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The piano is just a different animal. It's expensive, it's big, it's heavy, and it doesn't fit in the mix easily. Everyone grew up with ...

Be patient. Let God answer your question on His schedule, not yours.

Everything Mengistu has done since 1977 has been to place himself in a position of uncontestable power. Neither Haile Selassie nor any of the previous ...

I try not to listen to the shoulds or coulds, and try to get beyond expectations, peer pressure, or trying to please - and just ...

I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds ...

History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.

It's strange how in childhood it feels like tomorrow won't come until the end of forever, but in adulthood it feels like the end of ...

I tried all my life to be a normal person. Stars are in the sky. I like cooking and gardening.

Thought, stumbling, plods Past fallen temples, vanished gods, Altars unincensed, fanes undecked, Eternal systems flown or wrecked; Through trackless centuries that grant To the poor ...

And he couldn't know because he hadn't been left with an unkeepable promise, because he wasn't me.

Whenever I write lyrics, in the back of my mind I always see a guy driving to work, driving to a really bad job, one ...

Meaning is sometimes not what you say but how you say it.

After all, the whole of humanity was anchored by inventions, contrivances, unrealities. Xiao Li lived on dreams, as most people do.

Unlock your mind, unlock your mind. Throw off the fear, and let us fly.

Anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah, and c God struck him down there because of his error, and he died there beside the ...

The mind is its own beautiful prisoner.Mind looked long at the sticky moonopening in dusk her new wingsthen decently hanged himself,one afternoon.The last thing he ...

And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail,And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal;And the might of the Gentile, unsmote ...

The radiance of this beautiful scene shed a cruel light on every past horror, every insult tolerated, every unspoken retort, every gesture of rejection. Marianne ...

In the unlikely event that she does escape me, I will inform you all. If you catch her, you are to detain her and return ...

To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.

We upgrade URZ to a Buy; we see an entry opportunity with investors.

That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.

To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that ...

In Memoriam, Louis Anglesey, Earl of Upnor, finest swordsman in England, beaten to death with a stick by an Irishman.

The goal of inner work is to help clients unblock their bottlenecks and learn how to live in partnership with the unconscious rather than at ...

I keep going till that pain says hello to me. I don't say goodbye until that pain says hello. That's a good set.

Learning not to crumple before these uncertainties fuels my resolve to print myself upon the texture of each day fully rather than forever.

How much of this truth can I bear to see and still liveunblinded?How much of this paincan I use?

I chose to deal with the underdogs on '1 Train.' I could've got the biggest superstars in the rap game, but why do that when ...

With their whips of flames they smote asunder the webs of Ungoliant. - The Silmarillion

Don't turn a good dude who is loyal to his chick into a bad nigga by throwing yourself at him when he is already committed. ...

The more I understand the mind and the human experience, the more I begin to suspect there is no such thing as unhappiness; there is ...

There was a law in Connecticut - I believe it is still formally unrepealed - making it illegal for a man to kiss his wife ...

How can we preserve our planet on which little girls are supposed to sleep in their beds, and not lie dead on the road with ...

The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.

The summer of 1991, I took $2,000 of my savings and a desktop program, and I asked my friends to write 800 words about something ...

But what do you think, my lady?''I think that she must be cruel if she wants to be loved,' Gertrude explained. ' For once a ...

An unshared happiness is not happiness.

Unplayed sound is like unspoken words.

One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.

The usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.

You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.

People have forgotten what the human touch is, what it is to smile, for somebody to smile at them, somebody to recognize them, somebody to ...

I think I'd make a loving, caring, understanding boyfriend, who's in touch with his emotions. Or at least I'd like to be.

To be ignorant of one's own ignorance is to be in an unprogressive, uninspired state of existence.

He would fall. He had not yet fallen but he would fall silently, in an instant. Not to fall was too hard, too hard: and ...

You got lucky with the moon. Tonight there won't be one, or it'll be so new that you'll still have all the darkness you want. ...

In April 1968, a test launch with an unmanned Apollo 6 capsule aboard suffered from a "pogo effect." Unnerved NASA engineers watched as their thirty-six-stories-tall ...

When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge.

You are on the floor crying,and you have been on the floor crying for days.And that is you being brave.That is you getting through itas ...

An unaspiring person believes according to what he achieves. An aspiring person achieves according to what he believes.

The sun shall not smite I by day, nor the moon by night, and everything that I do shall be upfull and right.

There are some things we can control and others we simply cannot. And our ability to distinguish between them is critical to our happiness and ...

Not giving a shit, she decided, is like the defrost option on a car's heater that miraculously unfogs the windshield, allowing you to see where ...

A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode.[Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.]

Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state,Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flyingThought

Being normal is unnormal but being imperfect is PERFECT! I know I was different and perfect

Be fair. Don't present your version of the truth to others. Lose your ulterior motives! Be accurate and pure in your presentation of the way, ...

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are ...

How do people make the judgments and how do they assign decision weights? We start from two simple answers, then qualify them. Here are the ...

Every relationship is a gift exchange.

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.

The basis on which the Good Friday agreement was constructed was in addressing those problems in the history of Northern Ireland, the social and constitutional ...

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

My true place in the world, it turned out, was somewhere beyond myself, and if that place was inside me, it was also unlocatable. This ...

The whole system was based upon getting kids to a certain standard and packing their minds with information so they could go on to a ...

All neurotics, and many others besides, take exception to the fact that 'inter urinas et faeces nascimur.

Things happen, and you can't make them unhappen. You don't get do-overs, you can't roll back the clock, and the only thing you can change, ...

We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God ...

The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. ...

Show, don't tell, is a mantra repeated by tutors of creative writing courses the world over. As advice for amateurs, it is sound and helps ...

It's unfathomable how much I want you, Rylee." He pulls me tighter into him. "How much I'm drawn to you.

I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at some ...

When you are drawing characters to serve a plot purpose, you tend to get flat, stereotyped, unliving characters.

Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh! let thy grace supply, The good unask'd, in mercy grant; The ill, though ask'd, deny.

I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.

You may be a Founding Father and all that, but you still leave an occasional skidmark in your underdrawers.

The urbanized life has lead to the destruction of the legends.

Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after.[Who eats the king's goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]

If a woman chooses to support her husband and become First Lady, I believe she must do so with the understanding that the public expects ...

I healed people, emotionally and physically, through my music. I get a lot of e-mails from people who are suffering through a lot of problems. ...

I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, ...

True evil is unlikely to receive an invitation from us, so it clothes itself in just enough truth to make itself look appealing and then ...

We are simple-minded enough to think that if we were saying something we would use words. We are rather doing something. The meaning of what ...

Sumer is icumen in,Lhude sing cucc.Groweth sed, and bloweth med,And springth the wude nu,Sing cuccu!

To look it at another way, surely there are many unfortunate people who have needed to undergo multiple stomach surgeries. Yet no one would hand ...

The German settlers would defend Europe itself at the Ural Mountains, against the Asiatic barbarism that would be forced back to the east. Strife at ...

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be ...

The fingers and toes and beating hearts that we can see on an unborn child's ultrasound come with something that we cannot see: a soul

I can see no justification whatever for the attitude which refuses on purely a priori grounds to accept action at a distance ... Such an ...

'Liar' is just as ugly a word as 'thief,' because it implies the presence of just as ugly a sin in one case as in ...

It is, indeed, strange how often persons, living in other respects quite unobjectively, can suddenly become acutely objective about some specific concern of their own.

The force of life fills out our tissues with its pulsing vibrancy and puffs them up with the pride of being alive. Whether it departs ...

The next best thing to gambling and winning is gambling and losing.

I don't know how to explain how, probably to my detriment, unselfpromoting I am. I used to have a cabaret act and I didn't even ...

You should know that if we do fucking kill you, the we'll just delete you. You got that? One click and then you're overwriten with ...

Money is an important tool for modern life. Money will not make you happy, but you can use money wisely to enhance your happiness.

Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated mind.

Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to ...

The helium which we handle must have been put together at some time and some place. We do not argue with the critic who urges ...