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And yes, all of a sudden she was scared. It was like a yellow thread weaving in and out of the bright red overblanket of ...

I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.

190 Sometimes our greatest strength shows when we let go of things we can't control.

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.

There is something aesthetically pleasing about trading one engraving - and old map - for another - American money.

By nowyou should've somehowrealized what you're not to do

Religion embarrasses the commentators. It is offbounds. An editor of the old Life magazine once assigned me a book on religion with remark that I ...

The Christian life is one of faith, where we find ourselves routinely overdriving our headlights but knowing it's okay because God is in control and ...

Go litel bok, go, litel myn tragedye,Ther God thi makere yet, er that he dye,So sende myght to make in som comedye!But litel book, no ...

Son, don't mind what's missing. Count allthat's free: friendship, laughter, all thelove your heart can carry, and time -- count time.

But I wasn't getting in my pace, staying within myself, I was getting a little rushed. So I think I finally took a couple deep ...

The deadly monotony of Christian country life where there are no beggars to feed, no drunkards to credit, which are among the moral duties of ...

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

But I'm shocked by the tenderness in his voice. The sincerity with which he wants to know. He's like a feral dog, crazed and wild, ...

He asked with a stiff smile 'What is love?'For me,' said Orianda, fumbling for a definition, 'for me it is a compound of anticipation and ...

Coffee was overtrained and the sandwich was as full of rich flavor as a piece torn off an old shirt.

We need to get insurance out of the way and let the consumer interact with their doctor the way they did basically before World War ...

When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that ...

The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time.

The reality is that the fewer children a congregation has, the more important an outreach ministry for children and families like Vacation Bible School is.

Sustainability is no longer optional. Companies that fail to adopt such practices will perish. They will not only lose cost basis: they will also suffer ...

While a strong presence on our southern border is imperative, the border cannot be secured unless we enforce our internal laws and stop ignoring the ...

I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war ...

She found that books, the well-written ones, had the power to transport her from a world that was sometimes overstressed and over stimulating to a ...

Everybody knows this legend in kind of African-American lore. There's always somebody in your neighborhood named Orangejello or Lemonjello. And that's spelled - Orangejello is ...

Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated in semimetaphorical terms. Verities are differentiable. But love is omniembracing, omnicoherent, and omni-inclusive, with no ...

We play the music we want to play and we play the places we want to play. I'd hate to be on the usual record ...

One wonders how people in primitive societies, with no knowledge of chemistry or physiology, ever hit upon a solution to the activation of an alkaloid ...

Following the Orlando attack, ISIS claimed the attacker as one of its own and called for even more such killings worldwide.

I'm not saying that owning a house makes life into some kind of blissful paradise; simply that it makes the difference between freedom and enslavement.

Grade A objectivity won't come from those who are closest to us. It will come from outsiders. That's where we'll find divergent thinking, unexpected questions, ...

Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend, who will stand firm when others fail; ...

My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting. But you don't know when the medicinal effect ends and the ...

You don't want to be the smartest person in the room; you want to be the dumbest in the room. You want to be surrounded ...

For soon, the dark millenium will fall, and the world will be a different place, requiring different species. Cataracts will occlude the Sun, shutting out ...

God! ... Isn't the sea what Algy calls it: a great sweet mother? The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea. Epi oinopa ponton. Ah, Dedalus, the ...

Nothing enables us to forgive like knowing in our hearts that we have been forgiven.

Could Vader actually be Anakin Skywalker? the two men wondered. Based on Obi-Wan's account of what had occurred on Mustafar, Anakin's survival didn't seem possible. ...

When I do operas, I'm not really singing very classically. I have a classical background as far as being a pianist and an oboist, but ...

But for now I prefer to think that I will go somewhere that is not so overimagined.

I don't want to be classified as an old-skool DJ or new-skool DJ. I want to be classified as an all-skool DJ who plays it ...

Trixie murmured. "It's on like Donkey Kong.

Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people - one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses.

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.

John McCain responded to critics who say he's too old for a sixth term by saying that his mother is 103 years old and doing ...

And listenin' tuh dat kind uh talk is jus' lak openin' yo' mouth and lettin' de moon shine down yo' throat.

Turkey's solidarity with Hamas is not, of course, based on Arab nationalism, which as a non-Arab nation it does not support. It is instead based ...

Did I say that the world had never had better color? I left something out of account, a limping, crippled consideration which seems to lose ...

The body loaded by the excess of yesterday, depresses the mind also, and fixes to the ground this particle of divine breath.[Lat., Quin corpus onustumHesternis ...

My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had almost lost my ...

In an economy that is overleveraged to historic proportions, economic stimuli will not do the trick.

I'm not good with blogs and social networks because those things come and go. By the time I am used to one thing, a new ...

I would say the referees have the toughest game to call. I would say that there's a lot of officiating done by announcers, local announcers. ...

Peter used to say that an artist's job is to make order out of chaos. You collect details, look for a pattern, and organize. You ...

The greater the destiny, the greater obstacles you'll have to overcome. No great destiny comes without great challenges and sacrifices.

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 ...

What matters most to me is doing what I was elected to do: help make life better for Oregonians and making America work for working ...

Mental ghettos are not mirages; they actually exist in palpable reality: being "open" inside one's mental or intellectual ghetto does not open its door but ...

You got to have dedicated people, a lot of dedicated folk. There's only so much one person can do. We really have to find people ...

The challenges and how we deal with them: that's what defines us. Problems don't define us; it's our ability to overcome and transform.

It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care

Your mind outwears all sorts of things you may set your heart upon; you can enjoy it when all other things are taken away.

To allow someone to come into your heart-house, you have to open the door. Most doors open from the inside.

Katniss. I remember about the bread.

The beauty of where I'm from - this small little town called Wallburg, North Carolina - I didn't have a TV; I was out playing ...

While Coach Hedge was having dinner on the foredeck, a wild pegasus appeared from nowhere,stampeded over the coach's enchiladas, and flew off again, leaving cheesy ...

With hands that shook, Omri probed into the depths of the chest till he found the box-within-a-box-within-a-box.

We need to know that our limits do not define our limitations. And an empty tomb does exactly that.

Let go into His arms until you find yourself obsessed on things divine

Wearing dark denim, he look more like one of those guys in GQ magazine than a soulless alien version of the goat-sucking chupacabra.

Helping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not.

You gotta understand, there are two different kinds of Asians - the kind who are good at school, obey their parents, go to college - ...

Coming to terms with Donald Trump as the Republican nominee is like being told you have Stage 1 or Stage 2 cancer. You know you'll ...

Give your difference, welcome my difference, unify all difference in the larger whole - such is the law of growth. The unifying of difference is ...

Competition is good because we need to educate customers, and Ozon.ru itself will not be able to do it.

J. Edgar Hoover very famously denied the existence of organized crime up until the Appalachian Meeting, I think, in 1957. It was interesting to me ...

When a man says he hears angels singing,he hears angels singing.

Has it ever occurred to you to wonder if the history we teach our children is a lie?

One knows, when all one's life one has walked in dangerous places, when the silence is that of ambush and when the silence is that ...

The only music we ever listened to out in the piney woods was Roy Acuff and the Grand Ole Opry. That was the only night ...

The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops ...

The guy who owned that island was from Oregon and he decided that he wanted to have an Oregon feeling to it, so he planted ...

No reason to dwell on why. We all know bullies are bullies because they have their own problems they can't deal with so they take ...

What we have seen in the way of adaptation and adjustment seems to indicate that families are adjusting parenting to the world ofwork, rather than ...

My goal is to leave the producer with so many good takes, that he or she has a tough time deciding on the best one.

I like to build bridges ... not walls.

Tom Hanks has taken George Clooney's place as the big-hitter driving a lot of liberal causes.

If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York

We control health and pathogenicity by complex multi-speciated relationships through symbiosis and synergy. Portable shelters for livestock, along with electric fencing, insure hygienic and sanitary ...

The world's natural calamities and disasters-its tornados and hurricanes, volcanoes and floods-its physical turmoil-are not created by us specifically.What is created by us is the ...

I feel like I have to do some promotion to let the people know that the records are out there; but I kind of like ...

When Time got rid of my column, I thought it was all over. It was really sad. And then, I just started pushing it to ...

We can't just pay attention to women who look fantastic in a photograph, because there are a lot of people that have fantastic things to ...

Untruthful! My nephew Algernon? Impossible! He is an Oxonian.

The U.S. government has a long history of overclassifying information that shouldn't be classified at all - and keeping information classified until long after any ...

Where has this book been? The Culture Engine demystifies the what and how of driving your company's culture to produce transformational business outcomes. Chris Edmonds ...

I would be more optimistic but I find doing so would be like walking into a room with no windows and turning out the light. ...

The things we're most frightened of, we can't make ourselves dismiss them.

Oasis were the last great, traditional rock-n'-roll band. We came along before the Internet so, if you wanted to see us, you had to be ...

Live a life of lies; die a death of truths.