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As he grew, the other children grew as well - all except poor Doroon, who seemed doomed to be short and skinny all his life. ...

Don't be afraid of opening the unknown new doors; if you see the Devil inside, just know how to reclose it tightly! We exist in ...

The law does not content itself with classifying and punishing crime. It invents crime.

I don't trust tragedies much. It's easy to make a person sad by showing him something tragic. We all recognize when sad things happen: someone ...

Life was just a collection of small decisions

Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the ...

The 20th century was a century in which human rights were infringed upon in numerous parts of the world, and Japan also bears responsibility in ...

Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda.

It is often found that modesty and humility not only do no good, but are positively hurtful, when they are shown to the arrogant who ...

Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

The human spirit is courage incarnate, overcoming the impossible.

My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours ...

I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art.

You can't be more alive than you are - but you can awaken to what living is.

Her heart swelled with misery, until it felt too large for her bosom. It beat with odd little jerks; her hands were cold, and a ...

Doctors don't seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene ...

Acting is definitely put at the back of my mind, if it's there at all right now. It's all entertainment.

It is real, Lass.... You are mine as I am yours.

If workers have less money in their pockets to put food on the table, they will be spending less money; your economy will suffer.

Older men are wiser and that is much cooler to me. I've never been one for going out clubbing or getting off my head, so ...

Heaven no longer exists, nor does the earth.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

Scurrility has no object in view but incivility; if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse; if it is spoken in ...

By meditating, you are beginning to act and every action which is pleasing to God brings you closer to the actualization of your God-given vision

Great, so my problem is I'm too fat for this century, and too stupid to make a time machine.

Then the room relaxed in cheers and babbling, and she turned in his arms to kiss him hard and cling to him, and he thought ...

But at this moment, for me, family equals safety; Burn equals safety; love equals safety. And if I trust my heart, my instincts, my strength, ...

I have a life. My kids don't run my house.

Reputation. It cost something, but it was worth something too.

I think she has a serious school-supply addiction.

Until you are convinced that you can't change your child's heart, you will not take prayer seriously.

The laws of physics were the OS of some inconceivable supercomputer called reality.

Your ability to set and achieve goals is perhaps the most important skill you can ever develop.

Feel the joy and love anyway, stress will melt away.

Parenting isn't a noun but a verban ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job, ...

Sophie Mercer, turning down food for homework?""Yeah,it's the new,lamer, more Britisher me.

I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.

You will find out who you are when the difficult moment comes.

Whatever that he left by the 6.15. That gets up to London about 10.30. He went straight to

I've got libraries in my blood.

I have a lot on my plate. I'm not going to lie about it, I'm tired. I'm really tired but I'm also very happy with ...

I don't bite. Unless you want me to.

That's the hell of sand castles. They are always doomed. That's part of their beauty - their impermanence. ...

If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.'

Dostoevsky's visible world was a world of sensationalism. He may in the last analysis be a great mystic or a great psychologist; but he almost ...

I believe that the fragile-flower, idea-intolerant society of victimhood that is being cultivated in many colleges today is really bad.

I realize that life is not a step to a better place: life IS the better place, right here and now. It's too good to ...

Where's a stray bullet from a random drive-by shooting when you need one?

They don't worship at the altar of forced busing and mandatory quotas. They don't believe you can remedy past discrimination by mandating new discrimination. (Defending ...

Now may every living thing, young or old,weak or strong, living near or far, known orunknown, living or departed or yet unborn,may every living thing ...

Multiple Spiritual Choices towards Light will accumulate your positive karma, upgrade your vision, develop your leadership skills

Wearing underwear on the outside of your clothes can turn a tedious trip to the store for a forgotten carton of milk into an amusement ...

Hope was a beacon but it also had the strength of a bully.

I can conceive of no reason for all this administration of the higher to the lower, unless it be for the purpose of advancing our ...

New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. All these cliches that, as an ...

But no matter what their friends told them, they would always know what really happened. They just kept driving faster, and outran the rain.

Give me time""For you, always.

Thou art hunger, yo. Make with the starvation.

Compassion is not feeling sorry for others. It's not soft. It requires an intellectual effort.

The left hand holds the power of weakness; the right, the power of strength. I wish my actions to be ruled by the power of ...

I've directed things that other people have written before, and I've written things and given them to other directors. So I'm very versatile in terms ...

If you stop," she says, "I will also kill you.

The thing is that people only get hurt - really hurt - when they're trying to play it safe. That's when people get injured, when ...

The argument could be made that the word 'hero' is overused. I do not think, however, that this is the case when referring to teachers.

I was sitting in my kitchen agonizing over my Christmas grocery list when I heard the noise.

I am very quick to judge.

An intelligent person looks for problems to solve. The wise person looks for solutions.

But names no longer meant anything. On Lunamere, everyone became a number in the end.Deep in the belly of hell incarnate Valen became 377.

The me that's here now has been brought up without any brothers or sisters. If I did have brothers or sisters I wouldn't be the ...

Some languages, for example, have a gender distinction that is based only on "animacy," the distinction between animate beings (people and animals of both sexes) ...

This is what books should do: Carry a person and not be carried by him; take the day off his back, not add its own ...

There can be no doubt that the development of a practical method of water disinfection during the last two years marks an epoch in the ...

But one wrong half turn of a steering wheel, one patch of wet road, one out of control moment, and the amount of life measured ...

Nature and books and (later) mathematics saved me from complete despondency.

So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.

It will be a long while until I shall call myself well. I think perhaps too long - longer than I have left to live. ...

A certain percentage, they tell us, must every year go... that way... to the devil, I suppose, so that the rest may remain chaste, and ...

It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.

When you live your life seeking the opinion and approval of others, you become a slave in your mind and soul to others. This is ...

Some seek to act upon the world,But success will not follow.The world is inviolable: It has no beginning and no end. Those who seek to ...

It's not that conservatives don't care. We do. We just have different answers than liberals do. It's a difference of the mind, not of the ...

Other translations may engage the mind, but the King James Version is the Bible of the heart.

[Statists] believe that government should make decisions for individuals. Since individuals usually prefer to make their own decisions, coercion and compulsion become necessary correctives.

If what we call love doesn't take us beyond ourselves, it is not really love.

One - about cigarettes - I was pleased to see that anticigarette ad on the back issue of Hustler. I'm more offended by seeing ads ...

I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the movies. There's something really weird and ...

The data-processing system invented by the Sumerians is called 'writing'.

Through many tributions, we begin to search for the truth.

A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.

If you're not reading - with your heart as well as your brain - you will be one stupid grown up. Even worst, you'll be ...

How many people can pick up a book and find an instruction manual for their life?

The pain, I can assure you, will be exquisite.

One day something will come through that will amaze us all.

Mr Letterman, 66, would retire when his contract to host the CBS network's Late Show With David Letterman expires next year, ending a run as ...

Very little of what America does is actually bad, and I don't think it ever does anything anywhere that is intentionally bad. I mean, sometimes ...

Naturally, I mine my girlfriends' lives for good anecdotes and stories - so many of their experiences find their way into my books.

For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way.

The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.

The angels are thoughts of love sent from God. Since God is continuously expressing loving thoughts, there are an infinite number of angels. They are ...

If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.