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When people do not mind what God speaks to them in His word, God doth as little mind what they say to Him in prayer.
The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot separate friends, but ...
You want to pass for a normal person? Don't tiptoe into people's bedrooms at night! Ever!''I can be creepy in front of you.''No, you can't! ...
It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer ...
You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.
You can't get a pay raise when you're angry. People will react to the negative energy and will resist you.
Do you want me to reschedule, or can you move to your bedroom? I generally frown on cleaning around people while they're having sex. All ...
I am not ashamed to admit that I belong to those who fantasize that literature is capable of bringing new horizons and new perspectivesphilosophical, religious, ...
Clandestine attempts between late 1999 and 2002 to obtain from North Korea technology related to 1,300km range ballistic missiles, probably the No Dong 300km range ...
I think many of my books, including 'Handle with Care,' including 'My Sister's Keeper,' circle back to how far are we willing to go for ...
Elsie started to tell a lie she knew her husband wanted to hear. I don't love Buddy. I love you. To her astonishment, what came ...
How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up ...
Writing is not getting any easier or harder. I think I know what I want more, I know what I'm looking for.
Often old IT thinking cannot move fast enough in the age of the digitalization.
I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.
Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend another minute with on Thanksgiving Day to go buy them ...
Let my lips avoid vain repetition as I lift my voice in praise, O Lord. Distract me from my distractions, awaken me from the dullness ...
Of course managers win ball games.
A borderline suffers a kind of emotional hemophilia; [s]he lacks the clotting mechanism needed to moderate [her] spurts of feeling. Stimulate a passion, and the ...
Under current law, there is no additional penalty for someone who enters the United States illegally and then commits either a crime of violence or ...
If a magician makes a mistake, it's sometimes forgiven by the audience. If a gambling cheat makes a mistake, they will almost certainly lose their ...
Dominant people, it appears, use snap judgements and conform to received wisdom more than do the less dominant. Those who need power, and those who ...
There will never be "the right time" in your life to do a great thing. You must create that time and greatness will follow.
When you had to do something, you had to do it. And eventually, if you were lucky, you did it well.
I feel that if we don't take seriously the ways in which racism is embedded in structures of institutions, if we assume that there must ...
He calls you dear Sabine - Patronizing fart!
The world should not pass judgement upon the Negro, and especially the Negro youth, too quickly or too harshly. The Negro boy has obstacles, discouragements ...
The difference between dreamers and great ones is that the great ones can always perceive beyond their dark clouds of despair and struggles to see ...
Every yesterday we lose ourselves so that we can find ourselves in tomorrow.
Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of craftsmanship, I can't help but admire ...
Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision.
Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.
Ellie, I want everything with you.
It struck me as so hard to believe I was really getting what I wanted; it was always easier to feel the lack of something ...
No one in Washington realizes you can't borrow money endlessly.
It is a curious thing that the more the world shrinks because of electronic communications, the more limitless becomes the province of the storytelling entertainer.
We don't need Gun to make fun.
A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.
I'd encourage Ann to cling to God's character in spite of what her circumstances screamed.
I do not use my intellect to write my stories and books; I have a gut reaction to the things that my subconscious gives me.
But don't they say that all is fair in love and war? I heard that somewhere.""'They?' Who are 'they?'""I don't know. Just people.""That's what the ...
I escaped London in 1997 because it was hard to raise capital.
In the birthing process, you come out just realizing how stupid and weak men are! I mean, I might as well not have been in ...
Life is better when you're drunk. I ought to become an alcoholic.
I have heard of patriotism in the United States, and it is a virtue which may be found among the people, but never among the ...
With a good captain, a rough ocean turns into a calm lake; with a bad captain, a calm lake turns into a rough ocean!
Don't want to slump over the oars.
Scorsese and De Niro taught me to bring out the natural side of myself. And they taught me to think of myself as the average ...
That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal ...
I'd never seen him before, but he looked a lot like my next mistake.
Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love.
We exist in order to actualize the deepest desires of our hearts.
Everything that Marvel does, it's a chess move. Nothing is by accident.
I love being with my children. They're fascinating people.
I'm a huge fan of Eighties music.
If Jesus heals you instantly, praise him. If you are still waiting for healing, trust him. Your suffering is your sermon.
When someone tells me that 'the Almighty told me to do this', I want to see the transcript.
Begin accepting the gift now, and have every beautiful and good thing in life - and then share. ...
The pressure of his touch through my jacket and my sweater was more assurance than any promise ever made to me. It was a touch ...
And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties.
My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mules and mines were lit by candles. Mining was ...
Beauty is no handicap if you don't think about it.
Sometimes I pray when I really feel like I need God to help me with something, and sometimes we just have conversations. We just kick ...
I have specific playlists for arrivals in different cities. Tokyo skews new wave, Paris more jazz, and New York is Top 40.
The cutting of heads is become so much a la mode, that one is apt to feel of a morning whether their own is on ...
In the Jewish Quarter [Judengasse] was I born and educated; until my fifteenth year, they tried to beat the Talmud into me. My teachers were ...
Develop a little self-righteousness. A lot of that is an ugly thing, God knows, but a little applied over all your scruples is an absolute ...
I don't have the strength or wisdom to get through a single day without guidance and grace from God.
Is this the reality you wanted?!
Psychologists have shown the irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you ...
Security was now a thing of the past though it took a conscious effort to remember it; with no enemy in all the world there ...
I'm sure nobody wants to just work and earn money and all that stuff. I know it's difficult for people to break out of the ...
I try not to worry about things I can't do anything about.
It is important to have questionable friends you can trust unconditionally.
I like to mix pieces in my art direction from the '60s or the '40s and the '90s and present-day stuff. To me, that feels ...
Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?
History is just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not.
Musical theater is one of my passions.
Most departments of education are set up largely to regulate schools and hold them in compliance. They don't really help schools. When a school is ...
Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.
Sargent, when he painted the size of life, placed his canvas on a level with the model, walked back until canvas and sitter were equal ...
She could be affectionate, generous, and optimistic one day; vengeful, depressed, and irritable the next. In the colloquial language of her friends, she was "either ...
The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.
This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.
Say love is what keeps us together. The
A kind Providence has so skilfully adapted sex to sex and the mass of individuals to each other, that, with certain obvious exceptions, any male ...
He's the be all and end all of my friends right now.
It's fun when you start a movie, because it's kind of like you get to go Christmas shopping ... you get to make your wish ...
Those who do not succeed do not believe in their ability to exercise the potential power to forge beyond perceptions of limitations.
I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go to a conservatory ...
Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.
The Golden Straitjacket is the defining political-economic garment of globalization. [ ... ] The tighter you wear it, the more gold it produces.
Magic is a science.Miracle is the work.Mind is a laboratory.
I thought how sadly beauty of inscape was unknown and buried away from simple people and yet how near at hand it was if they ...
Before long, I forget Oscar the Girl-Exhaler
His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between ...
We can learn to trust our maternal selves and to have faith in the innate goodness and purity of our children - even when we ...
I've got a business manager and he'll just come right out and say, 'It wasn't the best part for you,' or 'It was okay, but ...
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack sat on a candle stick, cause fire is the devil's only friend.