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You can't love anything properly from a distance.
I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for.
We may be living at that moment, on the cusp, when we go from being a species that feels a kind of loneliness in the ...
One man can make a difference and every man should try.
A full moon shimmered over central Louisiana. This was no rinky-dink moon. This was a moon you had to curtsy to. A big, heavy, mysterious, ...
The house had been torn down. Nothing is left but the old white fence. There used to be privet bushes everywhere. "The smell of privet ...
No clouds gathered in the skies and the polluted streams became clear, whilst celestial music rang through the air and the angels rejoiced with gladness. ...
The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece ... We're the block of marble and ...
This is the singular fantasy of human intimacy: that one plus one will somehow, someday, equal one.
It is perilous to live past the end of your myth
I drew a picture on the back of a calendar in pencil. In those days they used to give out free calendars, I had no ...
The winner gives up his chance to be a good sport.
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as ...
Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.
Open your eyes to new opportunities
The only way we can ever get through to the truth is by finding out what we are not. We do that by looking, by ...
Don't focus on the mountain; focus instead on the mountain mover! HS/el
It's so funny castle, you know, at first I loved that he was so busy. It just, it just gave me the opportunity to keep ...
Actions, such as the designation of National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, spring from First Lady Michelle Obama's leadership of efforts to end childhood obesity within ...
Because when you love someone," she'd met my eyes and answered without a flicker in her confidence, "their world interests you more than your own.
To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.
The rhythm of being an activist today involves a pretty simple rhythm. You have to open your eyes to the reality before you. You have ...
So it wasn't actually that bad, it took a couple of weeks to sort of get used to uh, you know, standing around and pretending ...
This is the singular fantasy of human intimacy: that one plus one will somehow, someday, equal one.
People go through changes and life does the damnedest things to us all.
It had seemed a good idea at the time to order the furniture for her new home online from a chain retailer.
The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows ...
He's a machine for competitive balance, ... Yes, the money is in New York. Yes, the money is in his hands. But he squanders money. ...
If you're a print shop and you are a gay man, should you be forced to print 'God Hates Fags' for the Westboro Baptist Church ...
Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity
Don't let the workings of adversity totally absorb your life. Try to understand what you can. Act where you are able; then let the matter ...
A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.
I want people to go into space, to orbit around the world a few times, even to stay there for 24 hours and then come ...
The agony of the dead is with us, and we hear their screams and walk among their ghosts. We cannot avert our eyes or plug ...
One question keeps troubling me: Why? ... The short answer: I don't know. and yet that single word, why, remains the consummate human query. By ...
What other man, ever again, would just do as she commanded, no questions asked? She felt overwhelmed with love and loss and nostalgia for this ...
Over in Afghanistan, Osama stuck his head out of the cave and saw a shadow. So, that means six more weeks of bombing.
I don't really have time to watch too much, but I like 'Family Guy' and 'Entourage.' I'm also obsessed with the YouTube series 'Balls of ...
Once upon a time ... " "In the beginning was ... " That's the way it always starts off. Every story, gospel, history, chronicle, myth, ...
These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish. This is a fight not only for ...
We're not put on earth to one day leave it behind. This world is our home. The second coming will not bring the destruction of ...
I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like What I'm Going to be ...
They say distance makes old friendships fade away. They say with time and distance lovers forget one another. I find it quite the opposite. Distance, ...
I've been training super hard at the Lopez Taekwondo Academy in Houston, which belongs to my brother Jean. For me, I think confidence is the ...
The zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. I wanted ...
I'm from East Berlin. I grew up in the Bertold Brecht, Kurt Weil tradition, also in the old hippie tradition.
The old creation lives by pride and retribution: I stand up for myself, and if someone gets in my way I try to get even. ...
All of us need just one good accomplishment in order to get by. Obviously he can't spend the rest of his life climbing trees, but ...
Don't be afraid of your own power.
According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. ...
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians.
We sit at the gate and scratch, the gaunt fruit of passion.
Something glorious a minute later. How could anyone not have an orgasm? While she didn't ask for his cock, her mouth opened as she gulped ...
Just because I don't look like a freak show, it doesn't mean I'm not part of the circus...
'The Queen Is Dead' is not merely the Smiths' best album, but it is one of those timeless, perfect, inexhaustible artifacts that could only have ...
By saying "blessed are those who mourn", Jesus does not intend to declare an unfortunate and burdensome condition in life to be happy. Suffering is ...
Change it!" answered Silvestre, also springing to his feet. "How? By loving each other?" Abel's smile vanished when he saw Silvestre's grave expression. "Yes, but ...
Your thigh? Your shoulder? Is there any part of you that hasn't been hurt yet?"He seemed to be contemplating my question for a moment and ...
Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.
The impact of climate change is relatively small. The average impact on welfare is equivalent to losing a few per cent of income. That is, ...
I'm cancer-free. And I'm on antioxidants and acupuncture and a different diet. And I have a different outlook on life. I don't have resentment any ...
A great school experience won't keep you from being remarkable, but it's usually not sufficient to guarantee that you will become so. There's something else ...
Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.
Take control of your future by taking a choice of starting it right now.
There were so many different versions of him. It was countless versions of a song, and they were all original, and they were all true, ...
Keep me heaven my soul has holes, leaking good morals, I once had control over dark matters of the world, give me courage and strength ...
Orange is the happiest color.
Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.
I don't really weigh myself, but over time - and I'm not crazy about it - but I know how I want to feel in ...
I am thinking about how it feels to be a no one in the life of someone you love.
Training records become a barometer of accomplishment and a roadmap for further progress.
Each individual is as individual as their fingerprints, and I think that's extraordinary.
When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make ...
The one ring, to rule them all'? Sounds very far-fetched to me!
Josh didn't trust inanimates; not one bit; but he didn't trust men either, nor did he trust the sea. The first could drive you crazy; ...
If I don't write it, who will? No one; at least not the way I would because the idea is uniquely mine.
Nothing's sacred anymore. Those girls and I got so close. They were painting me naked every day for months. It was kind of like going ...
If I knew my schedule a month ahead, I'd be so bored.
He truth is, we made each other, like we learned about in science class. Symbiosis.
Saffy could tell by the feel of the darkness that Caddy was awake. She said, "Caddy, how far back can you remember?""Oh," said Caddy, "ages. ...
Even when I was a kid, I had a good thing with kids. To this day, if I go to a birthday party with one ...
Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
Wanderlove is about forgetting the bad things and focusing on the good. Out with the old and in with the new ... The only way ...
Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.
Within a year of O'Neilrs speech, Alcoa's profits would hit a rec- ord high.
Japan's experience suggests the importance of assessing the sustainability of price stability over a fairly long period, which many central banks have emphasized in recent ...
Today our concern must be with the future. For the world is changing. The old era is ending. The old ways will not do.
You know, I'm from the Midwest, man - that shapes my personality much more than having gone to Harvard.
There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds ...
Love made her patient. It made her hopeful.
He shakes his head with a slow smile. You'd better be right. If the phone rings, I'm unpluggining it, I swear to God-"You'd do that ...
Conversation is like a dear little baby that is brought in to be handed round. You must rock it, nurse it, keep it on the ...
The larger the corporation, the more distant its motives are apt to be from the original spirit of organic farming - and the farther the ...
Mr. Beaconsfield is the Year Eleven drama teacher. He's one of those teachers who likes being "down with the kids" - all gelled hair and ...
The poorest service is repaid with thanks.
I will not be sad. I will be okay. Those promises become my layers. The middle that no one will touch.
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;Or close the wall up with our English dead!In peace there's nothing so becomes a manAs modest ...
Our ... advantage was that we had evolved unstated but fruitful methods of collaboration ... If either of us suggested a new idea, the other, ...