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Tea. He watched her while she made it, made it, of course, all wrong: the water not on the boil, the teapot unheated, too few ...

Sometimes I couldn't help thinking that the unluckiest thing about being the thirteenth child was having all those older brothers and sisters telling me what ...

Voltaire was also there, fleeing a royal arrest warrant, and working as a kind of one-man eighteenth-century USO show during the siege, offering bons mots ...

A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.

I often hear them accuse Israel of Judaizing Jerusalem. That's like accusing America of Americanizing Washington, or the British of Anglicizing London. You know why ...

When I got tired of going to school, I was kind of overqualified for a lot of jobs. Kind of underqualified for a lot of ...

As they headed across the hospital lobby, undersheriff Mathieson came in the door at a run. Seth thought about hiding. He thought about stuffing Becca ...

Doing what you can to move your part of the world closer to the way it should be, while never losing sight of the way ...

You are my white angel of hope at the golden gate of glory.

When i love, it happens almost all at once.it is inconsiderate, unrefined -a child screeching in a supermarketit's a thunderclap.it is a small village blackout.it ...

Women are more than half of our globe, more than half of our promise and potential. And we have been not only underusing that resource ...

Preparation:allows you to prevent ... the intensity of the ordeal.

Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies ...

We achieved our mission to the moon. Let's look home from that lofty perch and reimagine our mission on Earth - that is what we ...

I have the ugliest feet in the world. But even if I didn't dance, they would still be ugly. My toes are too big!

What does it take to be a great social chronicler? Perhaps one of the key attributes is an understanding of what it feels like to ...

My heart is a weatherballoon caught in an updraft of a chinese tax percentage, the tax percentages are unequivocaaaaaaaaaal, Unequivocaaaaaaaaal. This is the sort of ...

The more resistance you experience, the more important your unmanifested art/project/enterprise is to you - and the more gratification you will fell when you finally ...

Daymark asks the right question. So we get it right the first time. We didn't want to overbuy or underbuy. They understood our business and ...

I like Plutarch because I've read him forever, and I know that he's incredibly funky, even though his mainstream image is as Mr. Unfunky.

If it be true that God and man are in one image or likeness (and the affirmation that they are so is not unplausible) then ...

Perhaps I occasionally sought to give, or inadvertently gave, to the student a sense of battle on the intellectual battlefield. If all you do is ...

When I helped to develop the open standards that computers use to communicate with one another across the Net, I hoped for but could not ...

Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of ...

Well, I'm an uncle now ... don't know if I'm a good one. My nephew asked me the difference between a hamster and a gerbil ...

This is for all ill-treated fellows Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they're in trouble And I am not.

I think a lot of actors, we underprepare emotionally for how intense pilot season can be. And we underprepare the people around us, our support ...

I don't work so hard at trying to get every song to be three-dimensional and mean so much. I just want to breathe, right now, ...

In Islam, it is the "moderate" who is left to split hairs,because the basic thrust of the doctrine is undeniable: convert, sub-jugate, or kill unbelievers; ...

The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves ...

I left Britain in the mid-1990s when TV was going down the cundy - another good Dundee word - because I wanted a film career. ...

Here in the UK the government has decided to accept the recommendations of the Better Regulation Task Force to measure and make targeted reductions in ...

Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if not in reality. The best response ...

Archangel Michael, please sever and release any cords of fear. I am willing to let go of this unhealthy, unbalanced energy. I choose instead to ...

When employees underperform, a leader tells them so.

My father was a journalist for 50 years in Leeds and Fleet Street. I thought about a career in business to show I could do ...

Jackson was a transformative president in part because he had a transcendent personality; other presidents who followed him were not transformative, and served unremarkably.

Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'

My uncle was skipper on the old Claymore sailing out from Oban to the Inner Hebrides. My father worked for MacBraynes all his life, on ...

I think the guys who are sort of infantry in Somali piracy are not unlike low-level drug dealers in urban areas in America, who see ...

It was all very unmaidenly, of course; but maidenly is a word love and life and desire may crowd from the page.

As usual, I overdreamed and underbudgeted. . .

I do not want to leave in [U.S.] ... I cannot make that clear enough to immigration authorities who may be listening to this interview. ...

The nation was founded and "dedicated," to use Lincoln's language in the "Gettysburg Address," to equality as a "self-evident truth." But this very principle of ...

The warrior priests worship insects as sacred beings, and believe that the ingestion of insects ennobles man and keeps him from descending into bestiality.

Under the volcano! It was not for nothing the ancients had placed Tartarus under Mt. Aetna, nor within it, the monster Typhoeus, with his hundred ...

Pooley rose to investigate but the Professor restrained him with a firm and unyielding hand. Jim marvelled at the ancient's newly acquired strength. 'Do not ...

This was a troublesome supplication, because at the dawn of July, Ukraine was to celebrate the first birthday of its ultramodern constitution, which makesus feel ...

Wherein you reprove another be unblameable yourself, for example is more prevalent than precepts.

A cheerful, easy, open countenance will make fools think you a good-natured man, and make designing men think you an undesigning one.

I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, ...

The flat hand pats the chest repeatedly with an upwardstroking movement, representing happy feelings bubbling up.

The unworthies in power feel danger, like cows uneasily pawing the ground with a great Moo.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

I long to be ... Like Other People! The extraordinary, ungetatable, oddly cruel Other People, with their way of wantonly hurting and then accusing you ...

Even if their child is useless, parents will not find them shameful. But if you're an outstanding child, you don't have the right to find ...

Beethoven said that it's better to hit the wrong note confidently, than hit the right note unconfidently. Never be afraid to be wrong or to ...

Upwell is one of the most terrifyingly great bands I have ever known out of Seattle. Their musicianship and songwriting is monstrous ... They're heavy ...

Memory was such a worthless thing, really. Nothing it dealt with was attainable. It was concerned with phantom acts and feelings, with all that was ...

Trust. Affection. Respect." I shoved her tainted after-school snack across the table. "It must be hard to think of qualities you don't possess.

I once loved a girl, her skin it was bronze With the innocence of a lamb, she was gentle like a fawn I courted her ...

She stroked one of the geranium's petals, inhaling its particular bitter fragrance, which she admired for its bold air of unapology.

Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be ...

The EU is not going to attack the United States. Supposedly, China or the EU was doing this on the UScan you imagine what the ...

What we committed in the Indies stands out among the most unpardonable offenses ever committed against God and mankind and this trade [in Indian slaves] ...

Has the kingdom of God been overadvertised, or is it only that it has been underbelieved; has the Lord Jesus Christ been overestimated, or has ...

Who tries? You try, your dad tries, average people try. And for their attempts at goodness, average people are mugged by strangers, molested by predatory ...

Poems' deep work is a matter of language, but also a matter of life. One part of that work is to draw into our awareness ...

This bugs me the worst. That's when the husband thinks that the wife knows where everything is, huh? Like they think the uterus is a ...

She left the event with gold medals in the all-around, vault, floor and uneven bars. She also nabbed the silver medal on the balance beam.

Out of her favour, where I am in love.

It was never about money for us it was about us against the system. That system that kills the human spirit. We stand for something ...

Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.

The exaggerated dramatic force employed by Umfraville in presenting his narrative made it hard to know what demeanour best to adopt in listening to the ...

In fact, I believe that, barring a couple of key moments, Beli never thought about that life again. Embraced the amnesia that was so common ...

Uniconsciousness is the ultimate purpose and ultimate essence of a higher consciousness. The knowledge of the ultimate source of life and the ultimate source of ...

I would not be standing here today if my skin were white or my religion were Presbyterian. I am here today only because my skin ...

Untitled. Unfinished. UNRELEASED

The practical common-sense of modern society, the utilitarian direction which labor, laws, opinion, religion, take, is the natural genius of the British mind.

When I went to college, I thought I was going to become a professional musician. I was a French horn player, so I went to ...

You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you.

If anyone at my funeral has a long face, I'll never speak to him again.

The whole youth-idolatry oh-god-not-another-birthday thing has to be the most sure-fire way to be unhappy about the way things are progressing in your life.

At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success ...

At the final day, the Savior will not ask about the nature of our callings. He will not inquire about our material possessions or fame. ...

Vagisil. Any one of them will give you another two to three inches drop on your curve ball. Of course if the umps are watching ...

When I fell in love with hip-hop, my favorite rapper was Jay-Z. But I used to like Common and Nas. But I was a South ...

I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.

The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.

She ... grabbed her bra, clasping it and shoving her arms through. "Ye harness your udders?" The man was insufferable. "For your information, it's a ...

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post facto ...

I had a perfect confidence, still unshaken, in books. If you read enough you would reach the point of no return. You would cross over ...

We're keeping our ears alert for any sudden thumps in undusted corners.

Sometimes we think we're a little too gifted to show up, yo uknow. But none of us truly is ... By avoiding risk we really ...

I'm a Christian - I really don't believe in UFOs.

The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on the surface of ...

The name of happiness is but a wider termfor the unalloy'd conditions of the Pleasur of Life,attendant on all function, and not to be deny'dto ...

As we fear God more completely, we love Him more perfectly. And 'perfect love casteth out all fear'.

Theoretical webs, dirty webs, fusty webs, old and shrivelling away into nothingness, a fine dust.Who needs that kind of stuff. Far far better getting out ...

Perhaps that same concept applied to people as well. Did we love them more when we knew their full story? How they came to be ...