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Most people who do a lot of exercise, particularly in the form of competitive athletics, have unneurotic, extraverted, optimistic personalities to begin with. (Marathon runners ...
Much water goeth by the millThat the miller knoweth not of.
We became acutely aware of the profound healing that is needed in our species. We knew with conviction that what we were doing, as women ...
The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If we're lucky, we ...
In the quiet spaces opened up by the prolonged, undistracted reading of a book, people made their own associations, drew their own inferences and analogies, ...
I'm just a stalker.
Life is always full of surprises. We have our ups and downs, but the biggest pleasure is enjoying the ups to keep us going.
She doesn't even know how to kill things properlike? What kind of girl have you given me to, goddess?" Vic protested, fixing his eye on ...
There is often seen this anomaly in women, especially in those of childish natures,that they possess at once great promptness and unskilfulness in falsehood.
For are we not, all of us, wand'rers and strangers; and do we not, all of us, travel in danger or voyage uncharted seas?
I said: 'A line will take us hours maybe;Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought,Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
In relation to the way in which I look upon the works of God and his creatures, I will say that I was naturally begotten; ...
Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death we human beings all live in an unwalled city.
I'll disappear in the fog as a foreigner to all life, as a human island detached from the dream of the sea, as a uselessly ...
The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this.
Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
As ridiculous to approve of property and let a few men have a grossly unfair share of it, as say you are all for marriage, ...
So in Scotland witches used to raise the wind by dipping a rag in water and beating it thrice on a stone, saying: "I knok ...
The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended.
The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what's ...
Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
God was just and that the head of the state in Egypt wielded his power fairly. If God deprived a child of family or wealth, ...
Sign your work ... If you're not proud of it, don't ship it. If you are, sign your work and own the results. We'll know ...
[O]ur English divines are sounder in it than any in the world, generally: I think because they are more practical, and have had more wounded, ...
I've gone through a really hard divorce, and anyone who has gone through a divorce will speak about how hard the journey is from start ...
On Thursday, a passenger forced his way into the cockpit of a United Airlines flight from Miami, but was subdued after the co-pilot hit him ...
Up to that point I never really knew what my character would be expected to do, and prior to accepting the job I had actually ...
One thing both my parents agree on is this: if people are doing something unfair, it's part of our job to remind them what's fair, ...
Cyphus bears the blue flame. Stercus is in thrall of iron. Ferule chill and dark of eye. Usnea lives in nothing but decay. Grey Dalcenti ...
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual ...
We pay a subsidy. Money coming over the border, they're - there are so many ways that Mexico makes money with us, Bob. There are ...
The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.
The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie often the unfoldings ...
No way am I letting you mess around in my brain. You might incinerate it."I rolled my eyes. "Like you'd even miss it.""Ha, ha.
All of the films I'm doing are young, urban, high-concept, funny films. That's the zone where I'd like to play and have fun in.
Bill and Hillary Clinton have one central idea in their uncluttered, ambitious minds: Hillary in 2008. Let Bush get re-elected, use the '04 primaries and ...
Newcastle need a chief scout who is in unicism with the management
On production floors and in corporate offices, sociological verbiage has replaced a basic understanding of human behavior.
An unused weapon is a danger to its owner, as much as to others.
North whipped around to stare at her. For a moment, his expression was ureadable. And then ... he smiled. It was warm-unexpectedly warm-and it made ...
I dont wanna see you again. B'coz U'r the one left me here ... but, what to do ... You are always just crossing ... ...
You want to marry me?" Xavier asked, and I saw some faces turn toward u in curiosity. "I was thinking we'd start slow and see ...
Magic intensifies and concentrates passions, strengthening not only joy, but ruinous passions as well, and in this way they may become obsessions, and unbearable unless ...
An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an undeniable ...
Are you staying with us? It could be dangerous,' said William, realizing that he was saying this to a vampire iconographer who undied every time ...
I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian.
I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.
The challenge of ultrarunning is 90 percent mental, and the other 10 percent is all in our heads
All of my books have an element of a man who is in love with somebody and needs them desperately, not just for procreation but ...
In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be that ...
I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.'
But now what? Is this a ticket to a new understanding of my life, or a bomb that's going to blow up everything?Consider one more ...
Love is love when it has not been pronounced.So, very loud.Petra HermansSeptember 16, 2016Amen
The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.
People don't realize where unsweet tea came from. During the war they had to ration sugar, so then everybody just had to drink bitter tea, ...
The sanatorium itself was charming, a group of cabins in the woods, a place for overworked urbanites to feel pleasantly melancholic. A slackertorium.
I love that song 'I Could Have Danced All Night' from 'My Fair Lady' so much. I love that song because watching it as a ...
One of the privileges of being an athlete is that on days when I have practice and games, I'm present whether I'm present or not. ...
Naturepitiless in a pitiless universeis certainly not concerned with the survival of Americans or, for that matter, of any of the two billion people now ...
Performing the commonplace under uncommonplace conditions.
To most Americans, a dog is a potential mate. To some Chinese, a dog is potential meat.
I prithee gentle friend, Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passions, swayIn this uncivil and unjust extentAgainst thy peace.
Unhealthy relationships are most commonly lacking in the most essential of ingredient: healthy communication.
Did I collect baseball cards? I've got 10 books full of plastic in my mother's house. All the Upper Decks, the Fleers, the Fleer Ultras. ...
Obedience unlocks God's power.
Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a ...
My advice to you, if you want to lose a bit of weight: don't eat anything that comes in a bucket. Buckets are the kitchen ...
The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or ...
We realise our existence is confined to our being. Our demise makes not a whit difference to the world around us, nor to the scheme ...
I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten ...
There are a lot of things in the world that are unexplainable - love at first sight, vegetable pizza, and potpourri, for instance. But I ...
The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background, ...
I miss New York. I still love how people talk to you on the street - just assault you and tell you what they think ...
There are currently more political parties in Iraq than unbombed buildings to hold them.
But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust.
I enjoy writing alone, naked and unbothered.
When YOU Say YOU Love Me, I Don't Hear With My Ears Or Read YOUR Lips As I Already Know That By Looking In YOUR ...
If, through some kind of reincarnation, it were possible to be reborn as Ushikawa's clothing, with a guarantee of rare glory in the next rebirth, ...
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It ...
Travel for me is all about transformation, and I'm fascinated by those people who really do come back from a trip unrecognizable to themselves and ...
If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.
The difference between style and fashion is quality.
Stillness alone is the potentiality for creativity; movement alone is creativity restricted to a certain aspect of its expression. But the combination of movement and ...
We are all bound thither; we are hastening to the same common goal. Black death calls all things under the sway of its laws.[Lat., Tendimus ...
Those dull, unmusterious city unemployables, dressed in their grey, secondhand suits.
Program your life the way you want it to be: don't waste the unuse energy that lodges in the matrix of your soul. You are ...
Plan your taxes, DO NOT avoid any taxes. Tax authorities have evolved and are using information technology to collect and analyze the data and also ...
In 1938, I. G. Farben sent a letter to (a major drug firm), one of its American subsidiaries, (that)..all advertising contracts must contain ' ... ...
Christians are notorious for acting like used car salesmen, treating non-Christians as if they're standing there holding a blank check and sporting a hard-on for ...
Gilgamesh said to him, to Utnapishtim the remote,What can I do, Utnapishtim? Where can I go?A thief has stolen my flesh.Death lives in the house ...
We are attracted to people who have traits we want in ourselves, and usually we are unattracted to people with traits that we share.
The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, An appetite; a feeling and a ...
It's amazing how I can just ramble on for hours, isn't it? And so unentertaining or uninteresting. But I can ramble on for hours. It's ...
A journey to Thousand miles begins with one step
A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.
When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent.
Technology should be used to create unforgettable experiences that enhance our natural and built environments, transforming them in newly meaningful ways.
No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be ...
If two people are so unalike, as you and I, they are pleased when they discover points of agreement. But if they are as alike ...