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I have learned that Nature can be cruel, but I can be crueler!
I often tell people to stop being afraid of writing bad poetry, or bad anything. I think that a lot of times, when people claim ...
I'd rather be remembered as a famous painter than a famous model, so I'll have to start the ball rolling now.
It's like an emotional dance party: Some dances will be your favorites others more awkward or difficult to learn. Some will be boring or make ...
The suggestion that Jews were selected from among all nations of the earth to be God's chosen people suggested a kind of group arrogance, especially ...
Here's what I think: it's one thing to know that rejection is coming, and it's an entirely different thing when it arrives.
The past is set in daylight, and it can become a torch we can carry into the night that is the future.
The painter does not rest with a brush on the canvas. And so it is with Vim. Normal mode is the natural resting state. The ...
Look to your heartthat flutters in and out like a moth.God is not indifferent to your need.You have a thousand prayersbut God has one.
But now it's kind of a given that a 15-year-old would have a record deal and sell a quarter of a million records. No one's ...
A small smug smile curled his lips. I needed to find a nice way to tell him his wolfie smile looked creepy. "Hey,
These are difficulties which you must settle for yourself. Choose your own degree of crossness. I shall press you no more.
See you and me have a better time than most can dream of, better than the best, so we can pull on through, whatever tears ...
Climate change has happened because of human behaviour, therefore it's only natural it should be us, human beings, to address this issue. It may not ...
Small, everyday things can lift us out of despair. But nobody can do it for you. You're the one who has to watch for the ...
The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network.
The golden child may be the oldest one, unless it's the youngest. It may be the toughest one, unless it's the most sensitive. It's not ...
Could it be the girls and boys are trying to be heard above your noise?
It's nice that people can call me an artist and it's nice that I can refer to myself as such, but it also kind of ...
O sinner, be not discouraged, but have recourse to Mary in all you necessities. Call her to your assistance, for such is the divine Will ...
While so much of our economic life is thriving, too much of our moral life is still stagnating. As a people, we need to reaffirm ...
Nobody can make you happy but yourself. Things occupy us, people occupy us, but they don't make us happy. If we are honest, what makes ...
Necessity, the mother of invention.
The big problem of any young person's life is to have models to suggest possibilities. Nietzsche says, 'Man is the sick animal.' Man is the ...
We need to fix this. It hasn't been done yet because there's still a reluctance to admit that there was even a problem - anywhere ...
I wake, the lump of last nighthiking a trail through my throat.[from "Those Who Love Raptors"]
Politicians study hard and work diligently their entire lives to be able to stand in front of a national audience and lie through their teeth.
We must believe that there are places where tranquility exists and nature is given back her power to speak...
I don't think anyone cares whether you're working or not. I have the luxury now of not having to support anyone and not really needing ...
I am so picky about what films I get myself into because it's such an explosion of energy and commitment once you get in there, ...
I would never suggest to anyone that they drop school for chess. First of all even if you can make it in chess, your social ...
How could you leave me behind to explode?""Er," Alice said, "I'm not sure how to--""Oh--you have a clockwork cat. This is very nice. I will ...
There's a huge amount of work that goes into placating a network in regular television. It's literally 70% or 80% of your workload, is showing ...
You can try and hold me back. Build your damn walls, pack sandbags along the edges and yell at the clouds and the rain and ...
I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part ...
No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, not for glory, not for fame. For ...
Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about.
Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're ...
This is what you work for, putting all the other crap that you hear aside. Just being able to participate in a World Series is ...
My guitar's name was Liz. As in, short for Elizabeth, Queen of England. She was a lady.Don't judge.
The cardinal sin is not being badly dressed, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place.
If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them.
I love fitness, yoga. I love fashion. On the weekends, I try to relax. I have pretty crazy weeks. I like spas and nice dinners. ...
Power lies not in what a king does, but in what his subjects believe he might do.
Attachment is a unifying principle that reaches from the biological depths of our being to its furthest spiritual reaches.
My parents got me a sewing machine for Christmas during my senior year of high school. I made three pieces of clothing and had a ...
What's going on with you? Jared asked out of the blue.Beginning a new era of journalistic history, Kami told him, sending her cheer through their ...
Nights are the worst. You just don't know what it's like for me, trying not to think of [him] ... knowing that we're going to ...
Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?
This is terrible wine, no?' I agreed. It was a carbonated sweet wine, acceptable only because of its alcohol content.
Faith results in being faithful despite what comes, not telling God what should come.
That attitude that I wouldn't succeed didn't come from my family; it came from school and then the township we lived in. I wasn't going ...
What feels best is how I no longer hurt.
I'd no room left in me for thinking of trifling things. I could feel fear start up and try to take down my rage, but ...
I wish I could run into the world's arms. Linger within the spaces between nothing. I wish I could filter out of existence. To live ...
A great leader must serve the best interests of the people first, not those of multinational corporations. Human life should never be sacrificed for monetary ...
My dad designed houses and was an architect for many years.
It is important to me to keep trying to push myself to try lots of new musical styles and approaches. To keep growing. It is ...
Not only does he have the NFC East record for touchdowns, but also the team record.
I love walking in the woods, on the trails, along the beaches. I love being part of nature. I love walking alone. It is therapy. ...
I'm not extravagant, so I won't need to rein it in too much. Me and my friend make each other cards. I love being creative ...
The state of the economy is not the issue when it comes to growing a business. The relevant questions are always: 'What business are you ...
I could never tell what was going on inside the pretty heads of the girls that Naoko brought along, and they probably couldn't understand me, ...
I'm in the very fortunate position as a young actor to not have to take the first job that comes along. I'm not motivated by ...
MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All They're first-class. Somewhere along the way, they kind of lost their identity as ...
The deepest and most sublime hatred is a hatred which creates ideals and transforms values - something whose like has never been seen on earth
It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.
No matter how busy I am, I find time to read, day and night.
We want you to stop caring about what anybody else's response is to you. And when you get there, they'll all really, really like you. ...
Yet she also longed for moments when she might be weak, when she need not prove anything to anyone.
There was never a point in which I was worried about being jealous about what my friends had seen or done. Instead, I felt blessed ...
Love can make you turn on yourself, and it can do harmful things to you. It's a deep lesson in human psychology, as with many ...
The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the ...
And I didn't know if the forgiveness itself was light, glittery stuff that showered down and absolved a person and set them free, or if, ...
As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it ...
No one can understand your pain until they experience it. Stop trying to explain.
She had spoken it; but she trembled when it was done, conscious that her words were listened to, and daring not even to try to ...
The past, hey no shit, it's an open invitation to wine abuse.
I was born and raised in Las Vegas, and then I left there to go to the University of Evansville where I majored in theatre.
The house, while sound in wind and limb, was described as being of 'no character.' We didn't think then that it had anything but character, ...
I have had a couple of marriages, but like every other woman I had a perfect right to them.
I was the second-best player in high school. I was the second pick in the draft. I've been second in the MVP voting three times. ...
What if becoming who and what we truly are happens not through striving and trying but by recognizing and receiving the people and places and ...
Here's the bottom line, we're either going or not.
Never let a crisis go to waste
Who needs men when they can have chocolate?Who needs sex when they can have chocolate, come to that
There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not that he was actually invisible. It was that people ...
When he thinks of his wife now it is like walking barefoot down steps to the sea at night. A secretive act. A moment of ...
I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldn't write.
Good. While you're playing nurse to Cole, tell us another story about Jack. We need to get your tether back. ... 'What should I talk ...
The follies of mankind; they are like a night without stars.
There is a saying, 'it's never too late to have a happy childhood'. I'd rephrase that. I'd say, it's never too late to stop a ...
It's ever so much more satisfying to get into a blissful place and attract a blissful person and live blissfully hereafter than to be in ...
I think I'll go to yoga to clear this negative energy before today's orgy scene. I wanna go in with a positive attitude. November
You have city centre pubs where men go to meet girls, not realising that all girls in city centre pubs have thighs like tug boats ...
Never chase love, affection, or attention. If it isn't given freely by another person, it isn't worth having.
My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him .
Her solitary nature means she needs a family to keep her from loneliness my gregarious nature means I will never have to worry about being ...
Don't worry, nothing is under control.
Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing ...