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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the ...
The United States is the laughingstock of the world.
Who wouldn't like to give up normal life? I mean, normal life, you know, is the second worst thing to death itself. I think normality ...
I feel upsettingly de-natured. If Penelope Cruz were one of my nurses, I wouldn't even notice.
I'd love to have the opportunity to sing in a Disney movie.
I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.(Letter to John Banister, Jr., June 19, 1787)
Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: 'Who's the ...
People expect old men to die, They do not really mourn old men. Old men are different. People look At them with eyes that wonder ...
Mistake:the unshoveled snow was knee-deep.I kept right on wading through it. "This is because I'm a good person," I assured Doofus. "I am going to ...
Then again, in some of our meetings, the Upyri bring cocktails, shaking both cocks and tails. Bitches. You can't live with them, they can't live ...
The United States is the laughingstock of the world.
There was a universe inside every human being every bit as big as the universe outside them. Books were the best way Nina knew - ...
A defiant deed has greater value than unnumerable thousands of words ...
The joy of surmounting obstacles that once seemed unremovable and pushing the frontier of accomplishment further-what other joy is there like it?
Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
When I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania I had a baby in one arm, a diploma in the other and I didn't know where ...
Look up at the sky once a day.
Eric has said that I carry close to my chest a ball of barbed wire that I sometimes throw at other people.
Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.[Lat., Beneficia usque eo laeta ...
It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of ...
She allowed the feeling to emerge, regardless of whether it was good or bad; she was sick of self-control, of masks, of appropriate behavior.
A part of me will always be unflyable, stuck in the climb.
If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.
You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday's parties.
The bond of love, we unite the world.
The most important things of your life can change so suddenly, so unrecoverably, that you can forget even the most important of them and their ...
There is, monks, an unborn, unbecome, unmade, unconditioned. If, monks, there were no unborn ... no escape would be discerned from what is born, become, ...
Out of the forest. The dwarf sprang up in a fright, but he could not reach his cave, for the bear was already close. Then ...
Have another tangerine as he begins to expound upon how only in the unpolluted air can man truly be free to contemplate the complexities of ...
If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible to upset yourself emotionally - about anything. ...
I'm going home." - Celeste"To never return?" - Uway"Yes, show me the way to never return." - CelesteALL LIGHT WILL FALL
First at the outset, let me commend the great men and women of the United States Coast Guard for what they do.
Billy Collins writes lovely poems. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and ...
Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a ...
Most of our oldest memories are the product of repeated rehearsal and reconstruction.
Not unlike Lorenz's emphasis on knowing the whole animal, Imanishi urged us to empathize with the species under study. We need to get under its ...
Whoever is unable to stand up for an ideal with his person, his arm, his blood, is unworthy of that ideal, and no matter how ...
If there have been mute inglorious Miltons in rural villages, presumably there have been unrealized Washingtons born in unpropitious times.
Certainly, the president is expected to safeguard the Constitution by vetoing unconstitutional acts of Congress. This is especially true because many laws can only be ...
Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, shortened hours, and provided supplemental benefits. Through collective bargaining and grievance procedures, they ...
At one level, SXSW exemplifies serendipity, because whenever I come, I get these unexpected meetings with people I never knew existed, and you couldn't have ...
The attempts to distort the truth and to hide the facts behind blanket accusations have been undertaken at all stages of the Ukrainian crisis.
Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.
My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would ...
That which had grown from the earth, to the earth, But that which has sprung from heavenly seed, Back to the heavenly realms returns. This ...
The artist who really loves people loves them so well the way they are he sees no need to disguise their characteristics-he loves them whole, ...
Theoretically, I grant you, there is no possibility of error in necessary reasoning. But to speak thus "theoretically," is to uselanguage in a Pickwickian sense. ...
It is perhaps the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture, that they receive the results of the labour of inferior minds; and out ...
A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.
Hell hath no fury like a queen scorned. ... ... That would be the last time he made a crack about being a flamer to ...
My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with ...
Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as ...
All my life, up until that moment, I'd had a warm, protective blanket wrapped around me, knitted of aunts and uncles, purled of first and ...
Thou art moist and soft clay; thou must instantly be shaped by the glowing wheel.[Lat., Udum et molle lutum es: nunc, nunc properandus et acriFingendus ...
An instant later, a silk hat materialised in the air beside me, considerably down and to the left, and my special, only technically unassigned cohort ...
The problem, unstated until now, is how to live in a damaged body in a world where pain is meant to be gagged uncured ungrieved ...
In March 2011, press reports stated that the United States was flying UAVs "deep" into Mexico to gather narcotics-related intelligence.
Our ancestors relied upon their advanced brains to survive during times of food shortage, and fortunately, the human brain is able to utilize body fat ...
Lay there on my pallet, hoping it would improve soon and wondering, in a distant, unreproachful sort of way, if I was any kind of ...
Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.
I try to be as unsexy as possible.
For a moment I had a view of a world that seemed to wear a vast and dismal aspect of disorder, while, in truth, thanks ...
Money was spiritual indemnity against some unspecifiable future loss. It existed in purest form in his mind, my money, a reinforcing source of meditation.
The love between man and woman is a voluntary pact in which the one who falls short is only guilty of perfidy, but when a ...
Aunt Maria would mildly observe that, next time Uncle Podger was going to hammer a nail into the wall, she hoped he'd let her know ...
I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look ...
Wake up to a hearty, lip-smacking bowlful of nutritious, nourishing Ubik toasted flakes, the adult cereal that's more crunchy, more tasty, more ummmish. Ubik breakfast ...
Even the weakest and most vulnerable, the sick, the old, the unborn and the poor, are masterpieces of God's creation, made in his own image, ...
When bad fortune occurs, the unresourceful, unimaginative man looks about him to attach the blame to someone else; the resolute accepts misfortune and endeavors to ...
The iPhone isn't a gift. It's a booty-call device - his means of communicating with me about hooking up while he holds all the control. ...
I was able to first snap the radius and then within another few minutes snap the ulna at the wrist and from there, I had ...
If there's one thing Gus Uhlenbeek's got, it's pace and determination.
Ordering and taking delivery on the supplies and other things they needed took ingenuity and finesse, but both were Win's specialty. Contraband that would set ...
To right, the unrightable wrong, to love pure and chaste from a-far, to try when your arms are too weary, to reach the unreachable star.
Never is a woman so fulfilled as when she chooses to underwhelm her schedule so she can let God overwhelm her soul.
The upperclassman hands over a third pail. "Throw it," commands Bastian. The night steams, the stars burn, the prisoner sways, the boys watch, the commandant ...
I'd love to have the opportunity to sing in a Disney movie.
There was something special about watching a manager and umpire both convinced they were totally right, but knowing that one had to be wrong. As ...
You know what we should do? We should just put flags on everybody. Let's make it the NFFL - the National Flag Football League. It's ...
Apparently, deep down I believe that our spirits get stirred in with those of all the other living things that have ever existed. Like gumbo," ...
Fate and victory shift ... now this way, now that way like a line of unarmored men under a hail of enemy arrows.
Much of the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or malevolence or both.
These facts are clear: Trump University was an unlicensed enterprise promising students that they would become wealthy by learning Trump's real estate tips and strategies, ...
Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.
Emily Dickinson sublimely unnames even the blanks.
Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.
There was something rather blousy about roses in full bloom, something shallow and raucous, like women with untidy hair
It was a source of constant disappointment to Catherine Morland that her life did not more closely resemble her books. Or rather, that the books ...
The silence was terrible then, as tense as a bridge about to break, a tower to fall; unedurable in its emotion, its truth bursting to ...
In Delhi, politicians and intellectuals privately bemoaned the "irrationality" of the uneducated Indian masses, but when the government itself provided false answers to its citizens' ...
Any way I can produce runs and keep runs off the board for the other team, that's what I'm going to try to do.
Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do.
Nonviolence is a method that transforms, first of all, the individual once you understand it and embrace it. It begins with you and, if you ...
Friend: So, what do you wanna be when you're older!Me: Oh! Well IBrain: DeadMe: No brain not nowBrain: Dead in the groundMe: Shut the fuck ...
Be disciplined and prudent in the way you manage your time
I had to determine for myself what it means to be beautiful if I ever wanted to accept my own unique beauty. This is my ...
The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredible freedom.
I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving-and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus.
Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.
At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been ...