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The aim of great books is ethical: to teach what it means to be a man. Every major form of literary art has taken for ...

I've had enough publicity for 15 lives.

The sunsets, he told her, were the most beautiful he had ever seen, the clouds lighting up in all colors, the stars at night so ...

We can simultaneously be human and monster - that both of those possibilities are in all of us.

Lady Constance's lips tightened, and a moment passed during which it seemed always a fifty-fifty chance that a handsome silver ink-pot would fly through the ...

I'm beginning to worry you might be more evil than I originally believed.'He grinned down at her. 'It's the pretty face. Fools them every time.

When a bully is held accountable for his actions, his future actions will change. Bad behavior only continues for those who allow it.

For your penance, say two Hail Marys, three our Fathers, and," he added, with a chuckle, "say a special prayer for the Dodgers.

Nature was more merciful than men, providing for those who suffered great pain such blessedness as fainting; but men were cruel and brought their victims ...

Including four mice posed with tiny china cups, seated around a miniature table. A Mad Hatter's grotesque tea party.

I think talented people are priceless. And I think people that are knowledgeable and experienced - and I think there's a balance of new talent ...

There are countless reasons to be jealous. But that doesn't mean you have to succumb to them.

Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine majesty, likewise we ...

Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?

Sometimes there is a microcosm and a macrocosm, and if you're dyslexic like me you can't tell the difference.

That's what any decent mind ought to do for its owner when she lets it off the leash - just go bounding away into the ...

Adversity is a better educator than the best teacher.

Fundamentally the male artist approximates more to the psychology of woman, who, biologically speaking, is a purely creative being and whose personality has been as ...

I don't want everyone to like me, and I don't choose who likes me. You have to give them the choice, give them the option.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

Without problems don't exist,if they do exist then they are useless

If I had that kind of money, I wouldn't come to Vietnam, I'd send for it.

Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper, they are nothing ...

Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is just operating on ...

We define ourselves by comparing ourselves to the things around us. But what if all those things against which you compare yourself weren't there. How ...

For self-love is no more than the soothing of a man's self, which, done to another, is flattery. And

Jokes about arks. The

Yes, I've made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with the thought of ...

In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness, as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is our capacity to ...

Livingston, if you could read my mind, you would start feeling really shy around me.

Self-respect is nothing but self-confidence.

The smaller the sample size, the more likely that it is unrepresentative of the wider population..."people can be taught the correct rule, perhaps even with ...

A kid is something precious, and you want to protect it and keep it fun. I'm not a dad, but I've seen people and how ...

That Obama I would like to cut his nuts off.

Writing down call numbers with short pencils, searching up and down aisles that would turn dark when the timers on the lights expired. She recalls, ...

Satirists [10w] I do best what satirists have always done ~make enemies.

Martyrs are always uncomfortable people to live with.

Be the competition you wish to see in the world.

Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.

Without being sure of something, we can not begin to think about everything elses

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

I love to be creative and to put flesh onto the ideas that are inside of me. And there are not that many great programs ...

Then Siddhartha began to understand that his son had not brought him happiness and peace, but suffering and worry. But he loved him, and he ...

Will there be poppy juice in it?"Phresine shook her head."Good. My wife and I agreed that only my wine was to be poisoned.

For the first time in my life, writing was hard. The problem was the teaching ... by most Friday afternoons I felt as if I'd ...

St. Louis is more humid. But after a while, the heat started taking a toll on us, so we started rotating a little more up ...

The period before something learns to be afraid is the most dangerous of all, because it is then the creatures are the most vulnerable.

I have come to know that we learn much more of what is important when we concentrate on helping others than when we concentrate on ...

It's hard to believe she's the same girl from Taco Bell. Beth was hard and shut down that night. The girl on my bed is ...

Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.

Anna wrote to her father that she found her new land "a barbarous country where the houses are gloomy, the churches ugly, and the customs ...

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

Tragically, of the first five women to reach the summit of K2, three died on the descent and two were later to die on other ...

My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, ...

It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on ...

Now the circle is complete. The dates must flow. He who controls the dates controls time itself.

Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again ...

Victories in life come through our ability to work around and over the obstacles that cross our path. We grow stronger as we climb our ...

Berkouwer is to be commended for his careful avoidance of "the polarities of a mindless fideism and a faithless rationalism.

I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about ...

My favorite thing about touring is the new towns and new faces every day.

Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.

Because the things you do for blood - for family - well, I think they cause most of us more problems than can be fairly ...

The way I look at it you can always get better.

Cities are judged by their richest inhabitants and rural areas are judged

Grace had called Ellen a dry little prune who'd be lucky to give it away for free disguised as a hat, let alone sell it ...

The life of an editor is not a glamorous one. You're a fixer; you make things better.

Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned ...

One of my favorite things that Yahoo does on a regular basis is this story: "Wealthiest Rap Artists." That's an example of the internet just ...

For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.

We are all imperfect creatures, love. I don't want perfect. I just want you.

The purpose of a spiritual path or religion is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable.

It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken.

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

Save them, save them all. In doing so, brother, you will save yourself.

When the armed robber of unhappiness knocks over the Keebler cookie display of our complacency, and bangs the samurai sword of negativity on the checkout ...

No literature can ever soothe the hearts of those who have lost their loved ones.

Raise up prophets and seers in Thy Church who shall magnify Thy glory and through Thine almighty Spirit restore to Thy people the knowledge of ...

The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.

I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world.

Praying without faith is like trying to cut with a blunt knife - much labor expended to little purpose.

Holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night!

You never judge a day by the weather!

The secret of achieving prosperity lies in so vividly keeping yourself centered in the inner focus of affluence that you literally exude the consciousness of ...

He made you believe you'd have lovely things and live kinkily ever after, didn't he?

Since Sunrun introduced solar as a service in 2007, it has become the preferred way for consumers to go solar in the nation's top solar ...

When I was a young kid, almost every other show on television was a Western. And some of them were part of my childhood, I ...

Where the Law is a closed fist, the Gospel is an open hand.

I think it takes a strong man to be in a relationship with a strong woman. A lot of people hear the word 'diva' and ...

Everyone knows that there are some odors that send you directly back to memories of your childhood - odors from Christmas time and so forth.

Maggie Smith has a unique sense of comedy, based on a somewhat ironic view of real life, making it both funnier and more sad. But ...

There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its ...

The difficulty we meet with in reaching our goal is the shortest path to it.

If anyone else were to kiss me, all they would taste is your name.

That vervey spontaneity became encounter theater therapy under the direction of the Marquis de Paar, who was peerless at grittily vapid chatter, misty bathos, and ...

That's what I can't stand. I know I'll bounce back, and that's what I can't stand.

Like sacrifices, prayer is intended to change man, not God. Its purpose is to cultivate a contrite heart, to promote feelings of humility and inadequacy ...

Just because I am a chef doesn't mean I don't rely on fast recipes. Indeed, we all have moments when, pressed for time, we'll use ...

We are all mere insects caught in the web that the gods spin for us.

Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays.