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I'm really interested in fashion but at the same time I find it quite competitive. Second-hand stuff leaves you more open to whatever your own ...

Life can be frustrating sometimes. Take a nap, exercise, meditate or do whatever it takes to 'reboot' your thinking. Happiness is just a thought away!

The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub ...

The Bible, however, does present a single picture, complex though it is, of at least one human life: the "image of God" that is granted ...

I think about a storm rolling in with black clouds and I visualize the lightning and try to draw energy from that, and I think: ...

What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire, ...

The bed under my back is filled with broken clouds and freshly fallen snow; it's too soft, too comfortable.

I started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics.

If you ever meet someone who thinks they are so special, the best thing to do is smile. You don't have to say anything. Be ...

I jerked away from her, almost falling. "No!" I meant to shout but it came out as a weak croak, "Don't touch me." My voice ...

Then let no man attempt to number Israel today, but let everyone have a heart of flesh, a heart of tender sympathy, a heart that, ...

The day had been a slowly closing door. The rest of the world moved on out into the stream of life, while I was left ...

The sky was clear and the stars were growing bright. 'It's going to be a fine night,' he said aloud. 'That's good for a beginning. ...

As an actor myself, the opportunity to sing and dance and be dramatic and be funny - it's really irresistible to actors. You get to ...

It is a fundamental right for people to be allowed to love who they want to love and marry who they want to marry and ...

Reflection ingeniously knows how to convert a beauty into a super beauty!

You stupid, selfish, philandering coach-class jackass.

Mysticism and the supernatural are embedded in the show - it's called 'Da Vinci's Demons' for a reason, and it's not just metaphorical.

People in the film industry always want to save for a rainy day. Many early actors died in small houses with no money, and so ...

But it's not safe and I can feel him slipping away, so I just get out one more sentence. "Stay with me." As the tendrils ...

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.

In order to be a success in life you have to be willing to take a chance. Its like putting a blindfold on and jumping ...

She was scared to death. She was killed by her beliefs. By someone taking advantage of them.

Don't be a slave to style. Don't take more from the world than you're willing to give back. And learn to undo the perceptions-so heavily ...

From somber, serious sullen saints, save us, O Lord.

The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, ...

You've just got to go out there and try to control the things you can control. Deal with things and stay mentally strong.

A gentleman's taste in dress is upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite neatness; but, as ...

When my cousin Anil-da started telling us what he'd heard at the market about the groom's family, at my aunt Moina-pehi's wedding in January 2002, ...

I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to ...

Abel grabs my shoulders to steady me. "You can do this," he say. "I won't lie. Part of me was hoping you would abandon this ...

Jessica became my first enemy. Like most enemies in my life, I hoped to punish her with passive-aggressive glances and silent-but passionate!-resentment. She retaliated by ...

In recent generations, women's sports have been a blessing. Some of us can remember the bad old days in the '50s, when we would discover ...

A person of fifty-four who is still so pedantic and small-minded must be so by nature, and will never improve.

A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten ...

Yes, I will probably be that way. I am sure I will. I think that it shouldn't stop you. I think of course my life ...

To be angered by evil is to partake of it, stupid. - Phrases of Import and Salvation, Chapter IX, The Book of Universal Truths and ...

You're cramming a few chance data points into a story that has nothing to do with reality. You need to take a giant step back. ...

There's not much to do in Atlanta, so the cast went to the gym together, went shopping together, and dinner was always a group thing. ...

It's amazing how much power a simple false phrase repeated can have.

A healthy sweat comes from being passionate and throwing yourself into your workout. And again, it's achieving that intensity. I always like to say 'It's ...

Life's hard and when you know there are ways to drown it out, it's hard to stay on the right path. It's a constant struggle. ...

It goes back to the if identity becomes your achievement, what do you do, this is what happens? And I do think it leads to ...

I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.

O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised ...

I wished I could shut it in a locket to wear aroung my neck. I wish a thousand-year sleep would find us, at this absolute ...

Stay gold Ponyboy. Stay gold.--Johnny quoting Robert Frost

How sweet the harmonies of the afternoon!The Blackbird sings along the sunny breezeHis ancient song of leaves, and summer boon;Rich breath of hayfields streams thro' ...

Deep down in my heart, I am always smiling because life is such a magical, mysterious, and wonderful thing.

If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?

Hope is what keeps the soul alive.

Surround yourself with snakes, and they will poison you. Surround yourself with eagles, and you will learn to fly to the heavens.

She was the one person he'd hoped to avoid as much as possible when he'd taken his place as Sheriff of Maxville. It wasn't that ...

One of the issues with some of these lenders is going to be, where will their provider of credit be when there's a crisis? That's ...

The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made ...

Sometimes you just want to give up. Then you remember why you live.

What is the status of Sak-tak and his squad? Report!" "We ran into a Rakorsian squad, and they were all killed." "Glory to the Ssrisk!" ...

My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My father would always praise me. ...

Never Ever Knock My Dignity. Underneath our life we all are same. We sleep once in a day and wake up Loud and Clear!

I grew up in Malibu, so it's nice to be back home and be with my parents and sit and drive my car and listen ...

I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused.

Life is very short, and keeping grievances takes so much energy, it's not worth it. If you don't make something positive for yourself at least, ...

In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the ...

I keep my head straight by having the right people around me, from my friends and family to my management and my team. They all ...

No investment on earth is so safe, so sure, so certain to enrich its owners as undeveloped realty. I always advise my friends to place ...

The same is true about husbands being the "spiritual heads" of their households (not one verse says that), about Sunday and not Saturday being Christians' ...

I had dedicated my life to words. But sometimes, words are not needed.

In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have ...

Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for ...

What happened to you? When did you stop believing in yourself? In your gift? In what you deserve?

Some people can never learn to ski powder snow without exerting tremendous effort and strength because they allow their rational, left-brain hemisphere to control the ...

In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it ...

Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly.

I take my dog to the vet a lot because he's old and sick, and I always step on the scale when I'm there. Let's ...

If you think back to the fight over drones, when I was proud to be standing shoulder to shoulder with Rand Paul filibustering for 13 ...

I've never practiced a profession and have lived like a sort of student. I consider this my greatest success, my life hasn't been a failure ...

Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.

I needed someone to tell me that I was sane, that I was special, and that I wasn't all that special.

Life is populated with scarecrows - all those people and things that seem so scary and trouble our sleep. Isn't it nice to know that ...

If you're looking at distributing alternative energy in Nigeria, for instance, what gets in your way is not people's ability to pay, not people's desire ...

The wonderful 17th Century poet, Robert Herrick, wrote a poem entitled, 'To Live Merrily and to Trust to Good Verses.' Easy to say, Robert Herrick; ...

The concept of virginity is a social construct. If you're wondering if my commercial value, self-respect, and/or quality of my immortal soul has been affected ...

He looked tired. And not the kind of tired you feel after a long day, but the kind of tired that lingers no matter how ...

Success is what you envisage it to be. You have to go into any profession knowing what you want because people will place expectations on ...

Puns are just another form of sarcasm, which may or may not make you - smile, giggle, or laugh.

I'm sorry you're angry" is NOT an apology.

I think the French and the Japanese are both obsessed by seasons, small producers, freshness.

Love ... is also a form of poison, for to fall in love is to want and to need everything necessary for survival from one ...

The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.

Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.

We don't take on Google Glass or the self-driving car project or Project Loon unless we think that on a risk-adjusted basis, it's worth Google's ...

No. Sorry. You have spent months being the biggest jerk to me. You don't get to decide to like me one day and think I ...

I jumped off the wheel of fortune because I wanted to simplify things. Now I've fulfilled my obligations to myself by making my new record. ...

I think, if you spend a day or as many people do a life working only with that aspect of your being, the cerebrum connected ...

England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.

If you don't use your new knowledge and skills within a relatively short space of time, then it may have been better never to have ...

The next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an ...

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 ...

You know what they say, 'You have to work at wisdom; you have to take pains to be reasonable, but to be foolish, just let ...

The eyes might be the windows to the soul, but a man's hips were his seat of power.