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If the delicate flower liked to play Medusa, maybe Karina could take on the role of Perseus. It was really for the good of all ...

Rooks were cawing somewhere, and bells were ringing, and from the oxpens the steady beat of a gas engine announced the ascent of the evening ...

Nice Girl Syndrome: Nice girls suffer from "the disease to please" - they put their needs behind everyone else's.

I've slipped on occasion into the realm of irresponsible invective, but I try to avoid it and generally recant when I fall short. Because name-calling ...

Lord bless our week. The act of discovering who we are will force us to accept that we can go beyond what we think.

Necessity, the mother of invention.

As well expect Nature to answer your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair.

There is a Power in the universe greater than you are, and you can use it.

Regweld is really a fine wizard," he continued, patting the shoulder again. "And his ideas for crossbreeding a horse and a frog are not without ...

It is not easy to be stranded between two worlds, the sad truth is that we can never feel completely comfortable in either world

I never tolerate disrespect or betrayal

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

This is one of those things that you can never explain to anyone; that's what I want to explain - one of those free-association moments ...

I don't feel any pressure to lose weight - and in any case, if I didn't have my food I'd be a nasty piece of ...

There's a simple doctrine. Outside of a person's love the most sacred thing they can give is their labor. Labor is a very precious thing ...

I realize that sometimes we are our biggest critic, and that the person we have the hardest time gaining approval from is usually ourselves.

I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. ...

Bones snorted. "Let her? Mate, if you think you can control a woman, you must be single

Blue skies Smiling at me Nothing but blue skies Do I see Bluebirds Singing a song Nothing but bluebirds All day long

Gaze no more in the bitter glassThe demons, with their subtle guile,Lift up before us when they pass,Or only gaze a little while ...

Perhaps it didn't matter, I told myself. Who was there to miss me? No one would suffer from my going. That was a blessing.

No one is coming to save you ...

Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other ...

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a ...

Computing has gone from something tiny and specialized to something that affects every walk of life. It doesn't make sense anymore to think of it ...

I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me.

Film is something that reaches so many people. How many people are going to go into a gallery? And understand what they're seeing? I think ...

Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over ...

They're too tired for bathing, but they're not too tired for dreams. For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning. The ...

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil ...

The two most sacred documents known to man are the Bible and the Declaration of Independence. Better that a whole generation of men, women, and ...

Visualize, 'prayerize', 'actionize', and your wishes will come true.

You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes right at this ...

You're the one who can do no wrong." "I do plenty wrong." "You don't have to tell me.

Spencer W. Kimball: No Ordinary Man," Ensign, Mar. 1974, 3.

Never let others define you.

Pound it out, get it done, write every day. No excuses. Kerouac said you can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with ...

I learned the difference between critical thinking and being just plain critical.

Roy received my comments with a forcedsmile. "Hardy, didn't I warn you not to date a woman who reads?"Hardy seemed amused by my outspokenness. "Keeps ...

While thinking is a practical necessity, the failure to recognize thoughts as thoughts, moment after moment, is what gives each of us the feeling that ...

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.

Mother Nature, as Tennyson said, is "red in tooth and claw," demolishing every beautiful thing she has ever created.

Never try to hide the real you. Be yourself and stand up for what you believe in. Question what other people tell you, think things ...

In the gathering gloom only his white Nike headband and his white Nike shoes and the white stripe down the side of his dark Nike ...

It was as though our invaders had passed the word through the galaxies: SEE OLD EARTH NOW UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT.

Brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,

You should listen to songs and listen to what works. Listen to why a song is a hit. Check it out-not to imitate it, but ...

Still, however, she had the sensation of there being something more than immediately appeared, in Mr Elliot's wishing, after an interval of so many years, ...

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

You've already got a natural glow, kind of of, cuz you're drunk, so just make it like way more intense, everybody loves someone who's so ...

When you thank something negative for happening, or thank a negative thought for being there, you've just negated the negative and turned it into positive ...

Bitch.""Slut.""Whore.""Cunt."I kicked Joyce in the shin. I draw the line at cunt.

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 ...

Compassionate leaders honor the complexity of human relationships, nurture authenticity and create common grounds for blooming great ideas of individuals.

There is a hint of despair in the cry of 'I told you so,' an element of disappointment in the apparent satisfaction when idols turn ...

I feel like giving myself a pat on the back. We can create history tonight. We can bid goodbye to 10 years of (Liberal-Conservative) government ...

Lets talk about the holidays, more specifically, consumption during the holidays. If it's true that 'We are what we eat,' most of us would be ...

What are you asking God for?" I joked. "A million dollars? Two million?" "I'm not asking Him for anything," he said. "I'm thanking Him for ...

Writing about personal thoughts and observations, subjective feelings and objective reality is a gateway experience that intensifies a person's level of consciousness. Every degree of ...

Enjoy it, learn from it and more than anything, never take your health for granted. Don't just seize the day. Seize the moment. Every single ...

It's 7:42 on a Tuesday when the phone rings. I only notice the time because I'm watching Wheel of Fortune, which is so boring that ...

Deeply affecting and compulsively readable, The Fifty-First State displays Lisa Borders' emotional acuity, first-rate skills as a storyteller, and profound empathy not only for her ...

According to aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly. Its body weight is not the right proportion to its wingspan. Ignoring these laws, the bee flies ...

It's Niagara Falls. It's one of the most beautiful natural wonders in the world. Who wouldn't want to walk across it?

Nothing is whole, not for too damned long. The world is half night.

Don't put your wand there, boy! What if it ignited? Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know.""Who d'you know who's lost a buttock?""Never ...

I wasn't trying to make you jealous. But if jealousy does this to you, I might need to consider it." He gripped my sides firmly, ...

Never assume. Ask.

Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.

What could be more exciting than an October day? It's your birthday, Fourth of July and Christmas all rolled into one.

A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to ...

But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only course of action ...

Come see the violence inherent in the system, HELP I'm being repressed!

I felt a springing in my chest. Could Dad and I be close? Like a real father and son?

Would it not be well this Christmas to give first to the Lord, directly through obedience, sacrifice, and love, and then to give to him ...

These are difficulties which you must settle for yourself. Choose your own degree of crossness. I shall press you no more.

Life's what you see in people's eyes; life's what they learn, and, having learnt it, never, though they seek to hide it, cease to be ...

One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification. The ...

I gave up drinking before my twentieth birthday. I haven't touched the stuff since. And I've discovered that not everyone who does horrible things is ...

I understood the life around me better, not from love, which everybody acknowledges to be a great teacher, but from estrangement, to which nobody has ...

I know no marriages which fail and come to grief more quickly than those which are set on foot by beauty and amorous desire.

It is when a white person resists the privilege of turning colorless that he frees himself, at least partially from the sickness of racialism.

My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, ...

Armstrong was perfect for their goals - an extraordinary combination of athletic talent, drive, ambition, and ruthlessness. And once he began winning, he became the ...

All people are lonely in some ways. Some people are lonely in all ways."Now, Voyager" - Movie, 1942.

You die." Thad's voice was heavy; the fire was gone. "It's like everyone has a personal window of time that the gateway to Nil stays ...

My favorite Starbucks is nice - Omaha Starbucks stores tend to be friendlier than big-city ones, and the baristas are especially lovely at mine - ...

I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good.

There was so much pressure by myself and everyone else and I can't handle this by myself. It's not good for me so I made ...

Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep, fundamental ...

Bertie's my name and flirting's my game, I've an eye for every girl. Don't give a fig! I have a little chat, then give 'em ...

Nothing exceeds like excess.

When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not ...

I had a weird one a few years ago when I woke up one night, went to the window and saw a girl sitting on ...

She rolls her eyes again, but laughs this time. "You probably have callouses from jerking off too much." I hold up my right hand. "But ...

If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal. Up until ...

A hungry man can be a fast learner. When you come to a table with nothing but need, you are grateful for things you might ...

I want to fix an image of him in my head, but all I can see when I close my eyes is his body, still ...

I have a completely new knee. It's brilliant. I am not feeling my age at all. I feel about 43, a willowy blonde 43 years ...

Uh, a honking big castle of evil in Germany?