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A person begins to live a moral life when they cease asking what life will provide them and begins to determine what he or she ...

The great thing about 'Skins' is that it's not '90210.' We don't have to look stick-thin and ripped. Those shows send out the wrong messages ...

I think that [Obama] is a powerful leader. I think he's a brilliant man. I think that he has an incredible devotion to our constitution, ...

I've come to believe that beauty can be a very powerful conveyor of difficult ideas.

I owe my solitude to other people.

The first thing I would do when I saw Bobby coming down at me was to say a little prayer if I had time. I'm ...

I don't know what I'd do with my life if it wasn't for animation.' I guess I would be an artist, or do something with ...

We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.

In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.

It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising ...

Basically, there's a good friend of mine who works at EMI Publishing, a publishing company. He had asked me - he was like, you know, ...

If we can let ourselves, all of us, be united by the simple fact of having a difference, we will be bigger and stronger and ...

I couldn't miss Percy's fifteenth birthday," Poseidon said. "Why, if this were Sparta, Percy would be a man today!""That's true," Paul said. "I used to ...

Love your pets unconditionally - for you are their god.

But fear and fascination are yokefellows, oxen out of step but pulling in the same direction...

Today's Parenting Tip: Treat a difficult child the way you would your boss at work. Praise his achievements, ignore his tantrums and resist the urge ...

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 ...

If I want to dress up like Princess Leia and lightsaber fight the clone army in my living room, well the Han Solo in my ...

World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own.

I don't want to just love my family; I want to love all of humanity.

I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters' credentials, ...

There is nothing like lust. Lust may be said to be the most powerful passion. Fortunately, we have but one thing which is more powerful. ...

I come from a place where everyone has great power, by your standards, and they steadfastly refuse to use it for self-aggrandizement ... anywhere ... ...

It wasn't a pretty sunset. The colors were as expected: violet clouds, bright orange and pink underneath, against the pale blue sky. But the clouds ...

Sarah Palin has managed to use her failed vice presidential run to put herself in a position of power and influence. Joe Biden won the ...

I want to give up being a bullet I've been a bullet too long The question is Can you give up being a killer?

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Why is it that when it comes to our most cherished social goal [health care], we not only tolerate poor execution, sometimes we even celebrate ...

Business, we use the term "judo strategy" to describe a particular way of competing. A judo approach to competition emphasizes

I was too concerned with my own dignity. Grovelling and compliments were the order of the day. I made the mistake of trying to teach ...

If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at ...

Teresa blames herself for believing that she was indispensable to Mahmoud. Pride goeth before a fall.

One of the greatest things my therapist said to me ... and it really blew my mind in the greatest way, he just said, "Look ...

Ninety-nine percent of the people on the street will lick the flavor right off your Life Saver if you let them.

Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.

We must have an expansionary vision, one that captures the imagination and diversity of the whole community, one which benefits a nation which has moved ...

I believe a politics of place emerges where we are deeply accountable to our communities, to our neighborhoods, to our home.

Preach the Gospel at all times. When necessary, use words.

Leap, and the net will appear.

It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 ...

'TIME's spell-check always admonishes me whenever I compose a sentence in the passive voice, a warning that is often ignored by me.

I think it's better to find somebody who's worse at everything than you. It just makes you constantly feel so good about yourself. And then, ...

They gave Sally this little blue butt-twitcher of a dress to wear. She really did look damn good in it, though. I have to admit ...

I find I clash sometimes with people who like to plan things and book you in for lunch. I'd rather someone call me up, say: ...

Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to ...

One day a man came into the bar and ordered a pint and a pousse-cafe, adding "for our lass" in case I thought he was ...

Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive.

The Cubist paintings in the Centre Pompidou in Paris were strange but amazing. The big fat magical cat said they made her eyes hurt.

Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations.

Religion has become the blind spot of American journalism.

Ignore negative criticisms, focus on positive thoughts.

There's no quantifying someone else's problems as big or small. Although to one person, it may seem slight...there's no way to tell how greatly that ...

You Will Never Live A Perfect Life - Getting In A Relationship Is Like Diving In A Sea, You Can Drown And Whales And Sharks ...

Entertain only those thoughts which bring health, vitality and happiness in your life. Start now and think right for you are the painter of the ...

You don't want to keep giving yourself a sugar spike and then crash and get exhausted and need coffee because you shoot for a long ...

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

Fear doesn't listen to reason it takes it own counsel

After India's victory in the war he was asked what would have happened if he had opted to be with the Pakistan Army at the ...

His Holiness brings a wealth of experience to this exalted office. The United Nations and the Holy See share a strong commitment to peace, social ...

There's nothin left,I used to cry,My conversation has run dry,Thats whats going on,Nothing's fine I'm torn.

Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life ...

Though the wind was commanding the sand into even ridges, it couldn't control the sea.

The sure path to tomorrow was plotted in a manger and paved on a cross. And although this sturdy byway is mine for the taking, ...

I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about me ...

No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in ...

They're not pro-life. You know what they are? They're anti-woman. Simple as it gets, anti-woman. They don't like them. They don't like women. They believe ...

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

The desert of virginity Aches in the hotness of her mouth.

I have two questions for you: one, what kind of person do you want to be? Two, what kind of music would I find on ...

Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder ...

I always try to push through fear.

The brittle bones beneath my chest cracked, piercing my heart. It was you who breathed new life into my lungs and it was you who ...

When it comes to the postmodern applications and contemporary relevance of depth psychology, the Jungian perspective is where the action is.

I know that suffering is one place where He ministers to us the most. So to think that we've had our quota would be foolish. ...

I'm doing all sizes. It's a strange thing to stop at a certain size. Women don't, so why should clothes?

Just before a game, I try to keep a clear mind so that I can focus better. I'm the kind of person who plays fast ...

Father God, I ask You to lead me when I'm blinded by ways I have not known, along unfamiliar paths please guide me; Lord, turn ...

But her life was as cold as an attic facing north; and boredom, like a silent spider, was weaving its web in the shadows, in ...

The dark side is emotion, Bane. Anger, hate, love, lust. These are what make us strong, Peace is a lie. There is only passion. Your ...

Of course, my motto is still, 'Work is work, private is private.'

Man has long found solace in good talk to offset bad conduct.

Dream without fear, love without limits, and let your life sing its song.

Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these things also. They ...

It was not very easy for a woman to impose herself as a modern artist in Germany ... Most of our male colleagues continued for ...

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

For here, I'm sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet earth is blue, and there is nothing I can do.

If I ever have any back-up dancers, I want the penguins from Madagascar.

To one who has led a virtuous life, to sin is the easiest thing in the world. No experience of unpleasant consequences grits that smooth ...

An intelligent person may be wrong sometimes, but a fool is never wrong. The medical profession is never wrong.

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

A story is a burden which must be carried with as much care as we carry a sleeping child

Wedding anniversary aren't the people who never fought with their partners, but actually people who knew when to talk and when to shut up, always ...

I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any ...

And I think my daughter knows now that our life is split in two. Half of the year is spent with Mommy working and the ...

It's the Point of Your View that Decides What You See - / One Man's Flop Is Another Man's Hit. / From Manners to Movies, ...

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.

You are a prisoner of your thoughts. Expand your thoughts and get out of the prison.

Albert Camus did not know he was summing up modern photojournalism when he wrote:Will I kill myself or have a cup of coffee

I am a guardian of sorts."- Liam (Marked Book #1) page 171

I never feel to force my doctrine upon any person; I rejoice to see prejudice give way to truth, and the traditions of men dispersed ...