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There is no unthreatened, unthreatening conceptual home for the concept of gay origins. We have all the more reason, then, to keep our understanding of ...
I see tremendous imbalance in the world. A very uneven playing field, which has gotten tilted very badly. I consider it unstable. At the same ...
If the hearts are pure, they will never have enough from reciting Allah's words (the Qur'an).
You look at love, and especially woman, as something hostile, something against which you put up a defense, even if unsuccessfully. You feel that their ...
Fuka-Eri started to offer an opinion on the matter but then had second thoughts and stopped. Her opinion, unvoiced, snack back into the place it ...
Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government.
You take after your dad, a high-functioning sociopath with an incurable organic personality disorder. It's one of the special-sauce variety, the kind with a known ...
He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really ...
Police," I say."Let's see your badge.""I'm undercover. And I'm going to need that as evidence."She hands me the spiff. I take a drag. "Yep, it's ...
Most days of the year are unremarkable. They begin and they end with no lasting memory made in between. Most days have no impact on ...
Heaven and earth conspire that everything which has been, be rooted and reduced to dust. Only the dreamers, who dream while awake, call back the ...
Oh, let's tell the world we're unheard. We're unsure.We're unstop, we're unstoppable. Oh let's tell the girls to be strong. To be sure. To be ...
Most people live lives that are full of mysteries, lives whose ultimate purpose we may never really understand. But for the sake of serenity, we ...
How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition.
Unencountered Language is the court and spark between words we recognize and those we don't.
In my new, crisp undergarment, I felt safe, knowing I was protected from bullets, fire, knives, and all manner of evil-and more importantly, from Satan, ...
One uproar after another, every day. Like the whole world's turned upside down. Don't you feel bad that you're missing out? The world isn't that ...
I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
I'm surprised that, with all of his supposed experience with the gentler sex, he doesn't realize that women do not like to be carried in ...
Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it.
The wonder of life shouldn't be squandered on insignificant or unbeneficial experiences.
My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.
There is no such thing as an unmusical person.
If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable.
You have to stand out if you want to move up.
Childhood was not a time in a person's life, but a country, a country under siege, from which certain individuals were taken too soon and ...
He lives alone, unexcited, disinterested, world-weary and ungiving, yet it is this dry-as-dust approach that makes him fascinating.
Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.
When the way is not clear, there is absolutely no way. "Wrong choices" are unarguably "no choices".
To retain our dignity, we must sometimes refuse to live life at any cost
That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable ...
The ghetto existed on a foundation of those anonymous, unthankable deeds; insignificant and almost trivial in themselves, but collectively essential to the survival of the ...
I'm already saved. Hallelujah, praise the Lord. Now unlock that door and set me free, brother.
America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long.
After all these years, my heart still wants you. It still misses you. it still aches for you. I can't control what my heart wants, ...
A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to ...
And, anyway, friendship is different in another language; a foreign friend doesn't have to understand what you feel, and I don't expect it. It's enough ...
There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong.
Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.
The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it. We have talked enough; but we have not listened. And by not listening ...
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Every minute with you, Darling Eve, is a minute to treasure."She slid a glance toward him as she uncoded the seal. "You really do want ...
Desperation is like a spilled drink; even if it's delicious, no one will get near it. Cultivate an aura of glamorous unapproachability.
Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured so long, gathered ...
Intelligence in the cat is underrated.
The U.S. spent years and years and billions of dollars to build the Iraqi army only to watch it collapse and hand over so many ...
For what is writing besides capturing thoughts that belong to all of us, so that we can recognize ourselves, undestand ourselves, and perhaps, each other. ...
Photographer shoots Sutton in close-up, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway behind his head. The expressway was built while Sutton was in prison. God what a monstrosity, Sutton ...
And they can't understand, what hurts more - Missing the other person, or pretending not to.
Generally speaking, writers who have been at it for a while, and who are any good at it, suffer from an acute kind of self-knowledge. ...
Our stability is but balance, and conduct lies In masterful administration of the unforseen.
I have only one thing to say to the melancholy man: 'Look into the distance.' ... When you look at the stars or the ocean's ...
Oh,great.It's like we're being bussed in from the fucking projects," Aphrodite and "I'm hoping for urban renewal," Aphrodite grumbled.
In a universe of unlimited possibility and abundance, I had attracted what I was ready to receive.
If I am still doing what I'm doing and I still have respect in this town, haven't done anything completely and utterly stupid, then I'll ...
This is deeply disturbing. Congress provided loans to help businesses hurt by the Sept. 11 attacks, not to be used as an accounting gimmick to ...
Strictly by accident, Scott stumbled upon the most advanced weapon in the ultrarunner's arsenal: instead of cringing from fatigue, you embrace it. You refuse to ...
Good diet and exercise are key, but abject fear has its own rewards. And arriving on the first day for rehearsals for 'Spamalot' and seeing ...
Whenever I encountered a slide show titled 'Eight Diet Foods That Pack on the Pounds' or 'Celebrity Fashion Fails,' I'd have to stop and investigate ...
I think we'd all hate to be the one who gets declared undateable by one's entire grad-school population based on a couple of told and ...
There is unspeakable comfort in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good.
I think I subconsciously put myself in these situations where the girlfriend isn't pleased with me. I'm useless as a boyfriend. That's how I managed ...
Punctuality is closely related to faithfulness and dependability. Being tardy can be linked to uninterest, apathy, slothfulness and procrastination ...
The one awakened liberated sees all things as one unseparated.
When I had satisfied myself that no star of that kind had ever shone before, I was led into such perplexity by the unbelievability of ...
[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
Then I realized that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before we ask someone to love us. It ...
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;But do not dull thy palm with entertainmentOf each new-hatch'd, ...
It was down in Jake's old barroom Behind the Patsies' park; Jake was settin' 'em up as usual And the night was agittin' dark. At ...
I love you today. I will love you tomorrow. I will love you always. Because when we are reborn, I will fall in love with ...
England?" she said with unreserved amazement. "Why do you live in England?" "Because it is nothing like Indianapolis
Dear to us are those who love us ... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build ...
In the wealthy countries of the West, discrimination is usually a matter of unequal pay or underfunded sports teams or unwanted touching from a boss. ...
I am your husband. When you feel lonely or afraid or unhappy, it is to me you must come. My arms are here for you, ...
How do we explain such unintuitive findings? While many theories were put forth, there was one common factor that researchers recognized in all great performers: ...
We are all different and we all have a different sense of humor.
Nate and me ... we aren't built for truces, for good times, for light jokes and giggles. We're meant for the shadows. For the dirty, ...
I think unhappiness comes from unfulfilled expectations.
People who say it takes money to make money are using the worst excuse ever ... Create massive value for others by providing a solution ...
The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.
A man who would contract the mumps,' declared Cecilia, 'would do anything!' Lady Ombersley saw nothing unreasonable in this pronouncement, nor was she surprised that ...
Not a word had dropped from my lips, or from hers, that could unsettle either of us - and yet the same unacknowledged sense of ...
On girls night in we talk about dating; the ups and downs of the previous week. Our collective laughter is uncontrollable and tearful, even the ...
Troops of heroes undistinguished die.
Oh, who would choose to be a traveler? That anxious railway-guide unravelerWho spends his nights in berths and bunks,His days in chaperoning trunks;Who stands in ...
While one-half of the people of the United States are robbed of their inherent right of personal representation in this freestcountry on the face of ...
For forty years, I've worn the same Azzaro Uomo fragrance.
I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year.
It is truly bracing and instructive to contemplate the End Times - at least at safe remove, in the pages of fiction - especially as ...
Why does it happen? Why is the pain of every day translated so constantly into our dreams, in the ever-repeated scene of the unlistened-to story?
A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you.
The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident.
Courage is a value. My faith is the organizing principle in my life and what underpins my faith is courage and love, and so I ...
Social Darwinists of the day were forever on about the joys of bloody teeth and claws, but they were curiously uncelebratory of speed and deception, ...
We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming ...
She sleeps: her breathings are not heard In palace chambers far apart. The fragrant tresses are not stirr'd That lie upon her charmed heart She ...
The library is ... a university of the people, from which the students are never graduated.
Even one kid going hungry in America is one too many. How can we stand by when the reality is that there are more than ...
Information was like an aphrodisiac to Finn. Uncovering people's secrets an amusing game.
I don't eat meat because meat brings out negative qualities such as fear, anger, anxiety, aggressiveness, etc. Vegetables peacefully offer themselves to the earth when ...