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Remus, always the underdog's friend, was kind to short and rather slow Peter Pettigrew, a fellow Gryffindor, whom James and Sirius might not have thought ...

I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.

The God I find in Christ is a God who overcomes evil with good, hate by love, and the world by a cross.

Still I dinna expect anything to happen to me. But if it should ... If it does, then I want there to be a place ...

Does it sting like this because I've been robbed or because it was never mine to steal? ... Maybe an idea, like love, cannot ever ...

Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in ...

You ought to marry her, then. A man could do worse. How many men can say their wife is their best friend? Besides me, of ...

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

The intuition that had kept Kylar from Vi even from the first time she'd tried to seduce him at the Drake estate suddenly crystallized: You ...

God protect me from the lazy, selfish and ungrateful.

It's not as if any of us wants to live like this, any more than any one person wants to be part of a traffic ...

The whole life of a Christian should be nothing but praises and thanks to God; we should neither eat nor sleep, but eat to God ...

I have always been heavily involved in every album I have ever made. I'm very stubborn when it comes to recording and will only record ...

It's fall coming, I kept thinking, fall coming; just like that was the strangest thing ever happened. Fall. Right outside here it was spring a ...

Even in the winter, in the midst of the storm, the sun is still there. Somewhere above the clouds, it still shines and warms and ...

Motivation is a skill. It can be learned and practiced.

World War Z was a great zombie film because those were zombie performances. It wasn't just a bunch of people walking around slow. They did ...

King Abdullah has died. A divisive figure in the Middle East. The sad irony is that the USA preached democracy in the face of absolute ...

And clay-caked clothes are so last year.

Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a ...

Her revenge to-do list kept getting longer and longer.

Earth being so good, would heaven seem best?

I felt like I was leaving a piece of my soul behind the moment I left. And every second that passes, I miss you like ...

Animals suffer both emotionally and physically, but they don't suffer metaphysically. That is, they don't suffer about suffering, don't get thrown into spiritual confusion by ...

Three half-mile repeats on the track at 5-K race pace with a short recovery jog in between shouldn't scare anyone away-and it will improve your ...

You have to be uncomfortable in order to be successful, in some ways. If you stay in your comfort zone! You would never do the ...

Bitterness is as toxic as stage 4 cancer.

And I think Alanna would quote Sean Connery from "The Untouchables" to you: "At the end of your shift, go home alive." She would say, ...

It's fine." Brett shrugged, suppressing the urge to say something like, "The drugs are okay, but the sex is lousy." But she didn't want her ...

I love the flowers for their beauty and dazzling smile. I love the moon for its soothing light and changing style.

When I was a little kid I used to play with guys twice my age, so, I was the last one picked, so if I ...

Only in a secular history where men and women are freed for unexpected true humanity can God reveal his own being.

He's not just yours today, Sam. You have to share. He's my brother, and he's leaving me too." He pounded again on the door. "This ...

I have a rule: I want the pilot flying me up in the air at 30,000 feet to make more than a guy working at ...

Movie stars are insecure like everyone else. That's why they go into acting!

I've gotten pretty good with a tray between acting jobs. In fact, when I got the TV show 'Gravity' I was still doing my catering ...

The soldier who fights to death never dies, but the soldier who fights for existence never truly exists.

Love is a labyrinth of misunderstandings whose way out doesn't exist.

He definitely had a feel for words, almost like an idiot-savant.

The stationary condition is the beginning of the end

Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every ...

Personally, I don't want to live with limitations. If there comes a time where I am dying to play Juliet or Macbeth, I want to ...

This reading of the biblical text has not been imposed on it by the demands of science, but science has prompted a more careful examination ...

Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,it is exceedingly short.

What I've learned from fatherhood is that having a son cannot, did not, change my love for The Bachelor! I thought that having a son ...

You can do all these kinds of things that are up close and personal, but you really have to bring your strength, and really - ...

The 'secret of life' is BELIEF. Rather than genes, it is our beliefs that control our lives. PSYCH-K is a set of simple, self-empowering techniques ...

I think, for some children, your skills don't lie in written words. A lot of school is based around written words and how good you ...

Vaults. In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections. Hundreds of writers may be ...

We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it; but ...

If you have not the experience, ask. There is no shame in asking, but do not pretend you know when you don't.

A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?

Today we live in a cash-for-trash world. Anyone can stand up and say anything unkind, unfair or completely untrue about you, and then they are ...

If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive one, never forget it.

If we can stay awake when our lives are changing, secrets will be revealed to us-secrets about ourselves, about the nature of life, and about ...

I can't go out and plant a million trees, but I can go out and tell [students] to plant 10 each. Sometimes you need to ...

Pity, like morphine, does the sick good only at first. It is a means of helping them to feel better, but if you don't get ...

When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.

According to the Bible, sex isn't something sinful, but rather a wonderful gift from God to be thoroughly enjoyed within the boundaries of marriage.

It's a corset design making me look very, very slim and trim. I call it a corset dress. Very Hollywood glamour with the silk.

I totally go against the theory that you got to win to be successful. It's how you handle your situation.

When you are giving people the gospel, you are giving them something to believe, and you have to set the stage for that. You don't ...

Depending on the strength of the relationship, level of communication and one's tolerance for discord, many people are able to get past normal skirmishes unscathed.

As you focus on calming your breathing, your anxiety will quickly reduce and you will start to think clearly again. This is especially important if ...

Poetry is a really helpful instrument. It's so physical; the musicality becomes a sort of expression of the body. The mind is there too, in ...

You see people truly when they enjoy the most.

L.A. is such a real, active place. My mother was very into the core of the city. She worked in politics, and you have to ...

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power ...

I guess if I was made responsible for every single line of dialogue in a game and every single piece of textual visual detail, every ...

Narian scrutinised both me and the Queen, with eyes so deeply blue I could not break away from them. I was glad he was no ...

Failure is when you accept it, otherwise it's just another obstacle.

The focus of gap analysis should be getting to the other side. If you bend-over to analyze a gap too long, you'll probably fall into ...

Sometimes, I miss so much the person that I was before the world tore me up in so many places. If only "they" could have ...

I'm a longtime believer in the old adage that sunlight is the best disinfectant, particularly in politics.

Even at birth the soul comes to its own and through every step of its earthly pilgrimage it attracts those combinations of conditions which reveal ...

Men were better, or more timid. Secular and religious education had effaced the throat-grappling instinct, or else firm finance held in check the passions.

When you love someone very much, you'd have to go through every tear, every heartache, every pain. Cause in the end, it's not how much ...

We can bring peace in the world, not by eliminating violence in the world, but by finding the causes of violence and by preventing those ...

I live by three rules: I eat when I'm hungry, sleep when I'm tired and scratch when I itch.

The Anglican service today was more familiar to me from movies. Like one of the great Shakespeare speeches, the graveside oration, studded in fragments in ...

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea ...

It is only when men lose their contact with this eternal life-flame, and become merely personal, things in themselves, instead ofthings kindled in the flame, ...

I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.

I'm not afraid of heights,I actually want to go higher.

Keeping a lid on taxes is not just good for the taxpayer. It's a powerful way to force government to be more accountable, set priorities ...

I watch them through the glass: specimens. Flies. I watch them. And I know. In ways normal men cannot: I know. I see thing: beyond ...

Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.

If I can start my day out by saying my prayers and getting myself focused, then I know I'm doing the right thing. That 10 ...

The cold seemed less relentless now. The small circle of white light from my bedside lamp and its hint of the dawn to come seemed ...

The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.

She has her eyes closed, looking lost to the song and completely oblivious to what's happening around her, or at how she's affecting everyone in ...

I am grateful for all the goodness of God.

Men. They were fucking men. Hard-core, badass, live by their own set of rules ... men.

We're all just wandering souls searching for a heart to call home...

Papa said that the parish priest in Abba was not spiritual enough. That was the problem with our people, Papa told us, our priorities were ...

Sometimes the emptiness in a room becomes palpable as if you could reach out and touch it real, hear its silence, feel its black nothingness. ...

Order always weighs on the individual. Disorder makes him wish for the police or for death. These are two extreme circumstances in which human nature ...

There's something up ahead,' I said. 'Something really bad.' 'So of course we're heading straight for it,' said Penny. 'At some point, we're going to ...

Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be ...

Most people can't truly conceive of being in a place where death might be preferable to life. Life is strong. It grips you in many ...