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To go into the garden in its snowed-up state is like going into a bath of purity. The first breath on opening the door is ...
Everything comes at its appointed moment. - Joseph R. Sizoo
We as human beings are slightly masochistic. Everybody is ridden with insecurities and they manifest themselves in different ways, whether you're a pleaser, you're mean, ...
Kings hate to hear the things they order spoken.
The world is ending. This is your chance. Would you rather die here, or in a Jaeger?
I had seen other comic friends of mine go to indie labels. Like David Cross and Pat Oswald went to Subpop, and Subpop didn't make ...
Shoulders slumped in defeat, I turned to walk away. The drugstore had caved under the force of my criminal will, but the Coke machine was ...
She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.
Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by and large, a ...
I certainly fall in love with artists. I think that's probably the aspiration of an artist, to make a listener empathize so deeply that they ...
It doesn't really matter what a person decides to do, or how radically a person plays with gender. What matters, I think, is how aware ...
If a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.
Rock concerts are the churches of today.
The end of the ridge and the end of the world ... then nothing but that clear, empty air. There was nowhere else to climb. ...
He had an invisible sword. Really?He walked through the lobby, got into a full elevator, and no one stared. He passed a cleaning lady in ...
That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told ...
Tom Stoppard's other work includes: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers, Travesties, Night and Day, After Magritte, The Real Thing, Enter A Free Man, Hapgood, ...
Strophe and counterstrophe reached their epode.
Sometimes solutions aren't so simple; sometimes goodbye's the only way.
I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
He did not know whether he ought to be delighted or terrified. Perhaps a smidge of both. - Tyrion
The world is merciless, and it's also very beautiful.
Americans who read and think are patriots of the first order. The kind who know enough to roll their eyes whenever anyone tries to claim ...
Joe!' he called. 'Hey, honey, can you get the pretty girl a Coke?''Only if you stop calling me *honey*,' the bartender, a bearded man in ...
To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. ...
Aye, beg me for mercy, Sassenach. Ye shallna have it, though; not yet.
So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.
I think the defining moment in my career is the day that I moved to Nashville - September 1, 2001. That's the biggest step to ...
The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the ...
That statesman is indeed happy who can count as his friends the really honest and consistent, the true Patriots, and the men of honorable thought.
Stay down! Wolf yelled, pushing Scarlet to the ground and hunkering over her body. A living shield. His instinct was still there, at least. The ...
The electric energy which motivates us is not within our bodies at all. It is a part of the universal supply which flows through us ...
It isn't that NPR is matriarchal but that it has dedicated itself to not being patriarchal in its outlook and presentation, stipulating from the outset ...
There can never be suffering in the home of a person who is working for world's salvation.
It wasn't the quick peck Nate had given her. It wasn't like anything she'd ever felt before. His fingers brushed her jaw, settling on the ...
All your life has been a journey to find an identity.
For several seconds, they stand there, ... just four feet apart now, but separated by a thick granite counter, by fifty years and two fully ...
Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality.
I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut.
You do not know anything until you have practiced.
How many murders are committed in Gauteng, or in the Western Cape, in a month? A week? A day? An hour? But of course we ...
A profile, a look, a voice, can capture a heart in no time at all.
Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.
Can't you just keep your big mouth shut?" Brian said furiously to Nan. He pointed to Chrestomanci. "How do we know he's safe? For all ...
Ambition was a dull pain, like a continually broken heart.
Shawn Carter was born December 4th,Weighing in at 10 pounds, 8 ounces.He was the last of my 4 children,The only one who didn't give me ...
Only love can heal the wounds of the past. However, the intensity of our woundedness often leads to a closing of the heart, making it ...
THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIOTonight, sent by the police, they come to serenade me.He laughed, then tapped his stomach.-I cannot laugh yet. As musicians they ...
The sea is whipping the skyThe sky is whipping the seaYou can hide away forever from the stormBut you'll never hide away from me.
You cannot force spiritual things. A testimony is not thrust upon you; it grows. And a testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, ...
His nostrils flared with annoyance. "I prefer Ambassador Asterios, thank you very much." "Using your surname, eh?" "I requested Big Daddy Steve, but your Elders ...
Broken people give broken love. And we are all a little broken. You just have to forgive and sew up the wounds love delivers, and ...
From her first superheroine role in 'Lara Croft: Tomb Raider' - which earned $275 million globally in 2001, back when that was real money - ...
If at first you don't succeed, sure, try again ... but if you keep not succeeding, you should probably concentrate on something (or someone) else ...
I did a whole concert in Atlanta with my fly open, and I had a black suit on and a white shirt. My white shirt ...
As Indian women, we are always balancing work, life, home, etc. It's important to know that while juggling rubber balls and glass balls, the former ...
One of the first symptoms of depression, even before your mood drops to new lows, is sleep disturbance. Either you can't get up or you ...
Of course she teased the girls, but it was not the same as having a grown man to work on - she had often felt ...
When you hang out with people who are always being supergrateful and appreciating things and saying thank you, in the end it kind of rubs ...
I enjoy the process of composing music. The first time I hear a song, it has to bring a smile to my lips. You have ...
My father was my greatest inspiration. He was a lunatic.
The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music.
You don't want to be the smartest person in the room; you want to be the dumbest in the room. You want to be surrounded ...
Wag the world how it will, Leaves must be green in Spring.
Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.
It's the human condition, Kitten. The unknown isn't something that sits well. They'd rather push it away-not completely, but just enough that it's not always ...
No one on this earth ever says anything 'once and for all.' If they did, life would come to a stop and succeeding generations would ...
Respect those elder to you in years, in knowledge and spiritual attainment and act with love and compassion with those who are younger or less ...
God is everywhere: yes, but how dim faith is, what a remote idea heaven is, in the modern world!
Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.
Don't worry. We'll farm, soon's he finishes wi' that new-style Scanran fertilizer.
The problem of life is to change worry into thinking and anxiety into creative action.
When you decide firmly to lead a clean life, chastity will not be a burden on you: it will be a crown of triumph.
Stressed, depressed, but well dressed.
Despite the differences between our species and cultures, there is an order that we all share. The development of a civilization is a scripted event. ...
Then let no man attempt to number Israel today, but let everyone have a heart of flesh, a heart of tender sympathy, a heart that, ...
The trouble is the field of science, medicine, universities, biotech companies - you name it - have been so splintered, layers, sub-divided, hacked that people ...
Tom disturbed Josh, in more ways than one. He was always showing up where you least expected him, like a bogeyman in a horror movie. ...
Nunc scio quit sit amor." Lat., "Now I know what love is.
My husband is old-fashioned and kind, he does the greatest Sinatra impression, and I'd never have written anything if he hadn't read all those bedtime ...
The Snow Leopard's Tale is mesmeric. Tom McIntyre has compressed so many things into so few pages that I can think of only a few ...
Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow; I hear the first young hard-bell ring, 'Tis time for me to go! ...
I break my back for music because it's something that I love, but I'm not going to break my back for a bank. I wouldn't ...
I wasn't wishing for something I couldn't have. I could have her, but it wouldn't be easy. It wouldn't be easy, but it would be ...
And Phoebe and Sebastian went their separate ways, to the blacksmith shop and the library, after several backward glances that weren't coordinated enough to allow ...
She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through which it has endured, and is not ...
Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.
I think I won't do for your business at all, but personally I have no fight with you. You can go on and save all ...
No one book of scripture can be understood by itself, any more than any one part of a tree or member of the body can ...
Behold,' said the Voice, 'earthly beauty. It is nothing but seeming, for to the uninstructed eye the world appears fruitful and sweet, yet in it ...
[On whether she would want daughter Tricia to marry a politician:] I would feel sorry for her if she did.
In the world of Big Macks Starbucks coffee and oversized SUVS it was business as usual snort and go
The fashion industry isn't merely content to encase my meaty flanks in skintight denim. Oh, no! That denim also has to be white, a color ...
There didn't seem to be any difference at all between LOSING YOUR MARBLES and HAVING A BREAKDOWN, and whether you called it a BUGHOUSE or ...
As I went walking That ribbon of highway I saw above me The endless skyway I saw below me The lonesome valley This land was ...
It is silly to call fat people 'gravitationally challenged' - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.
No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied ... my sole and only ...
Maybe nobody ever saw themselves completely objectively. Every self-image needs a flattering mirror or two.
He neither feared to die nor refused to live.
...he is the rising sun to the wane of my falling moon...