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I guess it's the age group of students; You are questioning life. Then there are those who actually see their problems reflected in it.
Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best.
I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen.
Temporary setbacks are overshadowed by persistence.
I was in my office when - on 9/11. I think I had a number of meetings scheduled. I was just getting to know the ...
Commitment is different in males and females. In females it is a desire to get married and raise a family. In males it means not ...
Anyone need advice on making the transition from 5.12 to 5.11?
For any writer, the ability to look at a sentence and see what's superfluous, what can be altered, revised, expanded, and, especially, cut, is essential. ...
The griding sword with discontinuous wound Pass'd through him, but th' Ethereal substance clos'd Not long divisible, and from the gash A stream of Nectarous ...
What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.
If sex were baseball, I was still on the bench. The only action my bases had seen was courtesy of my own curious hands, and ...
Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination
A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.
People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. ...
Surrender is the most difficult thing in the world while you are doing it and the easiest when it is done.
I have lots of faith," the fallen angel said as he crouched down and coaxed the dog closer. "I have faith that this is a ...
Do you know that feeling - The feeling of being alive and dead, both at the same time? When it seems like you are just ...
I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library.Hello, my life, I said. We had once been ...
Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.
Tallest usable pogo stick
If I actually ran the world, I'd do it from the kitchen. It's not anything deliberate or a statement or anything, that's just how I ...
It makes me crazy, your voice. Every day, after we'd hang up the phone, I would sleep with the fucking thing on my chest. Like ...
In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television one, there is ...
Music is one way of saying things that you cannot really say to a person face to face, a sign of suppressed anger, unhealthy, deadly ...
Let's not kid ourselves. You pick up 'The Washington Post' and find O.J. Simpson on the front page; 'serious journalists' covered Anna Nicole Smith.
Mr. President, I wish to speak today, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American. I speak for the ...
Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.
It's not about blame or wallowing...you are all molded by so much more than a dysfunctional past, and you must ultimately take responsibility for creating ...
To say that Windows 95 is just like the Mac is like finding a potato in the shape of Jesus and thinking you have witnessed ...
Jesus lived and died in vain if He did not teach us to regulate the whole of life by the eternal law of love. Gandhi, ...
Christians who say we are not to judge others are only partially correct! Judging rightly is what Jesus commands. Love and truth are "The Commanded ...
The struggle for subjectivity is a battle to win the right to have access to difference, variation and metamorphosis.
He was already thirty, but yet to have a sense of himself as an adult. It just felt to him like he had spent thirty ...
I have nothing against conservative people putting out conservative commentary or doing conservative broadcasting, or liberal people doing liberal broadcasting, or conservative blogs or liberal ...
Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
I know. You can be fine, and then,out of nowhere,a memory blindsides you.
He was a creature who knew three hundred religions, yet had faith in none of them. So,
The influence of mankind on climate is trivially true and numerically insignificant.
Man was matter. Drop him out of a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like ...
Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn't paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows - they leap in like sugary ninjas
We have to make mistakes, it's how we learn compassion for others.
The upheaval of our world and the upheaval of our consciousness are one and the same.
Project X now, but it started as a Hunger Game.
Do things that count, but don't count the things you do.
JavaScript is the only language that I'm aware of that people feel they don't need to learn before they start using it.
It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician.
But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is ...
We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
I asked no odds and I give none. A guy got in my way, I run over him.
Most of us have a soundtrack running in the background of our lives. I access that soundtrack when I write.
It's a war out there and either they're going to hurt you or you're going to hurt them. I just go out there and play ...
Second, and far more powerfully, we want to believe that parents create criminals because in supposing that, we reassure ourselves that in our own house, ...
ANTIGONUS If it prove She's otherwise, I'll keep my stables where I lodge my wife; I'll go in couples with her; Than when I feel ...
Understand your power. Live dangerously. Live fearlessly. Cower before no earthly master. Know yourself. Live truthfully. Live freely. Be yourself. Love yourself.
But first, I want the pleasure of telling you that you are fired. I fire you. I fire you and all your relatives. I fire ...
Hark to that shrill, sudden shout,The cry of an applauding multitude,Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wieldsThe living mass as if he were its soul!
The Bhagavad-Gita is an empire of thought and in its philosophical teachings Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged montheistic deity and at the ...
I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready ...
Be of good heart.
Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them.
Even an unsuccessful Olympic bid can be the source of change within a city if organizers adhere to their vision.
It's easy to become married. Millions of people do it every year. If you want to pressure me to become something, hey, why not pick ...
I am open to keep on discovering new interesting projects, and little by little I have been coming across very beautiful projects with very affectionate ...
I own my own company, so I've never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn't sell. I've always had ...
There are people I stand near a single time and skirt forevermore.
Einstein was always looking for a unifying principle for the universe. I think anxiety about hair is the unifying principle.
It is painful to talk about it, but even with its 110,000 elite soldiers, the Soviet Union never managed to gain control over the entire ...
I have to say there are a lot of me-too products and companies. Yet another social network, of the 15th flavor - that's common in ...
We've become a nation of con men, living by selling double glazing to each other.
There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.
When you're shooting a film, you really don't get to be a dad, and you don't really get to be a husband. You don't really ...
Performance and music are inexorably tied together. And hell, I'll watch Brittany's Toxic music video all day. But there's a difference between that and listening ...
The best way to help a man increase his output is to help build the man. Help him increase his stature as a man, and ...
The power of mass intention may ultimately be the force that shifts the tide toward repair and renewal of the planet.
There's every reason to think SSRIs blunt your ability to fall and stay in love.
I used to love wildlife as a kid and being outside in the garden and the woods and the field and that stuff.
The powers of a man's mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks.
Seen from a higher perspective, conditions are always positive. To be more precise: they are neither positive nor negative. They are as they are.
Every time you work, it's a new film, and generally when you work with auteurs, people that write and direct their films, there's always an ...
I believe that even in the darkest of moments, a rose can bloom, and its beauty can make us hope again. I want to take ...
And so the result of several years of Everybody Shareskyism, other than slaughtering people, is for everybody to stand around and stare blankly at each ...
Being an actor, we're so dependent on the writers.
Love is not control. Love is willfully given and received. Love does not rush people who are broken. It's patient and kind and long suffering.
Well, if you're suspecting your lover is having an affair, it's definitely devastating. It's really a terrible, terrible feeling because you have no control.
I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them, you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and ...
The biggest segment of our audience is 18 to 34, and, believe it or not, they still speak Spanish, and they still watch novellas and ...
Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.
Sometimes we think we want to be alone, when really all we want is the right person to be alone with.
It's not that easy living with malaria. The reality of the high annual death toll should make that very obvious.
I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing ...
I hate a book that jumps around. Also I can promise
If you have a fear of flying, don't. The data are very clear: If you have to travel someplace, the safest way is by airplane.
If I didn't mould my reality then I'd still be in the ghetto where people like me are supposed to stay. You have to dream ...
Anything you are shows up in your music - jazz is whatever you are, playing yourself, being yourself, letting your thoughts come through.
I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful ...
I don't mind your calling me a clog, if only we were fastened together.""But I do mind you calling me a donkey," he replied.
We're coming! She felt like shouting it to the sky. We're on our way!
Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That is the polite thing to say among eagles."May the ...