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Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.
The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and ...
The present generation finds itself the heir of a vast patrimony of science; and it must needs concern us to know the steps by which ...
Speak only to those who listen. Anything else is a waste of breath. The answers to your questions were there, if you listened for them.
The demands of writing and of real life are not always similar.
The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.
If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn't there a black exodus?
But as for me, Emperor, nature has not given me stature, age has marred my face, and my strength is impaired by ill health. Therefore, ...
It is the lot of mankind to feel not only insecure but also bored. To combat that experience, people long to be passively entertained, which ...
Words were far more powerful than most believed.
The truth, in the right hands, can be a very flexible tool.
Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis," Douglas commented. Times change, and we change with them.
When I am running my mind empties itself. Everything I think while running is subordinate to the process. The thoughts that impose themselves on me ...
A Shadow's Tale - I'm going to keep calling it A Shadow's Tale because fuck America for wanting to be different and special all the ...
She looked . . . whole. With him.
I became very obsessed with death, and the idea that you never know when death will arrive, so one has to do as much as ...
I could not undo overnight the damage that had been done to my psyche over many years. The only way over was through-I knew that_ ...
Mike Rondeau, a tall drink of a man sloshed into a squat glass, with a belt that could double as a lasso and a volume ...
It's impossible for a Democrat to be a failure. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a reprobate. It's impossible for a Democrat to be ...
I was next to Bobby [Kennedy] when he was shot. It was hideous. Part of me wanted to crawl away. I couldn't ... I still ...
I have never had a secret hero in my mind but I have kept a lot of mentors in my mind that are heroes. Gandhi, ...
Even if everything is destroyed, keep your spirit high because this will put everything into its place again!
Do you believe there's hope at the end?""No, no, I dont, but im still going, you coming with me?
My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.
Have faith, you miserable git," the Burned Man said. "Where there's a will there's a way, and all that. You have made a will, haven't ...
Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk.
Our government is committed to helping our young people develop the skills and training they need to succeed. Through our Summer Company program, students can ...
In solitude, you listen to sacred voice.
Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others.
Many journeys, often ones you didn't plan to make, take you to an unexpected destination that turns out to be exactly where you want to ...
Without fighting back. The persecution of the Jews
We who have Christ's eternal life need to throw away our own lives.
I was kidnapped by Sunni insurgents near Fallujah, in Iraq, ambushed by the Taliban in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan, and injured in a car ...
Love is the flower of life.
Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black ...
No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
Any physical practice can be a competitive sport. What level you can take postures to create the maximum challenge and show your maximum skill, maximum ...
To a large extent you determine your outcome in life
The practical joke is the psychiatry of baseball.
You do trust Mr. Tugwell, do you not?"Did he? Trust Tugwell with his secret? Perhaps. Trust him with Miss Keene? The man had fathered five ...
Life is so rotatory that the wilderness falls to each, sometime.
The media could not be policed from without and had to be policed from within.
Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That's the place ...
The ideal is the enemy of the real.
He had to remember what she was. Human. Breakable. And he was an animal who liked to play rough.
I want to be someone who can be a role model to kids - and to everyone, for that matter.
Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
Do you really believe that in the late 1800s Paddy Hannan would have walked 600 miles in the hot sun from Perth to Kalgoorlie to ...
Singletons should not have to explain themselves all the time but should have anaccepted status - like geisha girls do ...
Every time we speak to people, we have the opportunity to change their lives forever, if only we could find the perfect combination of words.
The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last.
No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect.
Keep your dream in front of you. Never let it go regardless of how farfetched it might seem.
Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.
All the same I keep on looking for someone incomprehensible who won't understand me either, because I have a terrible thirst for brotherhood
It was a terrible decision, and I confess I'd make it again.
Elle slammed the reindeer cookie cutter down and viciously yanked the extra dough from around it. Her mother, brother, and sisters all stopped to stare ...
If sometimes dreams come true, what of our nightmares?
We confess that our best service is altogether unprofitable, and when we have rendered our best obedience, we are still merely unworthy slaves who have ...
When we receive with an entire and perfect resignation the afflictions which God sends us they become for us favors and benefits; because conformity to ...
For ages, I had this mullet until someone on the street stopped me and said, 'Darling, can I cut your hair for free? Because you ...
If you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.
Mobile isn't just a media channel, it's her constant companion that makes juggling easier. It makes her feel like a better mom.
Every moment has a momentous gift for you.
Sometimes, tragedy is the only wake-up call.
The black line is carbon emissions to date. The red line is the status quo - a projection of where emissions will go if no ...
I needed a companion who had no judgment, with whom I had no history, who would make it known that I was loved, who would ...
Should I tell him I'm not afraid of being hurt? I'm afraid of not being in control.
Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.
Ketamine's such a waste of time drug. All you do when you're on ketamine is go: 'Oh, I'm on drugs. I don't feel good, I ...
When gratitude o'erflows the swelling heart, and breathes in free and uncorrupted praise for benefits received, propitious heaven takes such acknowledgment as fragrant incense, and ...
The class's favoritebook was Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading. In this novel, Nabokov differentiates Cincinnatus C., his imaginative and lonely hero, from those around him ...
When nothing becomes the vocalThen nothing becomes the focalAnd nothing's becoming at all
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.
Your daily behavior reveals your deepest beliefs.
I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.
When the ancients discovered 'Phi', they were certain they had stumbled across God's building block for the world.
We have such an embarrassment of riches when it comes to choice. Do you want to hike in the Alps? There are 300 pairs of ...
[Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is ...
Wolves are not our brothers; they are not our subordinates, either. They are another nation, caught up just like us in the complex web of ...
I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form. It ...
My use of language is part and parcel of my message.
I don't feel comfortable taking some random stuff," I said. "Especially stuff that's called Stuff.
It's improbable for me to become lost, because I am already self-realized. A blank scene is a portrait of a glass kingdom to me. In ...
This is what progress does, you know. Each step into the future makes us ever so much grander and more demanding and thus ever so ...
There's nothing under the ground that's worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.
The top 15 contenders for the Republican nomination own at least 40 guns among them. If we elect a Republican president no one is hopping ...
It would take a lifetime to know everything about her, and he just happened to have one handy and available.
If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.
Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really much of a ...
I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play.
It's an old sailor's idea that every ship has a rope with one end made fast to her bows and the other held by the ...
In some ways, it's easier to settle for someone else's version of success than to risk falling short at one's own.
Not too slow, not too fast. Kind of like half-fast.
The two men examined Ahren. "I think you can never have too many hot guys at your funeral. It makes a statement. That statement being, ...
The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.
I was born Jewish, but I am an atheist. I dont believe in God.
Books can't matter much if their authors themselves don't think they matter.
Now and again thousands of memories converge, harmonize, arrange themselves around a central idea in a coherent form, and I write a story.
You can't depend on your eyes, when your desire is out of focus.