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Rincewind had been his assistant and his friend, and was a good man when it came to peeling a banana. He had also been uniquely ...
Whether people like your work or not, but it's also based on a lot of other things - geography, who you happen to connect with ...
Spiritual formation cannot, in the nature of the case, be a 'private' thing, because it is a matter of whole-life transformation. You need to seek ...
The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled crimson amongst the treetops, and the forest below had ...
People spend hours constantly checking and tweeting and Facebooking. And it's cool to check up on your friends and see what's going on in the ...
I'd rather be dead than be popular.
Never pass on an opportunity to say thank you or give recognition for a job well done
On those we love:"Every year that passed, it seemed a little more of her had slipped away; and I began to fear that one day ...
Calm consideration was much better than rushing to desperate conclusions.
If you're going to drive a Hummer and buy carbon offsets, that's like getting drunk every night and getting into an AA meeting, throwing money ...
Patrick started running after the sunset. And Sam immediately followed him. And I saw them in silhouette. Running after the sun.
When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure ...
The first rose on my rose-tree Budded, bloomed, and shattered, During sad days when to me Nothing mattered. Grief of grief has drained me clean; ...
I think it's a lot harder when you're opening. You really have to win people over.
To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and ...
The Tanakh says John Lennon is wrong.
Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don't develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too ...
Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five.
Children are bad enoughchildren are rude, selfish, greedy, and unthinking individuals who are unable to distinguish between their own selfish wants and needs and the ...
It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental ...
Love of privacy - perhaps because of the increasing exactions of society - has become in many people almost pathological.
To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys in his head ...
The way the media cycle works, the way the news works, and the way people's attention span works, is that we only learn that people ...
Money doesn't bring courage, I learned. It's the other way around. Once I took that lesson to heart, I began to rebuild my life.
When we learn to respond to each other rather than react, we will move much more quickly in our conflict toward resolution and reconciliation. Reactions ...
I've been blessed, I think, to have tremendous joy in my life in pursuing my vocation, my calling.
You're never more like Jesus than when you're giving.
Pro wrestling is not fake; it's sports entertainment. We go out there and we perform, and a lot of what we do out there is ...
Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and ...
Image is everything. You don't spare any expense to create the right image. And word of mouth is critical. Once you get a good reputation, ...
My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, ...
If you want to be friend of progression, be the enemy of fear!
The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.
I think most diets are torture, which is why I don't believe in them. But, as is true with exercise, when you make a change ...
Ye Noble men of Honor know this ... the voice of love never dies, Hope be its companion that rides upon the rays of the ...
If you have clutter, you're richer than you think!
But conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way, Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs, Not as if raised ...
When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
Release your majestic mind, embrace your untamed inner spirit. Break free from captivity, avoid society.. You were born to be free.
We should bury the bodies," Sam said. Gabriel shook her head. "We haven't got time. There are two hundred and sixty seven bodies here. Do ...
Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.
Growing up in public is a test, and not many people know how to do it.
It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak ...
Any substantial tax reform would involve substantial redistributions of tax burdens and substantial changes in asset values, and you need some 'lubrication' (i.e., transition rules).
Focusing on what we ought to do for God creates only frustration and exhaustion; focusing on what Jesus has done for us produces abundant fruit. ...
He reached into the grate, picked out a couple of scraps, smoothed them out, leaning close to the flickering light. He was curious to see ...
Selling out isn't selling out anymore. It's getting the brass ring.
The remedy of disharmony is not in surrender but in understanding more about ones self & acting out of pure Will ... Desire 2 will; ...
Alas, it looks like those unsubstantiated rumours about me are about to come true after all this time ...
Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.
It is a great evil to look upon mankind with too clear vision. You seem to be living among wild beasts, and you become a ...
There's shit that's random and shit you can control. It's up to you to choose what you'll react to and how to make your mark. ...
Nowadays I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.
Rumors spread faster than news and news spreads faster than the happenings
Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense ... but when foreign aid is carefully guided and targeted at a specific issue, ...
We need to return and go forward to the understanding that there is God in all living things, not more in men than women, and ...
If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, ...
The grass is often no greener on the other side, so stick it out and see if you can grow up within the relationship. Find ...
Remain grateful for every outcome. Every outcome. Gratitude is the connecting energy to God.
God is an inner strength that is inside humans, therefore faith should be about breaking away from material bondage and the mechanical fabrication of human ...
Trust. Affection. Respect." I shoved her tainted after-school snack across the table. "It must be hard to think of qualities you don't possess.
Let people alone. Let them find their way. Let them find their level and you may sometimes be delighted and astonished at the extraordinary high ...
Always be positive, enjoy the music of rain on a rainy day.
Things don't change because people change their minds. They change because they retire or die.
I think anybody can take a good picture. My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person doing ...
I dissolved, so white, so unapproachable, amid my white flame, in the whiteness of moonlight
It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, ...
I am a vegan out of my love and respect for animals, as well as respect for myself.
Her legacy was not--would not be--this disease. Phyllis Marie Unold Avery told us stories...It is my promise to her that for as long as I ...
Life is a bitch when the only woman you can think of belongs to someone else.
Books are ever available friends, ready to serve you at will.
Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of ...
Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?
We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
Every marriage is weird! That's what it is - we just all need to start embracing the fact that there is no normal.
North Korea is now threatening the United States with all-out war. You can see they're stepping it up. In fact, they released 10 more photos ...
I'm not trying to please anyone. I'm just trying to write a damn book.
A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.
Mesut Ozil made me the worlds best striker
It was high time, for I now began to be tortured with thirst. The glow of the sun from above, its thousandfold reflection from the ...
For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there's a lot of pressure, as artists, we just ...
When spring knocks at your door, regardless of the time of year or season of our lives, run, do not walk to that door, throw ...
Just as a man's denominational orientation is the result of upbringing, and only the religious need as such slumbers in his soul, the political opinion ...
When you first read a script is the purest moment. That's when you can understand how an audience will ultimately receive it. The first reading ...
The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not ...
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
No, Bailey, you're not a coward, but you're constantly worried that you are. You're a championworrier. And a woman, I think, who gives herself very ...
It's a good sign but rare instance when, in a relationship, you find that the more you learn about the other person, the more you ...
Nothing could make me pull away meat-market love goddess. My sexy little filet mignon
Building a professional relationship on respect as opposed to affection is a very good idea. Running your art projects the way you'd run a dry-cleaning ...
We live in a society that celebrates familial connection above any other kind of relationship. We are shown photos of our great-grandparents and encouraged to ...
If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.
Fear can only be created by an enclosed mind happiness and laughter are all measures of are success when the reality are goals are all ...
Six flights up I smelled it. Faint at first and then gradually stronger - the eye-watering stench of fermented sugar. I felt like I was ...
Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened ...
Greed's an ugly thing to see red raw in the face.
He offered his love ... she could not bother,She gives her love to the other! The other!
All great music is contemporary. If it's still alive and kicking, then it's contemporary. If it fades away, it was a period piece. It had ...
My prickles or smoothness are as much a quality of your hand as of myself. I cannot tell you what I am, more than a ...
A release on September 16 quoted the claim of the assistant secretary for labor at OSHA that tests show 'it is safe for New Yorkers ...