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Nothing betrays imbecility so much as the being insensible of it.

In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting for the other ...

If it's sent by ship then it's a cargo, if it's sent by road then it's a shipment.

Only by having a clear idea what virtue is can I practice evil with a light heart.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity,Love can transpose to form and dignity.Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is winged ...

Remember to always tune your inner ear so you can listen for (and separate from each other) both the good reason and the real reason ...

The mobile Web, location-based services, inexpensive and pervasive mobile apps, and new sorts of opportunities to access cars, bikes, tools, talent, and more from our ...

What a world it is, Cora thought, that makes a living prison into your only haven. Was she out of bondage or in its web: ...

Before he finally hops on his borad, he hugs me good-bye and we hold on to each other so tightly under the sad, starless sky ...

All the habits of Man are evil.

Names are powerful and so is destiny, but a person's will is more powerful than both put together.

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

My hope is that feminist, racial justice, reproductive rights and LGBT movements build a coalition that centers on the lives of women who lead intersectional ...

Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.

It is important to have friends and family around that I love and trust and who love and trust me.

I just think that unless you have that cohesiveness in the family unit, the male character tends to become very dominant, repressive and insensitive. So ...

He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.

So it is with statistics; no amount of fancy analysis can make up for fundamentally flawed data. Hence the expression garbage in, garbage out.

UNIX is a user-friendly operating system.It just picks its friends more carefully than others.

I actually love auditioning because I usually don't get the part. I've tested with Daniel Day-Lewis, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Tom Cruise. So I've ...

I would've loved to have children and I'm really good with kids, but I just didn't want to commit to anything when I had cancer. ...

I was saying to him only yesterday: 'You are imprudent, M. le Comte; for when you go to Auteuil and take your servants the house ...

Very few people could make me fight out of my system. Burley was one.

Victories over ingrained patterns of thought are not won in a day or a year.

A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.

Make sure that you let God's grace work in your souls by accepting whatever He gives you, and giving Him whatever He takes from you. ...

I'm opposed to a lot of the time that we as a civilization have come to spend looking at screens. For my money, life is ...

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

I started getting tattoos, and the hair would grow back out and grow over a nice piece of artwork that I really wanted to show, ...

Through my willingness to train every day and to dig deep in the after-class ukemi sessions, over time I earned the respect and friendship of ...

Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed" and "A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full ...

Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?

Love is Beautiful [10w] Even an average woman becomes beautiful when she's in love.

Life, like the boring drunk at the office party, keeps seeking you out, leaning on you, killing you with pointless yarns and laughing bad-breathed in ...

I want to resume the life of a shy person.

Generations hence, parents will take their children to these woods to show them how the land must have looked to the first Pilgrims and pioneers. ...

A pastor really needs to be broken before God every day, or he will break up the church of God with his willfulness or let ...

This is just one little lifetime in a succession of lifetimes.

Reasonable readers would have accepted my book about ghouls as a work of fiction, but such readers are rare, and most condemned it as a ...

There's nothing in the world like live entertainment. With TV, you have to wait for your results; with live entertainment, people let you know right ...

Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as ...

Men, who achieve much, die as do those who achieve nothing.

Hope is good to have," Murgull said after a moment. "But hope does not lift a tree about to crush your mate, or bring meat ...

I believe people work for satisfaction.

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

Human philosophy tends to shake down into values which might be categorized as intellectual, religious, moral, and aesthetic.

I throw everything I have into whatever story I'm writing - and so there's something immensely gratifying about finishing one piece and then starting fresh ...

But the longer I'm in the business, you see a lot of times these screenplays have been rewritten 5 times and you're not really offending ...

As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got ...

I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

In contrast, upgrading the healthy is an elitist project, because it rejects the idea of a universal standard applicable to all and seeks to give ...

I would shake your hand, but I'm kind of in the middle of killing stuff at the moment.

If you can put your five fingers throught it, it is a gate, if not a door.

If you haven't considered it already, consider it now: there is every possibility that some of us, or all of us, may live and triumph, ...

Too often we don't listen to understand.

His injury the gaoler to his pity.

I'm mesmerized by the way his fingers move confidently along her skin, as though her body is his to reat and touch and tend to. ...

The outer form of Buddhism, of practice, is etiquette - a series of ways to live intelligently that keep you alive, awake and happy, wakeful.

The question is: will I get used to a menu with kilojoules instead of calories? I mean, I don't think anyone even knows how many ...

After years of doing impressions, its time for a change.

Misunderstandi ngs happen because we do not understand that different people have different styles of communication.

I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.

Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas.

You have to be more prepared than anyone else in the room, even if you aren't planning on speaking up. (Read two articles on a ...

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time ...

Elegance lies not in the clothes we wear, but in the way we wear them.

Success and like free enterprise and all

I am my own heaven and hell!

I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to ...

Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

You know, every bad guy was once good until he crossed a line. I don't think they come out of the womb being assholes.

How do you wash your clothes?" "Sally has a small washer and dryer." "Sally?" Selene said. "Who is that?" "The Winnebago we're traveling in. Long ...

Mr. Beckwith, it is not possible for me to believe that God sees any true love as evil, no matter what the words of man ...

Hope is such a beautiful dream that dies such a hideous death.

I wish to God I might induce her to mind me!' he ejaculated.

A belief in the immortality of the human soul, of the survival of the person beyond death, is one of the most important expressions of ...

I was an accidental model. One day I was asked to me a model by a neighbor who was short on models. Then I got ...

Life begins where needs end.

Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you.

Why should I obtain by force that which I can obtain by cheating?

The Umayyad caliphate stretched from Spain to India, making it the largest empire in the world

Perhaps there are people in this world who love their fountain pens with every fiber of their being - and that's very sad. If you're ...

SHADOW PROWLER is a fresh, exuberant take on territory that will be familiar to all fans of classic high fantasy. Alexey Pehov introduces a cast ...

I go into a young film director's office these days and he says, 'Hey man, I know who you are. I grew up watching 'McHale's ...

Lily, the next time you tell me you don't know what to do with family. Because you know exactly. It's about loyalty and kindness and ...

It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving ...

Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero ...

Whenever I encountered a slide show titled 'Eight Diet Foods That Pack on the Pounds' or 'Celebrity Fashion Fails,' I'd have to stop and investigate ...

Just because you're my best friend doesn't mean I haven't already chosen where to hide your body after I kill you.

The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.

Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.

I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's a ...

Sight is where the eye hits.

A man who hasn't left behind him a string of broken women has hardly been alive.

Nature is woman's best friend,' she [Yasmina] often said. 'If you're having troubles, you just swim in the water, stretch out in a field, or ...

I don't care what you think. You're not my brother," Clary said. "You're a murderer.""I really don't see how those things cancel each other out," ...

It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.

One day, when I was still living at home, a friend told 'Texas' Jean Valli about me. She was originally from Syracuse, N.Y., and lived ...

I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero - I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters.