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Withdrawn into the peace of this desert, along with some books, few but wise, I live in conversation with the deceased, and listen to the ...
In my opinion FOX is known for being a network that just advertises, and that's pretty much how they get their viewers.
I wanted to stay locked away from the pain and destruction. I didn't want to be strong. I didn't want to be the 'smart girl'. ...
I'm more optimistic about cycling right now than I've ever been.
Opinion is dominating, which is absolutely ridiculous - there wouldn't be anything for people to have opinions about if there weren't people out there gathering ...
'Sherlock' fans are, by and large, an intelligent breed, so they've gone through my back catalogue and got what I've done, why and how I've ...
So how did you wind up joining the Rebellion?""An old guy and a kid were looking for a ride and I needed the money," Han ...
They drive back home to grab his backpack and as he bends and kisses his grandma Agnes, she scrunches a one-hundred-dollar bill in his hand. ...
Where are we going tonight?""To meet Eddy at the Brickyard again. It's Thirsty Thursday apparently.""Oh no, not participating in Thirsty Thursday. Wasted Wednesday was enough ...
His weekly golf game no longer keeps his love handles in check, he's recently resorted to a slight comb-over to cover that growing bald spot, ...
As Hazel marched down the hill, she cursed in Latin. Percy didn't understand all of it, but he got son of a gorgon, power-hungry snake, ...
I consider myself to be a relatively helpful person, and there's an interesting line when hope starts to become the way you actually mask or ...
I may live in London, but I'll go back to the country one day. My dad's an architect, so I would like him to design ...
I feel like I have to do the best job I can to basically say, "OK, I understand - you have every right to be ...
An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.
In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer ... offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living." In our ...
I don't know if power seduces less or more. I think power is a constant evolving mechanism that, since the dawn of time, on one ...
Either by silencing the mind or by opening the heart, today's man can become tomorrow's God, tomorrow's Divinity. And embodied Divinity soon becomes revealed Immortality.
Realize that enough hidden strength lies within you to overcome all obstacles and temptations. Bring forth that indomitable power and energy.
Nothing more powerfully excites any affection than to conceal some part of its object, by throwing it into a kind of shade, whichat the same ...
Very few people use landline phones for much of anything. So when you talk about things like online chat and social media messages and emails, ...
God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless. Those who plot impossible upheavals among us, are either young and do not know ...
Anything goes on any given Sunday, especially Monday Night.
[A]ll her life she [Chantal] had been carefully, heroically watching over mediocre beings who were hardly real, over things of no value.
This isn't a game, human. Listen to the Skotos and go. We're not bound by the laws of the Oneroi. Killing humans is nothing for ...
Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
I just didn't believe Bush.
Both VisiCalc and MultiPlan were available when the IBM PC shipped in October 1981. 1-2-3 didn't hit the market until January 1983.
A cold sense of desolation lodged itself somewhere in the base of my throat, and suddenly I was no longer enraged or devastated, but terrified ...
I told myself firmly that it was just a feeling, the echo of an anxiety. I could overcome it, just as I would overcome everything ...
Ah,' said Zultan. 'I, too. I keep many books at my home.' He gestured to the books in the tent. 'These are only a few. ...
What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.
Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right.
In studying ourselves, we find the harmony that is our total existence. We do not make harmony. We do not achieve it or gain it. ...
The issue of who will throw the garbage won't be so trivial when no one is throwing it away, and it starts to stink. When ...
I am thankful for the way I was raised, to be positive. Even when times have gotten rough I have always tried to look on ...
You only know you love her when you let her go.
I'm my own worst critic. I mean, I know what's wrong with everything that I've done.
Having experienced her own disappearance, she is conscious of how important it is for people to be seen, so when she looks at them even ...
Art has to be, you know, trade itself, conform to the old strict guidelines set forth by how it was going to act in the ...
The reason I put make-up on or wear the costume is to try and find my own style. It's like my guitar style - I'm ...
[M]ore wars have been waged, more people killed, and more evil perpetrated in the name of religion than by any other institutional force in human ...
No holy place existed without us then,no woodland, no dance, no sound.Beyond all hope, I prayed those timelessdays we spent might be made twice as ...
One person can make a difference. Oneperson with an army behind them can change theworld.
Liberalism is a really old British tradition and it has a completely different attitude towards the individual and the relationship between the individual and the ...
Whatever you have committed wrong in the past or whatever you used to think of the future, the present becomes divine. And that divine present ...
This is a universal human dream - that brains, not brawn, will rule - and the fact that America has the world's finest institutions of ...
When we hold hands, it seems as if our blood flows together. We could kiss forever if we didn't have to go to school or ...
I did 'Bridge to Terabithia' when I was around 6 years old, but for my first movie, I was 5.
TV is like high school because you go into these series, and the people that work there have been doing it for seven years, like ...
The first thing which will be judged among a man's deeds on the Day of Resurrection is the Prayer. If this is in good order ...
I was so completely anxious before I had a child, but now my biggest worry is something happening to her, so anything other than that ...
I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or ...
An accent like mine and a face like mine, I think a lot of the time it's easy for casting directors to just stick me ...
Think back through your experiences and make a bullet point list of funny stories that have happened to you or your friends. Travel, school, college, ...
Who is this vague "they" we blame for so many of our problems? "They" is the obscure party we use as our whipping boy to ...
Nearly fourteen billion years ago, all the space and all the matter and all the energy of the known universe was contained in a volume ...
To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil with evil is evil.
I think you've all heard my story about my daughter and how we felt Children's Hospital saved her life when she was less than a ...
The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into ...
The density of people in society is so thick that we forget that life will end one day. And we don't know when that one-day ...
Stop, Gina. One thing you should already know about me is that I'll never allow you to speak negatively about yourself. You're a beautiful, intelligent, ...
Can we be blamed for feeling we're too old to change? Too scared of disappointment to start it all again? We get up every morning, ...
I think in some ways - only in some ways - but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down. It really doesn't ...
The girl was alluring. Like wildfire, or a summer storm swept off the Gulf of Oro.
As we give of our time, talents and resources to tend the needs of the sick, offer food to the hungry and teach the dependent ...
I compensate for big risks by always doing my homework and being well-prepared. I can take on larger risks by reducing the overall risk.
Days turn to night. The ocean tide drifts in and out. And I want you, Tara. Damn you, but I do. I always have.
I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in ...
Your life isn't out of control. It's expanded.
It's like my old Aunt Joan always used to say: if you're going to end up fighting monsters, Pirate Captain, try to stick to ventriloquist's ...
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
I think it's hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they're nineteen years old.
Involvement in my kids' sports teams is something I have made time for over the years. I've also been able to coach all three of ...
I never liked to work because I don't want no one to be a slave. I want to be worked in my mind. Every thing ...
There's more than one way to be a person. Actually, there are more than two or three ways. You'd think that was obvious, but I ...
To increase student engagement and ownership of learning, we should give students opportunities to do meaningful work - work that makes a difference locally, nationally, ...
Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them.
But now what? Is this a ticket to a new understanding of my life, or a bomb that's going to blow up everything?Consider one more ...
Smack me if we ever get that awful.""But I smack you so often," she said, "how will you know that's what I'm smacking you for?""We ...
I lived on the farm with my parents and grandparents. I had no playmates as a young child, and I was indulged. I helped my ...
Joy is not the opposite of suffering. If it were, a person practiced in joy could crowd out pain because one couldn't exist with the ...
There's a purity to the struggle to reach a peak. You leave your world behind and take only what you need. For a creature like ...
The doors open and we jump inside from the rooftop just as sirens go off and spotlights cling to us from below. Kylee doesn't even ...
For a very long time I believed that when we left our home, we left my mother as well. Where our village had stood the ...
Don't change yourself for anyone, you may struggle a lot to do so... When you are completely changed, people wants the old one to get ...
Enjoy the blessings Heaven bestows, Assist his friends, forgive his foes; Trust God, and keep his statutes still, Upright and firm, through good and ill; ...
So many people hate me and love me for the exact same reasons. This is all the proof I need that my opinion about myself ...
Once in a stately passion I cried with desperate grief'Oh Lord, my heart is black with guile, of sinners I am chief'Then stooped my guardian ...
Only the gentle men are ever really strong
Relentless enthusiasm keeps us young.
Look within. Within you is the hidden God. Within you is the immortal soul. Within you is the inexhaustible spiritual treasure. Within you is the ...
Jesus Christ knew the only way He would stop Satan is by becoming one in nature with him ... He became one with the nature ...
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are turning up on ...
Positive, optimistic sales people sell more than pessimistic sales people.
Loretta didn't have much time left for mothering, and once I was old enough to fry my own eggs, she started leaving me home with ...
Of course, even though Peter and I have had our disagreements, we share a bond I'd defend to the death if needs be. If all ...
To me sometimes a mute sky is more expressive than the roaring sea
I think if you show up and you work hard and you're straightforward, you can always create your own opportunities. I hope I'm right.