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I function better in the jungle in Amazonia or Antarctica or Alaska or the Sahara desert. An artificial environment like a studio has never attracted ...
To this day it cracks me up to think that my debut on national British television as a reporter ends with me turning a trick.
With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.
Knock a man down, and you saw what he was made of. That man might run. If he didn't - if he stood back up ...
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
Those innocent eyes cut my soul like a razor ... however, in a depraved man this, too, might be only a sensual attraction.
Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.
I would never describe Charlotte as a prude - maybe at the start, but that was in comparison to the other girls. She wasn't willing ...
My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. I'm pointing the finger at us, not at the ...
Following the herd reduces you to a cow.
Full of fun, over-the-top characters and witty prose, with a touch of gay romance that is equally pleasing to straight readers. The Edwin Drood Murders ...
That's why girls have boyfriends. So you have someone to take you to boring functions.
If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.
Sometimes when we get our ass kicked and we're down, sometimes we stay down, and sometimes we get depressed and sometimes we don't know how ...
I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.
I do a lot of revising on paper. Sometimes I think I should just write longhand - what I type reads very different once I ...
There is no such thing as a good tax
Organic Greek yogurt, a banana, a tablespoon of peanut butter, a squeeze of honey, a dash of milk, a bunch of ice cubes and a ...
Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
Capital investment in fixed assets that produce real goods is the actual driver of long term economic growth, and until slick financiers hijacked the country ...
Love requires no return. It gives even when forsaken.
I don't have to do anything. The character is shaped on the page.
Be encouraged when your prayers reveal progress that can be measured even in the tiniest increments. God is at work in your life and in ...
To experience the agony of defeat makes you stronger. It's like taking one step back and two steps forward. To experience the agony of defeat ...
Christ in you," said the apostle Paul, is "the hope of glory" (Col. 1:27).
I've been thinking."That snapped Piper back to the present. Coming from your boyfriend, I've been thinking was kind of a scary line.
The world falls apart from time to time, and madness happens.
When you beat England at Twickenham you don't feel the need to make changes to a winning side, but there are areas we think we ...
Love is an artful arrangement of artless pretensions, whereby we labor to appear innocent in what we desire to be most cunning.
Off-the-rack solutions, like bargain basement dresses, never fit anymore.
I took my father on a coach trip last summer.We were halfway there when the driver lost control of the coach, it flew down a ...
I don't put any rules to my style; I think fashion is something that you should play with ... even if you make a mistake, ...
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as ...
God is a blank sheet upon which nothing is found but what you yourself have written.
The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.
The only mistake you made was thinking I'd let you walk out of here with another man.
Live each day as your last, and tomorrow is forever
You have to look inside yourself and you have to say, well, what am I about? Why does anyone need this? Why does anyone need ...
I write to shed my sacred sorrows.
Chess is a contest between two men which lends itself particularly to the conflicts surrounding aggression.
When people are described as difficult and have a reputation as difficult it's 99% of the time because they've been disappointed over and over again ...
If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health ...
Our conversion comes step by step, line upon line. We first build a foundation of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
If you demonize a person's pleasure, then you can control his or her life.
My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
One thing I do know about death. The "better" the person, the more loving and happy and caring, the less of a gap that person's ...
Only paper flowers are afraid of the rain.
Even if individual researchers are prone to falling in love with their own theories, the broader process of peer review and institutionalized skepticism are designed ...
I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors to stay in.
The story of the tree is written on every leaf.
Consecration is the act of continually separating myself from everything except that which God has appointed me to do. It is not a one-time experience ...
I should like to know if he has sunk a frigate, alone, with a Fleur-de-Nuit on his back; and as for distinction, my ancestors were ...
He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
Playing scales is like a boxer skipping rope or punching a bag. It's not the thing in itself; it's preparatory to the activity
In too many churches today, people don't see manifestations of God's power in answer to fervent praying. Instead, they hear arguments about theological issues that ...
Let me be clear - Microsoft has no beef with open source.
Let's stop feeling so guilty about global warming
Magnus's eyes went back to Alec. They were gold-green, as unreadable as the eyes of the cat he held on his lap. "Not my favorite ...
The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be - But when he got well, a wolf once more was he
Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.
When we look at the past from beyond the perspective of sadness and error, without judgment, without right or wrong, understanding it was part of ...
We're called to be faithful, to take those first difficult stepsand to leave the results up to God.
I'm very interested in the history of Christianity, and what I can say for sure is that the Catholics and the Jesuits and stuff were ...
I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
Conchpore is real. It is as real as Malgudi, Brahmpur, Lilliput or Macondo. And also as real as San Francisco, Madurai, Edinburgh, Gaborone or Tokyo. ...
I don't want to extend my career for individual records. This is the time to go.
If you don't grow up by age 35, you don't have to.
You are the shuckiest shuck faced shuck in the world!
I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.
Alenda reminded herself that "normal" no longer existed. If she should see a bear in a feather cap riding a chicken, that too might be ...
Faith I have, in myself, in humanity, in the worthwhileness of the pursuits in entertainment for the masses. But wide awake, not blind faith, moves ...
Not being afraid to make changes is a valuable tool - knowing you can change back.
There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last
If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army.
What we committed in the Indies stands out among the most unpardonable offenses ever committed against God and mankind and this trade [in Indian slaves] ...
We have to Build Bridges of Peace Instead of building Walls of Wars.
I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and ...
All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it moves between horizontality ...
The context needs to be that the goal is a healthy mom. Because mothers never make decisions without thinking about that healthy baby. And to ...
I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my ...
My heart swelled, so full of love I didn't know how any physical body could possibly contain such power. I felt like my chest would ...
Don't be what you're told to be. Follow your own path. Be your own person. Don't get held down by everyone else.
Vitriolic hatred of Hungary at the peace talks. In
The trees are a thousand times taller than me, and hundreds of years older, and the rocks and leaves and plants and animals never do ...
But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?
People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic.They have some issue. They have some interest.It may be preserving carried interest. ...
Trifles show character
Elegance is not standing out, but being remembered.
Above us, the moon hangs like a fat blister on the feel of the sky, ready to burst in a spray of viscous white puschap ...
Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.
Trying is terrifying because I know I will just fail. But I do want things to be different. I do ... I am so afraid. ...
When you're happy, you don't count the years.
We were entwined so tightly that I was afraid to breathe, lest she move at all.
I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest ...
Only the familiar transformed by genius is truly great.
Learn to love God with all your heart
Listening, Testing, Coding, Designing. That's all there is to software. Anyone who tells you different is selling something.
Thomas More rarely discussed his siblings, and two of them are never mentioned by him. It is likely that they were part of that infant ...
Real tough guys don't swear, they just do.