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You were used to say extremity was the trier of spirits; that common chances common men could bear; that when the sea was calm all ...
My pictures are not that interesting, nor the subject matter. They are simply a collection of facts; my book is more like a collection of ...
People who felt compelled to fill silence with mindless chatter and who couldn't be alone with their own thoughts baffled me.
There comes a time when you have to confront your past, chuckle at your mistakes, pick up your peace and KEEP marching forward.
Don't say it do it, Don't act it out prove it, Don't just speak it make me believe it.
In fact, just heading toward veganism lifts a not insignificant burden from the earth. According to food pundit Michael Pollan, who's not a vegetarian, if ...
My friends scoffed at my anxiety and said dumb things like, 'Fifty is the new forty!' Which just made me realize that there are a ...
I can't imagine what this great country would be like if the Mexican Revolution hadn't happened.
We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores they chalk up. ...
Art should be waged like war.
If you want to achieve what you dream of achieving, whatever it may be, you're going to have to earn it.
We hunt the White Stag, like Quentin did. We catch it or shoot it or whatever you do with it. We get three wishes. We ...
When it comes to romance, I'm really simple. I am really a 'dinner and a movie' type of person, and I love food, so surprise ...
I don't feel unfriendly, ma'am," said Mrs. Wiggins. "Only towards Mr. Margarine. You know very well why." Mrs.
My spiritual high naturally dissipated. At some point you've got to come out of the clouds and live real life. Again, it's just like falling ...
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
Loss brings pain. Yes. But pain triggers memory. And memory is a kind of new birth, within each of us. And it is that new ...
Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
Ethics are my veiled mistress; I love them, but know not what they are.
If monks are crazy to live the way they do, maybe the world needs more such craziness, what Matthew Kelty has termed 'the madness of ...
People aren't buying records like they used to, so it's nice to try to figure out a way to make them do it. I would ...
Bind Merrimoth," he finally said, "and I'll do that think you like later.""It's not like my power reacts to the reward system," I said, then ...
Life is everywhere. The earth is throbbing with it - it's like music. The plants, the creatures, the ones we see, the ones we don't ...
Good fences make good neighbors.
Most people talk; we do things. They plan; we achieve. They hesitate; we move ahead. We are living proof that when human beings have the ...
Confucious and the Madman (excerpt)The cinnamon tree is edible: so it is cut down!The lacquer tree is profitable: they maim it.Every man knows how useful ...
It was the month of May and there was warm sunshine dripping through the holes between the clouds, like the sky was a broken blue ...
I remember cleaning boots at Millwall on £250 a week and feeling like a millionaire. I'd made it then. At that time, if I never ...
I like that it's challenging - that when I'm writing, I feel as if I'm pouring everything I have into the story until there's nothing ...
When economic modernizations come in, say goodbye to wildlife.
He oft finds med'cine, who his griefe imparts; But double griefs afflict concealing harts, As raging flames who striveth to supresse.
For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair just society
Don't think that way, she whispered. The dream will come true.
For those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of pop-culture icons seems at best an annoying tic and at worst a dangerous vapidity ...
To the sight of the swallows dying in mid air, Alessandro was finally able to add his own benediction. "Dear God, I beg of you ...
After I broke my leg I had to go back and do one of the remakes of 'The Magnificent Seven' and ended up on a ...
It was great to play an ex-marine cockney thug. All my roles are as different as the colours of the rainbow.
To find the meaning of life, enjoy the journey, the beauty of the nature, the glint of a dew drop, the warmth of the morning ...
Some things you do-or you're about to do-you can just be like, 'Hey, don't do that because it means trouble.' So I've got to back ...
When love is sweet, the sweetness means its lightAnd light may keep the truth, when love is pure.But love is bitter, when it turns to ...
Often, feelings of sadness, uneasiness, and loneliness are vague and unattached to specific events. This makes it more challenging to find ways to turn you ...
Driving down the wrong road and knowing it, The fork years behind, how many have thought To pull up on the shoulder and leave the ...
We're children. We're supposed to be childish.
Did you see her?" the Marid said nervously, looking at her with great dark eyes. "Our daughter. Standing on the Gear. Dis you see her?""What?" ...
There's magic in recognizing a kindred spirit, and an even greater power in letting yourself love them. When it scares you, let it - that's ...
Here in the Motor City, we take an almost perverse pride in doing things the hard way, or whatever way that means we can be ...
I always have this feeling that I'm losing everything, so I'm a real saver.
Madness, genius, originality - it's all the same thing; it's a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another one.
Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people
Be aware, then, that every human condition is subject to change, and that whatever mishap can befall any man can also happen to you.
They sounded really professional because they had two Vox AC 30 amplifiers. I also had an AC 30, so when you looked at it, three ...
Helping your weapon reach your target is easy. Watching someone accept that their life is over before it ever became something is not quite as ...
I'm white and everything is made for me." A black female student said, "I'm straight. I can hold hands with my boyfriend without fearing violence." ...
There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be ...
The smallest of them was sprawled on his belly, face buried in a mound of wildflowers.
Jungle post arrives. Two biscuits for me. A poem and a pressed flower from Comrade Narmada. A lovely letter from Maase. (Who is she? Will ...
I am what is called a professor emeritus - from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.
I can shoot off my big mouth and write my shows and run my shows, and I can recognize how lucky I am because my ...
Playboy isn't like the downscale, male bonding, beer-swilling phenomena that is being promoted now by (some men's magazines). My whole notion was the romantic connection ...
To me, every fundamentalist Muslim, no matter how peaceable in his own behavior, is part of a murderous movement and is thus, in some fashion, ...
My parents taught me many of the things that people need in life to feel confident: practical things, such as managing finances, mucking out the ...
Self-Enquiry is not asking you to believe or to trust - it is putting a mirror in front of you and asking you to look. ...
We have a lot to gain through furthering stem cell research, but medical breakthroughs should be fundamentally about saving, not destroying, human life. Therefore, I ...
I do gravitate toward 19th century writers, and I never mind being compared with some of the most memorable writers from that era. I mean, ...
Our joys have shadows. The perfect smile belongs to God alone.
Let's just say that my father is a very powerful man.""That's a little understated, don't you think? ... You know, seeing how he's the Grim ...
The aquilegia sprinkled on the rocksA scarlet rain; the yellow violetSat in the chariot of its leaves, the phloxHeld spikes of purple flame in meadows ...
Love is mistranslated into sex, because sex is not an expression of love. Sex is an expression of physical activity. It can be an expression ...
Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema.
We should be unshakable and uncompromising while we stand for God's truth
It seems to work better than jabbing them with a stick," he said."Less fun.""My jabbing arm is tired.
That old black magic has me in its spell.
You have the God-given right to kick the government around - don't hesitate to do so.
Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it ...
I grew up, in my childhood, with some of the greatest women performers, on stage and on screen, and even my family - my mother ...
A friend of mine who works for naval intelligence said an aerial satellite revealed that 1.9 million attended the event in 1995. But if they ...
I am just the most boring person you will ever meet. I'm the good Southern daughter. I'm not outrageous.
A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth,
We're not going to spend taxpayers' money on abortion. This is an issue that divides America. But certainly reasonable people can agree on how to ...
Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that ...
Kind of, but it's more than that. It's like a lot of shit you've been told in your life is a lie. All these rules ...
It's like touching you in your unmentionables," Maleficarum said. "We never could, m'lady, not ever. Mr. Dante wouldn't like it.
Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - There is no book so bad that it is not profitable on some part.
Ken Shamrock is the World's Most Dangerous Man? Maybe behind the wheel of a car.
I deleted your number. Although I know the tired digits by heart, scout's honor, pinky promise.I am trying to talk myself out of every emotion ...
Ank froze. The moaning became more stressful and a little bit louder. "I think its coming from the basement."Without warning, Ank grabs a pool stick ...
I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. ...
I just want to keep challenging myself. Keep moving the goalposts and raising my game.
Families make possible the super-exploitation of women by training them to look upon their work outside the home as peripheral to their 'true' role.
The soul of a young girl should not be left in the dark; later on, mirages that are too abrupt and too lively are formed ...
I will smash your face into a car windshield, and then take your mother, Dorothy Mantooth, out for a nice seafood dinner and never call ...
Sacredam!" he cried, when his eyes lit upon Buck. "Dat one dam bully dog! Eh? How moch?
Toph looks at me. I nod gravely. In this world, in our new world, there will be rocking. We will pay tribute to musicmakers like ...
Most critics agree with the seventeenth-century printer who gave them to the world, that the Mutabilitie Cantos seem to be part of some following book ...
It is conceivable that in principle man's motor through-ways resemble the slime trails along which are drawn the gathering mucors that erect the spore palaces, ...
I tell young players who want to be coaches, who think they can put up with all the headaches and heartaches, can you live without ...
Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
The greatest risk to man is not that he aims too high and misses, but that he aims too low and hits.
Asher smiled beatifically, as if he'd been waiting his whole life for someone to ask just that question. How would you feel about some Mentos ...
Sometimes rising above is the only way to stop the hate from spreading. It's not what anyone expects, and it does make them stop and ...