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One of finest evocations of life in Western America in recent memory ... Powerful and profoundly moving.
Don't despise people because of their defects or because of their lack of talents and gifts. Imagine if people did it for you, how many ...
I am living through days as happy as those God keeps for his chosen people; and whatever becomes of me, I can never say that ...
Learn to wait on the Lord! That will help you to walk your pathway in life in the power and glory of God.
The need for peace in your heart doesn't change, psi or no psi.
Seeing Jesus prolongs your life. Seeing Jesus keeps you healthy. Seeing Jesus makes you strong.
The kind of gospel that our churches are preaching sometimes are not powerful enough to change the very street where these churches are located talk ...
I don't do anything with my brows.
Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.
Joy is being willing for things to be as they are.
Something deep in my character allows me to take the hits and get on with trying to win.
OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.
When I started, I faced a lot of hardships. People used to call me a Rafi clone because I used to sing my favourite singer's ...
Tom is a filthy little pustule. If you quote me, I'll deny it!
What does it say about the college coed Susan Fluke [sic] who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid ...
I still love a well-crafted joke. Twitter's been great for that.
I actually huffed. "Do not make me result to underhanded measures."It was the wrong thing to say. He gave me a devastating smile. "Oh, I ...
Noon was approaching and the shadows under the sycamores were thin and short. The surface of the blue-tiled fish-pond was glassily still and water splashed ...
Why so much fighting? Is the land valuable?""There is nothing of value here. Yet men have always believed that they know better than those who ...
Being a quarterback, the way I believe is there's always so much room to improve. Any little detail. I always cut up the film and ...
That such a perspective of the Declaration's 'Creator God' should sound so foreign and controversial to people today is a tragic and striking sign of ...
In the nineties, it was all women being blonde and from Sweden. But now it's changed: it's all men looking like Ellen DeGeneres.
I hardly think my berating you wildly when I arrived at the hotel was subtle behavior." "No?" Thomas grinned. "You berated me in Portuguese. For ...
Waiting for salvation, his faith transcends the dread of the moment; the desires of the oppressed will be sharpened by the courage to be and ...
The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.
I could think of nothing, nothing to say, nothing to feel. My mind was empty.
My mother is currently associating with some undesirables who are attempting to transform her into an athlete of sorts, deprave specimens of mankind who regularly ...
The experience of life is very bitter. it is sweet only in imagination. In its reality it is very bitter. He escaped from the palace ...
I am thankful for a new day, to live, to love, to talk, to smile, to laugh to walk, to dream, to share, to write, ...
Born? Hell, Babe Ruth wasn't born. He fell from a tree.
You're never too young to start being a hero. Practice dueling one-handed so you never need to drop your blankie. - THE HERO'S GUIDE TO ...
Powerful words that penetrate the psyche are not forgotten while silence is.
The polishedness and the sophistication were what I was interested in. I mean, give me a polka dot, a floral print, a pleated dress, a ...
People whose voices were filled with sarcasm, hostility, coldness, and arrogance are often people who thinks that they are free from the smallest of sin ...
I'm a fan of yellow." She knocks the fridge door shut with her hip and grabs the drink. "It's the best flavor ever.""Yellow isn't a ...
Failure is not having the courage to try, nothing more an nothing less.
Loneliness is a crowded room.
When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have ...
My father used to say, "a day spent breathing is a good day
The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can discover spiritual gimmicks ...
A star does not cease to be a star because it is surrounded by darkness.
It's very hard to behave naturally when you know people recognise you. On the other hand, I still sometimes get upgraded in hotels because someone ...
I'm going to run away now," says Gat. "Don't take it personally.""Okay.""It's better for the starting over if I run. Because walking will just be ...
With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.
To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
I knew about the terrorism of the human spirit and understood that ruthless, immoral forces had planted alien flags in my soul. The plebe system ...
Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.
The American political system is not good at trading sacrifice now to prevent crises later.
I know this doesn't make sense, but if we ever did this before, exactly this, with you sitting over there and me here, in this ...
Uh, puedo hablar con Andrew Nelson, por favor?" I asked, feeling like an idiot."Quien?" "El americano," I explained. "Muy grande americano." In trying to describe ...
Do you understand what this passage is saying? When we love, we're free! We don't have to worry about a burdensome load of commands, because ...
I was always super, super musical. So my parents recognized that and put me in choirs, piano lessons, and all that.
I buried my face against his neck, breathing him in - the smell of machine oil, summertime, a thousand memories
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.
Free will is "corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds"
You've invented your own way of being, and perhaps it might be 'odd' to one who has no idea of the life you've led, but ...
Yet basically, libertarians are for freedom and liberty forindividuals, while recognizing that in order to be free we must also beprotected. Your freedom to swing ...
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.
No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.
But I married a guy who treated me very badly, but I was happy. I was miserable, so I was happy.
Scouting is important. You just want to know whom you are playing against and how to play them well within the team's defense.
I always thought I'd live in Paris, Rome, Madrid - at least for a while. It strikes me now that I didn't dream of Zanzibar ...
I allow the healing power in my body to manifest perfect health.
Only the redeeming, all-powerful, transforming grace of God can raise our sin-besotted heart from the dead, give us eternal life, and set our gaze on ...
What we want is a social harmony, even as we live in a world where any idea about 'the real thing' is as likely to ...
If she were seventeen at the time of her father's disappearance she must be seven-and-twenty nowa sweet age, when youth has lost its self-consciousness and ...
What makes American Elf so good is that it's incredibly personal and it runs the full spectrum from super-sickening sweetness to gut-wrenching terror and sorrow. ...
Normal is an ideal. But it's not reality. Reality is brutal, it's beautiful, it's every shade between black and white, and it's magical. Yes, magical. ...
The utter insanity of living in a place like this doesn't occur to the 9,000,000 people who inhabit New York. Except for visits I think ...
Young Republicans are a very, very important constituency. Along with little old ladies, they provide the foot soldiers for the Republican Party.
Rawhide Down is full of spectacular, original reporting.
Do you somehow think that terrorizing a middle schooler is going to give you some street cred? It's just going to make you look like ...
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle ...
Our history is a material history, not just a succession of thoughts or speech acts.
If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.
Life is full of miracles, but they're not always the ones we pray for.
Forgiveness sets the prisoner free. And realizing that prisoner was you. That's what forgiveness does. It sets you free.
In the name of all the elves in Christendom, is that Jane Eyre?
Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it's now or never.
I'm always looking for a reason to say no when I'm approached about a big studio tentpole because your fear is will you be consumed ...
If those sorts of moments would be the only pleasure life offered me, I'd be better off shutting out that one brilliant source of light ...
I choose depending on the way I feel; randomly, in other words. When I haven't done anything for a long time, I always start small, ...
What if you find out at the end of life that you could have had all you ever wanted had you only asked for it??
Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing ...
The press is ferocious. It forgives nothing, it only hunts for mistakes ... In my position anyone sane would have left a long time ago.
Trepidation is either the sign of great weakness or great wisdom.
It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light ...
If he was to be treated no better than an animal, he would at least learn the limits of his cage.
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
I went to Sunday school, Anastasia. It taught me a great deal." Catechism. Guilt. And that God abandoned me long ago.
We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.
Hush. Your hair was so pretty. I was hoping you'd let me braid it one day. I suppose I'll have to buy a pony instead.
A common pickpocket trick is for the operator to carry a shawl or overcoat carelessly over the left arm, and to take a seat on ...
I've been playing sports since I was five. For me, there's no happier moment than when I'm out in the woods on a bike or ...
How can I come from a nation? How can a human being come from a concept?
The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought ...
I'm very faithful to myself. When you do things that are true it just comes out quite instinctively.
We could all be lucky. We could all be what we want to be, instead of who someone else told us to be.
No parent is there forever. So I won't be here forever with these kids.