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Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as bad as you ...
Is the phrase 'pay' or 'play the piper'I inquire, why'Cause I admire a desire to flip the switchYeah make a way to face the music ...
I am not sure that it is best for us, once safe and secure on the Rock of Ages, to ask ourselves too closely what ...
Molecular collision dynamics has been a wonderful area of research for all practitioners. This is especially true for those who were following the footsteps of ...
No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if ...
The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument. The time ...
Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty ...
Life is like a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Very popular and not as bad as some would have you believe. That is, unspeakably awful ...
During this time he got news that a famous statue of Orpheus, enshrined in south Macedon, had started to sweat profusely. The seers, pondering the ...
There are talking dogs all over the place, unbelievably boring they are, on and on and on about sex and shit and smells, and smells ...
If the currents do conspire against us, know that I will find you, I will never stop looking for you.
When I look back at my childhood on the Ayrshire coast, I recall a basic devotion to the idea that human nature and national character ...
Unhappiness is complicated and has many different causes, but happiness is simple and has only one reason.
Be dissatisfied enough to improve, but satisfied enough to be happy.
Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.
Moor did not have tuberculosis or kidney trouble or undulant fever.He was sick with the sickness of death.Death was in every cell of his body.
But we always avoided talking about these things - difficult things - and I wondered if that meant we'd be a little uncomfortable with or ...
We love winners, even though they're very rarely particularly likeable people. They're almost always obsessive and selfish and inconsiderate. That doesn't matter. We forgive them. ...
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust museum in Washington.
As the creative adult needs to toy with ideas, the child, to form his ideas, needs toysand plenty of leisure and scope to play with ...
Why can't a photograph be all four things at once? -be an art object; be a document, what ever that means exactly, but deal with ...
I did a lot of research on real serial killers, and they're not Hannibal Lecters. They're cruel men who are given the opportunity to do ...
Her bodice covered in so much blood that he couldn't tell where she was bleeding.
Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a ...
I'm going to cut you," Georgiana murmured. "I'm going to mark that face of yours and show him what I'm capable of.""He'd still love me," ...
I cannot fight everyone at once. I have to take one at a time.
Audrey was a princess, so natural, the camera really loved her ... James and I kept each other company during all the rejections. We used ...
13For not even those who are circumcised keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.
Figure out what you really want. Prioritise them and never fear to trade, though stay careful whether you are trading up or down.
SITTING WITH MY UNNEUTERED BULL MASTIFF RUFUS WATCHING 2 FAST 2 FURIOUS WITH STEREO ERECTIONS.
Hymns should have unity,graduation and mutual dependence in the thoughts,a conscious progress,a sense of completeness..and be easily understood.
It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement ...
You want to talk about the truth? The truth is you gave up on me.
You might say that the universe plays the blues.
We allow justly that the Holocaust has permanently altered the consciousness of our time: Why do we not accord the same epistemological mutation in what ...
For many years when I was younger, I let negative things that people said about me affect my life. What I've learned is that it's ...
I don't kid around.
I had always turned to books, to knowledge, to help me get through everything in my life - and,sometimes, to escape it. But grief was ...
The president [Barack Obama] himself has said he thought part of his job was to remind the American people that being president and commander in ...
What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
When a person is loved, they are granted the strength of all seas.
And it seems to me correct then, and I think it's correct now, that job one is get the planning done, make sure the buses ...
It has always been Oscar Peterson. He is my Rachmaninoff.
The day you let go of fear and instead embrace understanding, is the day you begin to live.
What's your name, anyway?"That awkward shrug again. "They call me Wolf at the fights."" Wolf? " How ... predatory.
Lack of action is the reason why an unwanted situation persists.
For the record," Miriam says, "I'm a supremely vulgar human being and even I think bearded taco is a disgusting term. My vagina is a ...
TIVO was a big shift in how people watched TV, but everyone understood the concept of TV. No one really understands the concept of, well ...
One of the things you don't have in Haiti is you don't have anybody on crack doing something completely out of - that's unpredictable. Even ...
I am 46, and have been for some time past.
Requesting a change of environment was an extremely difficult decision. After a tremendous amount of reflection and numerous conversations with my family, it made the ...
Stealing things. I should preface this by saying I was an only child - a precocious one at that. I also said I was going ...
Here they learned to Wait. To Watch. To think thoughts and not voice them.
Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.
An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it ...
I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had ...
I've no sympathy with people to whom things happen. It may be that their luck is bad, but is that to count in their favor? ...
Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.
The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind.
Have another tangerine as he begins to expound upon how only in the unpolluted air can man truly be free to contemplate the complexities of ...
If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough ...
I reached a healthy place in which I was able to stop projecting my needs on another human being. We both came to understand that ...
They invent a howling theatrical language through which it becomes possible to express the grief of the whole world, a language understood by no one ...
Far too many people - many of them academics, many politicians - continue to jabber about a supposed 'special relationship' between our two countries.I used ...
In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest ...
I think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even contemplate what I am thinking about.
Comedy in America is very serious. Either they laugh, or they don't.
He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.
CompUSA was a bad decision. We stayed too much with CompUSA, and we stayed too short with Apple.
Our society has got to evolve and create better ways of living.
When you can face reality without camouflage, yours is the face of compassion. What a sight for sore eyes!
You can watch me pee! It's okay! Here look, I'm peeing! I'm peeing! You can stop uprooting yourself.
Dazed and disoriented, I looked up from the bright red blood pulsing out of my arminto the fevered eyes of the six suddenly ravenous vampires.
Piper insisted she had to be out of breath when we played this one scene, so she ran around the block. Thank God she wasn't ...
A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts and ...
Rashly,And praised be rashness for itlet us know,Our indiscretion sometime serves us wellWhen our deep plots do pall, and that should learn usThere's a divinity ...
Birthing hope from the madnessthat perches on the fenceof our once perfectdreams.
I dreamt a limitless book,A book unbound,Its leaves scattered in fantastic abundanceOn every line there was a new horizon drawn,New heavens supposed;New states, new souls.
I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.
When we can say no not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder ...
We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the ...
Imagination is my best friend.
OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.
I'll never think you're anything other than beautiful.""You know how to say all the right things," I tell him."Because I'm with the right girl," he ...
I really can't deal with all this lovey-dovey shit. It's like watching Romeo and Juliet on repeat." "Don't they die in the end?" Neal questioned.
Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure ...
People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on ...
We often feed the critic gourmet meals and starve the rest.
'Nothin' on You' by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I'd been trying my whole career to write a ...
If traveling was free, you'd never see me again.
That's the thing about Tiny: his problems are so huge that yours can hide behind them.
This is the place where death rejoices to help those who live. It's written somewhere in every morgue I've ever been in. Nice way of ...
I saw within Its depth how It conceivesAll things in a single volume bound by Loveof which the universe is the scattered leaves.
Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
There's quite an overlap between musicians - especially drummers - who have an affection and a proclivity towards comedy and comedians who fantasize about being ...
Fear is an aid to the warrior. It is a small fire burning. It heats the muscles, making us stronger. Panic comes when the fire ...
Just look up, You'll see everything you need to see
Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.
And I foresaw obscurely that I was destined to become the most wretched of human beings.