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The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the ...
Stupid old boys' network ... That's why we're not running the world, huh, girlie? 'Cause when women see a younger version of us, it just ...
Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it ...
For 10 years, I gave away my possessions every year and moved on to a new place.
Everything that happens is determined by God.
Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears, ...
There's not a word I can say to you that you have not already though of, Mamah... There are ways to hold the thing up ...
The God I worship is the personification of love, but not that maudlin love that oftimes blinds our eyes to facts and leads us to ...
I think I'm as content as one can be.
Without sweat, no seed can be sowed.
She closed her eyes for a moment, remembering how it had felt to see Sir Gerek appear, reaching down and pulling her up. She sighed ...
Up there in my snug sweet tower, I felt I'd made landfall in the shoals of shifting clouds. Far enough from the crowds to relish ...
A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, ...
Something I've learned being in this industry for so long is that if you want to work with somebody, call them up. Very few musicians ...
Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
U will have success where you diligently labor
One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen ...
And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.
On those days when he could not spend half an hour in the company of a good book, he felt deprived.
We have learned by now, or should have, that the best-intended designers of aid programs can make ghastly mistakes in their sophisticated plans.
And so. And so I choose to go on serving it. I choose to go north, even though like every other direction, it is rationally ...
I once got a call from a bank, asking me to compute a mortgage, since their computers were down. This was a very depressing moment.
The idea of the human experience is to become in the physical the perfect self that already exists in the Akasha at the soul level.
Jesus healed people one at a time because God cares about individual people.
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 ...
It's goodbye to reality when love sets in.
I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.
Everyone has the notion that hip-hop is messy and loose, but there's also another level to it.
Recipe of SUCCESS needs tons of morale, flavor of attitude and hours of patience to cook.
The bruises on one's heart were always the hardest ones to heal, they seemed to last the longest.
Has he written to you?''He writes frequently.''Shew me his letters this instant, I order you'; and M. de Renal added six feet to his stature.
Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that witches are often betrayed by their appetites; dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always; hearts can be well-hidden, ...
Van Gogh is utterly dead; the world may be fixed, but it never was broken. And shadow itself may resolve into beauty.
Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs.
Fine. Have it your way, four. Is it bad form after only four months to tell you I think you're my forever?
Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life
Thoughts. Your imagination. The voices inside your head. They're all the same thing and spirit is what fuels it.
The urge to quit is strongest just before breakthroughs occur. Those are the times when it's most important to stay focused and committed. You will ...
I love men's company, but I don't feel I have to be married. Men are a wonderful part of life, like chocolate. But my life ...
Perry's eyes fluttered open. "Don't think about him.""How can I not? How can you not?""You're here. I only want to think about you right now.
The most common lie you will ever tell God is your opportunity to do the right thing was taken from you.
We cannot expect that millions are practicing real yoga just because millions of people claim to be doing yoga all over the globe. What has ...
I'm not going to run for political office.
The longer I go on, the more I am aware of the power of finance.
Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?
So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.
The plants and flowersI raised about my hutI now surrenderTo the willOf the wind
Sounds simple, doesn't it, this notion of simplicity? Simple things done simply by a simple person. But it's not as simple as it seems.
People should think that being a writer is cool. Even if you're just a starving writer. Besides, most great writers were starving at one point ...
She caught herself working so hard at mothering that she forgot to enjoy her children. -from ~Homecoming Season~
Make your mess your message.
The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these ...
We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto,
Never had there been such an opportunity for the dissemination of knowledge ... . But the obverse is also true. We can have thrust upon ...
It's hard to imagine, but we cant think of HIV/AIDS as being somebody else's story. It could be any of ours.
I started 'The Rainmaker' in August 1996, and I've been working consistently ever since. It's not like I had some grand plan; I keep getting ...
I've noticed that Henry needs an incredible amount of physical activity all the time in order to be happy. It's like hanging out with a ...
In many ways, Tucker Carlson's a better symbol of the pathetic state of what passes for conservative journalism than even Glenn Beck or the late ...
There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
Your life was a hypothesis. Those who die old are made of the past. Thinking of them, one thinks of what they have done. Thinking ...
Claire says she used to think ordinary life was boring before I came out to her, but now she realizes that every ordinary moment has ...
Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I commend the guys that do. I've ...
Once you've done that, push the thought of no thought away.
Always be mine, puppy please, puppy please.
I don't need time, I need a deadline.
I speak as much Spanish as anyone who has grown up in Southern California or Texas or Arizona. I had my three years of high-school ...
The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which ...
If I was a gold-digger, I would have a lot of money in my bank account. I'd be worth millions and millions.
Scientific knowledge is as much an understanding of the diversity of situations for which a theory or its models are relevant as an understanding of ...
It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and black athletes were OK. Defying a previous wisdom - ...
I definitely think the way the game is transforming, becoming more and more athletic, guys are great athletes out here and relying on the physical ...
Struggling is mandatory. Suffering is optional.
Nearly every problem has been solved by someone, somewhere. The challenge of the 21st century is to find out what works and scale it up.
In this movie, you have all the things you love from Tim. All the magic and the whimsy and the surreal, but he also has ...
Our real lasting legacies are the prints we leave on the soul of the world.
I've always been searching. What am I going to do with all this - searching for that place where I could be me.
My whole life has been nothing but trying to find a way to take care of my mom and take care of my family as ...
I think dance is amazing because what people don't realize is like when you dance your spirit and your soul get ignited. You're not only ...
Our "gathering" - or what people used to call "church" - is an aspect of what we do, but not the only thing. The gathering ...
If you're a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is to become wonderful. ...
Now my wandering days are over. It will be bliss to settle down. Bliss. There's a word, now. Bliss to love and to be loved.
The splendors of the firmament of timeMay be eclipsed, but are extinguished not;Like stars to their appointed height they climbAnd death is a low mist ...
Stick with us, Magnus, and ... well, you won't do fine. You'll get killed quickly. But stick with us anyway. We'll wade into battle and ...
We should distinguish between responsibility and guilt. Guilt only touches the ones who committed the crimes but the son of a criminal is not a ...
Real freedom cannot exist alongside false freedom, but the abandonment of false freedom looks as if it would leave you as good as dead. But ...
No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in ...
Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.
Asceticism in most cases is either the result of a sordid imagination or of passion diverted from its natural course, and experience has shown that ...
There are people with vested interest who do not want us to reform our energy sector so that we remain dependent on imports. All reform ...
The worst isn't done. The worst is just beginning, and there are no happy endings. (Samuel Tarly)
You have the potential to become anything to which you set your mind. You have a mind and a body and a spirit. With these ...
He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato.
It is through your experience you find out who you really are and who you are is from finding your own experience who really defines ...
But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
She was my wife. My most valuable possession; I treasured her. But I loved her slutty and dirty, too. A sexual object for my pleasure. ...
Women feel a need for a certain level of prior training and experience that men do not necessarily demand in order to jump into a ...
Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.
America isn't as lucky as you guys (Europeans), who for the most part have this quality of food that keeps you slim. We're over-eaters in ...
But even in cases of unrequited love there is always the hope that one day it will be requited.
Win, lose or draw, you're all my cousins and I love you.