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I smoke a blunt once every blue moon. But hey, the moon looks kinda blue tonight ...
I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.
The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed, she is so kind hearted that she can't look ...
The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, ...
I've always been enchanted by the endings of things. Series finales and sunsets. Last paragraphs and encores. I think for the way they remind me ...
Late season fruits.The blood orange has its admirer, who suck it smugly. Cooks stalk it; they'd like to put it in some tartare sauce. However, ...
I remember lying in the snow, a small red spot of warm going cold, surrounded by wolves.
I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.
Surrounding yourself with what makes you laugh. Be intentional about hanging out with people you find amusing. Make a point to immerse yourself in media ...
A person experiences anxiety when they realize their insignificance in the cosmic field, which present state of angst can exacerbated by other confusing life questions.
Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of ...
A person who truly loves you is someone who sees the pain in your eyes, while everyone else still believes in the smile on your ...
Let's promise to each other that if we ever meet again we will never plow and push our new-fallen snow. We will not become slush. ...
Fall in love with me, Gary! She thought. Please. Please sit here holding me and think there's nowhere on earth I'd rather be than here, ...
Help each other to live and to grow in the Christian faith so as to be valiant witnesses of the Lord. Be united, but not ...
Sometimes you have to take a chance and just go with it
Would it not be well this Christmas to give first to the Lord, directly through obedience, sacrifice, and love, and then to give to him ...
A lot of what I've written in criticism of my lust for virtue - my discovery that I've committed idolatry, making of the good an ...
When spring knocks at your door, regardless of the time of year or season of our lives, run, do not walk to that door, throw ...
Once we start collecting, the more you have, the more it gets valuable and that will stop us from responding to the present and taking ...
It's a unique situation as well because England is a small country, so it makes it easy for the fans to travel. If we play ...
The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life ...
Unfortunately, there's a lot of confusion today over what is sexy and what is vulgar. It's horrifying. They say, 'Oh, that girl is so sexy,' ...
When he looked over, Emma had her head tipped back against the tree, and was humming as she watched the clouds move through the branches. ...
I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very ...
Doesn't it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play golf without making a lot ...
Tis long ere time can mitigate your grief;To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief.
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into the realm beyond words ... It is like that small mirror in the fairy tales ...
Eventually, I think you find a spiritual and emotional connection with someone, and I think it unifies you with everyone else. I think if you ...
To be happy with myself and always make others happy. To be confident and give others confidence in themselves. To smile, to surf, to laugh ...
Right now, the biggest shared value that I can think of is that you should treat others the way you want to be treated, and ...
The university president who cashiered every professor unwilling to support Woodrow Wilson for the first vacancy in theTrinity ...
Sorry Boss," 101 slurred in his slow speech, "but after I came I just started to piss, what you want me to do, Boss?
I never really write the jokes. I just sit down over a week or two and try to figure out what I want to talk ...
Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
Just short of my 40th birthday, I told my wife, Beth, I was going to build us a little weekend place in ... well, in ...
I would love, more than anything, to do an out-and-out farce with huge physical energy. Just because you're from the minimalist school, it doesn't mean ...
Open up your eyes for me people, the prophecies are true and the beast is real.
The spark lies within us, somewhere deep within! Once you find it, that will illuminate the whole path you travel, all lives upon your way ...
When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am ...
I couldn't tear my eyes from the window, wanting to drink in as much of St. Louis as I could, knowing somewhere out there, one ...
Wishing you the best, and praying for your success.
I swallowed my own smile. I shouldn't be thinking this was fun at all; it was serious business. But I couldn't help it, if you ...
When you enter heaven you shall find Him there bearing the dew of His youth; and through eternity the Lord Jesus shall still remain the ...
Your friend Plato holds that commonwealths will only be happy when either philosophers rule or rulers philosophize: how remote happiness must appear when philosophers won't ...
What are you doing?" she cried in protest."Playing," he said, the single word rough, almost guttural.
Comfortable in my own skin,I'm madly in love with myself.
If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
My greatest influences in my sport have been two former number one English lady darts players, Deta Hedman and Mandy Solomons. Deta helped me at ...
I don't really go around feeling very Irish at all. I don't go to Irish pubs. I've lived so many places, and I'm still so ...
Dave [Holland] plays the way he wants to play. And it's usually what's needed. You know, Dave is such a deep thinker. You can't tell ...
I never thought being with someone would feel this right. But it does. It does. It's my fairy tale and even though it's going to ...
My meal arrived. It was a bowl of tepid, green curried water with two spinach leaves floating in it. The waiter called it 'vegetable soup'. ...
...and yes that was meant to be interpreted in a sarcastic bubblegum tone complete with clapping and jazz hands.
You are only punishing yourself when you want to be in a relationship with a woman more than she wants to be a in a ...
However, God the Holy Spirit spoke to me, saying "You have to stop asking people for your financial and material needs; instead, ask Me. I ...
The longer I live, the more I'm convinced the world is just one big high school, with the cool kids always targeting the uncool.
That which he projects ahead of him as his ideal, is merely his substitute for the lost narcissism of his childhood - the time when ...
I always tell people when it's time to make a decision to stay or go [at a job], if it's a difficult decision, you should ...
By the time we were knit in our mothers' wombs, our lives were like open books before Himevery sentence read, every paragraph indented, every chapter ...
The loss inside him kept piling - vertebrae shattered, finger bones lost, gravestone past and guillotine future, ghost woman and her ghost curls,
I'm a business man and I'm a grown man. I spend a lot of time thinking about how to restructure my life, support my family ...
The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the ...
I sleep to escape from reality.
Yo ho, yo ho, the pirate life, The flag o' skull and bones, A merry hour, a hempen rope, And hey for Davy Jones.' At
Sometimes reading the same page over and over, until one sleepy afternoon something clicked, like a lock unlocking, and she saw those printed doors swing ...
Does one wear socks to get transformed into a half-angel superhuman fighting mating?" George mused."Not with sandals," Simon said promptly. He hadn't dated Isabelle all ...
Look into his mind, his universe. We may think it's sick, but for him, this place is a little slice of paradise. A place where ...
You won't ever get ahead if you keep feeling sorry for yourself. You must stop all the negative talk and start thinking positive. You have ...
Your mate doesn't live by bread alone; he or she needs to be 'buttered up' from time to time.
Man is mostly a collection of emotions, most of which he would do better not to be feeling.
I daresay that your son or daughter has been sent as an answer to someone's cry and that the enemy sees the greatness and the ...
I'm not too big on accessories, but I love my basic black quartz watch from American Apparel. It's a simple piece that goes with my ...
He would find the six-fingered man. He would go up to him. He would say simply, "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my ...
In my youth I regarded the Universe as an open book, printed in the language of physical equations, whereas now it appears to me as ...
A person of character seeks true happiness in living a life of purpose and meaning, placing a higher value on significance than success.
True Friends are the bacon bitsIn the salad bowl of life. How trueI read that and straight away,My thoughts turned to youAnd especially today on ...
The poem, the song, the picture, is only water drawn from the well of the people, and it should be given back to them in ...
I love the universality of music and how it can viscerally connect people from culture to culture, regardless of anything. It kind of levels everything ...
It's amazing to me that we humans have the intellectual capacity to ask deep questions and to devise methods for learning how the universe works ...
So I drank every night after work, alone, up at my place and I had enough left for a day at the track on Saturday, ...
A successful story always offers its audience more than a simple resolution of events. A story offers a dramatic affirmation of human needs that are ...
I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself.
Stop caring what people think about you. People will always have their opinions. Don't worry about it. What you think about you (and what God ...
Not to marry, know love, or bind, their fate;Your line to die for never seed shall take.Death and torment to those caught in their wake,unless ...
It's been a long time since anybody caught me saying something stupid.
Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa.To the latecomers are left the bones.
Again and again, faith in a possible satisfaction of the human race breaks through at the very moments of most zealous discord because humankind will ...
Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you ...
The next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an ...
You could be married and bored or single and lonely. Ain't no happiness nowhere.
I discovered that the real meaning of Christmas has nothing to do with you at all. It is about a very special gift. I want ...
I came from a dance background, so that's what I did my whole teenage years. I was at the dance studio a lot. It just ...
May today's short moments of joy become treasured memories in the future.
You hear more than enough of married people living together miserably. Here is an example to the contrary. Let it be a warning to some ...
In the wealthy countries of the West, discrimination is usually a matter of unequal pay or underfunded sports teams or unwanted touching from a boss. ...
'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have ...
Straight is the way to Acheron,Whether the spirit's race is runFrom Athens or from Meroe:Weep not, far from home to die;The wind doth blow in ...
In other words, for purposes of sex discrimination law, to be a woman means either to be like a man or like a lady. We ...
My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that anyone entering this ...