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I believe we have a choice in this world about how to tell sad stories , on the one hand , we can sugercoat it. ...
How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?
The government satirizes itself. All we can wish is that there will be a large number of Americans who will realize how dumb this all ...
One scholar used sales figures from the French company Hennessy to estimate that Kim's annual cognac budget before the sanctions could have been as high ...
Among the cognoscenti, though, it is not just about elaborate new flavors. I always consider the main test of ice cream to be the simple ...
I've shaken hands with every radio station, from Honduras to Ryan Seacrest's.
The superflu we can charge off to the stupidity of the human race. It doesn't matter if we did it or the Russians, or the ...
Stuckley drew back his sword with evident satisfaction. "She really is your Achilles' heel, isn't she Furey?""No." Lorcan said, preparing his own attack. "Not my ...
Love gave someone the power to break you. I'd been broken beyond repair.
As a lawyer I am before and above all things for the supremacy of law.
Do you really think we'll meet again one day? Don't you?
The foundation stone of all philosophy is self-knowledge and being true to thy self. A person must address an inner necessity in order to realize ...
Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder how ...
Traaaiiinnn," Roc repeats slowly, sounding out the word for me like I'm stupid. "T-R-A-I-N. Spell it with me, Tristan.
Death is the welcome cessation of idiocy.
What's called art now probably has some legitimate things happening in it, but I've become more and more distrustful of a lot of it because ...
Spreadable butter is wonderful for cake-making: it's much easier to cream than the block type and slightly lighter because it's blended with oil.
Are you telling me i can't stay here untill saterday?
I want to be happy. I used to want Mr. Darcy, laugh at me if you want, or the idea of him. Someone who made ...
If we pursue organic farming as our healthy food style, we can bring down cost of treatment to a great extent.
The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible.
This girl. This little high school kid with her stupid boots and her Addams Family wardrobe and her skin as white and floury-looking as unbaked ...
I would define globalization as the freedom for my group of companies to invest where it wants when it wants, to produce what it wants, ...
Poetry taught me a great deal about language and images, but when it came to plotting, I was stumped. It's been very much a learn-by-doing ...
Lamia was not sure whether she liked Leyla. She was too quiet, too knowing, her eyes were always probing, she felt, and she was clearly ...
I don't know if my agent will be upset but I quoted him saying that he would jump out a window if I turn down ...
Herr Siedler smiles as if to say: You and I, son, we know history takes a longer course, don't we?
For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; ...
Parents needs to spend more time with who they're trusting their kids with. That's one of the nuggets going forward. Find out who these coaches ...
I'm getting tempted to visit the Bookhouse myself. No telling what else you'd find on those shelves.
We are primates, with a third of our brains dedicated to vision, and large swaths devoted to touch, hearing, motion, and space. For us to ...
Nobody can refuse a person who comes and asks for a job. Nobody can refuse a poor man when he goes and asks for food. ...
And the dress she was wearing, a highly inappropriate one that hugged her thighs a little too tightly, rose up an inch every time she ...
I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.
Value is created for the customer, and that allows our suppliers, agents and staff that work with Sany to obtain success.
Derevaun Seraun! Derevaun Seraun!" ("The end of pleasure is pain!")
If you got a dope girl, there's going to be people that want her. But I don't know, I've always kept my 'A-game' on point. ...
The nouvelle cuisine of anarchy. Barium nitrate in a sauce of sulfur and garnished with charcoal. That's your basic gunpowder. Bon appetit.
She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she ...
I don't mean to mock the gods, but Freyja seems to me a bitch.- Hjalti Skjeggjason
Let's cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don't think I, or my colleagues, predicted just how enormous the reaction would be. I failed ...
We read poems from the Oxford Book of Twentieth Century Verse. Neil insisted on spilling wine over my carpet.
Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get the part.
A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with the enemy.
I have developed my eye as a cinematographer through the craft of operating. When I am not operating, I am often anxious, uncertain, restless, sometimes ...
Absorption in Imam Husayn's affairs (his life and his person, etc.), away from his missionary side is backwardness.
The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I had ...
Foot speed was a profoundly different way of moving through the world than my normal modes of travel. Miles weren't things that blazed dully past. ...
Grief! thou art classed amongst the depressing passions. And true it is that thou humblest to the dust, but also thou exaltest to the clouds. ...
Green Gables has been translated into Swedish and Dutch. My copy of the Swedish edition always gives me the inestimable boon of a laugh. The ...
When I'm off the road, my husband and I recharge our batteries. It's a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual, and that ...
If you must be Sherlock Holmes," she observed, "I'll get you a nice little syringe and a bottle labelled cocaine, but for God's sake leave ...
I am into drones and one chord freak outs and the paintings I am into are more minimal things the New York colour field painters ...
Don't you know sugar is brown first? White folks couldn't stand the fact that something so sweet shared the same color as the people who ...
Only think of two things - the report of the pistol and the tape. When you hear one, run like hell until you break the ...
What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The ...
Global warming can mean colder, it can mean drier, it can mean wetter.
Onions, along with leeks, garlic, shallots and scallions, make up the allium family of vegetables, which can have beneficial effects on the cardiovascular and immune ...
Aomame gave him a perfunctory smile. I don't give a shit about your business, mister, she thought, I just happen to like the shape of ...
Mademoiselle St. Pierre always presided at M. Emanuel's lessons, and I was told that the polish of her manner, her seeming attention, her tact and ...
In the boundless ocean of mind innumerable currents and tides shift with the shifting emotion of each several soul.
Short of screaming-hot Thai food, everything can be suitable for kids too.
Somebody came up to me after a talk I had given, and say, "You make mathematics seem like fun." I was inspired to reply, "If ...
School improvement is not a mystery. Incremental, even dramatic improvement is not only possible but probable under the right conditions.
Prior to then it was believed that black holes were just cosmic cookie monsters, swallowing everything that came within their gravitational clutches.
O rose, who dares to name thee?No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet,But pale, and hard, and dry, as stubblewheat,Kept seven years in a ...
I want to provoke people with thoughts, not by taking my clothes off. It's time to move on from Stripperville.
We had already beaten them 4-0 and 7-0 earlier this season, so we knew we were in for a really tough game today.
Fundamentally, people are suckers for the truth.
You have what it takes! Believe! You are the one with the dream. You own it. And you will walk through the open doors. Nothing ...
The sister played so beautifully. Her face was tilted to one side and she followed the notes with soulful and probing eyes. Gregor advanced a ...
I usually feel pretty screamy when someone attacks my school.
Parents are working more than ever before and unable to monitor what kids are eating at home, and schools are selling astronomical amounts of junk ...
Testing the business logic inside the system under test (SUT) via the user interface is a bad idea. Even
Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.
Once she had said to him that what they had was grace. Even now, married properly, rank bestowed, it still was. And always would be
Water drunk more reverently still, from the hands or from the spring itself, diffuses within us the most secret salt of earth and the rain ...
Sometimes the best answers to prayer are the ones God doesn't answer.
But it was not over for Lisbeth Salander. This was only the first day of the rest of her life. At
Archie became absolutely still, afraid that the rapid beating of his heart might betray his sudden knowledge, the proof of what he'd always suspected, not ...
Every video I've made has an inspirational message behind it. Since day one, I thought, 'Okay, I want my audience to be, like, Disney members.' ...
Take charge of hidden, sneaky sources of chronic inflammation that can trigger illness and disease by wearing comfortable shoes daily, getting an annual flu vaccine, ...
The mind longs for what it has missed.
But, if I dare say it, it wasn't until I had helped kill a man that I realized how elusive and complex an act a ...
In my experience I've learned women are better streakers.
Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.
My motrher says friendship should be slowly and carefully cultivated, like a rose garden, like a romance in a story. That every reason you care ...
Rumors of glory are often hidden inside what many consider myths and tales.
Em, I am trying to have an important conversation!" shouted Seylin. "I will not change into a cat!
It was Indian summer, a bluebird sort of day as we call it in the north, warm and sunny, without a breath of wind; the ...
A writer is always working with whatever she's managed to store in the brainpan or puzzle out about the world.
There's nothing wrong with falling in love and sharing your life with someone.
I don't need a boyfriend to be happy. If I meet someone and I want to be with him, then I will be. I'm very ...
You are the first to arrive alive in fifty years. You are a puissant man. Arrival of the fittest is the doctrine of the Holy ...
The reason I put make-up on or wear the costume is to try and find my own style. It's like my guitar style - I'm ...
Without a good facilitator, a retrospective most likely will be a disaster.
He also had deep brown eyes, light brown skin and an infectious grin, even in the middle of a grueling SWAT workout. In short, exactly ...
As dawn leaks into the sky it edits out the stars like excess punctuation marks, deleting asterisks and periods, commas, and semi-colons, leaving only unhinged ...
Who is this?" he asks. "I've seen him hanging around you like some lovesick puppy. Is he one of the Nephilim?
Researched Heinrich Fuchs. There were a lot of Fuchs in Splugen. Splugen was full of dumb Fuchs. The Swiss are famous for maintaining neutrality, except, ...