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At the very moment when man is on the verge of realizing his hope, he begins to lose it.
That man is ... odd," I dared say to William. "He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very ...
I was in shock. Funny how the world works. You don't get the something you really covet, but then the universe provides unexpected compensation. Here ...
He who wins a thousand common hearts is entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette is ...
And what's so bad about your being deprived of that? ... All things seem unbearable to people who have become spoilt, who have become soft ...
The tear-stained letters of my regret will remain forever unread, for I am never going to be strong enough to give them to you.
Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly.
Unalert yet sometimes suffused through and through by an inward light, is characteristic of the primitive and of the child (and also of those moments ...
We've been everywhere around Northwest. I was biking until the clouds came. We'll go in the woods, we'll go up and down the river. I ...
I try to use public transport, always.
There are many things in this life one can plan for, anticipate, control, manipulate, but love is not one of them.
I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I ...
I don't approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you.
Our surroundings fade and we exist in unison, two people who once shared cups of coffee, unprecedentedly ourselves in a changing world.
That difference, that indefinable difference between talent and genius. It is as fine as hair, invisible to the eye and even, most of the time, ...
You know, Uri, there's something seriously wrong with me. (Acheron)And you're just now figuring this out? Damn, you're the poster child for slow learning. (Urian)
Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us.
He felt teenage rejection overcoming him like a childhood virus that lies dormant, then attacks the unsuspecting adult. It would never be something he would ...
Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity.
A rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest and unoppressive.
We cannot idealize technology. Technology is only and always the reflection of our own imagination, and its uses must be conditioned by our own values. ...
A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is ...
Your skin reminds me of everything beautiful I've ever loved ... how the moon gets jealous at how you mock her crescent figure with the ...
I think the definition of a book is changing.
I'm a first generation American. My mother is Italian and Russian and a lot of other things, and my father is Uruguayan. In fact, my ...
He loved her in spite of her unlovableness. Armande had many trying, thought not necessarily rare, traits, all of which he accepted as absurd clues ...
Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when ...
I think good teachers are underpaid.
Negative emotions, such as the feelings of hatred, meanness, low self-esteem and confidence, and pessimism, create an unpleasant person and a bleak destiny.
Most of the first voluntary Irish immigrants came from Ulster in the north of Ireland. These immigrants were generally, although not exclusively, Protestants. They were ...
In America uniformed cops eat in coffee shops, diners and restaurants and I always feel safer having them around.
For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.
Satan always hates Christian fellowship; it is his policy to keep Christians apart. Anything which can divide saints from one another he delights in. He ...
To give life another being, what a gift! When he finally was placed into my arms, I looked into his precious eyes and felt an ...
All her stories seemed to involve rowboats and ukuleles, full moons and campfires and grog. I was desperately jealous.
It is said that the quality of recent immigration is undesirable. The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing was said of ...
Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that ...
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't ...
When we have this description, of what a sketch is, itsattributes, we can then start inventing new things thatshare those attributes, and therefore improve our ...
Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.
Whether we electrons, light quanta, benzol molecules, or stones, we shall always come up against these two characteristics, the corpuscular and the undular.
We went across the South on Super Tuesday without a single catcall or boo, without a single ugly sign. Not until we got to New ...
The worst crime of all would be that a mistake happens and no one talks about it or learns from it. So, as unsettling as ...
I loved the seventies.
As I unclutter my life, I free myself to answer the callings of my soul.
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
I will continue to underscore that I don't think authorial intent is all that important to a reading experience, and I certainly don't think the ...
Nature, in her untamed state, is savage and unrelenting.
The trouble with the English was that they were English: damn cold fish! - Living underwater most of the year, in days the colour of ...
The UNIA teaches our race self-help and self-reliance ... in all those things that contribute to human happiness and well-being.
That's the difference between family and friends. Family is always there, no matter what, even when it's not right next door. Which means that you'll ...
We have employed every police and military unit at our dispo - " "NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.
All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the ...
The history that lies inert in unread books does no work in the world.
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 ...
With laissez-faire and price atomic, Ecology's Uneconomic, But with another kind of logic Economy's Unecologic.
I'm an unpure purist, something like that.
I would say I'm more fascinated by Big Daddy V than I am necessarily a huge fan of Big Daddy V. He simply threw on ...
If you put two pregnant hamsters in the same cage, you know what they'll do? Eat each other. Female hormones are like undetonated warheads. There's ...
I am worthy of being read. I mean, one has to be convinced of one's genius.
Everybody has unattainable crushes too and imaginary friends. Some part of their mind that they talk to when they can't deal with talking to real ...
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 ...
Gift the love of your life with undistracted, untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
I realized, in removing or rewriting these jokes, that often the jokes weren't done or that I was using, for me, the curse words as ...
Strengthening local airports in Iowa is important for economic development and improving the quality of life our rural areas and urban communities
Eat that frog! If you have to eat 3 frogs, eat the biggest and uggliest one first.
My Lord does not want to know what I have done for Him. He just wants to know how I am. If he hears from ...
How to run an ultramarathon ? Puff out your chest, put one foot in front of the other, and don't stop till you cross the ...
Americans who visit Tuscany or Umbria love the landscape: the silvery olive groves, the fields of sunflowers, the vineyards, the stone houses and barns.
Balls, I see it in yer eyes. You're gonna go cockamamie on me.
It is better not to call anything to anybody - just remain centered in yourself. Look at the world and drop judgments, and you will ...
Prolonged inflation never 'stimulates' the economy. On the contrary, it unbalances, disrupts, and misdirects production and employment.
PSA37.23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way. PSA37.24 Though he fall, he shall not ...
The very utterness of the crash and ruin, the desperation of the case, might be its hope. On ruins one can begin to build. Anyhow, ...
Depression and hopelessness are not the only reasons terminally ill patients wish to end their lives. Many individuals see nothing undignified about choosing to end ...
Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then it's over, and that's kind of ...
Real music is what I consider to be uncorporatized music, the music that just happens. I feel like that's not a very well-known thing.
I grew up in small towns in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra - places like Akola, Betul, Wardha, Jhansi; I thought the rise of ...
I learned to do a few tricks that other people hadn't done before. I developed that trebly bass thing a little further.
I doubt it is your styleNot to get what you set out to acquireThe eyes are on fireYou are the unforecasted stormBrianstorm
Unkingly, in so many ways, My King.
True wisdom lies in the pure roots of untouchedly souls.
The future is suddenly unpinned - evolving, spinning, leaping about like a panicked tree-loormor.
Better that he gets used to it,' he said.Used to what, the feeling of uncontrolled anger? Or a sadness so deep, like your very core ...
Life is good. Even when it isn't. Because there's always HOPE beckoning you from ahead.
They taught us a toast in Ukranian which we like: 'Let us drink to make people at home happy.' And they toasted again to peace, ...
Difficult conversations are always uncomfortable. But with the right person, you can have those conversations.
Ryan-chasers have a life wish. They live life to the fullest because they are willing to look foolish.
By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material ...
Sophie was too old for lies and too young for the truth.
In caring for others and serving heaven,There is nothing like using restraint.
If you begin to think you are solely responsible for keeping your loved one alive and safe, you will eventually find yourself playing God. This ...
Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays cosily tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty ...
The Negro people of America ... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials ...
I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.
If the U.S. succeeds in destroying the revolution, my status will be like that of most Cubans: I'll be up a creek without a paddle. ...
The constitution is for us all to live together, a common life, we need each other.
Mindfulness is continuous undisturbed awareness of the present moment. Fully aware of here, and now, we pay attention to what is happening right in front ...