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For plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the ...

Let Art be your weapon, and you would never be defeated.

Life ain't all beer and skittles.

I have long carried this load of griefs in the cage of my heart. Now I have given them to you. I hope you are ...

What was done was done.

My original business model - I actually wrote this down - was 'interesting work for interesting people.'

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and ...

Sometimes you need to loose in order to win.

I'm not one of these people who say how much better American drama is than English. I find it mostly too American, except for The ...

His father read aloud, quietly, his voice steady and gentle, while he pressed a hand to Liam's delicate back, supporting his position. ... She realized ...

Religion has nothing more to fear than not being sufficiently understood.

I am an Australian citizen, and I miss my country a great deal.

I suspect that had my dad not been president, he'd be asking the same questions: How'd your meeting go with so-and-so? . How did you ...

As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want to ...

Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.

At Varanasi, according to Ferishta, Muhammad of Ghor and Qutb-ud-din Aybak demolished the idols in a thousand temples and then rededicated these shrines 'to the ...

Humans speak too much. They chatter like chimps, crowding the world with their noise even when they have nothing to say.

Heartache wasn't my intention... love was.

For any producer I've ever worked with, their toughest job is to convince me to not to obscure my vocals. A lot of people don't ...

Quercus: oak tree. The oak takes an extraordinarily long time to produce seeds. While some plants and trees do so within days or weeks, the ...

Dandelion Wine is nothing if it is not the boy-hid-in-the-man playing in the fields of the Lord on the green grass of other Augusts in ...

The velvet voice of her soul.

So, Noah, Echo's the coat girl." I had a nickname? Noah chuckled. "Yeah." "Echo, is your father aware of this relationship?" "Would you believe me ...

I've always tried to stay clear of being labeled, putting a label on what type of music that I make.

The harmony of the nation is promoted and the whole Union is knit together by the sentiments of mutual respect, the habits of social intercourse, ...

Qabalah is a portrait of what it means to be human, what it means to be divine and exist. That is what the theory of ...

There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much ...

Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

Truth is no rounder than a horse's eye.

That shot moved like ... I was going to say a shop, but the shop's shut

I feel that anyone can become an IM (International Master) in two years, but he must study hard and play a great deal in order ...

Who hath no head, needes no heart.

The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have.[Fr., On n'est jamais si ridicule par les qualites ...

Life is beautiful, forever! - In my quest to inspire positivity, I will encounter variety - Yet, I believe in the power of inspiration. Elysse

Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the ...

125.00% Mean 149.17% Standard Deviation 43.47% ...

Money's the solution, curing all the ails of the nation. But what about the hearts of man?

The best way to confront, or deal with, technological innovation is to keep moving technologically.

Gaining people's trust might be harder than gaining all creation. But, what is harder than gaining people's trust is having to abandon them.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

I do not understand how you humans can walk in shoes that are that tall.""Its my motto," said Isabelle, with a sultry smile. "Nothing less ...

Adopted pets are the best pets you can have. Most adoptable pets come from loving homes that simply cannot care for them anymore. Or, they ...

Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.

Quit voting me down before you even think about what I'm saying.

Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick ...

The image that stands before you whilst standing in front of the mirror is unique therefore what you are, who you are and what you ...

I continue to vote against such spending increases, but sometimes I think some of my Republican colleagues forgot that we were sent here to shrink ...

Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the globe the civilization ...

My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven ...

Qui-Gon used to do this. He used to roam around the galaxy picking up strays." "Like me, you mean?" said Anakin tightly. "Useless hangers-on like ...

The last time you were happy about nothing; the first time you were afraid about nothing. Which came first?

Enzo inherited a throne. Giulietta relied on her royal blood. Queen Maeve rules Beldain because she was born to it. But true rulers are not ...

My parents were both very musically inclined, they were both songwriters and musicians, so we grew up in the house singing music together, and R&B ...

I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, ...

When I jerked it out the head remained in my leg, where it remains still. There were a couple of inches of blood on the ...

He (son Jason) doesn't see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love ...

The problem is, you can't fake dead hands. That invisible something that fills dead or sleeping hands, making them appear strange and inanimate, is impossible ...

And there you go again, that tone in your voice, never a word out of place, but your tone says clearly, 'You are a fucking ...

You write your best music when you're dealing with something. Get it out, dude.

My faith helped me stay grounded in defeat and victory, to not get too excited about the successes and too low about the failures.

We are shaped by our tools.

Whenever we wake up from a horrible nightmare, we don't immediately scream out of happiness.It takes a while to feel so safe and so good.

If only I am keen and hard like the sheer tip of a wedge Driven by invisible blows, The rock will split, we shall come ...

One of the things that I heard for years and years, never drive Russia and China together. And Obama has done that.

Checkers taught me that a King is a man with another man on top of him. But life taught me that that's actually called a ...

Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.

Ignorance has its virtues; without it there'd be mighty little conversation.

It's always fantastic to be on the podium, and, of course, the top step is always our target.

The shock was akin to that of buying, out of duty, a novel written by a dull and uninspired acquaintance and finding there passages of ...

Teaching people to become like Jesus, outside of the power of Jesus, dishonors Jesus.

She thinks we were all killed when they made the Great Sweep, but I escaped in the mud.

I'm only interested in Libya if we keep the oil. If we don't keep the oil, I'm not interested.

A man who hasn't found anything he'd die for doesn't deserve to live.

Aw, it's just like a woman. When the shootin's all over and everything's safe, they pass out.

That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate.

I personally like the idea of shellfish aquaculture. These are animals that stay quiet, they stay where you put them, and they clean up the ...

And for every day you paint the war, take a week and paint the beauty, the color, the shape of the landscape you're marching towards. ...

Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD, is my strength and my song; he has become ...

Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.

The elimination of force at all costs is Utopian and the new movement which has arisen in the country and of whose dawn we have ...

I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.

The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects against self-incrimination,

The Queen of England is Defender of the Faith but the President of the United States is Defender of the Constitution, which defends all faiths.

Booze and tobacco and lots of sex. It keeps a lad young.

Already up to his waist in the quaking bog, Pendergast stopped struggling and stared up at his assassin. The icy glitter in the pale gray ...

As a race, we have allowed ourselves to become accustomed to the idea that the proper way to die is in bed, at a ripe ...

Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back

Americans really don't know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like ...

I've dealt with many challenges in my life, with my family.

Think not that a long period intervenes between the instant of death and the eternity of glory. When the eyes close on earth they open ...

What I need in order to stay creative and centered is a certain amount of distance from the maddening crowd. You cease to be your ...

Kagan's law of first contact,'You'll surprise you more than they will.

A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.

Only the man who thinks himself a fool is as wise as he thinks.

Attention Morte. I have a question. Do you have a destiny? Apurpose?""Is Annah still wearing clothes?""Affirmatory.""Then the answer is yes.

I'm a believer in the benefits of translation. It's a necessity and a privilege - it would be awful to be limited to reading authors ...

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

In general though, if you look at the track record of pivots, they don't become big companies.

In high performing countries, principals are working with highly qualified teachers who come from the top tiers of the graduation range, who have been rigorously ...

You shouldn't talk about yourself all the time - most of us aren't for sale. Our books are. Talk about them. It's not a question ...