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You can let love slip through your fingers, you can let money slip through your fingers, but if you let your fingers slip through your ...
I think there's been an overestimation of how much the press can shape coverage and people's decisions.
There appears to be a vast amount of confusion on this point, but I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be "accepted" ...
I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives ...
Some other brown stuff that might not be mud into her tangled hair. All around, villagers wandered with their baskets of brightly colored eggs, looking ...
He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him ...
We owe it to the fields that our houses will not be the inferiors of the virgin land they have replaced. We owe it to ...
If you just, pretty much, take a random 15-month-old, just sit and watch them for 10 minutes and count out how many experiments, how much ...
Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells.
Everything in the world has a spirit which is released by its sound.
Every man needs an obsessio in order to enjoy life, and it was so much the better if that obsession was constructive.
I believe theology should be about one's way of life, a kind of gaze into onesself and others, and a mode of one's profound existence ...
The "Success-type" personality is composed of: S-ense of direction U - nderstanding C-ourage C-harity E-steem S-elf-Confidence S-elf-Acceptance.
ONE WORDOne word - one stonein a cold river.One more stoneI'll need many stonesif I'm going to get over.
The goal of Christian dating is not to have a boyfriend or girlfriend but to find a spouse. Have that in mind as you get ...
The main thing to avoid being a casualty is simply this: to have a kind of intimate personal relationship with Jesus Christ whereby you're able ...
Zen perceives and feels, and does not abstract and meditate. Zen penetrates and is finally lost in the immersion. Meditation, on the other hand, is ...
We hope the day will soon come when every girl will be a member of a great Union of Unmarried Women, pledged to refuse an ...
One day you will realise that for your life to change for the better, you must first change for the better.
Take the blame that belongs to you, and nothing else. I'm asking you to look it in the eye and face it for what it ...
Few secrets can escape an investigator who has opportunityand liceense to undertake such a quest and skill to follow it up.
I combine magic and science to create illusions. I work with new media and interactive technologies, things like artificial intelligence or computer vision, and integrate ...
It was in the recognition that there is in each man a final essence, that is to say an immortal soul which only God can ...
Communication is not a one-way street.
In spite of her vapourish airs (as the housewives of Yonville called them), Emma, all the same, never seemed gay, and usually she had at ...
Make a conscious effort to live in the present today. When you catch yourself obsessing over the past or worrying about the future just remember ...
You don't have to say anything. You don't have to teach anything. You just have to be who you are: a bright flame shining in ...
That's why you leave the windows open. You don't know how to be alone with yourself. And if you block out the world, there you'd ...
Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful man's darkened room, ...
Extending amnesty to those who came here illegally or overstayed their visas is dangerous waters ... We are a nation of laws, and I will ...
Keep smiling at me like that, though, and I'm liable to commit at least three sins with your mouth alone. You'll have to make a ...
Don't fall prey to the 'genius' syndrome and outsmart yourself by being too complicated
I'm good at looking good with weapons and stunts. But if you put a bull's eye in front of me and asked me to hit ...
Transparency painted in a picture produces its effect in a different way than opaqueness.
Fear had also choked out any desire to work magic. It had been my crutch and my cloak, keeping me from exercising my power. Fear ...
I'm singing the way that I love to sing, which is like old soul, like old Al Green. I grew up about an hour from ...
Oh yes! ... The sweet summons of God to man. That's when He calls you up to His arms. And it's the most beautiful thing, ...
The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far ...
Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)
If we sow the seeds of hatred and envy and discouragement in others, we, in turn, develop these qualities in ourselves.
My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the ...
A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
Progress is a fine thing, but it's gone on long enough.
The only reason we were here was because nobody had yet optimized software for First Contact.
The Spirit, when He prays through us, or helps us to meet the mighty "ougthness" of right praying, trims our praying down to the will ...
I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.
Education is the Jewel casting brilliance into the future
At times discreetly, at times disgustingly, I yielded to the most fatal temptation whenever I could no longer bear it: as a result of impatience, ...
Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, ...
The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.
The Okavango Delta is an astonishing sight: the great Okavango River, rather than flow towards the sea, flows inland, into the sands of the Kalahari.
The recounting of a life is a cheat ... even our own stories are obscenely distorted ...
Power is the ability to make change.
Where we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright. ...
The last time I glanced at the library books on the kitchen shelf they were more than five months overdue, and I wondered whether I ...
A good thing? Or a strong omen ... Only time would tell what these newfangled neutrons and fission reactions would give to our ever-changing world.In ...
There's a certain urgency that comes from the records of the early 60s before overdubbing and multitracking came into play.
Only you can control your future.
I will burn this world down to save her
Opportunity arises when a seemingly impossible task is met with an improbable solution.
I've been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi War Vets realized that the military wouldn't ...
The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo; changes according to advances in ...
For the off-ice training, I do basic strength training, and for the on-ice training, I practice jumps, spins, steps, and my new long program with ...
The symphony of motherhood, it's about loving with absolute abandon, loving without regard for self, loving with a near totality of being. It's about a ...
Unless we learn the lesson of self-appreciation and practice it, we shall spend our lives imitating other people and deprecating ourselves.
You can't teach an old dog new dog new tricks. Now,you can give an old dog new toys. And we've got one here!
In the traditional modernist planning that created the suburbs, you put residential buildings in suburban neighborhoods, office spaces into brain parks and retail in shopping ...
I became fascinated by the then-blossoming science of molecular biology when, in my senior year, I happened to read the papers by Francois Jacob and ...
For the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe ...
I never get to wear a suit in my life, much less a tuxedo. It's kind of really fun to get to dress up, because ...
What a way to learn great theology! That's what comes to mind whenever I sing one of those old hymns. "And Can It Be" is ...
An eye for an eye my friend.
If only it were possible for us to see farther than our knowledge reaches, and even a little beyond the outworks of our presentiment, perhaps ...
America is not a pile of goods, more luxury, more comforts, a better telephone system, a greater number of cars. America is a dream of ...
Even though it was six o'clock, there was no sense of approaching dawn.
Do not tolerate for a minute the idea that you are prohibited from any achievement by the absence of in-born talent or ability. This is ...
You may only get one chance at something ... and that requires confidence in your ability.
'Amores Perros' and 'Once Were Warriors' had a tremendous visceral quality that really influenced me.
Janice rolled her eyes. First, the doctor had ogled her, and now Karr was leering at her and licking his lips lasciviously.Oh this is great. ...
The moon is considered a relatively easy object to land humans on, everything else is much harder by orders of magnitude. It is the reason ...
Trying your best to bring the water to your eyes, thinking it might stop her from woopin' your behind.
Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything. Once you say the character is in love, ...
By six o'clock that evening, however, even the glow of having successfully asked out Cho Chang was insufficient to lighten the ominous feelings that intensified ...
We are not killing the planet. It is our arrogance that makes us believe we are capable of such destruction. The earth will be here ...
Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it's the ones in the middle that are really the lucky ...
One day, my sweet girl, some lucky man will come and help you understand the very meaning of love. He will sweep you off your ...
Jesus Christ knew the only way He would stop Satan is by becoming one in nature with him ... He became one with the nature ...
If you live in a democracy and don't have freedom of information, it's not a democracy. And people have to understand that if you don't ...
It only takes one minute to find a really good book, but it can give you a lifetime of memories when you read a really ...
And if one day there's distanceBetween your hand and mine,When our hands join once again,My heart and soul will shine.
Law school was, for the most part, full of overindulged kids looking to become lawyers either to please daddy or to bring home the big ...
Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.
Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic. And I think you never outgrow your love ...
Put tattoos all up and down our thighs, do anything our parents would despise. Take uppers, downers, blues, and reds and yellows, our brains are ...
Usually God favours the people who try to do good. So, when you find that the crowd is desperately trying to sell, help them and ...
A man who overindulges lives in a dream. He becomes conceited. He thinks the whole world revolves around him; and it usually does.
I cud feal some thing growing in me it wer like a grean sea surging in me it wer saying, LOSE IT. Saying, LET GO. ...
Those were the days when dreams were sweet and life was sweeter still.
The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the ...
To be able to imagine the ohter, and the experience of the other was what wisdome was all about; but nobody talked about wisdom very ...