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Here I am thirty-four years old, and yet my life is almost wholly unexpanded. How much time is in the germ! There is such an ...
My hands are out of practice, my eyes disused. Most of what I do is drawing, because the preparation of the surface, the laborious underpainting ...
I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio ...
Whether I'm in London, Sydney or Hong Kong, it makes no difference. There is always someone who knows me. I must be one of the ...
For a very long time, Viviane and Jack lived in that world people inhabit before love. Some people called that place friendship; others called it ...
When people say things like "don't let this moment pass without acting on gun control," what they're really saying is our arguments are so unpersuasive ...
As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them ...
Mankind is unamendable.
Humans don't leap buildings. Stuntmen with harnesses do. And won't my crashing eight stories to the ground be detrimental to the mission? The dark elves ...
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck, it is a very unfortunate situation for the batting team. ...
Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. -Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo ...
Writing a novel, in an unplanned and unpredictable way, makes you engaged; it takes you into yourself, and it becomes something between you and the ...
Here is unfenced existence
I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and ...
To laugh is to live profoundly ... The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness, that delectable trance of ...
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 ...
She looked at him and smiled. She placed her hand upon his shoulder.He took her right hand in his left and placed his other at ...
After a bath, I like to use Jo Wood Organics Usiku Body Oil. It mositurises my skin without leaving it greasy.
There's little need to invest in the comprehensive instrumentation of the urban fabric with sensors, device controllers or informational displays when people themselves are already ...
He seemed unburdened now, more willing to simply grab onto life and go for a ride.
Happiness needs one-upmanship.
All the while moving the idea of home three more modulations deeper into unspinning space
Thoughts! what are they? They are my constant friends, who, when harsh fate its dull brow bends, uncloud me with a smiling ray, and in ...
If one desires to have the body type of, say, a champion swimmer, the best course is to start by having the same parents as ...
What good's a black face if it means I'm just someone else's property? Why give me these arms and legs just to carry someone else's ...
I never can see why they make such a fuss and get so frightened because wimmen does a thing or two now they usedn't to. ...
The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.
When I need to be precise about a plant, I use its Latin name, even if my nongardening friends sometimes look at me a little ...
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 ...
The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate ...
You don't have to be emaciated or vomiting to be suffering. All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering.
When he decided they weren't police, he realized he'd been thinking maybe they were.
It is amazing that, though I am small and ungifted and barely educated, even I can appreciate the scale of the universe. And from this ...
Your cable television is experiencing difficulties. Please do not panic. Resist the temptation to read or talk to loved ones. Do not attempt sexual relations, ...
I began drawing when I was nearly 3, and after finishing the sixth grade, I left school to paint and was tutored at home. My ...
Custom is the lord of everything, of mortals and immortals king. High violence it justifies, with hand uplifted plundering.
Blue fire ran along the blade. With the Goddess's commanding pose and a flaming sword in hand, she resembled angel Uriel.
Of course, I'm referring to the original. With Gene Wilder. Not the lame re-make with Depp. I like Depp. Don't get me wrong. However, that ...
Of course, if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened ... but people like to keep what's theirs, even after their ...
Not unseated,Not even touchedBy the shocks of sickness,Gods stand worlds from men.
It is always helpful to us to fix our attention on the God-ward aspect of Christian work; to realise that the work of God does ...
A government that does not trust it's law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms is itself unworthy of trust.
When I had jobs, I was always doing manual jobs because I couldn't think. I worked at the docks, unloading trucks, and did ridiculous jobs.
Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, stompled, selfishism, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean.
The paradox is that God must destroy in us, all illusions of righteousness before he can make us righteous
Respond kindly even to unkind treatment.Respond prudently even to imprudent treatment.Respond justly even to unjust treatment.The world surrenders to an enlightened mind.The stars surrender to ...
The angles evenDraw strength from gazing on its glance,Though none its meaning fathom may;The world's unwither'd countenanceIs bright as at creation's day.
Be unrelenting. If you don't believe, then who will?
A shocking ultimatum is issued; choose the victim or it defaults to someone you hold dear. And she has just minutes to decide. As each ...
And it had come from God, she was certain, for He answered most of her prayers that way. Unobtrusively. Quietly.
You asked me how old I am. I was born roughly nine centuries ago. I've lived for more than three hundred thousand days. And you ...
Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the ...
The road to the next level is always uphill, and if a team isn't intentionally fighting to move up, then it inevitably slides down.
He who wears unclean garments, has dirty teeth, is a glutton, speaks unkindly and sleeps after sunrise - although he may be the greatest personality ...
When you have an intense contact of love with nature or another human being, like a spark, then you understand that there is no time ...
There's only so much you can do until you get on set and see the aesthetics of what you're dealing with. Then you see what ...
The most painful love there is, is the love left unshownA love that cannot be expressed, affection left unknownThe love that withholds touching,afraid of what ...
On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being shot: as Keram ...
Everything is your fault. You made me fall in love with you, and now I'm so upset I can't think or sleep or eat.
How very ... underhanded of him to hide these chiseled abs and dizzying obliques with suits. Steve-o had been holding out on her.
A thousand words blossomed to her lips and died there, because no amount of speaking could communicate the depths of how he'd affected her. Of ...
When Edd caught sight of the ragged band of wildlings, he pursed his lips and gave the giant a long look. "Might need some butter ...
My stomach is rather content, now that I think about it. 'Tis my mind that is starving.
The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all ...
If you think you're going to create an unposed photograph, think again. There is no such thing.
Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' usquebae, we'll face the devil!
Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.
Why do British people make such good TV? It's so annoying. Stop it. Is it because they have free health care? Uggh.
I sleep and unsleep.
A lean cheek, - a blue eye, and sunken, - an unquestionable spirit, - a beard neglected:- Then your hose should be ungartered, your bonnet ...
Courage is defined by how we meet unfortunat circumstances - inevitable or not.
It is always possible to improve.
What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot enter into that: ...
Governments don't protect people, people protect governments.""Order is organic, it can't just be ordered up.""The more complexity, the more unpredictability and therefore the more uncontrollability. ...
I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or ...
I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the ...
In the two million years during which we climbed from stone-tool-wielding Homo erectus with sloping brows to high-foreheaded Homo urbanis - man, the inventor of ...
He unclenched his fists and dropped her worries, unable to catch them for her. But she picked them back up and dusted them off. She ...
Worry is unnecessary weight on the mind;replace it with hope.Fear is unneeded weight on the heart;substitute it with love.Hate is undesirable weight on the soul;supplant ...
My whole life feels undeclared.
My favourite book - 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford, which I have read about 20 times - is different from my favourite author, ...
We cannot resolve the problems of the world by unsing the same techniques that have created them.
You know, those unboxing videos you see everywhere on YouTube. They are the epitome of consumerist fetishism.
They moved in dance steps too intricate for the noninitiated eye to imitate or understand. Clearly they were of one soul. Handsome, rangy, wildly various, ...
Donald has a deep and unbounding determination and a never-give-up attitude. I have seen him fight for years to get a project done - or ...
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President ...
Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.
LUCK is a word used by people who did not take action when greatest opportunities were presented. They use it to describe the success of ...
Above all I needed to be made to think about what it meant that I was a woman, instead of acting unreflectingly as though I ...
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 ...
God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.
A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion; he may be learning not ...
Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record.
One of the things the 'Tao of Travel' shows is how unforthcoming most travel writers are, how most travelers are. They don't tell you who ...
In the same way that individual women are often underestimated, a movement of women is also understimated, but the truth is that, if people realize ...
I always leave a box of unsalted almonds in my house. A handful of those are a good snack that should keep you satisfied.
I understand Neverfell, you see. For Neverfell, it is as if other people are part of her. When she believes they are in pain, it ...
A cloak of darkness she wove about them when Melkor and Ungoliant set forth: an Unlight,
I really don't over-theorize about design. I'd rather feel it than talk it to death. A lot happens as you unroll the design.
Nothing makes sense, not that much of the world ever did." Quote from the book: "UnHoly Pursuit: The Devil on My Trail.