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By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countries in the world for attempting to overthrow ...

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 ...

It was 1981. I was working on a novel. And I put that novel aside one day after I read a newspaper article. The story ...

I didn't grow up speaking Spanish, and the interesting thing was, we would watch these novelas and you didn't have to speak Spanish to understand ...

If someone is doing something crazy - or what I think is crazy - I'm watching, but also am I keeping the actual seriousness of ...

I don't want to be in some relationship that's just about trading apologies when things get hard. Doing that won't make it all OK, you ...

I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.

I loved Julia Louis-Dreyfus's show 'The New Adventures of Old Christine.' That made me laugh out loud. She's like Lucille Ball. She's brilliant.

And what did you say?" "I said I think that all children do better with happy parents than married parents.

For families to access affordable housing, they often need legal representation that takes their side against abusive landlords.

My father says that if I hit 2,500 balls each day, I'll hit 17,500 balls each week, and at the end of one year I'll ...

Her interest in natural history was confined to observation of the crows' feet gathering around her eyes.

The will of life and death, never share the same motivation ... we all know that love is the ultimate motive to die for ... ...

I am not a child, Christian.""Well, stop acting like one.

An hour ago, I never would have thought that someone like him could be my savior, but he is. What type of person would I ...

We must cling only to drawing.

Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated in semimetaphorical terms. Verities are differentiable. But love is omniembracing, omnicoherent, and omni-inclusive, with no ...

Such a narrative as this demands some sort of physical consolation for its spiritual tribulation. Our heroine received it in one last cup of tea. ...

Ah the three-day blues, all new mothers cry on the third day. And I remember thinking, But my goodness, who wouldn't cry?

Lola swore she would never return to that terrible country. On one of our last nights as novios she said, Ten million Trujillos is all ...

I was happy with the umpiring in India last year, New Zealand is OK these days, and the only real area of concern is Pakistan. ...

So it is with statistics; no amount of fancy analysis can make up for fundamentally flawed data. Hence the expression garbage in, garbage out.

The only shortage we have today is the shortage we have between our own two ears.

I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees and rain and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area. That ...

Our suffering is not worthy the name of suffering. When I consider my crosses, tribulations, and temptations, I shame myself almost to death, thinking what ...

Not every bitch is a queen. Most chicks are just regular. Most of them know it and accept it, as long as nobody points it ...

After each performance of an Austin Shakespeare production, audiences are invited to stay for a ten-minute discussion of the work. And this tradition continues in ...

I say, never look down on a man unless he's between your legs.

I mention the need of cooperation and confidence among the men who work, no matter what may be their relative ranks, because it is the ...

The world as we know it is ending, my friends, no matter what happens to us

There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the ...

The history of mankind is a history of war.

Evil I had never found satisfactorily placeable as an integral element of the universal, or total, content of existence. Indeed, evil is evil just because ...

The last time I saw this many doctors was in 1982 at the NFL Combine. They flew me in, put me in a nice hotel ...

Writing a portable OS is not much harder than a nonportable one, and all systems should be written with portability in mind these days.

If it's meant for me, it will be.' Those words are my mantra in life, and it has never let me down.

The newest Ferrari of them all, the 458, the Italia. The GT3 was good, but nowhen near as good as this ... almost nothing on ...

I'm wondering if you can speed this story up a bit," Ms. Jordan said. "I spilled pudding on Missy Trillin's head while she was taking ...

We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility.

IV. Congratulatory V. The Jackal VI. Hundreds of People VII. Monseigneur in Town VIII. Monseigneur in the Country

I put my faith in Christ as a child. At a young age, I had a simple understanding of these basic facts: I was born ...

SakeThe jewel which brightly shines at nightIs precious, but cannot measure up To the delights of drinking sake,Drowning one's troubles in the cup. Otomo no ...

Behind everyday reality, there is a deeper reality so cruel that it condemns to death those who crime is no greater than the pursuit of ...

You are not a woman. You may try-but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you and ...

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. - Aristotle ...

In my early life, I was a professional folk singer. I used to sing on the national television and radio in Canada. Nobody knows that ...

You do not reduce or eliminate your concerns by crying, shouting or proving you are the victim of whatever happened in your life.

Be always available to noble pursuits ... by deed, thought, emotion, prayer, presence, sharing ... or whatever other manner ... but always attempt to join ...

Let us sing as we go. May our struggles and our concern for this planet never take away the joy of our hope.

The Nazgul they were; the Ringwraiths, the Enemy's most terribly servants; darkness went with them and they cried with the voices of death.

In the moment, you wanted to marry that big, boring, black-haired, super bossy son of a bitch. So do it. Marry the narc and no ...

In simple terms, what you perceive as real, is actually a neurological reconstruction or simulation of the actual real thing. It's not as simple as ...

Nyla, he breathed, hoping not to wake her but also hoping that she would open her eyes. She didn't. She simply smiled and whispered, "Jamison, ...

There's not a word I can say to you that you have not already though of, Mamah... There are ways to hold the thing up ...

It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

I sneaked out to his house a couple times in the middle of the night to watch over him while he slept, just in case, ...

I always ate healthy, but it wasn't scientific. Now it's a high-protein diet and no carbohydrates. I have more consistent energy, and I don't get ...

Today's meeting was extremely important and brought exceptional results, ... The talks have shown that the long-term national and geopolitical interests of Russia and India ...

A profile, a look, a voice, can capture a heart in no time at all.

Mario sees himself in Nintendo DS, and he feels like flying.

Nothing new about death, nothing new about deaths caused militarily. We scorched and boiled and baked to death more people in Tokyo on that night ...

For I love the empress of my soul. I love and I cannot but love. You yourself see the whole of me. I shall fly ...

Needs are imposed by nature. Wants are sold by society.

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

I was at a New Year's Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, 'I honestly think 2011 was the ...

You have no compelling moral intuitions to guide you in solving that problem. Your moral feelings are attached to frames, to descriptions of reality rather ...

The poet's nature is all searching, creator and nourisher of desire; the poet is like the heart in a people's breast, a people without a ...

So, if you look at what's common among some of the companies I have, including the Four Seasons, NewsCorp, George V, the Plaza, these are ...

When you break into song, it's not about dialogue, it's not about how you would speak in a naturalistic sense-it's about expressing your inner torment ...

To me, the main weakness of EDA is its failure to enquire why the data were collected in the first place and its consequent tendency ...

I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller.

Nowdays it is the fashion to admire loudest what one understands least. - Mr Bingley

I'm one of those people who was meant to have a very ordinary life. I have no special talent, no great beauty, nothing that distinguishes ...

Secrets are revealed as you are ready to understand them.

When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That ...

Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.

I can say for the first time that I am not afraid, and while this is a feeling that can undoubtedly change with time, I ...

If I have three ideas and I'm working on one more than the others, that sort of tells me that I should work on that ...

There are three processes every company has to have: Somehow you've got to set strategies; you've got to have a budget, so you need an ...

Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas")

Many argue; not many converse.

A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so ...

Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do ...

Some stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Other stories never end, maybe because they're alive.

Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers.

Some people like to remain in 'Nirasha'. And they are not satisfied till they have spoken about it to other people.

This is one of theprimary mechanisms whereby, if a fool says the sun is shining, we do notcorrectly discard this as irrelevant nonevidence, but rather ...

One can be a vegan and eating a health-promoting, high-nutrient diet, but one can also eat a small amount of animal products while following a ...

She wakes up all at once, all over, smooth as a cat. Probably there's cat in her ancestry someplace. Those old noble French families ... ...

Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more.

Don't look at things as if they're black or white. You don't have to be "perfectly on plan" or "completely off".

Any man that dates me, the thing they're gonna have to live up is my dad - he's a real hero.

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

I do not wish to be an artist. I only wish that art enables me to be.

Lif and Lifthrasir will have children. Their children will have children. There will be life and new life, life everywhere on earth. That was the ...

It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

I first saw the island of Noirmoutier when I was two weeks old. I think it's probably safe to say that I didn't fully appreciate ...

You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and ...

She liked time at the edges of things the edge of the crowd, the edge of the pool, the edge of the wood where all ...

If you want to know if someone is lying to you, start by living a truthful life. Once you live in the truth, you will ...