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Barack Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, had quite an interesting life, shot through with coincidences. Stanley Ann was some momand by 'some mom,' it's meant ...

In a sense, I'm always hearing music of some sort, whether it's people talking or surface noise or whatever, because there is no privacy. So ...

There is an immutable law in basketball: someone must fall for someone else to rise. Those at the top stay there only by beating down ...

Had she insight, could she have pierced the barriers of her highly selective, insular world, she may have discovered that all her life she had ...

I had no issues with lesbians, but I didn't swing the bat that way, and I kind of resented getting molested.

A Senegalese poet said 'In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand, and we will understand only ...

After high school, I had $2,000 saved, and I packed everything I could into my '95 Nissan Sentra with no air-conditioning, and I drove out ...

The scoreline didn't really reflect the outcome

Pick something else".For an instant's flash Kylis remembered being taunted like this before, when she was very small. Anything but that. Anything but what you ...

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

I'm sorry. I souldn't have shut you out. I know you're hurting, too. ""Permission to speak freely, Sire ?""Granted.""You're an asshole," she said and hugged ...

The titles of Jesus (son of God, messiah, light of the world, etc.) are not found in the earliest layer of tradition and are not ...

Don't you wish some people came with a silencer?

People make these comments all the time. They talk about this with their loved ones every day. People's feedings - tube feedings - are stopped ...

Can you imagine strangling someone for 10 minutes?

Whether it's on the streets of Philadelphia or New York or Chicago or Atlanta or in a classroom in Newtown, Connecticut, people want to be ...

Holmes has become the dark side of the moon for me. He is moody and solitary and underneath I am really sociable and gregarious. It ...

Shine with all you have. When someone tries to blow you out, just take their oxygen and burn brighter.

I am senting many books for endorsement purposes, which enables me to stay relevant in my own field, and I have people that help me ...

Saypur says, 'Dance,' you say, 'How many turns?

Sometimes things need shaking up. You've got to test the limits.

But they were all dead now, even Arya, everyone but her half-brother, Jon. Some nights she heard talk of him, in the taverns and brothels ...

As previously mentioned, Epsom salt is rich in both magnesium and sulphate.

Give and receive; give big and receive big; give freely and receive freely; give poorly and receive poorly.

My mind cannot grasp forever," she told him. "There must surely be an end somewhere. But the big question is-what it beyond the end?

Tempers were as short as the days. "Hungry bellies make angry hearts," as Birdsong liked to say. Tanglewhisker

To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.

Never stop searching for new things in life.

Growing up, there was always music around, whether across the street, or on the next-door neighbor's stereo. So, as in life, music is always around, ...

Then, as if that's not enough, then they declare that my wife is Jewish or Serbian. Luckily for me, she never was either, although many ...

A verbal contract is worth about as much as the paper it's written on.

There is noroom for the love of others within the tight, crowded miser's hole of a privateego. Be empty in order to be filled. 'He ...

Aikido is not merely about fighting and the development of the physical self but the perfection of the spiritual man at the same time. It ...

We have fallen into the sugar shaker.We are the ground beneath you.Let someone else describe the sky.Hold us in silence.Do no throw us backinto some ...

That) but because God thought the whole thing up first. Fran illustrates this with the Sistine Chapel in Rome, where Michelangelo portrays the creation of

Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.

When you compare the icons of the game, you have Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Sachin Tendulkar and Dhoni in the same bracket.

Serpine: No, my old enemy, I think for the moment anyway, we're all alone. And you have something I want Skulduggery: A winning sense of ...

I claimed to be the first person to adjust a vertebra by hand, using the spinous and transverse processes and levers. I developed the art ...

Writing a thesis is like writing a book, working incrementally with the professor is a communication exercise that assumes the existence of an audience,

My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. ...

You tell me I have to crush a field of babies to keep breathing? Sure. You say people who rely on me aren't going to ...

Take the example of my daughter. A lot of people were speaking out about education when the Taliban were bombing schools in Swat Valley, but ...

Pumpkin Flavor Latte Scrub Ingredients 1 ½ cups of brown sugar 2 tablespoons of ground coffee 1-2 tablespoons of pumpkin spice ¾ -1 cup of ...

Learn and follow the different OS design guidelines for Tab Menus. Clearly indicate where the user is by visually differentiating the selected tab from the ...

Perhaps we are not as free as we might think in the first place. Given your background, your friends, your family, the books you read, ...

Coffe is the perfume of morning.

When I started to make music at the end of the '90s, I saw myself highly influenced by hip-hop and techno, but I wanted to ...

I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine ...

Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.

So far as I knew, Hallmark didn't make a "Sorry I Interrupted Your Oral Sex" card.

I never wanted to sound clean and pretty. I always wanted to have kind of a certain natural quality to my voice, and I wish ...

I can't see this world unless I go/ outside my southern comfort zone.

Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower; Thy waves as they dimple smile back ...

I think that I am willing to do anything. I like to collaborate. If my voice will be heard, than I will do some research ...

Salesforce's Chatter is what convinced me that the company understood what is going on in the enterprise; this was the biggest attraction for me. I ...

That dog'll roll in the snow, run in the snow, eat the damn snow, but he wont throught it to shit. I dont clear the ...

My sleeping pill is white.It is a splendid pearl;it floats me out of myself,my stung skin as alienas a loose bolt of cloth.

Superbe! Charmant! exclaimed the ladies; for they all used to chatter French, each one worse than her neighbor.

Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.

When people call me a photographer, I always feel like something of a charlatan - at least in Japanese. The word shashin, for photograph, combines ...

I love you, hugs & kisses, smoochies galore, licks, nibbles & assorted gropages!! -Aisling said to Drake

To paraphrase a Latino saying (which is possibly ultimately from the Arabic traditiom), MI rasa is supposed raza." So Living in Spanglish is not a ...

My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not ...

And that, ... is the story of our country, one invasion after another ... Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those ...

The French, perhaps more than any other nation, cherish the memory of their dead by ornamenting their places of sepulture with the finest flowers, often ...

I'd love to have the opportunity to sing in a Disney movie.

Some people might say it's not smart to be so insecure about what you wear. But that's not how I see it. The stupid woman ...

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 ...

It had always felt to me as though Washington, D.C., to Boston was one span of stuff. You never really leave Springsteenland, you're just in ...

A bite." She touched the hilt of her sword, the sword that he had given her. Oathkeeper. "My lord, you gave me a quest.

The leader must be in charge of getting things done by running the three core processes - picking other leaders, setting the strategic direction, and ...

Most salespeople are half prepared. They know everything about their company and their product. They know nothing about their prospect.

In some ways, I decided, women are showpieces in American society, too.

I wish the army had taught us how to navigate feelings as easily as they did a starless night sky.

I feel fragile, like if somebody looked at me the wrong way I might shatter into a million pieces and never be whole again.

Sometimes life is like this Ferris wheel. Even when everything seems wrong, the sky is black, it's starting to rain, and some lady throws up ...

The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there's a truth in your heart that says you'll never leave me, and ...

I have been acutely aware of the noise of the wash. The slow, steady beat of those little waves lapping the shore sounds like the ...

And he don't know ... that I dug my key into the side of his pretty little souped up 4 wheel drive, carved my name ...

Men to the left! Women to the right!Eight words spokern quietly, indifferently, without emotion. Eight simple, short words. Yet that was the moment when I ...

I do love the sound of ripping corn husks. The violence of the noise, the sustained popping and shoring of the silky organic threads, made ...

The permanence of ink encourages one to "go for it," to try to put the line right where it should be ... continued attempts to ...

I thought, possibly, that what I really needed was to go where nobody knew me and start over again, with none of my previous decisions, ...

Miss Roberts, where should I send the check for the steam cleaning of your furniture and replacement of your ruined panties?

I have to believe in the character to perform it.

Hige sceal pe heardra, heorte pe cenre,mod sceal pe mare pe ure maegen lytlao.( Will shall be the sterner, heart the bolder, spirit the greater ...

Tonight there was something different. Something both deeper and shallower than friendship. Familiarity, perhaps, the sudden realisation that we lived our sealed-up little lives in ...

Indeed, one had the impression that even for the sufferers the frantic terror of the early phase had passed, and there was a sort of ...

The Jeep is the only true American sports car.

The music gave her an odd, wrenching kind of feeling. There was no pain or unpleasantness involved, just a sensation that all the elements of ...

The most disappointing feature of working for a cause is that so few people have a philosophy of life. We used to say, in the ...

Idly, I switch the mean machine on and fire up the e-mail program.

To put an end to the spirit of inquiry that has characterized the West it is not necessary to burn the books. All we have ...

Maybe this wasn't a good idea. He didn't have time to fight an evil symbiot. He had a softball tournament on Sunday.

A molecular manufacturing technology will let us build molecular surgical tools, and those tools will, for the first time, let us directly address the problems ...

A poem is not an expression, nor is it an object. Yet it somewhat partakes of both. What a poem is is never to be ...

Judging other humans and finding them wanting is what the Sadiri do.

There's all that brain work involved, remembering all those lines in a script. I find I have to eat a lot of fish, late - ...

I ought to be able to invent words capable of blowing the odor of corpses in a direction other than straight into mine and the ...