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They said my friends were just an unruly mob, and I should get a hair cut and get a new job.

The day is done; and slowly from the scene the stooping sun upgathers his spent shafts, and puts them back into his golden quiver!

Whenever you feel a little stricken down in pain, think about this. The knife has to be sharpened by striking and rubbing it against something ...

Her unhandsome, but beautiful friend of so many years ...

I made a resolution I would throw myself into the Danube if I didn't ask you to make love with me today.

It's pretty simple, really: I love the X-Men. They were my favorite heroes when I was a kid. My dad and I collected X-Men comics ...

We were all in it together, of course, desperate to regain some hypothetical upper hand by any means necessary.

Pride of one's work is not improper, unladylike, or vain. We can all take a lesson from the sea turtle. She does not travel thousands ...

Then she looked at the man on the tree and she smiled wryly. "They just aren't as interesting naked," she said. "It's the unwrapping that's ...

The Purdey was not a Purdey but a straight-stocked long-barreled Scott live-pigeon full choke in both barrels thai I had bought from a lot of ...

Economic growth is not only unncessary, but ruinous.

'Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But many video ...

A life that moves to gracious endsThro' troops of unrecording friends,A deedful life, a silent voice.

The more I see of the 'honoured, famed, and great,' the more I see of the littleness, the unsatisfactoriness of all created good; and that ...

No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.

Fiction; inner thoughts of ElishaTrue beauty dwells in deep retreats,Whose veil is unremovedTill heart with heart in concord beats,And the lover is beloved.

But now we see that the subject controls the time of its environment. While we said before, "There can be no living subject without time," ...

In the Ummah, there was no tradition of veiling until around 627 C.E., when the so-called "verse of hijab" suddenly descended upon the community. That ...

You can create a CGColor directly using Core Graphics methods if you prefer, but using UIColor saves you from having to manually release the color ...

I grew up with my parents in the kitchen discussing the audition my dad had that day or moaning about something or other in the ...

The kundalini energy rests in potential at the base of the spine. It is possible to take that energy and allow it to move, to ...

And as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came! One, ...

Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.

Mfon Udoh is a good player and I've had him before I know the quality he has. And I believe this is a lesson that ...

I am not knocking advances that provide a healthier life and alleviate suffering or unnecessary premature death. I am advocating inclusion of education on end-of-life ...

They learned to hate her unknowability, her untouchability, the collage of her.

Unselfing themselves

Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ...

It is time to float on the waters of the night. Time to wrap my arms around this book and press it to my chest, ...

I never feel weird about being the main character in the nontransferable, nonexistent movie of my life. That's totally fine. What makes me nervous is ...

The well-being of mankind, its peace and security, are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established.

I threatened him with bodily harm. He promised to bring me cake for the rest of my life.

Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.

The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.

Stan Ulam was lazy, ... He talked too much ... He was self-centered ... He had an overpowering personality.

Hvad udad tabes, skal indad vindes. (What was lost without will be found within.)

We see not just that which is uninjured, but that within us which is uninjurable.

Invariably when something upsets you, and you have a strong emotional reaction out of proportion to the moment, your shadow self has just been exposed. ...

We know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.

It is wise to avoid militants of all plumage, to trust only the fanatically unfanatic

Old and sick, more than one hundred years Face haggard, hair white, I'm happy to still live in the mountains A cloth covered phantom watching ...

I have always been accused of taking the things I love - football, of course, but also books and records - much too seriously, and ...

My Uriah,' said Mrs. Heep, 'has looked forward to this, sir, a long while. He had his fears that our umbleness stood in the way, ...

This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.

Falling prices through increased production is a wonderful long-run tendency of untrammeled capitalism.

The moon invented natural rhythm. Civilization uninvented it.

For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a ...

I've held onto Ugg boots. I will never graduate to Crocs, but Ugg boots are always and forever. That's my fashion stepchild.

Chaos is order yet undeciphered.

My heart is a weatherballoon caught in an updraft of a chinese tax percentage, the tax percentages are unequivocaaaaaaaaaal, Unequivocaaaaaaaaal. This is the sort of ...

From the half-open doors of this chiffonier hung laces, ribands, stockings, ladies' underclothing and an abdominal brace, which gave the impression that the feminine finery ...

Unity in diversity is India's strength. There is simplicity in every Indian. There is unity in every corner of India. This is our strength.

The story of my marriage, which is the great joy and astonishment of my life, is too much like a fairy tale, the German kind, ...

I wish we hadn't kissed at all," he snapped."So do I, but we can't unkiss, so we must deal with it as best as we ...

I stood in this unsheltered place, 'til I could see the face behind the face.

You shall be known among us as Usul, the base of the pillar. This is your secret name, your troop name. We of Sietch

There are only two markets, ultraluxury and subsidized housing.

To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace - the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can ...

To see lonely, selfish, empty individuals transformed slowly but surely into warm, loving, wholesome, and happy people is to become aware of why Paul describes ...

The candles burned The moon went down The polished hill The milky town Transparent, weightless, luminous Uncovering the two of us On that fundamental ground ...

People cry out, and deplore the unremunerative employment of woman. The true want is the other way. Women really trained, and capable of good work, ...

There is no such thing as a beauty contest . . . Beauty is noncompetitive. Beauty of any kind stands alone, unmatched, inimitable, uncontested.

I won't regret saying this, this thing that I'm saying. Is it better than keeping my mouth shut? That goes without saying. Call, break it ...

Marriage did not hold much interest for Urmila but it was a social discipline she would have to conform to. She would rather seek knowledge ...

And then he remembered that in the outside world, no one had to unlock a door before he entered

I think I would never be ready to do a regular job. I couldn't go to the office every day at the same hour. I ...

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

GUYS, Owen Meany said. That spring, less than a month before Gravesend Academy's graduation exercises, the TV showed us a map of Thailand; five thousand ...

For those who don't like Dave Letterman, there's Jay Leno; and for those who like neither, there's Craig Ferguson; and if you're still feeling undertained, ...

The gift of words, the source of enjoyment, the source of delight that comes within and the unfading beauty and energy of words.

It will not suffice to have customers that are merely satisfied. Customers that are unhappy and some that are merely satisfied switch. Profit comes from ...

Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee.

I read the 'Times' and 'Post,' but I have nothing against the 'Daily News.' I also fish around the Internet for entertainment news but find ...

In order to avoid believing in just one God we are now asked to believe in an infinite number of universes, all of them unobservable ...

If left unexecuted, even the greatest competitive strategies are not worth the paper on which they were written.

All girls are beautiful, and when they say they're ugly they only lie to themselves, for it's impossible for them to be ugly.

The last light, in the last window, went out. Only the unstoppable machine of the sea still tears away at the silence with the cyclical ...

The truth is, while the FBI is hiding behind the 5th Amendment, the Unabomer is qualifying for Social Security as a terrorist. Beam me up, ...

I would not be standing here today if my skin were white or my religion were Presbyterian. I am here today only because my skin ...

Dexter-Land is a dark and scary place, and I couldn't live there permanently. To be honest, I don't think I even want to visit.

Of all the things I have learned since becoming a parent(and sometimes, it feels as if this might be everything I've learned), perhaps the hardest ...

So Hermione was the siren, and Lucy was the trusty friend, and all was right with the world. Or if not right, then at least ...

[ ... ] every time he forces himself to think before acting, it's her voice in his head telling him to slow down. He wants ...

We may finally ask ourselves whether coincidence really does exist. Maybe everybody we run into is walking around near us with the undying hope of ...

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds:And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleasedWith melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave;Some chord ...

They climbed up into the carriage and were on their way. Henry caught her bonnet on the doorframe as she was getting in, a circumstance ...

The light played across the planes of his strong hands and forearms, allowing her to note the minuscule shifting of muscles signaling his next move. ...

We're all of us going to hell, it's just a question of time.

You Unwinds are all the same. You think that because no one loves you, then you can't love anyone. All right, then, if there's no ...

The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection.

The more honest we become, the more we realize that our own devices get us nowhere. Even if we are having success, that success wouldn't ...

There'll be ups and downs, smiles and frowns.

The self as the essence of individuality is unitemporal and unique; as an archetypal symbol it is a God-image and therefore universal and eternal.

The first step of humility is unhesitating obedience which comes naturally to those who cherish Christ above all.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that ...

I remember in 1978 meeting two Ugandan captains in the hotel talking Russian. They had been educated in Moscow and since they came from different ...

San Francisco is one of the great cultural plateaus of the world - one of the really urbane communities in the United States - one ...

You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.

To the domesticated, nomads were an unwelcome reminder of instinct suppressed, liberty compromised, and control unimplemented.

Let's shake hands & reach across those party lines, you got ur friends just like I got mine, we might think a little differently but ...