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A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty of a despot ...

Time spent doing whatever it is you do to escape your daily life would be better spent acquiring a life that needs no escape.

Cat got your tongue? And what a lovely tongue it is. I know. It licked every inch of me. Repeatedly. For months, He purred but ...

Ever since I was younger, I would make table reads at home where I would give fake interviews.

Gentle Mother, font of mercy,save our sons from war, we pray,stay the swords and stay the arrows,let them know a better day,Gentle Mother, strength of ...

I've seen the photos of me and Flo Rida. It doesn't matter how we met. We met. I don't want to say that we're a ...

I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing. Now, that's ...

One step outside the gate, and we are among the sand-hills that stretch for miles and miles round Vera Cruz.

The early bird catches the worm & the sleeper catches nothing but dreams. Get up & get about your business. Good morning world, rise & ...

The still, sad music of humanity.

His complaints drown under the broken bullets of the barely functioning spigots.

You know, I've always thought it was a tactical mistake for God to love us in the aggregate, when Satan is willing to make a ...

It's a reflex, something that's been ingrained in me. Do no harm. Be nice. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.

Enlightenment does not mean that your ego is suppressed or denied. It does mean that it is deconstructed, seen through, exposed, and then reeducated and ...

We're strangers, we're not friends. I hate this, and I hate them.And I found out that you're angry, and you're sorry you ever met me

Elizabeth Lutyens was the first professional composer that I ever knew. I sent someextremely infantile pieces that I I'd written and got marvellous encouragement andinterest ...

Suppose that the earthly lives she and I shared for a few years are in reality only the basis for, or prelude to, or earthly ...

No matter who I couldn't save before, no matter if I'm stuck being a random mess of a girl, I'm still going to save something.

For me, the political part of being an actor is very tough. To sit somewhere and tell somebody why you should feel this way or ...

Hey, do you wanna go out for ... " His words melted with a sigh when he noticed Tod, but then he rallied with a ...

The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.

This is terrible wine, no?' I agreed. It was a carbonated sweet wine, acceptable only because of its alcohol content.

A woman's sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships.

Of all the affected, sapless, soulless, beginningless, endless, topless, bottomless, topsiturviest, scrannel- pipiest, tongs and boniest doggerel of sounds I ever endured the deadliest of, ...

The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions.

She stepped back, staring up into my eyes. "You've given me hope." She ran her hand up my chest. "I don't know how to thank ...

Mom's a hypochondriac, too, so the best part was that every week she would get the disease that the medical shows were dramatizing. I'll never ...

I get my voice from my mother's side of the family. My mother and my grandmother both had strong voices.

Reyna looked at Percy without much hope. "You do have a plan?"Percy wanted to step forward bravely and say, No, I don't!

Just because I am increasingly bored by sabermetric arcana doesn't mean anyone else has to be; it remains good for people who like that sort ...

Let an audience be able to find it themselves without spoonfeeding it.

I'd have a few on and off, but the commitment was always more on the girls' part than on mine, to be perfectly honest. So, ...

Through seeing the good in others, you also see the best within yourself.

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.

The Senkaku islands are inherently Japanese territory. I want to show my strong determination to prevent this from changing.

He sat on one side of a love seat, leaving space to sit beside him. Was it an invitation? Or a gesture of kindness, in ...

All things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have ...

Girls from my graduating class come into the store brandishing solitaire diamonds like Legion of Honor medals, as if they've accomplished something significant - which ...

JER29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an ...

I hated the sight on TV of big, clumsy, lumbering heavyweights plodding, stalking each other like two Frankenstein monsters, clinging, slugging toe to toe. I ...

I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' ...

I once thought the three most important words in creation were 'whatever proved necessary,'" he said. "And now?" she gasped against his mouth. "Now I ...

Global health issues remind us - perhaps more than any other issue - that we are all children of the same extended family.

Sometimes the greatest things happen when they have no rhyme or reason to. Life and logic might be against them, but great things happen nonetheless.

And remember it takes great courage and heart for a man who knows no kindness to show it to another. Even the wildest of beasts ...

I believe that in a way, sadness is happiness for there can be no wrong without right, no light without dark, no success without failure, ...

The Saviour is, by His Spirit, still on earth; let this cheer us. He is ever in the midst of the fight, and therefore the ...

To speake of an Vsurer at the table marres the wine.

Feeling good about yourself and your life is very important. I'm a happy woman, happy with my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren. We all get ...

I said school starts tomorrow. I didn't say I was going to be there.

I will not disappoint you, I promise. My name is Gleam. Take me with you. I held you in the dark. I defied straw sandals ...

The next thing I want to say is that God's way is always the best way. It's the only way, really. And God's word clearly ...

The good thing about setting your expectations low is that you will not often be disappointed.

I hope that they enjoy the movie. Don't be critical. Don't expect to get the same feelings you got when you watched the series when ...

Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.

As a physician, I know that human life begins with fertilization, and I remain committed to ending abortion in all stages of pregnancy. I will ...

His nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to straighten it ...

If you are interested in preventing animal suffering, the first thing you should give up is eggs and milk because the animals who produce those ...

He was even more overprotective than my stepfather. But in a boyfriend, that kind of thing is actually attractive.

Strange things are happening to us.'To our children.'They sayhe is looking for the spirit of Independence.'They say he is looking for himself.'For his ownspirit.'Which he ...

It is amazing how women spend too much time and energy scheming, plotting and seducing men when they should spend more time listening, learning and ...

Today, if we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other-that man, that woman, that child is my ...

It's more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long difficult words but rather short easy words like What about lunch?" - Winnie-the-Pooh

Sterling Holloway, the actor who had originally voiced Pooh, decided to retire in the mid-1980s. Disney decided that they wanted to continue this character with ...

I know that touching you will be understanding my fingers for the first time.

She greeted me very happily and asked if the children had been bad. To me, that was a strange question--in my culture, we expect children ...

The seeker's silence is the loudest form of prayer.

Deep down, I reckon the sweetest moment will come when it's finally all over. When, at last, I know that I can stop fighting. Of ...

In short, for me to live happily it was essential for the creatures I chose not to live at all. They must receive their life, ...

We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the ...

Cats are the slipperiest of domestic animals. Thousands of years of genetic coding has taught them to melt into azaleas, lie motionless behind garden gnomes, ...

Is there anything sadder than the scrawniest little piece of uneaten chicken at a dinner party?""Hmm," said Jules. "Yes. The Holocaust.

Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.

Obsessing on evil is boring. Rousing fear is a hackneyed shtick. Wallowing is despair is a bad habit. Indulging in cynicism is akin to committing ...

And now, because of a song, Vimes, a simple piece of music, Vimes, soft as a breath, stranger than a mountain, some very powerful states ...

Slowly I came to know that the depth of our heartbreaks determines the depth of our faith. God gives us everything to conquer the big ...

These people are like sheep, if you were to ask them, who would like hepatitis, they are all going to cheer.

The Protestants of old go to work not just for the money, their biggest motivation for work is service to God and man. Not the ...

Don't make me Romeo

As an actor, you've got to live and learn, and you gotta just kind of form a hard shell and be confident in yourself.

Embrace this moment and taste my breath to take you away from inevitable death

I settled in to watch a Dragnet rerun. I bought the judge in four of Jack Webb's drunk-driving beefs. I shtupped Jack's ex-wife, soaring songstress ...

Ven mazel kumt, shtelt im a shtul. When mazel comes, pull up a chair for it. (p. 292)

I hate them," Sebarial said. "But I try to hate everyone. That way, I don't risk leaving out anyone who is particularly deserving.

Time can be such a menace to a man. By this age do that; by that age do better.

One suffers in silence so long as one has the strength and when that strength fails one speaks without measuring one's words much.

In the Fifties, my parents were known as 'America's sweethearts'. Their pictures graced the covers of all the newspapers. They were the Brad Pitt and ...

The clouds are scudding across the moon,A misty light is on the sea;The wind in the shrouds has a wintry tune,And the foam is flying ...

Some say that ever 'gainst the season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they ...

As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now.

In 2008, A.J. Schnack recruited Thom Powers to start the Cinema Eye Honors to recognize the artistry and craft that go into making documentary films.

I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: I was reading a book ... I felt alive and engaged and positively ...

It's the way surfing is - you grow up surfing together, and then you're thrown into a heat at Pipe or a world title bout ...

My kids really like food, and they like to cook, so it's a lot of fun to shop with them.

They [Tom Hanks and Paul Newman] were simply always high level masters, and taught me as a kid actor never to be an a*shole to ...

When I listen to my scene partners and listen to their breathing allows me to be connected to them in scenes. I am not trying ...

The mild wind made the trees sway gently, in a lullaby rhythm, and the resultant susurration was like the soft sighs and dreamy murmurs of ...

For all I knew this was going to be just another in a string of fabulous cock-ups that seemed to be scripted for us by ...

I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have ruined ...

I want to be in a musical. I love music, and just to be able to mash the music and the acting together, it would ...