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Yeah, about that," says Peeta, entwining his fingers in mine. "Don't try something like that again." "Or what?" I ask. "Or ... or ... " ...
There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it." He shifted slightly in the ...
Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
My friends and family have always been extremely supportive, but the support I've received from fans has been so overwhelming. I love hearing all of ...
Sit all together in meditation. Become peacefully calm and quiet, without motion, without stillness, without birth, without destruction, without coming or going, with no judgments ...
The one piece of nostalgia he has allowed himself is the gleaming cast-iron wood-burning stove in the center of the room, which replaced his mother's ...
There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they ...
I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents' faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, ...
One of the principles we teach in our programs is "If you shoot for the stars, you'll at least hit the moon." Poor people don't ...
It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.
(When)When you call me nugget.When you take pictures of me.When you dance.When you complement me.When you laugh.When your eyes squint as you smile.When we make ...
She played pretty much every sport, her favorite being volleyball. My favorite part of her: she had that smart, I'm-too-good-for-this-I-read-Vonnegut attitude about her.
8In peace I will lie down and sleep, for you alone, LORD, make me dwell in safety.
I remember tap-dancing and singing in front of the TV when I was a kid, telling my dad to stop watching Ed Sullivan or Milton ...
As the baby latched on with surprising fierceness, the nurse offered her own prayer.Let her be strong.Let her be sly.And let her be ugly.
I loved them too and while you might lay a greater claim to them, I defy you to miss your wife any more than I'll ...
If you pay attention to the movies they will tell you what people desire and fear. Movies are hardly ever about what they seem to ...
I love the idea of a super villain that doesn't wear a cape, that doesn't wear a super suit.
And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, ...
In this time of globalization, with all its advantages, the poor are the most vulnerable to having their traditions, relationships and knowledge and skills ignored ...
It's funny when I hear people complain - particularly about the most fabulous parts of being a designer, like when you're getting ready to work ...
If you have to explain your sense of humor, then you are performing for the wrong crowd.
Something wonderful is about to happen, and something awful is about to happen. You can dwell on either one. It's your choice.
[She] knew that it was not precisely a body that one loved. One loved the man who shone out through the eyes and used its ...
Of course she teased the girls, but it was not the same as having a grown man to work on - she had often felt ...
As an adult, getting paid thousands of dollars a week to say, "Aye, Sir. Course laid in" is a seriously sweet gig, but when I ...
When you choose high-quality delicious foods, your body will reward you with a trim figure and a longer, healthier life. After all, what you put ...
We need not suppose that we can serve two masters. If we try, we may be sure of one thing- that our master will not ...
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy ...
A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.
In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, ...
Happy HolidaysIs it not this day to smile?Is it yet a time to give?Is this friend as old as good?Is my family so well?Santa is ...
And now dear little children, who may this story read, To idle, silly flattering words, I pray you ne'er give heed: Unto an evil counsellor, ...
Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she ...
It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that ...
It's a lot of work to make a marriage work. Just because you have been married for a while doesn't mean you can sit back ...
Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character ... By teaching the word of God, you prepare your ...
A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything's going to be all ...
I know I'm someone powerful, someone dangerous. A grim smile tugs at my lips despite my current circumstances. I know I'm not afraid of pain ...
That Miss Priss vibe she's got going on kind of does it for me. It makes me want to get her dirty. Really, really dirty.
It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the ...
Capitalism is a system that works extremely well for someone who is highly motivated and very energetic, but it is not a great system for ...
She still looked like a force to be reckoned with. Her short stature made her look cute and innocent, but I knew that was an ...
The tour bus is always fun, and there's plenty of time to watch movies. Actually, Kanye introduced me to the movie 'Step Brothers.' We were ...
Romance is about love. It's about two people sharing intimate moments expressing that love
When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, 'I'm never eating anything else again.' ...
Sleeping with your child, wearing your child in a sling as opposed to pushing them around in expensive strollers, those are things that matter biologically ...
Start to give more thought to the world around you. Stop exposing yourself to situations that drain your energy. You will discover through a trial ...
Once, long ago in her world, a sunny day in spring was her favorite, but now a sunny day in winter delights her more. It ...
I don't need to touch a woman to possess her; I can reel in souls with a simple look, a light touch, a well-timed smile. ...
We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy ...
Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself;Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to withstand his passions and ...
At one point they'd repeated everything enough, and I wanted to tell them to stop showing the planes hitting the tower. We didn't need to ...
The secret of politics is to care about success, but not too much.
Helen, beloved of the goddess of love, went downstairs to crawl into her empty bed as Lucas, the son of the sun, leaned back on ...
I believe in the support of the public school as one of the cornerstones of American liberty. I believe in the right of every parent ...
The brittle bones beneath my chest cracked, piercing my heart. It was you who breathed new life into my lungs and it was you who ...
What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely ...
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war
I used slam dunking as a tool for intimidation.
I wantyou to havethis,all the beauty in my eyes, and the grace of my mouth,all the splendor of my strength,all thewonder of the musk partsof ...
I would love it if, even for one day, you could walk through a neighborhood and see an Asian guy sitting on his stoop, then ...
Some of these rich folks seem to think that everything belongs to them and they'll even get to take it with them when they die. ...
I know how precious life is. You had no right to take Renaud's and you have no right to take your own now. Not over ...
What makes the perfect kiss? Closing your eyes when you kiss is important. Or lifting up the leg, but that's more of a girl thing, ...
The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
Forcing yourself to see the world through love's gaze can be healthy. Love is an attitude to life. It can save us.
Helping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not.
I feel very confident that Americans flying in the air are safe and that only under the most dire of circumstances would our pilots ever ...
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
Come rain or shine I walk short distances rather than taking my car.
A woman who can read can educate herself. A woman who cannot knows only what she is told.
You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live.
There had been a computer he had also built himself on the farthest corner of the room, but he had sold that a couple of ...
I hate sitting around a table and talking about what a play might mean. I'm the person who's always like, 'Can we get up on ...
I want to stay healthy, keep fit, eat well, keep a low profile and be a good dad.
Sometimes you know that you are destined to die, but somehow you are given a parenthesis after the punctuation mark: more years, more time that ...
Slow down, especially at the beginning of a speech. You'll get the audience's attention by pausing.
Forever continue to love, heal and educate the children. The future shines on them.
I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple ...
My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally ...
The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of them. Well, this ...
It is a fact of big cities that one girl's darkest how is always another's moment of shining triumph, and New York is the biggest ...
Boys need to learn the value of spiritual solitude. For the soul to grow, it needs those moments of no-stimulation, of wakeful peace. Because we ...
Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs.
Don't let anyone or anything to dull your sparkle.
It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial crisis ...
I convinced my parents to let me see an agent, but because I had been taught never to speak to strangers, I was so quiet ...
Twilight, I'm sorry, is about a very unhealthy, toxic relationship. She falls in love with this guy and the second he leaves her, her life ...
I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once.
Stress comes from the fear of the unknown; tranquility comes from accepting the unknown with love and joy.
Orpheus. Had the name he had taken ever suited him better? But he would be wilier than the singer whose name he had stolen. He ...
Nepal is a beautiful country with a lot of holy places. I also like the country because it's close to the Himalayas. According to Hindu ...
When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. ...
I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.
We know everyone we love is going to die, but we don't know it, can't possibly believe it, she thought, or long ago I would ...
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
She is delightfully chaotic; a beautiful mess. Loving her is a splendid adventure.
Trent Takoda stared at the backside of the sexiest woman he'd ever met. A woman he'd spent months trying to find. To discover she was ...
Siwa means Sophie," Sophie adds. "It means youngest sister,