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Hardly any animal can look as deeply disappointed as a dog to whom one says "no."
He said to me I was a tree in a story about a forest, and that it was arrogant of me to believe any differently. ...
Moon, moon,when you leave me aloneall the darkness isan utter blackness,a pit of fear,a stench,hands unreasonablenever to touch.But I love you.Do you love me.What to ...
Break in the hands of God, He'll unbreak you. Break in the hands of people, you'll remain forever broken. Break to no one, your heart ...
You're only as old as you feel.
What's the occasion?" I ask.He glances up at me and takes a deep breath. "You're the occasion, Woods. I've missed you so, so much.
People often think that reporters write their own headlines. In fact, they almost never do. The people who do write headlines are the copy editors ...
And it is, after all, as good a way as any of solving the problem of existence to get near enough to the things and ...
The universe has no mind and that's why it can never reach perfection! Perfection is the art of meticulous high-mind!
You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.
Life is a journey, and you can't carry everything with you. Only the usable baggage.
I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place ...
Fire school? He'd never considered making a career out of his abilities. :I'll think about it," said Gabriel.Nick clapped him on the shoulder again. "No, ...
We are challenging white feminists to be accountable for their racism because at the base we still want to believe that they really want freedom ...
Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't ...
My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.
Everything had the potential, she guessed. Propping
When it was time to head to class, Vincent came back over to walk them. One look at Vincent's face and she let him; bringing ...
If I love the character and if I love the story, and the character requires me to be shirtless, or if it requires me to ...
Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. ...
When a man's said what he means, he'd better stop, for th' ale 'ull be none the better for stannin'. An
The cat is the only non-gregarious domestic animal. It is retained by its extra-ordinary adhesion to the comforts of the house in which it is ...
Every king of love, it seems, is the only one. It doesn't happen twice.
In a civilization of wage slaves, where people seek to survive more than to live, mountaineering is an enigma.
The sun-belt and the technology belt can become very powerful when they begin to understand themselves as a community: a community of energy, water and ...
Wouldn't it be nice if our lives were like VCRs , and we could 'fast forward' through the crummy times?
It's true what they say, you know: if you talk to God, you're religious; but if you hear from God, yor're schizophrenic.
Take up giving-away as a hobby while you are young, and you will have a happy life. What is more, because you do so many ...
Being involved with passion is one of the common characteristics I have observed in all the successful people I have come across.
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal ...
He can't go five minutes without quoting scripture. It's like biblical Tourettes.
Quiet the mind's constant chatter of uncontrolled thoughts.
It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the ...
Love's a disease. But curable.
Le religioni non sono altro che residuo dei vecchi tabu selvatici, sistemi di divieto con diverse sovrastrutture ideologiche."" ... religions are nothing but remnant of ...
Dare, dream, dance, smile, and sing loudly! And have faith that love is an unstoppable force!
Any time there is 'un-forgiveness' between people who love each other, there is suffering. Any time people face challenges that they really don't understand ... ...
I'm just taking advantage of good pitches. I am seeing the ball well and my confidence is high.
The pa system has broken down. Society has broken down.
I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes.
The company should be run from a creative point of view rather than a financial point of view.
It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.
The season of love is that of battle. The roots of these fights run deep.
That's our story.How we became a we.And that's what we are these day. A we.When you're a group that can hear each other's thoughts, the ...
If I upset you, don't stress. Never forgetThat God isn't finished with me yet.I feel His hand on my brain ... When I write rhymes, ...
I'm a very private person.
I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're not.
His ready answer impressed me, reiterating my belief that one of the reasons I required a boyfriend was to halve my ignorance and double my ...
The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice.
We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.
Worrying is the greatest pride, which is why nature punishes one heavily. Nature punishes more the one who worries, than it does the one who ...
Wherever conversation's flowing, / Why must I feel it falls on me / To keep things going?
There is so much that we need to do for our country. I don't think that we can afford to wait.
The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled ...
A duck tastes the same whether they're shot sitting or flying.
You are an adult when, faced with important decisions, you choose to have more faith in yourself than anything else.
It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
LINCKLAEN, JOHN. (Agent of the Holland Land Company.) Journals of Travels into Pennsylvania, New York and Vermont (1791-1792). Translated from French by Helen Lincklaen Fairchild. ...
Everyone takes, everyone gives, such is life.
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog. But I have not told you the type of dog which I have. Perhaps you even ...
Chart positions are for people with manbags who get to work at 11 A.M. because they've been at a digital meeting.
Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing. Those ...
Earlier in my career, fans weren't a big consideration for me.
Only in academia did people talk such bullshit and expect to be taken seriously
He sat still for almost ten minutes before he heard movement in the corridor and was aware that the police had arrived. By now he ...
A high openness score means you're open-minded - you see the world for what it is - whereas a low openness score means you're incredibly ...
We're about one hundred times richer than the poorest billion people in the world, and we can do several hundred times more to help them ...
I enjoy them both [singing and acting] a great deal. I have a passion for both. Maybe acting just a little bit more because it's ...
Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
As an actor it's easy to be so self-critical, saying to yourself: "Am I good enough? Am I good looking enough? Am I smart enough?" ...
People share a common nature but are trained in gender roles.
Turning a human being into a thing, an object, is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person. It is very difficult, ...
I love the show and a lot of what came out of it, like some of the people I met and got to work with, ...
Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
He stopped. He could see in her face that she had noteven thought of that sort of love. The very idea of a consuming sexualpassion ...
I don't see how it could possibly be made into a movie unless the entire book was scrapped and Shirley Temple cast as 'Bonnie,' Mae ...
All attempts to coerce the living will of human beings into the service of something they do not want must fail
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 ...
How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.
You don't expect everyone out there watching to believe that this cartoon is real, that this drawing has really come to life. But on some ...
All news is an exaggeration of life.
You read these management books that say, 'These are the hard things about running a company.' But those aren't really the hard things. The hard ...
Today, as in ancient Rome, when all avenues of success have been traveled and all prizes won, the final prize is the delusion of godhead.
Wild Women: "They know instinctively when things must die and when things must live; they know how to walk away, they know how to stay.
I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.
The head is the seat of intelligence. The heart is the seat of emotion.
My wife made me get a cellphone, which I keep in my briefcase. I've never used it.
Sometimes mothers of newborn babies have to take antibiotics for a urinary tract infection. The antibiotics can damage the protective stool barrier allowing C. diff ...
A young man with an untrimmed beard and rebellious eyes looked like a conscientious objector to everything.
The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.
Slowly, the wine rewarded her with its complex, subtle flavors... apricot, pear,a hint of vanilla... and some indescribable flavor that made her think of sun-drenched, ...
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
Deep down, people who deliberately distribute other people's music and stuff feel contempt for professionals. And it's not just culture - these days lots of ...
Information can liberate but also imprisonate.
When I read, I feel emotion all on my own. Emotion no living person is making me feel.
Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.
Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug addiction.
Wake up and realize this is all made up of thoughts, just thoughts. Your appreciation of beauty is a thought; your aversion to an object ...
It's such a foolish thing to argue about names, when what we're doing is all one thing.