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Some kid asked what a dilemma is. And I replied: When a starving man has to choose between a plate of food, and, a roll ...
As an actor, I'm always looking for scripts that I relate to, in some way, and things that are interesting and different. If it's combining ...
War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace time.
They went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief
It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience, and compassion.
My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.
Anger was essential because otherwise I was just tremendously sad. Bitterness and anger provided harvestable energy, something on which to focus, something through which to ...
Draw a woman who's as powerful as Superman, as sexy as Miss Fury, as scantily clad as Sheena the jungle queen, and as patriotic as ...
But, even when angry, she had a voice that would put finches in their place and lull them to silence.
My wife is way funnier than I am. As much as I don't really feel I share a sense of humour with my family, I ...
Reading only a bit of a great book (e.g., Plato's Republic) is like getting engaged but never marrying. The initial experience is pleasurable but can ...
That first plunge under the shore break on a chilly fall morning. It forces a sound out of one's body that is kind of a ...
Patience is the essence of clicking great Photographs!!
If you're wrong, admit it!
Spend as much time as possible with positive, joyful people and as little time as possible with negative, unhappy people.
A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
Not using social media in the workplace, in fact, is starting to make about as much sense as not using the phone or email.
Heraldry has been contemptuously termed 'the science of fools with long memories.'
You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played
Mincemeat is decidedly British in its nature and can therefore be disregarded entirely where most civilized palates are concerned.
Gentrifiers focus on aesthetics, not people. Because people, to them, are aesthetics.
The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.
I thought about my own over-anxious brain, my own sort of madness. Was it a more powerful engine in my life than my rationality?
Many preach that do this way, do that way, have faith, speak the truth, have patience. These are all results (effects). How can results be ...
Sometimes what seems so right turns out wrong and what seems so wrong turns out right. What do I call this phenomenon? Life.
Do fish get cramps after eating?
I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong.
Economics is primarily useful, both to the student and to the political leader, as a prophylactic against popular fallacies.
In a typical situation, it's going to take pretty close to a year to get your location in, get your permits, and then get open.
The Christmas gift of peace was the uncoiling of the links of a triple chain that first unites a person with God, then with himself, ...
People need to stop accepting the evidence of reality, and start questioning it.
I relived those memories repeatedly until I could breathe in his presence all around. The thought that I had lost him forever was a constant ...
That's been hard being away from the family, because Washington can be lonely. When you tune out of all the activity, that's like, you're alone.
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
If you get someone right out of college - and I meet a lot of them - you're not going to get a lot of ...
Conflict can and should be handled constructively; when it is, relationships benefit. Conflict avoidance is *not* the hallmark of a good relationship. On the contrary, ...
At night his most frequent recurring dream was of doing The Times crossword puzzle; his most disagreeable that he was reading a tedious book aloud ...
My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition.
I travel not only for the passion and madness and desire of movement, but because travel, like bread and water and air, becomes necessary to ...
Wearing your feelings on your sleeve will end up being a chip on your shoulder.
I burn, and I hope.
To me, one of the best faces America has ever projected is the face of a Peace Corps volunteer. That face symbolizes this country: young, ...
I like the word 'underground' ... 'independent' carries a stigma of whininess. 'Underground' means a good time.
But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for ...
It's a store full of books, which are objects that can be thrown as well as read," Monty replied blandly. The Crow cocked his head. ...
You cannot have that attitude of where I am going to tuck my tail between my legs and go home. You have to keep going ...
Many things have been written and will be written for dream. Dreams are nothing but our unclear expectations.
Paradise is a state of mind.
I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.
Perception of personal danger very often set people on the path of virtue.
In the knockout tournaments, it's futile to prepare for a grand finale. You may have worked out many strategies for the final. But you may ...
Aunt B walked out onto the helipad wearing loose yoga pants. "I'm just here to stretch. Kate, want to help?" "Sure." Thirty seconds later, as ...
Editing one's writing is as easy as lighting a match while riding a bicycle.
A person who cultivates any interest in self-improvement will necessary encounter successes and failures, both of which life lessons can be useful to remember when ...
Oppose vigorously any tendency to sadness ... You must persevere. By means of sorrow the enemy tries to make us weary of good works, but ...
I think I have a passion for playing the game. I love to play, and I want to play at a high level. You have ...
She was the light of our lives, our anchor, compass and vision.
I've never known a man to be beaten fairly, nor one to be elected, unfairly.
In wartime, economic activity decreases, inflation increases, and real wages and purchasing power begin to fall. Wages at the bottom of the wage scale generally ...
Six days after 9/11 George W. Bush visited a mosque and said quote, "Islam is peace."
Image perception makes a big difference. That's one of the things I tell entrepreneurs today. Fine, focus on products, focus on customers and all that ...
I'm enjoying the opportunity that 'Parks And Recreation' affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make ...
The Great Secret of Life is the law of attraction that says like attracts like, so when you think a thought, you are also attracting ...
What you post on Facebook represents you, it can make you look bitter or better, forgiving or frustrated, resentful or rejoicing, choose wisely.
Ohhhhkay... say again but slooooowly.
Constant idleness should be included in the tortures of hell, but it is, on the contrary, considered to be one of the joys of paradise.
Good God, I whispered, sitting on the van's cot and looking at my legs, horrified. They were hairy - not wolf hairy, but an I-couldn't-find-my-razor-the-last-six-months ...
Primordial. It is the source or agent of everything else. Prior to its emanating anything, it is whole, self-sufficient, perfect. The godhead thus symbolizes the ...
Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained. So was my wife, Serkalem Fasil. She gave birth to our son in ...
I'm proud of being Hispanic.
Well, I've almost got the problem licked. I'm eighty now, and in a few more years, I think I'll have it completely under control. (referring ...
The most common self-inflicted put-down is 'I am not a pastor-I am just a layperson.' This is all part of a clever satanic scheme to ...
If you want to focus more on Allah in your prayers, focus more on Him outside your prayers.
People fear what they do not understand, if they do not understand your greatness, they will fear how great you are- Francois Gabbidon#VisionToVenture
Music, Schopenhauer wrote, is not unconscious arithmetic, as Leibniz had claimed, but unconscious philosophy, since in music the inner essence of the world, which is ...
Harboring anger, hatred and resentment within you, is containing the venom within you. You are the only one affected ...
Mastery of impulse is achieved through taking pauses during life's contrasting situations. Mastery of impulse is about developing strong willpower that can be used to ...
It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees.
I realized it was all a lie. This life I was living was a pretty picture on the outside, but it wasn't real. On the ...
As happy as I am off the floor, on the floor I am the opposite. I don't take any crap.
From average to great is a leadership journey; it takes vision, passion, confidence, problem-solving skills, and teamwork to match up.
Let's fight for our happiness by following a daily program of cheerful and constructive thinking.
We were a bit like bacon and eggs, where y'know, the chicken is involved, but the pig is really committed? I totally gave myself to ...
Adversity refined a man like gold.
A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world.
The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American
Please God ... lead me to that kind of love. Until then, help me to know that You are enough.
Christ, we've only been here for five minutes. It's like being stuck in the Tardis. Time has lost all meaning." He turned away to ditch ...
Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.
You are a perfect flower. Your only task is to grow into it.
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.
The worst of pushing horrible things down into one's subconscious is that when they pop up again they are as fresh as if they had ...
You say you're looking for someone who'll pick you up each time you fall, to gather flowers constantly and to come each time you call, ...
It is impossible for one man both to labor day and night to get a living, and at the same time give himself to the ...
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 ...
Even if one is familiar with the precise meaning of everything one recites, the act of worship can hardly have any significance at all unless ...
Peace, like charity, begins at home.
Around in silent grandeur stood The stately children of the wood; Maple and elm and towering pine Mantled in folds of dark woodbine.
Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look ...