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The spirit of pessimism inside of her was purely organic.
Perhaps we are not really sinners in the hands of an angry God, after all. Perhaps we are all more like seedlings in the hands ...
I'm not asking for your forgiveness. I have done no wrong according to my kind. I never meant to turn you. I just wanted to ...
I'll never forget what burning roses look like. All those scarlet petals turning incandescent and furious. Like the last fl are of the sun before ...
It is proper Netiquette to post pictures with status updates to make them more engaging.
Abby_Donovan: Heathcliff was a misogynistic asshole.MarkBaynard: Could you explain that to my Lit 101 class? I hate to see all those impressionable young females swoowing ...
Success isn't always going to be a huge contract; success is going to be if you just live out your purpose in life.
At my first job as an independent researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, they told me I could work on most anything, but not what I ...
Even in a perfect world, where everyone was equal I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequal
People often need to suspend their self-promotion, and have someone in their lives they do not need to impress. This explains dog ownership.
There's one thing I want you to do for me.""Anything." He pleaded."When you're all alone, sitting in the silence behind bars, separated from your freedom. ...
I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfied with ...
Her soul rusted with that grievance sticking in it
Dude.. where's your suit? Just once, when I say "suit up" I wish you'd put on a suit.
I think one should be antagonistic to one's underlings. It keeps them on their toes.~Soi Fon
Definitions, her grandmother once said, had to be like a fat man's belt - big enough to cover the subject but elastic enough to allow ...
YES. BECAUSE THAT'S HOW I ROLL. LIKE A SUAVE THING. In fact, from here on, please forward my mail to 1 Suave Hill, Suave Boulevard, ...
Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography, demographics, technology, and ...
Falling in love is like falling from a high cliff into a warm silky sea, the falling is like flying and the landing is like ...
It bothered me because like most people who have choices, I am not completely comfortable with mine.
You might not be able to operate your own Learjet and have an unlimited expense account, but if you have a reasonable expectation for a ...
I'm Galladon, from the sovereign realm of Duladel. I'm most recently from Elantris, land of sludge, insanity, and eternal perdition. Nice to meet you.
In such sad circumstances I but see myself exalted by my own enemies, for in order to defeat some small works of mine they try ...
I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each ...
I look up at Eric,sniffing "I tried to...and..."I shake my head. "You tired to what?" asks Eric"Kiss me," says Tobias. "And I rejected her,and she ...
We've been an empire in decline since I can remember," Ketchum said bluntly; he wasn't kidding. "We are a lost nation, Danny. Stop farting around.
Don't know when my life came to visualising intense pain and tragedy to putting it down on paper, to putting across a message of love ...
But in my heart of hearts, this is the kind of thing ... this is what everyone is struggling with in their lives - relationships ...
There's not a hell of a lot of difference between bravery and stupidity." - Commander Boaz Aurigae
My surfboard is a 7-foot-3-inch spoon made by Rip Curl, kind of between a longboard and a shortboard. Surfing brings me into the here and ...
Stop trying to change someone who does not want to change. Stop giving chances to someone who abuses your forgiveness. Stop walking back to the ...
Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.
They'd even met, he recommended him to his own editor at Scribner, Max Perkins, suggesting Max sign up this promising young
Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.
When authorities learned that Eugene O'Neill's play All God's Chillun proposed to show black and white children playing together as if that were normal, the ...
The only reason a man should ever pick up a sword was to protect those he loved, not to willfully take the life of someone ...
Riley, you're the Devil, and I'd gladly sell you my soul, if you didn't already own it..." - Luc Wade
The two of us praying like this to the Black Madonna Sudenly washes over me, and I'm filled with love for my mother. The best ...
O, the red rose may be fair, And the lily statelier; But my shamrock, one in three Takes the very heart of me!
It's hard to get money to support your [non-profit] organization if you have no evidence. It's very much like the acting business: You need an ...
If God didn't mean for us to use drugs, It would never have made us such curious monkeys, nor given us so many interesting vegetables.
You're my paradise for now." ~Gage
One day, my sweet girl, some lucky man will come and help you understand the very meaning of love. He will sweep you off your ...
8In peace I will lie down and sleep, for you alone, LORD, make me dwell in safety.
You make it a production. Slam doors. Knock things over. Scream. But I just leave. Even if I'm still standing there, I leave. I am ...
We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult ...
If they make you put on a suit, it's because they are going to do something horrible to you. I guarantee it.
To be happy with myself and always make others happy. To be confident and give others confidence in themselves. To smile, to surf, to laugh ...
I could go crazy on a night like tonightWhen summer's beginning to give up her fightAnd every thought's a possiblilityAnd the voices are heard but ...
You!' he shouted, and he thrust his hand into his pocket, but it was empty. 'Your wand's here, son,' said Ted, tapping it on Harry's ...
From Love Under a Dark Sky: In the universe vastWe share a simple feastAmong creatures equally earthbound.Let us raise our hearts in gratitude,Our eyes in ...
I don't see myself as a very important person. But I was the second woman to write a novel in Iran, and I have written ...
There is so much more fashion coverage online, so women today are really seeing the collections. They're a lot savvier and more aware of the ...
I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
CSI, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Criminal Minds, Blue Bloods, Castle, Bones, and Hawaii Five-0
They say, don't cry because it's over but instead smile because it had happened.
I was not so sure but too tired and too relieved to go further that night. To reach one another again had been far enough.
We need to touch the fountain of life to draw in living lasting strength.
You hear mothers say all the time that they would die for their children, but my mom never said shit like that. She didn't have ...
All good things must come to an end.
The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't cost them anything. ...
The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority ...
Ann Sothern's dressing room ... was unbelievably lush and beautiful. More elegant than many homes I've been in.
But, as old Swedish legends say, Of all the birds upon that day, The swallow felt the deepest grief, And longed to give her Lord ...
I'm really very sorry, but it is not my fault. People are so annoying. All my pianists look exactly like poets, and all my poets ...
What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It ...
Happiness lies not in the position, descent, or any property, but, that happiness lies in religion, science, manners, and achieve my goals.
Seerow's kindness. Even then, all those years ago, i knew. My father's epitaph had just been written.
It was not...a woman's fancy that drove them to it, but an eruption of a long-smolering volcano, an overflow of suffering, abuse and exhaustion.
Don't fear the unexpecred or you'll be locked in time.
I grew up in financially straitened circumstances and meat, which was expensive, was a rare thing at mealtimes. We ate meat about once a month, ...
To understand the Scripture is not simply to get information about God. If attended to with trust and faith, the Bible is the way to ...
They lead only as the carved wooden figurehead leads the ship.
She was thinking about how her middle-school alma mater was now 75 percent Latino, when in her day it was 80 percent black. Thinking
We didn't want to worry about the formula that has been implanted into our brains - this verse/pre-chorus/chorus format. When we were writing 'The Papercut ...
When you sit in America you miss the open plains and you miss the sound of rain and the smell of rain and the smell ...
Life is so interesting that sometimes it can make you bored.
It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew ...
In a 24/7 news cycle, with all the shrieking, howling voices and rapid-response and instant spinning and Soviet-style disinformation-mongering, a good idea has a shelf ...
In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that ...
Yeah, and we could fly in on dragons and release a cloud of sugar plum fairies to tiptoe in an get the watch.
What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle ...
Where do bad folks go when they die? No heaven awaits them, say to it goodbye
I have something to prove, as long as I know there's something that needs improvement, and you know that everytime I move, I make a ...
They say there are no stupid questions. That's obviously wrong; I think my question about hard and soft things, for example, is pretty stupid. But ...
The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.
Glory arrives too late when it comes only to one's ashes
That night Tommy kissed him and eased his way into Chase's body so gently that when Chase came, his vision washed in white, not red, ...
They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and ...
It's been an amazing year of individual performances.
I don't do drugs. Because my grandmother raised me. I think like an old, black, Southern woman. If I'd have done coke, I'd probably be ...
Your father is proud of us for having ababy."Gabriel nodded, as he continued brushing."That means he's proud of us for having sex and you for ...
Hell hath no fury like a drag queen scorned,
Belief, Faith, and God do not ask you to follow them blindly. Choose it with all your heart!
Screw the rules i have money
To be perfectly honest, it scared me a little. You get so used to seeing the same thing in the mirror every day you stop ...
I suppose we don't rely on comparison enough to tell us whom it is that we are talking to. We give people the liberty of ...
You can draw!" I exclaimed."Yeah," his voice echoed from the kitchen."I mean really draw [ ... ]""I told you I would major in art, hypothetically.""Yeah, ...
I was 26 when I went to my first acting class. I'm naturally quite shy. I'm a quite private person. There's this really strange acting ...