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Her speeches were about the sanctity of the home, about how women should stay home. Serena Joy didn't do this herself, she made speeches instead, ...

Changes in clouds and rainfall can overwhelm what little effect CO2-water vapour has on temperature.

As a matter of international law, the United States is in an armed conflict with al-Qa'ida, the Taliban, and associated forces, in response to the ...

When I said that Mercy stood Within the borders of the wood, I meant the lenient beast with claws And bloody swift-dispatching jaws. - LAWRENCE ...

Sins of omission, Louis said. You don't believe in sins. I believe there are failures of character, like I said before. That's a sin.

Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But ...

O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'st use them?

It's frightening to admit but if I lay off the lin it'a amazing how my love handles deplete. But is life without gin worth living?

Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.

If you use disappointments as sort of mid- semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger- and wiser. ...

There are many times where even I, at certain points in the evening, after a few drinks, can't pronounce my own surname.

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

'Mulan' holds a very special place in my heart. It's been 16 years since the film, but hordes of fans still come up and tell ...

The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all ...

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a ...

There are definitely perks to being a good ski racer.

I've been astounded to discover how good to their teams and crew that Marvel are. They're so collaborative, so smart with their stories. They have ...

What I strive most to achieve in art is to make you forget the material. The sculptor must ... communicate whatever struck his sensibility, so ...

I always contended that we as a race must not seek to rise from a position of disadvantage to one of advantage, but to create ...

It's Halloween, you can tell everyone you're going as your favorite Steampunck character.""I don't even know what that is!""Because your generation has no taste in ...

I listen to a lot of other cyber metal bands such as Fear Factory, Sybreed, and Mnemic to name a few, so it has certainly ...

I've done a Russian movie," Claire said. "Thank God they're still stuck in realism, Zola-crazy. Subtitling their films is like captioning a child's picture book.

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, ...

How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life.

And our marriage dissolved, like margarita salt on the tongue, leaving behind the bitter aftertaste of something that started out sweet but ended sour.

Robin Hood just called, he wants Sherwood Forest back.

Well, I was in a band. I was the singer with a band called the Soul Satisfiers. I sang then quite a bit of Jazz ...

You cried when He took away your drop of water, not knowing He'd saved for you, the sea.

The GOP leaders are upset with me, but the Republicans around the district are thanking me for stepping up to the plate and giving them ...

For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, ...

The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of them. Well, this ...

I don't claim to have led a saintly life. There have been a lot of one-sided love stories in my life.

So I went instead and tasted Taki's new white wine. Spiridion! what a wine ... like the blood of a dragon and smooth as a ...

In practice, I run every play like I'm scoring a touchdown.

My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in ...

Book is the best friend, have no demand, no complain

She would die, Claire realized, before she would give up the love she felt for her son.

I have been ineluctably drawn to libraries ever since I entered that sanctum sanctorum. It was a place of quietude. In a world where things ...

For a fleeting moment, I wondered how he turned out so untamed, so free, coming from such a refined and wealthy setting.

Greg Gutfeld is funnier than all the smart people I know, and smarter than all the funny people I know. I don't know what that ...

We are the ring of steel around Lord Rahl himself... Two thousand strong. We fall to a man before harm gets a glance at Lord ...

I could see her will leaving and death seeping through her skin to skewer her soul.

Joanna gave me a leveling look. You think we're the only major that's superinsular and clique-ish and gossips about everyone else in it? Believe me, ...

The following day she didn't expect the messenger who arrived after breakfast, asking for the name of her village. And when she hesitated, he said ...

As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors.

Wisdom says we should try to make a relationship work not because we have strong feelings but because it's a good match.

I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other.

I wasn't sure what was required for home schooling, but I'd take ten hours a day, seven days a week, with no bathroom or lunch ...

Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.

Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don't redeem what this particular civilization ...

I am very much against weapons in space. And I wish we could be spearheading that program to come to some kind of international agreement ...

What foolsmiddle-classgirls are to expect other people to respect the same gods as themselves and E M Forster.

One section of the old city, tucked against the western walls, becomes a firestorm in which the spires of flames, at their highest, reach three ...

I get the whole lost-your-parents thing. Been there. But that don't have to turn you stupid. That's a choice, like wearing green stretch pants.

When life throws you curve balls, become a curve ball hitter.

Life is less a quest than a quilt. We find meaning, love, and prosperity through the process of stitching together our bold attempts to help ...

The slow approach of the dreaded event; the confusion of the forces opposed to it and their hopeless adherence to the rules of the game, ...

It's not easy staying relevant in the marketplace.

When you begin to expect that there is always room for improvement, you put yourself in the driver's seat. Why wait for someone else to ...

It is only the consecrated, Spirit-filled Christian who can have victory over the world, the flesh, and the devil. It is the Holy Spirit who ...

Shigemori's body of work is a compelling manifesto for continuous cultural renewal.

Joscelin, is love supposed to make you feel like you're sick and dying, and mad enough to hit someone and drunk with joy, and your ...

A lover makes you smile like children smile. That smile that was only meant for you. The half smile. The big shiny smile full of ...

All right, baby," Daphne crooned."Talk to Mama and tell me all your secrets ...

I don't consider myself a moral man. I do not philosophize about life or bother with laws and principles that govern most people. I do ...

I am a strong believer in grass roots communities, but I also believe government resources, when available, should be equally available to all people.

There are things that are not sayable. That's why we have words.

This is the strangest life I have ever known.

What idiot told you the law was concerned with morality?

Raveand Rhamnusia, Goddes of Dispyte,' said Lymond acidly. 'I am trying to get you home, vide the shiten shepherd and the clene shepe, with your ...

Like some scurrilous king stripped of his vestiture and driven together with his fool into the wilderness to die.

The moon is considered a relatively easy object to land humans on, everything else is much harder by orders of magnitude. It is the reason ...

The greatest artists have never been men of taste. By never sophisticating their instincts they have never lost the awareness of the great simplicities, which ...

Steller's sea cow, named after the German naturalist Georg Steller, who discovered a small community of them living on Bering Island, off the coat of ...

Gen Y is really quite distinct from Gen X; it's really self-involved and very narcissistic - their cameras are filled with pictures of themselves; Facebook, ...

A beautiful sidenote is, once the toxins and dramas are removed, you purify your life. Simplify and purify. What better way to live your life? ...

To improve the oarsman you must improve the man.

In the year 540 B.C. or thereabouts, on the island of Samos, there came to power a tyrant named Polycrates. He seems to have started ...

I was not allowed to take spherical trigonometry because I'd sprained my ankle. Because I'd sprained my ankle, I had an incomplete in gym, phys ...

I had to marry a Greek; I had to stir up the ethnic pot. Otherwise, my children would have been anemic and sickly. Now they've ...

I never want to pigeonhole myself or get typecast. I'm looking forward to my career and showing all of my range as an actress, and ...

I wonder if he'll ever see the truth in my own heart: that, whatever Dustpelt says, however much Fireheart breaks the warrior code, I love ...

The world goes on, little Seri," he said. "A soldier never dies. His blood makes the grass green for his children.

I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice.

Although the pineapple had been widely disseminated for centuries among the native peoples of South and Central America, it didn't figure in European history until ...

Have I told you how cock-stiffeningly gorgeous you look tonight?

Once upon uh time, Ah never 'spected nothin', Tea Cake, but bein' dead from the standin' still and tryin' tuh laugh. But you come 'long ...

When spreading your wings do not fear, the people who love you will always pick you back up when you fall, and on the day ...

Do not give a damn what "they" have to say (and you will know who they are) for you are either very right or very ...

Summer flings always seemed amazing in movies, though that might be because the leading man did not ever call his romantic interest dude.

There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it.[It., Non e male alcuno nelle cose umane che non abbia ...

Ha, ha, ha, thou entanglest thyself in thine own work like a silkworm.

I love your sushi roll, hotter than wasabi. I race for your love, Shake-n-Bake, Ricky Bobby

To the castle feeling Saturday couldn't come quickly enough. They would have felt sorry for Hagrid when the time came for him to say good-bye ...

I am tired of hearing negative words. I will supersaturate the world with positive words.

The nearer you approach to God, the less you reason and argue. When you attain Him, then all sounds - all reasoning and disputing - ...

The act of eating is very political. You buy from the right people, you support the right network of farmers and suppliers who care about ...

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

Tell my father I was abducted by a lucius nymph and pulled to her lair." Styxx"For the record, I resent being called a lucius nymph." ...

Honestly, I don't recommend anyone get into music. If you have something else that you're good at, do that instead. This is a really tough ...