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The old fellow who was cadging drinks from me the other night at the Cafe Royal told me he had known Julian Bern's people in ...

The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.

Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.

I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.

Fine. Such a stupid word really. It feels empty and weightless. It's the kind of word you use to hide the truth.

A library is also a place where love begins.

I will conduct a respectful debate. Now, it will be dispirited it will be spirited because there are stark differences. I am a proud conservative, ...

I could see the reflection of the moon on the water's surface, tantalisingly teasing me forward, that was my target ... swimming towards the moon ...

From dawn to dusk, winter to spring, summer & autumn; the contrasts of nature refresh the mind & renew our sense of balance

My Hinduism teaches me to respect all religions. In this lies the secret of Ramarajya.

A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to ...

The amount of stimuli you are exposed to today is far greater than it was just 50 years ago. Back then we didn't have cell ...

Sweet to think on it, that when we are last weary of all this world there is the rising sun

Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appears, with considered judgement, bears the light beneath the rifted ...

To enter a wood is to pass into a different world in which we ourselves are transformed.

I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issues of importance to the African-American community.

No matter what I've Done. And I've done a lot. He's never been afraid of me. Never hated me. You've got to love a person ...

I climbed nine mountains because I love adventure, and I got addicted to that feeling and I never wanted to stop. I wanted to see ...

Enemies will kill you with a knife in the back. Friends will kill you with kindness. Either way you're dead.

I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war ...

And I am waiting/ for Alice in Wonderland/ to retransmit to me/ her total dream of innocencepg. 52// A Coney Island of the Mind

We enter the bardo, the intermediate state after # death , just as we enter dream after falling asleep. If our experience of # dream ...

Can't live in a crazy forest that's trying to kill you without a top-of-the-line stabbing stick.

If you're a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you ...

That's not what he meant," Rachel says again, pink flushing her cheeks."Actually, I meant-" I start to say, but Willow cuts me off."What? It's true. ...

We play in the jungle gym of sexuality until our spirit takes us out into a clear field where we can see the stars, the ...

I did want to be a pilot. I wanted to be a military pilot because I liked airplanes. I was interested in modeling airplanes.

I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood;Its lips in the field above are dabbled with blood-read heath,The red-ribb'd ledges drip with a silent ...

It's so nice to be insane, no one asks you to explain.

This isn't lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint ...

One of the worst things you can ever think of is not feeling excited about the future".

I've been to location shoots in Mexico before, and everyone ends up getting sick.

Cricket is not like a government job where retirement age is fixed at A cricketer can retire at 30 or 60; it's up to the ...

We all know he ranks me above Iron Man, Thor, and whatever other Avenger makes an on-screen appearance. Not just because I'm clearly better and ...

There's no question Jason Reda can kick. He's gotten more and more confident and a little more consistent.

The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.

Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies ...

I'm a very lucky man. I get to do the thing I want most in life, write songs and sing them for people, and ride ...

Every film I have made has corresponded to a very special moment of my life. I like to think that if someone wanted to reconstruct ...

How rude of me. This is Roaan Recklit." We shake hands. Good grip, good grip. "Sorry," he says, releasing my hand. "I forget my own ...

I always keep my repertorial hat on.

Sometimes it's more important who a man is than what he knows.

I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time questioning ...

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please ...

Don't think that any one technique is the end. there is no end. There is no perfect technique. Just when you think you've got them, ...

It didn't matter that Daniel had already seen her at her absolute, tear-streaked, bedraggled worst. She still had an overwhelming desire to be pretty for ...

Our words are there to bless people and bring peace to the world

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.

He had tried to shed his pain, to rise from the ashes like a drab phoenix with no hope except the cold peace of indifference. ...

Once we begin to speak of men mixing their labour with the earth, we are in a whole world of new relations between man and ...

I guess my biggest failure was not getting reelected. [The loss taught me] not to ever let American hostages be held for 444 days in ...

If you don't execute your ideas, they die." - Roger von Oech ...

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty; it is apt either to feign amiability, or not feigning it, to show ...

54. The children of the Spanish lion, said Ruben Dario, a born optimist. The children of Walt Whitman, Jose Marti, and Violeta Parra; torn apart, ...

Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross ...

God's dreams for us is far better than our own. He desires that we be able to maximize every potential and every gift that He ...

Realtechnik is skeptical about linear progress. It encourages humility, a state of mind in which we are most open to facing problems and reconsidering decisions. ...

As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.

When you walk into a room, you assess it instantaneously, habitually, before you're even aware of it. I mean, you make sure there's not a ...

Empire as located its existence not in the smooth recurrent spinning time of the cycle of the seasons but in the jagged time of rise ...

In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than ...

I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and ...

Every time I see a cardinal, I know my grandmother is with me. This regal, red bird was Grandma's favorite.

By late August, I'm on my second sublet, and I've been working as a copywriter long enough to know I'm not good at it. I ...

That we have collectively failed to halt and repudiate the war in Iraq makes us even worse than the Germans.

Life can be frustrating sometimes. Take a nap, exercise, meditate or do whatever it takes to 'reboot' your thinking. Happiness is just a thought away!

If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll find it.

Now, the good of business is put above anything else, as corporations have become the new ruling body. Most decisions seem to be made like ...

Can I ask what you're reading?" ... She turned the book so the cover faced me. Wuthering Heights. "Have you read it?" She said. I ...

It was the rootlessness that went with being the son of an RAF officer that shaped me. I had been to 11 schools by the ...

Self-awareness is the most overrated trick in the book. More than ambition, more than free will, more than getting on to the property ladder early. ...

I like Mitt Romney. He looks like the guy who comes with the picture frame.

You don't want people who have never had to deal with adversity - you want people who have been able to deal successfully with adversity. ...

They asked me why I was wearing heels, and I said, I'm trying to hide my ass. They gave me a prosthetic behind.

They gave each other a smile with a future in it.

If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a ...

Excellence doesn't come by obeying doctrines. Excellence comes through recognizing the flaws in the prevailing doctrines of the society and throwing them away if necessary ...

You grieve Not that heaven does not exist but That it exists without us

People often assume that the same approach will work for everyone, that the same habits will work for everyone, and that everyone has the same ...

If things are easy for us, then they are not lessons, but things we already know.

Fall 2013 was inspired by the 1970s equestrian lifestyle. I wanted to incorporate the moody and romantic - intricate baroque detailing and classic menswear elements ...

I wish I could run into the world's arms. Linger within the spaces between nothing. I wish I could filter out of existence. To live ...

I am a boring loner. I enjoy Friday nights at home in my rocking chair with no arms, rocking and relaxing. It's not uncommon for ...

Vince Vaughn is a genuine person, awesome guy. He'll come to a lot of my shows. It's not that often that you can meet someone ...

It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.

[Rubinstein was] a fountain from which music spouted, not a recitalist.

With legal aid now capped at the bus fare for a trainee solicitor to come and explain how to plead guilty, Rumpole desperately needed a ...

I wonder," said Miss Oliver, "if humanity will be any happier because of aeroplanes. It seems to me that the sum of human happiness remains ...

When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and ...

It's a lot like nature. You only have as many animals as the ecosystem can support and you only have as many friends as you ...

We banked around until we found a rainbow in the dark. It was on this occasion that I discovered that Granuaile had never heard of ...

Don't ya wanna hear the secret?' his eyes were narrow and mean, despite the glaze of rum. Louer drained his glass and slammed it to ...

Europe has to avoid old prejudices and new ones. That means north versus south, rich versus poor.

The notion that any discovery of empirical science could possibly reduce God's circumstances, so to speak, or have any effect whatsoever on the logical content ...

Oh poor Octave, no luck at all, as usual," said Madame Rocher, "he is still with his regiment, still only a captain. Of course, if ...

I'm an evil, nature-hating girl now, but for some reason, that feels better than pretending to like things I don't. I'm done smiling and nodding ...

Take the competition seriously, but not yourself.

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.

If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited ...