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No distinction seems to be more obvious than that between spiritual and temporal matters. Yet whenever they have been made objects of Legislation, they have ...

My life had become a puzzle - its pieces scattered about like paper in the wind, with no one there to chase them but me.

You can try and hold me back. Build your damn walls, pack sandbags along the edges and yell at the clouds and the rain and ...

Seek first to understand, then and only then to be understood.

I can tell you that the book 'The Ugly Truth' is about puberty and all the awfulness that comes with that time in a person's ...

You have no idea how cute you look with all those snowflakes in your hair," he murmured."And you look cute with hypothermia. I hope to ...

You necessarily have to be lost, before you're found.

As Jim Lawrence, a black labor activist at a GM plant in Dayton, Ohio, describes it, during the 1960s 'the union gave foremen a blank ...

Just thinking about a friend makes you want to do a happy dance, because a friend is someone who loves you in spite of your ...

The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.

If you take an intense color and put an intense complement next to it without graying it, it's very hot. The gray allows the eye ...

Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.

He thinks men like me weak. He thinks me dumb, feeble, subhuman. I was not raised in palaces. I did not ride horses through meadows ...

Hi, my name is Jareth, and I'll be your- God" He curses as he lays his eyes on me.I raised an eyebrow. "You'll be my ...

No wonder many people dare not look closely at life: It's a horrible sight.

I try to stay away from the L.A. scene as much as possible. I feel it helps me to better prepare for my roles if ...

You need to identify the values that come out of that kind of belief system, because I don't see them. All the polls I look ...

The speaker was stringy and angular, his blond hair pulled back in a ponytail, his plaid workman's shirtsleeves rolled up around his pale biceps. Journalism ...

There is no nation in the history that has not experienced bloodshed and murdering. We all have committed the same mistakes in a different manner.

With all those prizes the most interesting thing is getting on to the shortlist, because that tells you who people see as your peers.

Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of 7 ...

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

I am a player in life, not an observer. I look at herpes the way you look at a scraped knee.

Greatness is measured by how much you believe

The deft white-stockinged dance in thick-soledshoes! Denmark's sanctuaried Jews!

If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. ...

We're careful not to saturate people.

I don't see my movies. When you ask me about one of my movies, it just goes in my memory because maybe sometimes I confuse ...

There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.

But when she was finished running away, when she just went on, what would she put in his place?

The only thing money really buys? ... Space. A bigger house, a bigger car, a larger hotel room. First-class plane tickets. But it doesn't even ...

It's more fun when you shoot well and when you have a good score, but that's not a prerequisite to me for having a good ...

She doesn't want to think of that woman, not now. She's just one more person who hasn't kept her promise; just one more person who ...

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life ...

God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.

Not everyone is meant to be a writer," Shyla said. "I do believe, however, that everyone has a story within them to be written.

A friend of mine is in a long-distance relationship. They have dates on Skype. They'll both watch the same movie and ... play.

The outbreath is like a whetstone, and the mind is like the knife or sword that is being sharpened on that stone. When you sharpen ...

My No. 1 goal, and what I've spent my entire life striving to achieve is to win a World Cup. I want to retire so ...

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.

He balled up my discarded sweatshirt and put it against his shoulder. "Go on," he said. "I don't bite." "And from what I hear, that's ...

I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven.

You're bruised, as ugly as one of your Cyclops, and I can barely stand to look at you. - Duncan to Madelyne.

We want and expect to win the silver or gold. A bronze would be a step back. In fact, we think it would be a ...

As it turns out, American-made technology had helped Mubarak and his security state collect, compile, and parse vast amounts of data about everyday citizens.

We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to-date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know what ...

We all have a central fiction about ourselves, a favored delusion about talent or untapped potential. Most of us hang on to it as if ...

A deadly sin that brings no evil material sequel to the satisfaction afforded by committing it is one thing. A deadly sin that gives you ...

Entropy is not about speeds or positions of particles, the way temperature and pressure and volume are, but about our lack of information.

My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content.

To love her was to taste sweet surrender. For had she not entered his life, he would have sought the wonders of both Heaven and ...

The whole "weak in the knees" thing,which she always thought was just some idiotic expression back from the golden age of idiotic expressions,was real. -Suite ...

Really, really there is no dying for us. Remember?

Being in a girl group, we might bicker a lot about hair dryers or straighteners, but it's never serious. We've been lucky that we get ...

I lost my public self, or had it stolenIn a way, it was a form of identity theft.

Aaron would not come outaaron entered into agony.

My dad is a good role model for me, and then I had a high school coach that really helped me out when I was ...

The social networking sites are such good way to keep in touch with your fans, it's quick and simple and it keeps your fans interested ...

I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.

Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.)

We passed through glowering statues of monsters and gods whom I'd fought in person- the vulture Nekhbet, who'd once possessed my Gran (Long story); the ...

If I wasn't a singer, I think I'd be studying to be a psychologist.

While you're worrying about becoming famous, there is someone out there putting in work and not wasting a second of their time. Which person will ...

You ask yourself, 'What do you want your legacy to be?' I'm content at this point to say, 'Those who follow me.' Romeo Crennel, Bill ...

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side-saddle.

Sin comes when communication lines are down - it always does, sooner or later.

If I have done anything, even a little, to help small children enjoy honest, simple pleasures, I have done a bit of good.

It was a good shot, but he didn't execute it very well.

Abstain from animals.

As I get older, I feel better about myself because I've done a lot of spiritual work on myself and balanced myself out, and so ...

Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in ...

Regardless of the overall state of the economy, there is now a large enough elite made up of new multi-millionaires and billionaires for Wall Street ...

Out of the forest. The dwarf sprang up in a fright, but he could not reach his cave, for the bear was already close. Then ...

I brought you here to tell you this: sometimes what we are searching for does not exist. We may sacrifice for it, even bleed for ...

God is my shield, who saves the upright in heart. ...

When I was at home, I felt loved and safe. My sisters were always a safe haven for me. I knew they would always play ...

Fairytales cleanse and sanitise what were once true stories. In fairytales, knights are chivalrous, clean-shaven and wear shining armour - when in truth they were ...

It goes back to the if identity becomes your achievement, what do you do, this is what happens? And I do think it leads to ...

I've got no problem with octopuses. It's bugs and spiders that I don't like. Octopuses are cute, in their own 'nature did a lot of ...

The dog proved to be as dumb and stubborn as a mud fence, so Stranahan had named him Strom.

Destruction is creation. Become as a little child. Language as space, a kind of mathematical notation, geometric locations in the lab of memory. Reading. Maps. ...

Jesus' whole life and mission involve accepting powerlessness and revealing in this powerlessness the limitlessness of God's love.

If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract them ...

A powerful wind swept through the shtetl, making it whistle. Those studying obscure texts in dimly lit rooms looked up. Lovers making amends and promises, ...

If you # fail , learn. If you succeed, relish your # success . You can only know the sweet taste of # victory after ...

I'm very sassy. I want to show people in my album I'm not like my characters on TV.

Inari screamed and swung her stake, but her Buffy impersonation wasn't any better than mine.

It never bothered me when people would say, 'You only win championships because you're playing with Shaq.' It bothered me when he said it.

The heart is the hub of all sacred places. Go there and roam.

If your opponent is better armed and has longer reach, then surprise is your only ally. And then you'd better hope he's half asleep.

A married couple never seem so married as when viewed from the back seat of a motor car, talking quietly together in the front. Polly ...

At some point, Jesper realized Kaz was gone. "Not one for goodbyes, is he?" he muttered."He doesn't say goodbye," Inej said. She kept her eyes ...

Stormgren had walked to his desk and was fidgeting with his famous uranium paperweight. He was not nervous - merely undecided.

I could see the bay in the distance and where the ship should have been. Instead we found a burnt mast protruding from the waves.

My brother, Jason, came into the bar, then, and sauntered over to give me a hug. He knows that women like a man who's good ...

I began to understand the challenges that first-generation college students and students of color have in college.

Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and ...

The masculine in each of us struggles for greater freedom and tries to achieve it through financial, creative, or political challenges.

A knowledge of general literature is one of the evidences of an enlightened mind; and to give an apt quotation at a fitting time, proves ...

If life was like a body of water, she had asked that she be allowed to walk again in its shallows; instead she had been ...