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If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to ...
Dilly clapped her hands as she bounced on her feet, her excitement bubbling over even more. "They come ta help you, Mr. T. See? I ...
I've always been taught to just play the truth of the situation. If comedy comes out of that, or drama, whatever comes out of it, ...
I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be ...
I thought I might become someone else in time, grafted on to something better and stronger. And then I saw that the running away was ...
Your real self always attracts your real enemies and shows your real companions.
Certainly there is within each of us a self that is neither a child, nor a servant of the hours. It is a third self, ...
Only for a minute. I'll be right back." He plopped the baby in her lap and hopped to his feet. Wren held her at arm's ...
To respect the opinions of those who stand against you is nothing short of courageous.
If you struggle with putting things into perspective, just ask yourself two simple questions: What's the worst thing that could happen as a result of ...
I can't stay. I have to go train for a while. You can come with me if you want." He kisses my nose as I ...
I tell ya, it's tough to save a buck. Right now I'm supporting two fighters. My wife and her mother.
'Superbad' and 'Remember the Titans' - two movies I can watch over and over again. I watch 'Superbad' whenever I need to laugh.
Oh! the wisdom, the foresight and the hindsight and the rightsight and the leftsight, the northsight and the southsight, and the eastsight and the westsight ...
But you can be transformed. Not overnight, but over time. Life is not a race.
The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not lack of ability and lack of opportunity but fears of failure ...
Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in the world around ...
"Every leader makes mistakes, every leader stumbles and falls. The question with a senior level leader is, does she learn from her mistakes, regroup, and ...
Take care, Seeker. You have the gift. Use it. Use everything you have to fight. Don't give in. Don't let him rule you. If you ...
Autobiographies ought to begin with Chapter Two.
You can look at a person's attitude and know what kind of thinking is prevalent in his life ... It's better to be positive and ...
I've always loved dogs and have had one since I was three. We bought her from a kid selling puppies out of a cardboard box ...
I knew Rick Pitino was going to make them play that outbreak, monkey defense. He's been doing it all his life.
Every beautiful facade seemed to conceal rot and ruin that I could almost see.
People say I'm controversial. But I think I lead a very balanced and normal life.
Sighing, she shut the book with a snap. All right. You need to vent, so I'll listen to you vent. But do it quickly, because ...
Our Onirisme movement was a synthesis between the Romantic Fantastique and Surrealism. Dimov and I rejected automatic writing. We loved surrealist painters: Chirico, Magritte, Tanguy ...
Facing your fears and living a life that's free is easy. Spending the rest of your days living half a life is hard.
I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much ...
I trust and use RakEM for my private messages and calls. Other messengers collected metadata about who I messaged, when and where - RakEM does ...
I learn life from the poets.
The efficiency of a hierarchy is inversely proportional to its Maturity Quotient, M.Q. MQ = No. of employees at level of incompetence x 100 Total ...
To stop drinking, all you have to do is sit. In 100 percent of the documented cases of alcoholism worldwide, the people who recovered all ...
America is bad at discriminating between danger likely to strike again, and red herrings, the freaking helpings of disaster that no man or plan can ...
He's dead, then?" said Ridmark, the cold healing magic spreading through him. "He's a burned corpse with a soulblade stuck in his chest," said Gavin. ...
This is the rollcall of evolution happening in the space of a few generations, the greatest loss of living things that make up our biodiversity ...
Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
There are no Rohingya among the races [in Burma]. We only have Bengalis who were brought for farming [during British rule].
I do not click on random youtube videos.
You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked are ...
I was coming off of The O.C. and had very little interest in doing another teen drama. And then I got sent theGossip Girl book ...
We have to believe that forgiveness is still possible even if those we committed crimes against will not forgive us. It means what matters most ...
There is no hope for the fanciful idea of reaching the moon because of insurmountable barriers to escaping the earth's gravity
When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights ...
To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.
I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, ...
There are definite vocal trends for every generation as well as accents and I'm not talking about regionalisms.
At the end of a project I get very weird, you know, in my head because I'm not doing it. It's like an addiction. I ...
When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or ...
The croup following measles, on top of malnutrition, on top of rickets," he said to me under his breath. "It's the cascade of catastrophies.
Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a ...
The things that trip a person into love aren't the grand, sweeping traits you expect (must adore Waugh, display altruism, respect my space). The truly ...
I have come to the conclusion that life in the Antarctic Regions can be very pleasant.
I cut hundreds of pages from my book because I felt myself being reiterative or redundant. Sometimes I wanted to leave just hints of things.
Foreign diplomats could have modeled their conduct on the way the Negro postmen, Pullman porters, and dining car waiters of Roxbury [Massachusetts] acted, striding around ...
I've gotten more and more cut off from the regular comic-book world, from straight comics and stuff like that. Once in a while, I'll take ...
When I was 3, my parents strapped on a pair of Playskool plastic roller skates to my feet, and that's where the story begins.
No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights ...
Richard Cromwell was not fit to wear the mantle of his uncle.
[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of ...
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
Generally speaking, rural drivers are a much better behaved species than city drivers. I'm not sure whether they're intrinsically this way, or there are just ...
I have one thing in my mind. How can I get people to start taking care of themselves? That's all I think about.
The story told about him at Count Rostov's was true. Pierre had taken part in tying a policeman to a bear. He
Goin' to the altar. I mean, do ya feel different, or anything?" "Well, it ain't the goin' to the altar," said Willie. I had the ...
I was taught coming up in the Phillies organization to be seen and not heard by people like Pete Rose, my hero growing up, and ...
All I want to shout is 'Moaty, it's Gazza!', and I guarantee me and him could sit and chat. I would say, 'Why don't you ...
On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real ...
In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty.Rat Race, from the album Rastaman VibrationWhen one door is closed, many more is open.Coming in from ...
You make it sound as if I hit her. I did nothing to Edie!''Oh? You did nothing? The woman I found in your wake, stripped ...
If you don't hear the crows of the roosters in the mornings, you are one cursed city fellow!
I love Vancouver. I can be with my family, I can reconnect with the guys. It will always be my home.
Standing in the rain outside the door of Percy's old house, we seemed bound together not by blood and not by love but by a ...
Those who attack always do so with greater fervor than those who defend.
Ryan Hansen is my favorite person on the planet. He is my discovery. I'm so proud of him.
Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the ...
For that matter, Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero, for he is very old and was never at ...
A literary expert friend once told me that the way to teach your child to love and respect reading is not to read to them, ...
Then a beat-up car lurched into sight towing an even more beat-up car. As the cars came near, I saw that they were connected back ...
Civil war is an exercise in building group loyalties. The trauma of civil war and massacre works not just to desocialize the victims but to ...
We're seeking out such grossness in human behavior and want such mindless entertainment. 'The Real Housewives of Atlanta' and some of these other shows are ...
Movement is not only practised but an entirely new repertoire of movement is acquired. The experience of movement, therefore, becomes a pedagogical process.
Our churches and pulpit are key to refocusing and redirecting our nation.
I try to maintain a healthy dose of daydreaming, to remain sane.
They realize their ultimate doom, but they are fatalists, incapable of resistance or escape. Not one of the present generation has been out of sight ...
Not a day goes by that I don't click on RealClearPolitics at least once, the presidential poll charts, graphs and moving averages are great. If ...
So, you're telling me that no matter what, you can't be happy? Well, darling, it's no wonder you're miserable. It's what you want ... So ...
Do not expect your life to "return to normal." That's not what you had in mind when you embarked on this odyssey.
To come in and win three races already this year and maybe set a record by winning four is pretty unique. But guys like Mark ...
Instead of saying "I'm damaged, I'm broken, I have trust issues", say "I'm healing, I'm rediscovering myself, I'm starting over.
It's a reflex, something that's been ingrained in me. Do no harm. Be nice. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first.
Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves.
The last thing I remember, I left with a girl on a motor bike that weighed 300 pounds.
For a moment, I wondered if I should just tell her that she was a selfish, reckless girl who thought the world owed her something ...
Do you think I will suffer myself to be baffled?
The argument that women who become pregnant have in some sense consented to the pregnancy belies realityand others who are the inevitable losers in the ...
Keep my desires and goals in mind. Don't insist that they must or must not be fulfilled. Let me work unfrantically to achieve them. REBT
Whatever I thought right, to others seemed wrong; what I held to be bad, others approved of.
The saint maintains his piety through the graphic imagination of other people's vices. We thank him for it. The saint's impossible perfection allows us to ...