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I founded Grameen Bank to provide loans to those considered traditionally unbankable. Grameen Bank works with the poorest and often illiterate, providing uncollateralized micro-loans for ...

Ian Rankin's Rebus is the king of modern British crime fiction. He is dour, determined, and constantly falls foul of his seniors. For all this, ...

It's one thing to say you're for the war; it's another thing to send your kid to war - your daughter or your son.

Summon your inner courage to ensure you strive unhindered - toward your chosen goals.

Seagulls were the souls of dead soldiers. Owls were the souls of women. Doves were the recently departed souls of unmarried girls. Was

I was undeterred by the danger of traveling as a single American woman through Taliban-governed land. I believed in the stories I wanted to tell, ...

Kat is sitting cross-legged on the floor in her underwear and red T-shirt, leaning in to her laptop. I'm on the lip of the bed ...

But the rain gods went away. They ain't coming back, either." "How do you know that?" "They got no reason to. We don't believe in ...

Don't judge me. Ethics and morality no longer exist in our world. It's a luxury of the past, afforded only to those who had a ...

Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?

God' is whatever is the next obvious step towards wholeness in yourself and your life; 'Ego' is whatever within you stops you taking it.

You can't expect a man to change in one day by watching a film, right?

Scary things only go on in our minds if we let them. Monsters don't live under beds; in our minds is where they truly reside. ...

A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.""That's only three."Alvis finished his wine. "You have to do disappointment twice.

The holy Cross goes forward; it brings joy and consolation to every quarter where Christians live; and these God-fearing people, elated, stand in their doorways ...

People always ask my mom what I did as a kid. My mom says, "He wasn't a bad kid. He was never an unruly kid, ...

The thing about magic is everyone wants to own some, most so badly they're willing to beg and borrow and steal it from whomever they ...

Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.

There are forces in nature called Love and Hate. The force of Love causes elements to be attracted to each other and to be built ...

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

If it had a social security number, Ronan had fought with it.

'Newsies' is definitely aerobic! The boys have to do a lot more than I do in the show, but for 'King of New York,' the ...

Not one of us knows what we can do, until one fine day, we stand up and do it.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

A child's growth is defined entirely by the adult that raises him.

Give it to me, she wanted to scream. Give me the pain. Let me take it from you.

There is nothing as sad, nothing as unutterably sad, as an old man crying.

There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.

God allows our circumstances to change, so we can learn to love Him in all situations. Our love for God is based on an unchanging ...

Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration; just think how many bombs that would buy!

I always just get excited about the character. When something rings true for me, then I'm ready to do it.

You check out the cover, you check out the backward, you check out the author, you check out the tittle, you check out the content ...

How old are you?" asks Plastic again."That doesn't matter," says StingRay. "What matters is how much stuff I know. People who know a lot of ...

Every minute now should be the Father of some Strategem.

The tribal community lived in the totality of circular time; the farmers of God's universe understood before and after; workers of the clockwork universe lived ...

The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.

The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which, fanatically convinced of its ...

You want to be single?I said yes. And then I told her that I thought single was a stupid term. It made it sound like ...

Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken.

It's so fun to play a character that has so many layers that people won't even know, until the next season.

The immoral man always sees the moral man as immoral, just a way for him to justify his immorality.

It stings to clean a wound, to poke it and prod it until certain that any contagions have been excised, but we want to heal.

A real apology cost something, because you had to stand there like an idiot and say it out loud for the world to hear - ...

And then, despite all these concerns, Arnette felt her mind begin to loosen, the images of the day unwinding inside her like a spool of ...

There's no disaster that can't become a blessing, and no blessing that can't become a disaster.

The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on ...

There are no perfect men of course, but some are more perfect than others, and we can use all of those we can get.

All the wounds of society, the wounds of poverty, of vice, of ignorance - all will be laid bare. Is there not something re-assuring in ...

Instructions do not just happen; they require explanation. In scientific study, to state that a person (or God) thought them up is not acceptable.

HAMMOpen the window.CLOVWhat for?HAMMI want to hear the sea.CLOVYou wouldn't hear it.HAMM Even if you opened the window?CLOVNo.HAMMThen it's not worth opening it?CLOVNo.HAMM(violently)Then open it!

What if we are designed as sensitive antennas, receptors to receive love, a longing we often mistake as a need to be impressive? What if ...

Why do you think politicians send soldiers to the wars they declare, if, of course, they still go to the bother of declaring them ... ...

The best thing about improv is that no matter how bad your show is, it's only 30 minutes, and never exists again. The worst thing ...

I don't watch the show - only bits and pieces of all of them. The only one I sat through was the pilot.

If in life you stumble make it part of you dance." -author unknown

In short, all good things are wild and free.

My biggest enemy for the longest time was my head. When I first became successful, it made me anxious because I was overthinking everything, and ...

We hold our tongues in check because if they are undisciplined they empty the soul of the strength of heavenly grace, and weaken its healthful ...

Success is nothing without someone you love to share it with.

I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with ...

If you really want to find your voice, your goal is to journey toward inner wholenesswhich is what life is about anyway. It involves self-acceptance ...

It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.

I need to be the best Chris Brown I can be,

Eve hugged him and whispered in his ear, "Careful. I'm fatal." He needed to remember that warning.He whispered back, holding her hair so she couldn't ...

Make yourself look really stupid so you don't feel bad doing something a little stupid.

It is really astonishing how few colors are inharmonious when they are profusely massed and have green for a background.

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

Here I saw a city rise and say to the peoples round world: Listen, I am strong, I know what I want.

Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with ... the theory that God retired ...

I have a really vivid imagination and I find it difficult to read scenes of complete graphic violence. That's not to say that graphic violence ...

The problem in modern America is not that an individual can't make a difference, but that nearly all of us are too distracted to even ...

Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all predictions. ...

What happens to you during Life may seem out of your control; how you perceive each experience, however... good or bad... is totally up to ...

The last time someone dried my hair for me was in sixth grade, when i broke my arm." "How did you break it?" "I fell ...

As lost as I get, I will find you, Heather. Always - Dante

Short-term market and economic prognostication is largely a fool's errand, we invest according to a strategy that makes the need to rely on short-term market ...

I wasn't a troublemaker. I wasn't impertinent. The teachers liked me. But year after year, the comments on my report cards basically came down to ...

I handle screenings and award ceremonies really badly.

And let me say this ahead of time, if someone dies in Psycho-Pass 2, it's Ubukata Tow's fault and not mine!

It was good of you to look for Quentin." "Good!" she exclaimed. "Good! O Anthony!" "Well, so it was," he answered. "Or good in you. ...

The only thing I'm afraid of losing... is you.

Meditation is a silent way of looking at resistance. You're not running away from it you're sitting with the resistance ... basically you're trying to ...

Each and every day, Israel's very existence is at stake.

I want to be a playwright the way people are bank tellers. I want to keep doing it and have it go steadily and smoothly.

If you have something to get off of your chest, there is a proper way to do it. Everybody has a bad day, and, for ...

Like a feather in the air,Like a leaf in the sea,I surrender to thee,I surrender to thee.-RVM

I've spent many birthdays on a movie set, all great days.

Do you think Patrick Swayze now goes up behind people in pottery classes and hugs them just to crack up other ghosts?

A utility can handle up to 20% of production from solar and that helps the grid because it produces electricity when needed. Solar power peaks ...

It simply isn't a woman's nature to be silent for prolonged periods of time.

We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.

A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your ...

Are we rich?" "We're unstoppable.

Some days success just means not giving up.

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

I announce adhesiveness-I say it shall be limitless, unloosen'd;I say you shall yet find the friend you were looking for.

You may have been lost in a dark world but it is up to you to shine a light so bright you can see properly.

Sometimes you do have a good time. But when it gets to the point where you're sitting in your home and you're just trying to ...

When what is is congruent to what is supposed, the reaction is functional and the mental processes competent. When what is and what is supposed ...