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I think some people just don't know that much about comedy. It would be like a person who didn't know anything about football thinking all ...

Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.

I'm not sure that I recovered, but I also know that I cannot afford going back yet. I see how much the kids are happier, ...

What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects ...

I'd had a key to the marina's locks at one time, but I'd lost track of it when I got shot, drowned, died, got revived ...

Some of us teach ourselves and our children to love the superficial outer; our looks, hair, skin, clothes rather than the greater beauty that resides ...

Most people are perpetually locked in the present. Their decisions are overly influenced by the most immediate event; they easily become emotional and ascribe greater ...

Car are more important than my health." When you tell yourself

Pathetic, huh?" He learned that wordfrom me."Yeah. It's like the opposite of a fish,right?

Since I only got one life to ive, God forgive me for my sins, let me make it and i'll never steal again, or deal ...

Your breasts are alabaster orbs.' "What?" Rufus objected. "That's stupid. I'm not saying that." "Do you have some better suggestion?" "Why can't you just say ...

He was making a brave attempt, but Jason could see the sadness lingering in his eyes. Something had happened to him... something to do with ...

The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating ...

I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don't ...

I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre ...

Dancing is forbidden to Christians. Isn't it suggestive that the word ballet comes from the Greek ballo, which is also the origin of diabolos, "devil"?8

Actually, orcas aren't quite as complex as scientists imagine. Most killer whales are just four tons of doofus dressed up like a police car.

You've no fear of heights," puffed the girl."None," I said."I've heard that about you.

That was the trouble with freethinkers, they had overactive imaginations that made them uncertain.

Josh takes chances; he's braver than I am. He always takes that extra step when he nos he shouldn't. He does it anyway and he ...

One of the most frightening things in the Western world, and in this country in particular, is the number of people who believe in things ...

Twelve-year-old Islay. Good stuff if you liked peat, smoke, earth, rain, despair, and the Atlantic Ocean, and who doesn't like that?

I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the ...

The gh at the end of many modern words, however, like dough, cough, and trough, is actually an artifact not of Dutch orthographic tendencies, but ...

A friend of mine is into Voodoo Acupuncture. You don't have to go. You'll just be walking down the street and ... ooooohhhhhh, that's much ...

Aithinne smiles. "You know," she says thoughtfully, "your hair rather looks like an octopus." Then, as if to reassure me: "I love octopi."And Aithinne is ...

You just feel a little odd when you don't get your kind of food. Fortunately, there are Indian restaurants all over the world.

Setbacks, on the other hand, just make us feel weak and stupid: I should have conquered this by now. I happened on a question not ...

Mitch stood. "How is this my fault? I'm not the one with the pussy that drains the life from a man!""And i'm not the one ...

People are really trying their best. Just like being happy and sad, you will find yourself on both sides of the equation many times over ...

I want to be remembered as a great friend, an outstanding father, an amazing husband, and a good soul who always strived to serve God ...

I can't believe that OMON [Russia's riot police] would hit a girl. I simply can't imagine it.

When I wake up in the morning and I turn that film on, it's like reading a book and it's exciting. I don't read books, ...

If you live in a society like ours, in which people seldom object if they hear someone taking the Lord's name in vain but are ...

Making an open stand against all the ungodliness and unrighteousness which overspreads our land as a flood is one of the noblest ways of confessing ...

I don't care what anybody says, I think that George Bush is absolutely the right president to oversea the end of the world.

You know you're down and out when Okies laugh at you,' she said. With our garbage bag taped window, our tied down hood, and art ...

When people are treated like a product, they become obsessed with materialism.

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 fast word about oral contraception. I was involved in an extremely good example of oral contraception two weeks ago. I asked a girl to ...

The 'fear of change' excuse is something you see trotted out by organizations or management that believe customers are old, stupid, ignorant, and stubborn.

We see ourselves in terms of yesterday and today. Our Heavenly Father sees us in terms of forever.

Damn it, Harper, I can't be away from you for even an hour without going out of my fucking mind," he said against her mouth. ...

They are not grey roots! This is my new fifty shades of grey OMBRE hairstyle!

The Total Onboarding Program - An Integrated Approach To Recruiting, Hiring and Accelerating Talent

I locate a great deal of the power of Occupy Wall Street in the name itself, 'Occupy Wall Street,' or '#OccupyWallStreet.' It works because the ...

Nothing but a speck we seem In the waste of waters round, Floating, floating like a dream, Outward bound.

35 "Everyone has a dream, a vision, a goal and a desire. Just because we have bigger dreams than others doesn't mean they don't have ...

The Republican convention, an event with the intellectual content of a Guns'n'Roses lyric attended by every ofay insurance brokerin America who owns a pair of ...

And what happens when you stop innovating? Everyone else catches up, your jobs go overseas, and then you cry foul: Ooohh, they're paying them less ...

Any minority's right to be different must be respected, but the right of the majority must not be questioned. Without the values at the core ...

Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government ... can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, an ...

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.

Maybe it's impossible to live life without any regrets. Even when you know the future... you'll still mess up." (p.163)

Making art will show you how much you already have. Your real treasures. A brand-new Maserati is a lot less beautiful to draw than a ...

What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.

My father was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuchang. We four children spoke Chinese ...

Every Christian has unique opportunities to engage the most pressing social issues of our day by praying, proclaiming the gospel, and participating with God in ...

I operate under the assumption that people don't notice the good in me. That's just how things always seem to play out. I get blamed, ...

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 ...

There was only one thing that interested her and that was getting into bed with men whenever she'd the chance. And I warned her straight. ...

I am utterly against those confused Olios, into which men put almost all kinds of meats and Roots.

Cultural debates are always conflicts between orthodoxies.

[C]ouches and chairs covered in scratches aim away from one another, making it possible for a dozen people to sit in this room at once ...

By the Nineties, so many people were moonlighting and creating their own professional identities that China generated a brisk new business in the printing of ...

Your pain is an opportunity for you to learn about yourself.

I love the power of the musician who composes and performs. I envy their ability to put a nugget of truth in three minutes of ...

I didn't know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter.

We look at each other with shy relief. It's the look two odd socks give when they recognise each other in the wild.

Naturally, my Jewish mother, like all Jewish mothers, wanted me to be a doctor, or a lawyer... or as she used to say, "Be something!" ...

I love being a grandmother. That feeling you have for your own child - you don't ever think it will be replicated, and I did ...

The Santa Anas blew in hot from the desert, shriveling the last of the spring grass into whiskers of pale straw. Only the oleanders thrived, ...

One night, I pissed into an empty wine bottle so I could continue watching Monty Python, and suddenly thought 'I've never tasted my own piss,' ...

A certain degree of power must be granted to public officers, for they would be of no use without it. But the ostensible semblance of ...

I think God outdid Himself when He created children.

The dismembering of a human being routinely in 30 minutes on an outpatient bases - or any other way - is barbaric. Four blocks from ...

Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep - ...

In this beautiful world anything is Possible, but only when we Believe wholeheartedly and try!

This is a new point in my life, and things are totally changing. But like the sunsets I saw on Tybee Island, the miles I've ...

Life can sometime be very hard for us and we feel that as if we are drowning in our problems. when we feel this way ...

Eggs possess an elemental power. Their outer shell is earth. Their white is water. The membrane that lines the shell is air, and the yolk ...

I have been one acquainted with the night.I have walked out in rain - and back in rain.I have outwalked the furthest city light.I have ...

The ReckoningThe time has come for RetributionA time for Redemption, A time for Forgiveness A time for Renewal, A time to prevailMy love will set ...

It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can 'take over' as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly ...

Obadiah Hakeswill had never been concerned by such enmity. Power did not lie in being liked, but in being feared.

Half the Sentinels and all the Guards moved back, forming the ohshit line.Armentrout, Jennifer L. (2013-10-31). Sentinel (The Covenant Series Book 5) (p. 45). Spencer ...

Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?O'Brien: Of course he exists.Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?O'Brien: You do not exist.

I paused for a moment, debating whether to turn and look what was happening. My senses told me Obo's presence was still at my side, ...

Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.

Roilant caught himself, with exasperation, slipping into vacuous philosophy, a sure sign his opinion of life was at its very lowest.

Parkour is really a practice of getting to know yourself, what you're able to do, what are your limits. As you train, you start knowing ...

A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present.

Reinventing yourself and becoming someone else is simple. Owning who you are, that's the hard thing,

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

The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.

Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the ...

If we are honest with ourselves and listen quietly ... we all harbor one fiercely held aspiration for our healthcare - that it keep us ...

For sure, the 'Obamania' that's fast taking hold reflects an incredible thirst for change in global politics and, dare I say, a wave of optimism ...

Success in the long run has less to do with finding the best idea, organizational structure, or business model for an enterprise, than with discovering ...

Megan looked at me and blushed. A blush looked really good on her. Of course, so would soup, mud, or elephant earwax. Megan on a ...