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Politics, poverty, riches, etc - these are but backdrops for the grand cinema, the opera: the glory of your life. Sure, change the backdrops, make ...
A writer's work is never done until death closes the book.
I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio ...
Work is honorable. It is good therapy for most problems. It is the antidote for worry. It is the equalizer for deficiency of native endowment. ...
Even a mentally challenged shark would figure out that sea turtles did not wear boxer shorts printed in flying piggies, and no sea turtle would ...
By being with my kids. I'm like a lion who hunts and comes home to be looked after and sleep. I think girls tend to ...
I thought I knew Elton John, but then it was like, "Woah, Elton's a pimp! He's really amazing." And since Billy and Elton are homies, ...
In the half-reclined bed, Yaz slept, mouth open, snoring - probably doped. Mike turned on the TV. For twenty minutes, he watched retired generals on ...
Tomorrow!" he said suddenly. His voice was high, but it carried clearly enough. "Tomorrow we fight! Tomorrow! The Feast of St John the Apostle!""Oh God," ...
The happiest people I know live lives that revolve around serving others, not themselves.
The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!
The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of imagination's loom.
An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and mental capacities, ...
What's the rush? Recognise that with the time at our disposal, there is only a limited number of good books you can read, a few ...
If my mom sees you here, she'll ---" "Paper the walls with my innards while the innocents watch?
I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? ...
Would it not be well this Christmas to give first to the Lord, directly through obedience, sacrifice, and love, and then to give to him ...
In those long and sleepless nights when I'm unable to shake my fears sufficiently, I borrow a biblical epigraph from Dostoyevsky's The Demons: I see ...
Make your sacred-life an eventful journey.
THE CHAMP A novel by Daniel Martin Eckhart Dedicated to my wife Nathalie and our children Nick, Milo and Eliza for all their love, laughter ...
This very easy divorce had become very difficult. I thought I was in the express lane and it was all fast tracks from there. Think ...
Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.
My father was a Tuskegee Airmen captain in the Air Force and a very strong personality. He believed in fairness and ethics and living up ...
It's as if the universe has a sense of humor, since at a deep level it's impossible not to lead a spiritual life ... the ...
The future belongs to you. Should anyone insult you, tell yourself this: I am a child of destiny who will unite East and West and ...
The Holy Land is everywhere
Isabelle is like a warrior going into battle and she needs ... you said yes? You'd really choose an inexperienced squire?" she asked, her voice ...
The needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many.
Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of ...
There are lots of fish in the sea. Some are sharks, some are angels, and some are bottom feeders.
We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. ...
Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The instant he falls ...
Strong communities ... embrace change. New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for new friends, and for this evening of fellowship. We ask that you guide our conversations, and that they'll be ...
Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.
The tongue has no bones, but can break a heart.
Who are the executives, and what are the stories that are being released? Not just in movie theaters but online. When you watch Master of ...
It doesn't matter how many friends I have because my best friend is God. And, he is a Super Friend. People come and people go, ...
So one aspect of becoming a Christian is having to leave behind what everyone else thinks and wants, the prevailing standards, in order to enter ...
I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.
I get scared when I approach teachers and tell them that I'll probably be able to attend only half the classes, .. I'm scared that ...
The technique of tredding the success path is making a single step, and if you are kinda afraid to throw the second leg, hire divinity ...
In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those ...
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the ...
In three long strides, Chris was leaning into me, pressing my back up against the building His palms flattened against mine, our fingers interlocking above ...
If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.
Up home we loved a good storm coming, we'd fly outdoors and run up and down to meet it," her mother used to say. "We ...
Society tells me to follow my own truth, but I don't let society tell me what to do. If you need someone to tell you ...
The smoke rolls along the low ceiling and pours up into the night - a reverse waterfall - like when the kettle boils beneath the ...
The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that ...
I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when I see my ...
I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.
6So she went down to the threshing floor and did just as her mother-in-law had commanded her. 7. And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, ...
I stepped out of the shelter of my savior's arm and turned to thank him. Standing before me was the most beautiful man I'd ever ...
Leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb ...
You look worse today than you did when you had two blackeyes.""Why, thank you, Tyler. You always say the sweetest things.
There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the ...
One thing that most comic artists avoid is showing decisions. They show action, sure, and they show results, but they don't show (because it's difficult ...
The true mark of maturity is when somebody hurts you and you try to understand their situation instead of trying to hurt them back.
The journey you start now can take you on the adventure of a lifetime ... it's up to you. Education is a life-long process. Determine ...
Maybe you're the one that gave me up to the Darians at Oden's Ford.""Right," she said, staring up at the ceiling. "And then I turned ...
Whose fault is it that things ended up like this? Coincidence? An accident? Fate? There's no such thing as fate. It's simply a combination of ...
Just know that I always have, and always will really love you, Lisa. Baby or no baby. Past or no past. I loved you then ...
When Marvel approached me about possibly bringing back a She-Hulk solo series, a few touchstones for a take immediately popped into my head - make ...
My mother has been moved out of intensive care and into a private room where she is being kept comfortable. Thank you for your continued ...
If you do not have the innate ability to seek out someone's work on your own, and you have to wait for Hollywood to do ...
'Whale Talk' is a tough book, but it is also a compassionate book about telling the truth and about redemption. I didn't draw the tough ...
This is a landmark opportunity for all that live and work in the Yukon. The Territory is now one step closer to realizing the potential ...
The aim of education. - Education: to discover but not merely to imitate. Learning techniques without inward experiencing can only lead to superficiality. ...
The joy of travel does not lie in reaching the destination, but in the companions met with on the journey, the changing scenery through which ...
Being success is not an easy thing. It need courage, fight, brave, and time. Let them judge. Just show them the result later. Because a ...
Every time you get a chance to move forward, you just hijack your own future. it's like - you don't actually want to... You're in ...
I know you don't love me. But I'm going to fight for your love. There are some things in life that are worth fighting for ...
Russia is a mafia state today, and Putin is its top godfather.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is ...
Oh, my God," I whispered. "But how did they get my photo?Alex tapped his mouth with his thumb. "That ... book with everyone's picture in ...
Beware of those who speak ill of others in your presence; don't be surprised of what they say about you in your absence.
Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same ...
I'm your top prime cut of meat, I'm your choice, I wanna be elected.
You know, there's something when you just know you fit together. And I fit with you. I don't care what you are, human or anything ...
The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.
I believe that the visit of the Queen to the United States is an admirable occasion to produce an historical, truthful, sincere, genuine analysis of ...
Use Time. Make it easy. Get your money to work for you. The key is to get in the market, as it is not about ...
In the light of the crappy little lamp, all I was looking at was a frizzy mop of blonde hair and a bare back with ...
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the ...
Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
Having been familiar with "drunk" once or twice myself, that lick just came to me - and yeah, it sounded very drunk, so I presented ...
Like a blood-red sky that warns the passerby, "There is a fire over there," certain blazing looks often reveal passions that they serve merely to ...
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 mistakes we make everyday is to remind us that we are human.
I want to have the eyes of an adult to see the world as it is, but I more desperately want to have the heart ...
What an interesting contrast between us, even just in the consideration of one woman. Your complete disregard for her will ironically be your destruction, while ...
Musical theatre is something that I always wanted to be a part of, and my first ever role on the West End as Joseph in ...
So at that time of day when the early sun still rings haloes on human heads, Socrates is walking through the Agora to his judgement ...
There are always and only two trains running. There is life and there is death. Each of us rides them both. To live life with ...
I have found that great people do have in common ... an immense belief in themselves and in their mission. They also have gerat determination ...
Our terminal decline into old age and death stems from the fine print of the contract that we signed with our mitochondria two billion years ...
Nature speaks to me as if I were its beloved daughter. The mountain tells me: "You have my strength." The lakes tell me: "You have ...
Surely there is not a capitalist or well-informed person in this world today who believes that [World War I] is being fought to make the ...
Thank God for Occupy and thank God for 'The Daily Show,' Colbert and the rising up that's going on around the world.