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Men and boys always want to go fight. They are always looking for a reason to go to war. It is the saddest thing. They ...
The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above.
Even if someone is already in your market space, ask yourself whether you can approach it from a different angle and thereby secure your own ...
Obama wanted to offer his support to birth control activist Sandra Fluke. He wanted to express his disappointment that she has been the subject of ...
The future will belong to the nature-smart-those individuals, families, businesses, and political leaders who develop a deeper understanding of the transformative power of the natural ...
Like a singing riverYou break out to flow freelyI am the mountain behindHappily I watch youMemory of usFull and sweet
To survive you must surrender without giving in, that is to say, fully accept the reality in all its horror and never give up the ...
There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When I could no ...
When we face our problems, they disappear. So learn from failure and let success be the silent incentive.
I can see clearly now, the rain is gone. I can see all obstacles in my way.
I stay pressed against the solid structure as the doors open . "I'd get some air if I were you. From the feel of it, ...
His mind seemed older than theirs: it shone coldly on their strifes and happiness and regrets like a moon upon a younger earth.
Would the man in the cabin have come after them? Would he have sent someone else? Or would he have never even known they were ...
But sometimes you have to make a decision with your heart instead of your head, and that's what I did. I know I've made the ...
The Age of Average gave us a lot. Take clothing: We've all benefited remarkably from large, medium and small sizes making things affordable and available, ...
Both sadness and anger are the two sides of same coin. Sadness is supressed anger, while anger is expressed sadness. Both sadness and anger are ...
It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the ...
Ambition makes you look pretty uglyKicking, squealing, gucci little piggy
When the soul betrays itself and loses the blessed and longed-for fervor, let it carefully investigate the reason for losing it. And let it arm ...
If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers.
As we watched Judge Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court confirmation hearings, all of the commentators said the same thing: 'One of these people in the room ...
No place better than Indiana on July 4th. Looking forward to a great weekend.
Integrity is my stock in trade.
It's like - you have this baby, and eventually, he starts doing stuff. And I used to be able to see every tiny change, and ...
The poem is a structure of signifiers which absorbs and reconstitutes the signified.
In reply to "Why are people at school such d*cks"Cause they're sad and scared and insecure. Don't let them spread it to you. Try and ...
Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood.
It's Survival of Them Who's Best at Nicking Things, girl!
My goal is to leave the producer with so many good takes, that he or she has a tough time deciding on the best one.
I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be ...
What we have is divine. It's beautiful and good and right. I feel it ... " He presses his his hand to his chest, over ...
And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long ...
(In response to a picture critic.) I'm actually a very joyful person. But being a genius with a photographic memory mixed with a strong case ...
People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so ...
I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and ...
The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to ...
Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its ...
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
I likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, from my arm-pits to my thighs. I could only look upwards; the sun began to grow ...
I feel like a lot of times when you get signed to an agent they just send you everywhere, so I still audition for a ...
Every single day, no matter who you meet in the day - friends, family, work colleagues, strangers - give joy to them. Give a smile ...
It doesn't happen like this! Everybody, you put him in a death trap, he pulls something outta his utility belt and he's away. Same bat ...
Architecture is the constant fight between man and nature, the fight to overwhelm nature, to possess it. The first act of architecture is to put ...
As is often the case when things are complicated, extreme views have superficial appeal. On the one extreme, some see China as an inevitable enemy ...
We don't need holy wars. What we need is tolerance and brotherhood and simple humanity.
Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.
After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned ...
But you know, sometimes the fight itself is worthwile, even if the prize at the end ain't.
Success is the accomplishment of any number of possible aims, dreams, aspirations or goals. It's very personal and unique to you. Your greatest desire could ...
There are a few people who genuinely see the best in everyone.
I'm an old soul. I like the Nat King Cole; Sam Cooke is my favorite singer of all time. But I'm into neo-soul; I'm into ...
Unusually for an Indian man of his generation, my father, being aware of my mother's intellectual abilities, encouraged her to go abroad by herself to ...
I travel not only for the passion and madness and desire of movement, but because travel, like bread and water and air, becomes necessary to ...
I was raised to volunteer: nursing homes, clinics, church nurseries, school, everywhere that could use help. It's such an intrinsic part of me, to use ...
And a lot of times in slam poetry I feel like people are so worried about the performance that the words might not be as ...
He was sitting not far away, watching me, and I surprised a smile on his face, the first real smile I had ever seen him ...
You have to train your mind like you train your body.
On a small planet where minute follows minute, day follows day, year follows year, where tradition marches on with a deafening orderly beat-sometimes the order ...
NASCAR racing provides more brand awareness and interest than any of the other major sports. The opportunities to build business-to-business relationships within the racing community ...
The mini-Moog was conceived originally as a session musician's axe, something a guy could carry to the studio, do a gig and walk out.
Every other person in the world would have looked at it and thought, Max would hate this. It was girly. It was beautiful. It wasn't ...
It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertivelywhich means to live authenticallyis an act of high courage. That is why so ...
The feel of him made her forget all of her troubles, all the decisions weighing on her. She wanted to trade every sky dive, every ...
Do not gossip about monks and speak ill of spiritual teachers
Very few people are conscious of the deeper strata of eternity. The primary reason is either because they lack purity or they lack motivation.
Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on ...
Just really be passionate and stick to your creative vision. Because it's competitive, and there are so many mind games and so many things that ...
THE ART OF PEACE does not rely on weapons or brute force to succeed; instead, we put ourselves in tune with the universe, maintain peace ...
Though the Mastiffe be gentile, yet bite him not by the lippe.
I am old. I should have left before. Any fool can ride the chariots of victory. It takes judgement to get off at the right ...
Later on, absence taught me far more bitter lessons: that you get accustomed to absence, that the greatest abatement of the self, the most humiliating ...
Muhammad was a great man, an intrepid soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender (sic); a great captain, eloquent, ...
According to Sports Illustrated, an amazing 78 percent of NFL players find themselves bankrupt or financially stressed within two years of retirement. And 60 percent ...
When you focus on the positive, the blessings and the humor and just do your thing and you stop worrying SO much about what every ...
Wet, wet, the interior of the island, they said, bog and marsh, rivers and chains of ponds alive with metal-throated birds. The ships scraped on ...
Final Fantasy VII awoke American gaming to the possibilities of narrative dynamism and the importance of relatively developed characters - no small inspiration to take ...
Courteney Cox is such a great actress.
I am ordinary person with extraordinary curiosity.
I was glad that our venerable, almost formless religions, drained of all intransigence and purged of savage rites, linked us mysteriously to the most ancient ...
Knowledge and education are the key to this human tragedy which is a bonfire of hate fueled by ignorance.
Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out ...
I knew I was not a failure in any way, and so did those close to me. It doesn't matter if you fall short; it ...
Start small, think big. Don't worry about too many things at once. Take a handful of simple things to begin with, and then progress to ...
Everything waited. The night was ending. The world was holding its breath, preparing to begin again.
My characters are at their best, when I let them lead
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Think about it this way: If you had to launch your business in two weeks, what would you cut out?
I'm so sorry for loving you, I'm so sorry ... But it was such a wonderful dream, my love, such a wonderful dream.
I'm all about having one day during the week when I have an at-home spa day. That's when I like to do my nails and ...
You're going to make me dance to this, aren't you?" he asked."It's Valentine's Day, Finch. Pretend I'm a boy."He laughed, pulling me into his arms. ...
Character is what someone does, much more than who they are. I can be sarcastic or I can be fearful, but it doesn't really matter ...
Evelyn Waugh: How do you get your main pleasure in life, Sir William?Sir William Beveridge: I get mine trying to leave the world a better ...
A man may be accomplished in art, literature, and science, and yet, in honesty, virtue, truthfulness, and the spirit of duty, be entitled to take ...
Said in reference to Ludwig Wittgenstein: Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who ...
Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long ...
It's no longer about the Lost Boys. They keep trying to make their way out, then they meet other people and empathize with them. It's ...
There are not more than five primary colors (blue, yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been ...
My mom told me once - relationships end until the one that doesn't. So you can't be sad, really. Because if the wrong ones didn't ...
I thought Big Sur would be a great break after the tour. You'd walk down this rickety ladder to this not-very-pretty beach scene; crashing waves, ...
School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers.