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A whore can always turn herself into a good little cook over time.
Only very few men have the gift of thinking new and original ideas and of changing the traditional body of creeds and doctrines.
The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that ...
The first tattoo I got was when I was 17, and it's a cross on my bicep with 'Only God Can Judge Me' underneath.
We live in a world of wars and wars alarms, of famines, of oppression. While there are many wonderful people in this world, you'll notice ...
Seize every oppurtunity that life offers you because when oppotunities go, it will take a long time to come back.
I sit on it's edge, looking down at the man who feels like he just materialized out of nowhere. My head still swims with euphoria ...
No. I was going to say his work changed my life, but that's not right. I don't think a teenager has much of a life ...
If only they knew that the sword that dominated their weapons is called Pooky Bear.
The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe ...
The strength of Ray Ortlund's study of Proverbs is its Christ-centeredness. The wisdom of Proverbs loses none of its practical value, but rather is given ...
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb ...
My ghost is the only soul who ever comes to cry on my grave ... Only the skies cried sincerely on my funeral.
When you act obnoxious towards people, like on a movie set, they say "we're ready for you" and I say "oh, go to hell, my ...
Well, it's a little odd, the path I took, because when I was young, I wanted to be a cattle rancher. That was what I ...
When you are a one-percenter, you live your life your way.
An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest possible level, you ...
There seemed to be little rhyme or reason as to why one day snatching the correct words from the ether was like opening a faucet ...
Kill yourself in training so you don't die fighting.
In any form of attack it is essential to assail your opponent from behind.
Eat like a bird, poop like an elephant.
I have always been interested in people who live outside of the fabric of the norm.
Why, what should be the fear?I do not set my life at a pin's fee.
We fixate on sins of commission: Don't do this, don't do that - and you're OK. But that is holiness by subtraction. And it's more ...
Driving in Olathe was likewise an exercise in patience. Going anywhere often involved waiting at railroad crossings as a long freight train passed. David
If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you ...
She wanted the city to be full of exclusive places turning people away, as long as they always accommodated her. It didn't work like that. ...
The relationship between book and reader is intimate, at best a kind of love affair, and first loves are famously tenacious. [ ... ] First ...
Today is my anniversary of ordination to the priesthood. Please pray for me and all priests.
No. The real heroes wear camo. I'm not one of them.
A liter of white gas a day per three people seems to be about right.
It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.
For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction, and ...
Man is developed from an ovule, about 125th of an inch in diameter, which differs in no respect from the ovules of other animals.
A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
I'm sitting, waiting to get on the freeway, and I'm waiting my ass off. I look over at the side of the road, and there's ...
He knew he was being overbearing as hell, but he couldn't help it. He was a bonded male. With his pregnant female. There were few ...
We can never be prepared for everything. No one person can anticipate all of life. In fact, overpreparation is yet another way to wall ourselves ...
Oh, I wish so much to live again! Each minute, each instant of life should be blessedness for man ... they should, surely they should! ...
With any free time I have, I'd take a high energy work out class at Soul Cycle, grab an outdoor bite somewhere by the beach ...
False teaching - anything that would weaken the believer's ties to his Lord - must be confronted wherever it appears, even if that confrontation requires ...
When you're dealing with boycotts, you don't need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
Jonathan Lynn is one of the last actors Orsen Welles used in a production. It was wonderful. He's very sharp, very sharp. It's funny I've ...
Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long ...
The most noticeable weakness of Congressmen is their timidity. They fear the use to be made of their "record." They are afraid ofmaking enemies. They ...
I used to be so angry about the kids that had stuff. Like the kids that had cars, the kids that had money to go ...
Mr. Speaker, in the years since we enacted our attack against Iraq, the threat from Iran has only grown more difficult, and our capacity to ...
You are being trained to be a Queen, but you do not have to act like one until y ou get your own hive. Being ...
If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, ...
Most commercial products that contain organic molecules possess at least one carbon-carbon double bond, or if one is not present, it is likely that an ...
I've always been interested in the Greek tragedies. A few years back, I re-read a translation of the 'The Oresteia,' and that stayed with me, ...
The very pink of perfection.
In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not ...
It is well and good to opine or theorize about a subject, as humankind is wont to do, but when moral posturing is replaced by ...
Like O'Rielly, we'll grab the most important word of each sentence ... 'The' for example. Also, I'll say, 'I'm angry,' and the graphic will read, ...
Happy 3rd anniversary Navigating Life's Roadways!This book is a charge and blessing from above. Writing it has been on my radar for a while.
For artists diving into a new technology, it is a triple short-cut to mastery: you get a free ride on the novelty of the medium; ...
I went to Brunel University and very much wanted to go on to do a PhD in management, but then my acting career started to ...
I ain't no saint, but I've tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God ... I figure all any kid ...
Only God can give us a selfless love for others, as the Holy Spirit changes us from within. This is one reason we must receive ...
We don't do spells," she said. She sounded a little disappointed to admit it. "We'll do recipes sometimes. But no spells or cantrips. Gran doesn't ...
Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel.
The fastest way to get me to go out and do something is to tell me no way I can do it.
It is because they have no Oyarsa,' said one of the pupils.It is because everyone of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,' said ...
In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life.
What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
I think we should all earn our place in the world. [ ... ] We owe the world something. We owe the world everything.
Under the white population of the United States of America only the reactionary classes oppres the black population. Under no circumstance can they represent the ...
We don't make a distinction between civilians and non-civilians, innocents and non-innocents. Only between Muslims and unbelievers. And the life of an unbeliever has no ...
Leadership is a journey. Each one of us has to take our own path, and get there our own way.
Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
After all, life was not made up of moments of exaltation, but of quite ordinary, everyday things
Life is precious and it's what you do with it that keeps you alive on the inside.It's not enough just to live and take that ...
I have no emotions. I just stand there, in the rubble of my life.This ... this was my home. If it were a person, this ...
It was as unsatisfying as a handjob from someone wearing an oven mitt.
You do a lot of concatenating when you're an Oulipian
I've been in contact with her. She approached me months ago. I know the terms of her deal. She's going to tell Ragnar that Ondalina's ...
I think I should be the one thanking you," he whispered"For what?" I pulled him closer to me.He pushed the hair out of my face ...
Loyalty it is a pestilential thing in crime. Again and again it obscures the truth.
Overstuffing ourselves with food or drinking until we get drunk or getting wrapped up in the affections of an adulterous relationship are all desperate attempts ...
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery - air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
God's love was designed to be inserted directly into the world's pain to work pain against itself for our good.
You have no idea what I'd do for you if you'd let me." He runs his thumb over my bottom lip., his touch light, but ...
Because I'm anti-war, I've been called pro-Taliban.
What else are our lives but a story we tell ourselves to find some sense in the pain ofliving?
Winter and SummerWhile it's summer people sayWinter is the better season. Such is human reason. Kamijima Onitsura
I don't want people to get the impression that I got money and now I'm cocky, because I'm not. I'm just a little overly confident.
I'd love to open a restaurant that changes every month. One month it would be a mom and bar spaghetti-and-meatball, Red Sox place, and the ...
They travel through the heartland, past cold factories and drifty towns, to the old, old mountains slumbering east of Tennessee.
Maybe that's the whole teen oeuvre, you know covering people in disgusting bodily fluids and whatnot.
The lessons are in the quest. The answers are found in the journey. These are ripples on a pond. They spread outward. And on we ...
Consider the simple hedgehog, and his neighbor, the opossum ... do they waste their energy trying to throw one another into chasms when they face ...
To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.
My purpose in public address and in speech is really encapsulated in three C's: clear, concise, correct. No overblowing rhetoric or anything like that. As ...
Everybody's got whatever problems they have. I refuse to let somebody's mistaken beliefs affect my life.
Not truly living in the present moment and later regretting is like closing your eyes when a peacock is dancing, only to want to see ...
It was so like old times that Henry found himself smiling down at Olek and Mance, playing to her, capable of ignoring the rest. It ...
I love creating new things. It's difficult to be creative once a restaurant's open. People want the same dishes. For me, the creativity is in ...
Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.