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I slunkoff in the direction of the cocktail table - the only place inthe garden where a single man could linger without lookingpurposeless and alone.

We love winners, even though they're very rarely particularly likeable people. They're almost always obsessive and selfish and inconsiderate. That doesn't matter. We forgive them. ...

You said the other day life was long,' I shot back. 'Which is it?' 'It's both,' she said, shrugging. 'It all depends on how you ...

When life is good, enjoy it. But when life is hard, remember:God gives good times and hard times, and no one knows what tomorrow will ...

We learn from conflicts only when we are willing to do so.

Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never ...

It sounds old-fashioned to say, but we have some kind of purpose for being here, not poets or writers, but all of us humans.

Interesting Fact: During World War II Germans could spot American spies when they sat in this L Cross position. It became popular in the states ...

I wouldna cross the road to see a scrawny woman if she was stark naked and dripping wet. ~Jamie Fraser

No authentic conservative metaphysic can be operable when the discipline of God and the discipline of the soul have been ceded to the doxai, the ...

In France the music schools are a bit old fashioned. I was more excited about doing my own stuff or to play with my friend ...

Your greatest obstacles are your greatest opportunities.

Caroline smiled and waved and blew kisses to both of them as she exited the building. But once outside she felt sad and let down, ...

True power is in the unknown.

His eyes were the darkest blue. They couldn't be real. Frankly, those eyes were overkill. I'd have swooned perfectly fine without them.

You fueled my obession, even encouraged it and your selfishness ruined my life

La' , tout n'est qu'ordre et beaute , Luxe, calme et volupte . There where all is order and beauty. Lush, calm and voluptuous.

Look, I think by the time my case was over and other ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress said we can't ...

Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don't have a happy home.

The heart of woman is like a diamond, who need a good skilled hunter.

I'm telling you people; its a zombie attack. Z to the Oto the M to the B to the I,E. ZOMBIE ... -Bubba

I'm still not comfortable recommending that people eat saturated fat with abandon, but it's clear to me that sugar, flour and oxidized seed oils create ...

From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you." Laila

There is an eternal vital correspondence between our blood and the sun: there is an eternal vital correspondence between our nerves and the moon. If ...

In life, one is entitled to a side dish of either coleslaw or potato salad, and the choice must be made in terror, with the ...

Maternal love! thou word that sums all bliss,Gives and receives all bliss,fullest when mostThou givest! spring-head of all felicity,Deepest when most is drawn! emblem of ...

Appius Livius Ocella made mistakes in his whole long existence. Perhaps changing Eric was his finest hour. He created the perfect vampire. Eric's only flaw ...

God can even affect the mind of a heathen ruler, and this he can do in answer to prayer without in the least overturning his ...

I am happy to be playing in the Premier League because everyone knows it is the strongest league in the world. There are simply a ...

We are like the watermelons. Each of us has a crusty external rind. A case that both protects us and keeps others out. The closer ...

His becoming a true outlier, we have to know a lot more about him than that.

I remember breaking the news to both my parents that I wanted to be a director, and they both looked very doubtful. They didn't know ...

Prayer is the most powerful weapon we have in our spiritual arsenal to stand against the world's greatest enemy, the one who presents himself as ...

Owning a TVR in the past was like owning a bear. I mean it was great, until it pulled your head off, which it would.

Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man ... the highest joy is to fight by the side of ...

Socialized medicine must fail for the same reasons all socialism must fail: it offers no system for rationally allocating resources, and instead promotes the overutilization ...

The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale,

Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigalityand misconduct. By what a frugal man annually saves he not onlyaffords maintenance to an additional number ...

It seemed he'd recently learned the value of playing up the difficulty of accomplishing whatever he was tasked with, the better to play the hero ...

Just as the plurality of the human soul's life of imagination, feeling, and will has a focus, a center, around which it orders and orientates ...

Now, I am not saying that there is one single type of individual who is a better type of terrorist than another. What I am ...

Every organisation faces challenges, but few seize to perform, not due to any shortage of funds, technology or knowledge, but due to the fact that ...

We used to play around with our implicitly,we are too enjoying a game of looking and interpreting our self,until there is one thing that may ...

I think that, certainly, most of my operatic roles are in German. I think it happened because, of course, I was lucky in that I ...

When you've had a near-death experience, your life is never the same. A divine fire is supernaturally transferred into your soul, to tell everyone about ...

For you it's not a matter of can or can't do. Once you say you're going to do something, you do everything to make it ...

I do not know how to thank you.''I can tell you,' said Obierika. 'Kill one of your sons for me.''That will not be enough,' said ...

There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time ...

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is ...

The most embarrassing thing that ever happened to me was when I was wearing a hair extension and it fell out on set.

I take opioids to treat chronic pain. Stigmatizing them will harm me.

From its first startling image, Orhans Inheritance will seep under your skin and leave an indelible mark upon your heart. What lucky readers we are ...

The secret title of every good poem might be 'Tenderness

I don't consciously try to make things difficult as much as I try to make them a little different. I like all kinds of laughs. ...

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

I have problems with the violence and the torture on '24.' What I'm trying to say is that that's not the only story, and I ...

I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.

That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of ...

There is a severe horse overpopulation crisis caused by overbreeding in the racing industry. It's time for that industry to accept responsibility for its castoffs ...

It's easy to make fun of AOL's pending purchase of HuffPo. Just like AOL's purchase of TimeWarner, here we have a new media company - ...

I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling 20,000 copies of ...

Give me coffee! I'm going to write!

I don't feel like I'm self-conscious about what's next. I don't care. I know what it's like to be ignored, and I know what it's ...

The fruit and the purpose of prayer is to be oned with and like God in all things.

Winter trailed her fingers along her harness and sang to herself, The Earth is full tonight, tonight, and the wolves all howl, aa-ooooooooooh ...

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

Combine meditation with career as a yoga. You will find that your practice will not be any less powerful than a person who lives in ...

To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.

One thing that is sometimes forgotten in this "future of books" discussion is that there are all these awesome presses - big and small - ...

The apothecary's name was Owlglass. He hummed to himself as he worked in his back room. He'd found a new type of blue fluff, which ...

When I was in my early twenties, parts would be written for women in their fifties, and I would get them. And now I'm in ...

If you make the wrong decision, it's never too late to make the right one

Forget physics, forget organic chem, forget reading James Joyce's Ulysses - organizing your time is one of the biggest challenges you'll face in your academic ...

The obstinacy on which power is based is never so fragile as in the moment of its triumph.

If you're going to go to the moon, you don't shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to go at it obliquely.

If men and women are at all times supposed to be a kind of walking CV, constantly networking, constantly advertising themselves, then this 'body' is ...

They're just grossly overgroomed people. It's a disappointing thing to know.

The real work was the identification of those aspects of yourself that led to what he called "the negative emotions" - anger, envy, bitterness, greed, ...

If one's careful study of the facts shows that the Catholic Church is correct about Jesus-his life, teachings, death, and Resurrection-then why not give the ...

There's obviously something that feels very good about being with a new filmmaker who's very excited, but I also think there's something very comforting in ...

Grace does not lead us to overlook obedience. Grace compels and empowers us for obedience.

My mother and father instilled in me a sense of purpose not defined by today's street obsession with bling, cars or cribs.

Lack of sleep negatively affects mood, memory, immune function, and pain sensitivity; it makes people more likely to fight with their partners; it contributes to ...

Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that ...

An ostrich egg is bigger than its brain.

It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty ...

We lived a lovely, middle-class, suburban life in Philadelphia. And I really thought that the TV programs of the '50s, like 'Father Knows Best' and ...

What did religion do to people, to provoke such obstinancy, such hysteria - how did it push people to the stage of torturing themselves and ...

It was a real book - onionskin pages bound in what might have been actual leather. Miller had seen pictures of them before; the idea ...

There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart; he does not feel for man.

Oedipa stood in the living room, stared at by the greenish dead eye of the TV tube, spoke the name of God, tried to feel ...

I don't think I'm going to become Brad Pitt overnight, but I presume if walk down Oxford Street, there is a chance someone might clock ...

What the fuck happened to you? [...] You look like you lost a fight with a lamprey. Hickey, hickey...bruise, bruise, bruise...bite. I thought that thing ...

Baseball cannot avoid conflicts. Games are played on Good Friday, the most solemn day on the Christian calendar. On Oct. 2, 1978, they played on ...

I only shoot on film. I like the quality, the grain and the imperfections. It offers me something much more rewarding than any digital camera ...

Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire.

There is nothing to me but you. I know it's pathetic but, oh darling, it's true.

Een onberispelijke Levenswandel bevraagt het Geweten : Petra Cecilia Maria HermansReligion of Blue CircleDecember 6, 1972 - May 2053The Neverending Story - BabajiMichael Andreas Helmuth ...

But oxygen's easier to find on Mars than you might think. The atmosphere is 95 percent CO2. And I happen to have a machine whose ...

This is God's universe; we just live in it. He doesn't owe us anything. We owe him everything. What did you make? Nothing. He made ...