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When someone is trying to interpret something for you, they always have an agenda.
The Snow-drop, Winter's timid child,Awakes to life, bedew'd with tears.
To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
If we leave the European Union it's a risk to our economy - it's a risk to pensioners, it's a risk to homeowners, it's a ...
The recipe. It made me feel small, but anchored. Tied to a thing that
For too long the pro-life movement has been shouting conclusions rather than establishing facts. Staying focused on the status of the unborn brings moral clarity ...
That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead, into deserts, under ...
Once you considered failure you were one step farther away from success.
We instinctively wave to people on trains because trains are a metaphor for being alive: countless souls, trapped together, hurtling across the landscape, with a ...
We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that, but ...
Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
J. J. Abrams is amazing.
When the soul is consciously awakened can it comprehend the acquiescence of Muhammad, the unshakable foundation of Abraham and the very nature of Christ, equating ...
Implicit memory system that
I've gone through a really hard divorce, and anyone who has gone through a divorce will speak about how hard the journey is from start ...
Christmas seems to say that paradise lost and longed for does not have to be paradise given up on.
Sometimes, when we are labeled, when we are branded, our brand becomes our calling;
The only magazines I read are car magazines.
While most would agree with Socrates that, "the unexamined life is not worth living," a lesser-known quote by Sheldon Kopp might be more important here: ...
It's much easier to teach writing, because people are less shy about writing. If they're in a group, nobody can see what they're writing. When ...
Having played in Boston will help me a ton moving to New York.
The guy was almost as tall as Doc, which put him in the six-foot-five range. And he was broad, with dark hair, but man, the ...
Back when I was a kid, we had a saying, 'Unlucky at love, lucky at grand theft auto,'" Charley said.
There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in ...
I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.
A man needed all of his wits dealing with a woman. Too often even that was not enough;
Because we're suffering from brain fade. We need an occasional catastrophe to break up the incessant bombardment of information.
The fact is that everyone is much too busily preoccupied with himself to be able to form a serious opinion about another person. The indolent ...
I'll think nice things about mywife, she looks so small thereunder the blanket, a littlelump, that's all(death, you take me first, please)this lady needs a ...
I worked through memories like weeping wounds. I wrote tedious accounts of petty conflicts and read them aloud to people. I removed layer after layer ...
It's sort of another innovation, probably a good innovation, of Western culture to separate the ideas between science and philosophy, but it's important to remember ...
Love is not a possession to hoard. You give it away. It's a blessing and a balm.
The downside to becoming a doctor, I think, is it's a very long process; four years of medical school, three years of internship, two years ...
THE COLONIES OF AMERICA C L O U D . M E D I T E C H . D E S C O N ...
It's OKAY to be scared. Being scared means you're about to do something really, really brave.
The only scenes I can stand in any of the Star Wars films are the quiet scenes in the second one, The Empire Strikes Back. ...
Good-bye, Cadan,' I said, backing out the door.'If I hear anything new, I'll come to you.''Be careful,' I warned. 'My guard dog bites.'He grinned, and ...
It's almost like when you're young, your friends take on the romance role, and then guys take on the role of your friends later.
Distrust all those in whom the urge to punish is strong.
There is no definition of terrorism and there is still the reality that one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter.
There was no time in Lestat's plan for anything but his plan.
I've never boxed before in my life. I've had one day's training at a boxing gym, and it's an incredibly difficult sport.
I keep your soulIn my ageing wallet,The unimportant stuff(Money, cards, coins)Stay loose in my pocket,A place as fickle as they.
Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror
If the colour of life turns grey turn the palette the other way
Honestly, we'll compete with everybody. I love competition. As long as people invent their own stuff, I love competition.
The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.
It is possible with pure willpower to force the kundalini up the shushumna, through the chakras. You will develop visions of other worlds that will ...
I think I'd rather have my heart broke than do the breaking. - Lena
Sometimes he spent hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hoards of dusty and obsolete works ...
Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot ...
What I have learnt is that it is important to pursue your passion more than your legacy; if you have a passion with a purpose, ...
I have an uncompromising relationship with my goals.
I gulped, mesmerized by his hypnotic eyes and charming, spearmint smile, and uttered something intelligent like,"Uh, huh." ~ from Dragon Flight
I acted like Cary Grant for so long that I became Cary Grant
I hope this serves as a light for others who come into the league as undrafted players.
M.T. Stone was the poster boy for what an assassin should look like.
He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender ...
Half the world knows not how the other half lies.
I have been sitting around waiting for an opportunity to get to do something that matters for so long. Not just that matters in the ...
Everyone at the bar turned toward The Breeze and waited, as if the next few words he spoke would reveal the true meaning of life, ...
I think animals should be free. There's so much other food out there that doesn't have to involve you in that cycle of pain and ...
In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find ...
In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U.S.S.R. law ...
You'd better hope Creevey doesn't meet Ginny, they'll be starting a Harry Potter fan club.
Lifting my hands from the keyboard, I fold them in my lap and tilt back my desk chair. I think, I could do it. I ...
Sexy is a girl who's comfortable with herself. Long legs are beautiful ... and also a nice neck.
UTC is very well positioned to take advantage of 2 large megatrends: urbanization and the fast-growing commercial aerospace market.
Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings ...
On the Day of Judgment, the servant of Allah will be given his book of deeds, where he finds rewards for things he did not ...
We may be able to predict when it shall rain but the exact second when the first rain drop shall hit the ground is always ...
If a woman wants to fly, first of all she must, of course, abandon skirts and don a knickerbocker uniform.
Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.
In our struggle to understand the history of life, we must learn where to place the boundary between contingent and unpredictable events that occur but ...
Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine. Jiggling your knees blankeyed in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain.
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving ...
MR.GOUDY: I believe you testified that you backed away from Aaron Wharton.MR.COGBURN: That is right.MR.GOUDY: You were backing away?MR.COGBURN: Yes sir. He had that ax ...
They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying of too much choice.
I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.
If a man's thoughts are unsteady, if he does not know the true law, if his peace of mind is troubled, his knowledge will never ...
Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, until ...
For joy, apparently, it was all Franny could do to hold the phone, even with both hands.
Yours be the advantage all, mine the revenge
Be confident. Be compassionate. Be intelligent. Be humble. Be generous. The universe returns to you what you put out.
The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to ...
She was adamant that any organization that labelled one group of people as evil would eventually do the same to others. That to treat any ...
Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.
With the pain jealousy instils and the love hate relationship it creates surely its just easier to appreciate what you have then what you could ...
Desire is like the shadow caused by the morning sun; it gets longer when you run to catch it ...
Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
When that band started out, I was 18 years old. So that was my reality all the way up until I quit the band. And ...
It's been our experience that any time a Muslim community anywhere seeks to expand or establish a mosque or some other kind of institution, there ...
The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story.
Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.
Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.
People will never respond to you more positively than when you seek to make your impact felt at the human level.
An untested faith is an unreliable faith.
The starting point for building great relationships is making wise decisions about who we allow close to us. We need people who will build us ...
If we wish to be happy, monsieur, we must never comprehend duty; for, as soon as we comprehend it, it is implacable. One would say ...
A relationship starting out as one that awakens love can only remain a living vehicle for love to the extent that it is continually made ...