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Dreams are real; dreams exert influence
If you want to see a comic strip, you should see me in the shower.
Nine-tenths of that which is attributed to sexuality is the work of our magnificent ability to imagine, which is no longer an instinct, but exactly ...
Our music may sound big emotionally, but that's more to do with the playing, the level of musicianship and the full-on energy. Often, the lyrics ...
You are all wave particles when I close my eyes. I am no more entranced by your entanglement than a butterfly is to a bee.
God is God to us not that we may say he is, but that we may know him; and when we know him, then we ...
I am convinced that each of us, at some time in our lives, must discover the scriptures for ourselves - and not just discover them ...
I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.
When people have a sense of our military capability, nobody will ever dare to cast an evil eye on our nation.
It is hard for an athlete to standout through an email, especially when his email gets mixed in with the emails coming from recruits that ...
When people think you're trying, they think you're looking for something. And I'm looking for nothing. When
Even if you're only wearing trainers and a vest, eyeliner will instantly transform you. People always look put-together when their make-up's on and their eyes ...
Obviously, until you write Fuck It, We're All Going To Die, the Newbery Medal is still going to go to people like me.
After college I picked my races to be one race every two weeks. That gave me time to recover. I raced just as fast as ...
The farthest place on earth is the hour that is just over. Make the best use of the hour that has just begun!
God understands that part of us which is more than what we think we are.
*** Teacher: "Why are you on the floor?" Johnny: "Because you said to do this math problem without tables!
The I-It relationship, we treat other people as objects and expect something back from each relationship. In contrast, in the I-Thou relationship we relate to ...
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
The thinner the excuse, the fatter the reason for it.
Give me some sugar.
We have copped a lot of ignorant abuse in the past, but it makes you wonder when a former state coroner openly attacks Aboriginal families ...
He had scores to settle with the world, and she, at that moment, was world enough for him.
To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
Surveys show that many talented and committed young people are reluctant to enter teaching for the long haul because they think the profession is low-paying ...
These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly ...
The railroads are not run for the benefit of the dear public. That cry is nonsense. They are built for men who invest their money ...
Turkey, fearing attack by Russia, took Germany's side and declared war against the czar by bombarding the port of Odessa.
The one who doesn't travel, does not live.
Let us take heed how we laugh without reason, lest we cry with it.
I became a librarian at the Sainte-Genevieve Library in Paris. I made this gesture to rid myself of a certain milieu, a certain attitude, to ...
Everyone without exception has something to learn. Any person no matter what his status or position is in society can become a source of necessary ...
I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. ...
The past does not define, you the present does.
Are we for ever to be twisting and untwisting the same rope? For ever in the same track - for ever at the same pace?
But if I am to speak in earnest, what I desire above all in a wife is firmness of character - a woman who knows ...
Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure! On
At last tears were all wept out and the little patient ache that was to be in her heart until she died took their place.
We study the past history, with the conscience of the present environmental changes; we can only predict the future ecological changes, by emergence of the ...
The fourth-century Greek theologian St. John Chrysostom said that Job's greatest trial was that his wife was not taken. (pg. 125)
So many cowboys....so little rope.
Maybe if I point to my brain it will work ...
There is a world above, Where parting is unknown; A whole eternity of love, Form'd for the good alone; And faith beholds the dying here ...
Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.
Is there any beauty like the bliss of being?
Changes to weather patterns that move crop production areas around - we'll adapt to that. It's an engineering problem, and it has engineering solutions.
Our work keeps us free of three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty." As
You know what else he said?" Anne Marie asked."Tell me," I said. I didn't want to know, of course, but she was going to tell ...
People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.
Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they don't apply to you.
Men ... have had the vanity to pretend that the world creation was made for them, whilst in reality the whole creation does not suspect ...
I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the ...
If you run from a leaking roof you'll end up with a flood.
It's very tough for me to focus. I'm like: 'Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there goes a butterfly!'
Perhaps that same concept applied to people as well. Did we love them more when we knew their full story? How they came to be ...
What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us.
You're only as good as your last thought of yourself.
A lot of issues were on the ballots. In New York City there was Proposition 14. That would put a ceiling on the number of ...
The cross is where Jesus, God in the flesh, took the just punishment due sinners upon himself.
I don't fear death; I welcome it with open arms and a smirk. But until that wondrous day, I will continue to savor and celebrate ...
When you organize extraordinary missions, you attract people of extraordinary talent who might not have been inspired by or attracted to the goal of saving ...
Occurred to him he wouldn't have to argue with himself the
Our forefathers paved the way for us. Let's take their values, and their strengths, and rededicate ourselves to doing whatever it takes to keep America ...
God's justice and God's mercy do not quarrel with each other.
In high school I became a vegetarian more times than I can now remember, most often as an effort to claim some identity in a ...
When you hold on to the past your hands are too busy to receive the future.
Her words travel directly to my dick, passing "Go" on the way. Fuck. This calls for - what did she call them? SHOUTY CAPITALS.
These heads sheltered by umbrellas be they of Zeb-un-Nisa, or Catherine of Cleopatra or Fenichka live with their own stories
Whatever game you're playing, you're going to lose," he whispers. "And I'll be right there to rub your nose in it when it happens.""Great. Well, ...
Welcome back, Jem.
Zealots are one-trick ponies. They love nothing so much as their own cause. Don't get in their way without expecting to be hurt.
Atheists often denounce Christianity as harsh and negative. But in reality it offers a much more positive view of the human person than any competing ...
Find what you love, now give all your heart to get it.
Wherever we are, God's in that moment, God's speaking to us, and if we've just got our ears open and our antennas up, there's no ...
I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.
When you're on the yard, prisoner politics dictate that you only socialize with your own race. If you fraternize with other races, you can get ...
I have often found the most productive people appear not to be working at all.
I'd make a lousy cop. I'd just wear it too close to my skin and wouldn't survive. I'll stick to acting.
Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki ...
The world promises you so much...and leaves you empty. God's promises are for real and forever.
Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself. It is within yourself that you must look and not around you ... The greatest happiness is ...
The way I wanted to write it, is with a hero, or sort of a pure character who was the protagonist. And the antagonists were ...
Folk music has a sort of a bubbling-under quality. The stream runs through the cultural consciousness, and whether or not it's on the radio is ...
Individual honors and scoring championships are great, but my No. 1 goal is to win the Stanley Cup.
If I signed a contract that meant someone else wouldn't be playing.
Since I first picked up the violin, I've been very interested in tone and texture: I would have very visceral reactions to the texture of ...
What is crucial is the provision of opportunities for telling all the diverse stories, for interpreting membership as well as ethnicity, for making inescapable the ...
Dad once asked me, "Oh Deana, baby, who'd want to steal from me?"Well, Dad, the answer is everyone.
You can't govern without loving the people and without humility!
I know what a human brain preserved in formaldehyde looks like," I said, "We've got to get out of here. Go to the party, act ...
Like everyone else in this world, I have had struggles. There's disappointment and obstacles in everybody's life. I feel like I was writing 'Second Chance' ...
For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?
Any person or system exposed to ceaseless novelty and change risks falling into chaos; but one that is too rigid or static ceases to grow ...
That he'd gone all the way with her out back of the cafeteria. We didn't believe him, but we liked
He is not to be trusted as a friend who illtreats his own family.
This is where someone who does his job competently and effectively believes that he's just an impostor; that he doesn't really know what he's doing.
All these years I've had a story in my mind, the story about us that never really existed. And because of that story, I've kept ...
In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don't expect to see one.
I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst.
The only thing we can be certain of in this life is that we can be certain of nothing.