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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
A self-help guru would call this attitude "bending in the wind," but I just call it "giving up.
From my new release, Cry for Me.This is Bryen talking."Stop it, T! I knew; my God I predicted you would do this! Start blaming yourself ...
At the most basic level of protecting a writer's personal safety, democratic countries offer a further advantage. If you steal hundreds of thousands of documents ...
The only thing very noticeable about Nebraska was that it was still, all day long, Nebraska.
God is concerned about everything that concerns us - without exception.
Like a phoenix bursting into flame and a rain of sparks before being reborn in its own ashes, it had taken burning up in my ...
Indeed, the application of the adjective "stoic" to a person who shows strength and courage in misfortune probably owes more to the aristocratic Roman value ...
Steve was the best delegator I ever met," Johnson said at Stanford. "He was so clear about what he wanted that it gave you great ...
The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands ...
I imagine watching Gale volunteering to save Rory in the reaping, having him torn from my life, becoming some strange girl's lover to stay alive, ...
It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, ...
In our culture it is seen as a sign of weakness to actually seek help from someone else. And yet, as Christians, God designed us ...
Life is one wall which stay in front of you as much you push as more stronger it gets. Sometimes you can pass it others ...
I think it was so unfair that people attacked Freida Pinto for being an Indian, playing a Palestinian.
I do know what my first meal in the next world would be ... Spaghetti Aglio e Olio, heavy on everything.
Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.
Any powerful technology has sauce for the goose and the gander ... It's just an extension of humanity.
She called him sweet. Next she'd be calling him nice,and if that happened, he might as well tie a big pink bow around his balls ...
One thing both my parents agree on is this: if people are doing something unfair, it's part of our job to remind them what's fair, ...
I have a deep gratitude that Ida B exists.
But if you put your thoughts on what's on its way, then you'll start looking for every little clue, and every person walking into your ...
The issue isn'tnor should it ever behow weak our child is, but rather how strong our God is.
No one ever went to their deathbed saying, 'You know, I wish I'd eaten more rice cakes.
Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.
In the head-spinning cosmos of climate change, everyday hundreds of people claim there are 'thousands of papers' in support of a theory, yet no one ...
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
Life isn't a sport of instant success and miracle.
When you get a lot of money thrown at you, you can make some dumb decisions without the right advice.
Chocolate is the great love of my life." "That is either the saddest or smartest thing I've ever heard." "Smartest. Chocolate has never let me ...
Swear off boys, Penelope. Do yourself a favor and stay away from evil, soul-sucking penises.
I didn't revel in death, but I didn't hate it either. Death had raised me, like an older sibling. Amidst death, I had found my ...
When you grab hold of one thing, you ultimately have to let go of another. Our fingers have spaces between them, just like life, and ...
I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple.
Unless the Self is known, the power of the Self (swa satta) cannot arise.
Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in theuniverse, except that everyone else is still here.
I feel like the sport is coming to me.
Ser Barristan Selmy raised his pale blue from the table and said, 'Your Grace, ther is honor in facing an enemy on the battlefield, but ...
Einstein was arguing against quantum theory just as irrationally as his opponents had argued against relativity theory. Einstein remained adamant (he remained adamant to the ...
Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic fervor about how ...
The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love ...
This castaway, that, like a man transplanted into another planet, was separated by an immense space from his past and by an immense ignorance from ...
My father was an all-American football player.
She conquered her demons and wore her scars like wings.
At this point, there flashed briefly through Stenton's horrified mind the memory of that timeless classic, H. G. Wells's "The Star." He had first read ...
I think that Joe Biden is qualified in many respects. But I do point out that he's been wrong on many foreign policy and national ...
Sometimes," he replies and pulls me into his arms, hugging me tight, "two people have to fall apart before they can realize how much they ...
I love you today. I will love you tomorrow. I will love you always. Because when we are reborn, I will fall in love with ...
It's hard to peak when you've been training since 1965.
Prefer the specific to the general, the definite to the vague, the concrete to the abstract.
It's a funny thing - the reality is I have no feelings about school. It's long gone. Funnily enough, the bad memories - of which ...
A wet autumn morning, a garbage truck clattering down the street. The first snowfall of the season, blossom sized flakes falling languidly and melting on ...
It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my ...
History's greatest lessons is that once the state embraces a religion, the nature of that religion changes radically. It loses its nonviolent component
Women need to turn their attention from saving their spouse, their mothers, their this, their that, their kids, to putting that financial oxygen mask on ...
Traditionally games never used professional writers to create their narrative, so there's definitely a residual feeling that hiring a proper writer is somewhat of a ...
There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.
I always have a quote for any occasion...It saves the effort of original thinking.
The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously.
Nature is as fluid and elusive as a thought. Indeed, it is a thought: an unfathomable, compound thought we live in and contribute to. Reality ...
Getting more exercise isn't only good for your waistline. It's a natural anti-depressant, that leaves you in a great mood.
He looked up at the round, stained glass window in front of him, a blurred kaleidoscope backlit in the morning sun. It glowed. The color ...
It's a hard life ... but if I could, I would do it all again.
A cheerful music is a powerful light for the shadows of sorrow!
I knew right then and there that I would become as courageous as I needed in order to keep him safe. I thought of the ...
I'm not saying it's safe to go sit out in the sun all day but I don't believe that sun is bad for you.
I will not go on, I thought. I won't. I will throw my soul to the wind and blow into a thousand pieces. I will ...
She stared at Raven in a long second of shocked silence, before sagging to the floor.
Believing in things you cannot see Even with my trembling arms I want to protect someone dear to me The place my thought that proggressed ...
In September 1942, a B-17 crashed in the Pacific, stranding nine men on a raft. Within a few days, one had died and the rest ...
One of the things I love within music and within sports is how often musicians and athletes thank their audience. In the art world, you ...
Where you go, I go. Where you stay, I stay. Your people are now my people. Who you love, I'll love. Who you serve, I'll ...
Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China ... As kids we never had ...
Men's misfortunes are forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises. This
I take it you know my companion?"Oh,yes!" said Savage, his smile disappearing. "We know all about Ruby Journey. Please don't let her kill anyone important. ...
Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting ...
Success is the sweetest revenge.
I believe in work, in connections between the players, I think what makes football great is that it is a team sport. You can win ...
I'm trying to give people the chance to put out their music without the bullshit pressures of other labels.
Your work life is divided into two distinct areas - what matters most and everything else. You will have to take what matters to the ...
To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
One clear-cut result is worth a dozen wise precautions.
Let your heart be awakened to the transforming power of gratefulness.
When you want to say something very important, tell it with a short sentence! There is no time for long stories!
If my daughter wants to get into this business, I would support that decision. She's going to have a hard time not being in it. ...
And a bird who was on a crooked branch is suddenly gone without my even hearing him.
We perceive existence by means of words and names. To this or that vague, potential thing I will give a name, and it will exist ...
There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over ... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the springing and ...
And as their love had begun a little before a quotation, so it ended a little after one.
There is no secret in the mystery of life stronger and more beautiful than that attachment which converts the silence of a virgin's spirit into ...
Segregation ... not only harms one physically but injures one spiritually ... It scars the soul ... It is a system which forever stares the ...
I used to pride myself on being the first in the office in the morning and one of the last to leave at night. Now, ...
We cannot improve the making of our eyes, but we can endlessly perfect the camera.
Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.
The thought went through my mind that we should film ourselves in our sexual act, and project our frenzied copulation permanently onto the walls of ...
When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act. We used to ...
Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
We learn about life by exploring the texture and depth of space that composes our private inner world. In solitude we revisit our wounded feelings, ...
Believing, too, that is not enough. You cannot just believe. Your belief must have a purpose.
In the Bible it says God has made everything good for man to eat and to wear their skins. Whenever we eat beef, we eat ...