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She [Nana] listened to his [Steiner's] propositions, turning them down every time with a shake of the head and that provocative laughter which is peculiar ...

But after a while, obeying a new script that has just occurred to her, she begins to behave differently from the way she has acted ...

Try as one might to live on the edge, thought Patrick, getting into the other lift, there was no point in competing with people who ...

The real reason for democracy is just the reverse. Mankind is so fallen that no man can be trusted with unchecked power over his fellows.

The Golf Hall of Fame is full of players with unusual looking swings. Some of the prettiest swings you've ever seen in your life are ...

I felt a familiar squeezing in what I thought must be my heart. I had heard of being "heartbroken" or "heavy-hearted" but I had never ...

When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It ...

Keep it simple, keep it tasty. Salt, pepper and garlic. Shallot another day, lemon grass for nextweek. Nutmeg and cinnamon every now and then.

I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't ...

Men never feel quite the same about a woman's body once they know it's done that thing: widened and torn to push out a baby's ...

I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue like ...

I know what I am able and not able to do. Fashion? OK. Fashion ... clothes in theatre, in an opera, in a concert - ...

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The ...

The vicissitude of life teaches us about our limitations in a world with no guarantees and permanence.

Do you remember the time, Mike," Jeremy laughed, "that you put a banana down your pants and walked up to the Palma-nator. It looked like ...

I would never even consider leaving you. No matter who else abandons me...or looks down on me...or spits in my face...I will stay with you ...

But you see now baby, whether you have a ph.d., d.d. or no d, we're in this bag together. And whether you are from Morehouse ...

This is not your problem.""You are my problem."Now she stared at me like I asked to hump her leg. Perhaps I was saying the wrong ...

Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me ...

Of course I'm shielding her, you broken feather!

Losing something she loved had ripped her open in a way she had not expected. The pain hurt, but the pain was right. The Order ...

In the new Europe, in any case, nationalism is something of an anomaly, given that the drive is to the elimination of national boundaries and ...

The highest percentage of respondents say that biggest problem in the country is the government. The biggest problem facing our country today is that our ...

The only way to seek God is to seek God first. Deny the nayward, affirm the yeaward, be true to those stirrings and motions which ...

I experienced the California Northridge Earthquake of 1994 and the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, and I have thus seen firsthand how terrible ...

The greatest maxim of all is that children should be brought up as simply and in as domestic a way as possible, and that (not ...

We need to be more supportive with everything. With body images, especially with women, showing that all sizes are beautiful. And I'm talking about in ...

The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be successful, your personal plan must focus on ...

Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There are a lot ...

Angela believed that the Nephilistic immune system reacted negatively to human-made chemicals and pollutants. She believed that these unnatural elements worked to break down the ...

How important it is to stay true to yourself even in the midst of an adventure or experiment.

Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.

To abandon language is to stop/creating a place other than your own life/in which to live. It is to enter/the terrible certainty of the flesh. ...

A Scotch half-breed took charge of him and his mates, and in company with a dozen other dog-teams he started back over the weary trail ...

Want to shake the hand of a holy person? Then shake the hand of a helping hand!

Naturepitiless in a pitiless universeis certainly not concerned with the survival of Americans or, for that matter, of any of the two billion people now ...

In all the splendor of solitude ... it is a test of myself, and one thing I loathe is to have to test myself in ...

During the fifth inning, something came to the edge of the woods and looked at her. Flies and noseeums made a cloud around its rudiment ...

Nature knows best, and she says, roar!

Unbelievably, while many non-governmental organizations like Amnesty International and America's Watch have denounced the human rights situation in Cuba, there has been a continuing love ...

He bowed in a courtly way as he replied: I am Dracula. and I bid you welcome, Mr Harker, to my house. Come in; the ...

Though I am alive now, I do not believe an old man's pessimism is nessessarily truer than a young man's optimism simply because it comes ...

Once You Feel Like You Are Avoided By Someone,Never Disturb Them Again..

So much evil, Nightblood said, like a woman tisking as she cleaned cobwebs from her ceiling.

Let me tell you something. Nobody goes to jail unless they want to. Unless they make themselves get caught. They don't have things organized.

He was the lover who never showed his face, the man most avid for love as well as most niggardly with it, the man who ...

We are asking Nigerians for their cooperation. They shouldn't expect miracles to happen a couple of months after we've taken over because the destruction took ...

Take your light and take your love into the world as the only weapons that we need to make this world truly glorious, truly beautiful, ...

- YOU SHOULD HAVE WORKED OUT BY NOW THAT EVERYONE GETS WHAT THEY THINK IS COMING TO THEM. IT'S SO MUCH NEATER THAT WAY.

As a Frenchman who represented neither North nor South, East nor West, left nor right, Yankees nor Red Sox, Lafayette has always belonged to all ...

Simple people always reduce everything to their own simple measure.

Naked Lunch was from about a thousand pages of material. A lot of it overflowed, then, into the cut-up trilogy including Nova Express.

Brand is much more than a name or a logo. Brand is everything and everything is brand

1CO1.10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be ...

Woman in a gentle embrace. "Thank you Martha, I will treasure your words and keep them close to my heart. No point in saying I'm ...

And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need ...

Jessica shook her head violently. "This isn't real! This is a floating skateboard. You did not just solve the world's energy crisis. All this is, ...

Today it is busy and decked with finery. It is packed to purpose with poisons and poisoners. If a house could smile, Greavesdrake would be ...

I only had the right to sit in the shadows of the world,in complete silence. Whether I was laughed at, or told I was discusting, ...

His mouth came to hers suddenly, hovering above those thirsting lips as he drilled her with the intensity of his mercury gaze."Neliss ... " he ...

Nyarlathotep ... the crawling chaos ... I am the last ... I will tell the audient void ...

Admit it." "I loved you the second I put my eyes on you. It doesn't matter." "Let me love you back." "You have a life ...

Do what you love and believe in, and work hard.

The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition.

I would have thought this would make me feel better.. getting to be the one to leave and not the one left behind. But it ...

May my soul forever stay wild and my spirit always be adventurous.

An accent like mine and a face like mine, I think a lot of the time it's easy for casting directors to just stick me ...

When I walk down the street, it's not like people feel like they're seeing some big star. It's like someone they've known for a long ...

Sometimes, you don't even realize anything is wrong until someone comes along and changes you

Blunt turned to the man in question with a helpless grin, "You have always proven yourself a mystery to me, good fellow!"Falconer lifted one corner ...

While we may think we know what we want, we're often wrong".

It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture ourselves what flowers ...

Novelist time is reptile time; novelists tend to be ruminant and brooding, nursers of ancient grievances, second-guessers, Tuesday afternoon quarterbacks, retrospectators, endlessly, like slumping hitters, ...

If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you ...

Underwater madness slipping into a haze, drowning and choking in repugnant nostalgic thoughts.

He had been taught by his uncle that his prayers were more acceptable to God if he said them in his nightshirt than if he ...

And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives and thrills in ...

Amo, amas, I love a lass, As cedar tall and slender; Sweet cowslip's grace Is her nominative case, And she's o' the feminine gender.

I did an episode of a show called 'Mind Games,' which is no longer on the air, and it was an intellectual comedy-drama. It was ...

People are sort of numb to watching violence, but sexual activity is still as strong as it ever was in terms of generating response.

Never underestimate the value of the ministry you have in the place where God has called you - even if it's "only" among your family ...

There is nothing like waking up at six in the morning and changing a baby's nappy to bring you face to face with life's reality.

You don't get it." "No, I don't. You've attempted to explain and I still don't. Mostly because I never got the concept of bullshit and ...

Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn.

A girl phoned me the other day and said, 'Come on over. There's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.

From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism.

Hysterical? Neuractic? I am all that ain't more than juggernaut!

Retaliation is not the answer. You're going to have to deal with mean backstabbing girls your whole life, you need to learn to be smart ...

My ancestors are all crazy. My great-great-granddad, he was the last man to live in a cave in Nottingham.

One can feel the urge, the need to give, coming from within him. He is such a pure and true person. It's my deepest, most ...

Many people never reach greater because they don't leave good enough behind.

I'm sitting here watching Hannah Montana, so I'm not going to annihilate 4.3 million Pakistanis without hearing directly from someone whose authority I recognize!

If it's well written, even an obscene book cannot be immoral.John McGahern, Galway, October 6th 2003. Acclaimed as the most important Irish novellist since James ...

On the stand, I asked the witness, "What's your occupation?""Make-up artist.""Objection!" I replied, "Lack of foundation.

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 ...

By putting you into an enchanted sleep and allowing you to postpone the moment when you would have to think about what has happened tonight, ...

Nothing ever stays the same. Just because things aren't good now doesn't mean they will be that way forever ... Never quit.

I imagine her rolling onto her back, welcoming me to create secrets with her that'll never leave this room.

As you get older and as you experience and go through different things you realize you have to set boundaries. You have to for your ...