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Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the ...

Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

Identity seems to be non-existent at a personal level - at best we can end up in a minority, and those who discuss it most ...

The Portrait of a Lady is entirely successful in giving one the sense of having met somebody far too radiantly good for this world.

They were most peculiar. And they eat pizza pie." "For breakfast?" "No, for lunch and dinner. But it's not a pie at all, it's a ...

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

Proverbs 19:15-16 15 Lazy people sleep soundly, but idleness leaves them hungry. 16 Keep the commandments and keep your life; despising them leads to death.

It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they ...

Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a ...

People have no idea how true the promise of Allah is. Put your trust in Allah, and He will see you through.

How far you go in life and in your career is dependent on how far you can think good thoughts!

I've heard people say putting is 50 percent technique and 50 percent mental. I really believe it is 50 percent technique and 90 percent positive ...

With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.

Look at her," said a pert little dinoflagellate with a perfectly smooth protein coat. "Look at her with her nose up in the air, refusing ...

Peace. it does not mean to be in a place where there is no trouble, noise, or hard work. it means to be in the ...

All governments needed to remain under suspicion during their time of power including that of the Sisterhood itself. Trust no government! Not even mine!

The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be successful, your personal plan must focus on ...

I think sometimes an artist can really lose sight of what made them popular in the first place.

I've seen knives pierce the chest,Children dying in the roadCrawling things hooked and baited,Rapists bound and then castrated,Villains singed in public square.Yet none these sights ...

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

Man's own form in space - his body - was a private prison; and that it was because of this imprisoning misery - because he ...

Faith induces one to pray.Prayer purifies the heart.In the purified heart is reflected the light of Lord.When the Light sighns the mortal becomes immortal.

For one can live in friendshipWith verses and with cards, with Plato and with wine,And hide beneath the gentle cover of our playful pranksA noble ...

Oh, fuck the paperwork. The words come from nowhere and on instinct I grab her and push her against the wall. Clasping both her hands, ...

If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English.

In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew ...

Statesmen exhibit five key commitments: 1) A commitment to principles above politics; 2) An ability to compromise without abandoning principle; 3) A commitment to truth ...

Oh external worshiper, know that worship without heart is motions. Oh seeker of knowledge, know that knowledge without purification is a dangerous weapon of the ...

Chemistry is one of these crazy things you can't teach or learn or you can't fake. You go in hoping it will work, hope that ...

I just really dig feeling subservient to nature. It brings me a peace and calm. Kind of like a Faustian thing, I think.

I am the owner of the sphere,Of the seven stars and the solar year,of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain,Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.

President Harry S. Truman is said to have famously asked for a one-handed economist, noting that "all my economists say, on the one hand and ...

[ ... ]but instead of apologizing, I said, 'It's your own fault for playing tennis.

To be successful in life, there are many hurdles you have to get over. For me, the biggest hurdle to success has always been failure. ...

How do people stay in love, anyway? Is it a choice? Or is it like those plants we studied in biology that mutate into something ...

The moment you, as a spiritual person, stop growing, you simply die. Your ministry will grow as a consequence of your dedication, faithfulness and persistent ...

If you want me, just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.(as Marie 'Slim' Browning ...

I figured my wife was about to start law school. If that whole baseball pitching thing didn't work out, I had something to fall back ...

Why doesn't pope say to every Mexican living in America, "Go back to Mexico! That's your home! Socialism is preferable." Why does he want them ...

Any good production team is going to allow an actor to breathe life into the characters - that's why they hired that woman, that man, ...

I think that, often, the people who can make you happy are right there, and having them in your life would make your life better, ...

God's manifest His mighty power, when we absolute depend on Him.

I flew this past weekend. I went through airport security and said to the guy, 'Is everything okay?' He said, 'You might want to have ...

Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone,While pain and guilt still linger here below,Blindness and numbnessthese please me alone;Then do not ...

She opened her arms to the black bat and they flew to each other, embracing in the air like long-lost souls. This is love, Ursula ...

Courage comes from knowing that fear is a false perception.

To assume you know someone well enough that you can and do predict their behavior and mental perspective is a gross and often tragic mistake, ...

Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.

You make that climb, take it step by step and hopefully the view is great. I try to be a friend for Miley. I know ...

Hong Kong compatriots will surely display great love for the motherland and for Hong Kong and take it as their utmost honor to maintain long-term ...

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting ...

There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be ...

You have it in your power to make your days on Earth a path of flowers, instead of a path of thorns.

The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. ...

Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

Precepts in Buddhism and commandments in Judiasm and Christianity are important jewels that we need to study and practice. They provide guidelines that can help ...

I really enjoy playing 'Tiger Woods' on the Wii, and you can set the levels to easy, medium, or hard, so I think it's definitely ...

Neck and collarbone and took a picture. Kiss me here. #atnight She pressed upload and then put the phone in her bag, walked out into ...

Among the many interesting objects which will engage your attention that of providing for the common defense will merit particular regard. To be prepared for ...

The People's Bank of China (PBOC) said on its website it was lowering its benchmark, one-year lending rate by 25 basis points to 5.1 percent ...

Most of what brings me solace and peace are nothing more than ghosts of my past, yet I hold tightly to keep them with me ...

Pessimism is a funny thing, isn't it? Madison thought as she looked at Judith's furrowed face. I like a bit of pessimism as much as ...

No one is born with Positive Passion. This Power is ignited by Inspiration!-RVM

When a complex is acquired, personal development is stopped and the person even being an adult, sometimes behaves in a childish and immature way

PML?" I asked. "Postmortem link." All corporations had their acronyms, but SPI was a special snowflake.

Respect people with less power then you. I don't care if you're the most powerful cat in the room, I will judge you on how ...

My position is this. If we can't protect sanctuaries, if we can't save the whales, the sharks, the fish, our oceans will die.

Men give up one thing to take up another, but in spite of numerous changes they do not find peace. They are no better than ...

When you're supposed to be working, work, and when you're supposed to be playing, play. It's a weird tightrope you're walking, but it's only when ...

Every Christian has the power to heal infirmities-not of others, but his own, and not of the body, but of the soul-that is, sins and ...

Progress is more important than perfection.

You will not believe me, but I am proud of your strength. Sometimes ... sometimes the only way I can care for my children is ...

I'm impressed you got up here so quickly - and without a pack of court ladies hounding after you. Perhaps you should try your hand ...

My lord, when you are looking for ... what I am looking for, you have to look in strange places. Men can never look at ...

Love, that is day and night - love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other ...

God never promises to remove us from our struggles. He does promise, however, to change the way we look at them.

There's something I believe wholeheartedly: Cynicism is the true refuge of the pseudo-intellectual, .. Cynicism is easy. Joy is an extremely advanced spiritual and intellectual ...

No matter how dark things become, someone is always with you - and that someone is God. He helps by giving you peace and a ...

We are so sorry to hear the sad news. He(She) will be Always in our thoughts, Forever in our prayers Eternally in our memories

Corporate greed controls political will.

How rare it is, even among Christians, for a person to say I was wrong. I sinned, and I'm fully responsible. My sinful desires motivated ...

Foie gras is sold as an expensive delicacy in some restaurants and shops. But no one pays a higher price for foie gras than the ...

Inconvenience is the road to progress

I read that book How to Hug a Porcupine [by Julie Ross] - it's my parenting bible. They say you have to trust your children ...

Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.

Why is it that some young folks are almost overly conscientious in their school work, even to neglecting their Church responsibilities, when the spiritual should ...

History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies must be strong ...

My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If ...

Rest in natural great peace, this exhausted mind, beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, like the relentless fury of the pounding waves in the ...

Castiza: "False! I defy you both!I have endured you with an ear of fire;Your tongues have struck hot irons on my face!Mother, come from that ...

Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me ...

I wanted to be something else, anything else. I could be a snail on a leaf, or the leaf itself. I could be a pig ...

I try not to listen to the shoulds or coulds, and try to get beyond expectations, peer pressure, or trying to please - and just ...

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After 'A Perfect Storm' came out, I heard from a young reader, who had suffered a similar background as 'Arizona,' that I had helped her ...

Powder snow skiing is not fun. It's life, fully lived - life lived in a blaze of reality.

Getting tired of sitting, staring at my computer screen, day after day, where everyone is two-dimensional, reduced to an avatar photo, status updates, or maybe ...

My first professional acting job was in 'Hair' during the Vietnam War. So I think I've always been drawn to projects with a social conscience.

Holy moment is a sacred existence.