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So you can say whatever you want and quote me however you want about politics and make the next payday, and that's fine because I'm ...
What am I to you?'Sophiel smiled. 'The sun. You are my sun, like Astrid said. My sun, that lights up my life. That looks after ...
Just as airplane pilots must maintain contact with air traffic control towers, you and I must stay in touch with God - the one who ...
My mom used to tell me, 'I live every day of my life for you.' I understand that now. The older I get, the more ...
When demand is being destroyed by expensive oil just as expensive oil is incentivising increased production - it should come as no surprise that at ...
Fleury had succeeded (but only with difficulty) in overcoming certain qualms as to whether selling one's life as dearly as possible, or even putting it ...
The time has come to challenge our obsession with doing everything more quickly.
Washington is unpredictable these days.
And yet more brightShines out the Julian star,As moon outglows each lesser light.[Lat., Micat inter omnesIulium sidus, velut inter ignesLuna minores.]
In war the olive branch of peace is of use.[Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.]
I really believed that anything at all was worth writing about if you cared about it enough, and that the best and only necessary justification ...
The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to contruct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the otherslike a Platonic ...
The office environment that people work in everyday dictates the culture that you are going to be in.
When you work under the cloud of anxiety, the best strategy is to play it safe, because if (when!) it fails, you'll be blameless.
I never go overbudget on my movies.
Now, don't get me wrong, I like men in all shapes and sizes, but let's be honest. There is a direct correlation between the size ...
Don't overpack your carry-on. You're never going to read that second book or that fourth magazine.
The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues.
You compose a question and then you just start walking. Concentrate on each step. Don't think too far ahead and don't think about where you ...
Jesus Christ knew the only way He would stop Satan is by becoming one in nature with him ... He became one with the nature ...
Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he ...
With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such ...
It's how you look at beauty. Is it only an outward appearance with hair and makeup and a hot body, or is it something deeper ...
On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under ...
The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub ...
They tried to get me - I got them first!
The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body.[Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]
You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.
Liberals go straight to ugly racist stereotypes when attacking conservative blacks, calling them oversexualized, stupid and/or incompetent.
With apologies to all my past boyfriends, I never loved a man the way I loved my old apartment.
Keep moving. Create routines (but sometimes break them). Be opportunistic. Be a mensch. Believe in something. Lighten up. Cultivate a sense of progress. Don't do ...
There was no warning before the outbreaks began. One day, things were normal; the next, people who were supposedly dead were getting up and attacking ...
Because I think I saw you, yesterday morning when I woke up. I think my eyes worked again, just for a moment, and you were ...
You are the creator. Get out that old box of paints and brushes and start drawing love into your life.
No matter what happens, disaster piled on calamity, no matter what, everything will be okay in the long run.
I go to Japan every November on vacation, and the one thing I never return home without is yuba, which is the thin skin that ...
But what if your obsession has nothing to do with drugs or thrills or money? What if what you want most in the world is ...
Faith had given up on the whole one-day-my-prince-will-come romantic bullshit
When I look at the records and see where my place in the history of the game (in Japan with Orix) might be, I guess ...
The Oscar prestige was fine, but I worked more before I was nominated,
Love was life's hardest school of all.p. 259
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
I learned by observation that people who pursued extraordinarily unlikely goals were overly optimistic at best, delusional at worst, and just plain stupid most of ...
Wouldn't it be great if all career phonies, faux friends or opportunists could be identified quickly in professional networking circles by wearing signs like "Career ...
She saw only that he was quiet and onubtrusive, and she liked him for it. He did not disturb the wretchedness of her mind by ...
I am a firm believer that the pull for human beings is towards the good, generally outweighing the bad.
The discovery of streptomycin as a product of a rather obscure group of microorganisms, the actinomycetes, led to the study of these organisms as potential ...
Opting for peace does not mean a passive acquiescence to evil or compromise of principle. It demands an active struggle against hatred, oppression and disunity, ...
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,But bad mortality o'ersways their power,How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,Whose action is no ...
Jesus Christ knew the only way He would stop Satan is by becoming one in nature with him ... He became one with the nature ...
Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete.
It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!
When I started out in public life there used to be a saying we'd hear from time to time, that every man who runs for ...
When I was her age," Munro said to Eilidh, "I was chasing frogs."Oron Chuckled. "When I was your age, I was chasing frogs. Come. We ...
Nothing that doesn't push you past your limits can change your life. It's true of work, it's true of parenting, and it's true - a ...
It is the relationship between the physical environment and the environed organism, between physiography and ontography (to coin a term), that constitutes the essential principles ...
It's called 'The Outlaw Album,' not 'The Ozarks Album.' These are stories that delve into different kinds of outlawry, from criminal acts to interior, or ...
At no point does anyone in the chain know what to do with money in the real economy. But in an indefinite world, people actually ...
It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch.
To be honest, however, I will have to admit that I wrote this book for the original model - the one who was overkidsed, underpatienced, ...
The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms ...
When the world makes no sense, go inside yourself, and listen carefully to your needs, until you understand once more.
No one has, or ever will, be able to experience or express your singular point of view, which is why it is so important, both ...
He half-turned his head to acknowledge their arrival,
Family is everything!" he always said when he went overboard with sentimentality. "If you don't have family, what do you have?
The men selected bottles of Moosehead beer and ranged themselves on plush leather chairs while Grosevoir busied himself in the bedroom. An overhead projector was ...
I think I could make you fifty percent a year on one million dollars. No, I know I could. I guarantee that.
What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
With the growing popularity in e-learning, it occurred to me that the e should mean more than electronic. If we are going to call it ...
Sometimes, when it seems like the pain is never going to end, I wish I'd gotten a different suite of magical talents from my mother. ...
I am in love with you, Hazel Grace. And I know that love is just shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable. And ...
If you knew this, why did you wait to bring it before the Omegrion? (Savitar) Because I was afraid to come forward ... (Zack) And ...
Saying of the ProphetOppressionWhen oppression exists, even the bird dies in its nest.
All great Christians have been wounded souls.
Your ability to solve complex problems may make you overthink simple problems, going for the convoluted answer and overlooking the simple, more obvious solution.
Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.
What's really neat about the Orthodox church is that it's like walking back in time 2,000 years to the time of the Apostles, when they ...
I look like a hooker.""A slut," I corrected. "Hookers have pastier complexions.""The voice of experience, I'm sure.
We live in the tension between neophillia, or attraction to new things, and neophobia, or fear of new things.
Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief ...
Men who are driven are happy in their work and their vision but are not happy-go-lucky. Evelyn has a happiness and contentment most of the ...
I don't consider myself a particularly young chess player. I have been playing in the best tournaments in the world since I was 16 years ...
I was often misquoted. I was supportive of my managers, even though they all may not think so.
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, ...
I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for ...
An intriguing world where vampires rule, only the strongest survive, and romance offers hope in the darkest hours.
I am sure the ocean catches fire ocassionally.
All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and ...
Latin American Art is an operational term used to describe art actually made in the more than twenty countries that make up Latin America and ...
Let today be the day you love yourself enough to no longer just dream of a better life; let it be the day you act ...
It's really maddening out there for dark-skinned actresses in terms of the opportunities we get. There's just so much talent that is being overlooked.
My idealism has not abated, but I have witnessed it withering away nationwide, to the point where at least among the young, to have ideals ...
An American parliamentary system with proportional representation wouldn't immediately or inexorably lead to a flourishing social democracy, but it would at least correct the overrepresentation ...
In search for love, where love is some Oxytocin,seeking happiness related to Orexin. Sensations of glory, motivation and success, They are all some precious chemicals. ...
I don't believe in funerals. I believe in celebrating life, and showing people, while they're alive, how much I care about them. And I don't ...
Too much comedy is filthy these days. There's nothing they won't say. I like Jimmy Carr, but I don't like the language he uses. I ...
Interestingly, Marxism, Communism and its derivative, Socialism, when seen years later in practice, are nothing but state-capitalism and rule by a privileged minority, exercising despotic ...
He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were something ...
Professor Osterweis taught us how to structure a speech: introduction, three main points, peroration, and conclusion.
The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up ...