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Mama always told me, be careful what you do, don't go around breaking young girls hearts.
Meditation is the royal road to the attainment of freedom, a mysterious ladder that reaches from earth to heaven, darkness to light, mortality to Immortality.
I tend to go through periods worrying, "Where am I going, I can't see a way out of this," and it becomes quite stressful. But ...
More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
We Germans will never produce another Goethe, but we may produce another Caesar.
Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me.
When my conscience under the Holy Spirit makes me aware of a specific sin I should at once call that sin sin and bring it ...
When you don't give yourself the time and care you need, your body rebels in the form of sickness and exhaustion
Robert Morley is a legend in his own lunchtime.
Public space is for living, doing business, kissing, and playing. Its value can't be measured with economics or mathematics; it must be felt with the ...
Nathan "N.R." Gaddis did not say ::2109 fellow Goodreaders [can't be wrong] gave [King Lear] 1 star. Many call it boring. Some even say it ...
Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more ...
I buried my face in the pink velvet facade of Jay Cee's love-seat and with immense relief the salt tears and miserable noises that had ...
Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has ...
Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls?
Eyes are a deaf man's ears. Ears are a blind man's eyes.
I have the goal of getting together 30 or 40 poor kids and bringing them to live with me.
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
For any actor, when you're playing twin brothers, you have to be able to find the similarities between them as well as creating a difference ...
Silk didn't care if it slid over scars or smooth, untouched skin. I'd earned my right to be paranoid.
Aren't we lucky to be us?
I'm a walking billboard. That's my pleasure.
One day that is what will happen, West. And it will be incredibly hard. But what you can do now is make the most out ...
You can have your wish in the sacred time.
It might seem to you, Peter, that a truck driver, one step above an ape in your view, can't remember. But truck drivers can have ...
Sorry about that. I hope I didn't damage you down there. That would be a crime. I love bright red, by the way. Is that ...
Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade.
My brother, Langston, said, "Lily, you don't understand because you've never been in love. If you had a boyfriend, you'd understand." Langston has a new ...
If you look at the evolution of the brain, the logic centers, they were growing at the same time as the creative centers were expanding. ...
We cannot have good libraries until we first have good librarians-properly educated, profesionally recognized and fairly rewarded.
The main thing that I learned from editing is that most people, when they're making a film, they start too early into the story. They ...
I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around ...
Analysts, scholars, business people, diplomats, and journalists involved with China spend so much time questioning one another's biases and loyalties that they have even settled ...
We have to defend America and be strong.
Easily acquired. Inexpensive. Perfectly functional. Portable. Identifiable. Disposable. Eternal enough. These are my criteria for the perfect storage system. And I've found the answer in ...
There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.
I had lived in that part of London that used to be called Islington since I was eight. I attended a private school for girls, ...
The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.
I find that most of us actors can't stand ourselves in any form.
Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.
Myrmecophaga jubata: The anteater. The existence of this predator demonstrates that thinking 71 percent of the time, as ants do, won't prevent you from being ...
Nobody knows what an idea will do when it goes off to entertain itself, particularly if the idea comes from a sinister villain.
Trusting Christ for salvation but resisting transformation. We occasionally flip the switch, but most of the time we settle for shadows.
That's part of fiction, creating a world better than the one you live in.
Your feelings are your god.
'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.
There is a deep truth in being at home enough with someone to kiss them while your lips are dry. And happiness may not be ...
Hugs should be available at the medical stores 24/7. Sometimes, they are the best healers for almost everything.
His burden didn't feel any lighter. but he felt strong enough to carry it
The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.
I think I can deal with these rules.""You better, because there is a punishment for breaking the rules.""And what kind of puinshment would that be?"He ...
Aristotle warned that inequality brought instability, while Plato believed that demagogues exploited free speech to install themselves as tyrants.
I'm surrounded by music; I always was when I was growing up and continue to be. And I love music. And when I imagine a ...
I rarely wear tennis shoes. I'm 5' 8', I hate being short.
Do you ever miss anything?'Perry smiled. 'You, all the time.
Two thousand years ago God invited a morally corrupt world to the foot of the cross. There God held your sins and mine to the ...
For the days were so full of unthinking effort
When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree."
Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, ...
Whatever is happening here, it definitely bypassed go and went straight to really fucking weird without collecting two hundred dollars.
No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty ...
I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.
I pretty much have no life outside of the theatre. I go home every night, and I put the TV on, and I veg out ...
Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and you have His royal blood running in your veins unless you ...
In fact, in 1724 the Western world learned that women were co-creators of life that's when it was discovered that women had an egg cell.
The rich would have spoken on the value of thrift and the idle grown eloquent over the dignity of labour.
In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present.
I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think.
The Oxford English Dictionary is the greatest work of reference ever written, and it's largely the result of a Scotsman who left school at fourteen, ...
It is ourselves that we must spread under Christ's feet, not coats nor lifeless branches or shoots of trees ...
I think you kept three credits, consciously or subconsciously, so that you could hang on to something, hang on and not move forward. I think ...
All our ignorance brings us closer to death.
Since 1985 our [American's] consumption of all added sugars- cane, beet, HFCS, glucose, honey, maple syrup, whatever- has climbed from 128 pounds to 159 pounds ...
If I were doing five cop shows, I'd probably start struggling to find an identity for each one and struggling to find inspirations.
I am the master of my destiny.
Books fall open, you fall in.
It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.
All novelists know that crisis reveals character.
Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.
Be not afraid life with all its despair, pain and unhappiness is just a crucible wherein your brighter dreams are conceived, shaped and born
You have to be respectful of pop culture, because people interpret it in the way they want.
Oh, humiliation is poisonous. It's one of the deepest pains of being human.
We know how Merce Cunningham works and how he thinks - we've been told, over and over again, by him and by others.
Variety is the condition of harmony.
I am teaching you now about it, but how many of you will practice it?
If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!
But my anger was a slippery thing, like a fish I was trying to keep hold of, and it wiggled out of my grasp.
Pay your tithes and offerings out of honesty and integrity because they are God's rightful due ... Paying tithing is not a token gift we ...
It's all interrelated, these destructive things I do. I latch on to people, like I'm collecting them. I'm always looking for a hero, you know?
Its very hard trying to talk to an actor about how they should deliver lines, or cut their hair, unless it comes from a place ...
Being poor in the Spirit means you are humble, gentle, meek, God-fearing,kind and exhibit the fruits of the Spirit but being Spiritually poor is lacking ...
Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know.
And when your plans don't work out, when your choices turn out to be all wrong ... You find yourself alone and defeated, not knowing ...
The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.
There is no greater method for experiencing peace of mind and happiness than to understand and meditate on Emptiness.
Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy
I can hire out for editing, proofreading, formatting, and cover design, and those are fixed, sunk costs. Once those are paid, I can earn 70% ...
We Will Remember Them - Lest we Forget
Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.
Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.