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Older British observers complained, "The trouble with you Yanks is that you are overpaid, oversexed, and over here." (To which the Yanks would reply, "The ...
If you've been banging your head against a brick wall, wipe the blood off, take a couple of pain killers and try it from another ...
Faith is to fear nothing, to stand unswayed, the power to surmount any obstacle.
You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your ...
According to Margaret Mitchell, the Civil War destroyed a civilization of unsurpassable amenity, chivalry, and grace.
The Electric Monk's day was going tremendously well and he broke into an excited gallop. That is to say that, excitedly, he spurred his horse ...
He nodded them a good evening, but instead unhitched the horses and brought them back to a trough in the Market Square. When they had ...
But I was not good enough. You should understand this about me - I am not a hero; not one to tap unknown reserves of ...
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably
Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and ...
Clients do not expect the infrastructure to be any less reliable just because the service is being delivered from an offshore location; thus, the uptime ...
All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it ... Art [is] a form of active prayer.
The same way that a tiny thought in our childhood can manifest thirty years later as an anxiety disorder, one tiny thought right now can ...
It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.
UR-DIDACT: This being was not the Primordial I encountered on Charum Hakkor, but something else entirely - though it retained the Primordial's motives and thoughts ...
Compliment inflates.Blame deflates.Truth understates.
I don't talk to media or anyone before games. I just put my headphones on, turn up some hip-hop, and get in the zone.
I had found the edge. The place where you unstrap all your fastenings to the earth, to what you are what you have been, where ...
She and I would trade books, talk endlessly, drink cheap whiskey, engage in unremarkable sex. You know, the stuff of everyday.
The '90s will be looked back on as ushering in an era of comfort.
The envelope was covered with mud and unstamped. It bore the words "To be handed to M. le Vicomte Raoul de Chagny," with the address ...
It is not the nature of man, as I see it, ever to be quite satisfied with what he has in life ... Contentment tends ...
John Kerry is finding out that it is no fun to be the front runner, that's when you get all the heat. He had to ...
You should not put too much trust in any unproved conjecture, even if it has been propounded by a great authority, even if it has ...
The beauty of a society is not just in the laws upon which the society revolves, but how the society regards, upholds and obeys the ...
Was he joking? Was he being sarcastic? Aggressive? Impertinent? Or just courteous? There was no telling from his impassive face. What a country, he thought ...
I had a bet with Gordon Kane of Michigan University that the Higgs particle wouldn't be found.
Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than another? Oh, it is sad, very ...
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when ...
Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.
She bought all new underwear. She had a horror of being found dead with mended or, worse, unmended underclothes.
Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds.
They will always assume that this guy - an upcoming actor, what if he becomes a star tomorrow? He would not work with me then ...
Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to ...
She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her ...
If there is something that appears to lie beyond the natural world as it is now imperfectly understood, we hope eventually to understand it and ...
Uh oh, this guy needs coffee and croolers stat.
It was unforgiveable," I said. "But I forgive you.
Who has the right to decide that the supreme value is a world without insects even though it would be a sterile world ungraced by ...
In battle, there are not more than two methods of attackthedirect and the indirect; yet these two in combination give rise toan endless series of ...
Seem like it be a mighty hard thing to change someone's mind," he said. "Most folks won't change their mind unless they have a change ...
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but NEVER hit softly.
When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.
God made no mistakes when He created you. You were uniquely designed for success in your purpose.
Every single man hangs by a thread, a bottomless pit can open beneath him any minute, and yet he still goes on thinking up unpleasantnesses ...
I am, I fear, Inclined to be unfashionably sincere. ORONTE ...
Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that led toward the north ... As he peeked ahead into ...
The more we keep our mind on ourselves and our wants, the more unhappy we become. God wants us to love others and meet their ...
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward
For often at Church I've seen the stained high glassPour out the Virgin and Saints, twist and untwistThe mortal youth of Christ astride an ass.
The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, ...
I founded Grameen Bank to provide loans to those considered traditionally unbankable. Grameen Bank works with the poorest and often illiterate, providing uncollateralized micro-loans for ...
The clearest way to know whether you are with a poor person in America is not by the logo on the clothes, because we all ...
No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
Michael Jordan always had to wear University of North Carolina boxer shorts under his Chicago Bulls uniform.
Oh Professor, look! I think I've got an unaspected planet! Oooh, which one's that, Professor?" "It is Uranus, my dear,
Either there is a God, and that God the perfect heart of truth and loveliness, or all poetry and art is but an unsown, unplanted, ...
Government is a living organism. Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive. You hit it, it will fight ...
A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow.
Should ever anything be missed - milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy - the cat's pitched into with a boot or anything that's handy.
The daily standard of unlivability isn't news. So when the exceptional passes, everything is silent and everything continues to rot.
The body, normally, is never in question: our bodies are beyond question, or perhaps beneath question - they are simply, unquestionably, there. This unquestionability of ...
In New York, I'm around a lot of the reasons I started playing music in the first place. I live right behind Matt Umanov Guitars. ...
Certainty is the culprit. The spiritual person knows uncertainty - a state of mind unknown to the religious fanatic.
Time unslid the knot of any last ribbon of tension.
Many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem of ...
The fragrance that came to each was like a memory of dewy mornings of unshadowed sun in some land of which the fair world in ...
Believe half of what you see and only some of what you hear, unless you hear it from me.
Thus, the more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known, and conversely.
It is interesting that the worst retellings of traditional fairy tales are those that heavy-handedly take the step of making a moral point.
That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be ...
Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung.
It is not what I had planned - this day, this moment, these unlikely relationships, both old and new. Yet I feel overcome with peace ...
The Good Friday Agreement was an incredible breakthrough. But it's my view that the Hillsborough Agreement could see politics in the north come of age, ...
Have you never watched a death, reader? In slow cases like blood loss it is not so much a moment as a stretch of ambiguity ...
So I have 8 to 10 screenplays written and unproduced. And frankly, some of them are my favorite stories. I have a Western version of ...
Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
This should be agony. I should be a mass of aching muscle - broken, spent, unable to move. And, were I an older man, I ...
A few months ago, and again this week, bin Laden publicly vowed to publicly wage a terrorist war against America, saying, and I quote, "We ...
Well, Dr. Elpinoy will never admit it, but he suffers from performance anxiety-""Oh, shut up, you old cad," Elpinoy said, finally uncrossing his arms.
Feller was an ebullient man, who would rather be wrong than undecided.
Aloud she said why not you ray you were involed in this as much as the resst of uswhy is it that bud never tried ...
Our ceaseless craving for more, though it can kill us when unredeemed, may be a hint of the joy that we were made for when ...
Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.
The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.
Don't you hate that? Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable? That's when you know ...
Appreciation empowers not just money transactions, but all interactions. Gratitude is one of the greatest meditations of a lifetime, the fastest attitude uplifter I know. ...
She was incomparable in her inspired loveliness. Her arms amazed one, as one can be astonished by a lofty way of thinking. Her shadow on ...
The flight experience itself is incredible. It's addictive. It's transcendent. It is a view of the grand plan of all things that is simply unforgettable.
I have a theory that no child ever does outgrow its ungratified legitimate desires; though subsequent maturity may bring him to the point where his ...
The worry over media manipulation of photographs pales beside the threat that we will be exposed to an unedited, unvetted picture world where all images ...
When you're leading, you're generally trying to lead change, and I think it was Roy Amara, who said about technology, "We tend to overestimate the ...
'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great ...
To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
For many, life has become more about what they can't do rather than what they can do. The truth, however, is that you are far ...
Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.
When you walk around, your vision system is processing a whole bunch of signals in milliseconds and judging that a visual object is a wall, ...
And once again, only the Small Things were said. The Big Things lurked unsaid inside.