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In searching for himself, he had come to understand that he was defined by selflessness
Fear is what you're feeling but courage is what you're doing.
Writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.
The only currency still used as a store of value after 5000 years is gold
They waged war for decades, never realizing that they were fighting for the same cause.-Campaigns East and West Tamoura, 1152-1180 by Scholar Tennan
Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is ...
Before you can read, you know the difference between a story and reality. And, of course, by the time you're old enough to do any ...
Women who are harassed, at work, on the street, or even online, are subject to the same rigid purity standards as women who are sexually ...
Just relief of trying to get there for eight years. It's finally here and I'm very excited. It's just great. It's been a long ride.
Now I know what it's like to be a rock star. No, I didn't sleep with 5 groupies at once. But I was interviewed about ...
She sits on the iron throneShe is one and threeThe dark lady the redgold ladyThe blank lady oracleof blood, she who must beobeyed foreverHer glass ...
People may be in awe of perfection, but they warm to humanity.
When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I ...
In 1975, the Americans suffered a spectacular military defeat at the hands of North Vietnam and the Vietcong, with U.S. helicopters seeking to rescue leading ...
I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.
Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To ...
It is the same game that Moonlight Graham played in 1905. It is a living part of history, like calico dresses, stone crockery, and threshing ...
Every single person on the planet is rewarded for one thing and one thing only, and that is for serving other people. The more you ...
His hand touched my leg and I grabbed it. I held it with both of mine, like he was a lifeline and I needed saving. ...
A boy admiring a pretty girl. A rare thing to be certain. But love-true love-is something else.
But what really happens after you are dead - that is what I want to know?I cannot tell you Renisenb. You should ask a priest ...
When you really know someone, you can't hate him.
I wish I knew who I am," I whispered to the stars in Baya's eyes.Slowly, Baya shook his head. "Oh, Dust Girl, that's the hardest ...
What I think tailors the creativity of most people are the rules that we learn from the age we are very small - in school, ...
I hate fishes, they all look so miserable. 3 seconds later they will forget. And then I envy them.
What is virtue? It is to hold yourself to your fullest development as a person and as a responsible member of the human community
As you would expect, the loss of freedom and the lack of privacy are extremely difficult. But I am safe, fit and healthy.
I don't have a constituency, and I'm not autobiographical in any way. I write these deeply moral books in a country which would prefer irony ...
If I'm having a fancy glass of champagne, I'll always mix it with the champagne of beers. Because I deserve all the champagnes.
Prayer is the bridge over which the Kingdom of God comes to the earth.
You need a man to go to hell with.
With '44 Scotland Street' I found myself having to work out how a daily novel works, and it is completely different to a conventional novel.
The task of understanding a culture built on the oral tradition is impossible to students steeped in the written tradition. p.55
It was in this year, 1828, that the standard of "the Christian Party in Politics" was openly unfurled ... This was an evident attempt, through ...
Resultant SCP-658 measures 45 by 45 by 20 cm. Upper half of object occupied by a single video screen, which constantly displays shaky, colorless footage ...
I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
Look, I know he's been married three times before. I accept it, but I don't want it driving up the driveway.
Because the public lands belong to all Americans, this 1872 Mining Act should be repealed ...
According to law of attraction to rid ourselves of disease we should visualize a healthy and healed self. Think thoughts of well being, Speak words ...
I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally.
In the ballroom of the Metropol Hotel on the twenty-first of June 1926, was the heretic, Galileo of Galilei, vindicated by a ping, a splat, ...
In London, almost all Jewish shops in the Whitechapel district were displaying placards denying entry to German salesmen and affirming their anti-Nazi boycott. Teenagers patrolled ...
When he hung up on Nancy Reagan, that's when he crossed his final threshold.
My cartoon life is in my office, and it's very separate and getting very in my own head. My television life is I'm begging one ...
I have made a lot of tactical decisions that historians will look back and say: He shouldn't have done that. He shouldn't have made that ...
As I have gotten older, I've discovered the joys of being lazy.
Thanksgiving began in 1621 when Native Americans sat down with a bunch of undocumented pilgrims. They had dinner and the pilgrims never left.
I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque. Nothing astonishes men ...
Caution is a spy's best friend; paranoia is his enemy.
I certainly know about the oppression and prejudices of being black and a woman and from the South.
Whether you're talking about the Egyptian pharaohs or Hollywood movie stars it all ends the same way. DEATH
Slasher movies are fun. You watch yourself get chopped to pieces, yet you're still alive. You see the blood on the ax and think, Holy ...
Historically the first philosopher to enquire deeply into the nature of corruption in society was Ibn Khaldun (1322-1406), whose wandering life was largely spent in ...
In its heyday, the car was an expression of technical flair and design genius: the original Mini, the Beetle, the 2CV, and the Fiat 500 ...
Mary heard God's word and kept it, and so she is blessed. She kept God's truth in her mind, a nobler thing than carrying his ...
The Greek word for box is kouti which also means stupid.
Smaller markets teams, when you hit bottom, you hit with a thud.
Autumn is a classical music; when it begins, the gravity disappears!
The virtue of the civil partnerships scheme lay in the attempt to treat the needs of gay and lesbian couples as what they are, not ...
Those who are self-righteous are not prominent.
When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.
Poetry is a life-cherishing force.
Fame is not the same as success, and in our true souls we know that.
Remember those three magic words: You are God.
I think every character I've ever come up with has been based on someone or something I've known.
I'm so scared of commitment that I even hate stickers. I mean, once they're stuck, that's it. No going back now. Stupid stickers.
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We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
I can't believe I'm falling in love with such a stupid, stupid asshole.
I invite you to read again the full accounts of this inspired vision. Study them, ponder them, and apply them to your daily life. In ...
Learning styles Visual - learn best by seeing Auditory - learn best by hearing Tactile - learn best by doing Oral - learn best by ...
So perhaps, it occurs to Billy, this is the whole point of civilization, the eating of beautiful meals and the taking of decorous dumps, in ...
I hate waking up every morning to my alarm. I always bang my head on the steering wheel.
Was she very beautiful, Samuel?""To you she was because you built her. I don't think you ever saw her - only your own creation.
Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously I've always written ...
With red clay between my toes,and the sun setting over my head,the ghost of my mother blows in,riding on a honeysuckle breeze, oh lord,riding on ...
Through the survival of their children, happy parents are able to think calmly, and with a very practical affection, of a world in which they ...
Glimpses is dead-on about the high and tight nineties even as it reaches out for the sweet hereafter of the sixties. It longs for something ...
Love is blind. You don't have to be.
My process is I try to learn my lines so they're so solid I don't have to think about them or how I'm going to ...
A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.
Legends are very pretty but rarely touch on the important facts of life. Things like whether a 1969 red Mustang powered by a 351 Windsor ...
Even when disco went out, I could still make hits. Once I had so much success, every idea became concentrated. I had so much confidence. ...
For podcasting: In the first 3 to 9 months, you should be honing your craft and putting out increasingly better work. "Good content is the ...
I've got a great eye for color. I'm like a chick.
Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.
Are we fighting?" I asked Morelli. "No. Were discussing." "Are you sure?" "Am I yelling?" Morelli asked. "Is my face purple? Are the cords on ...
And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.
It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a ...
If all goes well, you will be able to save more than one innocent life tonight.
You would think with all the genius and the brilliance of these times, we might find a higher purpose and a better use of mind.
My mother's white, and she didn't know how to do my hair, so I had something that I always call white-mama hair.
Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.
In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although ...
Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.
Sir Trevor Fitzwilliam, baronet, of Blackcliff Hall," he said, "at your service. And you would be?""Unconvinced," Gwen said.
The best motivation for anyone-including employees-is to hear or see our name as often and in as many places as possible. Our name is the ...
I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, ...
It's chick flick disguised as a sword-and-sorcery picture. The only genre film with less balls is probably ... freakin' Legend. Anyone who actually enjoys Ladyhawke ...
I'm a big believer that we get the politicians we deserve.