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It is not just a matter of "doing the right thing" but of figuring out what the right thing is.
It was with deep, idiotic relief that I leaned on that fleshy, humid, barn-yard fool.
His words coursed through him like jolts of electricity, some striking on target precisely because they were so unpredictable, causing him to shudder, and concede, ...
About to make, but the idea had faded. Not for the first time that day, she wished the hall outside her door hadn't become the ...
And that afternoon, as the sun slanted low through the changing autumn leaves, I remembered to savor the moment, soak in the beauty, breathe deeply ...
People ask me if my shoes were too small when I was a kid and I say it wouldn't matter how fight my shoes were, ...
Sweetheart, I remember every second from the first moment I laid eyes on you and I've been trying to get my world upright ever since.
I always think that art is a form of sacrifice.
Enthusiats are used to being mocked, maligned and misunderstood. We don't really mind.
I have at times spoken with my peers and the head of the actors' union about why we're not paid when we appear in, say, ...
Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.
I want you to live, and go on living, and let everyone else live, too.
It's a lot of work to make a marriage work. Just because you have been married for a while doesn't mean you can sit back ...
I always wanted to be a filmmaker and became one through sheer single-mindedness. I came to filmmaking from a background in graphic design. I went ...
Your life is not going to be easy, and it should not be easy. It ought to be hard. It ought to be radical; it ...
My life is not important here.
When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it.
The protocol things, the officialdom, are part of my work. But it doesn't take more than 20 percent of my time. The majority of my ...
The goal as an actor is to constantly surround yourself with amazing artists who challenge you and make you grow.
Agricultural science is largely a race between the emergence of new pests and the emergence of new techniques for their control.
Whatever you do, protect those you care for. Without them, life is more miserable than you can imagine.
In short: developers do not give players enough credit. And maybe even players don't give players enough credit.
Withdrawn into the peace of this desert, along with some books, few but wise, I live in conversation with the deceased, and listen to the ...
I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them, since I'm new ...
People are obsessed. There's an incredibly large group of people that spend most of their time considering other people's lives. It's strange to me.
It is not the purpose of the ad or commercial to make the reader or listener say, 'My what a clever ad.' It is the ...
I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another.
You never know about the art world because it's a matter of opinion. If you look at old art like Rembrandt and Vermeer, it's not ...
I always put in my 100 percent. Once the film is over, I look at my next, because then it's up to the audience to ...
The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with uswhen we stop, we darken.
That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.
My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.
Right. You archangel, me lowly seraph. You'd think I would've learned that by now.
You know I love to spend my mornings, like sunlight dancing on your skin
Time starts out as a notion. But after you turn fifty, time is not a notion anymore but a fact that you start feeling clearly, ...
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.
Fatal North was being poisoned to death aboard his own vessel and by someone from his hand-picked crew ... a cold-blooded, calculating, pre-meditated murder by ...
Yes, a ghost, thought the Count, as he moved silently down the hall. Like Hamlet's father roaming the ramparts of Elsinore after the midnight watch ...
There is widespread support for nudges that are taken to have legitimate ends and to be consistent with the interests and the values of most ...
Making a wrong choice early may limit making the right choice later.
But in my heart of hearts, this is the kind of thing ... this is what everyone is struggling with in their lives - relationships ...
Many are so used to laurels and presume that they are real winners.
You know," Glen Bateman said, looking out toward Grand Junction in the early light of morning, "I've heard the saying 'That sucks' for years without ...
I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are ...
People don't tune in to watch network executives' decisions. They don't tune in to watch writers' decisions. They tune in to watch people that they ...
Be loving to find the love.
It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in ...
She really mellowed me out that way. We both definitely grew with each other and with the whole experience.
When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they ...
I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match ...
The most important, what I believe myself to do, is what is the interest of Lebanon, what is the interest of my country and my ...
What are the lessons intended in the stories we tell to our children today?
O, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise ...
Who we are varies according to our awareness. When you are more aware, you are someone else than when you are less aware.
The doors of hell are locked from the inside!
Most people lived their lives like criminals: act first, worry about the consequences later.
If you're not clipping coupons before going to the grocery store, you're overspending. If you're ordering in or going out to dinner because you don't ...
I will track right on down to hell to pull your ass out of the fire.
Every night, I slip into the empty winter land of memory.
For as long as I've known him, Sam has been trying to out-run his demons. But he can't see the truth. His problems - they ...
Typography must be as beautiful as a forest, not like the concrete jungle of the tenements It gives distance between the trees, the room to ...
Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional ... All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this ...
In order to do a good job of those things that we decide to do, we must eliminate all of the unimportant opportunities.
Eldric wore his lazy lion's smile. He didn't mind what he was called. He was a sticks-and-stones sort of person.
Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.
Compromise: An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong.
If we were rational enough to judge what we are fed based on what we are fed, those in the business of selling us hope ...
As Americans after 9/11, we're much more united, together as a nation, and we got stronger, better, and more at peace. By peace, I mean ...
Real action and true helpfulness are perhaps the ultimate charm.
In defense of geeks," Justine said, "they're great in bed. They fantasize a lot, so they're really creative. And they love to play with gadgets.
I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
There are many things we only seeclearly in retrospect.
So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with ... always saying how you deal ...
The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes.
A dangerous woman delves deeply into the truth of who she is, grounds herself daily in the healing and empowering love of God, and radically ...
I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before.
To be happy with human beings, we should not ask them for what they cannot give.
Contrary to popular opinion, a man can shut love out if he wants to. But to do so, he must free himself not only from ...
Emma and I exchanged a glance, very aware that they were not going to sleep. And just to make it obvious, Sara leaned over the ...
I can't choose whether someone is offended by my actions. I can choose whether I care.
The truth about Chanel's bespoke femininity is that a woman can do or say whatever she wants as long as she's wearing pearls.
I think I'm unique to the game 'cause of my versatility.
Reviews are for readers, not writers. If I get a bad one, I shrug it off. If I get a good one, I don't believe ...
Besides, this was the gentle-going hour in which he hated Annawadi least. The pale sun lent the sewage lake a sparkling silver cast, and the ...
You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.
The people who are backing the Remain campaign are people who have done very well, thank you, out of the European Union.
Lovers and even some family members may come and go but the friendships that take root abide. Sometimes the best of what is true survives ...
The keys to success, in business and in life, are truthfulness, the ability to take and give, honest and well-intended feedback, strength of character and ...
We know that many of the apostles of Christ were killed. Eleven out of 12 met violent deaths when they were just talking about God ...
The more we increase the active participation and partnership with young people, the better we serve them ... And the more comprehensively we work with ...
Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods.
The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.
Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that really represented me ...
The gladiator is formulating his plan in the arena or essentially Too late.
Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper. ...
Someone was waving a large pink-and-white sign that read, "Don't Worry, Be Happy." I was trying, and so were at least thirty thousand other bodies, ...
Gay marriage within mainline denominations is gaining traction. Skewed pastors and even the government can't trump the Bible on this issue. Pastors: stand!
Nature brings us back to absolute truth whenever we wander.