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One cannot legislate, dictate, or veto the laws of physics, and politics has no place in technical decisions. The
I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and sadness.
Nobody who was shooting dice wanted to get a dance.
Was adept, but it had been a while since
I'll forgive you for running from the past. But at least . . . stop running from the present and the future.
I am not frightened of speaking my mind. I don't have fear in that regard.
Music is like a psychiatrist. You can tell your guitar things that you can't tell people. And it will answer you with things people can't ...
I hardly know her. It all comes back to the paintings. Her amazing and beautiful talent. Her sincerity. Her kindness. Her feistiness. Her ability to ...
He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of men ...
Actually, before 'Super 8,' I didn't even have a game console. But now I do. For a kickoff for 'Super 8,' they gave us all ...
I am a little extrovert.
Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. ...
Hey, Connor! Sorry I must have butt-dialed you. So, do you want to tell me how it felt being on my ass?" she laughed.Ellery Black's ...
Egg laying is the main thing, Lily. She's the mother of every bee in the hive, and they all depend on her to keep it ...
Some salesmen think that selling is like eating - to satisfy an existing appetite; but a good salesman is like a good cook - he ...
It is like the keening sound the moon makes sometimes,/rising.
So many great people are dead, and so many assholes I know are still alive. Karma's bullshit. I wish it was true, but it ain't.
I think dissonance in music makes you think. It isn't, 'Oh, that's a pretty melody I can whistle.' You have to sit down and listen ...
The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations.
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some ...
Her dress is the colour of marmalade, she chirps songs that have no words
There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel ...
I hate being right all the time. So,
I feel that my main responsibility as a teacher isn't to convey facts, but to rekindle that lost enthusiasm for asking questions.
Our visions begin with our desires.
He held up the fingers of his left hand, with the thumb concealed.- There are five fingers there. Do you see five fingers?- Yes.
Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them. I don't. I don't ...
The most powerful mind is the quiet mind. It is the mind that is present, reflective, mindful of its thoughts and its state. It doesn't ...
A story needs rhythm. Read it aloud to yourself. If it doesn't spin a bit of magic, it's missing something.
Never silence your testimony. It's meant for someone else; not you.
It is as hard to find a neutral critic as it is a neutral country in time of war. I suppose if a critic were ...
Let us watch the kiddo. We're her godparents, right?' He held up a hand, keeping me from answering. 'I mean, I know you haven't decided ...
I will say this, though, in regards to laundry. I'll say, "Do you need to wear a new pair of jeans every day?" We've worked ...
Knowledge is the raw material of production and value in this age. It used to be that the main difference between people in our society ...
The truth is I try to take people as I find them.
Education is important not because it helps you to get a job, but because it opens the window of the mind through which we can ...
The deep woods can be very dangerous. Dangerous, dangerous, dangerous and weird. And weird weird.
I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at about the same ...
She doesn't even know how to kill things properlike? What kind of girl have you given me to, goddess?" Vic protested, fixing his eye on ...
All I want from a man is everything and nothing at the same but different times, sometimes and never but always.
Something that is loved is never lost.
So Bush certainly wasn't the greatest, and Obama has not done the job. And he's created a lot of disincentive. He's created a lot of ...
As a designer, I think you just have to make sure you know what you want and stay true to it. You need to have ...
So this was what a mountain was like, the same as a person: the more you know, the less you fear.
I want to seem put together in front of a person who earns a living trying to help me get all the pieces back together.
Everyone at home is so supportive. People recognise me, say how proud they are of me. It's awesome to hear, it's amazing to know I ...
I met some people who showed me a path in music where they were like hey, look, while yes, it can have to do with ...
Humans needed water or they would die, but dirty water killed as surely as thirst. You had to boil it before you drank it. This ...
To surrender to God means to let go and just love.
History reveals there is no moral high ground; there is only perspective. We often exhibit the same behaviors for which we condemn others.
A total commitment gives you the extra ounce of courage that it takes to win.
He was seeing a long line of men stretched through the centuries from Plato onward, whose heir and final product was an incompetent little professor ...
You do not need 435 people playing commander-in-chief.
The language of my books has shaped me as a man.
He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him;He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not ...
Well, when you're playing good football, it's good football and if you don't have good football, then you're not really playing good football.
Recognizing the connection to All Things, even in creepy moments, keeps me true to my animistic perspective. Finding growth from them is my choice.
She hadn't been hurt in any real way, had she? No one had treated her badly. I must just be overly sensitive to things, she ...
When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and ...
Jesus did not die to increase our self-esteem. Rather, Jesus died to bring glory to the Father by redeeming people from the curse of sin.
Savorwith methe lushnessof a lingering sleep...and last night'sdream.
I'm a happy guy, but if I'm in a rare dark mood, I won't go out because I don't want to be horrible to people.
As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out.
I'm not a big city guy ... there's too many people, there's too much traffic.
Well, we have got to understand, for example, Russia is an orthodox Christian nation. So is Ukraine. That happened in 988 in Crimea, a place ...
Once we have entrusted our hope about something to God, we no longer quarrel with our neighbor over it. (St. Kosmas Aitolos)
I eased back into the throne. Damn comfortable: swan-down and silk. Kinging it is pain in the arse enough without one of those gothic chairs.
If you keep pushing paint when you're tired of it, you lose sensitivity. I can only focus on painting for a few hours, so I'll ...
Don't be afraid to tell the truth. It's better to hurt someone by truth than to make them happy by lies.
You have to live by fighting each other, it's the law, the only way that things areworth while but it hurts
Man will never reach the higher wisdom,If he can't yet accept the pain of change.
If it can't be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.
What if there's no such thing as PMS and this is just my personality?
I think when it comes to decisions, I try not to be emotional. To drown out the noise and look at the important facts.
The last jobs I had were fixing cars and covering football games for a local access TV station. As in driving the mobile van to ...
Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective. So it would seem foolish, would it not, to adjust our lives to ...
Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
No place is a place until it has found its poet.
One without health cannot achieve any small thing.
I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's.
I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of ...
Grandmotherhood initiated me into a world of play, where all things became fresh, alive, and honest again through my grandchildren's eyes. Mostly, it retaught me ...
Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way.
Anyone who has ever dealt with the tax authorities, the educational system or any other complex bureaucracy knows that the truth hardly matters. What's written ...
I felt that if we, as the Met, were not intervening once one person starts digging up Parliament Square, then someone else is going to ...
Runners are poor walkers.
I was born in New York in 1904.
So that's it?" Kenji says. "You just like him for his personality, huh?""What?""All of this," Kenji says, waving a hand in the air, "has nothing ...
She broke my heart, so now I have to write about her forever. It made everything different. It's something that can only happen once.
HI was following through on the mountain commitment from my younger days, and it's always a nice surprise when the newly minted adult doesn't disown ...
Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding.
People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.
There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.
It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
The summer before I went to culinary school, my family wanted me to take a job on a movie to make sure that I was ...
When I started to get older and I thought, "Well, you know now I'm kinda ready to settle down. And I really want to give ...
Talking to my mental coach definitely helps. I talk to her every week. Yeah, I mean, she's been helping me a lot, too.
Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.Dagny Taggart
Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.
Zen is not, in my view, philosophy or mysticism. It is simply a practice of readjustment of nervous activity. That is, it restores the distorted ...