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My first job was working for my dad. He was a used-car dealer, and I used to wash the cars down, clean them out, and ...
What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into ...
Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of ...
As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous ...
Katerina Lvovna lived a boring life in the rich house of her father-in-law during the five years of marriage to her unaffectionate husband; but, as ...
In life, when one gets to the point of a deeper sense of understanding about himself and his purpose, he least explains himself much to ...
After finishing my drink I feel a pressure in my lower regions, and I realize I have to piss. Since the Dead don't drink, urination ...
This will sound strange, and yet I'm sure it was the point: it was a bit like being high. That, for me, anyway, had always ...
We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
I think all of the parties still have some way to go to better utilise IT in campaigns.
You may have misery," she continued, ignoring my plea, "you may lose hope in the sorrow of an unplanned life but as long as you ...
Like NASCAR race drivers or PGA golfers, why not require each of the [US presidential] candidates to cover their clothing, briefcases and staff with the ...
The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the ...
We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.
I had thought comics could only be one thing, and that was what mainstream comics were selling us. And the undergrounders proved anything you had ...
For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over ...
We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.
I like handling newborn animals. Fallen into life from an unmappable world, they are the ultimate immigrants, full of wonder and confusion.
Today it is busy and decked with finery. It is packed to purpose with poisons and poisoners. If a house could smile, Greavesdrake would be ...
He spake of love, such love as spirits feelIn worlds whose course is equable and pure: No fears to beat away - no strife to ...
Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate ... ...
A persistent and age-old instinct makes us want to wanderInto regions yet untrodAnd read what is still unreadIn the manuscripts of God.
Whoso meditates on the Omniscient, the Ancient, more minute than the atom, yet the Ruler and Upholder of all, Unimaginable, Brilliant like the Sun, beyond ...
I fear the vermin that shall undermineSenate and citadel and school and shrine.
Now that I can see it's the queen's new clothes Now that I can hear all your poison prose Now that I can talk with ...
It was night in the lonesome OctoberOf my most immemorial year ...
Honesty was a cheat invented first To bind the hands of bold deserving rogues, That fools and cowards might sit safe in power, And lord ...
Will universal health coverage lead the country (USA) down the slippery path to the dreaded European-style socialism?
While being the husband of uberstylist Rachel Zoe lets me waltz confidently into fashion shows with Rachel by my side, the VIP treatment usually stops ...
I'm inspired by love, by the moments that we commit to something with all our heart - be it a person, a project, an animal, ...
I think doing more live stuff's made us feel a certain way about that particular point. I quite like small clubs. I don't really like ...
We played this game from the west village to the upper east side til around midnight when the Chrysler building was far behind us and ...
Love was not in it for me at first. I dated guys because of the way they looked. And then I began to learn that ...
I feel vulnerable when I am underprepared. This applies to underpreparedness with just about anything, especially work.
A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not ...
He referred to Pope Paul III as "His Hellishness." Were not the pope and his associates at least members of the church? Yes, as much ...
Nobody makes a movie about a woman in her mid-30s who wishes she could have met someone to have children with and still doesn't know ...
When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.
It's weird, when I go back to San Francisco, the few times that I've done shows there since leaving, it still feels like I live ...
I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a ...
There are more than 150 references to the fear of God in the Bible.6 While the majority of these occur in the Old Testament, there ...
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man.
It is a terrible, terrible beauty that I do not understand.
Allaah Tabaraka wa Ta'Ala {The Absolute Divine UnNamed} DOES NOT test to "See" if you're worthy of Jannaah or Jahannam ! If only one can ...
Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
More men die from overeating than undernourishment.
There are eight or nine leading varieties of rice grown in Japan, all of which, except an upland species, require mud, water, and much puddling ...
The study looked at two groups of people, one vaccinated against the flu and the other not vaccinated. After both groups were asked to read ...
The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct
Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to ...
Prince Charles is the only member of the Royal Family who ever left Cinderella for the Ugly Duckling.
My faith is what they bury when they force me to expose it.
It makes me sad to hear girls constantly putting themselves down. We have these unbelievably high expectations of ourselves, when actually we're human beings and ...
I likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, from my arm-pits to my thighs. I could only look upwards; the sun began to grow ...
Some managers are uncomfotable with expressing emotion about their dreams, but it's the passion and emotion that will attract and motivate others.
The imperfections of religions can only be understood by their unfollowers, not followers.
It is an undisputed truth of the modern age that there are now only two kinds of people in the world: people who call and ...
University of Oklahoma. He spent his summers on a farm in Pennsylvania, not far from Roseto - although that, of course, didn't mean much, since ...
Do you know what I did? I urrrrrinated on the cake at my ex-wife's wedding. Pissssed all over the icing.Melvin Baylor - Seven Up
Uh ... aren't you in Hollywood right now? You know, dancing up a storm with uberwitch Madison? I mean, that lovely girl, Madison?Only if Hollywood ...
Sweet, can I sing you the song of your kisses? How soft is this one, how subtle this is, How fluttering swift as a bird's ...
We could never truly understand God's will. We have to trust God, have faith in Him, and follow the rules He gave us without ever ...
I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. ...
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, ...
Who among us has not dreamt, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and rhyme, supple and staccato ...
Your mind can help you do the unimaginable.Your hands can help you get the unattainable.Your heart can help you accomplish the unachievable.Your soul can help ...
Women cannot claim the right to be considered mature and responsible until they decide the course of their lives for themselves and refuse to be ...
It's more important that you eat vegetables, even if they are conventional I'm talking about for your health then it is until you wait until ...
[On refusing to be silenced:] I do not pretend to be John the Baptist rebuking the Pharisees. I do not claim to be Nathan upbraiding ...
Oggi uccidiamo, domani moriremo, he said, his gloved hand making the sign of the cross. Today we kill, tomorrow we die.
And presently I was driving through the drizzle of the dying day, with the windshield wipers in full action but unable to cope with my ...
In a minute - Sometime soon - Maybe next time - Make it June Until later Doesnt always come
If you confidently start to move from where you are to where you want to be, it's only a matter of time before the people ...
For God, who is in heaven, is in man. Where else can heaven be, if not in man? As we need it, it must be ...
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep ...
How real is history? Is it just an enormous soup so full of disparate ingredients that it is uncharacterizable?
The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a good thing may ...
I feel my life is sterile, I am unbloomed, unused, I have nothing I can have that I will ever want, only some love, only ...
I want to reconcile the violence in your heart.I want to recognize your beauty's not just a mask.I want to exorcise the demons from your ...
Unsignificantlyoff the coastthere wasa splash quite unnoticedthis was Icarus drowning
I left a couple of my foreigners out last week and they started talking in 'foreign'. I knew what they were saying: Blah, blah, blah, ...
Pigpen is in his late twenties and thinks he's all handsome with his blonde hair and big muscles. Because he was a Navy SEAL or ...
Am I the only person in the world who is shocked and amazed at the ongoing flattery of uebergeek Mark Zuckerberg?
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, ...
Uncle Remus, who said to Uncle Ben, You're a credit to your rice. Never got a dinner!
One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do ...
There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.
I have not looked at any of the 'Pretender' Web sites. I'm scared of the Internet.
I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play ...
A freezing cold underground river. A dark cave lit by ghosts. A man too stupid to realize you loved him. This is what you want?""All ...
After I read about Uganda's now famous "kill the gays" bill, I wanted to explore the religious forces behind it. As a gay man, I ...
Desire itself is movementNot in itself desirable;Love is itself unmoving,Only the cause and end of movement,Timeless, and undesiringExcept in the aspect of timeCaught in the ...
I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.
I won't look online. The whole fan thing makes me self-conscious, which is not to say I don't appreciate it or understand it. If Mickey ...
Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the ...
People (or students) do not have shortcomings, only uniquenesses. The goal of a good teacher is to turn these uniquenesses into advantages.
The dewy night unrolls a heaven thickly jewelled with sparkling stars
We all have the same Rislampa/Har paper lamps made from wire and environmentally friendly unbleached paper. Mine are confetti.
The Turkish quarter oozed, impregnated with malicious mockery, a viral scorn.
A man who works all day, every day and loves each apple he uncrates, who cherishes each can of soup - a man like that ...