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Now the power of the imagination is a unifying power, hence the force of metaphor; and the poet is the supreme manipulator of metaphor ... ...

You see, Harry, after you've been through a few adventures you tend to catch the hang of these things. You start to see the pattern, ...

We do not need religion, and we do not need regulations and rituals. We need Christ to be our spiritual food.

Benedick looked to the ceiling as though begging for divine patience. Or for the Lord to strike his sister down. Callie couldn't quite discern which.

It is the obligation of Westboro Baptist Church to put the cup of God's fury to America's lips, and cause America to drink it. And ...

You can't take responsibility for everything. You can't have that kind of control At some point, it's all out of our hands.

Today, unfortunately, the right to vote seems to have become a partisan issue. Democrats seek to guarantee and expand voting rights. Republicans try to undermine ...

If I was producing something, it wouldn't make sense to me to cast somebody because of who their father is because that doesn't put anyone ...

The delight which the mariner feels, when, after having been tossed about for many a day, he steps again upon the solid shore, is the ...

Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me.

I knew he used women as counters in a game, Bobby Quine versus time and the night of cities. And Rikki had turned up just ...

Anger, ego, jealousy are the biggest diseases,Keep yourself aloof from these three diseases.

People keep asking me, "Where do you get the ideas for your books?"From the worst moments in my life.I call that "literature through disaster." I ...

Space may be the final frontier but it's made in a Hollywood basement.

But to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.

I'm not a summertime guy. The only time I really enjoy the summer is touring and performing because there is nothing else for me to ...

I am appalled by the notion of cultural wars.

When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.

Over at our place, we're sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we ...

Ivan tells Anna: I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman ... as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing ...

Tim Price has captured my imagination on many occasions with his forward thinking arrangements and wonderfully captivating playing. He is a unique musician made more ...

The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal. Without such a goal, chastity ...

If the Obama administration responds with an even harsher hand against me, they can be assured that they'll soon find themselves facing an equally harsh ...

The candle's flame washed her in a sensual bath of pulsating light, and Hans became entranced by the soft glow upon her skin.

Doubt is a powerful tool. Doubt challenges my beliefs and breaks the spell of all the lies and superstitions that control my world. I use ...

The way of life is not as easy as some people think ... like me.

At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.

I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.

Nothing works unless you do the work.

It doesn't really make sense. Guess it's not supposed to.

The gospel messages you share will be accepted more readily if your Christlike example is evident in the ongoing pattern of your posts.

Recognizing our shortcomings is a crucial first step on the path to making better decisions, creating better societies, and fixing our institutions.

The subconscious n conscious mind together comprise functional brain which operates 24 hours a day as a kind of computer, selecting and registering data n ...

Grandmothers are the best female superheroes and I don't know why they don't have their own special day and month of the year to celebrate.

I couldn't make up anything as weird as what is.

The kind of hero worship you have, when a parent is lost early and you don't know all their faults and misgivings, is a very ...

Quand me" me Dieu n'existerait pas, la religion serait encore sainte et divineDieu est le seul e" tre qui, pour re gner, n'ait me" me ...

One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.

I listen a lot to rap, and I'm inspired to take it, to use it in another way, to get the message across.

Let the soul be drawn out and upward, that God may grant us a breath of the heavenly atmosphere. We may keep so near to ...

Beastliness means taking that is unrightful [of someone's else right], eating that is unrightful, thinking of accumulating things which is unrightful [not of one's own ...

When the bee to the earth does fall, the butterfly comes back to change all.

Sylvie considered that children should be toughened up early, the better to take the blows in later life.

Once in a while, I smell Clive on my skin and it stops my day. It's a train crossing; I wait to pass. Eventually the ...

Scanning through her friend requests, I delete all the males who requested to be her friend. I don't like those creepy fuckers.

Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, ...

I would not have had anything to eat if it wasn't for the stuff the audience threw at me.

Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.

I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake ...

I really never get recognized at all for anything.

The first thing politicians ask after these tragedies is essentially: "What can we do to limit the freedom of the people?"And that is the wrong ...

The prestige of the news is founded on the unstated assumption that our lives are forever poised on the verge of critical transformation thanks to ...

The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.

Kenneth MacAlpin unifies the Picts and the Scots.

When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.

I guess I showed certain signs of being a workaholic in early years; I had a magazine route very early on - I must have ...

She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying ...

A seeker of silences am I, and what treasure have I found in silences that I may dispense with confidence?

I don't think an artist does well without limitations.

Are you still trying to please God with your own works? Isaiah makes it clear, your efforts cannot purchase what you need. You need living ...

Allowance, by convention, and because it is felt to be the right and proper thing to love them. And in the sect - fairly large ...

Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thoughtand ...

Sharon Shinn is a lover of words and a builder of worlds. She makes science-fiction seem like fantasy. Her characters jump off the page, finding ...

The leader is the bell ringer, the trumpet blower, the drum beater, the vibration maker, and the vision caster ... A great leader imparts the ...

[Rosa Louise] Parks used to say, "Everybody looks at me because I sat down once in Montgomery, but the real hero is a woman named ...

Life punishes the undisciplined.

What drives me to you, drives me insane.

We belong to Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour.

Sometimes I miss hamburgers, I should say that. I miss the tuna pizzas at Mercer Kitchen.

One should have expected some terrible enormities charged to those who are excluded from heaven, as the reason; but no, - they are condemned for ...

There are lots of threats to you in the world. There's the threat of a heart attack for genetic reasons. You can't sit there and ...

Ignore ignorance. The ultimate way to deal with men with ignorant mentality who are ignorance of your purpose on earth is to ignore their ignorance; ...

Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.

It's almost been worth this depression to find out how little our big men know.

Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results.

Your forces will try to use shields, but I can tell you from experience that shields don't work. Shields key off life. They have nothing ...

He looks like the rich-boy villain in an '80s teen movie - the one who bullies the sensitive misfit, the one who will end up ...

If you're not really into something, you don't put the time in, so you don't get good at it. Passion is the key to everyone's ...

For the husband, the male prostate can only be accessed through the anus. It is called the "male G-spot" as it is reportedly a source ...

It hurts me when seeing a girl cry ... I want to comfort them as long as I can ... or I'll end up crying ...

My life is perfect because I accept it as it is.

Stories will get you killed.

His bed was where they slept and where the great thing people warned about or giggled about took place. It was not so much painful ...

He'd removed his helmet, revealing a babyish face that didn't go with his military haircut or his big burly frame. He looked like a toddler ...

When we hear the bird sing, it hears only how to love. (Quand on entend l'oiseau chanter, - Lui n'entend que comment aimer.)

Art is neither a muscle nor a cure for ugliness. Ugliness has its own reasons and convictions to stay here. Art has a patience of ...

I hope that the entire Senate votes to say that if you're on the terrorist watch list - not just the no-fly list, which is ...

Just one punch. In the eyeball. With a spoon.

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

I'm this superphilosophical kind of person. Stuck in a prison of abstract ideas and overpowering emotions, I have this personality that makes it really hard ...

I couldn't love a movie much more than 'Dazed and Confused.' I would argue that 'Dazed and Confused: The Series' would have been very much ...

I'm not talking about reforming #Islam..it is to reform the #Muslim minds & the Muslim understandings of the texts.

He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.

I hit Damian Fuller with a left hook that left him laid out for 30-45 minutes. They brought oxygen to him, they couldn't wake him ...

They have stopped my destiny,as I have lost one that I love,I must say it: I will diebecause I have nobody now.But what is done ...

The sight of all the boys in their uniforms immediately provoked an unpleasant emotion in Blue. It was a long-held, multi-headed sensation formed from judgement, ...

Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only as it applied ...

Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been delivered late and ...

Don't look now, but that's my ex over there."Surely I'm not the only one who takes "don't look now" as "there's no better time than ...