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And even when they refuse to listen, I'll keep talking anyway, hoping on a slim chance that the things inside my head are worth something ...
I'd love to play basketball with the president, or throw the football around or something like that.
I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right ...
What an unchallenging life it would be if we always got things rigt on te first go?
My father taught me a good lesson: Don't get to low when things go wrong. And don't get too high when things are good.
There had been in his past, as in every man's, actions, recognized by him as bad, for which his conscience ought to have tormented him; ...
Another coupon tacked onto the pile I'll redeem when I get some power in my fucken life. Look around this life and all you see ...
My background may be common, but I have specialized in elegance.
Besides, it left the humans in the Culture free to take care of the things that really mattered in life, such as sports, games, romance, ...
We can't reimpose old myths on ourselves or believe in new ones made up out of a desire for comfort; therefore, the path of self-examination ...
She did not realise that there could be a joy - a spiritual ecstasy- in the touch of a certain man, or that she would ...
We visited the unlucky in the hospital and went to funerals, always remarking on the tragedy. But every time we stepped too close to it, ...
Christ was crucified by the Jews who had wanted a temporal ruler to rescue them from the oppressive Roman authorities. Instead God sent them a ...
Loving does not empty the heart, nor giving empty the purse.
There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the solidarity ...
In the traditional modernist planning that created the suburbs, you put residential buildings in suburban neighborhoods, office spaces into brain parks and retail in shopping ...
Greece won the 2004 European Championship with the oldest trick in the book: man-for-man marking. Why? Because nobody expected it - and by the time ...
No one book of scripture can be understood by itself, any more than any one part of a tree or member of the body can ...
Have I told you today how incredibly beautiful you are? If I haven't, I deeply apologize. That's something that should be recognized on a daily ...
Anger does not solve anything; it builds nothing.
Love thy neighbor is difficult. That's why everybody - wars, you know. It's the hardest. And it's the most important. And respect thy neighbor. Love ...
'Walking the Bible' describes the year that I spent retracing the five books of Moses through the desert, and I was actually working on a ...
What's important is to be myself! To dream doesn't mean putting yourself in a box. It means realizing the essence ... of what you really ...
Hold fast to the word of God.
I was born in the U.S. Why should anyone who has an unfavorable view of the American government renounce his or her citizenship? Why don't ...
The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people that make them unsafe.
My first four roles were all nice guys, Raggedy Man being one of them.
I make time every day to think.
They could call Jesus a terrorist too. I mean, he was pretty tough on money lenders a time or two.
Jesus would be another wise man or philosopher like Socrates if it were not for three words. With the declaration of these words the message ...
The first role I played was Madame Ranevsky in 'The Cherry Orchard.'
Something inside me shuts down and I'm too numb to feel anything. It's like watching complete strangers in another Hunger Games. But I do notice ...
Arise and pour pure wine into my cup,Pour moon beams into the dark night of mythought,That I may lead home the wandererAnd imbue the idle ...
We're still who we are at the roots. I reckon, hopefully, you let it branch out a little bit and you learn. You live and ...
The older lives like not to be stood in rows or at right angles.
I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak being another. That ...
The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form.
Then, before Rhun charges, I leap from him, running toward the dead. His steps beat after me, and I hold out my hand. Our fingers ...
We can change our whole life and attitude of the people around us simply by changing ourselves..
It's not about what you wear, but about how you live your life
Kepler reportedly said, amid the massacres of religious wars, the laws of elliptical motion belong to no man or principality.'17 The same could be said ...
So all of this agony was for nothing?""You exposed us to malicious gossip for nothing.""You were cruel.""So were you.""You hurt me.""And you hurt me. Is ...
Years ago I heard the Indian Jesuit Raimundo Panikkar say: Expect Nothing.
There's always a latent or inferred image in my writing. And I can almost always assume if I do a drawing that it will eventually ...
Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and its ethics stand ...
I don't know about you, but I've got plans for next Thursday. And I'm not in the mood to have them ruined by some apocalypse.
Oh, alright. You're no fun," he sighed. "My name is Razor." "What kind of a name is that?" "It's a nickname." "What kind of a ...
If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.
You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver ...
2014 was a year of intense social upheaval. In truth, the same could be said for most every year. There is no standstill in a ...
Words of the hero: "I am my fate.
I Anoint my tongue by fire. Every evil head rising up against me, I strike you down, in the name of Jesus, somersault from your ...
One gram of moss from the forest floor, a piece about the size of a muffin, would harbour 150,000 protozoa, 132,000 tardigrades, 3,000 springtails, 800 ...
Love was a delicious blend of warm and cold. There was comfort in making love. It solved no problems: but one could run away from ...
If Yucca Mountain had not been designated as a dumpsite for radioactive waste in 1987, it might easily have become a scenic overlook on the ...
Eilis was fascinated by [ ... ] his sweet duplicity in giving no sign of what had happened before. She was almost glad to know ...
The feeling that one must be an authority in a subject to say anything about it is unfounded. We are all laymen outside the field ...
Clearly, this is an historic form of waterboarding, and, interestingly, the professional torturers of the Inquisition were not only happy to define it as a ...
Most people know who I am. Then I get the people who don't know who I am and just want to take a picture with ...
If we can't be cordial to these creatures' fleece, I think that we deserve to freeze.
Together a brick and a blanket create the perfect metaphor for life. Will you be a brick and make something of your life, or be ...
The sky is now indelible ink, The branches reft asunder; But you and I we do not shrink; We love the lovely thunder.
Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no one could help ...
Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God.
She stood by the tea-table in a light-coloured muslin gown, which had a good deal of pink about it. She looked as if she was ...
I love a sexy video. I don't even mind raciness. I don't mind that at all.
I would be mute, beautiful, changless as the earth for you. I would be your memory, without age, always innocent, always waiting in the King's ...
It is difficult for young people to live things down. We will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder in our contemporaries ...
As Antigone said, I am neither a dweller among men nor ghosts.
I've never once thought about the interpretative, the storytelling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in a story, yes, ...
If you were a child and every time your relatives had a few drinks, they'd be running after you with scary faces and big hands ...
A fairytale princess then. Which one are you?Cinderella? Will you turn into a pumpkin if you leave the house? Or Rapunzel? Your hair's pretty long. ...
If Mark really had managed to acquire some information about the Mogodorians, and if doing so had gotten him into some kind of trouble, then ...
A Rube Goldberg machine is, in its essence, a trial-and-error thing.
To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
The ultimate idea of rags-to-riches success in America is the Hollywood movie star.
I did a lot of theatre when I started out. It was the Lyceum, the Citz, the Tron and the Traverse. I came to London ...
The outward light is but a reflection of the inner.
I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.
You're not always going to make the right decisions, but you have to be guided by what you think is important.
I don't think it ever occurred to me before how much and how often women are praised for displaying traits that basically render them invisible.
I didn't care that we'd caught a few stares from students passing by. I didn't care that the bell to begin class rang. I didn't ...
When I give myself over to a good novel, I surrender to the truths fashioned from one writer's heart, mind and soul. I do not ...
Question (from a reader) : Will the Wise Goddess Athena overthrow Zeus and become the ruler of Olympus?Athena's answer : What an interesting idea ... ...
Any good history begins in strangeness. The past should not be comfortable. The past should not a familar echo of the present, for if it ...
It's always a learning experience every time I'm on set.
To reenchant nature is not merely to gain a new perspective for its integrity and well-being; it is to throw open the doors to a ...
We become angels when we fly with the wings of love. We can reach any destination and touch any heart without any hesitation.
Ragnor's important business was probably getting together to write a burn book with Raphael. Magnus could see them now, sharing a bench and scribbling happily ...
He had in abundance youth's most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the ...
A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator.
VERY WELL, ROLAND OF GILEAD.'VERY WELL, EDDIE OF NEW YORK.'VERY WELL, SUSANNAH OF NEW YORK.'VERY WELL, JAKE OF NEW YORK.'VERY WELL, OY OF MID-WORLD.
I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.
Fair are the flowers and the children, but their subtle suggestion is fairer;Rarer is the roseburst of dawn, but the secret that clasps it rarer;Sweet ...
I do think it's important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don't really look like that.
Once the tentacles of redistributionism wrap themselves tightly around every part of the economy - and around our psyches - they can never be unwound.
I chose Real Madrid instead of Barcelona because I'm a winner, not a loser
She should've interviewed Snape," said Harry grimly. "He'd give her the goods on me any day. "Potter has been crossing lines ever since he first ...
Forget dice rolling or boxes of chocolates as metaphors for life. Think of yourself as a dreaming robot on autopilot, and you'll be much closer ...