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One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn't like being ...

That was one of the saddest things about peopletheir most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.

[It] was the first time in my life I ever knew the meaning of that rare thing, tenderness. A quality different from kindliness, affectionateness, or ...

Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.

Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which ...

Infinity imagines curiosity from the wild abyss - Only the child makes a swing-set view of the worlds upside down. Unwatched truth is the enchantment ...

I know that many, if not most, women would have a problem with my acceptance of what happened with Lara. The reality is I shall ...

The cat unsheathes its clawsthe world turns

A lot of people don't trust the pitch. There's this kind of reputation it has for being untrustworthy and fickle and capricious and everything else, ...

The 'Love Undercover' series features two cops, a street rat, and a construction worker as the lead heroes.

Our age is very cheap and intelligible. Unroof any house, and you shall find it. The well-being consists in having a sufficiency of coffee and ...

He was the unloving father that I never had, but I still craved his acceptance.

Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate but rather a flame which is kept burning in spite of the winds of risk ...

Everybody who aspires to high positions of leadership in their state and in their country should be willing to take unscreened, unrehearsed questions from the ...

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. ...

But don't try to find an untroublesome woman. She will dull out on you. What makes a woman good in bed makes it impossible for ...

Chiron's brutality increased with every kill. Could a synthetic develop a thirst for bloodshed? He became sadistic. Savage. Without mercy. Ultraviolent.

We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and ...

Where's the superficial? I was, and therefore am, dim, gloomy, a drag, unfashionable, unfanciable, and awkward. This doesn't seem like superficial to me. These aren't ...

That thing about being an icon, the fifth Beatle, I just found it so freaky.

A child with an intense capacity for feeling can suffer to a degree that is beyond any degree of adult suffering, because imagination, ignorance, and ...

The unmulched garden looks to me like some naked thing which for one reason or another would be better off with a few clothes on.

Each night when she prepared for bed she smeared her face with some new unguent which she hoped illogically would give back the glow and ...

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 ...

It is impossible for Christians to lose their salvation. Everything about the nature of salvation argues for its permanency. God doesn't give and then take ...

Do fight unwinnable battles. Sometimes they're worth it.

Tremble, thou wretch,That hast within thee undivulged crimesUnwhipped of justice.

Sorrow binds us - I will always cherish you - my only disillusionment is unspoken words ...

We can choose to be truthful even when the choice means personal loss. We can choose to undertake a great action - unselfish, courageous, daringly ...

Who can explain just how he became the person he is? It does not happen this day or that one. It is a gradual evolution ...

Use a screwdriver instead of a hammer. Try to untighten the nut with your hand. Utilize the path of least resistance first.

I don't know who this quote is by but the friends that you can call at 3am are the ones that really count and I ...

... the appearance of the third and youngest would hardly have been sufficient to characterize him; there was an uncribbed, uncabined aspect in his eyes ...

He was a specialist in Feng Shui; that is to say, he was consulted as to the correct ubication and orientation of houses and temples, ...

Adam, on the other end of the boat, looked extremely unimpressed with Ronan's lack of heat tolerance. "I didn't say anything." "Whatever, man," Ronan replied. ...

He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

Maybe ... there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for unlawfully detaining 120 people. Maybe they just got carried away with last year's idea of pre-emptive ...

Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't ...

I suppose The Beautiful Woman Who Can Manipulate the World with Her Mind' is too unweildy.

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

Hate isn't like love, it doesn't end. It goes on forever. You can never get to the bottom of it. And it's so pure, so ...

To-day, I will seek not the shadowy region;Its unsustaining vastness waxes drear;And visions rising, legion after legion,Bring the unreal world too strangely near.

One of the most exciting intellectual moments of my career was my 1948 discovery of Knut Wicksell's unknown and untranslated dissertation, 'Finanztheoretische Untersuchungen,' buried in ...

Fire sat unbreathing. A life that was an apology for the life of his father: It was a notion she could understand, beyond words and ...

I have walked around the same streets so many times, and then seen a place that had been hidden to me. I now know the ...

Hearts are made of something much tougher. It's unbreakable, and you can reshape it anytime you like. Hearts are made to a secret formula.

The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright

Author wonders whether God's proclamation of His natural mastery when appearing to Job might be about restoring a sense of wonder to world-weary man as ...

I can't do this. They're going to know I'm a fraud." "Everyone's a fraud, you idiot. You'll be same as the rest of 'em. You ...

It's true there are moments - foolish moments, ecstasy on a tree stump - when I'm all but gone, scattered I like to think like ...

If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them ...

There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws ... What is the difference between the two? ... An ...

The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed, The holy bread, the food unpriced, Thy everlasting mercy, Christ.

If I Must GoIf I must go to heaven's endClimbing the ages like a stair,Be near me and forever bendWith the same eyes above me ...

Re-claim your power, don't you dare shrink your worth for someone elses glory. They'll attempt to sabotage your greatnes but it is you that will ...

The street was full of animals, milling around uncertainly. When animals are in a state of uncertainty they get nervous, and the street was already, ...

The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.

Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.

America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that ...

It is because the human experience is universal that human rights are universal.

As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, ...

Faced with unmeasurables, people steer their way by magic.

Oh my God, Kennedy Airport - what a mess - all over you with those dopey security questions. 'Did you receive any gifts from any ...

Find calmness in storms. Find beauty in ugliness. Find peace in the midst of war. Now expand it. Only people with a higher consciousness can ...

The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish people are colourless. They lack individuality.

Private-sector firms are increasingly active in the prison industry and they and the militantly unionized correctional officers, almost all unskilled labor, constantly lead public demands ...

From all around came very faintly a low sad hum, as the unhoused bees mourned.

Mother: "I couldn't stand his friends from medical school. They were all pompous and awkward. They knew how to memorize but they didn't know how ...

The persistence of unpowered studies in psychological research: Causes, consequences, and remedies,

It is in the perfect union of two hearts that complete and total marriage consists.

I didn't apply to any colleges - I lied to all my friends and told them I was going to UCSD, because all their parents ...

Continual improvement is an unending journey

Sometimes I like her calm, unwild, gentle as a sleeping child,and wonder as she lies, a fur ring,curled upon my lap, unstirring is it me ...

My greatest wish is to write in such a manner that all may think they have written it themselves.

I know too well how slowly we edge along sideways to every thing good & brilliant in our lives & how casually and unobservedly we ...

Kindness Day? Kindness Day? Do you suppose if we were kind and enthusiastic for centuries uninterruptedly, that someone would create 'Nasty, Indifferent Day'?

The best thing I've ever heard another player say is, 'I hate playing against you.'

Therefore tremble, O man, at any power thou hast, except thou usest it for God. Art thou strong in body; who hath thy strength? God, ...

Her forehead was unlined in the way of the recently embalmed and her smile resembled that of someone undergoing electroshock.

Sustainability at Nike means being laser-focused on evolving our business model to deliver profitable growth while leveraging the efficiencies of lean manufacturing, minimizing our environmental ...

Ultimo hombre. Last man standing, must've been one. Where'd he go?

Early Menstruation renders the Uteri Hard & dry; so that they ought not to prompt the early appearance by obscene books, and frequent touchings.

So it is with statistics; no amount of fancy analysis can make up for fundamentally flawed data. Hence the expression garbage in, garbage out.

After the Second World War, San Francisco was the main point of re-entry for sailors returning from the Pacific. Out at sea, many of these ...

Loneliness does not come from being alone, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important.

People in the eastern regions [of Ukaraine] are talking about federalisation, and Kiev has at long last started talking about de-centralisation. Order in the country ...

Everyone has their opinion and everyone loves it. Nobody wants to accepts others opinion. So to make them happy be diplomatic and speak unclearly, let ...

It's like killing roaches. You have to kill 'em all ... Otherwise, what's the use?

There's a lot of terminology, like "washes whiter than snow," and these things which when they're said in a uniracial congregation, they just go fine. ...

I didn't go out shooting for anybody in particular because I shot for everybody unparticular. I make records for Muslims, Christians, rock 'n roll kids, ...

An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a man ...

There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals.

Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation; and our attitude ...

There are almost unlimited possibilities for making discoveries and to uncover the unknown. It is in the nature of the discovery that it can not ...

I never saw true beauty till this night.

He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the ...

God made her a giving person, and even in this house of people who could be so hateful and hard, her one skill, she knew, ...

Some people come to you because if you're in their movie, it'll help them raise money. And some people come to you because they think ...

Our soul lives in Peace and lives for Peace. If we live a life of peace, we are ever enriched and never impoverished. Unhorizoned is ...

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.