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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

Of course. The team on your carriage was beautiful. They are yours, aren't they?"He ignored her and walked ahead until his foot connected with soft ...

Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.

I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at ...

Were you always such a stubborn, blind, obtuse girl?""Are you calling me stupid?""Yes, but in a more poetic way!""Well, here's a poem for you. Get ...

Going to a dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc's auk's egg in the night of the bed of all the ...

There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul.

I would have looked away, should have, but I had never seen a green one. A weaker man might have plucked out his own eyes, ...

Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.

My yacht. I don't mind going for a coupla hours' cruise. I'll even lend you that book so you'll have something to read on the ...

Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the way of the Sacramentarians, nor sat in the seat of the Zwinglians, nor followed the ...

He whose thoughts, like skylarks, Toward the morning sky take flight - Who hovers over life and understands with ease The language of flowers and ...

The ultimate act of heroism shouldn't be death. You're always saying you want to give Baz the stories he deserves ... So you're going to ...

Meanwhile, we should supress the army and the navy.Both at once?Yes, in order to have universal peace!But if others don't supress theirs wouldn't they be ...

We spend so much time sublimatin', thinkin' about, 'What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?'

If you mentioned Hanna-Barbera to people, they said, 'Oh yeah, Flintstone, Yogi, Scooby-Doo, Jetsons,' and that was pretty much it. We have characters with very ...

Gas is getting so expensive I'm gonna ride a mexican to work.

Tolerance is the worst roar of all, including tolerance for homosexuals, feminists, and religions that don't follow Christ.

I didn't go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind ...

After two years of fighting, government shutdowns and little to no agreement on anything except welfare reform in 1996, President Clinton was re-elected and decided ...

His weekly golf game no longer keeps his love handles in check, he's recently resorted to a slight comb-over to cover that growing bald spot, ...

I've always warned my clients about fame being very dangerous, and unfortunately, they need to be famous to make a living, but not to be ...

My love for you is like diarrhea," Sunglasses said. "I just can't hold it in.

Sometimes you've gotta hide the medicine in the food. You can't slap somebody in the face with facts, all the time. It's too harsh

I don't miss the bureaucracy of being in the Army. But I still love the relationships you can build. And it doesn't have to be ...

The bland politician's smile of someone who knows that the bodies in the car trunk are, indeed, dead.

It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.

I would love to hang out with Elvis Costello, to see what he's up to because he seems so fascinating to me.

In those days the Great Enemy, of whom Sauron of Mordor was but a servant, dwelt in Angband in the North, and the Elves of ...

To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss.

This was the sort of thing that happened to persons of this sort, sensitives, who fought the world and always, in the end, let it ...

But there stands the sword of my ancestor Sir Richard Vernon, slain at Shrewsbury, and sorely slandered by a sad fellow called Will Shakspeare, whose ...

So Dorothy said we might was well go out to Fountainblo with Louie and Robber if Louie would take off his yellow spats which were ...

Groundless superstition ill befits an army; valor is the only deity that rules in the warrior's breast.

Here was a short-term kind of girl begging for a long-term relationship from a long-term kind of guy who wanted a fling.It was movie-worthy.

I've learned life is a lot like surfing. When you get caught in the impact zone, you need to get right back up, because you ...

Blake Riley is a better man than anyone gives him credit for. And I'm ashamed of myself. I'm so fucking ashamed for ever believing that ...

Jocko likes salty, Jocko likes sweet, but never bring Jocko any hot sauce, like with jalapenos, because it makes Jocko squirt funny-smelling stuff out his ...

The end of the ridge and the end of the world ... then nothing but that clear, empty air. There was nowhere else to climb. ...

No disrespect to Kyle Orton, who's been solid and stable for both the Broncos and the Bears, but I think the upside for Tim Tebow ...

Familiarity breeds sentiment before contempt.

Pine nuts pound for pound are more expensive than most varieties of smoked salmon. There I said it.

When you're clinically depressed the serotonin in your brain is out of balance and probably always will be out of balance. So I take medication ...

The public can have no rights springing from injustice to others.

In England, they say that Manchester is the city of rain. It's main attraction is considered to the timetable at the railway station, where trains ...

I do the same gig. I might change it a little; I might slow it down if I'm in the South. I talk fast, and ...

There are no more white linen sofas in my house. We have a rule here: Anything below 36 inches has to be brown or black ...

My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what ...

But it is always a question whether I wish to avoid these glooms. These weeks give one a plunge into deep waters. One goes down ...

You could play probably a span of 50 years of me playing St. Louis Blues, and most of the time it will be different every ...

Here is my experience. Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you. What you want to ...

And do you agree with me, that the first condition of an artist should be to bear respect toward what is great, and to bow ...

I'm afraid we shall waste an awful lot of time.""Don't worry," answered Snufkin, "we shall have wonderful dreams, and when we wake up it'll be ...

You know, sometimes I envy you. It must be nice to be a wolf. Just for a while." "It has its drawbacks." Like fleas, she ...

Whenever life gets to be too much for me, I have a hard time keeping my eyes open. Sleeping is cheaper and safer than drinking. ...

Empowering Women 101-- A strong women knows that cheating isn't a mistake; it's a choice. The choice was made long before you found out.

If there were nothing you'd still be complaining!

I remember when I posed as a customs officer so that I could meet Oscar Wilde. I said to him "Have you anything to declare?" ...

We'll go." Her voice is surprisingly deep and forceful. Set in her sunken, shipwreck face, her eyes burn like two smoldering coals. "We'll fight.

SkyClan's destiny is that we will never live in isolation from other cats. We're not like forest Clans, we can't shut ourselves off entirely from ...

Hauled up our wine-casks, and hove them overboard, tied one to the other by a long line. Then the crew took to the boats and ...

It was a flight, a kind of fleeing, a kind of falling, falling higher and higher, spinning off the edge of the earth and beyond ...

This moment is yours and yours alone! Take charge, seize this moment and allow it to propel you to the high levels of an empowered ...

Faithfully disciplining (training, educating, correcting) your child in a manner that pleases the Lord is an expression of biblical love. It also is a step ...

The compulsion to do, and the tendency to derive your sense of self-worth and identity from external factors such as achievement, is an inevitable illusion ...

As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in ...

Did I have a heart to be contented? Well, no, not particularly. I had a tendency to be discontented: ambitious, dissatisfied, fretful, and tough to ...

Happy couples make it a habbit to refocus. Because it's quite normal to be distracted. So they talk. They get away for a while. They ...

Let's take a minute to talk about spellbooks, since, in this day and age when magic is no longer taught in schools (or is, at ...

I know I express myself best singing love songs, and Jim Steinman gave me my rock style, which I have always wanted. I can express ...

Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.

Increasing access to federal student loans has been a bipartisan effort in Washington, one that I have supported. But it has created what many experts ...

No matter how good you are, at top pf your game, always remember that you're a half a step away from the street.

All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity.

Where will that be?' 'Either Greenland or Iceland.' 'How shall we know which is which?' 'If it's green, it'll be Iceland. If it's icy it'll ...

The truth is that most mission work is carried out where the church already exists Only small percentages are working where the church is non-existent.

Democrats' attack on the Republican majority leader is nothing but a coordinated agenda to stop an effective leader from accomplishing the people's business.

The sand swallows burst out of their scupper holes in the bluffs and out over the transparent drown of the water, back again to the ...

Everyone wants to feel special - attain a special status among their pears- but not too special. Most kids want to be special the same ...

When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.

Zacharias's study bore the marks of his predecessors, whose taste had run decidedly stoicheiotical. They had had a fondness for skulls with burning lights in ...

I'm not thinking much about overall themes or preoccupations or anything like that. Instead I'm just trusting that, if I'm working hard, various notions and ...

Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.

The truth is that my grandfather was quite wealthy, a shipbuilder.

The person who fights monsters should make sure that in the process, he does not become a monster himself. Because when you stare down at ...

Gretta sits herself down at the table. Robert has arranged everything she needs: a plate, a knife, a bowl with a spoon, a pat of ...

'Shabiha' is a difficult word to translate into English. It comes from the word Syrians used to describe the luxury Mercedes favored by the Assad ...

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

When I'm really into a novel, I'm seeing the world differently during that time - not just for the hour or so in the day ...

The first time I went over to [my director's] house, he said to me, This is a very strange play. I was pleased that he ...

Humans are not put to sleep for failing to provide leadership for their dogs, countless dogs have lost their lives for the want of it.

We are the Las Vegas of spirituality

All too often I try to skate away from the things I'm afraid of and things I don't like and am unwilling to accept. I'm ...

I'd love to work with Tarantino, Scorsese, Sofia Coppola - all of them! I love thrillers and action movies. I love good horror films. I ...

Nothing is so lovely as a quietly snoring dog and some evening Brahms, as you sit in a comfortably overstuffed chair with your feet on ...

Quand on voit le style naturel, on est tout e tonne et ravi, car on s'attendait de voir un auteur, et on trouve un homme. ...

I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud ...

'Ek Main Aur Ek Tu' was a very special film for me. Imran and we complement each other very well. He is sugar, and I ...

In New York, with Prohibition in full swing, he thought he had died and gone o hell for his sins. Then he discovered speakeasies and ...

Lisbon Taxi,' a woman said, 'where the mileage is always smileage. How may we help you today?