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It goes on and on and on and eventually completely consumes my mind, blocking out memories and hopes of tomorrow, erasing everything but the present, ...

All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them ...

This is fusion, when two people become one. They are so close and so well suited to each other that they blend together. They merge ...

Anna smiled,as people smile at the weaknesses of those they love ...

I've found it wise to enjoy any time of truce, while recognizing it for what it is. A truce.

Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in ...

Stop Sympathising. Start Visualising.

People seem to have an impressive capacity to change themselves if you believe in them, if you tell them they can and give them some ...

Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.

A photo essay (otherwise known as a fucking slide show)...

The only access now to the world, the universe, is made through bits and pieces, clung to as small heroes battling against withdrawal.

I was never a dancer before 'Shake It Up'.

Life improves the closed system's capacity to sustain life. Life - all life - is in the service of life.

Social media is the democratization of information, transforming people from content readers into publishers. It is the shift from a broadcast mechanism, one-to-many, to a ...

Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess.

He wondered if something was mentally wrong with him for being content with what he had

I don't care what you do with that negative, you can retouch it, you can spit on it, you can grind it underfoot. The only ...

There is this group of people who love innovation. Those people want to innovate, and they think the Internet is a wonderful tool for innovation, ...

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!

While Thee I seek, protecting Power, Be my vain wishes stilled; And may this consecrated hour With better hopes be filled.

There are two different ways to bowPetra Cecilia Maria HermansAugust 19, 2016

He had only needed to see it once - to kill a man - but even that was too much.

We are ourselves creations. We are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves. This is the God-force extending itself through us. Creativity is God's ...

A breeze blows through the alley, pushing me to one side, and I think of scaling the Ferris wheel with Tobias. He kept me steady ...

Veins practically popping out of his neck, the jerk leaned out his window and yelled a bunch of swear words, including a new one I ...

Second place is the first loser.

There are no vacant lots in nature.

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs ...

Leave my diapers moist in the back seat of your Rolls Royce

The English are worried about the Euro being brought in because of loss of national identity and rising prices. In Scotland, people are just worried ...

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

I admire Chris Martin. Coldplay have made some wonderful records for the genre they're involved in, but I would consider them to be more of ...

We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.

It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next.It made me tired just to think of it.

Writing is like masturbating when you have just masturbated. It's not fun. But it has to be done, or else people would not have anything ...

I watch ESPN all day. If you come into my trailer, ESPN is on. That's the first thing I do when I leave the set.

Our relationship had been intended as an interlude. And it had become an interlude. My expectations had been fulfilled. Anyone who expected anything more would ...

Is it every former madwoman's worst nightmare to be thought crazy when she isn't?

Adversity is the adventure of time.

It is easier to brave and threaten, than to conquer an enemy.

I still don't know whether there are more hard or soft things in the world,

There's a mess inside you: You clean the outside.

I'm such an avid magazine reader - music, art, beauty magazines - and I found that food and restaurants were pouring into everything I cared ...

She's shaped her image of the world around someone else's fantasy ... Because it's easier. It's so much easier to say, 'This is a story, ...

The fate of the young man in his headphones, who faced a jail cell that very night, did not seem such a world away from ...

I have made a choice to listen to myself even if everyone in the entire world doesn't agree with what I think. I know me, ...

It seems that the one thing that doesn't change is people's reaction to short-term conditions and their axiomatic ability to perpetuate them far into the ...

Congratulations, then. You wanted to be ruined? Well, you did yourself one better because you wrecked me, too, Sunshine. Now we're both worth shit.

Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.

So sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive ...

New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live ...

Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.

Republicans get a lot of money from big business, but they are not tied to the union dollar. As a result they have been aggressive ...

Pleasure is the only thing worth having a theory about,

Leadership is essentially a task of persuasion - of winning people's minds and hearts.

I believe life is about balance. My mom was brilliant, yet manipulative. Beautiful, but had more voices in her head than the Wu-Tang Clan. Loves ...

One thing I learned working at magazines was that if you couldn't get people to look at a page or a cover, then you were ...

A little impatience (carefully applied and infused with

Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the "right side" of the war, ever heard - let alone answered?

One girl, actually, in the UK - it was a really small show in Wales - a girl came up to me and said that ...

I didn't excel too highly in school, but I felt that I was moving ahead - and not just in boxing - but in life.

Usability is the baseline. Your values, aspirations, and dreams are what fills the space above.

I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar ...

Fontenelle was the most civilized man of his time, and indeed of most times.

Old endgame lost of old, play and lose and have done with losing.

Yeah, I liked skank," he bit off. "Liked the taste. Wild, free, and easy. Went back for more. Repeatedly. But that was before I had ...

In prose, I think you sometimes have to write in very plain language, where every line may not seem to be so important, though in ...

People are reading. In fact, due to social media they are reading more than any time in history. Now we must find a way to ...

Been calm in temperament, kindly, though not of warm

I lived in Iowa for pretty much the rest of my life, but I just moved to St. Louis and opened up a gym and ...

I came from a divorced mother and father, obviously mixed race.

Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.

Britain in 1939 and 1940 really thought they were going to lose the war. It looked like they were going to lose. There was bombing ...

My mom is very religious and she said, 'Whatever you think about all the time, that's what you worship.' If that's the case I'd like ...

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, ...

One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to benefit from practice, ...

Falling in love is easy, you see; any idiot can do it. It's falling out of love that's hard.

It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make ...

The faculty of imagination is often lightly spoken of as of no real importance, often decried as mischievous, as in some ways the antithesis of ...

Trust is won in years. Not words.

Is that what I am? I don't know what the hell I am anymore.""Oh, bullshit. You're a guy, a human being. Just another poor son ...

Teenagers learn best by doing things, they learn best in teams and they learn best by doing things for real - all the opposite of ...

We cannot achieve our wildest dreams by remaining who we are

Death stalked toward us on padded feet. And it was not alone. ...

Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.

I'm doing a pilot for Comedy Central with the band Steel Panther. They're faux heavy metal. They started as kind of a tribute band out ...

I had a second drink to wipe out the raw taste of the first.

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

Think fast on facts.

In Afghanistan I was doing street art because it was more open, but when I had a show, only men would come. I said, I'm ...

Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.

Birds are the last of the dinosaurs. Tiny velociraptors with wings. Devouring defenseless wiggly things and, and nuts, and fish, and, and other birds. They ...

The value of a moment is immeasurable. The power of just ONE moment can propel you to success and happiness or chain you to failure ...

I was surprised that the TV series was popular itself, but after that it went on to become more popular over the years and thus ...

The real purpose of est was to create space for people to participate in life - to experience true space and freedom in life.

The thought of revenge always gave her a warm fuzzy feeling.

Villains, vipers, damn'd without redemption;Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man;Snakes in my heart-blood warm'd, that sing my heart;Three Judases, each one thrice worse ...

There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything.

Unconditional love will turn a loser into a winner. You have no idea how many times your heavenly Father has wanted to reach out and ...