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Being able to do exactly as one pleases is the surest way to remain perpetually unpleased.
I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable
Usura slayeth the child in the womb It stayeth the young man's courting It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bride and ...
It is your own bad strategies, not the unfair opponent, that are to blame for your failures. You are responsible for the good and bad ...
It happened to me just this year with a beautiful boy I started hanging out with. Call me a hormonal teenager if you want, but ...
We cannot change God. God is unchangeable. If changes are to be made, they must be made in us.
Thou shalt not unfollow someone, merely because they stopped following you.
If somebody is acting maladjusted - which means not happy to be at Rikers - the protocol, as I understand it and have been told ...
The strategy of buying what's in favor is a fool's errand, ensuring long-term underperformance. Only by standing against the prevailing winds - selectively, but resolutely ...
The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God's mercy!
In the very progress of society, the prison has in the very nature of things undergone some improvement, but there are vast stretches yet to ...
When people feel like, 'Lenders weren't fair with me; I don't have any responsibility to be fair with them.' If we go far enough down ...
Creation, in all its splendor and misery, in all the beauty and ugliness of its myriad forms, is how God manifests His presence in time. ...
Don't live so that your children go unled because of habits that leave you uninspired.
Yesterday is but a memory, Tomorrow an uncharted course, So live today so it will be a memory without remorse.
Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfullfilled potential.
I always say if I'm not good at something it's just because I've not had time to focus on it ... it's just uncrafted, like ...
Jessie Wallace was the first time I erupted. She was late, she was young. She's not like that any more. I lost my temper. It ...
In the 80s there weren't so many bands around and nowadays there are a lot more bands around. I think sometimes there are too many ...
Socialized medicine, some still cry, but it's long been socialized, with those covered paying for those who are underinsured. American medicine is simply socialized badly, ...
I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver ...
Jelly-bean is the name throughout the undissolved Confederacy for one who spends his life conjugating the verb to idle in the first person singular- - ...
Museums collect what's important in their respective countries. In Berlin's National Gallery, however, this isn't the case. They're interested neither in me nor the other ...
Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thoughtand ...
If the student truly absorbs the concept of free inquiry in the field of music, unimpeded by blind adherence to doctrine and tradition, he will ...
The last thing the hockey ball symbolized was Time itself, the unstoppability of it, the way we're chained to our bodies, which are chained to ...
Disneyworld ... is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is ...
The root of an unmortified course is the digestion of sin without bitterness in the heart.
I have tried to understand what crucifixion must feel like. I just know that the pain must be beyond what I have ever experienced. I ...
Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the ...
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
Everything good in New York used to be something awful, I guess.""And everything awful used to be something good.
Jessie was trying to read science fiction but nothing she read so far could begin to match ordinary life on this planet, she said, for ...
Once, words had rendered Liesel useless, but now, when she sat on the floor, with the mayor's wife at her husband's desk, she felt an ...
My first movie was totally improvised.
"Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is elan, esprit de ...
There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African underTutustanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as ...
What is required after a glimpse of awakening is radical honesty, a willingness to look at how we unenlighten ourselves, how we bring ourselves back ...
Obama Talks to Auto-Worker's Union [10w] "We shall increase auto-industry employmentby using live crash-test dummies.
Make sure knowledge flowing in proportions, underflow is pathetic, overflow is even more!
Suffering isn't a moral endowment. People don't always do well under duress, and it seemed to me to be truer to a fellow in that ...
How do you press a wildflower into the pages of an e-book?
A Stiff, the first to jump? Unheard of." "There's a reason why she left them, Lauren," he says. His voice is deep, and it rumbles.
I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with ...
Get stuffed, don't you have more publicity stunts to pull?" Bones shot back. "How about chatting with another writer who can smear your name into ...
The history of technology tells us that inventions are two a penny. There are many, many people who invent new things: machines, processes, tools, gizmos, ...
The cab took them past other libraries and townhouses, then the redbrick walls of Keble College with their zigzag patterns, which looked ridiculous and spoke, ...
Well, sounding wise wasn't difficult. It was a lot easier than being intelligent, actually, since you didn't have to say anything surprising or come up ...
[She] is one of those young ladies who seek to recommend themselves to the other sex by undervaluing their own, and with many men, I ...
Till the time u dont value urslf , the world wont take a step ahead ! Thinking matters !
Love is a universe of its own, comprising all time and space.
Some things You have to let be lost Some battles, some battles You have to leave unfought. Then the truth just wastes away In all ...
There's a feeling of elation that comes after getting off stage and then there's a feeling of utter sadness that comes after getting off the ...
President Bush got an early Christmas gift. This week, President Bush was chosen as 'Person of the Year' by Time magazine. Not only that, Martha ...
Are you going to be playing for the pure thrill of unreluctant desire?
I had to get comfortable with uncomfortable thoughts, worry, and doubt. To expect uncompromised happiness was as unreasonable as looking for solutions at the bottom ...
To clarify, *add* data.
I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional ...
Free people can treat each other justly, but they can't make life fair. To get rid of the unfairness among individuals, you have to exercise ...
Thwart," I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person.""I'm pretty sure that isn't the definition." ...
Jean-Marie Le Pen is a holocaust denier who was convicted and fined for dismissing Nazi concentration camps as a, quote, "Detail in History." But he ...
The perosn who doesn't make mistakes is unlikely to make anything.
Be still. In that focus, all else comes into focus. In that rift in my routine, the universe falls into alignment.
The spouse of Christ cannot be defiled; she is uncorrupted and chaste.
There are only two kinds of Wodehouse readers, those who adore him and those who have never read him.
Unexpected gifts were better accepted when they were presented by total strangers, I had learnt.
He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he ...
Overestimating the intelligence of the enemy is, if anything, more dangerous than underestimating it.
Dancer, bride, runaway wife, radical filmmaker and pioneer - Shirley Clarke is one of the great undertold stories of American independent cinema.
Long ago, after a bad fall, her father had explained that only fools were fearless. We meet rear, he'd said. We greet the unexpected visitor ...
The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.
Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
Every man is eloquent once in his life.
Lady Liberty has an unacceptable history.
What you will encounter is 'grace unmeasured, vast and free' the kind that will frighten and free you at the same time. That's what grace ...
Deep in the Underthing, stones warm beneth her feet, Auri heard a faint, sweet strain of music.
Peaches found herself wondering if Mary, a tiny brunette with an unprepossessing manner and less than 'stellar' work ethics, had to play Where's Waldo to ...
The core of the seen and unseen universe smiles, but remember smiles come best from those who weep. Lightning, then the rain-laughter.
An eye-jangling assortment of spurious clan tartans, adorning every conceivable object made of fabric, from caps, neckties, and serviettes down to a particularly horrid yellow ...
Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's risingI came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing.To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking:Now ...
RE: GSEs like Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae: "creditors will continue to underprice the risk-taking of these financial institutions, overfund them, and fail to provide ...
We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live ...
What's interesting about Twitter is the unmediatedness of it, the directness of it. I'm on a train somewhere in New York and I send out ...
I can see you, out there, reading between the lines. Come home, stranger. Come home, untangler of my thoughts. Come home and tell me, what ...
If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th' All-giver would ...
I was shocked into the realization that I myself had played an unwitting role as a movie star and sex symbol in perpetrating the stereotypes ...
Every time you turn on your new car, you're turning on 20 microprocessors. Every time you use an ATM, you're using a computer. Every time ...
Genius ... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
Killing the dog does not cure the bite.
I was terrified when my doctor told me that I had a unique and interesting personality trait, but then he told me about new Zoloft ...
Love is giving your kids your undivided attention and time
Last-ditch option for orphans and underweight babies, packaged infant formula has since been perfected to be a complete and reliable source of stress and shame ...
O, in the solitude of those mountains I feel free, free as the air, like a light blasting unharnessed through space. A thousand cities, a ...
To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking, 'Why not? Why can't something be done?' If someone can't give me a good reason ...
Punctured, utterly deflated, he dropped into a chair and, covering his face with his hands, began to weep. A few minutes later, however, he thought ...
It would be helpful if we opened up ANWR. I think it's a mistake not to. And I would urge you all to travel up ...
Balding is nature's way of getting rid of your third eye's unibrow.
I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know ...
But it seems to me that, as it is usually presented, the current orthodoxy about the cosmic order is the product of governing assumptions that ...
I haven't been around here for long. Well ... actually, I haven't been around anywhere for long. I don't know who I am, or what ...