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Goodbye, Lord Rohan," she said. The door to Lina's house stood open, the footman waitig patiently. "I don't expect we'll see each other again."His smile ...

Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long ...

Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.

I don't like being retired. It's like announcing an end to your worth, whatever that worth was, and the longer you go on, the more ...

The only other person attending who was close to her age was Father St. Laurent, a devastatingly good-looking Roman Catholic priest who made the RC's ...

My current fear is that the message being sent by the level of vitriol surrounding Gillard's flawed leadership (but tell me whose wasn't flawed) is ...

If you use disappointments as sort of mid- semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger- and wiser. ...

Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long ...

It's amazing how life will organize around the standards you set for yourself.

'Golf Digest' had all the old school swings, and my favorite swing, ever, was Nick Faldo's swing. And it had all the greats, Ernie Els ...

I learned one thing from De Niro: He taught me to listen. Nobody says anything strictly from the script. It's improvised. It was the best ...

I respect the Bible and offer namaz regularly. But I am ritualistic only up to a certain extent. I believe only in those rituals that ...

I think that the power over death and life is the greatest strength that any person can have. It trumps sex and wealth. If I'm ...

If hard work, integrity, thrift, and perseverance have caused you to succeed, then you don't owe anyone an apology for winning.

Don't die old, die empty. That's the goal of life. Go to the cemetery and disappoint the graveyard.

Executions were meant as an exercise in frightfulness according to the theory developed by the Emperor Caligula: "Oderint dum metuant" (Let them hate us as ...

Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea that ...

She transforms once again into someone carefree, and I transform into someone whose only care is her.

A myth, in its original Greek meaning- muthos- is simply that: a story, one which seeks to render life transparent to an intelligible source.

Lately, a study has suggested that depressed people have a more accurate view of reality, though this accuracy is not worth a bean because it ...

Demand perfection of yourself and you'll seldom attain it. Fear of making a mistake is the biggest single cause of making one. Relax - pursue ...

We have switched from defense to offense and in this battle all the members of the Hamas leadership are legitimate targets.

This process was also used on beautiful daggers with bifurcated blades, which look ahead to the Old Kingdom forked instruments known as pesesh-kef used in ...

I intend to lead my party, which is the only party that has a serious policy on the No. 1 priority of the people and ...

My first professional job was appearing in a disastrous theatre production of Oh, What a Lovely War in Leicester Rep, shortly after leaving Cambridge.

You can study God through everything and everyone in the universe, because God is not confined in a mosque, synagogue or church. But if you ...

Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.

I'm very fun; I like to have fun, and I don't like to take life too serious, so of course everybody saw me as the ...

A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it.

The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.

If things look right on the surface the underside is rarely questioned. However, things may be great in reality, but if one perceives them to ...

God actually delights in exalting our inability. He intentionally puts his people in situations where they come face to face with their need for him.

I shall never have a bath again," I said. "Just dont have one too often," my grandmother said. "Once a month is quite enough for ...

It doesn't matter how many times you leave, it will always hurt to come back and remember what you once had and who you once ...

There is a perfect rout of characters in every man - and every man is like an actor's trunk, full of strange creatures, new & ...

I'm into hip-hop, rap, country, blues, gospel, old school, new school ... whatever ... pop. If it's really good, I like it. I don't have ...

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, ...

When the film was presented in New York, the distributor reproduced the fountain scene on a billboard as high as a skyscraper. My name was ...

Overcoming complacency is crucial at the start of any change process, and it often requires a little bit of surprise, something that grabs attention at ...

Belief, by its very nature, is exclusive. If The earth is more than four billion years old is true, then the claim, The earth is ...

Most calves and fawns will soon die. Only the luckiest and fittest will survive. Therefore either hunters or Mother Nature can take them. The logical ...

Very softly, he says, "I wouldn't be here without you." It is bigger than an I love you. It is a declaration that solidifies what ...

There was no way to grasp the reality of the present which slid away each second, invisible as air; reality only existed after the fact, ...

Everything in life serves as a challenge and test to elevate us. Therefore it is right to be grateful for the opportunity to learn and ...

I want to, like, drink wine and talk about the Middle East or whatever the fuck we're gonna want to do when we're old.

They travel through the heartland, past cold factories and drifty towns, to the old, old mountains slumbering east of Tennessee.

I'm not going to marry you.""I'm not asking you to.""Good."He eyed me. "And you can wipe that horrified look off your face because it's obviously ...

My blood ran cold. Twenty yards away a hooded figure was crouching behind the oak tree, flashing a pinpoint light into the office where Walter ...

At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been ...

One day," she told us, "you'll have to leave here and go out into the big world out there and earn your living like everyone ...

His hands find my hips and his breathing slows. What are we doing? What is this exactly? He lowers his head and opens his eyes. ...

Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices, Each note of which calls like a little sister, Those airs slow, slow ascending, as the smokewreaths ...

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

(Wine is) the nurse of old age.

Burying your head in the sand does not make you invisible it only leads to suffocation.

Shade for a manAnd shelter for animals,Planted in your name,May you be the same for those around you,Every year the same.

For a couple of days he was nice and I was on cloud number 9,damn they don't teach how to come down from there instead ...

Sometimes things just click. The one contribution I tried to do, was shield the staff from the corporate politics that occur on any show. But ...

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. ...

Mankind is immortalin the comic perspective not by virtue of man's subjugation of naturebut by virtue of man's subjection to it. The "fall" in tragedy ...

When you were the son of evil, there was little you couldn't do, own, or kill, and yet her mortal self was an elusive trophy ...

It is man's only enemy - fear of lack, fear of failure, fear of sickness, fear of loss and a feeling of insecurity on some ...

In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those ...

I find it very, very hard. He was part of the fabric of my life. We were kids together, and teenagers. We spent the whole ...

Sucess is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it ... Err in the direction of kindness.

The most direct and enduring way to reach the mind and imagination of the learner is through the mind, imagination and character of the outstanding ...

People like to say, "You're only as old as you feel," but it isn't true. It's just something old people say to make themselves feel ...

Dreams don't "come true". Dreams get "made true". You have the power to get up, execute and make beautiful results happen, day by valuable day.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing ...

Men put all kinds of expectations on you. They want you to scream 'You're the best' while swearing you've never done this with anyone before.

Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote,Fourteen-year-old, why are you such a goat?I'm fourteen years old, that is the reason,I giggle and dote in season.

Even the dry and dusty arid desert air could not get her sweet perfume out of his nostrils. That one night was all it took. ...

Once more into the breach

Among its many uses, dance/movement therapy aims to help people overcome trauma, often by nonverbally bringing the elements of the experience to the fore.

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind

Not truly living in the present moment and later regretting is like closing your eyes when a peacock is dancing, only to want to see ...

March is the perfect month for a wedding. Just make sure it's after the NCAA tournament. I think we'll go far this year. Go Big ...

When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest ...

Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and its ethics stand ...

Boxing's given me the chance to travel around the world and open the door and the world is much brighter.

The reason why we are disenchanted with ourselves is because we entertain in the depths of our psyche a kind of vision-an anticipated vision of ...

If you're having a conversation with someone in speech, and it's not being tape-recorded, you can change your opinion, but on the Internet, it's not ...

The United States Administration for Children and Families (ACF) spends $46 billion per year operating 65 different social programs. If one goes down the list ...

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

The old 7 Series, the E38, was an elegant car, an evolution of the classic BMW look. But it wasn't penetrating the luxury market as ...

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison

But the day of our death will be better than the day of our birth, because the first time we were born into sin. But ...

I believe that every human being is potentially capable within his 'limits' of fully 'realizing' his potentialities; that this, his being cheated and choked of ...

If, after having been in someone's presence, you feel like you've lost a quart of plasma - avoid that presence. No one likes to hear ...

I would say I am an ordinary bowler but one with a really big heart, and that's what has stood me in good stead in ...

Extended my hands towards the sky and began thanking God.

I can't give you what you need right now, but I will promise you that one day I'll give you not only my heart, but ...

Let us ... quietly accept our times, with the firm conviction that just as much good can be done today as at any time in ...

This is how the whole of our life slips by. We seek repose by battling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome we find ...

Pray, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts.

In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference ...

Kissing him was like seeing the ocean for the first time. Meeting something so big it made you feel small.

I could do Rust In Peace again, but I don't want to. I could have followed that formula but, God, why? I would have to ...

You don't want to continue to do one thing and only one thing. You want to keep challenging yourself and if you do well at ...