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Pavel Palazchenko has given us a well-written, inside account of Gorbachev's and Shevardnadze's diplomacy. Remarkably objective, it is full of insights, makes fascinating reading, and ...

Thou art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most lov'd, despis'd! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon.

Nothing kills the soul that commands to evil (Nafs al Ammarra) like seeing the beauty of the heart.

Difficult times never last.Patient to preserve is a peaceful altitude for surviving the stormy waters.

Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. ...

If a play is good and you're effective in it, you suddenly hear a silence that is loud, and that moment makes the whole schmageggy ...

In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than ...

Why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most

When spring knocks at your door, regardless of the time of year or season of our lives, run, do not walk to that door, throw ...

Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration; just think how many bombs that would buy!

Everyone knew that democracy-direct rule by all the people-required such spartan, sel denying virtue on the part of all the people that it was likely ...

The things that trip a person into love aren't the grand, sweeping traits you expect (must adore Waugh, display altruism, respect my space). The truly ...

When I see something that needs to be corrected, I may talk to a store manager. I don't want to demoralize people when it's beyond ...

I think my favorite film of all time has to be 'The Illusionist' by Sylvain Chomet. Beautiful plot, beautiful story. You know, not much happens, ...

I just want to live my own life instead of everyone else's version of it.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street life ...

Your heavenly Father has known you from your mother's womb. Only He really understands you and the things that have fought hard to wound your ...

Everybody wants to psychoanalyze horror. They don't want to psychoanalyze a book like Gay Talese's "Sex with Your Neighbor" or something like that. It's pretty ...

It is almost impossible to say the name of Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawat without adding 'give a dog a bone'

When I was a kid my ol' man give me a haltered heifer an' says take her down an git her serviced. An' the fella ...

What an awful place to live in England is, ... If it isn't snowing or raining or blowing it's misty. And if the sun does ...

Your sacred contribution in the world is the service to humanity.

I was working for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970, as a staff writer, and after that, I was a journalist. Eventually, I became an ...

Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine ...

I couldn't hear anything or anyone, there was only the sound of our sex and the smell of books.

I can really recommend a beautifully but sparsely furnished room with empty walls!

You are a Seminole alligator wrestler. Half naked, with your two bare hands, you hold and fight a sentence's head while its tail tries to ...

I love Sunday-morning drives. I'll be up at 6 A.M., get a cup of coffee, and head out.

Congratulations, he said. "That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen." His expression was a mix of awe and disbelief. "Ever.

Be where you are. Look around. Just look, don't interpret. See the light, shapes, colors, textures. Be aware of the silent presence of each thing. ...

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 ...

Iranians call California and Iran 'sister cities;' they're very much alike. Iranians feel at home here and the weather is so close to Iranian weather.

Mayor: How horrible our Christmas will be! Jack Skellington: *No.* [the Mayor switches to his upset face] Jack Skellington: How *jolly*! Mayor: Oh. How *jolly* ...

When I refuse to go deeper, my faith lingers in the shallow.

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow ...

Human beings are not houses - you don't walk in and say, 'Well, so long as we gut the kitchen and add a third bathroom, ...

I've found the 90-10 rule to be pretty true: 90 percent of what I come up with and write down is kinda 'eh,' and then ...

Now I know that that is just the phenomena of eating this way. Most all of my letters say I hit a plateau and then ...

Remind yourself that every second spent scrolling through social media is one you will never get back.

All the joy and color was washed from her face, and at first the sadness only made her more beautiful. But

This man took my last son. No one could claim my hurt, or my anger. No one could have a greater claim on this one's ...

The ECB's interventions in sovereign bond markets should not be perceived or interpreted as a 'freebie' for governments. They are temporary.

Success is judged not by the position you reach in life but by the obstacles you have overcome.

Don't just stand there let's get to it. Strike a pose, there's nothing to it.

Drink the sun's warmth and the moon's icy glitter, and taste that which the dead and the yet-to-be-born cannot: the potency of this world.

What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?

I'm just flowing through, when I see things, I talk about 'em. And it's cool. I don't want any title. I just say what I ...

There is no comparison. The American landscape is so much more dangerous. They have real snakes, mountain lions, bears; we only have adders, and they're ...

I also work out because I have scoliosis. I have to maintain certain strength in my core.

It's only when you have grazed on the lower slopes of your own ignorance and begun to understand the great vistas of nonknowledge that you ...

Every day you make a choice either to sow some of your seed or to eat it. When you exercise faith and sow, you release ...

Will I end up in Hell along with the Hamburger Helping Hand, Joe Camel and Wendy, the Snapple Lady?

I don't see my movies. When you ask me about one of my movies, it just goes in my memory because maybe sometimes I confuse ...

Don't move," said Sprockett."Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.

[Pope Francis] is a humble man. He lives the faith out in his own personal life ... He's here to be a shepherd; he isn't ...

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 ...

Man and his affairs, church and state and school, trade and commerce, and manufactures and agriculture even politics, the most alarming of them all - ...

Another intruder that plagues our good health is sleeplessness. Insomnia is much like constipation in that stress or nervous tension can bring it on or ...

As the sun and each atom of ether is a shphere complete in itself, yet at the same time only a part of a whole ...

People grow up by living.

If something must be said, it will say itself. The writer's task is to listen.

The liberating encounter with God/ess is always an encounter with our authentic selves resurrected from underneath the alienated self. It is not experienced against, but ...

In the world of technology,In the world of Internet , information,teachings knowledge are spreading so fast but sad no one want to apply or follow ...

A girl I fall in love with will not have been like I was. I would like the girl who's had serious boyfriends, with maybe ...

Warm summer sun, shine friendly here Warm western wind, blow kindly here; Green sod above, rest light, rest light, Good-night, Annette! Sweetheart, good-night!

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

There is no sustainable future for fisheries as long as human populations continue to increase.

Really. It's plain for anyone to see that he cares for you. His eyes rarely leave you and he's terribly attentive. I'm positive he's in ...

Inside her head or out in the desert was the same, and the air inside her throat was very dry to keep from crying and ...

Reality what a concept !

I have been the struggler of the century. Fortunately, everyone loves the underdog.

I am Hualapai. We are located in Northern Arizona, at the Grand Canyon. We own the Skywalk area.

I remembered watching Slim Goodbody on TV, an odd white guy with a small Afro who wore a full-body leotard with the inside of the ...

I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you - ...

I have many friends and family members who have served (or are currently serving) in our nation's Armed Forces. I have such a profound respect ...

So I'm happiest when I'm working with artists and writers, and involved in stories, whether we're talking about animation or movies or comics or television.

It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few.

A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit ...

I had to go to the school nurse yesterday because my stomach hurt ... ""You worry too much, Charlie Brown ... No wonder your stomach ...

Edward shook his head. "I'm going to do the same thing with Miss Marshall that I do to everyone I love. I'm going to leave ...

But I fired four shots more into the inert body, on which they left no visible trace. And each successive shot was another loud, fateful ...

The thing that makes you say, "I want to do something" - that is the beginning of talent.

But people may do great good accidentally, though with evil intentions - conversely people may do great evil though having the best of intentions.

And Cape Town is not what it used to be. Foreigners have left their imprint on our culture.

The foundation stone of all philosophy is self-knowledge and being true to thy self. A person must address an inner necessity in order to realize ...

In a pinch, when my leather shoes need a quick shine, I take the inside of a banana peel and rub it on the leather ...

The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don't listen to them. No one does the right thing out of fear. If you ever utter the ...

Unfortunately, we are a species with schizoid tendencies, and like an old lady who has to share her house with a growing and destructive group ...

I won't tolerate her hurting you, my son. I'll kill the bitch first.""Weren't you the one who tried to cut father's throat before he Claimed ...

When we speak of ancient times, Rud Elalle, we find in our words things far nearer to hand, and all those emotions we imagined new, ...

Well, none of us really fancy it, Harry," said Fred earnestly. "Imagine if something went wrong and we were stuck as specky, scrawny gits forever.

Brothers and sisters, let us not be closed to the newness that God wants to bring into our lives! Are we often weary, disheartened, and ...

I kept my head down and my breathing steady. No idea why. I totally felt like a sniper in the marines. Only I was pregnant. ...

Scheherazade, of course, was always in the back of my mind, because she's also a storyteller identified as female who tells a lot of anti-female ...

Shasta was dreadfully frightened. But it suddenly came into his head, If you funk this, you'll funk every battle all your life. Now or never.

But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.

You can change your emotion immediately .. by thinking of something joyful, or singing a song, or remembering a happy experience.

Pre-season isn't just about conditioning but also getting used to each other as a team and a group of men. You spend more time with ...

It is time that we squarely face the fact that institutional schoolteaching is destructive to children.

Saying goodbye isnt hard, but saying it to something you care about is whats hard, because you dont want to forget the emmotional pain and ...