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A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face.
It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as ...
You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until ...
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?
There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.
The stiff-witted and academic seem not to comprehend that it is entirely possible to be ironic and sincere at the same instant, that a knowing ...
Where there's chocolate, there's hope.
Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.
When there's change, there's opportunity.
There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty we know this.
In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.
My fingers smell like soil and my lips taste like sugar and I'm so awake right now I wonder if I'll be able to sleep ...
And I love kick boxing. It's a lot of fun. It gives you a lot of confidence when you can kick somebody in the head.
Allowed?' Uncle Monty repeated. 'Of course not! You are implored to come inside here, my boy.
I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly ...
Learn from everyone, copy no one.
I let out a breath I didn't know I'd been holding
Do what you love, love what you do, leave the world a better place and don't pick your nose.
Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his ...
Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?All the time.
Let's say something happens, and from a certain slant maybe it's tragic, even a little bit shocking. Then time passes and you go to the ...
If a man doesn't want you at your worst, then he sure as hell doesn't deserve you at your best.
C-sections and epidurals should be blessings to women, but I suddenly wondered if they had become a means from which to steal the magic of ...
The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.
I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this - who will count the ...
If you feel the need to confront others that have talked bad about you that shows that you value their opinion of you. Take them ...
That's one of the most reliable things about a long road trip. There's always a cat, just when you need one.
No one's ever very sure if doves and pigeons are the same bird or not.
How they treat you defines them. How you treat others defines you.
The sooner we realize that the world has changed, the sooner we can accept it and make something of what we've got. Whining isn't a ...
The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her.
Any kind of horror video game where I'm the first-person player and I'm ... I suddenly stop caring about the video game dude, and I'm ...
I commend my soul into the hands of God, my Creator, hoping andassuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ, mySaviour, to be made ...
Three thousand additional troops from Ireland commanded
No relationship comes with a guarantee, but I'd rather fail with you than succeed with anyone else.
I'll do what I can. This is my way of living like a princess!
I have an I.Q. of 100 plus a little bit. I have to work real hard to get things when I read.
It doesn't matter to me. I'm just worried. It's the first time I've see Teach like that. He said he had two regrets ... Once, ...
None of us are pretty, but our ugly has an alibi.
If you're self-employed, between jobs, or can't get insurance through work, you'll have access to affordable health insurance as good as Congressman Paul Ryan's.
I believe that architects should design gardens to be used, as much as the houses they build, to develop a sense of beauty and the ...
Doing something that warrants the attention of the President of the United States is super cool.
Forget the Golden Rule-Go Platinum. It simply states, Treat people like they'd like to be treated.
Violence is so terribly fast ... the most perverse thing about the movies is the way they portray it in slow motion, allowing it to ...
Do not rush God. He will make everything beautiful in its time.
This beautiful, wonderful, sexy-as-sin woman is mine. You may look - and seethe with envy - but never touch.
I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because ...
I visited England immediately after I finished writing 'The Marrying Season,' before any editing or revisions.
Jacques La Borwitz had his points, no doubt, but so have the sub-microscopic protozoa, so has a dog prowling for a bitch and a bone." ...
Never trust a person more than you, when they break the trust you lost the life of happiness,it shakes the heart and gives the tears ...
Asking, "How much is it?" is THE BIGGEST buying signal. Telling me, "Your price is too high." is THE SECOND BIGGEST buying signal
Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.
I think one of the reasons Stephen King's stories work so well is that he places his stories in spooky old New England, where a ...
God instantly answers every prayer that's based on a promise in His Word.
I made lists of lists of lists, then started all over again. And if I did something that wasn't on a list, I would promptly ...
Dan really came into his own pitching last year (during Legion play). He received the sportsmanship award during the regional tournament.
The essence of constitutionalism in a democracy is not merely to shape and condition the nature of majorities, but also to stipulate that certain things ...
I'm such an L.A. boy, I love hanging out by the beach and throwing some steaks on the grill.
Church hoppers are like wandering dogs. If they are not regularly patted on the head, they will go elsewhere until they are.
I think that when Americans go to vote, states should not list what party the candidates are affiliated with. That would require voters to actually ...
I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto.
I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the cushion ...
A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite.
Now take Prince Temnos to Princess Berenise. We need him in our custody in order to succeed.
All the friends I ever had are gone.
The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.
How much simpler it would have been to become a beast than to live through this, Valerie thought.
Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early nor ...
The Socially Accessible introvert looks like an extrovert on the outside and sees extroversion as a bar that he or she can never quite reach. ...
Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.
Philosophical thinking that doesn't do violence to one's settled mind is no philosophical thinking at all.
Be the light to show the way to others.
Each of my novels features a protagonist undertaking a difficult personal journey. On the way, each of these characters - mostly female - discovers something ...
Joan of Arc was born 600 years ago. Six centuries is a long time to continue to mark the birth of a girl who, according ...
The amount of dissension rises geometrically with the more issues you have to philosophize over.
The Hopi Indians have a saying, "To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak." I know how much courage it takes to let ...
You're my sunshine, my rain and my evening stars I feel as though I was living in the shadows and you have entered my life ...
We have broken the cycle of dependency. People have found out they're better off working.
There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do.
Patience is the highest offering and the Lord loves to receive it.
Our most fundamental spiritual experiences consist on experiences of risk, fear and chances that make us jump from a cliff of emotional turmoil and into ...
Misery is the company of lawsuits.
Writing for children can be completely honest in non-cynical ways. In adult books you're required to be cynical. It embarrasses us to say positive things. ...
Roses are red and violets are blue, That played-out shit isn't for you. I got your love letter right here in my eyes. If you ...
You are never to allow a shadow of doubt to enter your mind that the Creator intended you to win in life's battle.
You're not the doer. What's to do? You can't undo what's not done. It's all one anyway, why think about it? But you need to ...
Sometimes it's easy to see the negative side of things or question why people bully you. You could think, 'Maybe they're right. Maybe I'm not ...
Warrior of the night must be awake to write the sacred words.
I am an expert in the 'art of the possible.'
Good horses make short miles.
Once I started reinventing for myself what being an artist was - not going into a studio, but making things on my own terms in ...
Give love as love wants to be given and you will see love's many returns.
In all history, there is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. Only one who knows the disastrous effects of a long ...
We should reconsider greater integration of North America to achieve a region that is more competitive and capable of creating more jobs.
She didn't want to die. She couldn't imagine wanting to die ... Death was for - for other people.
She said she didn't love him, and he said it didn't matter, and the poverty of their words brought tears to their eyes.
Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say."Yes! Perfect. One is always much braver with an audience," he says. "Look at the ...
William Armstrong is a great teacher. He speaks truthfullyabout the discipline required for learning, and about the pleasures oforder and system in acquiring knowledge. Any ...
I always put a layer of lip balm first, and then I layer the lipstick on by using a lip brush to help get it ...
I shall oppose all slavery extension and all increase of slave representation in all places, at all times, under all circumstances, even against all inducements, ...