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As Einstein might have put it, only a very malicious (and, therefore, in his mind unimaginable) God would have conspired to have created a universe ...

Every star was once darker than the night, before it awoke.

Miss Brinklow, however, was not yet to be sidetracked. "What do the lamas do?" she continued."They devote themselves, madam, to contemplation and to the pursuit ...

For me it's a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a brief moment short fiction the centre of ...

Companies understand that if their employees are sick, it's really expensive. So despite the rhetoric I hear, thank God employers are still in the health-care ...

The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm.

Yes, racism looks like hate, but hate is just one manifestation. Privilege is another. Access is another. Ignorance is another. Apathy is another, and so ...

Whence, I often asked myself, did the principle of life proceed?

For with knowledge comes pain. To limit the pain I limit my answers.

The real test of 'knowledge' is not whether it is true, but whether it empowers us. Scientists usually assume that no theory is 100 per ...

Hey, this is it - right now! - the time when you find out who you are and what you can do. And how will ...

We all learned valuable lessons from that crop. The Lord showed us the importance of walking by faith, and not by sight, of trusting him ...

If you want to kill me, despise me, hate me, and live in an unsightly way ... Run, and cling to life, and then some ...

It is great to add some glamour to the food industry, like television shows have done for the food world and inspiring people to work ...

A messiah is the one who leaves a mess behind him in this world.

They were intimidating, big, and didn't appear to trust me. I wondered if I seemed dangerous to them, all five feet six inches of me. ...

Almost automatic response: "That's just a senseless obsession. It's a false message. I'm going to focus my attention on something else." At this point, the ...

I feel like being a door person was like college in a sense. I could watch comedy on a professional level seven nights a week ...

Nothing is going to remain the way it is. Let us, in the present, study the past, so as to invent the future.

The first step in understanding a people is to know the extent of their mortality, the things from which they suffer and die.

Once we've made a decision, we are efficient only if we go through with it decisively, undistracted by doubts about its correctness.

I really embrace things that I think people who like music can relate to, they grew up with the same stuff and know the same ...

It's time to be with my brother now

Fear is nothing but idleness of the will ...

With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during ...

Sobel was Jewish, urban, with a commission from the National Guard. Hester had started as a private, then earned his commission from Officer Candidate's School ...

I bestowed consciousness on mankind; human ego turned it into religions.

Enthusiasts for empire argued that Rome had a civilizing mission; that because her values and institutions were self-evidently superior to those of barbarians, she had ...

A writer has to talk about the things that go untalked about

Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they don't even have the decency to pay attention to me. That I'm being ...

We as Americans are the wealthiest Christians who ever walked on the face of the earth. We are the most protected Christians that ever walked ...

Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.

It was hard to follow my dreams ... I didn't let anything stop me.

I smell the fresh sea air, and have never felt so at home in my life, out on the open waters, no land as far ...

It's lovely. If only you could frost someone to death.""Don't be so superior. You can never tell what you will find in the arena. Say ...

Cats never strike a pose that isn't photogenic.

If I fall asleep, it is because I am overloaded. I sleep because one hour with Henry contains five years of my life, and one ...

Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves ...

The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise and run murmuring to the sea;

In every generation, the world is changed by a few people, who stand for something, do not fear unpopularity and dare to make a difference.

To live your life without the need for specific results is true freedom. That is Godliness. That is how God exists.

You know when you say something but you want to change in the middle? Like one time I was a bout to say take care ...

Fake realism is the escapist literature of our time. And probably the ultimate escapist reading is that masterpiece of total unreality, the daily stock market ...

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, ...

Dark-green and gemm'd with flowers of snow, With close uncrowded branches spread Not proudly high, nor meanly low, A graceful myrtle rear'd its head.

I wouldn't be the man I am today, If not for those I've loved along the way

We must all commit Sister Monica Joan to our prayers. We must seek God's help. But I will also engage a good lawyer." I

People do kill themselves, you know, Miranda, when they think their whole reason for living is being taken away from them. Even the fact that ...

We had forgotten the art of using silence to convey emotions in our films and that's what you seem to have mastered. You've used silence ...

The Appropriations Committee in the Senate is out of control, out of control on spending.

I was a completely below-average high school student. I never went to college.

To keep a story on a shelf or to remember then retell it means that it will be more likely to exist to those who ...

If your world is out there and you are in here then the only things that will gather within these walls are time and bitterness. ...

Don't think of us as separate beings. Imagine that we are one body and it's been split into millions. When we sit in the mediation ...

President Obama made a big speech. He welcomed the members of the U.N. General Assembly to New York, and he said, 'I'd like to encourage ...

The local painters were my idols ... These artists, too, were grown-ups, but they were grown-ups who could still see! Their eye was still in ...

It's as if I've inherited a skin I cannot quite fit, and so I walk about constantly pulling and and tugging, pinning and pruning, trying ...

I had the arrogant confidence of a man born to battle. I am Uhtred, son of Uhtred, son of another Uhtred, and we had not ...

Clap your hands if you feel like a room without a roof

You can exaggerate with puppets. You're not trying to look like real people. The way the Muppets are designed is really appealing. Puppets are best ...

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.

There are too many Destroyer records to just start rattling them left them off, but they're there.

The normal routine... cliche"FEW MORE SECONDS""FEW MORE MINUTES

People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love.

Who's there?Something old? Someone holy ... ?

To be happy, the only thing you need is to have happy thoughts.

God's Kingdom is a place of abundance where every generous act overflows its original bounds and becomes part of the unbounded grace of God at ...

The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.

Let me tell you a little secret: There are no bad actors. There are none. You have to find the right role. I never give ...

As entrepreneurs, we must continue to ask ourselves 'What's next?' It takes humility to realize that we don't know everything, not to rest on our ...

The combat [with ISIS] on the ground must be done by Muslim troops with our support. We must not get involved in perpetual warfare in ...

All actions without love are just like dust in the air.

True kindness is rooted in a deep sense of abundance, out of which flows a sense that even as I give, it is being given ...

If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war.[Apology to the ...

The President of the United States should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves his country ...

The certain way to victory ... lies in making everything on Imperial soil contribute to the war effort ... combining the total material and spiritual ...

You're telling me that if i keep dropping bombs into a junkyard, someday all the pieces will blast together into a perfect Mercedes. that's what ...

Some countries were able to turn their manufacturing operations into advanced technology areas. South Korea is a great example of this, and manufacturing there is ...

Now, I am thrilled to be a wife and mother, and I hope to be as good of a mother as my own mother, Carole.

It will always be foolish to ask a cheater if they would ever cheat on you.

Everything, if you could only see it clearly enough, like this, is beautiful and complete. Everything has its own perfection.

Look, if the Situationists achieved what they wanted, they would be very unhappy and they would have to be Situationists all over again. It's a ...

The maxims of Christian life, which should draw upon the truths of the Gospel, are always partially symbolic of the mind and temperament of those ...

Only an uncouth person would wear snail snot- Albert

Laws of nature do not make exceptions for nice people. A bullet has no conscience; neither does a malignant tumor or an automobile gone out ...

The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folk-lore; states even approaching them ...

With all this wide and beautiful creation before me, the restless soul longs to enjoy its liberty and rest beyond its bound.

In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on ...

Logic and people who subscribed to conspiracy theories were often strangers to each other.

She chose a bottle of sauvignon blanc from the kitchen rack and uncorked it. "These are trying times. There have been others, and there will ...

I'm still here, I'm still alive, I'm still blessed, on my way to my destiny, because the favor of God is on my life.

Where lambs have nibbled, silent moves the feet of angels bright; unseen they pour blessing, and joy without ceasing, on each bud and blossom, and ...

I remember telling the agent, 'I don't want to do anything but Broadway.' She was like, 'That's not really possible because there is not that ...

Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane ...

But now what? Is this a ticket to a new understanding of my life, or a bomb that's going to blow up everything?Consider one more ...

Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet.

Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; ...

Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.

People often wonder why God allows hunger, poverty and war in our world. Perhaps God wonders why we allow it.from: Quotes about God ISBN 978-1-936462-20-9