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It is not that I have no past. Rather, it continually fragments on the terrible and vivid ephemera of now.
A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.
You are closer to me than my breath,
I have found that as your wisdom and maturity develop, the number of other people you blame for your own circumstances shrinks.
The way China is looking to boost consumer spending is astounding. They are going to boost the minimum wage by 13 percent a year every ...
Sometimes we get confused and believe that our gift must bring us money or success or fame.
It would be so much easier if there were a secret password, or handshake. Netherworld,open sesame!Yeah, that didn't work, either.
All color is no color.
Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to ...
Within her presence, I had once been usedto feeling - trembling - wonder, dissolution;but that was long ago. Still, though my soul,now she was veiled, ...
So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.
If we being to ready the Bible daily; we will awake the divinity of our souls.
We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest ...
But in the slow, attentive reading demanded by unpunctuated texts, the faculty of hearing has its chance, is enhanced until the text speaks itself.
For love to eliminate pain is to waste it, for it is love alone that possesses sufficient force to bend pain against everything that would ...
Less welcome to the people of Paneron is the STIFLER, a humid wind that brings the allergenic pollen of carp-weed bushes from nearby unpopulated islands.
Let's make lists of all the things that make us smile and tick them off, one at a time. The world will carry on without ...
The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.
There is a difference between longing to be a child (again), and longing to have a child-like enthusiasm. One is that an adult can stop ...
I had never let myself fantasize about being with someone my own age, because it stopped being a fantasy at that point. It entered the ...
There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year.
You cannot undo the past; you can only learn to live with it, find some way of making peace with it, and move on.
Mexico is the only country in the world that has a trade agreement with United States and Canada, and at the same time has one ...
People can only love you as much as they love themselves. Sometimes you have to live with that. Even when it hurts your heart, and ...
In one particularly dramatic case, an officer instinctively grabbed the gun out of the hands of an assailant and then instinctively handed it right back ...
It is believed that the average person uses no more than 10% of his or her potential. Ten percent! We're not even scratching the surface ...
Love is not something you plan, it just happens.
We have a great time on that show, and we enjoy one another's company on stage and off. And sitcoms don't have bad schedules. We ...
One thing that's unique to 'Uncharted' is something called 'chasing picture,' where Naughty Dog run a section of gameplay and I'm allowed to ad-lib over ...
Self-love is an unfolding process that gains strength over time, not a goal with a fixed end point.
Miss the audience's heart as a filmmaker, and the only wallet that gets hit will be your own. That's because the heart is always the ...
Presently the small of coffee began to fill the room. This was morning's hallowed moment. In such a fragrance the perversity of the world is ...
E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle" ("and thence we came forth to see again the stars")
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left ...
When you like people you forgive their faults and look past their mistakes.
I can't say this too often - that a little humor can make life worth living. That has always been my credo. Somebody once asked ...
There is an enduring freshness in what remains strange and obscure which the cliches of greatness can only evoke nostalgia for.
I never knew that I would be performing on talk shows with Sia.
I haven't danced since 1973; I'm too old.
It would be a disaster to have Sarah Palin or Carly Fiorina in the White House, so it's not just a woman, but a woman ...
That won't excuse me for presuming to give my heart to you. It's not your fault you broke it.
Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not ...
My mistake was in underestimating the emotional force of a song you have already hear a thousand times.
Besides all that, she's hilarious and warm and knows when I need a hug, and just how long the hug needs to be for me ...
Aim for believable growth, take immediate and ongoing action, under promise and over deliver, and work only on stuff that matters, and your financial destiny ...
I think the image of golfers is terrific, and rightly so.
Instead of the word 'love' there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words ...
Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he ...
At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.
But once a girl's heart is stolen, it's never returned.
There hasn't been a serious life-style trend since the couch potato was sighted, in about 1986, on one of its rare forays to the video ...
Full of men, vacant of friends.
Such grave uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is also the obscure country where it must seek and where ...
It's necessary when you follow the path of love to love those around you first. Desire tells us that we should have someone else in ...
Anywhere is paradise; it's up to you.
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
Life is a process of working out what's not working for you and disentangling yourself from it and trying then not walk into the same ...
As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.
If you don't share the blessings you receive with others, the Universe will stop sharing blessings with you.
Finding shelter with nomads in the desert during summer was a matter of survival for me and my animals.
As one student said, Lower your standards and relax as it is.
When will it no longer be necessary to attach special weight to the word 'woman' and raise it specially?
This life is but the passage of a day,This life is but a pang and all is over;But in the life to come which fades ...
It occurred to me that perhaps in this city the crowd was essential to the individual; without it, he had nothing against which to scrape ...
I would rather have people be even cynical about me than to feed the negative vibe. Y
The attitude of invincibility flees at the first encounter of injury, disease, or loss of a loved one.
Love is the poetry of our feelings. But there are some horrible poems.
Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn't something you get; it's something you give
Today, we can see with our own eyes what global warming is doing. In that context it becomes truly irresponsible, if not immoral, for us ...
What?" I ask."I'm developing a theory.""And it is?"She picks up her hamburger, grins, and says, "That you have a death wish.
I decided to coin the term 'cosy crime noir' for Brighton Belle. That is 'cosy crime' for today's sensibilities because there is that slightly edgy ...
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
It's about not accepting every challenge thrown at you. Sometimes you hold back and when it's needed you go for it.
Events and developments that we have observed in 2014, prove that this year will be very difficult for the world economy, but thoughtful economic policy, ...
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.
The sun stopped shining for me is all. The whole story is: I am sad. I am sad all the time and the sadness is ...
If you feel some tremendous pressure to do everything perfectly so you won't have a horrible incarnation in your next life - that type of ...
Dag insists that all dogs secretly speak the English language and subscribe to the morals and beliefs of the Unitarian church ...
Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.
The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the ...
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.
If you know what you believe and why you believe it, you'll avoid poisonous relationships, toxic jobs, fair-weather friends, and any number of ills that ...
The same tools we need to use to keep this country safe by bringing terrorists to justice, because I guarantee you, if they have the ...
I have become an enigma to myself. So said Saint Augustine. And herein lies my sickness.
Fear is a shadow of false perception and unreal imaginations.
Ropes of silver gliding from sunny thunder into freshness.
I'm a lazy man. With lazy dreams. I need Tai to wake me up, make me vibrate, irritate me. I need my angry woman, my ...
Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems.
Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.,
This pain you are avoiding is a very necessary pain that will make you strong again.
There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers of ...
The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
The Eisenhower Memorial competition and project have stirred a remarkable polemic, the center of which is not President Eisenhower or Washington, D.C. but Mr. Gehry ...
You live your life, I live mine. And the rest we'll live together.
Val Kilmer gave my husband, David Mamet, a Randall knife as a gift when the two of them were making the film 'Spartan.'
I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I read or not ...
I only know that since he left,My life's so empty.Though I try to forget,It just can't be done.
Love. We're a hell of a long ways off from that, but I can see the flicker of something in the distance. The question is: ...
I don't need to marry again. I've been married twice, and I love it when it works, but these days we live until we're 80 ...