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Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions ...

Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ...

Never talk yourself out of knowing you're in love or into thinking that you are.

Well, I'm trilingual myself. I am, I know how to speak Spanish, English, obviously, and I speak pretty good Ebonics.

I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you ...

Faith has to take in all the other possibilities it can.

The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear ...

I had lost a clear sense of the vision and values instilled in me as a child and was no longer driven by any mission ...

That works for you. I need to stab things. That's what brings me peace.

Don't be governed by the grid, govern the grid. A grid is like a lion cage - if the trainer stays too long it gets ...

Reality always wins.

And in the racial climate of this country today, it is anybody's guess which of the 'extremes' in approach to the black man's problems might ...

A few primary keys to becoming a leader in business include having a clear intent or purpose, a truly inspiring vision, a grand message to ...

I remember my first visit with my guru. He had shown that he read my mind. So I looked at the grass and I thought, ...

All I ever really wanted to do was arouse souls through my writing and enjoy my journey to becoming one with myself and with the ...

When I got old enough to date, I realized that Valentine's Day is just a commercial marketing scam to make men feel bad. So I ...

You seem like a strong-minded young woman. You're very beautiful, too. I would have been proud to call you my daughter.

The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself.

We lay down, and the pain let up.We embraced, and the pain let go:no more scalding regrets,no scorching remorsethat oppressed the soul,that weighted like a ...

Birthday present number three," he murmurs, brushing my hair back off my face."I'm still yet to get you anything.""I got all my twelve the moment ...

Just because there were times you were frightened doesn't mean you weren't brave.

For seventy years we have been brushing our teeth and yet they have not become clean, so is that thing for real or is it ...

Do unto others as you would have done unto you. Manners aren't anything but a polite person being nice, no matter what everyone else is ...

What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.

It's Complicated" I said. "I don't know what home is anymore""I think home is wherever you are happiest

If you meet somebody and are attracted to someone, and the exquisite neurons in your brain and her brain intermesh properly, then things can be ...

When you are enlightened, your physical body will still feel pain if you get hurt, but you will not be overwhelmed even by extreme physical ...

As a leader you can get sidetracked but you have to complete your mission

Honestly, I'm not a big person in terms of religion, but I really believe in nature. I feel like anytime you see anything beautiful in ...

Testing children until they cry is a bad idea. It is an educational malpractice.

This family business can be so stressful - difficult, damaged people showing up t spend time with other difficult, damanged people

I don't think I could have written what I did any earlier.

I used to think how dangerous the world would have been if these ants were the size of dogs. They would have cut the humans ...

You have to believe in your dreams because sometimes they believe in you.

I haven't taken an overdose of sleeping pills and called my agent. I haven't been in jail, and I don't go running to the psychiatrist ...

As I look forward, I'm very optimistic about the things I see ahead.

I don't fear death because I believe it is a transition. Our souls can't be destroyed. I know we are going to live in another ...

Let me never become a slave to crowds.

Like Britta, who strangely had something intelligent to add, said, Brighton trainers are trustworthy.

I want to do more. I'm never satisfied with what I've done.

There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No account of the ...

When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I started ...

Our party is - we don't have the problems that the other party has. We're not divided. We don't have to worry about, you know, ...

Let me glimpse inside your velvet bones.

Skin care must be good enough to eat!

Life becomes so unfair when you don't get what others do. But don't worry, God has decided something better for you.

President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship.

I have learned that knowing where you're going means remembering where you've been. I'm not afraid of what lurks behind me, or ahead.

You don't have to be successful on a grand scale like winning a talent competition or writing a New York Times bestseller - if you ...

I watch movies, and if I get the chance to watch television, I'm usually prone to watching something completely mindless and mundane that I don't ...

They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless ...

Funerals are for the living, Jace, not for the dead.

His lips pressed against her forehead and she felt him smile against her skin. "Believe me ... the only place in the world I want ...

I'm a high-functioning basket case.

What remained unsaid was almost too heavy to bear.

I love you, okay?" I rushed out. "I love you like crazy, and I've never said that to a woman before, but I'm completely in ...

Director Oliver Stone says he's going to make a movie about Vladimir Putin. I can't believe anyone would want to work with that insane communist. ...

You can destroy an enemy in confrontation but to win a friend you have to love.

I used to get my hair dyed at a place called Big Hair. It cost $15. They just used straight bleach, so my hair was ...

One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.

The net has provided a level playing field for criticism and comment - anyone and everyone is entitled to their opinion - and that is ...

So there was fun and magic in my relationship with Toni, even if the prevailing mood when we trained was stony and severe.

Every daySame trainEmpty seatHe sitsWe talkWe miss our stop.

What is the point of doing anything if there isn't any point?

There was a double-wide mobile home directly across from (New Prospect Baptist) church, .. The mobile home even had tie-down straps on it, but it ...

I know I shouldn't be doing this. I know I'm poking a wound, not healing it. I know there's no way to have a future ...

She did have regrets. Thousands of them, and the weight was too heavy for her to keep moving. She was a ship that could not ...

I'd said I didn't always tell the truth, that I didn't handle conflict well, that anger scared me, that I was used to people just ...

Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.

Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence.

Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense?

He's probably out there in the hallway right now, composing bad poetry in his head." Michi cleared her throat, her voice taking on a breathless ...

My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it - I was ...

Large corporations welcome innovation and individualism in the same way the dinosaurs welcomed large meteors.

My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.

Much of what Germany and France have done in the rescue of Greece has also helped German and French banks, who for a long time ...

I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any ...

I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even their sense of ...

In view of the law of natural selection it was agreed that a nation or world of people who will not use their intelligence are ...

It is undoubtedly rare for a man not to soon grow tired of a woman, but it is impossible to maintain that everything rare is ...

Fork! that symbol of the British art of gluttony.

I can't believe we're in the middle of the fifth season, and if this is all there is, my God, it went fast.

Refugees fleeing a fire.

When Everyone Are Doing Something Right And Only One Person Is Doing It Wrong , He Is Called Insane , And When Everyone Are Doing ...

If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray?

Are the different species defined by paleontologists - Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis and ourselves, Homo sapiens - all part of the same gene pool or ...

The Dalai Lama visited the White House and told the President that he could teach him to find a higher state of consciousness. Then after ...

Another touchy point: the inability of successive Israeli governments to deal with the propaganda war. Israel has a brilliant instrument in the IDF. We have ...

Adding functionality is not just a matter of adding code.

Grandfather's farm sometime before daybreak, after

The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces ...

What you do is you hide your deep need to hide, and you do this out of the need to appear to other people as ...

I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I ...

When I won Wimbledon, I said to God: just let me win this one tournament and I won't play another match. Maybe God's telling me ...

In Japanese, koi no yokan means the ineluctable feeling you have, upon meeting someone for the first time, that eventually the two of you will ...

All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world ...

Me? I didn't believe in hopeless.

It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.

Coffee is to a Writer as Blood is to a Vampire!

Nothing is born, nothing is destroyed. Away with you dualism, your likes and dislikes. Every single thing is just One Mind. When you have perceived ...