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We cannot kill our way to victory.
Protective coloration ... you learn to use it to get along in the world if you want. Only I got sick of living in the ...
Fate. As a child, that word was often my only companion. It whispered to me from dark corners during lonely nights. It was the song ...
The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don't listen to them. No one does the right thing out of fear. If you ever utter the ...
It's shameful that today's mouthy political expositors aren't better versed in Orwell. Can you imagine a theatre director who hasn't studied Shakespeare?
Often I'll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there's no work to do on it. When I am filled ...
For millions on the outside looking in, this is where they want to live - America.
Be a mirror of life. Let everyone see their own astonishing beauty in your mirror.
The old white man didn't look into your eyes, he looked clear through your eyes, and straight to the inside of the back of your ...
Only a fool trips on what is behind him.
I will never forget Oprah's [Winfrey] major contribution to my success by having me perform on her show (March '91) and introducing me as, "the ...
Given as much law as that man will be able to do anything and go anywhere, an the only trace of pessimism left in the ...
And if one day there's distanceBetween your hand and mine,When our hands join once again,My heart and soul will shine.
How old are you? 'I'm four and a half!' You're never thirty-six and a half. You're four and a half, going on five! That's the ...
O God, make me worthy of this calling, that the name of Jesus may be glorified in me and I in him.
I will meet you where moon shines down upon our naked, writhing bodies, undulating together in a moment, which brings ecstasy to entwined hearts, beating ...
No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
I believe that if you go on a date and get to second base and then you go home alone and rub one out, that's ...
Katie leaned forward conspiratorially. Oh, sweetie, I just said that because Alice is an old bag. You go after Devon. The man is fine. I ...
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and so is our character.
I am the wind. one day, i will fly free
Life is moments going by, but if you don't grab them, they're gone. For a long time, the only moments that were available were bad ...
Roger nodded. He was too old to hug his dad for long, and returned to his chair. "I'm gay." Saying it out loud was a ...
Burn, O evening hearth, and waken Pleasant visions, as of old! Though the house by winds be shaken, Safe I keep this room of gold!
God can turn the impossibile into possibilities. Possibilities become opportunities. Opportunities leads us one step closer to our dreams!
Especially once those poetry events began, because, yeah, the stuff was still on the page, but the page was starting to spill into real space, ...
When I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done commercials or been sponsored. And ...
Building had turned out to be murders. She
Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is impossible.
So it is with statistics; no amount of fancy analysis can make up for fundamentally flawed data. Hence the expression garbage in, garbage out.
And the Republican Party especially associates the market with the idea of progress, goodness, family, and points us toward the mall as an answer to ...
Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
Scientific method seeks to understand things as they are, while alchemy seeks to bring about a desired state of affairs. To put it another way, ...
Thinking about the world writ large, I am more optimistic than not that we will tackle our most pressing challenges, whether poverty or equality for ...
Throughout our history Americans have put their faith in God and no one can doubt that we have been blessed for it. The earliest settlers ...
I knew that however bad the Republican party was, the Democratic party was much worse. The elements of which the Republican party was composed gave ...
A man awakes every morningand instead of reading the newspaperreads Act V of Othello.He sips his coffee and is contentthat this is the news he ...
Travel for me is all about transformation, and I'm fascinated by those people who really do come back from a trip unrecognizable to themselves and ...
It was with some difficulty that I got through the multiplication tables. The fact that I recollect nothing more of those days than having learnt, ...
How things appear is only the thin, papery outer skin of the onion. Of course, when you cut open the onion, your eyes will sting ...
How many thousands of lives would be saved if we enforced our immigration laws, our guns laws, and our drug laws? Public safety is not ...
Why don't we have more babies, Mom? Bailey has big sisters. I wish I had a big sister.I don't know why, Fern. I tried to ...
I sit on it's edge, looking down at the man who feels like he just materialized out of nowhere. My head still swims with euphoria ...
Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.
The absolutely Non-Manifested cannot be designated by any expression which could limit It, Separate It, or include It. In spite of this, every allusion alludes ...
Each instance of sexual harassment has to be judged on its merits. Facts, timing, motives, credibility: all must be considered before we make up our ...
Hurting a softhearted caring person would please you but loss is yours; you would have friends less one.
To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.
Whose SUV is this?" I asked once we were out of Carnal."Mine." He answered.I looked at him. "You drive a Harley.""Not big on puttin' bad ...
I don't need your organization, I've moved your mountains and I've marked you cards, but Eden is burning. You better get ready for elimination or ...
Obedience brings blessings.
It's hard to explain how this works, and I admit that it's fairly implausible or untenable as a way of life, but that seems to ...
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Works of art create their own rules.
Mat, on the other hand, seemed to have unlimited faith in me. Maybe he'd lend me some if I asked nicely.
In our day, a vast majority of people is dependent either on an employer or the government-or both. One way to rate your level of ...
The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
Count only on those who believe in your dreams, because our greatness comes in our darkest moments
It can hit at any time [anxiety/panic attack]. You feel like you're in an open field, and there's a tornado coming at you. And you're ...
I don't think they's luck or bad luck. On'y one thing in this worl' I'm sure of, an' that's I'm sure nobody got a right ...
If you have friends or family who are not practicing, give them your company and not your judgment. They need your patience and your love. ...
A person's heart should be what she was judged by, rather than whose blood ran in her veins.
One word can change your life forever.I love youI hate youThink about it
Do you really think I should be out there with Officer Dewey? I mean, you saw Scream. The guy can't protect anybody. Everybody in that ...
Seriously, isn't there enough holiday cheer around here? You all don't have to invade my office." I glared at my coworkers, decked out in their ...
Originals by Adam Grant is one of the best books I've read on how to be more creative at work and how to think outside ...
Rachel would be beautiful in the middle of mud slides and hailstorms. On a sweet, sunny day, she made my heart ache.
The four-step strategy that the Laptop Millionaire taught me was very simple: 1. Find a niche market with a problem that needs solving, research some ...
Our Souls at Night open onto larger insights about getting older?
A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don't get to choose our own hearts. We can't make ourselves want ...
Moms, let's pledge to build each other up instead of tearing each other down.
I've always known from the time I was eight years old what I wanted to do. I would have been fairly content to be someone's ...
The only thing that might make me stay in bed would be fear. Once I get rest, then I can overcome the fear of a ...
On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real ...
I am in between. Trying to write to be understood by those who matter to me, yet also trying to push my mind with ideas ...
A closed door really is an open door in disguise.
Remember what one of our philosophers once said, 'In the human heart there is a perpetual generation of passions, such that the ruin of one ...
Our lover is the sun, and we the stars forever floating in their glow. We push and push, yearning for our sun's rays to reach ...
He was the man I mentioned who was obsessed by the idea that he had cancer, although X-rays had proved to him that it was ...
The porch light came on and Aunt B swung the door open. Middle-aged and stout, with graying hair rolled into a bun, she looked like ...
I think being ambitious, successful, powerful, making a lot of money - I don't care what color you are as a woman; it's difficult to ...
While I've found many of the religious shows I've viewed over the years not to be to my liking, or in line with my own ...
One of the findings that really interests me is that, although we think we ACT because of the way we FEEL, we often FEEL because ...
The abbreviated exam week meant that Wednesday was the last day of school for us. And all day long, it was hard not to walk ...
I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also are some big, beautiful ballads. ...
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.
My mom didn't write, but she loved to read. She liked books 'that made you a little nervous.' Stephen King, Dean Koontz and Peter Straub ...
Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path ...
I think the sun where he were born drew all such humours from him. - 3.4.26
I ended up getting on my knees right there in my bedroom. I didn't have a tract that had, you know, 'here's how you pray ...
There's only so much room in one heart. You can fill it up with love or you can fill it with resentment. But every bit ...
If you devote yourself to God, then He in turn will continually stay with you, as an eternal candle flame stays with a wick, feeding ...
The more optimistic you can be the more resilient you will be to whatever challenges life throws at you.
I watched Ricki Lake's documentary, 'The Business of Being Born,' and that led me to call a midwife, and not an ob-gyn, when I found ...
Maybe, it is easier to forget the past,than to overcome the pain caused by it.Maybe, it is one of some other reasons,why men forget their ...
While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.
No. Sorry. You have spent months being the biggest jerk to me. You don't get to decide to like me one day and think I ...
One of the most obvious results of having a baby around the house is to turn two good people into complete idiots who probably wouldn't ...
God has blessed me with a wonderful family, a successful business, and outstanding employees. I do not take these blessings lightly.
Life is an inside job and it is much easier if we let it go and get out of our own way!