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Personal honors never meant much to Bill Russell, one of America's most successful athletes with 2 college titles, 1 Olympic gold medal and 11 - ...

She was too interested in getting married to waste her time on someone ineligible. Infatuation made for odd behavior, though. And love and marriage did ...

Ohmygod. Did hell just freeze over? - Zoey Redbird when Aphrodite LaFonte tells her parents that Zoey deserves to be leader of the Dark Daughters

Kids take work, effort, love, blood, sweat and tears and are a full time job. You have to commit, for better or worse and then ...

This couldn't be just a lake. No real water was ever blue like that. A light breeze stirred the pin-cherry tree beside the window, ruffled ...

In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the ...

I am almost inclined to coin a word and call the appearance fluorescence, from fluor-spar, as the analogous term opalescence is derived from the name ...

He was left a good deal to himself. He had been inclined to talkativeness, but gradually he became silent. He began to think of the ...

But if that's Olham, then I must be ...

Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes ...

The world is wide, full of happenings. Keep this in mind and never believe 'I'm the onlyone who knows.'

They may be smarter than you. They may have more money than you. They may come from a different city or a better family. But ...

Words are things, but things which mean. We cannot do away with meaning without doing away with signs, that is, with language itself. Moreover, we ...

I oftentimes find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out of necessity.

God damn, I wish I could fast-forward time and be old and wrinkly. How awesome would that be? No more worrying about getting ogled by ...

Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.

Take your everyday, ordinary life- your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life-and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you ...

In 1352, Ibn Batuta, the greatest Arab-language traveler of the Middle Ages, who had journeyed overland across Africa, Europe, and Asia, reported visiting the city ...

So I simply said one of the great trite truths: There is generally more than one side to a story.

If there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above ...

University of Oklahoma. He spent his summers on a farm in Pennsylvania, not far from Roseto - although that, of course, didn't mean much, since ...

The oppposite of Love is not Hate - it's apathy.

I invite you all to visit our new Harold Square or Space 98 stores in New York. I think you'll agree with me that these ...

Witchcraft is, and was, not ... for everyone. Unless you have an attraction to the occult, a sense of wonder, a feeling that you can ...

What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were around ...

Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

Snake pulled out the digital camera and decided to play a joke on Otacon. He snapped a picture of the pinup, muttered, "Good," and closed ...

Could you be nostalgic for a friendship that wasn't over yet or did the fact that you were nostalgic mean that it already was?

Sometimes I screw up in the game, I miss a shot or I miss a rebound, and I fight myself. I am like, 'Why I ...

The pain never goes away, Freya, but it becomes manageable. One day, you'll wake up and realize you can breathe a little easier than the ...

Every man carries his kingdom within, and no one knows what is taking place in another's kingdom. 'No one understands me!' Of course they don't, ...

I'll tell you what 20 years teaches you - is that if one thing doesn't last something else will come down the pipe and to ...

I love and in a way need, a private secret place. It's a kind of deep obsession, but I also love to need and be ...

And, you know, money is - the money edge is really dangerous to democracy. Because what you have right now - people have said to ...

What did I tell you, Mr. Pippin?' said Sam, sheathing his sword. 'Wolves won't get him. That was an eye-opener, and no mistake! Nearly singed ...

If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped ...

Life. It's your birthday present. Open it up and play with it. Act like you like it. (The One who gave it to you is ...

As his (C. S. Lewis's) good friend Owen Barfield once remarked, Lewis radiated a sense that the spiritual world is home, that we are always ...

For ever and anon the soul becomes weary of the conventions that are not of it, and with a single stroke shatters the civilized lies ...

Prayer means lovingly contemplating the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, allowing our hearts to be enkindled to praise and adore the love and ...

We have inherited from our forefathers the keen longing for unified, all-embracing knowledge.

The first thing which will be judged among a man's deeds on the Day of Resurrection is the Prayer. If this is in good order ...

These are the qualities of meditation: a really meditative person is playful; life is fun for him, life is a leela, a play. He enjoys ...

Cooking and eating food outdoors makes it taste infinitely better than the same meal prepared and consumed indoors.

Gods should be iridescent, like the rainbow in the storm. Man creates a God in his own image, and the gods grow old along with ...

Let the new faces play what tricks they willIn the old rooms; night can outbalance day,Our shadows rove the garden gravel still,The living seem more ...

Stay put and you will remain as such. Jump in and you might get wet. Dive and you might find true happiness.

But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat, "we're all mad here. I'm mad. ...

She's an old lady from times back. Her clothes have the smell of her sheep and that rusty smell of the ancient trunk in which ...

There is something that I have in common with every citizen of Russia, the love for our motherland.

Callie a wink. As Will and Beth took turns with the Eton Mess, Sid

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 ...

I couldn't help smiling back. Maya had decided opinions and didn't keep them to herself. "Jones had his chance, and he blew it. There's an ...

Sometimes we exist long enough to lead the next generation; other times, only to plant a seed and let its resonations of our time here ...

We are equal beings and the universe is our relations with each other.

Operating under the conscious capitalism model will show that businesses are the true value creators that can push all of humanity upward for continuous improvement.

An open internet is an open platform for debating opposing views. It allows unpopular voices to be heard.

Some mechanism in my sub-consciousness took the dominant characteristics of various prize-fighters, gunmen, bootleggers, oil field bullies, gamblers, and honest workmen I had come in ...

The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon 's immense work may be stated ...

Service is not possible unless it is rooted in love orahimsa.

Ain't you been listening? I'm YUSUKE URAMESHI... the same ornery dawg you've always known and loved. So I have a DEMON ANCESTOR! Big Deal! I'm ...

Roots like an oak tree, Barney." He

I don't want you to describe to me - not ever - what you were doing to that poor boy to make him sound like ...

Your patience may have long to wait,Whether in little things or great,But all good luck, you soon will learn,Must come to those who nobly earn.Who ...

Intelligent too, ooh you my sweetheart. I've always liked my women book and street smart. Long as they got a lil' class like half days ...

In the early '90s, I wrote a play called 'Word of Mouth' in which I played a number of different characters. One was a thirteen-year-old ...

First you have nothing, and then, astonishingly, after ripping out your brain and your heart and betraying your friends and ex-lovers and dreaming like a ...

The concentration of the ferment iron in living substance is very small, being in the region of 1 g to 10 million g of cellular ...

Where is automatism in the work of Chirico or Tanguy? Even Dali had to renounce it in order to be able to organize the space ...

In the central Indian state of Orissa, mining has scarred the landscape, and it is already too late to secure most of the traditional elephant ...

Where the unveiled glories of the Deity shall beat full upon us, and we for ever sun ourseves in the smiles of God.

One of the great advantages of the study of old Norse or Icelandic literature is the insight given by it into the origin of world-wide ...

I like the OMG Girlz. They're real and they're friends.

If you are in a big city or on an online dating site, you are flooded with options. Seeing all these options, like the people ...

I have several friends that have outlasted both of my marriages that are raising wonderful children together that have been together in gay unions for ...

We play at believing ourselves imortal. We delude oursleves in the appraisal of our own works and in our perpetual misappraisal of the works of ...

A building without ornamentation is like a heaven without stars.

Obedience is a great danger.

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.

House of pleasure, how may I orally please you? she purred, recognizing the number.

You break through the veil whenever you strap on a sword or chant the ancient verses. You escape when you write a poem or a ...

I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.

OMNICTIONARIAN96: Nah, man. I've been up since six, expanding the article on this Malaysian pop singer.

Broccoli, when overboiled, produces a sulfuric stench that causes children to gag the instant they enter the house.

I am a picky eater. By that I mean, I love to pick the raisins out of oatmeal raisin cookies, the chips out of chocolate ...

There is nobody that I know who believes that Bank of America is a human being who should be entitled for the same constitutional rights ...

Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.

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Those few members who desert the cause are abandoning an oasis to search for water in the desert.

We're expecting a lot of rain in the state of Oregon, so let's just get rid of Oregon.

To the sight of the swallows dying in mid air, Alessandro was finally able to add his own benediction. "Dear God, I beg of you ...

Well named, Quotology contains everything you always wanted to know about quotations, quoters, quotees, quotation books, 'quoox' (quotations out of context), and their fascinating history.

Let us ... quietly accept our times, with the firm conviction that just as much good can be done today as at any time in ...

If you don't execute your ideas, they die." - Roger von Oech ...

There's this kind of war on running - people keep telling you you'll get hurt, get injured, that you need orthotics, that you need go ...

You know, I played football, I was offensive tackle in college.

Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long ...

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 ...

Mr. Denzi can teach us all something about accumulating wealth. Begin earning and investing early in your adult life. That will enable you to outpace ...

There's something magical about Oaxaca and the vibe of the people.