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You can't say life is useless because it ends in the grave.
The model of the human habitat dictated by zoning is a formless, soul-less, centerless, demoralizing mess. It bankrupts families and townships. It disables whole classes ...
The soul is not a soul,Has no secret, is small, and it fitsIts hollow perfectly: its room, our moment of attention.
Most Bolton students were scions of the city's wealthiest families. My crewe stuck out like hooker at church. We werent part of their pampered, priveliged ...
People in Canada talk about feeling solitude? They sometimes call it a country of solitudes.
There's a good feeling about them. It's something I like to find in fiction. So many writers master form and technique, but get so little ...
Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between.
One stipulation to my borrowing your clothes is that you have to have worn the item at least once before I borrow it. I'm not ...
At this point, I wouldn't be able to digest meat, and I don't like eating things with faces.
I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more ...
How many voices have escaped you until now, the venting furnace, the floorboards underfoot, the steady accusations of the clock numbering the minutes no one ...
My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures.
On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
What do you do when disappointment comes? When it weighs on you like a rock, you can either let it press you down until you ...
By all means, don't say, "if I can," say "I will."
Keep the process easy but effective by structuring your goal in this format: "I'm going to _.
Beneath this mask is more than flesh, beneath this mask is an idea mr.creedy, and ideas are bulletproof.
Those professions which are not so much involved in life itself as concerned with abstract truths are the most dangerous for the young man whose ...
I don't know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
My heart, I think, turned tender in the untouched dark. I'm full of small, gathered hopes that, if I let them, will fly away from ...
So I had the worst experience at the very beginning, and things have been getting better since.
Biblow suggested that rich fantasy lives prepare children to think about different options for dealing with frustration and allow them to consider the possible consequences ...
Programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal people
I'm suggesting that, until America takes care of its debt, untangles the housing mess and gets unemployment under control, we all commit to working six ...
Fantasy Is just another synonym for "having-your-own-crazy-world-bcause-the-real-one-is-too-cynical-to-handle-your-craziness".
Education was my father's way out of poverty. He taught me that learning was incredibly valuable.
...our ultimate moral principles can become so completely accepted by us, that we treat them, not as universal imperatives but as matters of fact; they ...
It is the way of grace. People do not merit salvation but receive it as a free gift from God on the basis of what ...
It is odd, when you think about it, that we accuse racists of "discrimination." This is the very thing of which they are by definition ...
Serena and I, we don't have anything to prove ... we still set a very high standard.
When two wise men are blaming one another,then time has come for you to be the third one.
It's like - you have this baby, and eventually, he starts doing stuff. And I used to be able to see every tiny change, and ...
Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them ...
Girlfriends' code. What's discussed with girlfriends stays with girlfriends.
But here I am today recording this and I'm in the studio with all the others on a clean mic. It's extraordinary, the actor's found ...
When works get too intellectual, they lose their intensity.
I asked a girl once why she was vegetarian. I said, is it because you love animals? And she replied, no it's because I had ...
You can't save people from themselves. You can only try to wake them up.
I miss your cock when it's not around. And the rest of you isn't half bad, either
I'm humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I admire. I think ...
What do you think of Chicago?Well, the telephone operator woke me up today and said, 'Good morning, Miss Lee. It's eight o'clock, and three below ...
The perfect tools aren't going to help us if we can't face each other and give and receive fearlessly, but more important, to ask without ...
Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous technique, the way it does for a dancer.
Empathy? What's that?" Glokta winced as he rubbed at his aching leg. "It's a sad fact, but pain only makes you sorry for yourself.
Today can be better than the worse of yesterdays, but tomorrow can never replace the best of yesterdays.
Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys.
Nobody here wants to be awful," he said. He hopped a little as he zipped up. "It's just nobody here knows all the rules yet, ...
Misanthrope." Einstein
Joe Frazier was the easiest boxer to work with that I ever trained.
The first rule in politics is that there are no rules, at least not in the sense of inevitable defeats or inevitable victories. If you ...
It's just nerve-wracking in general to write 'Superman,' right? I'm a life-long superhero fan, and he is the character that kicked off the entire genre.
The main factor in a penalty shootout is luck again. You need to stay calm and focussed but the biggest thing you need is luck.
Dogs are born knowing exactly what they want to do: eat, scratch, roll in disgusting stuff, sniff and squabble with other dogs, roam, sleep, have ...
The decision to trigger Article 50 is in the hands of the next prime minister. If that is me, I will make a judgement as ...
Garlicky chicken is the best breakfast in the world.
I'd hate to be putting a bullet in a lawman, so I'd appreciate ye lowerin' yer weapon, sir.
Peace in the Middle East is of prime importance to the Philippines, due to the presence of around 2 million of our countrymen working in ...
Life is loss. But out of that, as the book stresses, comes freedom. If we can accept that nothing is permanent, and change is inevitable, ...
Scenery can be a violent stimulant.
Telling the truth when the truth matters most is almost always a frightening prospect.
I'm identifying with the underdog. And it makes totally sense to me.
People cannot inspire others unless and until they are inspired themselves.
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to ...
Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the ...
Life like Stew!!! -Gully Dwarf saying (Dragonlance)
With regard to my family as I said nothing upon the subject before I may tell you that I have six children living, 1 dead ...
Wonders are many ... but none is more wonderful than man
We were incredibly fortunate to get to make three [Batman films]. That's enough. Let's not get greedy. It's a torch that should be handed from ...
Breakthrough Advertising is not about building better mousetraps. It is, however, about building larger mice - and then building a terrifying fear of them in ...
I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
I appreciate photographs which celebrate harmony. I don't particularly want to look at chaos. I see enough of that at home.
Just remember, everything you are is ...
Then, as we turned the final curve past the abandoned little hamlet of Ballydubh, with the village almost out of sight, he forced me to ...
The people were shocked to find out that their vote is worthless because of the major fraud that takes place in Iraq.
That's because we did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that everyone could enjoy and listen to.
Writer's Block: making authors miserable since the Stone Age.
I went through real darkness, but the ring was my light. That was the one place I felt safe. I could control what happened in ...
(Kiara having a sever panic attack.)Kiara? Hauk wears women's underwear. (Nykyrian)Come again? (Kiara)Hauk wears women's underwear. Pink and really girly. You know, one of those ...
I wish that I am a star, shining for every TripleS in every corner of the earth.
We have within ourselves Enough to fill the present day with joy, And overspread the future years with hope.
REAL TRUTH COMES FROM FACT..
There's no comprehending why things happen. People leave you before you're ready for them to go, but you have to keep livin'. That doesn't mean ...
I was surprised, therefore, when
Young gentlemen whose whiskers have not yet developed are authoritatively deciding that nothing can be decided, and dogmatically denouncing all dogmas. We meet them every ...
I think I was unprepared for war.
Jerusalem has been - and for many, still is - a metaphor for destruction and the vengeance of an offended God. She is the city ...
This greatest mortal consolation, which we derive from the transitoriness of all things-from the right of saying, in every conjuncture, This, too, will pass away.
I never got picked on, but I never had a lot of friends. When I talked to my parents about it, they said, 'They're just ...
Brisbane and I passed a thoroughly satisfactory and entirely private evening in the solitude of our room. "Thank God for stout stone walls," he said ...
After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in Russia since the ...
What does it do to a girl who knows her mother is a murderer?
I never leave home without my writing notebook, and get a lot of writing done in transit. One great place to create is while riding ...
You are the epitome of normal.
My dad and I once had a fight because I refused to put ketchup on my hot dogs," I said."That's possibly the most American sentence ...
You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
Each album we [The Replacements] made was the one we were capable of making and wanted to make at the time. Each one was a ...
In missionary work, as in all else, preparation precedes power. Encouragement to prepare while still very young can make a tremendous difference.
Some things you remember, and some you forget. Of the things you remember, you have to wonder what's real and what's translated into a memory ...
They send their shout to the stars.[Lat., Clamorem ad sidera mittunt.]
I assure my fellow citizens that the vast majority of Muslims experience the same fear they do. ISIS and Al Qaeda are my enemies, too. ...