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It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat. Eliot worked as ...

Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held ...

While Obama merely bowed clumsily in the direction of Idiot America, John McCain set up housekeeping there.

Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from ...

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to ...

North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior ...

Love changes us and helps us move forward in life. It often helps us become the people we've always wanted to be and move away ...

PHI1.23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember ...

Everything is still falling apart.

You worked so hard to achieve.' It blinds us to everything else, to the moments we've joyfully experienced, to happy times and the bonds created ...

When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I ...

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 ...

Doors music is not a simple kind of music. It's like the Bauhaus. It's clean and pure. Morrison's lyrics are psychologically deep. So for people ...

No one can take the place of a brave and courageous leader. Dare to be brave, dare to be courageous

I'm proud of where I come from. A lot of people leave Mississippi, and their claim to fame is somewhere else. But I have so ...

Joy is uncaused and arises from within as the joy of Being. It is an essential part of the inner state of peace, the state ...

Dreaming costs nothing, it is absolutely free but its reward is enormous. Learn to dream for this is one of the things the unstoppable women ...

As Winston Churchill said, "If you're going through hell, keep going." I know from hard experience that can be the longest journey down the darkest ...

Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.

Since much of the ocean floor remains unexplored (except perhaps for still-classified data acquired by the U.S. and Soviet navies), we may know more about ...

I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made ...

I was saying earlier that it's really strange - you can almost step outside yourself and observe yourself running, and that's what I was doing.

Target groups you care about that other people mostly don't, and take advantage of strategies other people are biased against using.

I was wrong, after all, to tell you that the essential was to avoid judgement. The essential is being able to permit oneself everything, even ...

My grandfather used to say the placement of a birthmark was the story of how a person lost the battle in their past life. I ...

I'm not looking for a husband or marriage or not not looking for that stuff. I'm living, not thinking what I should or shouldn't be ...

Let not the wise disturb the mind of the unwise in their selfish work. Let him, working with devotion, show them the joy of good ...

People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like. [in review of a book]

Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.

No one's place in this world is guaranteed. Not everyone is going to get a happy ending. But life isn't about how it ends. It's ...

Ladies glisten, men perspire, horses sweat.-Early Nun Quote, The Old Ursuline Convent (1727) New Orleans, LA

The list of U.S. vetoes at the Security Council to protect Israeli aggression and occupation is huge.

The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.

I believe for everyone who goes astray, someone will come to show the way.

None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.

See you on the other side of the screen, if you make it, earnest cyberspace cadet.

Sissy dear. Your thumbs. HOLLYWOOD SPECTACULAR. LAS VEGAS. THE ROSE BOWL. Larger than any one man's desire.

I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself. I dont expect to be a great ...

Language, never forget, is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.

Imagine yourself in Harriet Tubman's shoes. Fighting to be freed from deplorable conditions. Placing one foot in front of the other, putting slavery behind you. ...

Love until it hurts.

Forget every touch or sound that did not teach you how to dance

Because sometimes that's how life is. A puzzle made up of a million pieces, and when one piece doesn't exactly fit, it throws the rest ...

There's something very intimate about taking someone's work, turning it over and unpicking it. In the same way people have unique handwriting people have a ...

We must intentionally help our children process the world through God's eyes.

Using science to prove religion is like using a ruler to measure love.

It is always the exception that sets the rule.

She's a parasite I can't seem to get rid of. Like a bad case of financial diarrhea.

No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee. We need a stance of problem-fixing, not just problem-avoidance.

Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.

Everyone has obstacles, and you're not going to have the right answer or do the right thing every single time.

I'd managed to find a hobbit in the Caucasus Mountains. I wondered what he would do if I asked him about second breakfast.

Most people are afraid to really take the time and do the work required to love self enough to cradle their wounded parts like a ...

If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, ...

In the past generation, the American educational system has decided not to seek the very best teachers, give them lots of kids to teach, and ...

No more can I turn the leaves of this dear book that I loved, and vainly hope in time to read it all. No more ...

I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion ...

Yea, verily, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of deah, I will live forever. If I don't, I sure as hell won't ...

Words can be deceitful, but pantomime necessarily is simple, clear and direct

Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, had given indications that the Centre had offered him

The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.

When it is mid week, pause and ponder! The very single days we disregard are what become the very years we wished to have used ...

If the postman is saying hello to you, then I feel like, wow, thats something special.

I think the key is never being satisfied with your skills and you have to constantly learn. I say this all the time, I sound ...

Be it good or bad, Family is the shadow that never leaves our side.

Find what is beautiful in a person and appreciate it. Ignore what is wrong. Everyone has divine beauty but underneath can be a hidden diabolical ...

Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws.

The betrayal of a friend differs from the treachery of a lover only in the degree of pain, not the kind.

Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

Human nature is universial, and it endures through all cultures and epochs. This is the secret of perenniality of certain poems and books.

If you want customers to hear about you, make something worth talking about.

It can bum you out when your intentions aren't, like, translated properly.

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.

Oh, he was a decent-enough high school student, good grades and well-liked, but his test scores were nothing to write home about. He might as ...

I'll tell ya this: I come from an educated family. My father was an attorney representing blue collar workers, and my uncle was a chemical ...

People are what you think they are, even when they tell you or prove you otherwise.

She says affection is all very well being imagined, like a romantic fancy, but marriage should be based on practical purposes in order to last ...

In all my shows, I'm not interested in the iconic shots of the Capitol and the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. I'm always interested ...

Many fathers are gone. Some leave, some are left. Some return, unknown and hungry. Only the dog remembers.

I'm pretty klutzy and I've always been, so I have to own up to it. It's part of my charm!

To me, the work I do is a means of interpreting unsettling truths, of bearing witness, and of sounding an alarm. The beauty of formal ...

He's brought me breakfast. In bed. Andhe's done it shirtless. Women of America, be jealous.

We've already established whoever is writing us is an asshole.

She didn't look back at him as she went away to where she was obligated to be- somewhere at a dinner, surrounded by gold, suits, ...

I've made four films about the destructive nature of relationships, of secrets and lies, and I think I'm no longer interested in that subject - ...

For me, the beginning of sharing my faith with people began by throwing out Christianity and embracing Christian spirituality, a nonpolitical mysterious system that can ...

It was an office of a guy who won't take spam from anybody.

I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and ...

It's probably the best memory I have from my whole life. Just waiting to see some dolphins that never came.

SHE FELT a hard pinch on her neck. "Hey!" she protested. Her eyelids flew open. The light was unbearably bright, just as painful, but everything ...

To talk intelligibly about modern physics, we have to admit the possibility of uncaused events.

When you do pratikraman after conflict, the conflict is erased. When you give rise to new conflicts, the energies that had arisen will disappear again.

Applause, applause, life is our cause.

I rolled my eyes."Be quiet or I'll be forced to flick you.""Ooh," he mocked. "The ultimate threat. I don't think I've ever been flicked before.

One day, at least it seemed that fast, she just stopped wanting to be a part of anything.

For the snark was a boojum, you see.

I take picture because i like to look at the pictures I take.It seems to me that when people take a picture of something, they ...

Hobbits, just another Tolkien Minority

Over the very long term, history shows that the chances of any business surviving in a manner agreeable to a company's owners are slim at ...