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Her smile put the sunflower to shame.

You're trying to play an archetype on one hand and a character on the other, so I felt insanely frustrated, right up until the last ...

Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare, forked animal as thou art.

Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know.

Jacen reflected bitterly that a large part of growing up seemed to involve watching everything change, and discovering that all changes are permanent. That nothing ...

Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.

Wealth without pride is the way of the great sage.

I do not come to God so that Jesus can give me what I want. But I must come to God so that Jesus will ...

Every moment waited is a moment wasted....

Praying through is all about CONSISTENCY and INTENSITY. It's 'all-nighter' prayer. It just won't take 'NO' for an answer!

The toads bellowed mournfully, and the twilight was enrobing the professor. Here it was ... the night. Moscow ... white lamps turning on somewhere outside ...

And you can't find "love" because in order to find "love" you have to be capable of dishing it out. In order to be capable ...

'No Sweetness Here' is the kind of old-fashioned social realism I have always been drawn to in fiction, and it does what I think all ...

I feel really good right now. It will really be a tough decision. It's so hard to give up what you love doing. Hanging up ...

A core, or a husk, I need to learnnot how to speak, but from where.

Money, success, and the external trappings have chased after me wherever I have gone. These things show up in my life, and I just keep ...

I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of foresight. I feel right ...

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.

I felt betrayed, as if what we shared on our journey to the Iron King was only a farce, a tactic the cunning Ice prince ...

I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.

The single factor most responsible for the disruption of the family is the automobile. Its full effect cannot be assessed. Modern life, as we know, ...

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a ...

I got into acting because I wanted to act and I love acting. That's my true north: to be creative and to be challenged in ...

We will certainly have to rethink the way in which we design and protect places where large numbers of Australians and indeed this will happen ...

If one is writing in a way that is questioning, or even raising questions about how we are supposed to negotiate the world - even ...

A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.

The church is in Christ, as Eve was in Adam.

Online advertising is increasingly only a fraction of what is being lost from print advertising, and it is under constant pressure.

We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism.

The most valuable "currency" of any organization is the initiative and creativity of its members. Every leader has the solemn moral responsibility to develop these ...

I drive an American car. It's a Chrysler. That's not an endorsement. It's more like a cry for pity.

I am disappointed, but I am realistic too. When you put your defense back on the field repeatedly, the offense needs to do its job ...

The logic of science was infallible, and if the scientists were sometimes mistaken, this was assumed to be only from their mistaking its rules.

I'm a strong supporter of comfort breeds complacency. Growing up poor I wasn't comfortable, my mom had to work so hard and I woke up ...

The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.

You think I don't know that? Our story wasn't supposed to end at all

The worst ... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.

If you don't understand how the world works, then everything is a mystery to you. If everything is magical and mysterious, then you really don't ...

It's pretty amazing how uncommon common sense is.

I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that ...

Not that I'm against meat eating. But I think we're eating too much.

Once we increase the proportion of women in technical roles, the challenge is to retain them and ease the transition to senior positions.

There's still such chaos in me. Still so little firmly outlined. Just like my face: a formless mass that only takes on shape through the ...

Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the passive voice remains an important ...

I'm in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out.

The grace of God doesn't simply invite us to follow ... it teaches us to follow.

So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.

I have learned to be patient with people. Once again I point to Rose's computer and then to the words me too.

I'm afraid I don't suffer petty bureaucrats gladly. A very bad habit, but one I find hard to break. Nevertheless, you will find, Dr. Kelly, ...

Angles from their former lofty positions in the sky. Their absence made everything look different, like a fresh haircut exposing a band of untanned skin ...

Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or playing God.This is ...

There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to work together to educate the United States about marketing overseas.

The abode of the spirits are astral world and earth land counterparts. In the path of evolution, the soul is futile. You need a body ...

All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually.

Of course I am very proud of being a Tory. Yes, in my head and in my heart I regard myself as a Tory. As ...

The poor want to be rich, the rich want to be God.

I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important.

I used to think I could learn about Jesus by studying Him, but now I know Jesus doesn't want stalkers.

As she cried, I could feel growing there, as had once before, a presence between us: the tiny perfect form of Sherry nestled between her ...

Hitchcock's murder set-pieces are so potent, they can galvanize (and frighten) even a viewer who's seen them before!

But some words to men and women, boys and girls alike: The quality of the work must merit the readers' time and money. Do it ...

Have patience. Wait until the mud settles and the water is clear. Remain unmoving until right action arises by itself.

I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy.

If I have to do something, I feel I should do it perfectly, and ofcourse, Hindi language is a problem.

Her reaction signaled that his memory had the power to destroy.

My mother tells Tina that she doesn't like books where the protagonist is established as Sad on page one. Okay, she's sad! We get it, ...

It's of no use to look back and say, "I should have been different." At any given moment, we are the way we are, and ...

He was Elijah's Howl.

Those who are not interested in politics will be forever ruled by those who are.

Joi ... ""Shut up," she says as she unbuttons my shirt. "I didn't bring you here for a heart-to-heart. How do I get this thing ...

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My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.

Yet, like the sea and the gallows, London refuses nobody.

With extra patient, realities will enfold.

In the matter of prejudice...we are all the same. Goddess and demon, human and monster: none of us understand difference, but at least some of ...

Stay with & live your dreams, for these trail blazers did and history is telling their stories in golden, glossy and embossed shining foils

Stop focusing on what's wrong with everyone else and start focusing on how blessed you are.

When the Brooklyn rain comes downhopefully it will be to fuckin' wake you up

Books crowbar the world open for you.

Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.

There are some sights that, once seen, can never be unseen. They replay themselves on a loop in your mind's home-theatre system with Dolby surround ...

You do have all five sense when you're in a room together. You communicate and understand each other in a much deeper way. It is ...

Those are the most monotonous fuckin' crickets I ever heard in my life.

It seemed the more he tried to ignore it, the more it would sneak up on him and catch him off guard.

Maintain your soul as one in the night and the day.

Maybe we're always changing.""Maybe we're always performing.""Then who are we really?" I wondered. "At the end of the day, with the lights off, all alone, ...

Do you know how much land is under ice, rock and snow? Do you know why 90 percent of us live within 100 kilometres of ...

Today I trust me. I trust in my perceptions. Today I will live my own truth that glows within, a life of no deceptions.

You cannot shake hands with the Devil and not get sulphur on your sleeve.

I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I avoided this punishment by destroying ...

But you just know when someone's there, don't you? You can feel them in the house, as if--oh, I don't know, I'm an old woman ...

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

Meditation is just being delighted in your own presence ... where you are not doing anything. The moment doing enters, you become tense; anxiety enters ...

A fault is sooner found than mended.

The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the ...

The secret is I have no shame.

In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key ...

I come from the small town of Sialkot in Pakistan. During pre-Partition, this town had the highest literacy rate among women.

Just as there can be little doubt that labor unions are a significant political force, neither can there be much question that this political force ...

Dostoevsky's visible world was a world of sensationalism. He may in the last analysis be a great mystic or a great psychologist; but he almost ...