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Books opened up a whole new world to me. Through them I discovered new ideas, traveled to new places, and met new people. Books helped ...

The mark of wisdom is to see the reality behind each appearance.

The spirit and soul are the body and brain, which are destructible- that is precisely why they are so precious. And the soul did not ...

When you've been hurt once, it's so hard to let go and not be afraid you won't be hurt again.

But the stories on the edge of civilization are horrible things. They're as cruel and violent as the nastiest fairy tales, but they don't have ...

It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.

Lily Donaldson tiptoed to the front door and winced when it opened with a creak.

I imagine that she flushes, seeing him there, for she is at that age when even the most commonplace boys take on a sense of ...

You never know how you're going to be received, after all this time. The initial response we had was just overwhelming, particularly that tour of ...

I grew up in Florida, so you start swimming at the age of 1, really. By 10, I was competitive swimming, and by 12, I ...

You gain courage and confidence from doing the things you think you cannot do.

Sadly, the timing's never been right. There have been men who would have married me but I didn't feel the same, and vice versa.

I said to him one day that the very slender reward which God had attached to the pursuit of serious inquiry was a sufficient proof ...

Most of the questions people asked you, he felt, were there to fill up dead space, curtail your movements, divert your energy and attention. Anyway, ...

The simple, stupefying truth that, as a woman, I am a minute ocean, in the dark tropic of whose womb eggs lay coded as roe, ...

Performance enhancing drugs are banned in the Olympics. OK, we can swing with that. But performance 'debilitating' drugs should not be banned. Smoke a joint ...

The stomach is near the heart and one appetite pricks on another.

If you do a full-on workout and then eat McDonald's or Wendy's, you're defeating the purpose. If you put good things into your body while ...

Give me better wood and I will make you a better cabinet.

The man who would truly know God must give time to Him.

The Obama Administration cares deeply about innovation and about helping to make sure that geeks across the country, those coming up with new discoveries and ...

Don't let your phone calls, online chats, and other trivial activities manage you. You have to manage them because they don't have the dreams to ...

You can become instantly successful with a simple thought, but long-lasting and pronounced success comes to those who renew their commitment to a mindset of ...

The model of "social order." Briefly, a social order may be defined as the consequence of any set of moral norms that regulates the way ...

When people speak of the borderline between genius and madness, why is it so evident what they mean?

In February of 1996, about six months after I created eBay, I started receiving a spate of complaints. Everyone was complaining about each other. I ...

He's not safe. He's the shark-infested deep end of the sea and if I agree to go out with him, I'd be walking the plank, ...

They are all different and I find it hard to tell what flute suits me best.

Jesus invested everything he had in a team. The Bible knows nothing about solo ministry, only team ministry.

I think the depth, what children can handle and what they're interested in, is much deeper than I think what people assume. I think it's ...

What we committed in the Indies stands out among the most unpardonable offenses ever committed against God and mankind and this trade [in Indian slaves] ...

God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son.

I'd rather live long in obscurity than die young with fame.

There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the ...

If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you

Doing science is not inherently incompatible with religious faith.

The intellectual is called on the carpet ... Don't you conceal something? You talk a language which is suspect. You don't talk like the rest ...

The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.

There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This ...

But was it Faulkner who said that the past was not even past?

No soldier likes the thought of losing his best friend and favorite toy.

To you." He kissed her mouth, then nipped her lower lip lightly. "With you, for you. In you.

The jungle is alive. It's dangerous as a living nightmare and brimful of hostility.

The spirit of interdependence will not cost us more than it's worth. On the steep slope ahead, holding hands is necessary. And it just might ...

I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy to be Brian ...

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

You're a romantic. What's romantic about a guy wanting to go somewhere and actually getting there?

Grief is an element. It has its own cycle like the carbon cycle, the nitrogen. It never diminishes not ever. It passes in and out ...

It is dark for archery,' said Gimli. 'Indeed it is time for sleep. Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any ...

I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor.

I reject any pretence at kindness you have the hypocrisy to offer.

I had a recent delivery of new fashion plates from Paris, and you hardly glanced at the hairstyles. My husband tells me you are still ...

No matter how many times I'd fantasized about being with a guy, being with Owen, it had never come close to the reality. I love, ...

For more than 3,000 years, China and India accounted for half of the world's economic output. But then the Industrial Revolution gave North America and ...

Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Have you any days of fasting and prayer? Storm the ...

Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.

An artist doesn't necesetharily have to get acclaim from the outside. Maybe it is much better if he can get validation from within.

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, ...

Enemies are so stimulating.

Millions do not now have protection or security against the economic effects of sickness.

Un-soft answers only worsen the mama drama in my house. And they don't win many points with my coworkers or neighbors either. When we give ...

I'm a great coder. But I am not pushing that so much anymore because there are thousands of great coders.

There isn't a particle of you that I don't know, remember, and want.

Zach drinks from the River of Joy, I swear it. Rest now, niece.

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 ...

You can find the molasses flood on the Internet, it's there, I checked. Most of it is there, anyway, but that's not where I heard ...

Perhaps the clearest and deepest meaning of brotherhood is the ability to imagine yourself in the other person's position, and then treat that person as ...

Intake is everything. And that is, that's where you start to realize your ego has no business in our business. Once you think you know ...

The International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC) ... to establish a superior library reflecting the religious and intellectual traditions both of the Islamic ...

It's actually a rather romantic and dramatic story one I would eagerly tell you, except for the fact that I recently forgot it, based on ...

When you think about where guitar playing is going today ... : it's going everywhere at the same time.

Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king.

Each day was one breath at a time. I couldn't think much further than that, otherwise I'd choke on the air.

Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.

I liked the idea of bouncy, open-air Jeeps and I liked the outfits with all the pockets, only I didn't really want to live in ...

Optimism is America's birthright ... There is no social problem Americansdare not attack. No problem, that is, except one: about marriage,and marriage alone, we despair.

As things may turn out in the future, people may (though I doubt it) find that their work gives them all the enjoyment - physical, ...

Almond Joys are a childhood favorite, but most of us could do without all those grams of sugar, especially when trying to instill healthy habits ...

I thought, possibly, that what I really needed was to go where nobody knew me and start over again, with none of my previous decisions, ...

Throughout any given season of 'The Bachelor,' the women exclaim that the experience is like a fairy tale. They suffer the machinations of reality television, ...

Sabbath isn't about resting perfectly; it's about resting in the One who is perfect.

God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction.

Sssh says the oceanSssh says the small wave at the shoresssh not so violent, not so proud, not so remarkable. Sssh says the surf crowding ...

The longest life is no more than a sliver of light between two boundless ribbons of dark, like the light you see through the chinks ...

Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.

If you drink too much, you go out and you harm to somebody, you have to suffer the consequences. Same way with health matters. You ...

Immigration is a kind of pilgrimage. That's the way I see it. Just to go back to the desert, biblical metaphors, that's the story of ...

I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.

You can do a great many things if you are rich which would be severely criticised if you were poor

I had been brought up in the law and had this sort of instinct that international law operates and was there to protect principles and ...

To survive, you had to steer your course midstream, where the water was deepest and ran fastest, that you had to paddle fast, as fast ...

It's just the way it is. The sky is blue, the sun is bright, and Aspen endlessly loves America. It's how the world was designed ...

The point is to let the music be itself. If it doesn't mean anything to you, then it's bullsh*t.

Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else.

She is the poem that lives on his pages, burning in his hands, becoming beats all over his skin.

All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand ...

At this moment, you are seamlessly flowing with the cosmos. There is no difference between your breathing and the breathing of the rain forest, between ...

With luck we will be able to repulse the invaders before they land. At any rate, I can say that we will be able to ...

Thought I might be late,' said Yaxley, his blunt features sliding in and out of sight as the branches of overhanging trees broke the moonlight. ...

Wildflowers need the least attention.