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The downstream effects are unknown. Do your best and hope for the best. If you're improving the world-however you define that-consider your job well done.
I opened myself to you only to be skinned alive. The more vulnerable I became, the faster and more deft your knife. Knowing what was ...
Of bones the city is made,Plastered with flesh and blood,Where decay and death are deposited,And pride, and ingratitude.
Men are built, not born ... Give me the baby, and I'll make it climb and use its hands in constructing buildings of stone or ...
It's hard to legislate what people eat. People are getting fed up with being told what they can and can't do. It boils down to ...
When I'm raising money, this fundraising, I'm thinking about the next fundraising. I'm thinking how I'm set up for it.
I am a verb, not a noun.
Only architecture that considers human scale and interaction is successful architecture.
The next moment is unknown, even to God.
I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.
No wisdom that [my kitten] may gain by experience and reflection hereafter will compensate for the loss of her present hilarity.
Well, Mark, I led the charge for five or six years to get reforms for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I was chairman of an ...
Trying will do anything in this world.
Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.
My guys studied music from a young age and I did not so I think, like, adding the idiot to the table of very talented ...
If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
In order to be a leader a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence.
I think what art is always doing is making us see the world so differently, and I don't mean just colors and light, but re-thinking ...
To pray is to say that there is more than I can see, and more than I can do. There is more going on than ...
Idris is fine. Great, even. But this is where we live.
More than anything I was relieved that in my unfamiliar babbling-and-wanting-to-talk state I'd stopped myself from blurting the thing I'd never said, even though it ...
I read a lot of the 'Pern books' growing up - basically up through 'All the Weyrs of Pern,' maybe a couple after that. As ...
It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.
I expect the worst, and I am sure I won't be disappointed.
You must question everything. You have to always ask why, and if you do not understand the answer, you ask again.
I guess that's why I buried myself in books. There was comfort there. Security.
I don't get involved in football! I haven't got a sporty bone in my body.
Making an independent documentary film is so hard that usually, the usual model is that your film becomes a model for advocacy, so you can ...
You stay in the surreal world of so-called higher learning. You are comfortable there. You have very little reason to leave it.
You can provide the conditions for the motivation of others and the leadership to help them find a way but they must have the intrinsic ...
At least on the Ketty Jay he was surrounded by people who asked no questions, people untrained in the aristocratic arts of vicious wit and ...
Power is an ugly thing. Run from it while you can.
Did you see what we did?" Vine asked for the thousandth time. "That's what I'm talking about! Those hell hounds were nothing. When do I ...
Putting it in plain terms, the general public must be reduced to its traditional apathy and obedience, and driven from the arena of political debate ...
Every gift of God is to be enjoyed as from God and not like a God.
I loved having a dad who was smarter than the New York Times, and I loved how my cheek could feel the hairs on his ...
Remember, a book is always a gift.
We cannot adopt the way of living that was satisfactory a hundred years ago. The world in which we live has changed, and we must ...
I was supposed to be at the condo, wasting time on the beach, just Dad and me, figuring out college and my life and spending ...
Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.
I began to trust the questions themselves to lead me beyond answers to understanding, beyond practice to faith
I couldn't live in L.A. and not be close to the beach, you know, that's like the whole thing. I don't understand people who don't ...
You are like the captain of a ship, and it is your job to tell the crew (your body and mind) what to do. If ...
The Monte Carlo TV Festival is great because it's a celebration of television and great storytelling.
Effective action is always unjust.
I was bartending in Boston five, six nights a week, living in my grandmother's condo. By the way, I'm a really good bartender - that's ...
You think you got something big to say? Something momentous? Or is it what you had to memorize in order to escape the men with ...
And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano ... and ...
A good friend of mine works at Oxfam and has been closely involved in the charity's aid efforts in Syria.
He'd taken my armor, carefully unlocked it, slipped it off, and hidden it.
The mind ... the mind was the most powerful force for and against someone.
I throw back my head, and, feeling free as the wind, breathe in the fresh mountain air. Although I am heavy-hearted, my spirits are rising. ...
If you look at tennis, the girls have become much more attractive; they wear makeup. In my generation, you were a tennis player. It wasn't ...
Mouse sandwiches and open graves?" Meredith arched an elegant eyebrow. "I think you're getting Stephen King mixed up with Lewis Carroll.
Forward movement is not helpful if what is needed is a change of direction.
My son is wonderful. He is amazing.
They whooped our tail last time we was here. So it's time for a little revenge, and show that Florida football is coming back.
Somehow, all the talk about tenure and anthropology had given her visions of a thick-walled, libraried adobe, the kind of place that was covered with ...
The easiest way of making money is to stop losing it.
The author deduces the best way James Baker serve Reagan as Chief of Staff was to continually remind him why he wanted to be president.
We atheists have to accept that most believers are better human beings.
People who are vigorous and brutal often find war enjoyable.
I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.
Lack of ownership over your anger can incorrectly absolve you of all responsibility and so keep you stuck in the anger.
The ancients stole all our ideas from us.
My aim is to go down in history as one of the best.
We testify about wonders of the Saviour, Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
As time passes, you will look back with twenty-twenty hindsight, and you will say, 'Thank God He did not answer my prayers' or 'Thank God ...
Poverty is the lack of light.
A circus here, a circus there; here today, gone tomorrow. Big Brother watching you. Fear eats the soul.
Everytime we put a record out, we lose people that can't deal with the growth.
Kyanite is used to align all seven chakras automatically. When the chakras are blocked, it can be used to open them.
I'm pretty much a vegetarian, but I do eat fish and sometimes chicken
Nos are just as valuable as yeses in the game of life. In fact, they're essential.
I thank God for Closed Doors
Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to ...
I've learned so much from being a mom about the kind of person I want to be, the kind of woman I want to be. ...
I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
The average man is not directly interested in politics, and when he reads he wants the current struggles of the world to be translated into ...
Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense that depended on direct contact ...
I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.
I think the only way you can become a writer is through honing your voice, creating your own voice.
Woman wants monogamy;Man delights in novelty.Love is woman's moon and sun;Man has other forms of fun.Woman lives but in her lord;Count to ten, and man ...
The human body is not obscene, sexuality is not obscene. But it [pornography] is not sex, it is violence. It encourages acceptance of the idea ...
As we move toward the millennium, the year 2000, the most powerful nations are not those that have nuclear bombs, but those that control the ...
I was falling in love.I am losing my father.With Emilio Vargas.To smoke and shadow.My heart fluttered.My heart aches.To feel it.To deny it.Life.Death.Possibilities.Endings
And may we ever have gratitude in hearts that the great Creator in all His glory has placed the herbs in the field for our ...
Her heart was made of liquid sunsets.
There is no absolute reality. Imagination creates reality.
We've got to think now, in real terms, for that seventh generation . . . We've got to get back to spiritual law if we ...
Anne DeGrace is a gifted story teller and Far From Home contains some of her most intriguing characters. Thoroughly enjoyable.
Dating is the social engagement with the threat of sex at its conclusion.
If a single man achieves the highest kind of love, it will be sufficient to neutralize the hate of millions.
I'm a shy human being.
My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me.
This would be my first time wanting to slaughter a reader, but then again, I can pretend she's one of those cranky ass reviewers that ...
Tragedy cleans the windows of the soul by washing away the bias of our lives in the detergent of pain.