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People sometimes ask who I would cast in my books and I never have any idea. I don't think I could ever write a book ...
When we lay awake after making love I could hear the sleepy birds settling in their nests in the thatch. We had a little pallet ...
I didn't leave Africa, I left Nigeria, and for political reasons. But ... I've never, never left Africa, and I certainly never left what it ...
Germany has concluded a Non-Aggression Pact with Poland. We shall adhere to it unconditionally. We recognize Poland as the home of a great and nationally ...
From the get-go, 'Original Sin' was always as much a Nick Fury story as anything else.
I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon come - but ...
There is less alms-giving in America than in any other Christian country on the face of the globe. It is not in the temper of ...
When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens ...
The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.
I would never treat anyone with disrespect just because they are different from me. We are all created by the Almighty, and like Him, I ...
But what [Gansey] said was, "I'm going to need everyone to be straight with each other from now on. No more games. This isn't just ...
When I first met you, you were just an annoying novice nurse. But I found out that you saved my life and now you're my ...
I really can't live without my In-N-Out burgers. Honestly, I can't. Even when I'm doing the whole no-carb thing occasionally, I make an exception for ...
Fear is only good when you have a choice in things.
A lot of these love notes seem to be from well-read and lovesick young men with literary aspirations. That type doesn't interest me in the ...
When a child truly understands his grand potential, he looks to the stars not simply to make a wish but to chart a destination.
Congress Mukt Bharat BJP ka naara nahi hai, jan jan ka sankalp hai. Be it dynasty politics, nepotism, corruption, communalism, divisions in society or poverty, ...
Without self-discipline, a noncommissioned officer can never develop or maintain personal integrity.
You never run into a fundamentalist Christian as intolerant of - take anything, you know, homosexuality as a liberal who has just found a lit ...
If we focus on ourselves alone, we run our nation down.
I loved high school. I had the best high school experience of all time. I know that's not a common feeling, but it's the best. ...
When life tries to define you with its hardship, you gotta push back, look it straight in the eye and say, 'No matter what life ...
People should allow themselves the opportunity to really know what the unity of God means. To grasp a part of the nondivisible union is to ...
States are far less violent than traditional bands and tribes. Modern Western countries, even in their most war-torn centuries, suffered no more than around a ...
Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.
Funny, there had been a time when building things was what America did. From massive dams to towering skyscrapers, from mechanized factories to moon rockets, ...
Youngsters tend to save the whole worldwhile their parents struggle to save theirs.
Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all ...
I think acting is revealing to people what it means to be human.
In this quiet place on a quiet streetwhere no one ever finds usgently, lovingly, freedom gives back our pain.from poem In a Quiet Place on ...
You hear mothers say all the time that they would die for their children, but my mom never said shit like that. She didn't have ...
Such a slender moon, going up and up, Waxing so fast from night to night, And swelling like an orange flower-bud, bright, Fated, methought, to ...
Anger, as long as it is controlled anger, is no obstacle to efficiency. Self-control is one thing the sociopath does not usually possess. Use yours ...
Out to be nor'easters, State of Emergency
When an individual from underprivileged background gets higher education, he/she uplifts the entire family. 90% of students at Namal college are from underprivileged backgrounds. I ...
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 ...
If the hour comes, and there's no-one to beg or blame but yourself, you learn that what we have in the end is just a ...
It seems obvious, doesn't it, that someone who is ignored and overlooked will expand to the point where they have to be noticed, even if ...
Do you know about the Turtle?" She said turtle in a way that made it sound like a proper noun. I thought of saying I ...
There's no one in Israel who appreciates more than me the importance of American support for Israel.
Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn't know how to surf trying to surf. Even if he has great ...
I expect to weave through the crowd, dodging elbows and muttering "excuse me" the way I always do, but there is no need. Becoming Dauntless ...
NUM14.18 The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the ...
Loyalty is an asset, independent and scarce, parceled out among different contestants for power. No ruling government or nonruling group enjoys absolute loyalty - no ...
And the Nac Mac Feegle are, well, they're like tiny little Scottish Smurfs who have seen Braveheart altogether too many times.
Grief sounds like a bad thing," I said, frowning. "Why don't you and Naha and Mama get rid of it?" "That would require removing love ...
Wellesley's president, Nannerl Overholser Keohane, approved a broad rule with a specific application: The senior thesis of every Wellesley alumna is available in the college ...
You can be courageous in admitting your sin precisely because God is richly abundant in his mercy. He comes to you in mercy not because ...
She stood by the tea-table in a light-coloured muslin gown, which had a good deal of pink about it. She looked as if she was ...
I want my relationship with my future boyfriend to be built on trust, not in alcohol , not in the appearance , and in jealous ...
Many women are simply bad at negotiating (their salaries). Many are happy if they succeed in returning to professional life. The main thing for them ...
In the early 1990s, Americans used their home phone lines to connect their desktop computers to the Internet via ISPs like AOL, Earthlink, or Netzero. ...
Joy and life exist nowhere but the present.
Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be.
Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun.
There was no slipper, nor spinning wheel, nor true love's first kiss. This was not a fairy tale with a happily ever after.
No offense, Jaron, but I don't want your life. Even locked away behind closed doors I got a taste for how awful it can be.""Did ...
Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.
I think everyone has been annoyed at school or in their life, that's a type of bullying. So, you can take those feelings and make ...
The NSA and Israel wrote Stuxnet together.
Grasping the realities of the Middle East is never easy. This is not primarily because they change quickly, but because so much time, effort, and ...
Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
There's something about the schedule of working in TV that's attractive. You know exactly what the next six months is going to be like: You'll ...
Hold on to the thought that no emotion lasts forever, no matter how wonderful or how terrible the emotion may be. The tears may last ...
Not everybody wants to have the same career. I think what's difficult is when you have two people that do something very, very similar and ...
I hate that would. Straight. At the very least, those of us who are nonstraight should get to be called curvy. Or scenic. Actually, I ...
Loyalty can never be imposed by force, fear, insecurity, or intimidation.
He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!
Cabal dimly recalled that the musical genius who'd decided to put on Necronomicon: The Musical had got everything he deserved: money, fame, and torn to ...
A word to the wise an't nesisary its the stupid ones who need the edvise.
I am glad that I can tell the truth, for lies are a form of theft; the liar steals from another person's trust. There are ...
What today throws at you will force you to become better or bitter for tomorrow; it will push you toward breakdown or breakthrough ...
You have to work everyday at being the best you can be. It's a project that is never-ending.
I'll learn all the katas and be the ninjing-est ninja that ever ninjed." Bubbles whined, so I bent down to rub his silky little head. ...
I worked at the Northlight Theater in Skokie, and the Mercury Theater on South Port. I actually did a show there for three years, called ...
There was so much unrecognized novelty in the collection that at one point18 upon opening a new drawer Conway Morris famously was heard to mutter, ...
People don't change,' she answered, voicing the wisdom Neapolitans had learned over centuries. 'If they suffer enough, they do,' Brunetti said, then quickly amended it ...
There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for ...
And so Jefferson wrote the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which organized the new territories of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin so that slavery would ...
Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.
You were the poem I never knew how to write because no words could describe the wind you cannot see, but feel.
No guts, no glory.
The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.
Ngila Dixon is such an incredible costume designer. She's such a cool, stylish woman. She has such an understanding of character.
My dad is a nurse midwife, one of about only 50 male midwives in the U.S., I think.
The moon is considered a relatively easy object to land humans on, everything else is much harder by orders of magnitude. It is the reason ...
To me love is like a environment that affords everyone's growth, today I will not hold onto those who love me, when I experience true ...
If Iran becomes a nuclear weapon state it is the end of non-proliferation as we know it. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon you are ...
One can't reason away regret-it's a bit like falling in love, falling into regret.
Initiative and starting are about neither of these. They are about "let's see" and "try." If there's no clear right answer, perhaps the thing you ...
You have too much social influence upon you. You are not going by your own nature. People do so many nonsensical life-negative things because they ...
Flirting with random women in a tavern? That sounds like Helios. Well, it sounds like most of the gods, actually.
In 1938 ... the year's #1 newsmaker was not FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. Nor was it Lou Gehrig or Clark Gable. The subject of the ...
There was no sound but it own for falls and the crackling of the flames behind us. No rustle came from the trees, no insect ...
I think even nation states should be and will be obsolete. I think nationalism will be seen in the future as a form of tribalism ...
The whole point of Heaven is to relieve us of the suffering, pain, death and tears brought into the world by the evil of humanity. ...
Salander leaned back against the pillow and followed the conversation with a smile. She wondered why she, who had such difficulty talking about herself with ...
When you look back from your Olympic experience, you never want to question whether you could have done more. The one thing you can control ...