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That tuft of jungle feathers, That animal eye, Is just what you say. That savage of fire, That seed, Have it your way. The world ...
Silence is a source of Great Strength.
You have friends and one of them is your best friend. And now, make the nature as your second best friend and spend time often ...
I imagine watching Gale volunteering to save Rory in the reaping, having him torn from my life, becoming some strange girl's lover to stay alive, ...
Some things just work. There is elegance in simplicity.
They amaze me most of those remixes. Some of them are crap. But every time I complain, someone comes up and says they are for ...
Surrounded by darkness yet enfolded in light
You lethargic, waiting upon me,waiting for the fire and Iattendant upon you, shaken by your beautyShaken by your beauty Shaken.
Perfection consists in a constant perseverance to acquire the virtues and become proficient in their practice, because on God's road, not to advance is to ...
I was in the closet, so to speak, until after the fifth year when I was cancer-free.
My skin still crawls if you call me a movie star. I get embarrassed. I think, don't be ridiculous. Maybe it's because I'm British. To ...
As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used ...
Because then they don't have to struggle with the need to die to the ego-driven self and become a humble servant of all people, which ...
Revive your inner spirit! Break free from all things weighing you down, grab hold of your strong rope and lift yourself out of hopelessness!
Tomorrow you may look up and see me as a lawyer, a doctor, business executive,teacher - or WHATEVER I BELIEVE I CAN BE !My story ...
We are but a speck in the Universe Oh, but what a lucky speck to be ...
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the ...
He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on ...
Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is ...
I was never a joiner. I tried - I had people I admired and liked and wanted to hang with, but I ended up starting ...
My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and ...
In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the ...
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in ...
Walking a short way back along the embankment, almost to where the cross stood, Smiley took another look at the bridge, as if to establish ...
Marvelous wonders don't have to happen of a sudden, the way they do in the Arabian Nights. They can also take a long time, like ...
Yesterday the paper had a "short" summary of the places where Jews are not allowed! I can better mention where they are still aloud: "in ...
Hey, can you teach me the word for friend that you wrote on my card?""Peng you," I say."Peng you," she says, only instead of pung ...
Progressing at a snail's pace is still progress, and slow progress is better than no progress. Never be stagnant, and never give up.
The practical common-sense of modern society, the utilitarian direction which labor, laws, opinion, religion, take, is the natural genius of the British mind.
Like flossing, frequent engagement with a product, especially over a short period of time, increases the likelihood of forming new routines.
There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of ...
Something great is about to happen to me: I'm about to love somebody very much.
AMELIA: To my friends, and family: You all may be batsh*t crazy, but even if I got to choose, I'd still choose to be with ...
He held up his hand, and in it was ... Oh, God. The neon-pink vibrator, glowing in the dark now. It was following her, stalking ...
A glance through the Bible quickly dispels the rumor that sibling problems are an invention of the twenty-first century.
We Indians know about silence," he said. "We aren't afraid of it. In fact, to us it is more powerful than words.
I just love to shop. If I could, I would shop every single day in every single store and spend all of my money which, ...
Somebody loves you
Don't put your faith in seeing God working during a circumstance. Trust in the fact that when He is done working, you will receive the ...
The volume of twaddle from critics is directly proportional to the distance you keep from them. There is always room to spread your wings when ...
One must avoid getting stuck in the negative memories because these can block personal growth.
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies.
I love to close my eyes a moment and think of the land outside, white under the mingled snow and moonlight--the heaps of stones by ...
Here I sit, sober and perhaps even lucid, on the sort of winter's day that makes you realize a New Year is just around the ...
Problems never just go away or take care of themselves, especially when God allows them in order to shape our character. God will patiently wait ...
So don't come in here acting like you matter. You left and took your high horse with you," he takes another step in my direction. ...
I am more than perfectbecause I am more than lovePetra HermansSeptember 27, 2016
Fight on my men,"says Sir Andrew Barton,I am hurt,but I am not slain;I'll lay me down and bleed a-while,And then I'll rise and fight again".
Taking the strong believing women as role models for both men and women, clearly indicates that the Quran acknowledges the woman's ability to be a ...
Success shouldn't be measured by how much you have but by how much you give back.
I'll go grocery shopping at the farmer's market on a Sunday and already know what I'm going to cook for the next two, three or ...
There are a lot of signs. One of the things that makes me most nervous is the disappearance of the frogs. They're going downhill all ...
They work in secrecy. I can't get any information. You can't find out anything until they get out to the floor. And it's hard to ...
The movie was always something that was always kind of like a dream. From the start of making my YouTube videos, I've always been sharing ...
Awoke to find three vultures sitting on the fence. Realizing they were a portent of impending death I shot them.
Las Vegas is the savage heart of the American Dream.
If people from their own country are killed, they may express surprise, grief, anger, and sympathy. But if ten thousand people are killed in a ...
Had she been in town, the two of them would have spent most of the day together, and she didn't want that. Then again, deep ...
I walk on my sacred path.
Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.
Pacing has become more important than ever, largely because of other media. I've always tried to start my stories out with a bang, something that ...
As whence the sun 'gins his reflectionShipwracking storms and direful thunders break, so from that spring whence comfort seemed to come discomfort swells.
In the early days of a startup, people's compensation is whatever you negotiate with a founder and it's all over the place.
By the age of 11, I was no longer going to Sunday Mass, and going on birdwatching walks with my father. So early on, I ...
Technically I have siblings, but they are quite a bit older than me - I was the accident - so I have the only-child syndrome ...
Losing all the preconceptions that I had about storytelling, about the world, you know, and learning to see the world from a different perspective. It ...
So-and-so is using?' You just knew. I never held it against anyone. It was one of those things where you knew they were just trying ...
Long term thinking and planing enhances short term decision making. Make sure you have a plan of your life in your hand, and that includes ...
I show elements of the set in my pictures because it's not real. When I see movies, I often love the 'making of' more than ...
A library after closing is a lonely place. It is heart-poundingly silent, and the rows of shelves create an almost unfathomable number of dark and ...
Only three or four outs directly affect the outcome of any given game ... One of the greatest challenges of pitching is to recognize these ...
Love is not just a word that is spoken; it is an action that is taken and an emotion that awakens.
We are simple-minded enough to think that if we were saying something we would use words. We are rather doing something. The meaning of what ...
Some days are just hard and you want to go asleep and wake up a week from now knowing the problem is gone. Everyone feels ...
I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale. ...
I had this coming. I just have to take my medicine. I think I'll spend the weekend brooding about what a shitty friend I am ...
Would a dating service on the net be 'frowned upon' ... ? I hope not. But even if it is, don't let that stop you ...
The chimney is to some extent an independent structure, standing on the ground, and rising through the house to the heavens; evenafter the house is ...
You can talk yourself into a good emotional state. I stop for a second, take a deep breath, and think about something that's beautiful. A ...
What you don't realize at the time is that you're not seeing the full picture," "You don't think about the fact that things will change. ...
I can see getting married and having a family, because it is the next thing on the agenda. You can only do this for so ...
Full disclosure: I've never read 'Eat Pray Love,' nor have I even seen the movie.
Of course, I don't act in an extreme fashion in my day to day life. I don't think any of us live do. I think ...
I suggest that there is a splendid way out of the difficulty of marriage, and that is my way - stay out.
I never seem to be able to sell my films correctly in the U.S. The U.S. defends itself on its own turf.
My sister is a nurse and saves people's lives.
Bad news doesn't hurt as much, if you hear it in good company. It's like, if somebody pushes you out of a 5th floor window ...
I love what I know about passion, I love what I know about mercy, I love what I know about patience, I love what I ...
Her mother gave her strict instructions to follow the school phone policy and not use it until after the final bell rings. If she violates ...
I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict.
The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.
It's very hard for a man to ask questions about sex. The smart ones do.
What I didn't realize was how many doors the act of writing unlocks, as if my Dad's old fountain pen wasn't really a pen at ...
I gave my players a version of the same message at ten-to-three every Saturday: 'I would shoot my granny right now for three points this ...
Post traumatic stress disorder starts out with nightmares, flashbacks and actually reliving the event. And this happens over and over and over and over in ...
Stop being jealous, I mean, to be jealous is to suggest that God doesn't know what she is doing. This is ridiculous! She does everything ...
Novak, climb up that wall and see if you can get an angle on the big one." The military rifle in her hands wasn't particular ...
Maybe we can stay in denial together forever?' I suggest....'No, I mean, maybe there's a town called Denial, and we can literally move there and ...
Caine erupted in disbelieving laughter. Yeah, that'll do it. 'I'm just a kid, Your Honor!' Hah. They'll have to find a few scapegoats, and guess ...