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America is a nation of illusions; illusions in the media, schools and government - an iron curtain of propaganda. ...
My eldest cat, "Nigger-Man," was seven years old and had come with me from my home in Bolton, Massachusetts;
Many hybrid owners realize how sharply fuel efficiency goes down over 55 mph because they get instant mileage feedback.
Don't make a hasty movement. Be like a mountain. Move silently and cautiously.
In the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too.
Those who betray me do it only once.
Whether you're six or sixty, if you go on a diet and lifestyle program and feel constrained, you're likely to go off it sooner or ...
We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we ...
Extremists have shown what frightens them most. A girl with a book.
He put a hand on his throat, as though trying to stop the words, but they came anyway. You're home. To me.
Some weddings take longer to plan than others.
Children are the most wholesome part of the race, the sweetest, for they are the freshest from the hand of god.
I don't like remembering the way that hurt her. Hurts her. I'm sure it still does; I'm just not around to see, and I don't ...
So many bands write about the same s - -. It gets real boring after a while. I want to keep it fresh and sign ...
Sometimes memories hit like a wallop, all of a sudden, and hard. Other times, for no reason that anyone can explain, memories take much longer ...
The glory of God is man fully alive. (Saint Irenaeus)
Where will they all sleep and dine? How do philosophers party? What should we print on the pillows and promotional cups?
For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people ...
I mean if you two were to make love, that would be gay. Two men touching each other physically and emotionally ... erotically caressing each ...
They agreed, however, that they could wish them only as much joy as they had together, refusing to be dislodged from their position as the ...
My idea was that the role of the special forces were to train Vietnamese to behave as guerrillas, harassing the supply lines down through the ...
If I know Mom,' she said, 'she'd have refused any surgery anyhow.''It's true,' Amanda said. 'Her advance directive basically asked us to put her out ...
For according to the outward man, we are in this world, and according to the inward man, we are in the inward world.... Since then ...
Being innovative in your philanthropy allows you to stride forward in your giving journey; you can marry your mind and heart to turn charity into ...
Life is sometimes hard, and you have to laugh your way through it.
Together, come what may.
My wife and I were shopping for the whole family. In the music department my wife said, "Let's get your nephew a set of drums. ...
If you find life on Europa [Jupiter's moon], like, what would you call it? Would it be, like, Europeans?
Turn hell-hound, turn.
This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased. This I have observed: what ...
Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. ...
Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future
Truth is a Person; His name is Jesus.
Thinking that God wants something from us is like showing a candle to the sun.
We all cannot do everything or solve every issue. "It's impossible", however, if we each simply do our part. Make our own contribution, regardless of ...
That's the thing about driving: You're alone but you're everywhere. You're standing still but moving really fast. It's just like perspectives constantly changing.
My mother was a gypsy, and she had a lot of dark blood in her, and her hair was very, very thick - she couldn't ...
But the reality of being American requires that a commitment to our founding principles must be renewed by personal discovery with each generation - actively, ...
The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you're talking ...
For sure, all over Poland, kids had my picture of a lemur on their bedroom wall - but the chances are they may never get ...
Having all those women together in one place was like looking through a photo album of my life: from when I was a baby to ...
I have in my mind an obscenity so great that I could vomit the most dreadful words and it wouldn't be enough!
If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.
Our people went out every single night trying to stop crime before it happened, trying to take people off the street that they believed were ...
Golf gives and takes. So yeah, sometimes you make those putts, sometimes you just miss them. But that's golf.
Problem does not lie in being a husband; the problem is with acting as a husband (being bossy).
My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there are unused resources ...
I don't want a knight in shining armor.I don't want a knight in scuffed armor.I want his helmet to have dents. I want my knight ...
The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.
The self is every person's true enemy.
You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to ...
There is more to this hijab than the whole modesty thing. These girls are strangers to me but I know that we all felt an ...
George Clooney's 'Ides of March' could be the most under-appreciated movie of the year. In 20 years they're gonna go back and say, 'Oh, that ...
If you live your life with palms up, you'll be happy only at Christmastime and your birthday, but if you live your life with palms ...
I didn't think at all as a young child that music would be my profession. It was just something that one did along with going ...
I'm a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, ...
I constantly think as an artist, as a rapper of what are the stories you want to tell? They can't all be, "I'm ill, I'm ...
Destiny is a series of choices
It's often been said, she's easy on the eye but the moment she shows you a slice of her personality, you'll feel for the first ...
I don't know what to think of the money. It's kind of mind-boggling. I come from a middle-class, blue-collar family. We've never really had money.
If there is one area where equity is crucial and essential,I think it should be the issue of water.
Just as there is no warning for childbirth, there is no preparation for the sight of a first child ... There should be a song ...
Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.
Conflicts are not a sign you've married the wrong person. They simply affirm you are human.
There are a lot of people highly motivated to be the first to clone a human.
I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made ...
I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the ...
Tim Robbins had real confidence in college. He literally stole actors from the theater department at UCLA to be in his plays. The department heads ...
Here's a foolproof method for keeping America safe. Always do the exact 180-degree opposite of whatever [Jimmy] Carter says, as quickly as possible.
They say it is hard to raise children. They say I would understand it when I have children of my own. They say I would ...
The slang "you ain't seen nothing yet" is completely apropos in regards to instrumentation for marine bioacoustics research.
McCafferty's was a Mount Washington steak house, sort of the Palm Lite, with caricatures of Baltimore celebrities hanging
Adversity refined a man like gold.
Trump Entertainment Resorts declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Or as Donald Trump describes Chapter 11, "Back-to-back number ones!"
A loving mother makes sacrifices for peace and laughter to reign in her home and family.
Where am I and doing what? You might well ask. Freaky chick, you say? You can't imagine. I am priestess of a sandcastle in a ...
He wanted to write someone and demand a refund on his dark side which clearly ought to have irresistible magical power but had turned out ...
I think the one worthy cause I can identify myself with is valuing education. Because I believe education is something that cannot be taken away ...
They said it was only a ground shark; but I was not wholly reassured. It is as bad to be eaten by a ground shark ...
It's the person that calls you up because they're eating at 'our favorite spot,' and it made them think of you and miss being there ...
Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone ... ...
No Alarm Clock Needed. My Passion Wakes Me.
If a boy ever says, you remind me of someonedon't fall in love with him. You will never be anything more than second best.
Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret ...
My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to ...
If you'd be wealthy, think of saving, more than of getting: The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her Outgoes equal her Incomes.
Dancing is the body made poetic.
I can't do anything too serious like Saddam Hussein, but I would like to do Bill Clinton. That'd be fun.
She is so lost in her sadness that she has no idea how visible it is.
Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future, I will strain my spiritual eyes ...
And if my Sea od Tranquility were real, it would be this place, here, with him.I don't say anything right away, because I just want ...
As I dive between the legs of a big Gunnar, I see Mair wind up and slam her shockstick hard as she can between the ...
One should never mistake pattern for meaning.
You're the first, the last, and my everything and the answer to all my dreams. You're my sun, my moon, my guiding star, my kind ...
I wasn't the trendiest girl at college.
For the rest of the morning they worked quietly ad steadily, realizing that their contentment here at Uncle Monty's house did not erase their parents' ...
The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over the child, which ...
Love is the means, but sex is the destination.
There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks ...
Had I been able to formulate my first impressions of the United States, I might have said that there was a place in America called ...