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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
Windows were broken. Where not broken they were boarded up, had been for years: the rust from nailheads had written long, sad farewells down the ...
So much of what folks want in the world turns out to be just a thing they say. Words change the way you feel for ...
Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse,
At night the bottom of the valley looks like water, and the lamps in the little town lying along it like quivering reflections of the ...
Anyone who knows me, knows I don't walk away from a commitment, but I had a commitment to myself. Yes, there were times Nickelodeon made ...
If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our life be in ...
If you think you can lead your flock of sheeple and peeps to some glorified noodle fest on the mall, you got another thing coming, ...
Align your personality with your purpose, and no one can touch you.
The mind can fool the heart, as the heart can fool the mind.
In bed, I can go for hours. Oh yes, I love naps.
How things ultimately turn out isn't up to us. It never was. But if do our bit and play our part, it's remarkable how far ...
The art of communicating is to speak with a non judging sensitivity and mean it rather than impulsively verbalizing whatever feelings arise; there's no better ...
Go on and honk," Eleanor said. "You think you can intimidate me with your swanlike good looks, but I'm not that kind of girl.""Lucky for ...
I don't want to be pigeonholed into doing just romantic comedies. But they're fun, and especially for women, it's nice to go to see them ...
I'm growing very talented at watching blood and guts on screen because I have zero emotional response.
Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.
If our dreams could edit the news (and sometimes our nightmares) these poems are how they'd wake us up to the urgency of our times.
It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew ...
Crew like garbage, when they aren't pretending we're their whores. The best day was when that cokehead
Very much in my books people find not surrogate families because they are real families. We've got families that we're related to by blood but ...
The sidewalks swarmed with people, the night was full of the noises of the living. They struck Miss Clarvoe's ears strangely, like sounds from another ...
I thought that I was going to be Mrs. Michael Jackson, but I was ready at 20 and 21 to get married, and he was ...
As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the acquisition of communications ...
Finally, we can accept this stunning, irrevocable truth: Our Lord can lift us from deep despair and cradle us midst any care. We cannot tell ...
So much pressure in this life of mine, I cry at times, I once contemplated suicide and woulda tried, but when I held that nine, ...
How can we have critical thinking without being able to quote and being able to compare what happened in the past? Television is dreadfully unrecorded ...
Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.
You do need an outlet to release all of those fears. You build it up and then, when you go to a movie theater, it's ...
Don't be afraid to reveal that inside you is a seething, fiery core of ambition that would appall Napolean.
Growing up in South London, we went to a school where there were not that many Jewish kids. I love being Jewish in L.A.; it ...
There are all kinds of things we have to deal with in life," Eri finally said. "And one thing always seems to connect with another. ...
Die! Die to the ego, die to your past, and you will be resurrected. That resurrection will make you go beyond death, beyond time, beyond ...
Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.
Eventually we will learn that the loss of indivisible love is another of our necessary losses, that loving extends beyond the mother-child pair, that most ...
I certainly believe you can write a narrative lyric or a lyrical narrative - why not a nyric or a larrative?
If I ever acquire wisdom, I suppose I'll be wise enough to know what to do with it.
Taking place in some Nordic-looking hinterland where all the seasons are out of whack, 'Game of Thrones' is the most aggressive example since 'Battlestar Galactica' ...
I don't want you to go, but I can't make you stay. I want to continue holding you in my arms at night when you ...
Adultism leads to a phenomenon of little adults, who are young people who are treated as adults-in-the-making. A non-discriminatory perspective would be to treat children ...
I mean to retire, where nobody will have heard about my special skills. And conversation is mainly about the weather.
But I see how he watches the stars,And he talks to people just because, And gee, it would be nice to have a friend."From "Fated" ...
My view of the charity world is that compared with business, there is too much talk, way too many meetings and expert panels and blue-ribbon ...
The souls of all are from one and the same source but a soul which is unveiled shines out. Love and light come continually from ...
Every time she kissed him, every time he opened his arms and she crawled into them, felt like a miracle. Coming to her made him ...
I lost the good stuff on my fastball. I had to come up with something to keep me in the league. The knuckler rescued me ...
For Nautzera there was no present, only the clamour of a harrowing past and the threat of a corresponding future. For Nautzera, the present had ...
It's like the end of the day where you feel nothing has been achieved and you're in a hurry to get the day over with ...
This Force, by troth, I'll never comprehend!It doth control and also doth obey? And 'tis within and yet it is beyond,'Tis both inside and yet ...
Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.
Ready? No one is ever ready, my boy. But some do what they plan to do and some never will. The difference between the two ...
They were as different as honesty and truth, but it takes experience to see the dissimilarities. Rocky was friendly, outgoing and boisterous; Charger was sullen, ...
The time I'm not spending with my kid has to be worth it, so when I sat down with my agents after I was ready ...
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own ...
Why does the world need a Piano Day? For many reasons. But mostly, because it doesn't hurt to celebrate the piano and everything around it: ...
I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.
You know, unrequited love is very difficut? It's not just having this one-sided love of someone who's far away. Being close, talking daily, liking a ...
But the world, in its present state, is no place for princesses
The fact is that war films, by their very nature, are pitched at a high dramatic range.
Oh, she just happened to be a friend of the producer's. Or, oh, they've been trying to get her from the beginning and she just ...
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on ...
To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to ...
It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, because of poor management on our forests, big ...
It's very freaky in Chicago.There's something in the water there, I don't know what it is. But the actual word Chicago means, in the Indian ...
I miss her every now and then, but finally, she didn't move me. I don't know, sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in ...
While I've found many of the religious shows I've viewed over the years not to be to my liking, or in line with my own ...
Not one But twenty-four self-giving-hours Every day I have For my use.
Seeing her, well, it did things I hadn't been ready to delve into before. Hell, I really didn't even know at what point I had ...
This is definitely / for the brothers / who ain't here.
NOEL: You can get excited about the future. The past won't mind.
Everybody knows how others should do their jobs - but they don't know how to do theirs.
I might have been just as happy to have been a practicing primary-care doctor. But as a medical student, I had interacted with patients suffering ...
We ourselves are co-called non-linear dynamical systems ... I don't feel quite so pathetic when I interrupt a project to check on some obscure web ...
If a nonartist teaches a subject called art, it is nonart.
Oh! the wisdom, the foresight and the hindsight and the rightsight and the leftsight, the northsight and the southsight, and the eastsight and the westsight ...
That's the power behind a tool like Facebook Connect. It is making a Web without walls. Facebook allows you to go to other sites to ...
The people who are unprejudiced, but who ... feel it is so hopeless there is no use trying ... probably do just as much damage ...
A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness.Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America
Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.
I know in my heart the dream will be realized. I choose to believe. And choosing is a powerful thing. It's available to you at ...
I am not quite sure of being a man: I never found it very difficult. It seemed to me that you had only to let ...
New eras don't come about because of swords, they're created by the people who wield them.
Digital-Original publishing embraces the non-conventional and genre-busting story. It allows me to share good stories with readers who will enjoy them, and at a reasonable ...
Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything. Once you say the character is in love, ...
It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in North America. It was on ...
Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing.
The pupil's imagination is 'schooled' to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of ...
Most people talk; we do things. They plan; we achieve. They hesitate; we move ahead. We are living proof that when human beings have the ...
I'm not trying to say I'm this artist who is all artsy and that I only write music for myself, because I don't. I write ...
Had nightmares I thought were really horrible until I woke up and remembered what reality was like at the moment,
Al Gore has found a new job. He is going to teach journalism at Columbia University, which is ironic isn't it? The guy who did ...
How could the death of someone you had never met affect you so?
More and more people are becoming aware that government has nothing to give them without first taking it away from somebody else-or from themselves. Increased ...
The Crown Prince was camped at Nesson this very minute, on his way to the border to stand up to Akielos. He was a young ...
What reader or dreamer doesn't imagine the romantic life of a writer, who lingers between the desk and the fridge in the morning and in ...
It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called The Monroe Inn.
If you love everyone, you will not need to fight with enemy.
Fatherhood surprised him pleasantly. As a male he assumed no unpleasant duties would accrue to him. He would be responsible for teaching the child conversational ...
Nabir came out to drive the children away, but she stopped him. "I like to be friendly she said." "But they are not your friends," ...
That the different Christian confessions, aware of the need for a new evangelisation in this period of profound transformations, may be committed to announcing the ...