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I thought it was interesting to see that Israel did not play a role in this revolution. The man on Cairo's Tahrir Square doesn't want ...

I was teaching airplane mechanics when I realized it was more fun to make them laugh. I was laid off one more time and I ...

When the lie and the truth are two trenchant weapons, they are at the risk of becoming downright uncertainties.

My heart raced. He needs you, I thought. Don't let him down. I couldn't remember ever being so happy ... or so scared.

That is all that makes life worth our while - to do good deeds and to help those less fortunate than ourselves.

I don't know. I don't know what I'm supposed to be. Or how I find out.

I made an instant connection with boxing right away. Boxing became such a part of me. I ate boxing, I slept boxing, I lived boxing. ...

Rivalry is one of the factors pushing me. While my back was turned, the Norwegians managed to achieve the first Arctic crossing in winter. I ...

My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ...

Some people were like that; they could not escape criticism, because they never quite managed to convince themselves of the role everyone believed they should ...

Cheapness and ignorance are mutually reinforcing. And it's a short way from not knowing who's at the other end of your food chain to not ...

I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off ...

After two months of hanging out in The Spoon's production room, Georgie was 53 percent sure that Neal liked her.

Writer advice ... Write. Finish things. Go for walks. Read a lot & outside your comfort zone. Stay interested. Daydream. Write.

The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it.

The way of words, of knowing and loving words, is a way to the essence of things, and to the essence of knowing.

My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. ...

The door can never be closed for good to any player.

You spend a couple million dollars running for Congress, people get tired of seeing your face.

If he ever had a bright idea it would be beginner's luck.

I don't stretch enough. I know I should do it more, and I'd like to do yoga, but I just don't have time.

I had to sell my house and make a lot of sacrifices to become a writer, and it sucks not to get taken seriously.

A feature film is twenty-four lies per second.

The young woman's smiling lips met his caresses halfway, and her eyes shone in their depths like pools warmed by the sun.

The finest teaching touches in a student a spring neither teacher nor student could possibly have preconceived.

The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones. And the middle ...

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

Mimes in the form of God on high mutter and mumble low and hither and tither fly, mere puppets they who come and go.

Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.

How good the past can look from a rest stop in a bitter future!

I still have a stammer that I can control by not opening a sentence with a hard consonant, or by concentrating for a moment, breathing ...

Who grins in official circumstances?

Being overseas at the time it all kind of happened was perfect because I had no idea that it was going to attract so much ...

Wealth (among the Dagara) is determined not by how many things you have, but by how many people you have around you.

Shanghai set out to take over from Hong Kong and I think it's done that. It's got the most amazing futuristic skyline which rivals and ...

It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian ... or is it? I am not at all sure.

Truthfully, if you want to remember me, do it now. I won't give a shit when I'm dead.

True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse." Hafid

You must love those you lead before you can be an effective leader, you can certainly command without that sense of commitment, but you cannot ...

The name is Schitt," he replied. "Jack Schitt.

Any attempt at understanding humanity must include an explanation of the hold that supernatural belief continues to have on most of the human race.

Excellence in anything increases your potential in everything.

I meet people at book signings. My record now, for signing, is ten and a half hours in one sitting.

I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire.

The mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate their slavery.

They never expect the knife.

It has been my observation that whatever a person hungers for, Satan will appear to offer in exchange for a spiritual compromise.

It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword. Ingtar Shinowa ...

I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

All the outliers we've looked at so far were the beneficiaries of some kind of unusual opportunity. Lucky breaks don't seem like the exception with ...

As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.

Cumquats? I've had a few, but then again, tofu dementia.

With me, what you see is what you get.

Know why I plant trees?""No.""I like thinking that they'll be here long after I'm gone. All those fine memories pushing up to the sky.

Tony Blair is a brilliant politician. Unfortunately, his legacy is entwined with George W. Bush because of Iraq.

My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.

In my life, the only certainty is to be uncertain. I'm an unbeliever who believes in skepticism. I'm only sure about being unsure.

Oh dear! how she could have loved him if he had but been different, with a difference which she felt, on reflection, to be one ...

But, neither of these educational scenarios worked for us, so when we started a family, we wanted a different school for our children. And the ...

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there'd be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals ...

What's the go of that? What's the particular go of that?

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed ...

There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.

Those who have the bullets also have the bandages.

Love is the greatest form of evangelization because it makes an invisible God visible.

I am a native of Taiwan, and I earned my bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University. I received my master's and Ph.D. ...

It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.

Worry is a part of life. These burdensome thoughts plaque us all. The key is not to let these thoughts ruin your day & your ...

Life ends so fast, so take your chance, and make it last.

A toast to the weapons of war, may they rust in peace.

It feels so wrong and yet so wonderful, how much I need to smile at him. Something

We shouldn't be chasing other movies, but stay true to the tone of Man of Steel.

A shaft of sunlight fell on me, making my dress look like fire and my skin glow like pearls. The shadows around me darkened, as ...

A tree can be tempted out of its winter dormancy by a few hours of southerly sun - the readiness to believe in spring is ...

Maori, Te'mutunga'ke'mai'o'te'rori'o'te'tangata That uncontrollable laughter that causes milk to shoot through a Maori's nose when he sees a picture of Mike Tyson's face tattoo. Literally, ...

For the most part, yeah, I'm happy with my body, but there are days when I'm like, 'Ugh! Really? Why is it so hard to ...

They felt kind of like dolls, with Ali arranging their every move.

Closing a museum to save money is like holding your breath to save oxygen...

Having the right to happiness means having the right to earn it, not having it given to you without effort and action on your part.

It takes a whole lot of medicine for me to pretend I am somebody else.

You know what Oscar Wilde said, ma'am? He said, "nothing that is worth knowing can be taught". Nothing personal, ma'am ... Carry on.

I'm not a big power-and-strength guy, but I have a lot of balance, and I can take hits and stay on my feet. I control ...

Bryl-cream, a little dab will do you.

Dementia is not merely an individual disease; it affects the entire family.

A lot of times nerds are really artists listening to the beat of another drummer.

When you get scared, embarrassed, angry, nervous, with full of emotion and bad thoughts, remember to maintain your discipline. It earns you respect the more.

I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping ...

How about I pick out something for your mom, and you pick out something for mine? That way if our moms hate what we got, ...

While my friends struggled and calculated, I reached a solution by a set of floating steps that were partly visual, partly just a feeling for ...

I wanted to hate him because he was beautiful in a way I would never be.

Become a teacher. Your country needs you.

He scooped me up and suddenly I was pressed against his chest. "Were you worried about me?""No, I'm ranting for fun, because I'm a disagreeable ...

She was not granted the luxury of forgetting her lower middle-class existence where life hangs by an unseen thread to every hope and where every ...

Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered.

Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and ...

One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.

Love an enemy with unconditional trust.Reveal his treasure to him without any thrust.

The sentence of the first murderer was pronounced by the Supreme Judge of the universe. Was it death? No, it was life. 'A fugitive and ...

Do you remember how this life of yours longed in childhood to belong to the grown-ups? I can see that it now longs to move ...