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He couldn't just take her home, bed her, and wait for children to pop out. Somewhere in between, he'd have to talk to her.
Your days pass like rainbows, like a flash of lightning, like a star at dawn. Your life is short. How can you quarrel?
Politics, life, and business are not spectator sports. You have to get involved to get ahead. Most importantly, when you reach that level of success, ...
The best way to be original is to not copy anyone.
No suspects. No persons of interest. Just a girl who was alive one day and dead the next.
By God, I could make myself bring her that economically halved grapefruit, that sugarless breakfast.
When a clumsy cloud from here, meets a fluffy little cloud from there, he billows towards her. She scurries away, and he scuds right up ...
Spring with its wavin' green grass and heaps of sweet-smellin' flowers on every hill and in every dale.
Life is squinchy.
ROSE: I think I've spent too much time around Dave.ROSE: I've also probably spent too much time sharing his genes.
Not only was there no traffic but the rain came down in buckets and I had no shelter. I had to run under some pines ...
As someone who's very competitive, I'm someone who abhors losing more than I enjoy winning. In that regard, it hasn't been a great two months, ...
He says that the Men that have lately come over the Mountains are hardly better than Orcs.' 'That is true,' answered Sador; 'true at least ...
It is a Siren's burden," she whispered, "So much strength, so much pain. You will feel the weight of humanity on your shoulders, though you ...
Sometimes it's not about making a ton of money in one night, just to spend the rest of your life waiting on the next payday. ...
Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.
It's a 12-hour cooking class for me on the set of 'Chopped.' You'd think I'd get sick of it, but it's a source of endless ...
You can't rely on bringing people downtown, you have to put them there.
It sounds old-fashioned to say, but we have some kind of purpose for being here, not poets or writers, but all of us humans.
Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.
The [priest] was really my teacher, because I reacted against the things he told me.
They had none of the modern things that we have today, and yet they turned their world upside down,
As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.
Dwindling slowly on the road behind him like some storybook peddler from an antique time, dark and bent and spider thin and soon to vanish ...
I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for ...
If the gains from trade in commodities are substantial, they are small compared to trade in ideas
There are cases where government-to-government aid actually has worked. Look at the eradication of smallpox and the near eradication of polio. But these are really ...
But if you do not wish to die of thirst in the desert, drink charity. This is the fountain the Lord has willed to place ...
It brings back a long-forgotten memory of Christmas, the year I turned six. I was supposed to be in bed, but I was up waiting ...
I think sometimes when you look long term, you kind of forget to take care of what you have to take care of on a ...
The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.
I don't think that TV on the Radio is some dark mysterious band that no one can know about. We write music because it's an ...
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society recognizes that the deaths of four sealers is a tragedy, but Sea Shepherd also recognizes that the slaughter of hundreds ...
His muscles glistened, wet as if he'd just swum a great distance. To his side, he carried a massive Shardblade, point down, sticking about a ...
We learn about life by exploring the texture and depth of space that composes our private inner world. In solitude we revisit our wounded feelings, ...
It was no use to tell a person to forget. No matter how hard you tried to put it out of your mind, the hurt ...
It is from the midst of this putrid sewer that the greatest river of human industry springs up and carries fertility to the whole world. ...
From New Year's Eve through the third of January, the streets of Tokyo grew quiet, as if all the people had disappeared.
Words writers choose are a glimmering reflection into our souls.
Sex with a stranger makes you feel decadent, a risk taker, young again. Sex with a stranger is life on the edge. Everything else is ...
(Ibid. on using the verb to be in this culturally envenomed way, too, as in 'I'll Be There For You,' which has become the sort ...
When will American men learn how to stand up to the nagging by the intolerant, uncivil feminists whose sport is to humiliate men?
The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious belief in lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above ...
Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political tool, ...
Absolute values are the things that are important whether you like them or not. Relative values depend on social contexts and personal preferences and conditions ...
I gambled for the soul of the Library. And I lost.
By now the two men were tied securely to their chairs. Powerscourt found he could just about move his arms. If there was a deus ...
The point is to savor and treasure every moment, every breath. They are precious because they are limited. Nothing in abundance is ever held dear. ...
Good things come to us just when we need them the most, like an angel throwing us a life-preserver before we go under the waters ...
Smack me if we ever get that awful.""But I smack you so often," she said, "how will you know that's what I'm smacking you for?""We ...
Here march the eaters of earth, the swallowers of rain.
He said, "Dance for me," and he said,"You are too beautiful for the windTo pick at, or the sun to burn." He said,"I'm a poor ...
The best thing to do when you're in this world, don't you agree, is to get out of it. Crazy or not, scared or not.
I thought yesterday would never end. There was over me a yearning for sleep in some sort of blind belief that to wake would be ...
As they climbed into their saddles, Myron bowed his head and muttered a soft prayer."There," Hadrian told Royce, "we've got Maribor on our side. Now ...
Good job, Ambrose," Wilem said sarcastically. "You caught him. He stole your fire." One of the onlookers chimed in, "Yeah, make him put it back!
One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans ... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may ...
Gnani's [The enlightened one's] sangna [directions] is the compass then it will take you to the end of your journey [Moksha, ultimate liberation]. And the ...
Appearing ordinary is one of her best talents. As long as nothing unexpected blows up in her face, which, of course, life being the minefield ...
Part of playing the game of life is you're going to have some losses.
Capitalists' wet dreams is to be involved in charity.
But, as old Swedish legends say, Of all the birds upon that day, The swallow felt the deepest grief, And longed to give her Lord ...
It is not the homeless, mentally ill or extremely cunning people that we have to be afraid of. When someone loses everything that meant something ...
I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.
With Torin stretched over her, his weight pinning her down, his heat and scent surrounding her, she was utterly consumed with pleasure. It saturated her ...
The domain of the imagination is reality.
I'm sitting, waiting to get on the freeway, and I'm waiting my ass off. I look over at the side of the road, and there's ...
Billy, in one of his nice new sashes, Fell in the fire and was burnt to ashes; Now, although the room grows chilly, I haven't ...
I plucke up the goodlie greene herbes of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, chawe them by musing, and laie them up at length ...
I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that ...
He swallows, keeping his tormented eyes on mine. "I hate this. I hate what it's doing to me. I hate that I'm tired of doing ...
My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.
The sense of justice is continuous with the love of mankind.
And I mean to hear ye groan like that again. And to moan and sob, even though you dinna wish to, for ye canna help ...
I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses.
Once we have entrusted our hope about something to God, we no longer quarrel with our neighbor over it. (St. Kosmas Aitolos)
Du hast so viele Leben, wie du Sprachen sprichst. (You have as many lives as the number of languages you speak.)
It is not enough to celebrate Christmas. We need to be changed and shaped by what we are celebrating. If our spiritual life is no ...
The difference for me is I just don't sleep on friends' couches anymore.
New Jersey is the most poetic state: close enough to New York to be urban and cosmopolitan, far enough to be desirous and unsure; densely ...
Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie.
Intellectual criticism will bind Europe together in bonds far closer than those that can be forged by shopman or sentimentalists. It will give us the ...
Louisville, an hour after dark, is a carpet of gilt thumbtacks below them, with straight, twinkling lines like strings of beads leading out from it. ...
Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.
That's kind of what I want to do-set my own trend in the basketball world.
Being an MP is not a desperately hard life, like going down the pit or working in the steelworks - with which I am all ...
The basis lies in the idea that if you're kind to others, good things will happen to you.
Precious souls as young as three or four, raised on the misplaced multicultural priorities of Sesame Street," he claims, "are doomed before they even enter ...
1862 ... although we can judge that an act is in itself a grave offense, we must entrust judgment of persons to the justice and ...
We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher's hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it ...
He follows a man with a rolled up mattress strapped to his back. When he stepped down from the train into the brutalising glare of ...
Fair Trade supports some of the most bio-diverse farming systems in the world. When you visit a Fair Trade coffee grower's fields, with the forest ...
Dolchyme: "It's ... just that ... we don't get many of your kind around here. Stormling folk and all that.Anadyr: "I'm a Storm Lord, actually."Dolchyme: ...
We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.
I've only skied a couple of times in my life. Any skier would say I stink.
Everyone is so estranged; no one is rooted. That's what I like to write about more than anything else. Everything being so mixed up. Racially ...
There's a lot of women out there, some of whom are my age who've never been married and some who have been married and would ...
My comedy is for children from three to 93. You do need a slightly childish sense of humour and if you haven't got that, it's ...
Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise ...
The truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going ...