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Tacitus has written an entire work on the manners of the Germans. This work is short, but it comes from the pen of Tacitus, who ...

He took our flesh and our flesh became God, since it is united with God and forms a single entity with him. For the higher ...

The current practices of distributing resources are not sustainable and will continue to harm the environment if we do not evolve our methods into procedures ...

I wanted alot of tattoos but I never thought I was gonna be this rediculous.

Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions ...

A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, ...

A book without potty humor is like a banana split without hot fudge. It can still be good, I suppose, but you kinda get the ...

Never give up your day job. I do all sorts of things, but at the end of the day, it all boils down to 'The ...

There are those nights where you are just so emotionally present that you crack yourself open. And it works. And on the nights when you ...

You know, in addition to your mind-reading abilities, I may have absorbed some sluttiness from your blood,

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

The more thou sweateth in training, the less thou bleedeth in combat.

Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External ...

My next fight would not be measured in rounds, but throughout a lifetime. It would sustain and fulfill me longer than anything in the cage ...

And as fall turned to winter, the Darlington peach trees started dropping their leaves again, gently, like they were letting them go. It wasnt the ...

I think magic went out when people began to have steam-engines, and newspapers, and telephones and wireless telegraphing.

In real life, I swear by Edge Control by Olive Oil. My hairstylist hates it, but it's everything to me. And I mean everything! It's ...

Failure and setbacks and struggles are where all the good stuff happens.

I'm like the Shaolin monk, the counselor in the clubhouse.

The touch of your fleshis tough to resistPlanets collide, collideat the smack of your kissBut you can kiss your brotherbecause we will not be lovers

My Swaraj takes note of bhangis, dheds, dublas and the weakest of the weak, and except the spinning wheel I know no other thing which ...

I worked on this Showtime series called 'Beggars and Choosers,' this was like 2000, and Bea Arthur guest-starred on our show. I always loved 'The ...

For if hevene be on this erthe, and ese to any soule,It is in cloistre or in scole.

Sieh was a horrible father and a wretched friend and a barely competent employee, completely unworthy of being missed or mourned.

Love is not a spaceship you construct and then fly off together into the stars. Love is a soap bubble that bursts in the air. ...

Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.

In the early 1950s, during the near avalanche of discoveries, rediscoveries, and redefinitions of subcellular components made possible by electron microscopy, those prospecting in this ...

Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly jealous. And catching someone flirting with your ...

I hadn't seen my dad get violent since the Great Spatula Incident, and I wasn't anxious to see a repeat of that.

When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.

Foreign food isn't really my thing. I tasted whale once, and I was sick for a week.

Social power is the power over nature, the living standards achieved by men in mutual exchange. State power, as we have seen, is the coercive ...

In your sky, you are the brightest star.Without you light, it's dark like tar.So love yourself to enlighten others.

Hunger stared down from the smokeless chimneys, and started up from the filthy street that had no offal, among its refuse, of anything to eat. ...

It is a horrible, terrible thing, the worst thing, to watch somebody you love die right in front of you and not be able to ...

In prosperous times the mercantile classes often realize fortunes, which go far towards securing them against the future; but unfortunately the working classes, though they ...

Goat tongue is a gift, you got it from the day you're borned or you ain't got it. If you got it, goats'll heed your ...

Kitsch is a sentimentalization of reality in response to cultural failure. The greater the failure, the more malignant the sentimentalization.

When I wake, a piece of sharp green glass on the floor is cutting into my hand and I know it's a sign. I etch ...

Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information.

Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards ...

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 ...

Sometimes you don't really need armor to feel protected. Sometimes maybe you need just a chiffon dress to hug you.

The more people talk about eating disorders, the more people get the real story about what they're like.

Earthly possessions are transient and ephemeral. Giving away love creates ripples that last for some time.

So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and ...

Paul patted Mrs. O'Leary's snout. The living room shook - BOOM, BOOM, BOOM - which either meant a SWAT team was breaking down the door ...

British writer G. K. Chesterton's reply to an invitation by the Times to write an essay on the subject "What's Wrong with the World?" Chesterton's ...

Many people find that they frequently slip into negative, unproductive moods, and, once in these moods, it can be difficult to shift out of them. ...

In my day, girls jumped when a Wise One said jump, and continued jumping until they were told to stop. As I am still alive, ...

Instead I take the lead, Tobias silent at my side, and though he does not touch me, he steadies me.

Right now we have this. Right now, this moment, we have this walk, this night, you and your arm around me.

I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.

If you're a guy, I'm sure you already know that their most famous product is that litle plastic stariner at the bototm of urinals, and ...

I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that ...

It is amazing how much knowledge we have of hope. Whisper bravely into the dark, heart - whisper bravely. ...

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

I would try to write my own story about some East Coast suburbanite having an affair or something like that. So I did that for ...

When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it.

Well that wasn't too bad," I said, leaning against my car."Yeah, maybe for you since I had most of his weight." "Well, you're a lot ...

Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.

(aside) Oh, you are well tuned now,But I'll set down the pegs that make this music,As honest as I am.

On Furnishing One's HomePick your furniture like you pick a wife; it should make you feel comfortable and look nice, but not so nice that ...

Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be ...

When it comes to getting more women into parliament, politicians have at least started to take active measures. The British Labour Party introduced all-female shortlists ...

The parallels between preserving food and preserving mummies were apparently not lost on posterity. In the nineteenth century, when mummies from Saqqara and Thebes were ...

The truth isn't always nice. It isn't always small enough to absorb at once. Sometimes the truth washes over you and threatens to take you ...

I think the attraction of 'American Idol' is about the basic human nature attitude that is, 'We can put you up there. But we can ...

I'm not married. I hope to be someday so I can stop exercising.

Both the Hopi and Zuni Indians, who have used the venom in purification rituals, assert that it effectively reduces the human soul to its rarest ...

Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. ...

While those who continuously get themselves the supply of growth, smile through life.

Father: an inspirational person; emulated, admired and much loved; strong character with exceptional patience and unrivalled wisdom; often referred to as a son's first hero ...

The fairies came to christening parties and gave the babies magical gifts.Bounce, effort, and snark.Contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee.Sugar, curiosity, and rain.And yet, ...

Art is everywhere you look for it, hail the twinkling stars for they are God's careless splatters

My most smelly job was at a kennels and cattery, and I basically spent all day scooping poop.

On him the light of star and moon Shall fall with purer radiance down ... Him Nature giveth for defenceHis formidable innocencn;The mounting sap, the ...

One of my groupies gave me a film that they made, and it ended up being amazing, so I got it shown at South by ...

There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor; there is also ...

Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more!Macbeth does murder sleep, - the innocent sleep;Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The ...

Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man ... the highest joy is to fight by the side of ...

The lady is almost the only picturesque survival in a social order which tends less and less to tolerate the exceptional ... In the age-long ...

This LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change, like alchemists turning discord into harmony.

Summoning those memories was like touching a burning pot. She could do it only briefly before she had to pull away.

Sometimes loving eyes don't see what they don't want to see.

I feel very privileged to hear how somebody used to run around stickin' people up and stealing cars, and now they're gettin' their life back ...

I'd like to be proven wrong on the difficulty of handling the medical side-effects of long term exposure to deep space (both microgravity induced illnesses ...

Sometimes caring feels like spoiling. Gratitude evens things out.

Procrastination and excuses are sour spices that spoil the sweet taste of an effective work. They must hence, not be prompted under desire, partly because ...

Crotch-punchingly real!

3,2,1 ... Launch! A lot of preparation goes into launching a rocket ship. No short cuts or cheating will get that rocket to its destination. ...

To be vulnerable, and it's only in being vulnerable that we can be fully loved.

Bill O'Reilly, Megyn Kelly, and Sean Hannity are the Mount Rushmore of keeping old people angry.

Nothing remains idle and thrives. Life needs a moving force to prevent the devastating effects of stagnancy. That is why life employs change.

The spirit of the universe dances to its own tune. It connects everything - dust, rocks, plants, animals, men, stars and galaxies - by this ...

Very good. But your most insidious chronic problem is in the area of . . . how shall I put this precisely . . . ...

Before a performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over ...

But I've always been fascinated with that prettiest-girl-in-the-class person that I never was, getting inside her head and showing that she's just as tormented and ...

Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then.

I like to explore a lot of textural, arrangement aspects in the studio.