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Mere grimness is as easy as grinning; but it requires something to put a handsome face on a story. Narratives become of suspicious merit in ...
Americans are interesting creatures. They criticize those who speak their language with a slight accent but have no issues with butchering most other languages, my ...
Jay-bird don't rob his own nes'.
Balance the world in your relationship. No one person should be responsible for killing ALL the Zombies.
Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition to succeed. Atheism ...
If and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail.
And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love ...
I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become ...
I grew up very poor in a fractured family that was dysfunctional on both sides, but I sort of put up these reflectors to most ...
The spread of Viking bling is a good indication of the spread of its culture.
He couldn't be serious. He was not accusing Marc of wanting me dead! If that wasn't the pot calling the kettle black, I'd ... I'd ...
As it so happens, I like your mouth.""It doesn't ""Challenge me?" He set the bottle down and moved to the end of the bed. "An ...
There it was again: "Came in to see us", as if it were an enjoyable little day trip that lots of people made, just because ...
So people only focus on getting the really deep sleep, but in reality, we spend almost 60% of the night in the stage two sleep.
What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been ...
Government cannot and must not replace private initiative.
I can say this: don't give up. Not on love but, more important still, not on you. Never let yourself believe that you are unlovable ...
Do you feel bored and stuck in a rut? Is work drudgery? If so, you are spending far too much time bemoaning your fate and ...
The streetlights had already lit up on Bronnaya, and a golden moon hung over the Patriarchs. In the ever deceiving lunar light, it appeared to ...
When you assess your own life, consider it with the eye of a gardener. Underneath the surface lies rich, fertile soil waiting to nurture the ...
Negative thoughts were treated by Cherokee healers with the same medicines as wounds, headaches, or physical illness. It was believed that unchecked negative thoughts can ...
There is nothing in your budget for joy. No books, no flowers, no music, not even a cold beer. And there is nothing in your ...
Don't mind me askin', Miss - and I know it ain't none of my business, like - but why don't you take 'im up on ...
I love you. The words are always right there on the tip of my naughty tongue. I swallow them back like I need to and ...
From the time I started playing, I've always been the high-energy, never-stop-moving guy.
Your problem, Nagrant,' he declared, 'is that your education was unconnected with the practical reality of life. You grew up believing that rules are more ...
I always knew what was most important to me. When I was growing up, nothing was more important than golf, but that's the attitude of ...
Don't you have someone else to harass? People to eat?""Nope. You're at the top of my list.""Well, aren't I special?
When I was 14 years old, I went on location to film 'Mrs. Doubtfire' for five months, and my high school was not happy. My ...
Even a wild horse can be tamed; even metal that is difficult to work eventually goes into a mold. If you take it easy and ...
The only reason anything's wrong is because someone says it is.
He glanced to his left, which for most people is a neurolinguistic sign of recall rather than of construction. Had he looked in the opposite ...
Without thinking, I asked, "Are you afraid of temptation?"He shook his head. "God, no. Just being with you, just seeing you. Fuck." He mostly swallowed ...
Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for ...
Love is always a battle.
And eventually your loss normalizes - it integrates into part of your everyday life and you find yourself three or five years later doing okay, ...
My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them ...
If Beethoven were sent to nursery school today, they would medicate him, and he would be a postal clerk.
Nothing in nature is as simple as it sometimes seems when reduced to words.
These days I live in three worlds: my dreams, and the experiences of my new life, which trigger memories from the past. (page 20)
Eraritjaritjaka albutjikaNkinjaba iturala albutjika ... His heart is filled with longing to turn for homeIn the heat of the sun to return home ... 'Ulamba ...
Love is misunderstood by many. Love is to be in the state of calmness even when everything is getting destroyed of you & around you. ...
We do not deny any nation's legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nation by robbing another of its national independence and ...
She didn't get the subtle nuances of female friendship that other women seemed to have been born knowing. She
Not a word, not a word of love, Prehaps, she thought, he does not love in the ordinary way. God loves us, after all, He ...
Some white people are so accustomed to operating at a competitive advantage that when the playing field is level, they feel handicapped.
I've given birth to five babies and I breastfed every single one of these babies. To think that government has to go out and buy ...
Nutters love murder.
You ever heard the phrase 'nice guys finish last'? It's true. Been true my whole life. So, maybe it'd be nice for me for a ...
Sufre mas el que espera siempreque aquel que nunca espero a nadie?Does he who is always waiting suffer more than he who's never waited for ...
Your Nationality or any other Affiliation isn't written on your forehead or any visible part of your body. It is shown by the way you ...
I don't enjoy the life of an actress, but I don't want to go into that.
Grassroots organizing tends to be most available to big campaigns, but it's actually most useful to small ones. You can't win a presidential campaign without ...
If you don't grow up by age 35, you don't have to.
When you are 20, 40 looks really old. When I was nearing 30, that seemed like a major milestone.
We all know that everything will end some day, but we can not let that slow us. We must not let that stop us from ...
Nuzleaf Grass/Dark
My only problem is the fear that opposition bowlers might go for my fingers and that's why I was scared of the short ball. Now ...
The origin of all revolutions and corruption, and the spur and source of all base morals are just two sayings: The First Saying: 'So long ...
That's your pitch to women? Let's get naked?" He snorted. "No wonder your balls are blue.
Nehra frowned. "Do you always run headlong into certain death?" "Sometimes he walks," Dariana said. "Occasionally he shuffles. Once I'm pretty sure I saw him ...
We can never untangle all the woes in other people's lives. We can't produce miracles overnight. But we can bring a cup of cool water ...
With a click of the 'Post Comment' button, Netizens can quickly bring down the level of dialogue. Bloggers lob zingers, commenters trade barbs, and bullies ...
If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelisthonours the relationship ...
Those who eat porridge and those who drink gruel live and die.Even though the faces change,porridge eaters and gruel drinkers continue to manifest.
We had all these things to deal with - houses full of people and John going to jail, guys from New York saying 'don't worry ...
I've always been comfortable with my size.
If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.
The great lie is that it is civilization. It's not civilized. It has been literally the most blood thirsty brutalizing system ever imposed upon this ...
We laugh to survive. Then, with joy we thrive.
Of coarse, no one wanted anyone to die, but there would always be relief that it was someone else and notthe one you loved.
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
Who are the executives, and what are the stories that are being released? Not just in movie theaters but online. When you watch Master of ...
Most women writers don't interest me because they're hung up with being a woman, they're hung up with being Jewish, they're hung up with being ...
There are several patients - there are thousands of patients, tens of thousands of patients, that carry either a stimulator in the brain or in ...
When it comes to the crusty behavior of some people, give them the benefit of the doubt. They may be drowning right before your eyes, ...
As Gansey led the way out, Noah said to Ronan, "I know why you're mad."Ronan sneered at him, but his pulse heaved. "Tell me then, ...
Jesus never spoke to two people the same way, and neither should we. Every single person is unique and individual and deserves an approach that ...
We can't negate television. Unfortunately, I do feel in many ways that it did kill my movie career. It did do that. But would I ...
Of the tens of thousands of words spoken during the Nuremberg Nazi trial, the word "eugenics" was said only once.
Everyone grows and changes. It's not even to say that you become a better person than you were, but you're morphing. This whole thing is ...
Something in Naja's voice, in the roughness of his hands, made Arjin wonder if there might be some truth to the tales of Ansari devouring ...
First of all, I'm not narcissistic." ... "I know Narkissos of Thespiaewhile we might share traits, I came first, so he's Lothairistic, not the other ...
She's only a girl. What kind of men are you?''Dead ones?' asked Drith, who yanked the door open and put her sword through Narses' throat.
This is about an admitted attempt, encouraged from outside, to challenge and break the State's authority. That is intolerable. Whoever deviates from this policy that ...
There are disasters that are entirely manmade, but none that are entirely natural.
We all need a firm sense of identity.
I wish for a moment that time would lift me out of this day, and into some more benign one. But then I feel guilty ...
I grew up in the '50s, in New York City, where television was born. There were 90 live shows every week, and they used a ...
There were so many of these moments that could never be captured accurately, even in the camcorder, only in the heart.
I didn't choose the Nerd Life. The Nerd Life chose me. Awkwardly and without making eye contact.
One can't help but be a bit melancholy when you see how the world has changed, and I don't mean that nostalgically.
That was how divorced from the human scale modern warfare had become. You could smash and destroy from unthinkable distances, obliterate planets from beyond their ...
If you listen closely to the voices of our veterans, you understand that yes, they all returned from war changed, but what never changed is ...
Sometimes people think it's what you say when you're in a huge group that makes you a leader. But sometimes it's the one-on-one conversations you ...
No man can hope to be elected in his state without being photographed eating a hot dog at Nathan's Famous.
The native music of North America, the original-roots music of this country, is also the underworld music of this country.
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. ...
I went to a military school, so I'm always talking like 'Yes, sir,' or 'No, ma'am.' I was doing that even before military school, so ...
I invite people to examine their lives without negativity, knowing that it's scary, but that not doing it is even scarier.