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Well, you have to wait for somebody who gets it right.' said Luna. 'That way you learn, you see?

Not all fairy tales have happily ever afters, some just have afters.

The decline of violence is due largely to the rise of the state. Throughout history, most violence resulted from local feuds between families and communities. ...

I know I've not had these things in my past, but I want them in my future.

Though Trish and her bad boy types weren't exactly Kindra's style, she had to agree that Violet went for quiet and uninteresting. Sort of like ...

He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience ...

I give you an ability to respond and your response is to be free to love and serve in every situation, and therefore each moment ...

Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't.

Think of a field of daisies: they bloom, they wither, and in the spring they grow again. Who wants to see the same stupid daisy ...

'Badmaash Company' and 'Delhi Belly' was about friends, and I was part of the gang. And yes, they did have stars playing the lead! You ...

We can hardly pride ourselves on being the world's preeminent democracy, after all, if the large numbers of citizens spend half their waking hours in ...

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. ...

I hated lying to my family.I had no choice.As a werewolf, the pack'd go apeshit if they found out I'd spent the last few months ...

Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.

The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It is painting that ...

I must try to live in society and yet remain untouched by its pitfalls.

Where you need to make fast decisions, people have to work in an open space where I can just walk to somebody's cube, so we ...

Dalai Lama was leading his country during the rigors of World War II, he was in Beijing for a year in 1954; he was up ...

I travel a lot. A lot, a lot. I don't have a single passport that doesn't have extra pages on it.

Angela looked fondly reminiscent. We've had some good times together, haven't we? I'll always remember them. After you go away.

People think that the opposite of success is failure, but it's not. Failure is part of the process of success.

Good Luck needs a new Charm.

It's too late to be studying Hebrew; it's more important to understand even the slang of today.

The national research effort, upon which so much depends, will remain healthy only so long as there is sound core of disinterested search for new ...

One man's mistake can capsize a whole ship of people.""True.

She's mad you pushed her away for so long. You were not a worthy friend, so she thinks you won't be a worthy mate.

A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light.

My mother was independent. She had grown up in Dalton and Pittsfield, in western Massachusetts, and she was one of the first women drivers in ...

The dinosaurs had all died, too, along with their dinosaur dreams. A world capable of such genocidal indifference didn't deserve its own existence. Walt wanted ...

Interest and proficiency in almost any one activity-swimming, boating, fishing, skiing, skating-breed interest in many more. Once someone discovers the delight of mastering one skill, ...

The dogmatic and moral teachings of the church are not all equivalent. The church's pastoral ministry cannot be obsessed with the transmission of a disjointed ...

What it comes down to, you see, is that a naked body is just a naked body.But the possibility of a naked body is something ...

It's a strange thing, becoming an orphan at sixteen. To lose your family long before you've had time to create your own to replace it. ...

I thought, how would I feel if my son gave one of those [underprivileged] kids chicken pox? For him it's not a terrible thing. We ...

The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

Food is so fundamental, more so than sexuality, aggression, or learning, that it is astounding to realize the neglect of food and eating in depth ...

We do good works, not in order to be saved, but because we are saved; not in order to earn God's favor, but with the ...

Change your story, change your life. Divorce the story of limitation, and marry the story of the truth and everything changes.

His eyes are like a telescope. I look into them and I'm transported across the universe to a world I've never been.

I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we ...

Sweet sounds can go where kisses may not enter.

Without complexity, there's no intensity.

Ethics and religion must not stay at home when we go to work.

Oh, she felt like dirt. Less than dirt. She felt like the bacteria on the dirt that earthworms ate and then pooped out. Here

Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch ...

Organigram. Nothing that might shed any real light on his day-to-day tasks.

If life wasn't real it would be the craziest psychedelic trip ever

Everybody ought to be given a chance to do whatever they want, but be responsible for their own actions.

He's come to learn that life is a bitter bitch. She is inherently unfair.

Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord. Was Father Tom thinking about vengeance now? The possibility amused him. Perhaps the next time he went to confession ...

You wouldn't dare," Marion drew a breath. "That would be idiotic." Her sister snapped back as if she had been slapped. "You forget yourself." "I ...

A girl would be lucky to have you, but not like this, Carmine. Not the way you treat people now. You're wasting your time, and ...

When you're travelling far, it's best to travel light.

I don't get no respect. I called Suicide Prevention. They tried to talk me into it.

Tod Goldberg has long been one of the most interesting writers around, and Gangsterland is his biggest and best book so far.

To whom does Mataji (Mother Goddess) appear? It is to the one who becomes natural and spontaneous [sahaj swabhavi]. Mataji is said to have come ...

So what do you have planned for tonight?" I asked. "Only to pass time in your lovely company," Denna

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom.

You can cower," she told them in a clear voice, wrapping her long shaking fingers around the cold iron bars. "But I will stand.

Some are Atheists by Neglect; others are so by Affectation; they, that think there is no God at some times; do not think so at ...

We get along like a house on fire these days.

The whole f**king system is corrupt.

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.

Deep darkness enhances the brightness and beauty of a little lamp.

Unity consciousness is a state of enlightenment where we pierce the mask of illusion which creates separation and fragmentation. Behind the appearance of separation is ...

Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried!

It just ... it seems hard to say anything that isn't the wrong thing.

'Lord of the Rings' was a set of books in which the world had been conceived before the characters were placed within that context.

Brenda was six when she fell out of the apple tree.

Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.

You cannot have adoration without being criticized.

I guess we're even,Sadie.First,Walt and I rushed off to save you in London.Then,you and Walt rushed off to save me.The only one who got shafted ...

Clarity about what matters provides clarity about what does not.

I don't want to sit there and be like, 'Oh, I don't care what the audience thinks.' It does matter to me. I just want ...

In Pennsylvania, I love the Nemacolin Woodlands Resort in Farmington. It's a scenic area. We also enjoy visiting the Laurel Highlands in Western Pennsylvania. The ...

There is something really so iconic about the original Predator, and it is exciting. It's not just special effects. It's not like you bring a ...

I have not, in general, much belief in the ability of woman as a creative artist. Unwritten lyrics, as [Ralph Waldo] Emerson said once when ...

Seeing the smile in your eyes, I have forgotten that people die

I hug my knees, burying my face in my arms.This room feels very large, and I feel very small.

But no one has ever gone from slavery to freedom with the slaveholders cheering them on, nor contributed significantly to the evolution of our species ...

Most of Mycroft's ideas were far too dangerous to even think about, much less let loose on a world unprepared for hyper-radical thought.

A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world.

It is the shared bad faith by which individuals help each other sustain the illusion that they can shirk their spiritual destiny by joining the ...

That was the way Dean found me when he finally decided I was worth saving.

Very often, gleams of light come in a few minutes' sleeplessness, in a secondperhaps; you must fix them. To entrust them to the relaxed brain ...

I would like to make sleeping my new hobby, except that I'm too tired, really, to have a hobby. But a girl can always dream.

You are too fucking hot for your own good," Zane gritted out. Ty

You are an unlimited being with unlimited capacity to think, and be, and act. And the only limitations that are standing in your way are ...

I just want to be in a winning situation. That's the whole thing. It's nothing financial.

Two years ago I hadn't even thought of the Woman in White, and I was doing a television show and I said I hadn't found ...

Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored; there must be something else I want to be doing ... ...

When you paint success pictures in your mind, you initiate an inner process whereby your attitudes, hopes, aspirations, and enthusiasm are elevated in response to ...

Give that boy a cookie!"Now really wasn't the time to think about food. And where was she keeping them? In her pockets? They'd be all ...

Education in the true sense is helping the individual to be mature and free, to flower greatly in love and goodness. That is what we ...

What if the insane are too raw to know which stations are real and which are just confused static?