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Alice, I hand you her name gently, suggesting that if you hold it, carefully as I do, pressed close to the heart, you might at ...

The thing that matters is meaning! It drives everything. Builders align their attention to the things that matter to them, and they know a lot ...

Individual curiosity, often working without practical ends in mind, has always been a driving force for innovation.

The Forest Service is truly an extraordinary institution. A lot of people, seeing that word forest in the title, assume it has something to do ...

The years would not wait for Zealers and saviors, not for chance nor hope. The erratic line would scribble on until Nyra washed away from ...

For once, I wished I wasn't so broken, so Rhian had a best friend who was strong and not afraid to love, to hold up ...

Taking time to show your daughter your love, fills the tapestry of her live with memories she will keep forever and builds a reservoir of ...

There is a policy response that needs to occur. There is also a technical response that needs to occur. It is the development community that ...

I get asked sometimes 'What's the highlight of my career?' because I've been doing it for so long, and I always have a hard time ...

Though most tourists accepted the occasional comic misadventure, it was important to them that overall their vacation should be pleasant. When you spend money on ...

I've been a Lakers fan since growing up in Oklahoma. My hometown's finally got the Thunder, which is really exciting, but I've still got to ...

You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; and for that reason you ...

What a contrast - the person sitting at the table gets this nice cake on a doilied plate, while the pantry man back there with ...

Daughter's death had loosed something in Sara, a savage kind of grief that burned onto the canvas.

Everyone else believes in you. The major problem is that not all can let you know as in the way you may wish. Some will ...

Only a lover of animals will understand the sudden feeling of loss, of emptiness, and the intuitive bond which exists between man and dog, has ...

I am excited to share my archive pictures and footage. I'll also share announcements about current events and success stories from the Sugar Ray Leonard ...

It might be questioned whether hammering is more of a strain on the attention because it may go on for ever, or because it may ...

If we could see ourselves ... as we really are, we should see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures, our community which neither began ...

The problem is, we're moving to software-as-service, which can be yanked or transformed at any moment. The ability of your PC to run independent code ...

No matter how many people try, no matter how many fancy songwriters in Los Angeles try to break it down to a formula ... to ...

Saving one dog will not change the world, but surely for that one dog, the world will change forever.

Dana was lead singer for The Droids, Sweet Valley High's answer to the Rolling Stones. They had a reputation for being pretty wild, but most ...

I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when ...

As castles went, this one looked as though it could be taken by a small squad of not very efficient soldiers. For defence, putting a ...

You can't get away with saying, 'If you try to stop me from insulting homosexuals it violates my freedom of prejudice.' But you can get ...

It is absolutely imperative at the outset that you come to terms with this simple yet life-changing truth: God is for you. If you don't ...

The city's legions of working men disagreed. They always had counted Harrison as one of their own, "Our Carter," even though he was a plantation-reared ...

The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps ...

When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of ...

You cannot fully understand a person's need until you have endured the same need. As hard as you may try to predict and comprehend their ...

I was reading a magazine when I was a little kid, probably about twelve years old, and an ad said that if you sell so ...

Joe!' he called. 'Hey, honey, can you get the pretty girl a Coke?''Only if you stop calling me *honey*,' the bartender, a bearded man in ...

I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.

Let's promise to each other that if we ever meet again we will never plow and push our new-fallen snow. We will not become slush. ...

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 ...

The leaves of the tree were yellow, as though they have absorbed all the spring sunshine and were saving it for winter.

Throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.

If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.

Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at ...

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are ...

Suppose that you didn't make your Easter duty and it's Pentecost Sunday, the last day, and you're on a ship at sea. And the chaplain ...

When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.

Fills the heart with its unforgettable characters and small-town charm. A feel-good read as welcome as a favorite friend!

Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was ...

God, you have a beautiful laugh, and your smile. Jesus, it knocks the breath out of me.""You can't talk to me like that, nobody says ...

What I find interesting about Captain Action is that he is more an adventurer and spy than he is a soldier.

I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las ...

It must be remembered that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed as epic tales and not as historical texts. To use Shakespeare's Macbeth as a ...

You've always done as you pleased, Princess. I can't change you, nor do I want to. You're strong, a fighter. And I've never wanted another ...

Seek to share joy with others, or to make somebody else happy, and you will find your own soul radiant with the joy you wished ...

Pessimism negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce what exists and ...

Then, before Rhun charges, I leap from him, running toward the dead. His steps beat after me, and I hold out my hand. Our fingers ...

Let us not forget that the European Community started as a project for peace after the terrible Second World War. And today people take for ...

Anger seeped in, like an old friend who was a lousy house guest, but you forget every time he leaves how much you wish him ...

Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify ...

In some ways I'm still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I've gone back to practicing ...

I knew right then and there that I would become as courageous as I needed in order to keep him safe. I thought of the ...

If you can't laugh together in bed, the chances are you are incompatible, anyway. I'd rather hear a girl laugh well than try to turn ...

I'm just a little bit tired If you know what I mean Don't want to be in a crowd When I can be in a ...

As I get older ... I start to realize that life ain't half bad. Each year, I'm amazed that I'm still alive. I don't take ...

My mom was there to answer the unanswerable, to make sense of the fault in our life - and we got through that somehow; we ...

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

I watch with breaking heart as you slowly fade away

He strengthened his body to keep up with his mind. He began lifting weights, practicing judo, and wrestling. One day after school, a bully tried ...

We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God ...

Sometimes the sacrifice of love costs too much to pay by yourself.

I felt a confusion unspeakable at again seeing him, from the recollection of the ridotto adventure: nor did my situation lessen it; for I was ...

In the end men love better that for which they have made sacrifices than that through which they have enjoyed pleasures.

My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am ...

Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.

It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on ...

Be sure to taste your words before you spit them out.

People used to recognize it as mood.Science has revealed it as cannabinoids.When you feel sad, just do long running.Then you will know that even mood ...

When we have no families, we must find support elsewhere. Sometimes in strangers. We're all alone on this earth. We must take any hand that's ...

Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.

My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done.

Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on ...

It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then invariably end up ...

He loops his arm over my shoulder and we watch the waves in silence. We've had so many silences between us these last few months, ...

I'm practical, very data-driven, and process-oriented. If I look at a radar and see a giant green blob coming toward me, I'm thinking it's probably ...

The Nikon D5100 is clearly an advanced digital SLR, and offers the potential to capture professional quality images in most any situation you wish to ...

You got to set your mind right and the rest will come to you naturally. No restrictions, no hang-ups, no stupid rules, no formalities, no ...

Above all else, trust that you don't have to control your partner, because your partner, given the freedom to do anything, will want to cherish ...

We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God ...

The economy which prefers fictitious money to real, is, at best, like that which prefers a leaky ship to a sound one.

When TJ and I got to the bottom, we found Hope staring terrified at Molly. The dog had something long and horrible and meaty in ...

Without individuals we see only numbers: a thousand dead, a hundred thousand dead, "casualties may rise to a million." With individual stories, the statistics become ...

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within ...

Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is ...

No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a thousand-page ...

I was a twenty-two-year-old single white female alone in a strange country where my sister had been killed.

Read a poem at a time, or two, or all, but give them time to sink into your heart. Read them again, read a portion, ...

Families make possible the super-exploitation of women by training them to look upon their work outside the home as peripheral to their 'true' role.

Do you hate her?""Almost as much as I lover her." - Dany & Ser Jorah

Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer ...

The sons of God are different because they are givers, just like their Heavenly father

You want the vote so badly that you think it worth while to become hysterical over it.' 'There is not much hysteria in the movement, ...

I love to take risks, I love to travel, and I'm very outdoor-sy, so any girl who can pick up a football and throw a ...