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Novels arise out of the shortcoings of history.
In the range of inorganic nature. I doubt if any object can be found more perfectly beautiful than a fresh, deep snowdrift, seen under warm ...
There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked ...
You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous.
For many years now, my source for salvific chicken soup has been the Sanamluang Cafe on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Kingsley Drive: crystalline ...
It's very easy for a church just to slide along from week to week, taking it for granted that we do our services like this ...
Staying alive is not enough to guarantee survival. Development is the best way to ensure survival.
Severe depression, put simply, is an overwhelming and unmanageable onslaught of every normal, human fear and difficult emotion. It is a loss of and lack ...
In a relationship with God, our most secret places once thickly cloaked and meticulously hidden away now stand before us utterly and entirely exposed. And ...
IT WASN'T STEALING. IT WAS JUST ... REDISTRIBUTION.
You always try to play it off cool, but even if I think I have a certain laidback body language when I'm meeting someone who ...
The body - objectified, sexualised, feared, hunted, worshiped - always the body, they adored him or hated him before they ever knew him. The body ...
Lass, doona fear me. No matter what happens, promise me you will not fear me. I am a good man, I vow I am.
People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?
The Dutchmen had died in 1816. Slagter's
Good times make bad policy. - Mohammad Sadli, economic adviser to Indonesia's General Suharto2
If you're writing a screenplay for a feature, you don't have any involvement with the casting process, the editing process, the set design, the costume ...
Where the poison wind blows a deadly plague spreading negativity, viciously unto every city.
Infinity? It attracts us like a floodlight in the night.
Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.
Human societies are based on the human tendency to want things, and are geared to satisfying those wants: possessions or facilities to bring ease and ...
Ollie-O was in a semicatatonic state, uttering nonsensical phrases like "This is not biodegradable - the downstream implications are enormous - the optics make for ...
All my films have been criticised, but here I stand with six superhits and three 100-crore films!
Nature and training (in any sport or art) can teach us all the spiritual laws I describe in another book, The Laws of Spirit. But ...
If the 1992 and 2000 elections were any guide, third-party candidates are death on the mainstream parties with which they're most naturally aligned.
In the other room Rateau was looking at the canvas, completely blank, in the center of which Jonas had merely written in very small letters ...
There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns its activities to ...
Most students graduate from high school knowing nine words about the civil rights movement: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and "I Have a Dream." And ...
Some of the inspirations I had as far as following that story would be, like, say, "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly," the way ...
Not that any of the sysadmin's knowledge and skills were applicable here.The psychological stance was the thing: the implicit faith, a little naive and a ...
The politeness was unbearable. They avoided touching each other, careful as strangers on a train ... A family can go on for years without the ...
Enjoy the blessings Heaven bestows, Assist his friends, forgive his foes; Trust God, and keep his statutes still, Upright and firm, through good and ill; ...
Well I have you know, several CD's out; one of my best friends is Sully Erna from Godsmack - he is Godsmack, and we're going ...
Just really be passionate and stick to your creative vision. Because it's competitive, and there are so many mind games and so many things that ...
I think that if one is seeking to build a truly satisfying relationship, the best way of bringing this about is to get to know ...
But here's a bit of spoilsport historical reality: It wasn't the finches that inspired Darwin, it was the Mockingbirds.
A girl would be lucky to have you, but not like this, Carmine. Not the way you treat people now. You're wasting your time, and ...
Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think ...
It's all about progression, not getting stuck and about having aspirations, which can lead you to do more and not just be satisfied. I was ...
When it's a bad movie you want to release it quietly. You try to keep it a secret like an STD.
There are some that are - REM Behavior Disorder, we'll see some court documented cases. And they really need to have a thorough evaluation with ...
It is impossible to watch a 'Friends' episode too many times. Phoebe is my favourite character. I used to play her songs on the guitar ...
Kamaswami conducted his business with care and often with passion, but Siddhartha looked upon all of this as if it was a game, the rules ...
Wounds like that ... wounds to the heart ... they leave ugly scars that never fade.
Working your obliques pulls everything together and gives you a slim waist.
The text message she'd received last night from the unknown number left her sick inside. It had been curt and to the point: Stay away ...
Space exploration promised us alien life, lucrative planetary mining, and fabulous lunar colonies. News flash, ladies and gents: Space is nearly empty. It's a sterile ...
An old woman selling piglets from a basket stopped to stare at him, a knight with a half-familiar face went to one knee, and two ...
Program your life the way you want it to be: don't waste the unuse energy that lodges in the matrix of your soul. You are ...
As a kid, I pretty much got nothing but scorn, and occasionally active animus, for writing fantasy and squirreling it away in my closet and, ...
Order, cleanliness, seemliness make a structure that is half support, half ritual, and - if it does not create it - maintains decency.
The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken hear; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. Pslam 34.18
Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need ...
I've always been able to cook Italian food. That's in my blood because I'm half Sicilian.
Since fire's born of fire, why should we desireTo gather up its scattered ash.On the appointed day we surrendered what we wereTo a vaster blaze, ...
My mom was very affectionate but also very loud. My whole house was very loud. My father screamed, my mother screamed - everybody screamed.
Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to process all our issues, to ...
The biggest audience for Off Broadway is mostly coming in on a train - either Upper East Siders or Metro-North. I go to the theater, ...
One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go ...
On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the ...
You need to be curious, competitive, creative, stubborn, self-confident, skeptical, patient and be lucky to win a Nobel.
If life is hard and we don't celebrate the small accomplishments, what's left?
A U.N. study claims the happiest country in the world is Switzerland. When asked why they're so happy, Swiss people couldn't answer because their hands ...
We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no ...
What motivates me is everything that I have been a small part of.
Speaking kind words starts a wave of love in motion that brings more love upon your shores.
SAT tests are designed by huge panels of experts in education and psychology who work for years to design tests in which not one single ...
Society, you're a crazy breed.
A drunk man's words were a sobber man's thoughts
In a perfect world what poor countries at the lowest rungs of economic development need is not a multi-party democracy, but in fact a decisive ...
You do not need to pay attention to those voices within you that create pain, or make you feel less competent, smart or able.
Thank you, Rukia ... Because of you, the rain has stopped falling.
The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers.
Whenever something bad happens, do not forget to smile. Even if you have to deal with this really arrogant, ruthless tycoon. You never know, sometimes ...
The cult of self has become an addiction - feeding off the ego of self-glorification. The word cult encompasses many movements and ideas, but simply ...
The government-controlled Saudi daily Al-Riyadh published a column declaring that "the Jews' spilling human blood to prepare pastry for their holidays is a well-established fact.
If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of ...
Satan can move in the supernatural realm, too, because he is a spirit being, as is God. You've got to be able to know whether ...
When you've had a near-death experience, your life is never the same. A divine fire is supernaturally transferred into your soul, to tell everyone about ...
No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillionShine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.
We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God ...
When they passed a maintenance site in the road bed, Einstein stopped next to a worker who was smashing stones and silently observed this boy ...
I can eat everything; chocolate, hamburgers, pizza, go to McDonalds, Burger King, KFC. It's all in my body.
The highly skilled workers at Lima have enabled the plant to grow far beyond its original mission, now providing a wide variety of cutting-edge military ...
Words are loaded pistols.
D.: There are six centres in the body and there are correspondingcentres in the world.M.: Yes. What is in the world is in the body; ...
My favorite way to style outfits is to really use a lot of pieces in your closet.
I can't believe he's making you wait till January for an appointment.""I could threaten to bomb the school. That'd get me in quicker.
Mathematics, as far as he was concerned, was a Sphinx charged with deceitful puzzles whose cold malicious gaze transfixed her victims, and he gave the ...
He explains he is going to mount me. Yes! And take a dominant position. Oh, yes!
A thorough inspection of someone you believed to be loveable will send you back into your shell if all you saw in their life was ...
So, this is me not letting you bail, Sayang. This is me not letting you go, okay?
My dad and I used to do movie marathons when I was a kid at the Chinese Theatre, and I just remember thinking, 'One day ...
America's greatest long-term influence on China comes from playing host to the thousands of students who come from China each year, some of the ablest ...
To live a remote, retired, secluded life is the antipodes of spirituality as Jesus Christ taught it. The test of our spirituality comes when we ...
Guy Peellaert was to Europe what Andy Warhol was to America - except Guy had more talent!
You should always think good things and always look for the good in the world. If you look for the bad in the world, you ...
We are given these niches, small worlds of our own populated by only a handful, where we feel understood. Our bubble worlds bump into innumerable ...
The sun, stars, ocean, trees, everything, I gave it all up for you.- Jude Sweetwine to Oscar Ralph