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Some days, like today, my aim and timing is so true it takes my breath away and I feel certain Mortain's hand guides my own.
We gain justice, judgment, with years, or else years are in vain.
Providence, where the old world shadows hang heavy in the air." From "The Last Resort" by Don Henley/Glen Fry, recorded by the Eagles
We try to realize the essential unity of the world with the conscious soul of man; we learn to perceive the unity held together by ...
Our tenants now are companies like Uber, the taxi service, Meituan, China's version of Groupon - and a large number of startups. These companies operate ...
This is what made a book great, she thought, that you could read it over and over and never get tired of it.
Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
It's not easy. It never is. That is the secret our parents fail to tell us, out of kindness and love, but it's a secret ...
However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about narrative. And it's ...
I think it's horrible that we Turks are always seen under the aspect of Islam first. I am constantly asked about religion, and almost always ...
Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.
In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.
Private unions, such as the UAW, is a choice between employees and employers. If that is what they want, then who am I to say ...
The hardest thing to open is a closed mind.
I learned that you shouldn't take your most esoteric concept and fit it into the largest space with the highest fixed costs. It puts too ...
People SHOULD be doubted. Many people misunderstand this concept. Doubting people is just a part of getting to know them. What many people call 'trust' ...
The board transported its jurisdiction to a never-never land where a Dorothy of the new millennium might exclaim: "They still call it Kansas, but I ...
Action choreographer is like talking. When you talk, you have a rhythm. When you act, you have a rhythm. When you're moving your body, you ...
I was always interested in science, and pre-med was arespectable thing to do while I ursued my songwriting.
I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
Give ear and come to me; hear me, that your soul may live. ISAIAH 55:3
To me the acid test was always the crew, and if the crew liked you, you're OK.
You are a lusty laddie, are you not?" She rocked her hips beneath him, mewling softly. "Show me how lusty you are.
Perhaps a moment comes when must is to tired to fight and want breaks free to cry I am just once before the sun goes ...
A friend worth knowing tolerates your flaws while a friend worth keeping loves you in spite of them.
Neither of us, it turns out, has been the only one who lost someone she loved.
Love is color-blind; hate is reason-blind.
But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks.
'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and luxury as such, ...
So many people say, 'So, what, are you a party girl?' And I say, 'I'm a walking good time.' Do I sometimes go out and ...
You have to believe in it to get it...
When I run on the beach, it's always in slow motion. That's just how I roll.
On this paper will be twenty cents per year, payable quarterly in advance, at the place
Loving Sarah had freed all my tender feelings for women. I could always find in my heart an excuse for anything any woman did.
The real fighter knows perfectly well that there is no difference between victory and defeat, friend and enemy, day and night, life and death.
I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.
How often do we listen and act to the call of honesty, serenity, humility and generosity?How many "soft pillows" do we use for a life ...
Loneliness does not come from being alone, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important.
Korsakoff's syndrome,
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One ...
Diets are essentially training courses in how to feel fat and feel like a failure.
The memoir was a very personal book. I wrote it as a personal journey and search about who my father was and how my family ...
I could never explain how the image and the reality merge, and how they somehow extend and beautify each other.
I didn't toss aside my plan to steer clear of meaningless rebound flings because I can't resist a French maid costume. I didn't say yes ...
Actually, it is amazing how much can be learned about people from the books they own.
The best politics is right action.
An operating system is the great facilitator; it is the great protector; it is the great illusionist.
If you listen to the real in you, that part that's pulsing and has questions and is trying to figure something out, it will shape ...
A lot of Iran's empowerment is a result of the war in Iraq.
Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.
It's a trick. Get an axe." - Ash, Army of Darkness
I tend to not have to handle things that are probably gonna end up being irrelevant, that aren't gonna have much to do with the ...
And she has always gotten very angry at people who won't play the roles she puts them in.
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
Verily I say unto you," Stuart said, looking Cyril straight in the eye and folding his arms, "that if you do not mind your sister ...
A strange breeze rustled through the clearing, temporarily overpowering the stink of trash and murk. It brought the smell of berries and wildflowers and clean ...
Yogi ordered a pizza. The waitress asked How many pieces do you want your pie cut? Yogi responded, Four. I don't think I could eat ...
Mostly you write to find out what you have to say.
To Hell with the cherub! roared Comandante Marescotti.
Marx himself is quite explicit that the capitalist is not individually responsible for the economic relations of his society, but is controlled by these relations ...
There's no doubt in my mind that going vegetarian has made me feel better not only physically but also because I learned about the suffering ...
It's redundant to die in Los Angeles.
A person who always fights back with an enemy is not strong; a person who shows kindness to an enemy is strong.
There's this idea that to live out of conformity with how I feel is hypocrisy; but that's a wrong definition of hypocrisy. To live out ...
I love the Old Vic so deeply, it's like a second home.
Self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It's not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and letting you see ...
When tragedy happens a real family pulls together, mine ripped apart.
The problem we have had on the budget all along is a lack of adult supervision on the part of the White House. You can't ...
Right around 2004 when 'Ray' came out, I made a conscious decision to be more discerning because I thought to myself, 'After something like this, ...
Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
When I remember something which I had,But which is gone, and I must do without,I sometimes wonder how I can be glad,Even in cowslip time ...
I would take lots of falls and you know, get shot three or four times and this sort of thing, so all that sort of ...
That man indeed lives in a zone where no multiplicity can distress him and which is nevertheless the most active workshop of universal fulfillment.
You still go to therapy?""Nah. I gave up years ago.""Mental health isn't for everyone.
Yes, and I also like jumping out of tall buildings.
I'm fit and I'm angry, and I'm obviously crazy. Anything could happen.
Always work on extending your territory and capacity
But very quickly I discovered that passing didn't just mean slipping below the surface, it meant being buried alive. I was still me on the ...
Her plan seemed somewhat delusional, unreal, and utterly delicious.
Although I deeply love oceans, deserts and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to ...
You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.
I will lead an exodus with my lips, and soothe the hearts of my lovers with my tongue. I will never cry wolf, trust me.
There's more to the erotic life than explicitness.
Some of the worst enemies of the man who is seeking for the truth will appeal to him as old friends in whom he has ...
You're either on team Republican or team Democrat, and it's the idea that one of these sides has a perfect record of being correct and ...
My first novel, 'John Crow's Devil,' freed me up to write about the past, and 'The Book of Night Women' freed me up to have ...
I decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of American Jew, Daniel Pearl, in the city of Karachi, Pakistan. For those who would like ...
The hill is a sonofabitch but what can you do? Set one foot in front of another and keep climbing.
For most purposes, a man with a machine is better than a man without a machine.
My father used to describe how he'd love going, early in the morning, out on a location and waiting for the trucks to arrive and ...
Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like lips.
That was like my safe place with great teachers where everyone could let down their guard and not feel judged. As soon as we walk ...
I will remember the hours of kisses our lips raw with love and how you offered me your cunt your soul your insides and how ...
Benedict tips out the door. the night dour and skanky with a rhumba of traffic. warily adjusting a long s/lick multicolored patch-leather jacket to cover ...
One does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.
You can put law on paper but that don't make it right.
...for literature had always been a solace for him, something that the ugliness of facts could not spoil.
I certainly want people to like my writing, but I know that if I write with the intention of trying to please people, the writing ...
Connection gives purpose and meaning to our lives.
Forgiveness is the best gift of love and kindness that we can give to our enemies.