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The trouble with good manners is that people are persuaded that you are all right, require no protection, are perfectly capable of looking after yourself.
My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen.
If you can't go for good deeds, don't go for bad ones.
I'm not very good at impersonations.
Women like this exploited a person's natural civility, marching through the gaps left by a inability to speak the naked truth.
First rule of bathing," Gavril said. "If you can't smell yourself anymore, it's time to wash.
Who is this and what do you want?""Is that how you answer the phone to every number you don't recognize?" Ash demanded.
I love you Madly James and if I never see you again, know this: someday, whether it's today or a hundred years from now, I'll ...
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
A woman accepted anything from life and made it the best; a man bargained for the better but also the less perfect.
The seriousness of my situation started to sink in, and again I fought panic. I pushed it down, but it was harder this time, like ...
That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.
I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle adventure.
The beginning of forgiveness is often exhaustion. You're pooped; thank God.
You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very ...
Even if you say you "don't play games," that is a type of game - it is the "I don't play games" game.
I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken the same attention ...
Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful.
Too many young actors are strutting about and doing films without having developed some of the depth you need to bring off certain kinds of ...
I do not see that the sex of the candidate is an argument against her admission as a Privatdozent. After all, the Senate is not ...
Rule one of reading other people's stories is that whenever you say 'well that's not convincing' the author tells you that's the bit that wasn't ...
We have quoted freely from the Scriptures and have sought to furnish proof-texts for every statement we have advanced.
Controversy is always a beautiful thing. I love controversy and I try to fan it as much as I can without having my husband's head ...
God will save whomever He chooses to save. The Christian should proselytize not because he thinks he can change everybody; he should proselytize because the ...
Anyone who sees clearly sees chaos everywhere. Art is a way of temporarily setting order to confusion. Temporary and incomplete; that's why we never run ...
You really can't go home again. Sometimes, that's a good thing. Sometimes, when you try, you find out that home isn't really there anymore ... ...
To fly or not to fly, that's the question.
Gage wants to know more about his neighbor, Miss Dupree the one who keeps getting undressed at night with the curtains open and the lights ...
Peace is a costly privilege-to be fought for, attained and won. It comes only from a conquered mind.
Without the sleeping bag I'm just somebody up early in the morning, sitting under a tree. With the sleeping bag I'm nobody up early, sitting ...
How to spell Aedes aegypti,the world's one-stop, viral-disease-transmitting mosquito: T-R-O-U-B-L-E.
The sky was dark blue twilight, pretty to look at but lonely to walk under.
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..there are two possible endings to every story.
The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute one delusion for ...
I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself king of infinite space.
I never saw or heard or smelled anything that couldn't be talked about
Here we are being hard and relentlessly dazzling in spite of whatever shit. We are saying to each other If you have an affliction, any ...
The power of God, the Holy Ghost, is the Spirit of Dominion. It makes one a god.
Why am I in Hell? It hurts. It hurts all the time. Why am I in Hell? I just want to go home and lie ...
The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect good.
My two secrets to staying healthy: wash your hands all the time. And, if you can't, use Purell or one of the sanitizers. And the ...
People are poor judges of importance and inflate minutiae to fill time and feel important.
The control of your mind is most important, and it will be worth your while. You must think deeply. Clear your mind of all bad, ...
The U.N. charter bars the threat of force.
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Take charge of your thoughts!
In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical ...
When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!'
My view, as one who taught it, is that the whole purpose of a literary education should be to tell people that these things exist. ...
Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.
Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by.
I take opioids to treat chronic pain. Stigmatizing them will harm me.
I was not considered beautiful before I was a feminist. I was a pretty girl before, but suddenly, after I was publicly identified as a ...
DCI Horner's advice to Jack Spratt: "Remember, m'boy," his old boss had said, eyes twinkling, "that if anyone tries to get the better of you, ...
The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound - and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard subside and allow him to ...
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit of it.
Our country offers such great opportunities for us all. Unfortunately, too many hard-working citizens go day to day without enough food to eat.
I think the eyeball is the same, [in] an American or African. The problem is the same, the treatment is the same. Yet why should ...
The life that you want begins the moment you embrace the life you have because all of it is a miracle.
I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get ...
The world was FUBAR now.
Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
Now," said Brandons low, cold voice. "Lets not be rude eve.
The wave paused, and then drew out again, sighing like a sleeper whose breath comes and goes unconsciously.
I remembered her once saying that life was like your shoes. You couldn't simply expect or imagine that your shoes would fit perfectly. Shoes that ...
That could be the carrot on the top of the cake
At present our only true names are nicknames.
Just because of its promise of unlimited possibilities technology is an empty form like the most formalistic logic and is unable to determine the content ...
Invest in a couple of really good things - a great, classic coat; a good pair of shoes; and a timeless bag - then fill ...
The pain passes, but the beauty remains
The State, that immune betrayer, which embezzles billions and jails anyone who defrauds it of as much as five marks, would find some pretext for ...
I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.
Your parents are always a big influence on you. They help you make you who you are. The main thing my parents taught me is ...
Best friends are the people who know us best.
No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.
Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful.
Take a stand; go for the right choice. Don't just sit for anything; stand for something. Be specific because sometimes, when the meaning is not ...
All of our current environmental problems are unanticipated harmful consequences of our existing technology. There is no basis for believing that technology will miraculously stop ...
For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that'd be reasonable if he stops killing until the election.
He's cu-ute." Bree LaRue stumbles sideways, shielding her eyes with one hand. "Aww, look at his hair. And the chin! He's like Laurence Olivier, and ...
A great novelist excels on the small scale and the large, the individual leaf and root as well as the forest; good fiction convinces us ...
I sense an insatiable demand for connectivity. Maybe all these people have discovered important uses for the Internet. Perhaps some of them feel hungry for ...
So it wasn't actually that bad, it took a couple of weeks to sort of get used to uh, you know, standing around and pretending ...
Religion is a tool used by wicked people to twist other people into doing the things they want them to do".
The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.
I'll go walking in circlesWhile doubting the very ground beneath meTrying to show unquestioning faith in everything
I do know this ... I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to ...
You're too busy being you that you don't realize how utterly unprecedented you are.
Emancipation resulting in madness. Unlimited freedom to choose and play a tremendous variety of roles with a lot of coarse energy.
The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
It seems to me that the least deserving recipients of wealth are inheritors. Further, there are many indications that inheritors often have trouble adjusting to ...
Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future ...
How does it happen? At what point is she born, the baffled, wounded adult of tomorrow? Is eleven what we react to for the rest ...
Oh, mercy, there is nothing monstrously ugly about you. Ruth may be unpleasing, but you are merely plain. If anything, it's my beauty that's monstrous, ...
I was a personal trainer for about a decade. I competed in powerlifting, and I did a bodybuilding competition. I was heavily entrenched in the ...
I've loved one girl. That's you, Evan Lennox
In order to approximate dinosaurian physiology, the trio of scientists carried out the unenviable task of sticking thermometers in the cloacae of American alligators.
It's the people without the money and the power, who desperately want to live, for those people small things aren't small at all.
It seems to me like Mother Nature's mercy and forgiveness have run dry, as we ceaselessly abuse her and take her for granted in order ...