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The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you ...
Scholarly acumen sharpens taste and judgment, but we must never mistake criticism for art. Intellectual analysis, however heady, will not nourish the soul.
After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.
At times, working in big cities far from nature, I have been sick with nesomania, and I think the reason is this: On the islands ...
Then there was silence, the air like ice. Brittle-looking birch trees with black marks on their white bark, and some kind of small untidy evergreens ...
With the exception of octopus, I don't think I've met any food that I didn't like. And by the way, sometimes I do like octopus. ...
Never had she so honestly felt that she could have loved him, as now, when all love must be vain.
Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods, Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hear Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.
Ningauble shrugged. You're a hero. You should know.
Because of her interest and demands, I amplified an average baritone voice into one that is loud and clear.
I've been wanting to compliment you on that', I said to her, in Delsig. 'It was nicely done. Do you compose it that moment, or ...
Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times ...
You too can win Nobel Prizes. Study diligently. Respect DNA. Don't smoke. Don't drink. Avoid women and politics. That's my formula.
But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
I was referred to her by a guardian in northern Wilmington, a guy who handles people that are moving into nursing homes. They leave all ...
I understand and get when kids and teenagers feel like they're alone and it's not going to get better. My advice is that there is ...
The shadows may come and engulf your world, but if you look hard enough you'll always see that spark in the abyss leading you back ...
Honestly, I think some of my family members of a certain generation were more skittish about me playing a gay character on Six Feet Under ...
But she looked for the emotions and they weren't there; just scraps and tatters, clinging to the empty place where they belonged. She had no ...
Never Forget. A country is it's people.- King Nefertari Cobra
Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up ...
My background is in math and science, and I thrive on complexity, and I think lots of people do. People love puzzles; it's human nature ...
Nonacceptance is always suffering, no matter what you are not accepting. Acceptance is always freedom, no matter what you are accepting.
We can continue to fight. We can continue to kill - and continue to be killed. But we can also try to put a stop ...
His face contained for me all possibilities of fierceness and sweetness, pride and submissiveness, violence, self-containment. I never saw more in it than I had ...
To march over dead man, to hear without concern the groans of the wounded, I say few men can stand such scenes unless steeled by ...
As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in ...
Nullification is the Jeffersonian idea that the states of the American Union must judge the constitutionality of the acts of their agent, the federal government, ...
It's not what you know, and it's not even who you know. It's how much knowledge you give away. Hoarding knowledge diminishes your power because ...
I will lose the habit of stars in the heavens, as frozen water loses the habit of snowflakes. I will take my frozen body, and ...
It is important for everybody to insure that the process will go on, that the ceasefire will hold. Of course, there is no ceasefire against ...
To control and to check meansthat I act before I speak.The Religion Of The Blue CircleReligious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria HermansNovember 12, 2016
Name, no, nothing is nameable, tell, no, nothing can be told, what then, I don't know, I shouldn't have begun.
I thought I could make a sarcastic joke about it. But it's based on my own struggle with how much to give, how much it's ...
Everything good in New York used to be something awful, I guess.""And everything awful used to be something good.
Forcing school children to recite a national pledge doesn't sound very American to me," said James. "No," agreed Holmes. "It sounds German. Very German.
Even knowing everything, I would have chosen the same.It's only in hindsight that we can point, as easily as finding a town on a map, ...
Its not greener on the other side of the fence, its just a different shade of brown over there. Be happy with who you are ...
Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in subjection.
We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.
The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education.
You are a holistic being with both nondualistic energy and the energy of the physical plane as a part of your being at your disposal.
I grew up shopping from farm stands. Dad taught me how to smell a good cantaloupe and thump a watermelon for ripeness.
Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles.[Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]
If someone wanted to be a runner, you don't tell them to think about running, you tell them to run. And the same simple idea ...
Drops Dripped. Quiet talk went on. Horses neighed and scuffled. Someone snored.
Love respects the other. It is a give-and-take relationship. Love enjoys giving, and love enjoys taking. It is a sharing, it is a communication. Both ...
There was no doubt about it. Chaser had learned Puddin the pony's name in a single trial. Identifying the new object correctly after hearing its ...
We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent ...
I was discovering a hard truth: There's no way to catch up on sleep. When it's gone, it's gone, and the best you can hope ...
'Natural Born Killers' is really a misunderstood romantic comedy.
In Austin, the eco-capital of Texas, residents tend to favor native plants and wildflowers to the sculpted lawns of the Palm Springs variety.
Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!
At forty-five degrees, the sky will burn. Fire to approach the great new city; in an instant, a great scattered flame will leap up, when ...
Met you as a strangerTook you as a friendHope we meet in HeavenWhere friendship never ends
I don't need a boyfriend to be happy. If I meet someone and I want to be with him, then I will be. I'm very ...
The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders ...
What will you do with your self? Many men and women are still in darkness, trying to figure out the meaning and purpose of life. ...
The current practice of extending U.S. citizenship to hundreds of thousands of 'anchor babies' must end because it creates a magnet for illegal immigration into ...
You two. You can do a cleaning spell." One slurred, "But Nixie, I'm really pre-hung-over." Nix's eyes went wide. "Do it, or the photos go ...
When it don't rain, the roof don't leak; when it rains, I can't fix it nohow.
There is no such thing as an attention span. There is only the quality of what you are viewing. This whole idea of an attention ...
I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets ... you will find me and Morpheus, off in ...
An entrepreneur starts at square one and is not afraid to take chances to get to square one hundred and one
I don't profess to know how to balance the positive and the negative media attention. It's a gamble every time you put yourself out there, ...
During the period 1901 to 1905, together with Senderens, I showed that nickel is very suitable for the direct hydrogenation of nitriles into amines and, ...
Too often, nonprofits are viewed as rigid and bureaucratic - less nimble and capable of adapting in this fluid environment than our corporate counterparts. I ...
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.
There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no ...
I think the worst one [indian mascot] is the Cleveland Indians' Big Chief Wahoo. It's just a red face on a baseball with a big, ...
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 ...
The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from itwhile forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienationtakes cover under dubious and sinister ...
Someone said to me at a party once, 'Oh, yeah, you're a comedian? Then how come you're not funny now?' And I just wanted to ...
Not for us the difficult poses, not for us the no-pain-no-gain, OK? Because to be truly happy you do not need to be a pretzel, ...
Twenty minutes later, waiting for our luggageI haven't seen anyone who hasn't got a moustache yet. And frankly that is not attractive in a woman.
Never trust someone who can't enjoy music [...] you can guarantee that they're only half alive.
The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more vulgar companions.
Those who are broad-minded and considerate are like the spring breeze, warm and nurturing, at show touch all being grow. Those who are envious an ...
Increasingly, we're developing all kinds of systems for verifying reality by echoing it.
Never boyfriends? You've NEVER been in LOVE?"As I shake my head no, I look out the window, yearning to see Cole's sun-filled eyes again looking ...
Well, it's a sad day when I'm the nicest person you know."-Jonas
I don't know about you, but I've got plans for next Thursday. And I'm not in the mood to have them ruined by some apocalypse.
I've dreamt him a box of EpiPens. I dream cures for stings all the time. I carry one. I put them in the Pig. I ...
A friend is like a good bra: hard to find, comfortable, supportive, always lifts you up, makes you look better, never lets you down or ...
Forgetting: that, too, was the heart's slow way of healing, but it could only be done alone. Love and loss turns us into the most ...
Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives ...
Promise me no promises, So will I not promise you: Keep we both our liberties, Never false and never true: Let us hold the die ...
The noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things.
Instead, a disruptive innovation typically solves a customer problem in a better, more convenient, or cheaper way than existing alternatives. A disruptive product also creates ...
Our personal natal horoscope provides us with a powerful tool for understanding our own energy signature and how it [one person, or, a group] is ...
Live your life so that you'll have no regrets. No matter how hard, no matter how sad, if something is precious to you, protect it ...
The place where you came from ain't there any more, and where you had in mind to go is cancelled out. This place you are ...
I usually befriend the camera department very early on in the film and drive them nuts. I'm constantly bombarding them with questions and going through ...
When we accept ourselves as we are, we aren't "settling" or "keeping the problem in place." We're showing love and compassion for ourselves-for our feelings, ...
What was attraction if not a form of telepathy? The wild luck of two people feeling the exact same thing at the exact same time. ...
That Amendment requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and nonbelievers; it does not require the state ...
One becomes all encompassing (sarvasva, the work is completed), when one can see the world as completely faultless (nirdosh).
If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, ...
Running from horrors doesn't help. The only way to deal with them is to meet them head-on.
He who maketh no secret of himself shocketh; so much reason have ye to fear nakedness! Aye, if ye were Gods, ye could then be ...