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When I was running across the country, I was doing 40 or 50 miles a day in sleeting snow with zero visibility for five or ...

Antiessentialist thinking forces us to view the world differently. We must accept shadings and continua as fundamental. We lose criteria for judgment by comparison to ...

I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at ...

Successful marriage was a balancing act - that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation ...

Just because one of your films does well at the box office, that doesn't make you a good person. It doesn't make you strong, smart, ...

I'm the kind of guy who would say, "Yeah, I'll do that!," and then, when it came down to it, I would be absolutely petrified. ...

They want you to think that darkness or evil is only something that gets inflicted on you by the outside world, but I know better, ...

Officiating is the only job in America that everybody knows how to do better than the guy who is doing it.

The only true thing that brings out the best in anyone is love.

Sin, on the contrary, is the pursuit of legitimate self-regarding interests at the expense of the neighbor, by spending our time and talents figuring out ...

We have walked through the darkness of this world, that's why we are able to see even a sliver of light.-Gaara

I believe that a woman who loses interest in her Bible has not been equipped to love it as she should. The God of the ...

Life makes concessions for no one; it's up to each of us to learn from our experiences; laugh; cry; scream; shout; do whatever it takes ...

My fingers touch each other and he's squishy, like a sea cucumber. Those creatures are a demonstration of God's fixation with wieners.

A violet in the youth of primy nature,Forward, not permanentsweet, not lasting;The perfume and suppliance of a minute;No more.

I sent a simple smiley face, because my phone did not have a smiley face that was wrapping her hands around her own throat and ...

Gracious," said Cecily. "You must be Mr. Sallows.""Nephilim," observed the shop owner gloomily. "I detest Nephilim.""Hmph," said Cecily. "Charmed, I'm sure.

Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace.

I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and there's a lot of controversy ...

I've never been able to understand 'faith' myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion ...

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return ...

It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy.

I have a father who was the first black student at his junior high and high school and had to do a lot to get ...

North Korea threatened to launch a missile at South Korea. North Korea backed down after South Korea threatened to launch a sequel to 'Gangnam Style.'

In high school, I once sang 'Let's Get It On' and 'Brown Sugar' with a band that included my English teacher and my math teacher.

The fact that Perez Hilton calls me 'Saman' - it's the most homophobic thing ever. The perpetuation of [the idea that I'm] the man in ...

The world is perfect, and at the same time, it is in a constant state of unfolding. This is also true for you and me. ...

The pattern match begins with a search for a substring of a given string that has a specified structure in the string manipulation language

Suffiseth this to proove my theame withall,That every bullet hath a lighting place.

When life is difficult, try looking up at the night sky. A million stars proclaim aloud His Handiwork. And you know you are never alone.

I felt clean, all the bone-beaked loneliness birds banished, their rocky nests turned to river stones. Cool, clear water bubbled over them, streams in the ...

If love only belongs to the life, why life is so short and death feels more timeless and completely separates our closeness?if so, why love ...

Red-heeled shoes and silk stockings clocked in black. Gray satin breeches with silver knee buckles. Snowy linen, with Brussels lace six inches deep at cuff ...

Unity is a spiritual quality. It's the sweet feelings of peace and purpose that come from belonging to a family ... It's wanting the best ...

I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral ...

I didn't want to be like everybody else. Art was my religion.

[T]his is the strongest encouragement to them in sinning; and we have need to lay all our batteries against this bulwark of presumption (361).

Nothing was done to us - we were simply placed in a complete void, and everyone knows that nothing on earth exerts such pressure on ...

The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.

It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, ...

I'll show them 'love is worthless,'" Silena Beauregard grumbled as she strapped on her armor. "I'll pulverize them!

The Swartzentruber Order is the most conservative on the Amish spectrum. Amish people have differences just like any culture.

Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother.

I'm the guy in the crowd making fun of the hero's shirt.

Whoever is first to dominate the most important segment of a market with viral potential will be the last mover in the whole market.

What if you can't, Austin? You can't help everyone.""At least I'll know I tried.

When a man's home is born out of his heart and developed through his labor and perfected through his sense of beauty, it is the ...

You ask me why I dwell amidst these jade-green hills? I smile. No words can tell the stillness in my heart. Peach blossoms drift streamwater ...

The mind creates a story in a strange way. Love keeps us together in this eternal play.

What I don't do is try to like become whoever I'm rapping with. The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL.

You've got nothing to be scared of with me. Not one damn thing. You've had me in knots for months, Dee. Fighting for you, us, ...

He looked up the stairs and then back to me. "You came out of nowhere." "No, I was on my way down too. You probably ...

There existed something in this world that bound a mage tighter than a blood oath: love. Love was the ultimate chain, the ultimate whip, and ...

In a period of less than 150 years, to progress from slavery to Pennsylvania Avenue speaks volumes about this family and our nation. Distracted by ...

In the dark glass where the road poured down their cigarettes rose and fell like distant semaphores above the soft green dawn of the dashlights.

People commonly misquote the old Sacrinomicon and say that money is the root of all evil, which is moronic if you think about it. The ...

No, they'll dance with you and then say I am justly called mysterious," he said."You are odious.""Quite so, but admit you've never danced better than ...

Who invented my life?

The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they ...

Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.

Under the bludgeonings of fateMy head is bloody, but unbowed.

No one knew exactly why the seals ate stones, but maybe, some thought, it was for ballast. Or to help digestion. Or to stave off ...

I had a dream about you last night. We stopped telling each other about our dreams when we realized we were still inside them.

I would love to direct a play. But I think when people look at me they see music and dancing and singing.

Stephanie had no problem doing what shewas told, just so long as she was given a good reason why sheshould.

Whoever makes sujood to Allah properly, will never make sujood to the duniya.

Nearly every problem has been solved by someone, somewhere. The challenge of the 21st century is to find out what works and scale it up.

Extravagant love, as in every generation before us, has been ridiculed and scorned. it is seen as wasteful and reckless overspending. But extravagant love, the ...

Schiaparelli's collaborations with Dali and Cocteau as well as Prada's Fondazione Prada push art and fashion ever closer, in a direct, synergistic, and culturally redefining ...

Life has no destination, it is a journey to see the beauty.

I still trust my penalty sytem and will be there when I'll be needed.

I'm not a dishwasher anymore. But I'm still from Sangamon Street.

I just really dig feeling subservient to nature. It brings me a peace and calm. Kind of like a Faustian thing, I think.

Nostalgia used to be called mal du Suisse - the Swiss sickness.

I love being in an arena that has like 10,000 people and huge crowds. I want to do a show at like the Viper room ...

Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters ...

Life was a wheel, and it always came back around.

Sufferers of depression have 'episodes' the same way those who suffer from multiple sclerosis do. It comes, wipes the floor with you, and then somehow ...

From a legal point of view - " He shook his head. "Forget the law. It isn't going to help. They'll cite it where it ...

I want to fight the wussification of the State of Texas. I want to rise and shine and bring back the glory.

Drink this," she told her friend.Jess moaned. "Do it," Kestrel said, "or you'll be sorry.""What a lovely bedside manner you have," Sarsine said.

The thing I've done the best in this world is giving birth to Saet Byul. I can't imagine my world without her

The precepts of philosophy and of the Hebrew code, laid hold of actions only. (Jesus) pushed his scrutinies into the heart of man, erected his ...

If you want to simplify your life, meditation is the answer. If you want to fulfil your life, meditation is the answer. If you want ...

Can I ask one more question?"Cateline repressed a sigh. "One more. Then you need to eat your supper.""If Davillon has so many gods, how come ...

Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really ...

Carl Lewis wasn't a great sprinter. He could only run fast for like 9 seconds.

Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new staircase ...

Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere.

Travis tapped my apple with his fork. "You gonna eat that, Pidge?""No, you can have it, Baby."Heat consumed my ears when America's head jerked to ...

I guess the beautiful disaster turned into a beautiful wedding.""Miracles do happen," I said remembering the conversation she and I had what seemed like a ...

But I fired four shots more into the inert body, on which they left no visible trace. And each successive shot was another loud, fateful ...

People in the West sometimes have these marvelous visions of India and Tibet. They assume that there are all these sadhus walking around and everybody ...

I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.

How I draw and how I leave things out is parallel in some ways to the non-verbal soundscape in radio stories.

My father left when I was four and Georgia was two. That was about a year after Leo died. Once he was gone, we never ...

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

We see entrepreneurship and small businesses and supply chains as a critical part of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda.

They'd listen silenty, with grave faces: but once they'd turn to each other they'd smile cruelly. He couldn't have it both ways. He'd put himself ...

Like my freedom. If I feel like I'm being controlled, I get crazy. Because I know I made it this far by following my intuition. ...