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22. As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
One day the Singularity would elevate humans to cybernetic superbeings, and maybe then people would say what they meant.Probably not, though.
Discouragement is the cancer of great things.
The whole experience on 'Grown Ups 2' was like going to adult summer camp.
The appeal by twentieth-century pluralists to scientific method was also ideologically - and even messianically - driven. It ignored scientific data that interfered with environmentalist ...
Death stretches out like a clothesline, and then suddenly blows:blows a dark sound that swells the sheetsand beds are sailing into a harborwhere death is ...
Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh!
When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet.
I have Vie Luxe candles in every room. In 2006 I spent the month of August in Sardinia, and the scent reminds me of the ...
Since the start of the Ashes I have had a hectic workload. I've played almost every game, but I'm thinking that after South Africa and ...
I don't think of myself as a photographer. I've engaged questions regarding photography's role in culture ... but it is an engagement with a problem ...
Conspiracies no sooner should be formed Than executed.
Socrates: I'm afraid that it might actually be sacrilegious to stand idly by while morality is being denigrated and not try to assist as long ...
The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling ...
Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.
Our goal has been to stay true to what people most love about the original Pirates! while upgrading, enhancing, and in some cases, re-inventing the ...
Synergism is the simultaneous actions of separate entities which together have greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects.
You can't dance with me in the day and sleep in his arms at night. You can't have the sun and moon at the same ...
When I sound the fairy call, gather here in silent meeting,Chin to knee on the orchard wall, cooled with dew and cherries eating.Merry, merry, take ...
The Unknown surrounds us at any given moment. That is where we seek knowledge.
The flesh is sweeter, where the creature has some chance for its life; for that reason, I always use a single ball, even if it ...
Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all.
For lo, all the days of man are as a leaf that is fallen and as the grass that withereth. Thou too shalt be forgotten, ...
Before long, the policy of putting quotas on oranges went from bad to worse. A Navel Orange Administrative Committee created by the Department of Agriculture ...
I love Chinese food, like steamed dim sum, and I can have noodles morning, noon and night, hot or cold. I like food that's very ...
And you know what? That's okay. If you want to live your life with many things and forgo the life of living like a simplifier, ...
I'm quite the humorist, for a woman who hires killers.
When I see that my geek may have contained some of the best parts of me, when I love and appreciate him, I set my ...
I see myself as a man who is searching for meaning in life. This is rather different from being a staunch believer in something. A ...
Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.
If I had the right, I would forbid you to go anywhere without me. Not out of selfishness, but because being apart from you is ...
I think ageing suits me because I was born old, like Spencer Tracy or Dolly the Sheep.
Feel no fear before the multitude of men, do not run in panic,but let each man bear his shield straight toward the fore-fighters,regarding his own ...
After Nigeria, we are the second biggest black African nation. We are the headquarters of the African Union. We are the only African country that ...
Basil Stag Hare tut-tutted severely as he remarked to Ambrose Spike, 'Tch, tch. Dreadful table manners. Just look at those three wallahs, kicking up a ...
I certainly think the antagonism came out of a mistaken notion amongst the Indian people that the Chinese aggressed on us, and they thought, Indian ...
The manner in which the Americans are subdivided into sects also conflicts with any commendable desire that may exist to build glorious temples in honor ...
It seemed to me that man himself was like a half-emptied bottle of pale ale, which Time had drunk so far, yet stoppled tight for ...
I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was highly injurious to keep loading the stomach ...
I don't want to know everything about bands, I want to have some mystique remain because sometimes when you get all of this information you ...
Love. Yes. That's what I feel for you. Your smile makes me happy and your pain makes me hurt with you. Your unhappiness makes me ...
Everybody loves a good sob story, so long as it's not their story.I don't know why. I'm not sure if people honestly care about other ...
I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and ...
She had a turn for narrative, I for analysis; she liked to inform, I to question; so we got on swimmingly together, deriving much entertainment, ...
Be a Gardener. Dig a ditch. Toil and sweat. And turn the earth upside down. And seek the deepness. And water plants in time. Continue ...
Don't leave the dream, lead your dreams!
The white man's God was a lot like him. He never for a second figured there was anyone else already here. He figured it was ...
If you must be Sherlock Holmes," she observed, "I'll get you a nice little syringe and a bottle labelled cocaine, but for God's sake leave ...
Swallowing your pride isn't lethal. It might upset your stomach for a few minutes, but the ultimate result may be the life of your dreams. ...
God simply told us to think of Jesus as Immanuel, which means 'God with us.' How amazing that one of the main ways God wants ...
Elegance is very dangerous. It's like TNT. A little goes a long way.
Yo, warden. When do we eat around here? I'm hypoglycemic, plus I've got a hernia. And rabies simplex D. Basically, I need a ton of ...
Imagine how much capital a country like Argentina might attract - if instead of defaulting seriatim and affecting a pose of anger toward creditors, it ...
If I ever find you lurking about in my thoughts again, Vlad, I will be most displeased. You stay out of my mind, and I'll ...
You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.
A man has integrity if his interest in the good of the service is at all times greater than his personal pride, and when he ...
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take ...
Happiness is seeing the muscular lifeguard all the girls were admiring leave the beach hand in hand with another muscular lifeguard.
She groaned and closed those eyes. "Do not look at me like that. You will make me smile, and I refuse to smile when I ...
I've liked country music for forever. And Buck Owens is just one of many country guitarists I like. I think Buck's Sixties records are really ...
It is time for us to face that our revolution has stalled.
I found that the writer who says SUBLATA LUCERNA NULLUM DISCRIMEN INTER MULIERES ('when the lamp is taken away, all women are alike') says true; ...
Hey, wanna fuck?
In Texas a high school student was arrested for bringing what authorities thought was a bomb to school but turned out to be a clock. ...
Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment ... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, ...
I did a lot of thinking, and used mental activity to relieve whatever feelings I had. I became very left-brained, and I was good in ...
When we read, we are spying on someone else's imagination and inhabiting it; the authors and their characters are momentarily our friends, even if they ...
We may always enslave ourselves to mankind if we do not clearly differentiate between showing respect to mankind from pleasing mankind
Sitting beside Abe was Adrian Ivashkovmy more-or-less boyfriend. Adrian was a royal Moroiand another spirit user like Lissa. He'd been crazy about me (and often ...
The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage.
Young girls have such sweet tooths. Or is that sweet teeth?
Septimus: There is nothing more to be said about sexual congress.Thomasina: Is it the same as love?Septimus: Oh no, it is much nicer than that.
When I was introduced to Johnson he was a freshman Congressman.
The essence of the CEO's job is strategy, not tactics; plan, not do; policy, not implementation.
8:58 We go to McDonald's. The woman in front of me in line spends more than five seconds contemplating her order. This infuriates me, WHAT ...
All kits get fevers!" Sandpaw retorted. "With his thick fur, he'll recover in no time. That coat's going to be handy in leaf-bare, perfect for ...
The sick mind can not bear anything harsh.[Lat., Mensque pati durum sustinet aegra nihil.]
No, the horror genre is not my first love. I don't run to the theater to see horror films.
I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. ...
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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 ...
I'd been brought up on ... American TV: 'Lou Grant,' 'Starsky & Hutch;' 'Gilligan's Island.'
At the heart of world time is the momentum of history. At the heart of personal time is the mystery and wonder of individuality. At ...
The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would be folly for ...
Guys may be oblivious to, well, almost everything, but you can't tell me they don't know what the shirtless, barefoot thing does to a woman. ...
I got highways for stretchmarksSee where I've grown.
She holds out her hands in entreaty. Join me, she whispers, but she's moving backward, getting fainter ... disappearing before my eyes ... vanishing ... ...
I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, ...
I must learn to be as the bear in a cage with the stick that pokes it always, through the bars. The bear acts as ...
James Joyce once called Guinness stout "the wine of Ireland." Indeed it's one of the most successful beers worldwide. Ten million glasses of this ambrosial ...
That night, stargazing on the deck with Dad, eyes on the sky, he pointed out Orion, Betelgeuse. "It's an art to read the stars, baby."I ...
Christianity is in no way a stoic faith. It fundamentally rejects the "stiff upper lip" school of thought.
The Memorial Finder covers the gap. It tells you the specific panel and number where you can find an individual but begins to reveal the ...
It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, 'Know thyself,' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will ...
People must be free to work, to save, to own their own home, to take risks, to invest in each other and, in essence, to ...
He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his poetry - it ...
Cooking is not about being the best or most perfect cook, but rather it is about sharing the table with family and friends.
It is often a comfort in misfortune to know our own fate.[Lat., Saepe calamitas solatium est nosse sortem suam.]
To those of you with your years of service still ahead, the challenge is yours. Stop doubting yourselves. Have the courage to make up your ...
We believe in you, Phoebe," Stella says. "You just have to believe in yourself."I roll my eyes behind the blindfold. As if that's not a ...