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Children develop character by what they see, by what they hear, and by what they are repeatedly led to do.
Last night we had Bill Clinton, the former president. Security was as tight as Governor Christie's yoga pants.
Subtract miracles from Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, or Toaism, and you have essentially the same religion left. Subtract miracles from Christianity, and you have nothing but ...
Fear and self-doubt are the greatest killers of personal genius.
Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.
Rapid reading is not a difficult skill to learn.
We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And ...
We are all made from the stars and connected to each other and the stars
I sometimes marvel that a third-rate writer like me has been able to palm himself off as a second-rate writer.
He recovers and seems to possess all his earlier faculties, with one exception: the formerly mild-mannered Gage is now something of a hellion, an impulsive ...
But I started to realize that it doesn't begin like this, that anybody can be the target for prejudice, all you have to be is ...
I got a fantastic person to work me out and get me into really good shape.
Experience should warn us that tough and unpopular decisions are only made under intense political pressure produced by urgent necessity.
There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many ready to take ...
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
Malcolm Gladwell puts the "pop" in pop psychology, and although revered in lay circles, is roundly dismissed by experts - even by the researchers he ...
I've learned all I'm ever going to learn from you.
Sometimes it's best to trade an ideal for something more practical that you can guarantee.
Maybe I'm just not that humble but our script is awesome. Like Jason is so into the Muppets and such a fan. I'm such a ...
A man has integrity if his interest in the good of the service is at all times greater than his personal pride, and when he ...
While we tediously check our weaponry before entering into battle, do we check our hearts? For without exception, that is the greatest weapon of all.
A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
Curiosity killed the cat". I had been one of those annoying children who constantly asked why after being told anything. It seemed that even as ...
One chief cause of the amount of unbelief in the world is tha tthose who have seen something of the glory of Christ set themselves ...
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
I was always going to do terrible things because it was in my nature.
Their goal wasn't to stand out because of their differences; it was to fit in because of their talents. Like the men they worked for, ...
I played so perfect, I couldn't play more perfect.
People seem to be interested in me. So I try to keep my acting pretty simple.
The crew of Apollo 8, who at Christmas, 1968, became the first men ever to set eyes upon the Lunar Farside, told me that they ...
Why would the Prime Minister make such an order, Mr. Chaudhry?" the General leaned forward to put out the barely smoked cigarette. "Would you advise ...
Delicious baked goods were the great work hostility equalizer, no matter how unorthodox the workplace.
Many agree that the worst thing that could ever happen is if Russia and China get closer.
I have a problem with a lot of men's fragrances because they are very strong. Somebody somewhere thinks that masculine means powerful smells, and I ...
All I know is that the hours are long ... and constrain us to beguile them with proceedings which ... may at first sight seem ...
Now, I don't see color. People tell me I'm white and I believe them because police officers call me 'sir'.
Nutritionists all over the world are of the opinion that we should combine protein with complex carbohydrates. A simple dosai made with parboiled rice, husked ...
People believe unbelievable things because it's self-flattering to think that you are intellectually daring enough to accept what others find preposterous.
I learned a lot. Friendship and kinship matter more than adventure. Boundaries only exist in our minds. A heart can travel to the horizon without ...
Perhaps not," said Will, who had ears like a bat's. "But I would make a radiant bride.
So had begun and had ended a sincere effort to be of public service on the part of a well-intentioned but unreflecting and over-comfortable
What passes for news is just morbid speculation or cartoonish screaming, followed by diaper commercials.
Winny and I lived in a house that ran on static electricity. If you wanted to run the blender, you had to rub balloons on ...
Don't miss understand me, I'm not getting soft, all I want is a couple days off.
All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity.
At the deepest level people are madder than they want to believe. You will find that they fear being eaten, and are alarmed by their ...
The biggest mistake a woman can make is not to be herself in public or private.
Family romances are the only ones that never turn out happily.
Velva wasn't merely a rose among the thorns, the lily of the valleys, she was Empress amongst the stars and planet.
The shadows have both been my refuge and my repulse.
There are people who say they want to write novels. They think, 'I'll learn my craft on the romance novel.' If you don't love the ...
Reason is a tool to help us better understand and defend our faith; as Anselm put it, ours is a faith that seeks understanding.
In the bodily garden the apple lurks.
[Photography is] very related to poetry. It's suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It's as much about what you leave out ...
And when all's said and done, the final comment will be (from me at least) so what? I'll live with my neuroses. I'll try to ...
Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret ...
Only those who dare may fly
Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.
Every woman I had ever met who walked through the world appraised and classified by an extraordinary physicality had also received the keys to an ...
Lady, the Faith is here," he stated. "But we must build churches in our hearts, for surely those built in the world have all betrayed ...
Grace and truth are spiritual DNA, the building blocks of Christ-centered living.
A fighter cannot contemplate fear, let alone show it. Fear weakens you, gets you hurt.
But my darling was as frail as a bird. She died nine days later. After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled. ...
Acting is just a job at the end of the day, and it's a very strange one.
Children born to unwed mothers,' he said after a long silence, 'have parts of their souls missing.
Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness.
When millions of dollars and thousands of humanitarian workers poured into Indonesia, we quickly faced the challenge of coordinating our own bureaucracy with the multitudes ...
Whenever there's a role that scares me, I get panicked and nervous. I know that greatness might come because I'm going to get out of ...
The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.
I wanted friendship with her, but I wanted benefits with it. I wanted the benefits of breaking all of our rules again and again.
I'm just a true Irish boy at heart. I'm just myself, I stick by my guns and I treat people the way I think they ...
For the past month and a half, it's been inanely hot every single day. Someone's bound to feel a little homicidal now and then.
I couldn't even tell if I had any sadness of my own, because I was so full of Abuelita's sadness.
Hey beautiful. You have a minute for me?
Since she obviously preferred me dead, she was pretending that I was.
Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.
Few people actually read. Instead, everyone likes pretending they read. If we spent as much time reading as we say we do, we'd be grossly ...
What could possibly make you think I have any standards left when it comes to you?
While filming 'The Matrix,' we studied how a Chinese fight-choreography team trains actors before production starts so that they can participate in action sequences in ...
Rich people march on Washington every day.
Those who refuse to play second fiddle may wind up playing no fiddle at all.
You don't know anything, but I know even less.
I have a strong army I keep with me and we don't go out there looking for problems. A lot of people have this perception ...
Success is nothing without morals
There was Malcolm in the front row, his hand resting on the shoulder of the knight I knew as Poe. I looked at the list ...
I no longer looked to the future or lost hope in it. The past and the future are, from the view of the present, nothing ...
It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.
When I speak of home, I speak of the place where in default of a betterthose I love are gathered together; and if that place ...
When you talk of revolution ... you never talk of the day after.
Each of us enters another's life to help them grow into their full potential.
My choice", he'd whispered, taking her hand. "Mine. Not theirs.
The tent was for Abraham's living. Abraham did not take care of his living first. That was secondary. With Abraham, the primary matter [560] was ...
You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We miss you, James. Godspeed.
If you're playing the clubs, you're either on your way up or your way down.
I'm not a good faster. My friends have visions of God, I have visions of hamburgers. The only time I watch the Food Channel is ...
I flailed my arm in a throwing motion before I could even walk.
It is chronic water shortage in the body that causes most diseases of the human body.Dr. Fereydoon Batmanghelidj
Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you ... If you bless a situation, it has no power ...
You don't have to tell anybody a damn thing you don't want to.
Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.