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When we classify an issue as a 'shield issue' it is usually because we feel that someone else occupies the high ground on that issue. ...
You were the only one who looked at me and didn't see her
The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age.
None but God would ever have thought of justifying me. I am a wonder to myself.
I am happy, I tried to tell him with my eyes. I'm happy with Annie; she and my work are all I'll ever need; she's ...
I have huge hands and feet. I'm 5'6 and wear a size 10 shoe.
But then, of course, there are always unanswered questions. Those questions lead to more questions, with the circularity of the endless inquest, keeping people like ...
Maybe I'm just getting old, but I remember when your average NFL player would come to the sideline, spit out three bicuspids, Scotch-tape his humerus ...
Don't think there are no second chances.Life always offers you a SECOND CHANCE ... It's called TOMORROW
The mere presence of a human being, with its offer of at least some companionship, broke down the tension in which his nerves had long ...
If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
It is when the colors do not match, when the references in the index fail, when there is no decisive precedent, that the serious business ...
The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
Hard work pays off - hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat.
Proxy religion involves too great a risk: you had better see to your soul's matters yourself, and leave them in no man's hands.
Say only what you mean.
When you've finished using a car, put the f***ing seat back, so humans can use it afterwards.
All I wanted was to be part of an underground world where the sun doesn't shine, there are no love songs, and the sound of ...
All Christians are called to develop God-given talents, to make the most of their lives, and to develop to the fullest their God-given gifts and ...
Looking forward to never meeting again,Jessamin Olea
You've met Nick?""Yep, we've met, all right. He was kind enough to inform me that I have absolutely no say in whether you two date.""Well, ...
It follows that at the beginning of his life the individual can accomplish wonders without effort and quite unconsciously.
Whatever he'd once felt for Cinder - or thought he'd felt for her - was over.
Don't repeat this word again
Ella, just stay here. Stay safe.""Safe," Ella repeated. "Ella likes being safe. Safety in numbers. Safety deposit boxes. Ella will go with Tyson.""What?" Percy said. ...
My book is extremely graphic. I make no apologies for it. But it is graphic only because I told the truth about what the Ripper ...
I'm going to hell, Livia," he said."I'm going to hell for all three of us," Beckett said defiantly. Only now did he pull his hand ...
My mother has been my mentor in my life. The number one attribute was discipline. To be on time to school, never miss a day ...
We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization.
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
What are you going to do? (Angelia)I ought to rip your throat out. But lucky for you, I'm just a dumb animal and killing for ...
There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the ...
Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little ...
What if we actually demonstrated God's love for the world instead of just talking about it?
When I think of normality I think of mediocrity
A world without braves is a world without heroes, but a world without wisdom is a world of animals.
The air smelled of a limited life expectancy. A
A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.
I'm scared of haunted things, like hearing noises in my house and stuff. That scares me.
Happiness is a fragile thing, and alcohol, as I know from the house I grew up in, is dangerous to it.
Some special conpanies see trust as the pulic good.
Poking around in this dump, as it would be
Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies ...
It started with feelings of jealousy and like a mental virus it spread.
One of the best reasons for eating alone is the assurance that you will enjoy the company.
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right ...
My varying pairs of legs can be quite practical or quite impractical, and I don't judge them either way. Some are for getting around a ...
Freedom is not doing what you want when you want. Freedom is the power to do what has to be done when it needs to ...
A man who's susceptible to panic attack is a man full of worry
If you have the expectation that I have to be a certain way, then I feel the obligation to be that way. The truth is ...
Ain't that a sight? With all the things we know and learn, we still ain't touched the big mysteries where we come from, where we ...
Things won't go perfect. It's all about how you adapt from those things and learn from mistakes.
We're living in a homogenized culture where everything is the same, and books are not a homogenized culture. They are extremely varied, and they're eccentric ...
One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind.
What's more, you're loads better than you think you are.""So why is it I get to thinking that way?" I puzzled."That's because you're only half-living." ...
I just want to be loved, is that so wrong?!
I see you as Lily. I see you for who you are, even though you don't. -Julian
Are you a pirate?
It's probably a miracle of existence." "Like pickles," said the Bursar, happily. Even the Fresh Starters went blank.
Our connection with our intuitive self is ever present and always a part of ourselves.
No one in the church, in 1970, knew that the doctrine of pre-tribulation rapture had never been found in history before 1830, or that it ...
You need a quiet place where you can find someone who will listen, someone who will make you feel less like a mistake in a ...
In the foyer an array of mailboxes lined one wall, and sliding heaps of flyers and takeout menus covered the rickety bench beneath them. Kate ...
Prince Vasili took the first opportunity to gain his confidence, flatter him, become intimate with him,
What I have got from my childhood aren't toys, but memories. And happy memories are better than any toy.
If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside ...
The days of idealism had gone. Only life was left.
My mom is very close to me, and it has been really cool having a mom that's closer to my age because she can go ...
Love is always in danger of being sentimentalized.
I Dream today of wondrous things..I sing the sweetest lullaby,and dance and sway with life.I soar and fly the highest sky and saw this lovely ...
As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an ...
Body parts have nothing to do with love, and why anyone would think so is beyond me.
I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.
Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him.4
It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.
The Mexican utopia has consisted of enjoying your fifteen minutes of impunity.
If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list.
We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up.
The basic change in the landscape since my salad days started with the defensive rediscovery of history and politics by all the theoretically-oriented academics in ...
Children are nature's flower and our future. They are the future fathers and mothers. They are our mind's adventure in the future.
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated ...
Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.
Is there any friendship, without forgiveness?
Presently the small of coffee began to fill the room. This was morning's hallowed moment. In such a fragrance the perversity of the world is ...
God only allows pain if He's allowing something new to be born.
Shedding off one more layer of skinKeeping one step ahead of the persecutor within
Uh, I do not wear a wig in 'Star Trek' like I did in 'Bottle Shock,' thank God. 'Bottle Shock' will be the last wig ...
All of the technology is a means to an end. We are the end. And we just have to pay attention..
It's the same with [my wife] when she goes out, guys are macking on her. I'm not worried with the kind of relationship we've got. ...
Read carefully, then don't read; work hard, then forget about it; know your tradition, then liberate yourself from it; learn language, then free yourself from ...
If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.
Poor gentleman," said Mr Segundus. "Perhaps it is the age. It is not an age for magic or scholarship, is it sir? Tradesmen prosper, sailors, ...
The revolution has been dubbed The Orange Revolution, orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under ...
It is much easier to extinguish a first desire than to satisfy all of those that follow it.
Big iron kitchen scales and a full set of weights aren't carried lightly.
If you have to ask, you'll never know. If you know, you need only ask.
Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or ...
Whom ever read hoodwinked then they need to follow up with the second part which is in cahootz.
I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.