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In the Renaissance world of arranged marriages, there were no romantic proposals on bended knee - only notaries and contracts.
I know that not everybody gets to coach an NFL team, and I want to do that as well as I can all the time. ...
In The Tricky Art of Co-Existing, Sandi Toksvig navigates life's little dilemmas with wit and not-so-common sense. You'll learn the strange history of common courtesy ...
The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale ...
In the early '90s, I wrote a play called 'Word of Mouth' in which I played a number of different characters. One was a thirteen-year-old ...
33,3% of the mice used in this experiment were cured by the test drug; 33,3% of the population were unaffected by the drug and remained ...
I found god in myself and i loved her i loved her fiercely
It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in ...
II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.
You know if you pick up a beach read, you're excused from the problems in your own life and safe in a world with conflicts ...
Andy was speechless. He'd forgotten that there was actually another person in the room- someone with her own needs and desires and shit to freak ...
Loving someone who can't love themselves is like pouring water into a bowl with a hole in the bottom. It can never stay filled.
Farren Knight had made her promise that she would never stop believing in love and being in love. "That
...and I am sitting in this park watching an old couple almost cry together, and I want this to be the most important thing I ...
The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no ...
But chastity means passion, chastity means neurasthenia. And passion and neurasthenia mean instability. And instability means the end of civilization. You can't have a lasting ...
It is a naked city. Faith is not pampered, nor hope encouraged; there is no place to lay one's exhaustion: but instead pinnacles skewer it ...
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.[The Sick Chamber (The New Monthly Magazine , August 1830)]
And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.
I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to ...
Let mortal man keep to his ownMortality, and not expect too much.
I would say I don't like people who are really into themselves or are very materialistic. Just always talking themselves up. Not being real is ...
Summerhill children are allowed to go through their gangster period, and consequentially more furniture is destroyed.
Why?' - Nasuada'You know why' - Murtagh
I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.
People need to understand that if I comment on something, it's not because I want to argue, troll, or change anyone's mind. It's because I ...
We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving you have no ...
I sketch the faces upside down because it's like drawing from the left side of the brain or the right side of the brain. I ...
You need to be, like, turning down high-paying illustration work because you want to work on your comic. That's when you know you're doing something ...
Nadua was stunned by his gentleness; when he looked as though ready to tear the flesh from her throat with his lengthening fangs.
Employing ... nutrition and vitamin therapy ... one of the nation's largest alcoholism treatment programs reports a 71% success rate. This contrasts with ... (a) ...
People always thought if no one believed in God and we were nihilists then people would go around murdering each other. That didn't happen at ...
Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were ...
Not to spoil the moment. It had been a big mistake because the next thing he knew they had a fight, and she was gone. ...
The more opportunities there are in a Society for some persons to live upon the toil of others, and the less those others may enjoy ...
Standing in Front of the Mirror of EternityDressed By True ExistenceLooking to Your Own RealityIn the Ocean of Oneness
Imagine a world of nine billion people with clean water, nutritious food, affordable housing, personalized education, top-tier medical care, and nonpolluting, ubiquitous energy. Building this ...
I figured my wife was about to start law school. If that whole baseball pitching thing didn't work out, I had something to fall back ...
I recall no arrangement, Mau, no bargain, covenant, agreement or promise. There is what happens, and what does not happen. There is no 'should
Narciso Rodriguez was my first fashion big brother. He made my wedding dress, which was wonderful.
In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence.
Never forget those who helped you along the way
The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life ...
Even the God of the New Testament is not as forgiving as the consumer credit system.
It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain an hypothesis, but be certain ...
So if you love him, why keep him waiting for 13 years?""Because I was afraid. Afraid of not being worthy, afraid of not knowing how ...
It's madness to see life as it is and not how it should be.
Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same ...
I suppose that there's a caddish streak in every man that runs crosswire across his character and disposition and general outlook. With some men it's ...
Kiss me, Rothgreb." He smiled down at her, a trace of his old devilment in his blue eyes. "Naughty girl." But he bussed her cheek ...
I drag my husband out of bed, hook him up to a coffee to stay awake and make him listen to my plotting and any ...
Now I usually try not to give advice. Information, yes, advice, no. But, what has worked for me may not work for you. Well, take ...
A myth is an unverifiable and typically fantastic story that is nonethless felt to be true and that deal with a theme of some importance ...
The warrior learns of the spiritual realm by dwelling on the cutting edge of the sword, standing at the edge of the fire pit, venturing ...
He who strays discovers new paths.
Don't get caught up in fashion games. These kids probably think we're old, nark conformists or something, but really, they're just conforming in their own ...
You need to be, like, turning down high-paying illustration work because you want to work on your comic. That's when you know you're doing something ...
Fear can cause blindness, said the girl with dark glasses, Never a truer word, that could not be truer,
Speak to me, fair maid!Speak and do not go!What sorrows have your eyes inlaidWith such black woe?My dam is buried deepDark are my father's hallsAnd ...
Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever ...
Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.
It's based not only on what it played like in the theater, but it's also knowing that certain things play differently in a home theater ...
Harris, I am not well; pray get me a glass of brandy.
Every day and every night, I dance with Jesus Christ, Prophet Mohammad & all personal Gods: Krishna, Shiva & Buddha. You are welcome too !
The best stories are the open ones, those you don't quite understand.
Did Gran go to a gynecologist? That is totally weird. I never thought about my grandmother's vagina before. I don't want to be thinking about ...
There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard enough it seems as if it were ...
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth.[Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
Nijel was one of those people who, if you say 'don't look now,' would immediately swivel his head like an owl on a turntable.
Powerful Leaders are intentional about not repeating history by always being open to the unprecedented; what's in your future?
There are at least
Berlin would be a great place to have no cell phone, I think. Especially if you were able to live in a central location.
You make more money selling advice than following it. It's one of the things we count on in the magazine business along with the short ...
He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.
I do not understand, but I will not let her die knowing anything but my love.
Wanting to believe something is powerful
The great drama will end, not with "saved souls" being snatched up into heaven, away from the wicked earth and the mortal bodies which have ...
Not as closely as some of the most ardent fans. But I have some great friends that are NASCAR team owners.
As a company, we don't contribute to any cause except noncontroversial things like a breast cancer walk. I don't know anybody who is 'for' breast ...
Embrace each new day with great expectations.
For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months before she died ...
It's annoying when people tag my name in their conversation with someone else [on Twitter.]
People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to.
We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.
I'm just smart enough to know what it is I don't know and try to learn as I go along and accept that you're going ...
My own training is in the field of neuroendocrinology and I really became very fascinated many years ago with the molecules of emotion, molecules that ...
No, officer, I have no idea why I'm wearing this possum costume. I called you what? OH. My bad.-Nastasya
I was referred to her by a guardian in northern Wilmington, a guy who handles people that are moving into nursing homes. They leave all ...
The three social influences that we have emphasized - information, peer pressure, and priming - can easily be enlisted by private and public nudgers. As ...
Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.
Everything you have, whether it's money or stuff, is an obligation. It is as much your duty to care for and nurture any object you ...
Most people lose the ability to see silver linings even though they are always there above us almost every day.
Aww don't feel noways tired. I've come too faarrrrr from where I started frum.
The best way is to be strong enough to make your enemy think twice about attacking you, yet not so aggressive that he feels threatened. ...
We are already witnessing a transformation in the U.S. economy to increased production of lower carbon energy through fuel switching to natural gas and expansion ...
All the people with whom I was very close at one point in my life - Stockhausen, Berio, Ligeti, Nono, Bernd Alois Zimmermann - they ...
We do not need sight to see what you have become.
FALCKNER, DANIEL. Curieuse Nachricht from Pennsylvania. Translation by Julius F. Sachse. Lancaster, Pa.: 1905. Series of 103 questions and answers, on all aspects of Pennsylvania ...
I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two ...