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My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them while I live.
When the smell of her perfume, something that reminded him of faint spicy blossoms and spring, wasn't wreathed in a cloud around him.Maybe it was ...
If I made peace with Russia today, I'd only attack her again tomorrow. I just couldn't help myself.
Passing is contagious. There's nothing better than making the pass that gives someone an easy hoop.
Oh, love, what an unreasoning creature it grew to be.
This was meant for you. Only you.
The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites.
Rizal's greatest misfortune is being national hero of the Philippines.
Buy less, choose well: that's the maxim. Quality not quantity. That's the most environmentally friendly thing you can do.
If you're 25 years old dressed up like Superman at a comic book convention, that's great. If you're 78 and you're doing it, something's wrong.
GET THAT CRAZY-ASS MULLET OFF YA SKULL
I celebrate a victory when I start walking off the field. By the time I get to the locker room, I'm done.
Wisdom is referred to as "she" - or even as "Lady Wisdom" - because the Greek word for wisdom is feminine);
The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught, the trap is forgotten. The purpose of words is ...
What's the difference between what you're saying and a knife? A knife has a point.
You your own best thing, Sethe. You are.
Cooking is a caring and nurturing act. It's kind of the ultimate gift for someone, to cook for them. It creates all this beautiful stuff, ...
I need to make sure that when I'm running out to the drugstore I'm not wearing a Biore strip or something. Not that I expect ...
The end of life is likely to be an important focus for innovation. Most people die in hospitals, tied up with tubes and with their ...
I hate to say it, but, yeah, I'm a tobacco junkie.
You're always working at the margin of what you don't understand, that's the only exhilarating place to be. To just illustrate what you already know ...
I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children.
No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.
The marginal cost of doing something 'just this once' always seems to be negligible, but the full cost will typically be much higher. Yet unconsciously, ...
The phrase 'sodomized by a bratwurst poltergeist' suddenly flew through my mind.
Wish all my corpses would do that.
Starving whilst schooled is like a man's finding out that his wife is on her periods ... a few seconds after he took Viagra.
It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned ...
When we hear the bird sing, it hears only how to love. (Quand on entend l'oiseau chanter, - Lui n'entend que comment aimer.)
If you see the dragon fly,best you drink the flagon dry. - Zarost
The Cistercians do not eat meat ... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not ...
I am not offering God as a theory to compete with scientific theories about the universe. Rather I am saying that those self-contained, secular theories ...
The world was full of life, more life than they could hold back with guns or fences; it came into the town at night; it ...
You are madeout of cometsand stars.Do not surroundyourself with thosethat treat you likedirt and dust.
Night falls fast.Today is in the past.Blown from the dark hill hither to my doorThree flakes, then fourArrive, then many more.
I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many ...
I love this city. If I am elected, I'll move the White House to San Francisco. Everybody's so friendly.
Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.
This world belongs to our future generations, so we have to take utmost care of it.
Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is one of the ...
I don't put myself above anyone, and I have as many shortcomings as any non-believer. I just choose to turn to a higher power to ...
I started training in martial arts when I was 7 years old. I got my first black belt at 13.
Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it ...
If he lived through this night, he'd look back on this moment and recall seeing the universe in all its majesty and recognizing he was ...
I will do 'Dancing with the Stars' when my career dips.
And all I did was read, and when I was too high to read I stared out the windows.
I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we're living ...
The Costa Rica experience shows that with dedicated resources, creative institutions, and a sound legal framework, deforestation can be reversed and forest cover expanded.
Jool Noret, we admire you. You are the scourge of Omnius." "I am merely doing my job.
Imagine a world of nine billion people with clean water, nutritious food, affordable housing, personalized education, top-tier medical care, and nonpolluting, ubiquitous energy. Building this ...
Did the memory erasure device work, Uncle?""The what?""The memory erasure device. You were testing it when I last saw you.""Don't know what you're talking about, ...
The last days of this glacial winter are not yet past; we live in 'creation's dawn.' The morning stars still sing together, and the world, ...
Inspiration. From real life. I open my eyes and I travel and I look. And I read everything.
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
Our definition of a weakness is anything that gets in the way of excellent performance.
Only two things in man's consciousness defy discussion: faith and one's marriage.
Love is such a nice way to express your thoughts.
Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which has long since ...
It's time that I stop referring to myself, thinking about myself, planning for myself, according to the gridlines and the timelines and the guidelines of ...
One not need make peace with friends, only with enemies
Everybody lives an epic.
Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
I have heard my fill of hurtful words. I think it's especially egregious when citizens like me, who point out abuses in their country, are ...
When you make it a strong habit not to take anything personally, you avoid many upsets in your life. Your anger, jealousy, and envy will ...
Freedom of speech has a number.It was the WikiLeaks IP Address.
She sand late into the night, till her heart was full
Thieves sell to unscrupulous merchants who pay hundreds of dollars for phones - no questions asked - and then 'jailbreak' them. They unlock the units, ...
Some people, no, you're never going to change their opinions. It doesn't mean you have to accept it. If they're bold enough to stare or ...
I fall in love with every film while I'm doing it. I fall in love with the directors, I fall in love with the process. ...
It is easier to fall in love when you are out of it than to get out of it when you are in.
Businesses should follow and learn from others successes and failures in order to better understand and predict their own.
The kind of teacher who never learned anything herself. Or taught anything, except sarcasm or fear.
To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a ...
The beauty of a game of chess is usually assessed according to the sacrifices it contains.
I cannot betray you, but I might betray myself. Come, come! wait and see me betray myself. I shall do it so nicely.
A creative organization does not resent conflicts over concepts; it resolves them.
The more you read the gospel, the more you understand God.
I am a house gutted by fire where only the guilty sometimes sleep before the punishment that devours them hounds them out in the open.
There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.
Money is definitely needed, but how much money do we really need? If we would change our idea of a successful life to a joyful ...
Self-involved? Self-involved?!?" I jump to my feet, unable to sit still. "Let's talk about self-involved, Mr. Kissing Unsuspecting Girls in Libraries.
How blessed and amazing are God's gifts, dear friends! Life with immortality, splendor with righteous, truth with confidence, faith with assurance, self-control with holiness! And ...
The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the ...
It's really important for me to do the fundamentals of this job really, really well. And to let people know that I think the core ...
It is its own religion, this love. Uncontainable, savage, and without end, it is what I feel for my child.
Men don't understand anything about women and women understand nothing about men. And it's better that way.
While shooting 'Selma,' I would train on my off time with the assistant men's track and field coach at Georgia Tech.
I sign so many autographs, my hand hurts every day.
We need to remake the Democratic party. We need to remake America.
Art is about eliminating almost everything in order to focus on the thing that you need to talk about.
I loved it when my heart beat quickly and erratically. Yet I found this performance, which was deeply poetic, more enjoyable.
Like an angry diamond,
I love seeing my family.
These were the new girls of New York- complete with rapid heartbeats from too much nicotine and coffee. They were nervous and fluttery but completely ...
If Australia is The Lucky Country, the Aborigines must be the unluckiest people in the world.
A thing as important in your life as what could kill you had ought to have a name but no sense wasting a good one ...
Whether your situation is dire or stable often depends on your point of view. Exploring different vantage points can give you valuable perspective.
A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.
I was too thin. I was working all the time, not eating at home. Spaghetti bolognese on planes. Ugh. Now most of my meals I ...
An ungentlemanly war it will be,' he grumbled. 'Will I lead my men with a sword? Ah, but no! I will lead my men with ...