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I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

You can be moderate in a way and still intense in your views. It's the extremism that gets frightening; religious fundamentalism and wacko-left liberalism is ...

You sit back in the darkness, nursing your beer, breathing in that ineffable aroma of the old-time saloon: dark wood, spilled beer, good cigars, and ...

The problem is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid advance communications become disorganized, and there is a temporary halting ...

You don't believe in God, Rachel. You don't believe in goodness or loveor mercy, do you?""I haven't seen enough to form an opinion.""But you believe ...

I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.

Aristotle Onassis rescued me at a moment when my life was engulfed with shadows. He brought me into a world where one could find both ...

Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.

One of the things this world is finding is that emotion is the basis of reason. We really have to trust our emotions, which are ...

Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. ...

At forty-five degrees, the sky will burn. Fire to approach the great new city; in an instant, a great scattered flame will leap up, when ...

SO MANY PEOPLE, SO FEW POETS

The show has boundaries right now we're trying to widen them not break them.

We're novel worthy, day walking, blood sucking, tortured souls trapped in a body that can't die for all eternity with no feelings, no emotions and ...

We can harness the energy of the winds, the seas, the sun . But the day man learns to harness the energy of love, that ...

I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the ...

The Empress will follow where you go," she said."So she will," Mat said. "As I'll follow where she goes, I suppose. I hope that doesn't ...

One rule that will work if it is used everywhere, is that when you have a free-kick, the referee puts the mark on the floor ...

I don't have too many bad days because I just don't let them happen. When I'm having one of those days, I'll just be like. ...

We know everyone we love is going to die, but we don't know it, can't possibly believe it, she thought, or long ago I would ...

You take what you can get, I reckon. You take what you can get.

You are the earth, my dear grandson, and just like it takes everything without complaining, so have you shown us today that you will take ...

But at any rate, one thing was certain. Theconspiracy that he had dreamed of did exist, and he hadreached the outer edges of it.

Things that are different, things that don't fit into our own typical surroundings, do tend to set off some sort of subliminal trigger in most ...

Reality show? You can't find anything better than boxing because of the trials and errors, the ups and downs, the struggle when you get knocked ...

Rio does seem like a lot of fun. It's a wonder the two of you are even friends, she's like sunshine and you're just this ...

Nothing hinders a cure so much as frequent changes of treatment.

Fashion is always uncomfortable. When you get comfortable, you never get the look.

At times the engine stopped, and grown-ups and children climbed out of the carriages with tins to collect water from the engine steam pipes. This ...

Abundance, like everything else in the universe, is simply a specific arrangement of energy and information. With our intention, we can change the energy, add ...

To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

The processing of universals is the job of the unconscious. If we feed it the opposite it breaks; when it breaks we break and the ...

If it were sufficent to love, things would be too easy.

My greatest strength is an unfocused mind. This is because while you are all thinking of one idea, I'm thinking of five different ideas. My ...

We Liberal Democrats don't believe we should use the tax structure to champion just one type of family.

To arrive is to be in prison.

Nothing glows brighter than the heart awakened to the unseen light of love that lives within it.

Alliteration is alarmingly addictive.

Publicity is in essence, nostalgic. It has to sell the past to the future... According to publicity, to be sophisticated is to live beyond conflict.

Alden seems like a very nice boy. The kind of boy I'd like to see you hanging out with." I almost laughed out loud. If ...

I always wear blue shirts and I like wine or purple ties.

Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use ...

The faded glittering in his eyes is like a falling star on a dull autumn's day.

Gaining trust is like filling a bucket one drop at a time.

STRANGELOVE REPRODUCTION: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.

I had the unsettling feeling that I had been completely mistaken as to the very nature of the world I was in, as if every ...

The Lady was medicine bad enough. The Dominator, though, was the body of which her evil was but a shadow. Or so the legend goes. ...

I hear everything he's saying, but mentally I'm picturing a sword hidden in my body like some medieval tampon, and suddenly, I'm afraid to sit ...

To me glamour isn't about being sparkly.

Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.

As chaste as unsunned snow.

If you want to know what the biggest thing in your way to an improved standard of living, higher pay, a more rewarding career is: ...

Although my mother didn't necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an exception for me when I was 14 because she didn't want ...

For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks.

Reason is not the same in all men; human beings belong to a variety of psychological types separated one from another by irreducible differences.

Making the ballet really taught me how to get things moving. Ballet dancers don't stand still.

I say what I think and I think what I say.

Ideology and communication more often than not run into each other rather than complement each other. Principle and communication work together. Ideology and communication often ...

I was just so lucky with 'Real Women Have Curves.' At that point, I would have done an insurance commercial. I would have done anything.

Writing is hard. I mean, I sit there and work at it.

Her godmother, who was a fairy, said, You would like to go to the ball, is that not so?

Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something low-level ...

To start the day without prayer is to suggest the devil is feeble, God is irrelevant, and we can handle things on our own.

I do think imperfection is underrated

I have always respected everyone's ...

When I was starting out, doing guest spots on TV, and even commercials, I would go in with a whole crazy wardrobe and some terrible ...

About women? When I say soldiers I don't mean me. I wasn't no soldier anymore than a man that fixes watches is a watchmaker. And ...

You spend so much of your fucking time trying to save me," he says, "and you don't even realize you're killing me."-Lo to Ryke

You know what I think happened? After 'Rocky,' I was almost set up in the eyes of the media to make a flop.

My childhood gave me a very powerful sense of being spooked. I didn't know whether what I was seeing were sensory images of other people's ...

The first rule to having something is taking care of what you have.

Yet, thousands of africans and young african youths have failed to acknowledge the significant of what madiba gave them. To me, he be called the ...

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

When I'm not dancing, I usually just like to keep it comfy. Even if I'm just going to dinner, I'll wear jeans or something, but ...

I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things ...

The recitation of grievances was strange balm.

I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her ...

- Growth has its season. There are spring and summer, but there are also fall and winter. And then spring and summer again. As long ...

All holy books are, above all, great stories whose plots deal with the basic aspects of human nature, setting them within a particular moral context ...

My career in academic research has not been involved with active management of securities. I've tried to understand risk-and-return relationships; also the pricing of derivative ...

The invention of fire-arms equalized the villein and the noble on the field of battle; printing opened the same resources to the minds of all ...

If you're going to change the food system, there is a lot that you, the consumer, can do on your own; but in the end, ...

When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left ...

And she shrank away again, back into her darkness, and for a long while remained blotted safely away from living.

I turned back. Just put one foot in front of the other. Nothing had changed except the color of the road.

I look at being older and gaining wisdom. I've learned to stay fit and healthy. I accept my body, my life, and my circumstances.

I'm not someone who is glamorous all the time.

Mike Bezos's job took them to Miami - a city Mike had first encountered fifteen years before as a penniless immigrant. Now he was an ...

Caine usually woke from the recurring dream mid-air, having yet to be dashed upon the rocks, whimpering and panting like a child crying for his ...

It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta, to limit the extent to which an aggressive and hostile federal government can ...

That creature's staying?' It figured. Her daughter-in-law transforming into an animal? No problem. Having to take care of a cat? Crisis. (Sydney Sage-Ivashkov)

Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.

The only things we perceive are our perceptions.

Redd Towers Apartments, whose advertising slogan, 'If you lived here, you'd be home by now,' did little to fill vacancies.

The concern around probable questions, which in a sense have been hidden, will grow around the world and the matter is critical, the reason we ...

For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed.

I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult ...

Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's ...