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There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be ...
I don't believe there's two sides to every story. It's black and white. There's right and wrong.
To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.
So what's the point of it all?""Seriously?" I asked. "Seriously? You're asking me for the meaning of life? Isn't that a little stereotypical?""Well it's a ...
Staring at the can clock never influence the appointed time that God has ordained for your manifestation. Hold your peace, but don't shift focus.
You gotta learn that if you're gonna take the last shot of the game, it's either gonna go in, or it's not gonna go in, ...
The enemy plotted against you and awaited your downfall. Look at you surviving. And your enemies can not figure out how. What you have inside ...
We are the third world not because the sun rises on the West and sets in the East but because we have engaged the reverse ...
Giving a party is like having a baby: its conception is more fun than its completion; and once you have begun it, it is almost ...
Female roles in comedies are usually quite silly, I think.
The art of chess is in knowing which is the most valuable piece in play, then having the courage to sacrifice it for the win.
Most dancers I know, especially the talented and successful ones, seem to possess [my dog's] knack for living moment to moment. You see, their idea ...
So you had to piss me off badly enough activate some primal instinct?" I clenched my jaw, grinding my teeth. "I think all you managed ...
Ask me why I never joined a sorority. I went to college in Georgia. Still... never tempted. Why?" *lady in leather making speech with man ...
When you get something from a ship its called CARgo. if you get something from a car its called SHIPment
You know that I can make hits. You know I can do all these rap records. So, I'm going to start opening up and letting ...
Why would you do that for me?" Leesha asked.Rojer smiled, taking her hand in his crippled one. "We're survivors, aren't we?" he asked. "Someone once ...
I didn't see 'Star Wars' in theaters until George Lucas re-tweaked it.
I lived at Star City for more than a year ahead of my trip to Mir on May 18, 1991 in Soyuz TM-12. My life ...
Those who have safe and secure jobs pay more taxes than those who own the business that provides the jobs
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
While we are here we should set goals and achieve them, make the best of things, make others feel good about themselves, and be happy ...
And then we met." He wanted to laugh but his throat felt too tight for laughter. "The most wonderful woman imaginable, and a man who ...
Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.
Sweet sleep be with us, one and all!And if upon its stillness fallThe visions of a busy brain,We'll have our pleasure o'er again,To warm the ...
Spend less time on social media and more time reading and writing.
There was a bright flash of brilliant white light, like the midday summer sun reflecting off of a freshly cleaned mirror.And then it was gone.
I did not move to New York with a plan. The first time I moved to New York, I just popped up. My sister was ...
After you went, a low wind warbled through the house like a spacious bird, making it high but lonely. When you had gone the love ...
I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.
We need to change what we say and what we allow to be said in front of us.
Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, ...
Borderlines create the vicious circles they fear most. They become angry and drive the relationship to the breaking point, then switch to a posture of ...
And I offer this book with the heartiest sentiments to all the jolly people who hate what I write, and regard it (very justly, for ...
Remember to take in and harvest light yet also allow yourself to cast shadows where needed, like a tree. Then, in return, your shadow will ...
I want a car that will last 10 years or longer because I totally hate the process of researching, shopping for a new car, and ...
UC Santa Cruz biologist had discovered elevated levels of radiation in fish swimming among some of the 47,500 barrels of nuclear waste that the navy ...
Even the disappointing diffusion of a sheer curtain can suggest the most colorful bouquet of unspeakable secrets.
The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an ...
It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east ...
In Hollywood, for me, it's all about the movie stars and the singers. Baseball players don't draw too much attention; we're low key. I'm good ...
I lived in Peckham for the first 12 years of my life and then my mum and dad decided they really didn't want to bring ...
What's nice for me, having identified myself for years as being rather shy, is now, wherever I am, in public, there tends to be a ...
Victor smiled through the pain and the blood. Of course you have. I used to think Belikov was the savage one, but it's really you, ...
There is nothing more entertaining then leaving someone speechless. Yet, there is nothing sadder than realizing that person was incapable of retaining half of what ...
I thought I loved Daren, and I did in a butterfly-and-hearts kind of way, but it was nothing like this. This is an asteroid shower ...
When I buy clothes, I like to buy them in outfits so I know they go together. I like a very simple, natural style. I ...
I once made the mistake of going for a whole row of false eyelashes, which was just wrong as it gave me a sad, puppy-eyed ...
Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything. Once you say the character is in love, ...
If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as 'human rights'? How smart ...
I want to stay hidden in this apartment forever. I want to be kept like a house cat.
Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.
In other words: Allende's work is bad, but it's alive; it's anaemic, like a lot of Latin Americans, but it's alive. It won't live long, ...
LISTEN to the small, quiet voice within that only ever guides you with love and compassion. Let yourself receive the inspiration of beauty and kindness. ...
We know sugar increases insulin, but even by itself sugar is bad for you.
I think Michigan keeps you sane and on an even keel through the ups and downs. In Michigan, I do fireworks, shovel snow and live ...
Simplicity and humility, not power or status, will bring you joy and happiness.
What's so beautiful about girls?" I would implore.And the secret society of adults would reply with a smirk and wink as if I was merely ...
The First and Worst sin couples commit against one another is not adultery but Negligence because it's Negligence that breeds adultery..watch it couples , do ...
Man is a strange being. He always has a feeling somewhere in his heart that whatever the danger he will pull through. It's just like ...
Am I going to be able to provide a real home for her, man? An education? A real life? What's her college application going to ...
Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go; At noon our sudden summer burns, Ere sunset all is snow.
When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I 'll lay my life," said he, "somebody hath told him I am ...
I'm Adron's baby sister. Dad just told me about the marriage, and I had to come meet you and make sure Dad hadn't snapped a ...
I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at ...
My favorite definition of success is that it is a state of mind combined with a state of readiness. You can have one and be ...
For every person seeking greatness, there are hundreds more charged with safeguarding mediocrity. If you want to be wealthy, stop taking financial advice from broke ...
No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due ...
A best friend will stand beside you when other will not.
Most of my act is improvisation. I'm inspired for the moment. Standing there in front of 2,000 or 3,000 people you don't know can be ...
Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.
You exist in a half-world suspended between two superstructures, one self-expression and the other self-destruction. You are strong, but there is a flaw in your ...
I was raised by my mom. My dad was always traveling, but she allowed me and encouraged me to be close to my dad. So ...
As far as I am concerned sexuality no longer exists. I used to call this indifference serenity: all at once I have come to see ...
I made what must have been about a sixty-point turn and eventually managed to squeeze out of the small and crowded car park at the ...
I saw their mouths going up and down without a sound, as if they were sitting on the deck of a departing ship, stranding me ...
Earning the Right is a commitment to be the sales professional that your customer really needs
Government of limited power need not be anemic government. Assurance that rights are secure tends to diminish fear and jealousy of strong government, and by ...
Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, Some of them turn into friends. Friends are the sunshine of life.
The literate mind has sown the seeds of its own destruction through the creation of media that render irrelevant those "traditional skills" on which literacy ...
Some memories are unforgettable, remaining ever vivid and heartwarming!
The four of us got back into the car. In an instant, I distinctly heard a "soundless music". It was the melody of friendship, the ...
What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's ...
The light of love flows out of my soul, but it can go nowhere because it's blocked by pain. I could inhale and exhale every ...
I like to go to Starbucks and watch the intellectuals. I observe them and their intellectualness. They in turn observe me drinking coffee and being ...
We will not put our sons in prison for political membership or resisting occupation, because occupation is the reason for the problem.
Emotions are lovely. Even if they fall to the negative for a time. The sun will rise again another day. The sadness perhaps never forgotten, ...
A purpose directed disciplined action always bring success.
Always the rationalization is the same-"Once this situation is remedied, then I will be happy." But it never works that way in reality: The goal ...
He caught her eye. 'And? I'm jealous-minded and I sleep with too many women.'Fire's smile grew. 'Luckily for you, I loved you long before either ...
You can, of course, be a sexy, strong female and be a good role model.
It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading.
Smart Risk will shatter the emotional myths to investing and help Canadians see the opportunities in today's volatile market.
Often you see people who move there and then, once they have arrived, the ball moves here after which they also come here, but then ...
She was a soldier, not some girl twisting her skirts at a village dance.
You're a heroin Flinty McAlpine. I reckon you can do anything you set your mind to.
For years, I was compared to Wookiees, especially after I did the 'Star Wars Holiday Special.' I have some photos of me with a few ...
Sometimes you might miss that person, sometimes you'll feel like running back to them ... sometimes you'll suffer from unbearable pain but sometimes you have ...
I am Number Seven I will make them pay.
Well, it is so difficult right now when you look out on the road and how fast people go and the more and more cars ...