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For some reason, when people meet me and find out I'm a writer they always ask if I write children's books. Um ... please don't ...

Believe in the power of your own voice. The more noise you make, the more accountability you demand from your leaders, the more our world ...

A sign of gratitude is a thankful smile.

I have always had a passion for the beautiful. If the man in me is often a pessimist, the artist, on the contrary, is pre-eminently ...

You don't need to be primary caregiver of your children to be of primary influence in their lives. What you do for them behind the ...

Somehow whether or not the war is winnable is beyond our scope, an irrelevant detail. We don't do it to win anymore; we do it ...

What we perceive things to be when they come out of our mouth is not what the listener perceives it to be. They think it ...

So where are the strongAnd who are the trusted?And where is the harmony?Sweet harmony -'cause each time I feel it slippin away, it just makes ...

Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them.

We don't study as children, and we don't make our kids study when we're parents. Our kids perform poorly in school. We might get angry ...

Your mind is like a garden - unless you cultivate flowers, weeds will flourish. To keep your mind positive, substitute positive thoughts for negative thoughts.

The rough pitter-patter of rain against the tin roof caused me to stir in my sleep, but I struggled to fight it. I yearned to ...

What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. It's having a clean conscience. I have a clean conscience so I ...

There's something known as the Uncanny Valley where things look a little too real and you're not quite sure what you're looking at. It becomes ...

She was better with animals than people. Give her a sick cat or dog, she was golden. Not so much with her own species.

I try to do a lot of asymmetrical, triangular compositions - I find those work really well for comic book covers in that portrait mode, ...

So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy's big challenge is not having a Parkinson's patient for a husband. It's having me for a ...

America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring ...

A positive imputation of Christ's obedience must be imputed to the believer beyond the forgiveness of sins in order for him to be justified. Justification, ...

To have a restful or peaceful life in God is good; to bear a life of pain in patience is better; but to have peace ...

Each returning soldier is an in-the-flesh memoir of war. Their chapters might vary, but similar imagery fills the pages, and the theme of every book ...

How does it happen? At what point is she born, the baffled, wounded adult of tomorrow? Is eleven what we react to for the rest ...

May my children and descendants know God and keep His ways.

You spoke the truth, Percy Jackson. You are nothing like ... like Hercules. I am honored that you carry this sword.

A 1990 study by the (liberal) Progressive Policy Institute showed that, after controlling for single motherhood, the difference in black and white crime rates disappeared.

I've done a lot of stupid things because of my fear of taking a chance on someone. But the most stupid thing I ever did ...

Pick your fights," Makin said. "I'll pick my ground," I said. "I'll pick my ground, but I'm not running. Not ever. That's been done, and ...

It's pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Theresa at the same time and that's just the way it is.

I crawled in a spirit-haunted placeMade wild by souls that moan and mourn;And Death leered by with mangled face -Ah God! I prayed, I prayed ...

What are the beliefs that give life, spirit and passion to your dream and which values will guide your decisions and actions for you to ...

Wyatt gave him a look, making it obvious he thought Clay had lost his mind. "You telling me you think a piece of pie's gonna ...

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly ...

Many Lexington natives believe they live in a special place, one impossible to leave. I'm not so sure about that - or it's more accurate ...

SAT scores play an important role in admissions, even though they are poor predictors of college performance.87 This benefits affluent students, who are far more ...

Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.

Sometimes it's hard to see the rainbow when there's been endless days of rain.

Cultivate within yourselves the mighty power of self-discipline.

I didn't sing for years and years, but I started playing harp when I was maybe 9 or 10. I had actually wanted to play ...

If everyone read the poetry of Pablo Neruda we'd be a more peaceful, reflective world. Poetry can save lives.

Success is experienced when opportunity meets preparation, persistence, and prayer.

Not the prettiest girl in the world, maybe, but cute and quick and fun to have around.

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say it's ...

To turn your dreams into reality, all your resources, efforts and concentration should be aligned in the same direction.

I'm Iranian and no matter what I do, I'm dealing with politics because especially my music, that it's a music that talks about peace, love, ...

I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass of champagne, but it ...

I love that you love me, professor." "I love loving you, beauty.

A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains

When you push someone too far, they will push back and they push hard.

India has reduced its dependence on Iranian oil. I know their refineries have stopped asking for orders to purchase Iranian oil.

Along those lines, to get personal for a moment, I think the best way to die would be swallowed by a giant snake. Going feet ...

Cherish every relationship in your life. There are certain things in life that can't be fixed if broken!

Well, software doesn't quite work that way. Rather than construction, software is more like gardening - it is more organic than concrete. You plant many ...

I will bear any thing you can inflict upon me with Patience, even to the laying down of my Life, to shew my Obedience to ...

Sport for me is about inspiring kids. Here's the rules, here's the play area, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. This is all about teaching ...

It did something to the temporal lobe, one of the circuits involved in religious experience. It was supposed to put people closer to God. It ...

Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant ...

You don't have to be emaciated or vomiting to be suffering. All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering.

What you repeatedly do carries the clay to mold you into who you eventually become. Don't despise any tiny minute of the day; each counts ...

I tend not to wear accessories. I'm not one of those gals with a drawerful of amazing jewelry. I don't even have my ears pierced! ...

A virtuous character is likened to an unblemished flower. Piety is a fadeless bud that half opens on earth and expands through eternity. Sweetness of ...

I was brought up by a single mom in a poor town in Arkansas and while some aspects of small-town life were really positive - ...

We need the slower and more lasting stimulus of solitary reading as a relief from the pressure on eye, ear and nerves of the torrent ...

There are a million things out there that can kill you, and about half of them are invisible. If you're going to stick your body ...

True independence is an illusion; no one matures in a vacuum. We have heroes, we see villains, and ultimately we try to walk the path ...

The discourse of work as pure emancipation depends on blocking out class and age constantly.

If Alice had a post-engagement policy, it was to pass.

Life is short and a man should take pride in his work, even if his work makes him feel like a total loser

If I was someone else, I'd leave and give them privacy, but I'm not. I won't leave her out here with him. My brain knows ...

I would love having Winnie-the-Pooh stay here at the house. We could talk of food and what we were eating next. Maybe ponder that over ...

I imagine watching Gale volunteering to save Rory in the reaping, having him torn from my life, becoming some strange girl's lover to stay alive, ...

True Prayer is the work of relationship, where He moves them from mere information about Him to a one-on-one experience with Him, so that now ...

To have transactions made on your web site via credit card, you must be PCI compliant. Businesses make the mistake of thinking that because you ...

The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.

No relationship is perfect nor will anyone ever be the best boyfriend or girlfriend. Long as you put in the effort and try to make ...

If things look right on the surface the underside is rarely questioned. However, things may be great in reality, but if one perceives them to ...

He found he was popular, known for a loose style and an appealing willingness to digress. "We spend most of our time talking about Twin ...

Advances in technology - hugely beneficial though they are - render us vulnerable in new ways. For instance, our interconnected world depends on elaborate networks: ...

I spent my days spread-eagle in front of a fan, with bright pink calamine lotion slathered all over my undercarriage. If you walked into my ...

I wanted to live deep and suck out the all the marrow of life ( ... ).

You're looking for players whose name on the front of the sweater is more important than the one on the back. I look for these ...

Life is like watching Fast and the Furious 6. Its not easy, most of the time its just dumb and pointless, everything is fake, there ...

So to me, what the drugs and addiction are saying is that I deserve to feel good, I'm allowed to take this because look how ...

I mean, you can't have sex until you're married if you're Mormon. The first time I had sex, my parents found out. They were listening ...

The only advice I could give is to stay positive and focused in terms of what your goals are, and stick to them. If you ...

At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been ...

The best legacy you could leave is not some building that is names after you or a piece of jewelry but rather a world that ...

Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in him, and he will do it. Psalm 37:5

College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus.

Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' element of its day. Radium glows an eerie blue-green in the ...

We are living in a time of uncertainty, anxiety, fear, and despair. It is essential that you become aware of the light, power, and strength ...

There was absolutely zero discourse between me or anybody at the studio with the NFL. None. The only exchange was one-sentence e-mails trying to arrange ...

I will protect your freedom, Malala. Carry on with your dreams.

There are no permanent alliances, only permanent interests.

College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so that the product ...

I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.

Sometimes I still don't know if I'm prepared to go through the entire season, dealing with the different personalities, the crowds, the politics.

We're not protecting the environment for the sake of the fishes and the birds. We're protecting it for our own sake ...

Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and works for its ...

I'm very involved in my business and with my family and my friends. I don't play the social world very much, and not to promote ...

Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest ...