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Death rode the sky, alright," Adrian summarized of that day, in a sad tone of resignation that was repeated in the voice of one survivor ...

I honestly felt no envy or resentment, only astonishment at how much of a world there was out there and how much of it others ...

The angels have never made it a secret that they are with us; they want us to know that they are here, and they do ...

It's always a pleasure to perform for people who love country music. And Australians definitely fall into that category. Each time I go back, I ...

Begum Hazrat Mahal of Oudh was the last of the breed of able queens and generals. The queen led her kingdom's army into battle during ...

The best thing about having money is that you can use it to help someone else.

It's really hard when people write nasty things about you all the time. As much as good things are said about you, it's always those ...

Please stop stalking my profile.

I used to exist in a simple world of right and wrong, positive and negative. I grew out of an ordered world. Everything had its ...

Boredom is for the selfish.

I still get enormous pleasure and a sense of fulfillment out of writing a book that I'm proud of. I see myself as a bit ...

I never seem to be able to sell my films correctly in the U.S. The U.S. defends itself on its own turf.

I think the actor has a tribal role as the archetypal story teller. I think there was a time when the storyteller, the priest, the ...

The day is an epitome of the year. The night is the winter, the morning and evening are the spring and fall, and the noon ...

To pluck a flower means to take possession of it, and it also means to kill it.

When Sunday loses its fundamental meaning and becomes subordinate to a secular concept of weekend dominated by such things as entertainment and sport, people stay ...

Jesus never spoke to two people the same way, and neither should we. Every single person is unique and individual and deserves an approach that ...

I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a result, ...

Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike ...

When was the last time she'd actually had a relationship based on reality, instead of some completely invented fantasy she'd written in her head? In ...

My mom told me once - relationships end until the one that doesn't. So you can't be sad, really. Because if the wrong ones didn't ...

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've always thought that one of the least successful encounters is meeting a writer one admires. For one thing, writers are generally much kinder, more ...

You're not really moving on when you jump from someone who broke your heart to a new replacement. Moving on is self reflection and being ...

Is he for real? A hot guy who makes me laugh and loves poetry? Someone pinch me.

We are entwined. I drew power from the spirits and spirit workers and I returned it to them tenfold. The true source of shadowshaper magic ...

A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort ...

I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.

An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.

You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleepWhen the devil leaves the ...

Walking the Camino de Santiago taught me the wonders of physical challenge, the wonders of spiritual freedom, and the wonders of baby powder.

But our eyes are different, what you see ain't what I see.

I'm going to write about them as I took them -- with a smile.

All your stress, pain, suffering, misery is due to your attachment with it. If you don't attach with the things, that doesn't serve you, either ...

When you are angry - stop, breath, relax, step back, think, and forgive before you react.

I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He ...

Superficiality," said Richard Foster, "is the curse of our age." The desperate need of the soul is not for intelligence, nor talent, nor yet excitement; ...

After all, the reasoning goes, at the big bang everything emerged from one place since, we believe, all places we now think of as different ...

"I believe I'll keep that one to myself, luv. If I told you all my secrets, there would be no more mystery in our relationship.""I'm ...

At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of solace. I wasn't ...

Because it is a process of alchemy: it transforms a vast manifestation of spiritual energy, which is love, into a physical gesture

As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he ...

So fair and foul a day I have not seen.

Simple music is the hardest music to play and blues is simple music.

A name, for me, is a short way of working out what class that child comes from. Do I want my child to play with ...

17 v When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But v he laid his right hand on me, w saying, ...

The recent wave of Taliban attacks has made clear that the international community must not waiver in its support for a stable, secure and prosperous ...

Solitude is not a port to drop anchor, but only a port to rest for a while!

If my son wants to be a pimp when he grows up, that's fine with me. I hope he's a good one and enjoys it ...

It was better to leave the space empty of words than to choose the wrong ones.

Every time you used, it was a risk searching for a high just like the first time, a high you would never find again.

It's only a world, after all, and they're just sand grains in the desert, worlds.

That's not a lucky thing, Cecil," said Teresa, "it's a sacred thing." "What's the difference?" Cecil asked. Teresa smiled. "Roughly this," she said. "A thing ...

More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were ...

In "Shadow of a Doubt," I was trying to describe the connection you feel when your eyes meet another person's. You project all kinds of ...

I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself ...

In my view, using technology too soon is definitely detrimental to education. I have often used the analogy 'it's like wine-tasting for first-graders'. One can ...

The two sisters were connected by neither love nor mutual affinity but by a very small bathroom that could be entered from the bedroom on ...

Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of the state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is ...

My American strength coach said he liked me better before I could speak English.

When I'm not working, I weight train three times a week and swim and surf as much as I can - in the summer, you ...

Glancing over, I was astonished to see Adrian watching me, a look of contentment on his face. His eyes seemed to study my every feature. ...

The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is ...

Salvation is free, but discipleship will cost you your life

I was never really cut out to be a student, I prefer to actually work and get a project done and learn that way- but ...

The best thing that can happen in a relationship is when you are the same person you were before the relationship started. You are not ...

David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her ...

In my line of work every man wears exactly one outfit khakis, a late night with Jimmy Fallon t-shirt, and a hooded sweatshirt. If you ...

In the middle of all this, as Sean slips out of his jacket, he looks over his shoulder at me and he smiles at me, ...

Be strong,be kind,be generous of spirit, be understanding and let people know how grateful you are.Dont get even. Comfort the ones i've hurt and let ...

He closes the door and turns around to face me with his hands behind his back. He studies me intensely, and it makes me squirm. ...

There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups ... but they're ...

I just don't get it. You've been in love with this bloke since you were a kid, and he's never once got his hair cut ...

As long as the egoism is alive, 'my-ness' remains within the self.

Sometimes the unexpected happens when you don't expect a person to come up to expectations.

I don't need a boyfriend to be happy. If I meet someone and I want to be with him, then I will be. I'm very ...

We're going to have a big frickin' problem when he starts feeling those shots", and I decide that Jane is right, and anyway, Ashland Avenue ...

Please don't miss me too much. Please don't be too sad. Find someone else to love, because you have much love to give and it's ...

We'll build a fortress to keep them outAnd in a world gone silent, I'll be your soundAnd if they try to hurt you, I'll tear ...

So, all of us would do well to stop fighting each other for our space at the bottom, because there ain't no more room.

And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.

Hugh consoled me, saying, "Don't let it get to you. There are plenty of things you're good at."When asked for some examples, he listed vacuuming ...

Love making is much more than physical expression, it is a soulful dance of sensual wonder and euphoric amazement.

We all gotta die, and we all gotta live with the things our dark sides do. People are afraid of their darkness, though. Spend their ...

The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.

I have a sliding glass door on my closet, and when I slide it one way I can see all my uniforms, and the other ...

Success is always looking for the next best man because she knows how valuable she is.

Fine, you do that, and you tell them that at the very first opportunity, I'm coming down there and killing all of them. Mass murder. ...

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and ...

The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never.

When it comes to branding and the ever-changing social media phenomenon, you're not a mushroom. In other words, you shouldn't be kept in the dark ...

I like to write music. And I think exploring with lyrics and figuring out how to make complete songs is fun. I think I have ...

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these ...

How long till our powers are back? (Kat)A few hours according to last time. (Sin)Sweet, and we have how long till the bitches awake? (Kat)Less ...

I always had this put-together family, and I always identified as the outsider. And that's a position where I feel most comfortable, and yet I ...

In Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata, the first of Japan's two Nobel laureates, describes the sad and sorry love affair of a geisha from the country ...

Let us love and respect each other as a friend, not stranger.

Socrates: I'm afraid that it might actually be sacrilegious to stand idly by while morality is being denigrated and not try to assist as long ...

I'm not the type of person to eat big hunks of meat. I think people are starting to realize that great things come in small ...