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Life can be very funny and very tragic. Everyone has stuff that they've been through that makes up whatever fire it is that they have ...

Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything ...

Russia on its path has oftentimes discussed and overdiscussed what had happened earlier, instead of moving forward. The result is always the same: It is ...

If there's one thing I can't bear, it's when hundreds of old men come creeping in through the window in the middle of the night ...

You know very well." Daisy ignored the way her breath hitched when he got too near. "You get riled up and off you go, throwing ...

We have a social responsibility, a constitutional opportunity and a moral obligation to help others.

Mars is a rock - cold, empty, almost airless, dead. Yet it's heaven in a way. We can see it in the night sky, a ...

My father is a Japanese-American and my mother is a Caucasian. So obviously, New Year's Day is big for our family, you know, oshogatsu. We ...

Warr be-rong orahWhere is a better countryGovernor Arthur Phillip et alVocabulary of the language of N.S. Wales in the neighbourhood of Sydney, MS 41645, SOAS, ...

My OkCupid co-founders are my best friends. We were in each other's weddings.

The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West.

I think if I hadn't become a sociologist, I would have become very anti-intellectual.

So quit looking for 'the one'. You have a better chance of finding an Oompa Loompa riding a unicorn, fighting Bigfoot.

It's fiction, the improbable is very probable in my worlds

Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. ...

Over the years, the technology of trade has changed in response to advances in the ability to communicate. From its origins on the streets of ...

This is the crisis! Difficulty getting credit, slow growth, high unemployment, low consumer confidence-these are challenges entrepreneurs can overcome with hard work, smart risk and ...

There is so much bad manners and oafishness in large corporations.

He knows I'll like a song before I've heard it. He laughs before I even get to the punchline. There's a place on his chest, ...

There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the ...

Maybe he knew how I fantasized about living a twenty-four-hour life.

The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible ...

He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent.

I grew up climbing mountains in Montana and Wyoming and my wife and I were engaged on top of a mountain peak: Hyalite Peak in ...

He snorted. "Are you lying to me, Miss Marshall?""Of course I am." She smiled at him. "I thought it would put you at ease.

New York was the glamorous town that you only see now in old movies and on Broadway stages. The sky was lit up with dancing ...

I'm proud of Lord of the Rings. I think it's a once in a lifetime role, and a once in a lifetime film. It was ...

It is certain that the soul is either mortal or immortal. The decision of this question must make a total difference in the principles of ...

The yogi in love needs only to whisper the beloved name, and all desire is fulfilled. To hear Shyamdas speak of The Lover's Life is ...

Your inner growth is completely dependent upon the realization that the only way to find peace and contentment is to stop thinking about yourself.

I had the misfortune of meeting Chuck Traynor. He started out as a nice person and then did a complete 180 and beat me up ...

Christmas is about giving. Be outrageously generous. Have fun, enjoy the process ... then keep it up all year.

The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot ...

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on ...

I know we just met today, but I gotta see you tomorrow. I know this is our first date, I don't expect you to swallow.

My school in St. Louis is great. They basically created a program where I can do online classes and independent studies when I'm traveling. But ...

You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.

A company may be the de jure owner, but customers are the de facto owers of the brand.

The citric acid in lemon juice makes it perfect for bleaching, disinfecting and cutting through grease. And olive oil is a great alternative to furniture ...

Sometimes, she worries about her mother, then she hardens her heart and thinks maybe the whole thing will be good for her. Shake her up ...

No one can do in the octagon what I can do. That 'Showtime Knee' - I never even practiced that once.

No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in ...

The Doctor: I've seen bigger.Clara: Really?The Doctor: Are you joking? It's massive!

Put your currency where your oral cavity is.

He is defining the immediate future as follows: old people huddling in big cities, afraid of the sky.

I didn't realize Boston was so easy to get around. In my head, I imagined Boston being this really sprawling city.

Every man seeks the truth, but God only knows who has found it.

I think the root of embarrassment is feeling totally misunderstood, wanting to explain yourself over and over but knowing that you won't make much sense ...

Ah, yes" Langdon said with a knowing smile. "Who better than a bunch of celibate octogeneraians to tell the world how to have sex?"Sinskey was ...

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. ...

I will never give him the satisfaction of knowing how much he has wounded and enraged me. In my silence lies my strength.

Oh, dear God, you don't actually have a brain, do you, it's more a filigreed spiderweb, with little chambers in it where trained monkeys play ...

If we introduce iron complexly into ooporphyrin, we obtain haemin.

Investigating Koreiko's case might take a long time," said Ostap. "God only knows how long. And since there is no God, nobody knows. We are ...

Is the very mechanism for the universe to come into being meaningless or unworkable or both unless the universe is guaranteed to produce life, consciousness ...

The more media trailed him, the more space he tried to create. He cultivated alienation and used it as a whetstone to stay sharp.

Are you already drunk?" "No. Just ... in a weird mood." And it's true. I feel unsteady like if I stop moving I'll crack and ...

A lot of youth today have become very narrow and conservative in a way, whereas we in the older generation are kind of living it.

Now he'll outstare the lighting. To be furiousIs to be frightened out of fear, and in that moodThe dove will peck the estridge; and I ...

Thomas groaned at how invisible he'd become. "I love how you guys are just talking about me like i'm not here.

Learn to say no, so your yes has some oomph.

In life and in business, you need to be good-hearted and trustworthy, and to have integrity. This is the way to build long-term relationships. It ...

Oftentimes, what you wind up learning is very different than what you expect.

I saw the animal's body tense expectantly as he saw the treat in my palm. Unfortunately, it seemed in question as to whether the attraction ...

Staring at her, his reasons are lost to me.

Style is an extension of yourself. My approach is to enhance the personality of the wearer, so he has his own voice

But it may be the hard part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.

With the notebook resting ominuslously on Janie's bed, Janie procrastinates.Does her homework first.And pours herself a bowl of ceral. Breakfast - one of the five ...

Of all the butterflies that chose to stay, I'm in love with the one that got away.

The British people have spoken, and there will be a different future for the U.K. - different but a brighter, more optimistic future. We may ...

Sometimes it doesn't matter that there was any time before this time. Sometimes it doesn't matter that it's night or day or now or then. ...

Apple's Industrial Design team is harder to get into than the Illuminati, and part of the reason is because no one leaves. In the last ...

His warm breath hit my neck, and my toes curled. "That may be true," he murmured, "but I'm pretty sure there's a wolf inside you, ...

At night I sit in my chamber and read the bible . Far in the distance roars the sea. Then I lie down and think ...

The world spins despite me, not because of me, he muttered. Last week, one of his coworkers died after twenty-five years of service. There was ...

I still have a purblind academic image to uphold. I can't afford to let reality get in the way of my opinions.

An old advertising maxim says you've got to spell out the benefit of the benefit. In other words, people don't buy quarter-inch drill bits. They ...

President Obama came to office proclaiming that he aims to solve problems, not hand them on to our children. Most presidents say that sort of ...

People who struggle with overwhelming emotions often feel vulnerable. At any point, the smallest trigger can lead to a tidal wave of emotions that leaves ...

The point is that both Hitler and Stalin held out promises of stability in order to hide their intention of creating a state of permanent ...

I won't always say the right thing, I won't always make you smile, I won't always make you happy ... but I will always try, ...

Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize ...

You won't understand me unless you understand that I am an odd ball.

Otaguro's bosom heaved with an ineffable surge of joy. "Every man is fighting," he murmured. "Every man.

What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he ...

America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that ...

Even if states sometimes have problems with each other, arts and sports should not suffer from that. Arts and sports are there to bring the ...

The Bible doesn't explain everything necessary for our intellectual satisfaction, but it explains everything necessary for our obediance.

There is only one theology, but there are many theologians.

A lot of the Koran does not speak very eloquently to a Westerner. Much of it is either legalistic or opaquely poetic.

O help/ Me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, help. Thou art/ Mine only hope.-Leia Organa

Again, Saburo Tominaga once went to the Shirakawa Prefectural Office to cash his brother Morikuni's bonus bond and, unwilling to touch paper currency defiled with ...

If you don't like the weather in Oklahoma, wait a minute and it'll change.

She says screens are the cigarettes of our age. They're toxic, and we're only going to realize the damage they're doing when it's too late.

Of all things, men most love to watch ohers face Death. It reminds them they yet live.

If you submit to the ocean, you drown. If you try to control the ocean, then you're deluded. You learn how to live with the ...

Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law ...

The uncanny is not a literary genre. But nor is it a non-literary genre. It overflows the very institution of literature. It inhabits, haunts, parasitizes ...

Any time he'd asked that question of a D.C. native, they looked at him like he had two heads and said that's the way they'd ...

Never let go of hope. One day you will see that it all has finally come together. What you have always wished for has finally ...