I don't recommend accent walls ...
The power of HEART is much stronger than the power of MIND to empower our life.
My personal style is bipolar. Sometimes I feel like dressing in a boyish leather jacket; other times I want to dress more elegantly. Most of ...
In my eyes, perfection is imperfection
The consequence of a very free commerce between the sexes, and of their living much together, will often terminate in intrigues and gallantry.
So what if those stupid roosters don't want to crow? If we've learned to live without men, we can learn to live without cocks.
The very existence of a world carries with it the proof of a world-maker, as the table guarantees the pre-existence of the carpenter. Granting
The problem, says my sister, Kelly, is not that I can't get over Naomi - it's that I refuse to.... Loving Naomi and waiting for ...
Every man's first declaration of love is bathosthe zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.
It must be a wonderful thing to be so sure that you love somebody.
The Cigarette had a mackintosh which put him more or less above these contrarieties. But I had to bear the brunt uncovered. I began to ...
Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be ...
Talent is divinely gifted, and never to be cheaply exchanged for the sake of trinkets and fame.
Diana Vishneva is not only a magnificent dancer but a magnificent actress - no one works harder or understands more.
Jehan snorted. "He's a legend in his own mind. Pay no attention to him." Sav barked a laugh. "Envy isn't a good look for you, ...
History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.
The satisfying sound of bone giving way, as well as his outraged cry, made the you-had-it-coming-asshole angles sing.
But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes ... and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't ...
(I've learned) how important it is to really evaluate your own life ... to pay attention to what's going on in your own head, and ...
Ifemelu would also come to learn that, for Kimberly, the poor were blameless. Poverty was a gleaming thing; she could not conceive of poor people ...
I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction ...
This is bigger than me," he said finally. "It's bigger than polka, even. So I guess I'll help.
I received the grace of shadows. The grace of remaining in the dark. - From A Nest of Quiet: A Notebook
It's not enough to fill your head with wondrous ideas - you must initiate action.
Mr. Solomon was right the worst kind of torture is watching someone you love get hurt.
Each of us is a product of all our experiences and all our interactions with other people.
A small insect, clearly suffering from acute depression, decided that my open mouth was the ideal route for a suicide mission. With kamikaze-like determination, it ...
The right man won't care
It's way too early for him to be talking anyhow but I see in his eyes something and I see in his eyes a voice ...
Modern cyberspace is a deadly festering swamp, teeming with dangerous programs such as 'viruses,' 'worms,' 'Trojan horses' and 'licensed Microsoft software' that can take over ...
Like the Bible-a document that often contradicts itself and from which one can construct sharply different arguments-theology is the product of human hands and hearts.
Can we swim?" Sky asks, resting her chin on my shoulder."Did you bring a suit?" Please say no, please say no ... "Yeah."Crap. "Great.
For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance ...
Actors are a really funny bunch of people, especially the X-Men cast. They're super funny and super nice, and they like to go out and ...
My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.
You can't be living always in the promise of the clouds; it must rain now. Leave the talking and live by walking ... It will ...
A young critic is like a boy with a gun; he fires at every living thing he sees. He thinks only of his own skill, ...