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A man will remain a rag-picker as long as he has only the vision of a rag-picker.
Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions.
The day had been a slowly closing door. The rest of the world moved on out into the stream of life, while I was left ...
Let us love and respect each other as a friend, not stranger.
He kissed her then. Not tentative. Not polite. This was no first-kiss kiss. It was demanding. Dirty. And it went on and on. Deep, open-mouthed, ...
He could barely believe any of his new memories, but the idea that Isabelle Lightwood had been his girlfriend seemed more unbelievable than the fact ...
Heroes aren't supposed to do bad things. That's what villains are for. So either the good supersedes the bad, or the bad makes it impossible ...
The blinking of eyes is an involuntary reflex action, provided they eyes are not watching your beauty.
Ut onimous sergimous. As one, we rise.
Even her powders and face paint couldn't disguise the age lines and gripe lines that ran as deep as the railway tracks some said were ...
We can't remember things from our future; remembering is merely the privilege and the beauty of the past!
You know you're down and out when Okies laugh at you,' she said. With our garbage bag taped window, our tied down hood, and art ...
When people show you their boundaries ("I can't do this for you") you feel rejected ... part of your struggle is to set boundaries to ...
You and I? It may end badly. I may get hurt. But guess what? I don't care! I've never had my heart broken. Maybe I'm ...
A teen boy's wet dream, right here, right in front of him. Elliott closed his eyes, trying to reason with his raging erection, which argued, ...
On the Brevity of Our TiesTies in this world last only for a time. We are husband and wife, parent and child, for a short ...
Remember that nothing is so damaging to self-esteem as waiting for a telephone or door-bell that doesn't ring.
As in the old Irish blessing, may God give you, for every storm, a rainbow; for every tear, a smile. For every care, a promise; ...
Life goes on just like summer goes to rain. But remember there will always be a rainbow after the rain. Always.
To us, reality is just raw footage: Unclear. Desultory. Too shocking or not quite shocking enough. It's ironic that making something more real involves making ...
I felt beautiful when I was in Cambodia for Tomb Raider. I was sweaty, and my hair was matted and all over the place. And ...
Rage colors her every movement. Rage that has nothing to do with her so-called bodyguards and everything to do with me and her and the ...
Ree, brunette and sixteen, with milk skin and abrupt green eyes, stood bare-armed in a fluttering yellowed dress, face to the wind, her cheeks reddening ...
Robert Johnson invented the blues, at midnight, at a crossroads, after selling his soul to the devil. Dorothy Parker invented amusing women, at 2 p.m., ...
Many people have thought of me as a thinker, as a philosopher, or even as a mystic. Well the truth is that though I have ...
Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa's problems.
I have been cooking with preserved lemon for years, using it left, right and centre, but I am still far from reaching my limit.
Richie and Eddie couldn't exist without each other. They're two halves of the same person.
I couldn't remember the last time I'd seen her actually relax and sit still in a way that made it obvious she wasn't already thinking ...
Always remember ... Rumors are carried by haters, spread by fools, and accepted by idiots.
They have in me struck down but the trunk of the tree; the roots are many and deep - they will shoot up again!
Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too ...
In recent years, many research studies have come to the same conclusion: Babies who are held, caressed, and kissed develop a healthier emotional life than ...
A guy said to a girl he liked; ' I am scared of loving again' The girl responded ; ' the only thing that scares ...
He didn't lead anyone on, or make any promises. Instead he conveyed a sense of calm and equanimity, like a man who had banished from ...
Stand up and do something.
Was I wrong? Was I imagining a problem where there wasn't one? Of course my great aunt Maureen always said even a broken clock is ...
It is a horrible, terrible thing, the worst thing, to watch somebody you love die right in front of you and not be able to ...
What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been ...
There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world ...
She would never again lie in bed on a Good Friday morning and relax in the blissful knowledge that there was nothing to do and ...
We're remembering each other's heroes, too. We are learning each other's songs. We are reminding ourselves that we are a global family praying together. We're ...
There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the ...
Are you happy?' she asked.'Honour... I've been happy since the moment I met you.
Truth flows from universal law, not personal views.
Once upon a time, about 20 years ago, runners believed they didn't have to do anything but run
Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had this relationship with ...
It's strange to play outdoors, especially in the daytime. But we're figuring it out. The rules are different for festival shows - how you talk ...
Kiss me like you mean it. Kiss me like I'm the only one in the world that makes you smile." Joey falls back into my ...
I want to remember to notice the wonders of each day, in each moment, no matter where I am under any circumstance.
The way to learn the language is to rip off other players. As Benny Golson told me, "We all start off sounding like other cats. ...
Those of us who refuse to risk and grow get swallowed up by life.
I want to convey a mood, and what you are reading is a constituent of how you feel. In biographies they should always tell us ...
I actually liked Rise of the Planet of the Apes. I remember just watching it and being pleasantly surprised with that movie. I didn't think ...
Beware of privilege. It stinks of rotten rotten fish heads, many of which were lapping the shore beneath the jetties.
The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language, be express'd in ...
Ronan, taking in Blue's posture and Gansey below, observed, "If you spit, Blue, it would land right in his eye." Gansey moved to the opposite ...
I do realise and understand very well on a profound level how lucky I am and what a privileged position it is and what it's ...
One individual can typically care for no more than 10 people. Creating a 1:10 people system from the beginning allows you to provide the depth ...
Dangers await only those who do not react to life.
I went to the juice isle, I learned something. Cranberries are taking over everything. What do you got, apples? Put some cranberrise in there, make ...
I was named after my two uncles. Roger Lee and Richard Allen. They simply changed the spelling to Leigh-Allyn to make it more feminine.
Death has two stages, first the separation of the body from the spirit ... for a purely spiritual existence, and second, reunion with the body ...
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.
I love watching 'The Real Housewives of New York.' That's my guilty pleasure. But I don't even feel guilty. I can just watch it, zone ...
There are few problems in this world that cannot be solved by a swift roundhouse kick to the face. In fact, there are none.
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
'Revenge' is a shameless soap in the style of Eighties shoulder-pad slap-offs like 'Dallas,' 'Dynasty' and 'Falcon Crest.' Yet there's no wink-wink camp.
I think I've been waiting for the big gesture, the one where the guy stands in the rain and declares his love or makes some ...
HBO is undeniably a leader in meaningful storytelling in a wide array of formats. I'm honored to join the REAL SPORTS team and look forward ...
That's my feeling - that real God and religion are two different things and that religion is trying to obscure what God really is.
A device that sits somewhere between the categories of "possible general method" and "for emergency use only / you're going to die method" is the ...
Two people can illustrate crudity to you.The first is the crude man, whom you see perceiving the diamond as a stone.The other is the refined ...
The taste of good coffee, so deep and complex that it was almost a crime to describe it by a single name. The sound of ...
Patch stood over me, and a drop of rain slid from his hair, landing like ice on my collarbone. I felt it slide along my ...
(Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good ...
I think the human spirit is a real powerful spirit. It has no limits and it has no ends. And I hate to see it ...
You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap. there's an animal kind of trick. a human would remain in the trap ...
I like to think that when I fall,A rain-drop in Death's shoreless sea,This shelf of books along the wall,Beside my bed, will mourn for me.
My personal philosophy is that, as a parent, it is my job to find that balance of when my child is ready to try something ...
Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years ...
Never return to a doctor whose office plants have died. After five days in hospital, I took a turn for the nurse.
That's my feeling - that real God and religion are two different things and that religion is trying to obscure what God really is.
We've poisoned the air, the water, and the land. In our passion to control nature, things have gone out of control. Progress from now on ...
How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and the search itselfthe task of ...
My husband acts and I have such respect for those that do it well, that I wouldn't even try to pretend I can act.
We know that Russian intelligence services, which is part of the Russian government which is under the firm control of Vladimir Putin, hacked into the ...
People sometimes need to laugh, relax, and not take themselves so seriously.
Germany, because of the fact and the perception of a special relationship with Russia, is the only one who can influence Russian debate. Russians also ...
Before he can become a wolf, the lycanthrope strips naked. If you spy a naked man among the pines, you must run as if the ...
Apparently I'm the most naked that anyone's been on TNT. My poor mother. I'm ready to run away.
Remembering the sound of metal clanging against wet tar sent chills up my spine. Car crashes always seemed like they couldn't happen to normal people, ...
My character Esteban is a guy who really didn't think he was gonna be there at this point in his life. He's in his early ...
One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.
Never return to a doctor whose office plants have died. After five days in hospital, I took a turn for the nurse.
Then swear you'll make this so damn good I won't regret it in the morning."His mouth molded into that sexy, dimpled grin. "Darlin', the only ...
From "Come Rain or Come Shine" by Jan Karon pg. 259 In regard to watching a sunset, "You could tell a lot about people who ...
As the most religious country of the 18 surveyed, the U.S. also comes in with the highest rates for teen pregnancy and for gonorrhea and ...
The rules of the jungle did not apply to those who wrote the rules of the jungle.