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When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre.

A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.

Lunch makes me feel a bit better.

If we cannot abate the disaster, the one honor we have is the probity of our lucidness.

Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.

Since that night I have come to understand that sometimes the best families of all are those we create ourselves, the people we choose to ...

Your mortal's storming the slaver den." Aric's tone was half-amused, half-approving. "I'm hereby inviting myself on his incursion.

I've been trying not to think about the things I wanted but couldn't have.I figured life must be about what you can't have.Some part of ...

Your mama-akra sent that to you, akri, to hurt the heathen-god. Now it's Dimonique time. The Simi can't be bothered we no Greek god messing ...

There is an attitude in the media that is dishonestly reinforcing negative stereotypes about Christians.

Well, the bottom line is that I'm extremely pleased with 'The Stupids.' I'm pleased that it's coming out, and it should look good. It's nice ...

Even masochists need lovers," I told him, my tone gentle. "What would a girl like me do without someone like you? Perhaps everyone is good ...

I'd hate to list our specialties. Wreck cars, eat doughnuts, create mayhem.

You can't always be the top player, but you can always contribute. I just want to win ... that's what matters.

Obviously there have been historically many different theories of the atonement and I think each of them has a part. But I think fundamentally it ...

I can't help but feel, across oceans and vast fields we will connect again. What we share is too rare to let go of for ...

As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end ...

The soul that loves God has its rest in God and in God alone. In all the paths that men walk in in the world, ...

Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.

He stood a few meters from the step and spoke with great conviction, great joy. "Alles ist Scheisse," he announced.All is shit.

We are poor indeed if we are only sane.

Claim your divine, glorious selfhood. Think it, talk it, live it and it will demonstrate itself in your life.

I've never done a musical, and I don't think I could do one, but I would love to play Sally Bowles in 'Cabaret.'

I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.

Stop worrying about what everyone else thinks. Start living for you and what makes you happy, because that's what everyone else is gonna do.

A thick headcloth forms a good protection against the sun, and if you wear a hat your best Arab friends will be ashamed of you ...

How can I not think of you as Daisy when your hair is all about your face like the petals of a flower?" He crouched ...

For in spite of the snapdragons and the duty millers and the cherry blossoms, it was always winter.

It's really seeing student involvement ... as a variety of opportunities that are appropriate for each given student and responsive to their individual needs and ...

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

Until you stop blaming and become positively self-critical you are not going to move forward.

All humans are brothers. We came from the same supernova

I'm working hard and I think I'm where I should be at by now but I'm in no hurry at all, I'm taking one fight ...

That whole generation that's gone now, that lived through the two world wars, is a great example to all of us. They knew how to ...

Can I ask what you're reading?" ... She turned the book so the cover faced me. Wuthering Heights. "Have you read it?" She said. I ...

I graduate with honors. I balled Nead O'Connor. I did a free style then I got a shoutout from Obama.

Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the ground put together ...

And you," Jude said, stepping forward and putting his finger in Tony's face. "Don't you ever try to give something of yours to put on ...

In science fiction, we dream. In order to colonize in space, to rebuild our cities, which are so far out of whack, to tackle any ...

I think there's such a thing, as a performance gene. If it's in your DNA it needs to come out. For me it originally came ...

What a noble gift to man are the Forests! What a debt of gratitude and admiration we owe to their beauty and their utility! How ...

Full many mischiefs follow cruel wrath;Abhorred bloodshed and tumultuous strifeUnmanly murder and unthrifty scath,Bitter despite, with rancor's rusty knife;And fretting grief the enemy of life;All ...

Every string theory that's been written down says the speed of light is universal. But other ideas about quantum gravity predict the speed of light ...

Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.

Another form of laziness is thinking: 'That's not for me; it's beyond my abilities. I'd rather not get involved with it.' In other words, you ...

Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently ...

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and today -- all without seeing him. It is a long time to be alone; still, it is better to be alone ...

I'm not a great manager; I try to be a great leader. And for me, that's been going through a process of not how to ...

How does one know that, before the first hello? It's a heaviness in the air combined with a lightness of step. It's a slowing down ...

You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills

I studied every page of this book, and I didn't find enough love to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the Bible; ...

The festivities were broken up by Pandora, who lobbed a scoop of ice cream at Lex that landed on the table with a sticky sploosh."Don't ...

I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world ...

I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail, poisoned in the bushes,blown out on the trail; hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the ...

I had the greatest time of my life making 'Saw 3.' More fun than '2' for sure.

But in order to be strong, you have to love yourself, and in order to love yourself, you need thorough self-knowledge, you need to know ...

In the springtime, we have softshell crab from Maryland, which I'd never had until I came to America. In the summer and early fall, we ...

I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested.

It's not about slaying monsters," he told her. "Not these days. I think it's about learning to live with them. Anyway who says we're the ...

Semicolons ... signal, rather than shout, a relationship ... A semicolon is a compliment from the writer to the reader. It says: "I don't have ...

All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable.

To be a success, intensely focus on success oriented action not on roadblocks or obstacles.

I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of guideline.

The growth of a naturalist is like the growth of a musician or athlete: excellence for the talented, lifelong enjoyment for the rest, benefit for ...

In view of the epidemiological situation in Germany, the lack of evidence for the effectiveness of the BCG-vaccine and the not uncommen severe, undesired side-effects ...

Understanding faith can be like trying to hold onto jello. Just when you think you've got a handful of the stuff, all you really have ...

In today's time, no other 'charity' is acceptable or practical than the 'wisdom' that can transform the human life... Meaning the knowledge which can teach ...

You ask me why I dwell in the green mountain; I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care. As the ...

In the 1950s at least less was expected of women. Now we're supposed to build a career, build a home, be the supermum that every ...

Oh, the luxury of lying in the fern night and the grass night and the night of the susurrant, slumbrous voices weaving the night together.

It's very difficult to do street casting with girls, because a beautiful girl in real life won't necessarily have the silhouette or the presence needed ...

I really couldn't see what the Socs would have to sweat about - good grades, good cars, good girls, madras and Mustangs and Corvairs - ...

Ignorance is bliss

It was amazing the things you could bring yourself to do when you felt insecure, when you were out to protect your heart. You could ...

No one wants their stuff stolen. No one wants their physical person harmed. If you understand the implications of those two truths, you can come ...

Sometimes I write captions on the in-flight magazines and then replace them in the seat pocket.

The first two years I was on 'MADtv' were really, really fun. We always thought it was 'Saturday Night Live's very nice, slightly asthmatic, shorter ...

I'll be scalded and tarred if a man can't get a little welcome when he comes home. Well, Maggie, you old gunny-sack, how's the broken ...

We were two wood-shavings of humanity in a rough world.

Children are bad enoughchildren are rude, selfish, greedy, and unthinking individuals who are unable to distinguish between their own selfish wants and needs and the ...

Sometimes you gotta mess up a little bit to wake up

There are no shortcuts and no sweatless quickies.

Buck is a mammoth, like a yeti. A huge perverted, hairy whore of a yeti. According to the sportscasters, Buck's an excellent hockey player. I'd ...

La Dorada skulked into view. She was half-mummified, but sodden. Gooey. Regin let out a low whistle. The Mummy Returns meets Dingoes Ate My Face.

[O]urs is a culture of the perpetual present, one that deliberately severs itself from the past that created us as well as the future we ...

Give every opportunity five minutes. If that's all it's good for, so be it. But I'm not going to miss out on something amazing because ...

A distinctive amount of a reasonable scarcity improves value greatly

You're my change of skin / my summer-winter-fall / I spring to follow you / this loss is beautiful.

One way to tell if you're really comfortable with a person is if you can be quiet together sometimes and not feel awkward. If you ...

A lot of your problem was in your head. You see yourself screwing up, it's going to happen.

What a wonderfully complex thing! this simple seeming unity - the self!

We are the Dragon-Hearted.

I was in a karaoke video in 1991, for a song called 'Sukiyaki,' which is a very famous Japanese song, and I've actually heard from ...

If you ever pull a switcheroo like that again, Dee, I'm going to offer your boyfriend ten thousand dollars to make out with Alice for ...

As far as the gambling debts on there, not one cent was any type of sports betting. It's just something obviously I'm not proud of ...

Klamath was all about fishing and socializing and cooking and eating, and waking up the next day to start over again.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods ...

As any parent can tell you, it's better to keep your mouth shut and your eyes open when you go looking for kids who are ...

I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of ...

Lately, I've been spending a lot of time rolling on the ground with men who think a stiffy represents personal growth.