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Don't look back. You're not going that way.
It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting ...
Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both ...
Love. Lust. Like. They're all the same and start somewhere, right? The point is, you should never give up.
Things don't have to be sane when they're normal.
Music was the first art form I ever had.
Anyone who loved Tuesdays with Morrie should delight in reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Mitch Albom has populated his larger-than-life tale with ...
It is neither right nor safe to go against my conscience.
As Americans, preserving the best of our traditions, we have the right- nay the duty-to fight for participation in the forward march of humanity
Maybe I'm getting precognitive in my old age.
It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.
To tolerate does not mean to forget that what we tolerate does not deserve anything more
Wherever autocratic power vanished at an early date - as in the Netherlands and later in England - and the protective interest receded into the ...
Superstition is the irrational belief that an object or behavior has the power to influence an outcome, when there's no logical connection between them. Most ...
If you fail to offer yourself for leadership then accept the blind man who is leading you.
Most people ask questions because they want to know the answer; lawyers are trained never to ask questions unless they already know the answer.
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own ...
Chernobyl is like the war of all wars. There's nowhere to hide. Not underground, not underwater, not in the air.
I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look at things as possibilities and as opportunities.
The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespectthis belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not ...
I need you like a blossom needs rain, like the winter ground needs spring-to soothe my parched soul.
A goddess does not need to eat and does so only for her pleasure.
Don't polish it forever, put it out there. At some point the changes aren't improvements, they're just changes.
Natural gas is the future. It is here.
There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail.
There are three things you cannot hide: smell of the garlic, fragrance of the flower and the wisdom of the teacher.
By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.
If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will ...
Happiness is the consciousness of growth. [ ... ] If my definition has validity, it suggests that most people come to therapy because they sense ...
Remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.
More than half of Americans have changed religions at least once in their adult lifetime. This is - the rate of religious conversion here is ...
When you throw a tennis ball in the air, you can count on it coming down.
Better grounded emotionally through patience, we become stronger mentally and spiritually, and tend to be healthier physically.
What made medicine fool people for so long was that its successes were prominently displayed and its mistakes (literally) buried.
The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.
What is life for?' he asked rhetorically. 'It's a way to evolve thought. And what is thought for? It's a way to be aware, a ...
In the sudden absence of husbands, fathers, brothers and beaus, white Southern women discovered a newfound freedom - one that simultaneously granted them more power ...
Ah Ratty, what good times we'll have," said Mad Jack. "Just you and me, Ratty. We'll go cuttin' them reeds together, and if you're good ...
The ultimate success of a product or service is 10 percent product quality and 90 percent sales. Nine
In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain ...
I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What ...
Some men are crazy," I said, moving toward the door."What do wou mean?""I mean, some men are in love with their wives.
And I thought kitty liter was the unlawful practice of discarding small felines along the roadside.
The Whitney is a museum that has a great rapport with younger artists and the community.
If time waits for no one then let me show you how it does, by smash your watch.
You don't know where life's gonna take you. Sometimes it takes you getting carried out of a club and then into a booth as an ...
It's a weird job because making music or writing a song is a personal thing ... and it kind of has to be. You can ...
Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that ...
Some days I feel like a breast stuck in a mammography machine.
Laugh with fake id's but i have permanent license of pain in eyes
Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising.
If there's ever a kid out there that can't afford to buy the music, I still want them to hear it, and hopefully they'll go ...
I don't think we can do that.""At these prices you should bring the cow out and have a ritual sacrifice atthe table. Just do it." ...
Steps toward a rapprochement between Israel and the Arab states create a process that turns economics into the moving force that shapes the regional relations ...
In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.
I would really rather feel bad in Maine than feel good anywhere else
Bought the president the Louis presidential briefcase Never been a cheapskate
It takes emotion to bring knowledge to a boil.
In our advanced technological age, most people deny the possibility of miracles ... Miracles don't happen, we are told, because they contravene the laws of ...
My need to parent is so much bigger, sometimes, than my children's need for parenting.
Rather marvelously, the older brain only permits change when it judges that change to be important, rewarding or good for it.
Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that I could be better programmer by using only the good parts and avoiding ...
He needed a story to go with her wildness, her coldness, her hollowness. The real story was that she'd had everything and hadn't deserved it, ...
I suggest you apply whatever wisdom you have."-Shevata, "Children of Discord" (upcoming novel)
Courage comes from a heart that is CONVINCED it is loved.
David christened it: "This is the house of Yahzeh ha-Elohim [1 ahveh of the Gods], and this is the altar of the burnt offering for ...
Explaining the unknown should be left to science, questions of good and bad behavior can be answered by ethics, and inspiration is often found in ...
Alexander Wang is a young designer, and his style is so profound. He took sports and street and kind of combined it into upscale high ...
It's just not possible to be a real partner if you aren't materially participating. I believe even the busiest business owners must drive a carpool, ...
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Criticism does not make you smarter or better than the one you are criticizing. In fact, the stuff you are critical of in others is ...
I am very grateful for the dedicated work and intellectual contributions of generations of talented postdocs, students and research assistants without whom none of the ...
Our role as parents is to increasingly motivate our children to act from within, not simply act correctly.
Over my dead body, I thought. Yes, even immortals use that phrase. It has extra oomph for us.
Attention to detail is the key to survival;
Memory is ... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
Sufferings lead a man to his soul.
Then forcing his wife to eat the roasted flesh! Amazingly, two enemies, an English
Just remember, Callum when you're floating up and up in your bubble, that bubbles have a habit of bursting. The higher you climb, the further ...
Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase.
That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
The world gave one so many reasons to be pissed off at it.
The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.
The worst things, however, are the petty thoughts. Verily, better to have done evilly than to have thought pettily!
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.
You can not hope to arrive at harmony in your life while stirring up disturbances in anothers ...
The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.
I'm not in the business to make people aware of me, and publicists are very expensive - they're $3,500 a month! I don't want to ...
We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.
I was struck by an awful thought, the kind that cannot be taken back once it escapes into the open air of consciousness; it seemed ...
And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as ...
You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type.
I have to get out," I told Sam. "I need to get away. Will you go with me?" "Anywhere," he said and kissed me.
He led her to the dressing room, opened the wardrobe, and riffled through her clothes. He pulled out a black tunic, leggings, and jacket and ...
I majored in Southern history in college, and much of my early work at my first job - as a staff writer at 'Memphis' magazine ...
Guardian angels are perhaps the most popular kind, probably because we all know how fragile life can be. We desperately need protection from unexpected circumstances ...
Things don't exist until they exist.
If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. ...
Fear confines us to lesser choices that we can't grow. Hope liberates us to greater heights that we can grow.
Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets, they act and ...