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I used to think of you as a villain, but you're not my villain. You're your own villain.
The art of detection is finding a common denominator for the fractions of a case.
The same highly unlikely thing never happens to the same person twice.
Robert Johnson invented the blues, at midnight, at a crossroads, after selling his soul to the devil. Dorothy Parker invented amusing women, at 2 p.m., ...
Funny is funny, and it can come in 8 billion different shades and flavors, so I think it's silly to kind of limit it.
Inspector Hewitt flicked on the defroster to evaporate the condensation our words were forming on the windscreen.
The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests ...
And thus, the forms of life throughout the universe become divided into groups subordinate to groups.
There was one thing Felix had denied her. One prohibition he'd set down - which made it something to fixate on and wonder about.What was ...
So far, I haven't been all that impressed by your flaws. You drink more than you should, you have trouble controlling your impulses, and you ...
1 Minute Wisdom: Rethink Your Mindset because how you view, filter, interpret and automatically give meaning your experiences; is what you'll believe them to be.
Then approached the inauspicious day when Fate rolled the dice and Deception danced stealthily in the dead of the night.
Hinduism comes closest to being a nature religion. Rivers, rocks, trees, plants, animals, and birds all play their part, both in mythology and everyday worship. ...
When you think about it, the universe is nothing but this vast knackery of churning black holes and exploding stars, constantly free atoms that collect ...
97. I approached the symbol, with its layers of meaning, but when I touched it, it changed into only a beautiful princess.98. I threw the ...
He had discovered Time and Death and God.
Worldlings pray to the Lord in times of need, when it serves their turn. They cry to Him in trouble, but forsake Him in prosperity.
I've been touring now since about '68.
All of which raises another question: If Obamacare is so great, why do so many people want to get out from under it?
It is not what I want from you, Conor O'Malley, it said. It is what you want from me."I don't want anything from you," Conor ...
That is the first thing anybody has said to me for seventeen years, three months and two days, five hours, nineteen minutes and twenty seconds. ...
I don't think we choked this time. We never played well enough to choke.
It to one hour on Sunday morning. (2) Worship God, but let me have your children. (3) Worship God, but leave your possessions out of ...
I knew I was too late - and I was glad something bloodthirsty waited in the wings. For in failing at this, I forfeited any ...
Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war.
Because people are assholes," said Bear, dutifully keeping his head down. "Ninety percent of all problems are caused by people being assholes.
Nervousness hates a vacuum. 826 alligator. Nervousness will blurt right out with something, anything, to kill the silence. 839 alligator. Unless nervousness is kept busy ...
The rational is apprehended through the intellect, however, the intellect is not found in the region of the rational; the intellect is as the eye ...
After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done it, and how ...
Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.
The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during ...
History marches to the drum of a clear idea.
Universes collide and conjoin inside us and beyond all is nirvana, the final, absolute resting place of the soul.
I'm fascinated by Japanese cuisine.
I think it's important for me, for my crew and for the audience to bring something new to each show. I have friends who have ...
Fall seven times,Stand up eight.
Each of us has our reference point and as a Christian the reference point by which I measure my life and thought is the Bible.
Awareness, like wine, is always better for the vintage.--Hugo Anstead
If you're a professional, you'll make it work. you can be like, 'I'm not going to do that, I'm going to do it where I'm ...
Babies are happy because they don't know any better.
No rest for the wicked, no peace for the good.
I'm not denying their kindness," said the Rani. "But after all kindness isn't the only virtue.
The guitar's still around me. I slip it off and put it down. I want to feel him. To feel his breath on my neck. ...
Is there hell, or do we make our own on earth?
When you've got a mountain to climb you may as well throw everything into the kitchen sink.
The spray, the fog, the night. A moisture that seeps into your bones with the boldness of a rooting weed. Dark water, turbid. Thousands of ...
Being Irish means you belong to the clan. It's what you feel. They feel Irish.
My dream job is to be the Robin to Anderson Cooper's Batman.
I'm bound to go to heaven because I've already served my time in hell.
I've always had strong ties with Delhi, and I do stay in touch with my friends and periodically visit the capital. I started my schooling ...
Success is falling down 7 times but getting up 8!
You saved me, Judd. Months ago and that night in the rain and the day in the woods and today and every day we're together, ...
If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I ...
I'm not an anthropology buff, but I've read enough of it to know that the Zuni don't think that their way is the way for ...
Clandestine attempts between late 1999 and 2002 to obtain from North Korea technology related to 1,300km range ballistic missiles, probably the No Dong 300km range ...
The art of phlebotomy originated with bloodletting in 1400 B.C., and the modern clinical lab emerged in the 1960s - and it has not fundamentally ...
He found that after prolonged contact with Claire and her opinions, he had much less trust in physicians that heretofore - and he hadn't had ...
The secret to making yourself stronger is to absorb the strength of the people around you - energy begets energy.
From the age of three to 15, I wanted to be a ballerina and trained really, really hard. Then I had that classic movie story ...
Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.
I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
I'm someone who came to Paris as a teenager, and I dreamed of coming back to Paris as a visitor. I never dreamed of having ...
Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would.
I do have a place in my heart for animal shelters because the job they have is impossible - so many animals that need to ...
Is the most antifragile place on the planet; it benefits from shocks that take place in the rest of the world.
It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.
A risk-free life is a life that's not worth living.
I'm tired of being responsible for 203 lives, and I'm tired of deciding which mission is too risky and which isn't, and who's going on ...
In those days, the Corrected Hydrographic Sailing Directions for the Mediterranean, say, or the tables in Brown's Nautical Almanac. Under the charm of these rich ...
Silence comes after everything. Everything is enclosed in silence. Everything is extinguished there, or falls asleep there.
Love New York." I nodded my head. "I only like New York as a friend, but I'm in.
Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things.
There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able ...
Submit to love without thinking
All you decent, well-meaning gentlemen, let me ask you, have you any idea what sort of place the world is becoming all around you? The ...
In the 1830s, Dorothea Dix revolutionized the care of people with mental illness by taking them out of jails and caring for them in asylums, ...
I helped develop Disney's) special effects department at that time, which helped very much when we worked on "20000 Leagues under the Sea"
I'm taking you out before your ERA looks like a Texas heat wave. Let's talk after the game.
I want to talk. I actually want to tell someone what I feel. I want to tell her, but I can't. I don't do that. ...
The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.
Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that ...
My mother-in-law buys her coats in a carper shop. She wears a 9x12.
The boy who had scolded her was Dirk Eberwein, the first non-Genestella in the history of the Le Wolfe Black Institute to reach the rank ...
LUIS DE MOLINA WAS BORN into a noble family on September 29, 1535, at Cuenca, New Castile, Spain.
When I'm out on the field, I'm not scared of anyone.
Life is brutally short, and there's only one go at it. We don't go for the old myths about helping somebody as we travel along ...
A sibling would be the one person in the whole world who would be with you from birth until death. At every step, she or ...
The first printed Greek Homer had appeared in 1488, in Florence, published by an Athenian, Demetrius Chalcondyles,
Brothers keep asking Ice Cube, 'Yo, when will you bust?' They surround me and make a big fuss
To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and ...
Couples fight, but it's how you make up that counts.
If you're behind the times, they won't notice you. If you're right in tune with them, you're no better than they are, so they won't ...
The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted.
Let the soldier yield to the civilian.
Nonetheless, the research budgets of the Department of Defense are under enormous stress-and they are extremely important because they support more than 40 percent of ...
It's like she thinks she did me a favor by raising me to believe that the entire world was out to get me, by making ...
My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn't blow a note, so ...
The righteous man walks in his integrity; His children are blessed after him.
You ever want to negotiate a hostage situation in Quebec, I'm your man. Send me in for a little parley and the francophone miscreants will ...