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I ran my first race the end of March, 1976. And less than four months later I was Olympic champion. But I had the background. ...

When her mind was discomposed ... a book was the opiate that lulled it to repose.

Part of the reason I am so evangelical in our campaigning work is that I had an unshakeable faith in Labour values, but we needed ...

Most fundamentally, the U.S. military is - and will continue to be - a product of our culture and our collective decisions. Whatever it is, ...

Yeah, me and Q-Tip is cool outside of the business, but you know, within the business sometimes it can get ugly, you know what I ...

Personal force, determined spirit and self confidence are your greatest self.

(LBJ) had what a journalist calls "a genius for analogy" - made the point unforgettably, in dialect, in the rhythmic cadences of a great storyteller. ...

We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, ...

My ideal date would involve painful silence. My ideal date wouldn't involve me.

Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.

...Bad leaders are known to destroy one, more or even all of the foundations of their people's way of life...

The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany.

Normally, I would run with a group of guys in my camps. A couple of days before the fight, I would run by myself. That ...

I don't believe all this just happened," Nicole said. "Not on another planet. Not anywhere. Natural evolution simply does not result in the kind of ...

I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed.

Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily ...

The question isn't so much, Are you parenting the right way? as it is: Are you the adult you want your child to grow up ...

He who sins easily, sins less. The very powerRenders less vigorous the roots of evil.

Every couple has two stories - the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version best left alone.

Writers don't write about just anybody.

After the bitching I'd done to Abe about going to remote, crappy places, I should have been excited about the prospect of going to Sin ...

I liked Pritkin loud and bitching, in other words, his normal state. I didn't like it when he got quiet.

That does not surprise me,' Annie said and once again hung up the phone thinking that she had chosen to surround herself with people who ...

She has been surprised by grief, its constancy, its immediacy, its unrelenting physical pain.

When I was at school you got an overall general education on many things, even just basic facts.

Some encounter me in person, know I am a writer, and don't trust the value of my words. Some encounter my books, know me later, ...

It seemed to me that a lot of people started going to art school recently because they thought they could be famous and make a ...

The church is no more religion than the masonry of the aqueduct is the water that flows through it.

The truth of the matter is, I will miss being the commander in chief of such a fabulous group of men and women those who ...

I'm gonna keep Social Security without change, except I'm going to get rid of the waste, fraud, and abuse; same thing with Medicare.

- I saw the Center of the Universe, she said. - I'm looking at it right now, he said.

There's a time to be silent - to build up a reason to sing again.

My mum is about five foot with her hair done. Without it she's about four foot 10.

When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.

She had a way of speaking that eschewed intonation. It was a leveler, making the ordinary seem extraordinary and vice versa.

There is no need to dream in nature because you are already inside the dream!

Interfacing street sculpture in public space creates an installation environment that turns regular space into art space. Signs and people and everything around a street ...

The fact is that roughly two-thirds of all fiction purchases are made because the consumer is already familiar with the author.

You have something called "determination." so as long as you hold on... so as long as you do what's in your heart... i believe you ...

There is no thing to see: you simply need to see that.

The world opened up for me once I decided to embrace who I am - unapologetically

She has probably never had a real man in her life; never felt a dick slide so deep she sees God.

Grief doesn't have a face.

How much do they be paying you?" he asked mellowly."The usual salary. A little more than they think I'm worth and a little less than ...

I don't know that there is too far, actually. I think there's only too bad. If it's bad you've gone too far.

The world's full of groundless ill will. I'll never understand it, you'll never understand it, but it exists all the same.

Even though people involved in racing think that it has a big sporting stage, it is a minority sport compared to some of the other ...

If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...

Islam asserts that on the unappealable Day of Judgment every perpetrator of the image of a living creature will be raised from the dead with ...

Something about being that close to him all the time made my bones feel weak.

I'm someone who is quite uncomfortable if something is different. I like doing things I'm used to in everyday life. So, I always try to ...

Canadian weather resembles a slightly spoiled beautiful girl with a good heart, but a bad disposition. After being horrid for much too long a time, ...

I love to compete. That's the essence of who I am.

When I have a little down time, I like to go to the gym and try to bank some hours there. I like to spend ...

I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy ...

But clothing themselves in the trappings of democracy, dictators may, like drag queens, tend to overdo it, and Napoleon wanted there to be no doubt ...

Courage is not a matter of gender.

The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to ...

Conflict is part of being a foreign correspondent; spending long hours talking to politicians in capitals is another part of it.

Where are all the sour patch parents?

She's my girlfriend. - Park ( Eleanor and Park )

We don't take on Google Glass or the self-driving car project or Project Loon unless we think that on a risk-adjusted basis, it's worth Google's ...

I think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

I have a natural curiosity about things, in general. I'm constantly trying to find out how things work and how I can put them back ...

When I gained weight in 2005, my nutritionist was very worried. I was close to having diabetes.

I've had long hair, I've had short hair, and I've had in between hair ... and its all good.

The propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregard the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ...

Trying to take the credit for Jamie Carragher and Steven Gerrard, who had been at the club since they were eight. Can you believe it? ...

Maybe the trick was not to panic. In life, as in the bewildering business of writing stories and flinging them out into the world, you ...

Include and grow. Include and expand.

Now I'm kind of different. I'm not saying I lost my spark - I still have it - but I don't chase the goal as ...

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe nothing's wrong and I'm just paranoid. I'll know when they come in. I'll see it in their faces.

Being a public person doesn't necessarily mean you're a piece of meat for everybody.

I always believe in doing new things and using new materials that I have never used or that I didn't like for a long time.

Grace? Undeserved kindness? Blessings? Whatever we call it, I'm pretty sure we get doses of luck more than we'll ever know.

My left hand is my thinking hand (image), my right hand my doing hand (sequence).

You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.

She kissed me on the mouth. Her mouth tasted like iced coffee and cardamom, and I was overwhelmed by the taste, her hot skin and ...

U-boat commanders called this their 'Happy Time'. Between January and July 1942 they sank 495 merchantships and 142 tankers, a total of 2,500,000 tons. Why ...

Getting C programmers to understand that they cause the computer to do less than minimum is intractable. ... Ask him why he thinks he should ...

In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled ...

Perhaps only a Genius can truly understand Genius.

Dead infants don't get urns unless you pay for them - and then they stuff crap in besides just ashes to cover the smallness.

Has anyone else here seen or fought a nightmare?"Marshal Spence Neumann lifted his head. "Seen one. Swear to God it looked like my ex-wife for ...

I just keep working on things I like, and hope for the best. I hope people enjoy them.

We don't have to live in a world where everyone reacts perfectly the first time around, and if you don't, everything falls apart, and no ...

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.(As quoted ...

I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about. I just stand there and sing. And I don't do stunts or anything. if ...

What is reasoned has nothing to do with what is reasonable.

Jacob's concept: The concept of Asperger's is like a flavoring added to a person and although my concentration is higher than those of others, if ...

I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to ... a total solution of the Jewish question in those territories of Europe ...

Rick Santorum beat Mitt Romney in three states on Tuesday. Got a huge amount of fundraising. That's the good news for Rick Santorum. The bad ...

God - it's merely shorthand for where we come from, where we're going and what it's all about

Service makes men competent.

I've always wanted to do things differently, and if one person or ten people are doing the same, then I want to do it differently. ...

You know, it gets frustrating, because you know in your heart where you were and what you said, and then people doubt you. And that's ...

I've gotten rid of the yips four times but they hang in there. You know those two-foot downhill putts with a break? I'd rather see ...

For every woman who's ever wondered about the path not taken, Fenton and Steinke mine - with tremendous humor and insight - the mixed blessing ...

So how exactly was I supposed to wrap my head around the whole thing? I wasn't entirely sure I could trust this guy. I mean, ...