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As though I had been going steadily downhill, imagining that I was going uphill. So it was in fact. In public opinion I was going ...

If you want to upgrade your circle of influence, it begins with upgrading yourself.

Breaking up is like unsticking your fingers after you've Superglued them. Love's the glue and no matter how slow and carefully you separate, you're going ...

I've never met all these people you speak of. And neither, I suspect, have you. They only exist in words we hear. It is folly ...

I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.

The current practice of extending U.S. citizenship to hundreds of thousands of 'anchor babies' must end because it creates a magnet for illegal immigration into ...

The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.

I'm urgin all daughters to kiss their mothers with those lips that all that lipstick covers. You never too grown up to miss and hug ...

I remember a little dispersed band of unfamiliar faces that surreptitiously turned around, now and then, to see who was coughing.

In the meantime, I had to get dressed and go to work, because going to work in my pajamas was apparently the definition of unprofessional. ...

A day merely survived is no cause for celebration.

You can be killed just as dead in an unjustified war as you can in one protecting your own home.

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

You're being prejudiced, McGoo. Even unnaturals want love.

I mean, you can't have sex until you're married if you're Mormon. The first time I had sex, my parents found out. They were listening ...

They always always understimate women

The book was thick and red. It was almost thicker than it was wide, a thickness that somehow enhanced its bookishness. It was - to ...

With your spirit open and unconstricted, look at things from a high point of view.

I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.

I am told that our chroniclers' practice of inventing speeches for great persons whose lives they write is unscholarly.

Unweaving the Rainbow

Doing more of what doesn't work doesn't work.

The issue of animal use and abuse can seem insurmountable, it is tragic and it is complex. We love our companion animals and we value ...

Companies that model best practices, that model the most upstanding principles, end up as the most profitable. It's not a trade of profits versus principles.

We are the unhealthiest species on the Earth without exception.

The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying.

The Asian brand, which I admire for having become a global success, is Samsung. In comparison, we're just starting, but I believe that we at ...

You are Younique! Build your unicity, live your uniquity and unleash your uniqueness.

Remember what I said. There's always a lot of autobiography in fiction and fiction in autobiography. It has to be that way otherwise they'd be ...

In the heat of battle, heroes emerge, sometimes from the most unlikely of sources.

Whoever wants to hide a big scandal is best to stage a small one

Eddie made a half-turn in his seat to face her. "So, what did you think of our hosts?" She chuckled. "I think they could be ...

Wage war against the weaker thoughts that have crept into the palace of your mind. They will see that they are unwanted and leave like ...

Unhealthy eating habits cause major health problems, such as diabetes and heart disease, and can also lead to food insecurity, disrupted eating patterns, and low ...

Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's ...

Wisdom is for statues. Humor uncaps our inhibitions, unleashes our energies, seals friendships, patches hurts. Laughing is probably the most alive you can be.

Trouble just seems to come my way-unbidden, unwelcome, unneeded.

The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral.

The mother of goodwill is freewill, if untainted by evil.

One uproar after another, every day. Like the whole world's turned upside down. Don't you feel bad that you're missing out? The world isn't that ...

It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.

But then comes a time when forgetting isn't possible. And I do mean a particular time when no amount of dreaming, not then and maybe ...

You're a good kid, darlin'. A good, sweet kid. Promise me you'll stay that way, yeah? No matter what you see, no matter what sort ...

I hope this serves as a light for others who come into the league as undrafted players.

Spirituality is a mixed-up, topsy-turvy, helter-skelter godliness that turns our lives into an upside-down toboggan ride of unexpected turns, surprise bumps and bone shattering crashes ...

General uncivility is the very essence of love.

He didn't think she could stand touching and untouching him again. The next time she ripped herself away, she'd lose some skin.

Life is all about Ass. You're either covering it, laughing it off, kicking it, kissing it, bursting it, or trying to get a piece of ...

Each individual should work for himself. People will not sacrifice themselves for the company. They come to work at the company to enjoy themselves.

When those blades cut, they cause tears that feed the well of Urdr that lies beside the world tree, and the well gives the water ...

In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.

The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.

We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can't relax with how things really are, or we can relax and ...

Ambivalence is like carbon monoxide - undetectable yet deadly.

It is serving God and others persistently with full heart and soul that turns testimony of truth into unbreakable spiritual strength.

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all ...

Hence Joshua giggled to himself: life appeared to him exactly like the joint burning inexorably toward his fingertips - once it's smoked it cannot be ...

New York is a great place to be as an unrepresented actor because there are so many 'open auditions' that you can show up for ...

The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage; A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise In open victory o'er ...

I'm not going to star in every one of my movies. But I'm telling you [pounds fists] what I will bring to this film industry ...

Ways have to be found to maintain university research untramelled by requirements of forecasting application or usefulness.

Banning paper and plastic and making shoppers carry their groceries home in their mouths like dogs is just the thing to make a little tin ...

And why couldn't someone just FedEx him Urien's head?

Reality is unforgivingly complex.

And Dunbar points out that in our ultrasocial species, success is largely a matter of playing the social game well. It's not what you know, ...

I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the ...

It turns out that if you're a 24-year-old whose only line on their resume says CEO, you are totally unemployable.

Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobsno regular hours, so many temptations!

Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a little weak? When ...

My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.

Isn't antimatter what fuels the U.S.S.Enterprise?

She would never again lie in bed on a Good Friday morning and relax in the blissful knowledge that there was nothing to do and ...

It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.

Gabriel could anticipate Uncle Dave and Uncle Junior's traditional wedding reception speech, entitled "If you hurt our girl, we will whip your ass." Only this ...

I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguay's dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about ...

War stories deal in death. War illuminates love, while love is the greatest expression of hope, without which any story rings untrue to life. And ...

I made a point when I made the Ugly Casanova record to not write a song and then say, 'This is a Modest Mouse song' ...

So it wasn't actually that bad, it took a couple of weeks to sort of get used to uh, you know, standing around and pretending ...

I felt like love has been underrepresented - unironic love, just actually really falling in love.

They were both poles apartOne a ready masterpieceAnother an unfinished art...

How Gloomy it is, to pause, to cease and to rust unburn, to get used and be indistinct. Like to live is to breathe.

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

With a clipped slash of his arm, Lucien knocked her hat. The ultrafashionable Anya sported uneven bangs and layers that hung sloppily around her face. ...

In the space beyond was Hedra Ka. A cracking scab of a planet, choked with storms and veins of lava. A mist of rocks floated ...

Given that the label "immigrant literature" is already established, unavoidable for anyone with a migrant background and used in any given context, I strongly advocate ...

The United States came within a whisker of invading Utah in 1858 and starting a civil war three years before the Civil War. Because the ...

Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's ...

Pride divides us way more than uni es us.

The spontaneous expansion of the Church reduced to its elements is a very simple thing ... What is necessary is faith. What is needed is ...

I used to feel like I was waiting for someone to discover me, to 'produce' me, like Lana Turner at the drugstore. Utlimately I realized ...

One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences.

And then something happened. It was a fragment of time, a breath of time. It was like being in a car in pouring rain and ...

People are our greatest asset .

The Lord help us!' he soliloquised in an undertone of peevish displeasure, while relieving me of my horse: looking, meantime, in my face so sourly ...

We live in community, and we're created in community. We're created out of the unity of two people, and then we're made into a family. ...

In Parliament a fellow MP whispered to him that his trousers were unfastened. "It makes no difference," Winston replied wryly. "The dead bird doesn't leave ...

Of lunacy,Innumerous were the causes; humbled pride,Ambition disappointed, riches lost,And bodily disease, and sorrow, oftBy man inflicted on his brother man;Sorrow, that, made the reason ...

For unbelievers, at the final judgment, there will not be one drop of mercy, only perfect justice-so much sin, so much wrath.

The secret heart is fair devotion's temple; there the saint, even on that living altar, lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which burns unseen, not ...

I'm a good observer. And I have enough experience with unfulfilling relationships ... I can recognize them a mile away.