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Of the hanged men were cut down, and the starosta
I'm mesmerized by the way he speaks - New Orleans is pronounced N'awlins. When he says backyard, it's backyaaad. It's the kind of voice that ...
Nasturtiums, who colored you, you wonderful, glowing things? You must have been fashioned out of summer sunsets.
It's funny how people who we fight with the most at the end of day are the ones that really got your back.
There is so much power at your fingertips! Use it!
I was starting to feel that Washington was a city run by two rival gangs that had a great deal in common with each other, ...
The owner's wife gave me a container of chicken soup and a quart of rice pudding to take home. She was a broad, solid woman ...
Politicians and the government have become too interested in short-term gains. Of course, if you look at the direct financial returns in the short term, ...
I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am ...
What do you think dignity's all about?'The directness of the inquiry did, I admit, take me rather by surprise. 'It's rather a hard thing to ...
I don't take breaks. you're either with me or you lose me to someone better than you. i refuse to give you a pass to ...
I've been drunk only once in my life. But that lasted for twenty-three years.
Her mouth was right on his ear, and she spoke her wicked thoughts aloud. "I want you inside me."That was it. With a violent growl, ...
Turned her head away from the other woman to avoid showing her smile. "If people were sensible, the wedding venue would never be rented out, ...
A bite." She touched the hilt of her sword, the sword that he had given her. Oathkeeper. "My lord, you gave me a quest.
Human excellence, parted from God, is like a fable flower, which, according to Rabbis, Eve plucked when passing out of paradisesevered from its native root, ...
This is called closure, and it's also called justice, and they are not always the same thing.
We're handing them [young people & future generations] a climate system which is potentially out of their control. We're in an emergency: you can see ...
You get used to people being a certain way; you depend on it. And when they surprise you, for better or worse, it can shake ...
To reach your own goals and dreams, you must learn how to assist others in reaching theirs
Raise your standards for the one thing over which you have complete controlyourse lf. It means you're committed to being intelligent, flexible, and creative enough ...
When you make yourself a better you, you inevitably make a better life for your family. That's the thing I'll always embrace and you should ...
If you believe in love, you're setting yourself up to be disappointed.
Have caviar if you like, but it tastes like herring to me.
Smiley tears and teary smiles are priceless.
I'm unpredictable, I never know where I'm going until I get there, I'm so random, I'm always growing, learning, changing, I'm never the same person ...
When you do The Work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to see that everything ...
A dreamory is a dream that's a memory.
My first year in Japan was very tough, just like my first year in the minors. But at least there I had a lot of ...
Spring massive changes on it and it will run back to its comfortable routines. But introduce changes gently and in small doses and it just ...
We should find inspiration in the senses that already exist and try to copy them and apply them to us. If we compare our senses ...
Why, on my mother's birthday, am I thinking about 'Father Knows Best?' At our house, mother knew best at least as often as father did, ...
I am in blood so deep that to wade no further is as tedious as to go over
You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.
And I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel ...
There are times when we should, remember, the strange courage, of the second-rate who refuse to quit, when the nights, are black and long and ...
Spiritual life and secure life do not go together; to save oneself on must struggle and take risks.
If your rod weighs six ounces, your reel nine, and your line another ounce or two, it means that you are holding a pound of ...
Do you hear what I hear, babe? Does it make you feel afraid?
The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.
The cross of Christ exists because mankind-loved by God, created by God, set in motion by God-betrayed God and prefers his stuff to him.
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
You don't have to be positive all the time. It's perfectly okay to feel sad, angry, annoyed, frustrated, scared, or anxious. Having feelings doesn't make ...
Her eyes burned, her muscles ached, but in some strange and secret place, she was happy to finally be doing something that wasn't just protecting ...
A jacketless Murdoch resumes his quiz, brushing off the assault as 'an overexcited autograph-hunter wanting to have his shaving foam signed.
People think I'm more wild than I am ... I like going to theme parks, play sports or just hanging out with my friends.
With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of importance in the ...
If there is wrong, you don't say we have to get rid of it gradually. If injustice exists, you need to eliminate it immediately.
The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.
Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the same jokes in a ...
I don't have many regrets. I regret mistakes, particularly those that damage other people, and we've all made some of those. But I'm not sad ...
The relief was tremendous. I did not feel sick anymore. The pain had gone...I had no idea I was so empty.
I always wanted to write. While I was on a long surf trip, supporting myself with various day jobs, I was working hard on a ...
If your head is constantly stuck in a book, you're going to miss a lot.
I'm not a freak. That's a horrible thing to say." "That's where you're going. A special school for freaks. You and that Snape boy ... ...
Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family.
I've played lots of villains in my time and I think the reason they've been so successful is that they're not two-dimensional. They're not black ...
Only change, not loss
Every country has violent, hateful, or mentally unstable people. What's different is not every country is awash with easily accessible guns.
I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under ...
I write intuitively, and with most of my plays, I don't know what is always going to happen. This means I can sometimes go off ...
Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He ...
Always stand up for what you believe in. Always defend yourself and your beliefs.
LUCK is a word used by people who did not take action when greatest opportunities were presented. They use it to describe the success of ...
Never laugh at the man that asks 'stupid' questions. Just remember, when all of society thought the world was flat, a man once questioned, What ...
Books are sepulchres of thought.
We were a bit like bacon and eggs, where y'know, the chicken is involved, but the pig is really committed? I totally gave myself to ...
Morning, ma'am. I'm looking for Tommy Mason. Is he around?" Polite and professional, that was Senior Agent Broussard."Lord, what's that no-good sonofabitch done now? Wait, ...
Sweet to the miser are his glittering heaps,Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth,Sweet is revengeespecially to women
It is by the steady elimination of everything which is ugly - thoughts and words no less than tangible objects - and by the substitution ...
Tell me about yourself." And she gave the answer that Adam must have given. "There's nothing to tell." But
Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep the wolf from ...
It is incredible to me that my Twitter feed is a source of 'news' for every rock news outlet around the world.
One awakens, one rises, one dresses, and one goes forth;One returns, one dines, one sups, one retires and one sleeps.
To succeed in the tech industry, you start businesses, make money, and make smart investments. But to succeed in the tech community, you do and ...
In her hand she held a harp, and she sang. Sad and sweet was the sound of her voice in the cool clear air.
That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun ...
Young men need a positive influence, especially when they don't have a strong male figure in their lives. They can be influenced by a great, ...
We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct assault on them ...
What is the point in providing food and shelter for an animal that just soils your furniture, makes your home smell bad, and ultimately dies?
Amber wanted to see special operations open to women and she believed they all should have a shot at going to Ranger School but only ...
Helena was not one of life's shoppers. To her it was not a pleasure but a distressing need, like having one's hair cut, or urinating. ...
Her eys were as green as the sea, and forever I forgave the sea for not appearing blue.
He smiled. He liked to imagine that she saw the beauty, that she could think outside the well-worn tracks of her countrymen, find something to ...
One pale woman all alone,The daylight kissing her wan hair,Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare,With lips of flame and heart of stone.
I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't ...
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 ...
When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human family.
He owe his wife a debt he couldn't hope to pay with any coin save one: open the cage and let the bird fly.
You are the beautiful and elusive pinpoint of radiance that lit up the darkness and called me home.
This is more a part of war than trumpets or starships. Quiet, unremembered moments of cruelty.
The only advice I could give is to stay positive and focused in terms of what your goals are, and stick to them. If you ...
Everything about you fascinates me, Sophie. The smell of your skin. The sound of your voice. Your long legs. Your sense of humor. Your personality. ...
I built my entire career off of teen comedies. I was in 'Bring It On'.
The locust continuesto devour the worldHunger persistsLove lurches onlisting to starboardlike a ship in a bottleHuman longing goes onLoneliness a curseInnocence persistsIgnorance persists
Our devotions are not measured by the clock, but time is of the essence. The ability to wait, and stay, and press belongs essentially to ...
The smaller the number and the more permanent and conspicuous the station of men in power, the stronger must be the interest which they will ...
The more I think about it, the more I believe there has to be a subtle yet satisfying method of revenge.
Spread your wings, tokshi, and fly. Soar above them, make their eyes tear as they stare into the sun to watch you reach new heights.
Time, that most abstract of humanity's homes.