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There could be no snakes in Quintana Roo's garden.Only later did I see that I had been raising her as a doll.
You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it. You are here to create the world around ...
Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.
Having clarity on where you want to go is one of the most critical components of your life.
All of the wisdom of this world is but a tiny raft upon which we must set sail when we leave this earth. If only ...
Those who intend to destroy me, underestimate my ability to regenerate.
I loved rollerskating when I was younger.
Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he's far down enough (down ...
The man was a lunatic. I didn't care. He was possessive and violent. I still didn't care. He was jealous and rude, and he took ...
Jesus Christ was the original rock'n'roll star. He gave people reasons to live in the rut they were living in. He was the first man ...
My mother says I must not passToo near the glass;She is afraid that I will seeA little witch that looks like me;With a red, red ...
"Romanticizing the past" is a familiar accusation, made mostly by people who think it is more grown-up to romanticize the future.
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
Reading with my children is incredibly important to me and a wonderful way to spend time together as a family, exploring magical worlds through books ...
When we are in a true Reiki space, species differences melt away and profoundinterspecies connections are forged.
I'm a big fan of the Pre-Raphaelites. Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and I realised recently that my music is Pre-Raphaelite in a certain way, in that ...
Welsh chapelgoers automatically sang in four-part harmony, and when they were in the mood they could raise the roof. As he joined in, Lloyd felt ...
Sanctification grows out of faith in Jesus Christ. Reemember holiness is a flower, not a root; it is not sanctification that saves, but salvation that ...
The man who had died looked nakedly on life, and saw a vast resoluteness everywhere flinging itself up in stormy or subtle wave-crests ... always ...
The ultimate purpose of other creatures is not to be found in us. Rather, all creatures are moving forward with us and through us towards ...
My granddaddy on my momma's side, he was a romantic. He loved love songs. Every Valentine's Day, I remember him buying a red carnation for ...
The current business model for language education is the student pays - in particular, the student pays Rosetta Stone $500. The problem with this business ...
Perhaps we really are surrounded by the past, made prisoners of it. No matter how far we travel, how hard we try to forget, the ...
I started skating at age 2 on roller skates on the South Side of Chicago, where I grew up. By age 4, roller-skating was something ...
Walking is a great stress reliever. First, it helps get your mind off of your stressors. It also helps to lower cortisol levels, which will ...
What is important is that complex systems, richly cross-connected internally, have complex behaviours, and that these behaviours can be goal-seeking in complex patterns.
I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of ...
Only a complete asshole would keep repeating the same old mistakes and blaming it on something else. Hell, we have all had it hard. It ...
All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight.
If the diver always thought of the shark, he would never lay hands on the pearl,' said Sa'di, a Persian poet from the thirteenth century.
When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story ...
They can bite, but cannot be us, They can come and pick up little slang but cannot see us, You ought to be ashamed trying ...
When something horrible is done to you, the natural impulse is to strike back.
The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is ...
I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide ...
Anywhere in the world you hear a Chicago bluesman play, it's a Chicago sound born and bred.
Dogmatic ideological parties tend to splinter the political and social fabric of a nation.
And Sandy Martindale ... dated Elvis before the rhinestone jumpsuits and the drugs, when he was sharp and cool and jagged, like porcelain that has ...
The key to getting the record is running fast because someone else did not take it too crazy at the beginning, so it leaves me ...
The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal intellectuals mechanically write ...
Adiation ... the biggest lobby ... in the world. It's involved in university research ... industries ... the whole medical profession.., the whole military establishment, ...
If only one person were perfectly informed there could never be a general crisis. But the only perfectly informed person is God, and he does ...
Love is the heartbeat of the sacred soul.
Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.
Let me spell my name out for you, it's Ricky:R: Ravishing, I: Impress,C: Courageous or Careless,K: for the Kangols which I've got,That I wear everyday ...
The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.
Your reciept is your library card. On what killed the brick and mortar bookstores.
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide ...
In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke.[Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.]
I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready ...
I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a ...
You're sort of forced to include this aspect of culture into your life whether it be for social reasons or business purposes.
I auditioned at the Radisson in Knoxville, and I just did what I always do. I just try to believe what I'm doing.
Performa's founder and prime mover, Roselee Goldberg, has great instincts for which artists might collaborate well together.
Talking doesn't mean you have said something. What really matters is the message your words carry, not the sound, but the reveberation it causes on ...
I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.
Giving yourself the privilege of destroying other positions while parking your own position in an unidentifiable location is a form of linguistic terrorism.
Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. will isolate it if it insists on acting like ...
For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Rontgen fogged ...
The definition of a true friend is not someone who swoops in when you're going through a rough patch. True friendship is when someone can ...
That one smooth black eye stared, and reflected in it I fancied I could see the cyclopeon city, and the endless column of the marching ...
The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.
Nature is not static, but causes its own, internally-generated changes - both in climate and in biological systems.
How do I keep fit? I lay down a lot.
In the Renaissance world of arranged marriages, there were no romantic proposals on bended knee - only notaries and contracts.
And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield ...
No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that ...
I believe that if Israel were to put an end to the settlements in the West Bank tomorrow, as it did in Gaza, there would ...
Why don't suicide bombers smuggle bombs in their rectums?
If I had a long-term partner, I don't think I'd be an actor. It'd be too much of a strain; you have to work too ...
My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or she'd make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started ...
I was referred to her by a guardian in northern Wilmington, a guy who handles people that are moving into nursing homes. They leave all ...
I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has different rules than my regular human world.
What a rebellious act it is to love yourself naturally in a world of fake appearances.
Of unquenchable sparkle and dream as ever. Behind her, in the hammock, Rilla Blythe was curled up, a fat, roly-poly little creature of
Stories that pander to your every readerly desire and whim are like overly loyal dogs that live for the simple glow of your approval. I'm ...
A new oath holds pretty well; but ... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its ...
In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.
You're one of them de Luce girls over from Buckshaw. I'd rec'nize them cold blue eyes anywhere.
To you I shall say, as I have often said before, 'Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last '. ...
The right wing conservatives think it's a decision that you can be cured with some treatment and religion.//Manmade rewiring of a predisposition//Oh no here we ...
What does that matter when he makes me happy?" There was an adjustment her mother made then, a slight giving in, a relaxing of her ...
The world we inhabit is one where children feel sorrow long before they have the words to express it.
My parents, man, they're just the most loving, encouraging ... They're like those people who define themselves through their role as parents before people in ...
Children whose parents return to study do much better at school. Offenders who persist with studies are much less likely to reoffend. The national mental ...
When we seek to escape from inner conflict and pain, we are running away from unresolved childhood trauma or original pain. Most people with serious ...
I always had a few people who liked what I did, and that was enough.
When we win, it will tell every politician in America that if you are bold, if you do the right thing, if you tackle the ...
This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president.
As a writer, you sit around a computer all day, and it's too easy to open another tab and keep Rotten Tomatoes there.
The only books that work are those which fly through the air - the ones you let happen, not make happen.
If the weather is too cold or rainy, I take shelter in the Regence Cafe, where I entertain myself by watching chess being played. Paris ...
Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.
The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current ...
Substituting formal reading instruction for read-alouds is like showing a child how to grow flowers by providing a hoe to dig holes but neglecting to ...
Adult don't know what they say and what they mean once that... other moment something else... it's okay for the kids... they grown they still ...
The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.
Jack Sparrow: [after Will draws his sword] Put it away, son. It's not worth you getting beat again.Will Turner: You didn't beat me. You ignored ...
Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king;Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring,Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do ...
Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, 'Bob, why are you resisting me?' I said, 'I'm not resisting You!' He said, 'You gonna follow ...