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Both kinds of parenting, finally, are forms of overidentification. The helicopter parent turns the child into an instrument of her will. The overindulgent parent projects ...
I think that those of us who are what are called intellectuals make a terrible mistake in overvaluing the yen we have for the arts, ...
The mantra is a very preliminary exercise for the student to begin to grasp a sense of focus. When they are used by persons who ...
Work hard, play hard, dream big, love loads, laugh as much as you can, and give back.
If I get an obit in the Times, they will say, of course, known to millions as Rumpole.
Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.
The square was finally cleared by armed carabineri with tears of laughter streaming down their faces. The event set a record for hilarious civic functions, ...
I tend to obsess over my passions.
I'm a people person, very approachable. I go out every night, tons of functions. I love all facets of this industry ... Music, film, TV, ...
The only possible way to have full understanding of the teachings of Jesus is through the light of the Spirit of God shining inside us.
A pier is a disappointed bridge; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel.
Always obey your parents. When they are present. This is the best policy in the long run. Because if you don't, they will make you. ...
Do you think I do not know that? Oberyn is with me every time I close my eyes. Doran Martell
Our lover is the sun, and we the stars forever floating in their glow. We push and push, yearning for our sun's rays to reach ...
Come on, Park," his dad said sharply, "get dressed and put your makeup on." Like
When I have survived the worst, opening my eyes underwater, sniffing water into my sinuses and snorting it out,
For human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which ...
I won't tell him. I won't tell him that in my whole life, no one have ever made my heart beat like he does. It ...
[M]onarchy was, or ought to be, not so much absolute as mitigated by the principle of ius politicum, supporting a mixed polity partaking of elements ...
It's good to overexpose yourself with work. But don't expose yourself too much with the press.
There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden ... The pupil ...
Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in ...
Exeter City's trip to Old Trafford will be a great day for their fans but that is about it - they won't get the result ...
I like what's going on in Finland, with the rebirth of Beherit. I also like a band called Oranssi Pazuzu and a band called Spiderpact. ...
You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.
That's where I live, a junkyard in a neighborhood of junkyards. We have three tractors from the 1940s and '50s, several old pickup trucks, and ...
Writing, and its theatre of operation, is better than working shifts packing frozen sausages; that's all I need to think about if I'm having difficulties.
This generation has a responsibility to reshape the world. Start the task even if it will not be fulfilled in your lifetime. Even if it ...
I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a ...
Why is there never a headline that says "Government program ends as its intended goal has been achieved"?
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 mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I'm ...
I often wonder what supernatural acts God would perform in our world-things He is ready, willing, eager, and able to do-if we would just approach ...
At one moment when I say 'I', one part of me is speaking,and at another moment when I say 'I', it is quite another 'I' ...
One's relationship to time is complicated, and sometimes a day will drag on forever and sometimes it'll be over in a flash. When you look ...
I hope that one day I will gain power somehow, and somehow convince myself that there is still hope and go back and fight, people ...
Her unusual dark hair and sultry eyes made her stand out--- Anne Boleyn was Tudor England's Angelina Jolie amid a sea of Reese Witherspoons.
It wasn't until the morning after my uneventful shift, when I wake up, dazed and tense and frustrated as hell, that I realize I'm getting ...
Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio ...
I believe it is my dharma to not get inoculated because God ordains who will be diseased and who will be healthy. You obviously believe ...
The United States of America is more than just an ally,' Brandhaug began with an imperceptible smile. He said it with the same intonation that ...
Nothing can shark the wheels or crush the spirit of a determined people, said Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu
Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts ...
But it is an orchestra," I say. "It's an imitation orchestra - an orchestrion, an orchestrina - whatever you call it, it does a terrible ...
By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and ...
I'm not closing the door on my solo career, but with 5th Story, if the public demand is there, then I'll continue to work with ...
The relationship with WWE obviously has gotten better because after my name has been shoved down their throats from 2K [Games] for the past years, ...
Whatever I 'align' myself with are the very things that will create a 'line' into my future.
We have our own personal demons to deal with.
Step into the mystery of the mind. There are billions of minds, there are billions of selves. There are billions of worlds and dimensions.
There's a moon now, almost full. Good luck for owls; bad luck for rabbits, who often choose to cavort riskily but sexily in the moonlight, ...
I'd love to have the opportunity to sing in a Disney movie.
When we set out on the path, we always have a fairly clear idea of what we hope to find. Women are generally seeking their ...
My room was in one of those turrets and at night I could hear the sea and the faint rustle of eelgrass in the soft ...
As a rule of thumb, I would submit that if you need to call your floss provider, for any reason, you are probably not ready ...
There is not a day or night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for ...
We both young what made you grow younger.""The music?"He nodded and whispered. "You don't have to go back to being old. We'll practice all the ...
We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly silent, we cannot kill and not kill in the same moment; but a moment is room ...
I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is my idea and ...
People are going to move in and out of their office, and they're going to move up or get fired. All kinds of things happen ...
I honestly kind of hate shopping. My favorite places to shop are rich old lady consignment stores.
We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.
Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is ...
I look for dancers who have all the technique in the world. But they must be dancers who are open-minded, who are willing to forget ...
There is something, like a feeling, that reminds me of happy days filled with exploration and imagination. Days where the rest of the world fell ...
It's a half bridge, really, as only four of its original arches remain. It ends midway across the river. Like it reached, tried to reunite ...
In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor,
When universities are forced to recruit more and more from outwith Scotland just to balance the books, it is inevitable that doors are being slammed ...
If above all things we would taste God, and feel eternal life in ourselves, we must go forth into God with our feeling, above reason; ...
Inwardly she argued with herself, reflecting that it never ended well when one did something morally questionable for the right reasons.
Sometimes you feel things so much, so intensely, it becomes a new kind of numbness, the oblivion of overstimulation.
Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy ... I have often said to parents, "If it isn't illegal, immoral, orfattening, give it your ...
Everybody sees but once in awhile stars glide and hope flickers when you meet someone who see through the person you have for so long ...
Well, if you've got a one-in-a-million girl don't let her get away; cause the next one-in-a-million girl is a million girls away ...
I do not think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He s very solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. ...
God is not against you owning things, but he is against the things owning you.
God actually delights in exalting our inability. He intentionally puts his people in situations where they come face to face with their need for him.
Building Code changes to mid-rise wood construction will give builders and the public even safer, more flexible building options. Our made-in-Ontario model for mid-rise wood ...
Without doubt, ferocious and disordered men are much weaker than timid and ordered ones. For order chases fear from men and disorder lessens ferocity.
Like I've been sketched by an amateur artist: if you don't look too closely, it's all right, but start focusing and all the smudges and ...
A certain amount of tempest is always mingled with a battle. Quid obscurum, quid divinum. Each historian traces, to some extent, the particular feature which ...
With technology and over-scheduling, we are forgetting to invest time in simple connective moments with others.
To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human ...
First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.
Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.
Zing took a bite of the ice cream and her taste buds nearly fainted. Was it possible for a tongue to have an orgasm? If ...
Gu himself presides over the room- a genial, noisy man with the widest, jauntiest, must luxuriant and ambitious mustache I have ever seen, permanently fighting ...
I pulled back the covers and leaped into the morning.
Any real, beautiful thing in this world shouldn't be tamed or claimed or broken. It should be allowed to be, worked with, not against, appreciated. ...
Mr. Jones's book is a cleareyed examination of the British class system, and it poses this brutal question: 'How has hatred of working-class people become ...
Tess focuses on Cyclops's placid, one-eyes face. He lost one of his black button eyes year ago, but she wouldn't let Mrs. O'Hare replace it. ...
It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
Jealousy is the manifestation of insecurity and dissatisfaction with one's calling and self-worth.
He was Gully Foyle, the oiler, wiper, bunkerman; too easy for trouble, too slow for fun, too empty for friendship, too lazy for love.
Gar taldin ni jaonyc; gar sa buir, ori'wadaasla. (Nobody cares who your father was, only the father you'll be.) - Mandalorian saying
Those who follow the banners oreason are like the well-disciplined battalions which, wearing a more sober uniform and making a less dazzling show than the ...
Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.
Natural or artificial stimulation of nerves gives rise to a process of progressive excitation in them, leading to a response in the effector organ of ...
The optimum human population of earth is zero.