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People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to ...
No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.
Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and ...
People are more inclined to ask what's wrong than what's right. They note errors and faults, seeing weaknesses before strengths. So expect criticism; it's the ...
It is here, it exists - but one must enter it naked and alone, with no rags from the falsehoods of centuries, with the purest ...
The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.
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 ...
Why do these crazy vampires keep trying to collect me?
I'm about to as you a favor.And I'm about to tell you no.
He must understand that if he is the world's finest plum and someone he loves does not like plums, he has the choice of becoming ...
Please God, don't let anyone take her. If you give me this, I swear to wake her every morning with 'good morning, beautiful' and kiss ...
No one is perfect. Even the most confident people have insecurities. At some point in of our lives, we may feel we lack something. That ...
Whenever you get an appetite, you feed yourself. Therefore, fill your belly on wisdom of things old and new. Only swallow the truth, less you ...
No act of virtue can be great if it is not followed by advantage for others. So, no matter how much time you spend fasting, ...
But there comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense ... a ...
I'm working harder now than ever before. I couldn't turn down the BBC job because I've never been offered the opportunity of killing three or ...
There is no greater isolation a man may experience than to be lonely in a crowd.
Every minute you spend looking through clutter, wondering where you put this or that, being unable to focus because you're not organized costs you: time ...
To just tell a story from beginning, middle and end doesn't motivate me that much.
The manner in which things exist and take place, constitutes what is called the nature of things; and a careful observation of the nature of ...
It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
Even the kinds of ingredients you can find in your own kitchen can be used to make bombs. So the problem is with the people ...
With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.
On my visits to America, I discovered that the old Marxist dictum, "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs," was ...
My accountancy experience could come in handy if ever I find myself in the right position. For now, I'm very happy to write.
Men need men to keep their edges hot and clean, whereas women keep us warm and soft.
Conditions are changing all the time, and to adapt one's thinking to the new conditions, one must study. Even those who have a better grasp ...
Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated ...
I see we have a problem.' Lucas gripped her other arm and gave her a non-too-gentle shake. 'Are you in a relationship? or...' Those dark ...
Never second guess yourself. Or do, maybe. Whatever you feel good about.
Where the world is full of a thousand colors for those who love books, I suspect it is simply black and gray to everyone else.
Nothing worth having is easy. The same goes for people. The ones who take cold, hard guts to get inside of are the most worthy ...
Where I had felt a victim, I had become a determiner by recognizing I had choices. When considering a purchase, I stopped saying, "I can't ...
He drove the car back through the night to Paris. The hedges and orchards of Normandy flew past him. The moon hung oval and large ...
Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.
I had an amazing advantage: a grandmother [Polly Noonan, an influential confidante of the mayor of Albany] who loved politics. She taught me not to ...
Terrorism is an example of that extreme madness. People blow themselves up just to kill others. Unconscious reaction to terrorism is equal madness.
I'd love to be in a period drama, though my dream role is to be in a film with Ray Winstone and Tom Hardy.
This world is not my concern; it is myself.
I've always been interested in the social conflict of my age, my own time, as well as the result of positive and negative of social ...
Painting is a field that attracts a lot of lazy people. You can just sort of sit and wait for things to come to you. ...
There was no warning before the outbreaks began. One day, things were normal; the next, people who were supposedly dead were getting up and attacking ...
I'm not somebody who plans. There were times I planned a lot in my life, and it never turns out how you plan it. So ...
Harriet glanced after her as she went manoeuvering her broad and vigorous backside between the tables, and asked: 'What does Nikko do?' 'Why nothing. He's ...
Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And best people ...
Whoever thought a tiny candy bar should be called fun size was a moron.
There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.
I believe that in a way, sadness is happiness for there can be no wrong without right, no light without dark, no success without failure, ...
Allow the power to flow through you. Don't try to capture it. You wish only to borrow it.
Do not lower your standard to keep anyone. Make them meet you at your level. Self respect is power.
A 'Friends' shoot night could extend well into the small hours of the morning.
Dennis faced him. They glared at each other again. Neither said a word until Dennis set the glasses down, leaned back against the counter, and ...
Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the ...
The Electroshock Novelist: The Alluring Bad Boy of Literary England Has Always Been Fascinated by Britain's Dustbin Empire. Now Martin Amis Takes On American Excess,
I'm often a crier and many things make me cry. I come from a crying family - my mother cries, my grandma used to cry. ...
I understand what lies hidden beneath beguiling words. I understand the trap beneath extravagant words. I understand the deceit beneath depraved words. And I understand ...
You have to search for the best writer - I'm not saying I'm the one, but it's a bad idea to just find the person ...
I have wrinkles which are very evident. I will particularly say when I look at movie posters, 'You guys have airbrushed my forehead. Please, can ...
You'd better take time for 'em, honey, otherwise you'll never grow. You'll be the same at sixty as you are now - then you'll be ...
Never ignore others because you are opportune to find yourself in a much better state than them; you just never know what the future holds".
I designed a tattoo for a girl once, and she got it, which I thought was pretty cool. We no longer speak. She'll always remember ...
But just [proposing the standard] puts companies on notice that if you're looking to construct a new natural-gas or coal facility, you really need to ...
Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, ...
The natal chart is like a seed and progressions are the unfolding in time of that into the plant it is to become. Transits, are ...
I don't trust men everybody likes. Being nice isn't the same as being good.
Women lose their delicacy and refinement, when they are compelled night and day to haggle with their destiny over things pitifully small, and for this ...
People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast ...
Renew, release, let go. Yesterday's gone. There's nothing you can do to bring it back. You can't "should've" done something. You can only DO something. ...
War is no joke, it seems. It destroys, kills, burns, separates, brings unhappiness.
Andrea stared at me. "You're not taking me seriously!""That's probably because you're not excited enough," Derek said. "You should clench your fists like they do ...
I had to get away from him. Sometimes we reject the people who tell the truth and it is not because they are wrong. It ...
There are now unmistakeable signs of a trend in favor of superior products at premium prices. The consumer is not a moron, she is your ...
The worst thing about regret is that it makes you duck the chance of new regret, just as you get a glimmer that nothing is ...
Your wife's name is Harley?" she asked in surprise. "It is." "I like her already," she laughed and extended her half gloved hand. "I'm Easy." ...
Since I don't feel like I belong solely to any one of them I find that it makes me even more interested and open to ...
Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating the ...
The Self in you is the same as the Self Universal. Whatever powers are manifested throughout the world, those powers exist in germ, in latency, ...
I like flesh. I do! Something to hold.
I'm 23 years old and still wearing pigtails.
If you do something bad to me, and I say "okay, let's move on," it does not mean I forgive you.
Nothing is hidden under the sun.
Adoption has the dimension of connection - not only to your own tribe, but beyond, widening the scope of what constitutes love, ties and family. ...
PU'RIST: one superstitiously nice in the use of words.
That's why I'm so successful because peace is my main thing, it's not about money. It's about making sure everybody is having a good time ...
To reach up for the new, you must let go of the old. What lies behind you is not nearly as important as what lies ...
When the evening shadows and the stars appear,And there is no one there to dry your tears,I could hold you for a million yearsTo make ...
The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and ...
See," he said, "the arrow struck against this. It is the kiss I gave her. It has saved her life.
True, we might never have arrived, but the fact is we did. If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that ...
So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is said, ...
There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as ...
You can only feel love to the extent in which you love yourself. If you deficiently love yourself, you will never believe that another person ...
I like being what the girls call MOD-"my other Dad." What I've learned in the past year is that every kid is different. But as ...
Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but ...
I'm not an actor - and I've got 64 films to prove it!
I think: you deserve to be what you are if you could bare to get that way. You must have seen it coming. And now ...
If users are not doing what the designer intended (when users are investing time, effort, etc in your product), the designer may be asking them ...
Sports for me is when a guy walks off the court, and you really can't tell whether he won or lost, when he carries himself ...
Great performers require a measure of confidence that would strike many as absurd, unfounded, and downright irrational. They believe in themselves utterly, without question, even ...