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Each tim I think I am falling for Mister Right, and then what happens? BAM! The guy turns out to be a fraud, a swindling ...

The French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an object of admiration, ...

By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is ...

People like us will never really understand, Evanelle said. We fell in love with the men we were supposed to be with right off the ...

Food is an important part, not just in our physical well-being, but in our psychological well-being.

Even nice things don't make you happy when you're tired.

To love something as an artist ... means to be shaken not by its ultimate value or lack of value, but by a side of ...

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

I know that our country is strongest when we lead the world, when we lead strong alliances. And that's the way Eisenhower and Reagan and ...

Who's to say who's an expert?

For months they'd run their fingers around the hem of their affection without once acknowledging the fabric.

I stopped walking and stared down at my pink painted toenails. That was it. Of course. No, not my choice of polish, although it was ...

Yet her heart did not thirst for emotions like the hearts of sentimental women; she was not searching for a man's unique love nor for ...

Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money ...

Even when I was a grown woman, he [Father] would leave me on the edge of hysteria in all our arguments: though I married and ...

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Every life is worthy and every life is capable of greatness. We have an obligation to make sure that opportunity for greatness is there.

I had gotten used to the idea that people lived and you loved them, or didn't, and then they died and you were bound to ...

There's still time to find him. And people assuming Marc's dead doesn't make him dead. How often does Marc hold to the status quo?

I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow ...

We have to mainstream everybody. No matter what their circumstances when they were growing up. Part of that is knowing that after they're finished with ...

A startling thought this, that a woman could handle business matters as well or better than a man, a revolutionary thought to Scarlett who had ...

Your smile.is the ultimategolden dream.all the poemsin the worldare waking up from.

It seems to me, Monsieur, that there is nothing more galling in great physical misfortunes than to be compelled to make all those about us ...

Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

It was a bright, sunny morning in June when Bill first visited Jacob Kingsley. He flew in through the open window, buzzed about the room ...

Festivus for the Restivus!

It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment ...

Ida Belle took a pair and popped them in her ears. "She's right," she yelled. "That siren is horribly loud. Sounds like a dinosaur-sized cat ...

It always matters who the storyteller is. It's a lens.

It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they've had good educational institutions, and they've had a focus on ...

In the darkest sky, stars hang on high; showing us the light of hope and telling us that dreams never die, don't see the darkness, ...

Forget the veterans. They havent told me anything, and they better not come tell me anything, either.

I want to go down in history.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

Pa? You never said. What'm I gonna be? Good or bad? He kisses the top of my head. Whispers in my ear, so's only him ...

The death penalty doesn't need your assent to continue ... it needs your indifference.

I guess we all feel we're in control and we are, until we're not. The problem is that seldom can we tell when it is ...

I think of the friendships I've strained, the generosity I've exploited, the bridges I've torched. Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; with ...

Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily.

Everyone had an uncle who tried to steal their nose.

[Concerning postmodernism:] The aim of this experimental history is to disturb the ontological security of modern identity and hence to provoke the possibility of otherness ...

[Answering the phone] Hello, this is a recording, you've dialed the right number, now hang up and don't do it again.

Once lively peonies nowwind-weary, and ragged at the edges, hang their heavy crowns; rain on their backs,one final act, beforedetaching from the stemand falling down.

In any story where solutions to mysteries are found, there should always be at least one mystery which remains unsolved.

She would never again lie in bed on a Good Friday morning and relax in the blissful knowledge that there was nothing to do and ...

Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.

Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.

You are not anyone's opinion of you. You are whoever you choose to be.

My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

Sometimes when relationships end, you write an e-mail and say everything you wish you said. Sometimes you don't push send.

You're the reason why I'm fighting here. You're the meaning of my life. And as long as you need me, I keep alive.

It's because you're like that that you're still a virgin, you know.

Marlon Brando said any guy can become an actor. It takes a real man to quit.

People become successful the minute they decide to.

The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered ...

Love me today, love me tomorrow, love me for eternity.

When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just ...

Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.

He needed a gun. A big gun, and a SWAT team, and an army, and maybe Chuck Norris. He

Would I cheat to save my soul? No. But to save my G.P.A.? Yes.

Human beings want to know where things came from, how they were made, and who made them. The stories you tell about the work you ...

By my ridiculously feathered cap!

Let me remember I am one with God. Our shining footprints point the way to truth, for God is our Companion as we walk the ...

I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.

The world invited me many places.

Long or short, if you worry about every step of a journey, you will divide it endlessly into pieces, any one of which may defeat ...

When the senile patient awakens in the morning and asks for his mother, remind him that she is long since dead, that he is over ...

The very nature of the Chinaman holds him back. If his fellow should fall, John thinks it quite proper that he stamp on the underdogs ...

The hopes and fears of all the years are here with us tonight

There are things in life that science will never be able to see. We have to rely on what has been passed from our ancestors, ...

When I begin, theoretically and practically I can smear anything I want on the canvas. Then there's a condition I have to react to, by ...

There is no facet of my professional life that doesn't require or request improvisation.

Until an effort is made to satisfy that wish, the sense of uneasy waiting for something to start which has not started will remain to ...

My mother taught me that an important word in any language is while. while one thing is happening so is another. While someone is in ...

No bounce, no play.

If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?

Also, he had always had a great tolerance which seemed the nicest thing about him if it were not the most sinister.

I saw 'Brokeback Mountain' in a packed house in Chelsea, New York, when I was filming a Bollywood film there. Chelsea, being a predominately gay ...

Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives.

Dr. Jacobus, I am walking out your doors right now. I need clothes. I am going to Vatican City. One does not go to Vatican ...

An uncultured mind often gets attracted by the extreme.

You cannot escape what you have to deal with inside yourself. It will never bring good things. It will only bring madness.

Faith never goes contrary to reason faith simply ignores reason and rises above it.

Talking to people and hearing their stories, you learn a lot.

Consumer spending is now plunging at serious-recession rate ... even if the rescue now in train succeeds in unfreezing credit markets, the real economy has ...

Rather I receive your bullet riddled body with honor that us of your cowardliness on the battlefield.

The best come from the worst

Studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it ...

Chaos is only chaos to the people who aren't expecting it.

Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions.

A wild dedication of yourselvesTo undiscovered waters, undreamed shores.

Unrequited love is bad, but unrequitable love can really get you down.

I've been texting for a year with a couple of guys without ever going on a date with them.

One habit: choosing a book and starting each day with a dedicated time of reading and gazing, becoming an apprentice to a mind I admire.

Some of my best friends are like, "I love that you are just the biggest pussy on the planet." And I have no problem with ...

To become a Christian is to become alive to beauty.

Even though these days I'm very selective about what roles I want to do, I will do Stargate anytime they call.

All relaxation does is allow the truth to be felt. The mind is cleared, like a dirty window wiped clean, and the magnitude of what ...