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He told us that it had been a fine day to-day, and we told him that it had been a fine day yesterday, and then ...
A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
I love old, vintage cars. I've got a 1936 Dodge Touring Sedan right now and there's only five of them registered in the world, and ...
Testimonials are enough to convince people for now.
My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
No cookie is a good cookie
A generation educated in fearless freedom will have wider and bolder hopes than are possible to us
In retirement, Smith reflected on his exceptional performance, saying simply, I never stopped trying to become qualified for the job.
For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and ...
What you try to bury just ends up burying you.
If you hear Bing Crosby trying to swing, it doesn't work. He swings like a rusty gate.
I see the eyes but not the tearsThis is my affliction.
Isis, I am not one to act out with such posture. Please accept my sincere apology, as I have nothing else to offer.
When you finally understand the universe, it will not only be stranger than you imagine, it will be stranger than you can imagine.
Nothing you ever go through will be wasted. The mountain top or valley experiences would all someway add up to bring colour to God's plan ...
In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy.
Intellectuals have opinions on subjects they just heard about five minutes ago.
Even the poorest man when he finds true love is richer than the man without it.
Gratitude is a flowing stream.
I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit ...
Happiness is the best cosmetic."---Model Patient
Last night there seemed to be a chance. Anything was possible last night. That was the trouble with last nights. They were always followed by ...
He just says out loud what other folk keep in the quiet of their hearts.
I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive ...
Apparently the evil was, oddly enough, always on the other side.
Expression - nothing
We are here among people who don't contemplate transience and the existence of the soul, the meaning of life and the nature of being. We ...
I don't like the word 'satisfaction' - never have. I don't think I'll be satisfied with anything, really, to be honest.
Perfect kindness acts without thinking of kindness.
Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.
I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.
How does it feel to be seven thousand years old?""That depends.""On what?""On how I want to feel.
The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred ...
Humans should not worship other humans at all, but if they must do so it is better that the worshipped ones do not occupy any ...
It may be that there was no reason or purpose, for mankind must always be finding reasons where there are none, and comfort in a ...
There's only one response, and I can tell you this because I see it every day. You LIVE. And you throw yourself into everything and ...
Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature.
Opening the fridge door, I found a rat eating the cheese. My dealings with rodents, particularly those tagged verminous, have been few, but generally the ...
I don't like losing but I've mellowed. I maybe have a short fuse but it goes away quicker now.
That's how I'll score my Nobel: one girl's experiment to live off cereal in her room for an entire summer.
Some people ... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different ...
Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe
I love you, Ava. I should've started this whole crazy thing by saying that. I love you and I missed you like mad. It wasn't ...
What have I done? What horrid crime committed?To me the worst of crimes-outliv'd my liking.
For a time, then, we stay. For a time. Till the changes.
Love is a quest, and you are my ending.
My hope is that we will inspire more lesbians to get politically engaged. For too long, lesbian women have been left out of politics.
I love cooking and baking.
Start out the day assuming you know nothing. That's a good start to the day.
I fight for what I believe. If you are not willing to stand up for what you believe, your beliefs are not strong enough.
A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.
I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
We are rich rich birds now. What should we do with our free time?
There is more to writing a book than just writing a book.
When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of ...
As a photographer who is constantly in violent, bloody situations where the instinct is to turn away, I am always trying to figure out how ...
Even when I had nothing left to give, he still had me in the palm of his hand.
More weapons hidden on his body than hallelujah-singing angels, dangling from a Christmas tree.
I can't believe that Babe Ruth was a better player than Willie Mays. (Babe) Ruth is to baseball what Arnold Palmer is to golf. He ...
I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.
War is killing the individual in it unless he has learned livingness - if he had it he wouldn't be a good soldier.
I was able to get along with everybody. I really enjoyed all of those guys. They were unique in their own ways, and I think ...
The comic impulse is sometimes a reaction to sadness. You feel like you can make one choice or the other.
I was listening to you the whole time. I didn't trust you to hang on to the earbud, so I had a mini-microphone sewn into ...
I looked up towards the immensity of the labyrinth."How does one choose a single book among so many?"Isaac shrugged his shoulders.'Some like to believe it's ...
If wishes were prey, we'd eat like lions come leaf-bare. But we'd die of boredom! You know that's not what the life of the Clans ...
That's one of the great thing about writing is that you get to be in someone's head.
And one's wandering proved as sterile and pointless as the excitement produced by a close study of pornographic albums.
I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.
Christianity is, simply, good news. It is the news that something has happened as a result of which the world is a different place
I want the best of everything for everybody, and it will cost millions.
Fearlessness comes with the birth of this new understanding: The only reason life changes as it does is to reveal the secret Goodness underlying those ...
When I talk about rock n' roll, to me, that goes back to the beginning of the 1950s. Blue suede shoes and sideburns, man. Pink ...
Us to comprehend, for we are ourselves part of wyrd and cannot stand back to observe it as if it were a separate force.
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
The blessing that this film business has given me is that when I walk into a school I automatically have everyone's attention. They want to ...
L.A. is only where you live, because otherwise it's just a sprawling mass of everything, and I think if you live in L.A., you get ...
Believe is an open door to the heavenly possibilities.
Life was harsh and people were worthless and mean to their bitter cores. They only used and betrayed. That was the only code she believed ...
Something is coming to shake the earth. Something is coming to scorch the ground. Jade Mountain will fall beneath thunder and ice, unless the lost ...
Wherever there is a large motorway enabling the transport of ton after ton of German goods, you will inevitably find a sweet little rabbit trembling ...
Academic life is but half life it is a withdrawal from the fight to utter smart things that cost you nothing except the thinking them ...
Probably everything in my life comes back to a feeling of abandonment, and this city never abandons you.
God's voice is still and small, the voice of a sparrow in a cyclone, so said the prophet Isaiah, and we all say thankya. It's ...
Photography should be redefined. It's largely technical ... Photography is just unbelievably limiting. I always think of David Bailey and all the fashion photographers - ...
My mother wanted a conservative, secure life, and she has been married to my father since she was 18 ... A lot of hard work ...
I have been writing since I was about 20, and at first I wrote in secret and never showed anybody. I was very concerned about ...
Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, ...
I love the Dr.Hauschka range and use the cleanser, toner and moisturiser every day,
Son, never throw a punch at a redwood.
Falling in love happens many times in our lives. I'm looking on the bright side - I might be one heartbreak away from happily ever ...
The only way of learning the method of science is the long and bitter way of personal experience.
Faith can be a greater asset than certainty.
People are not depressed in Colombia the same way people are in America.
And a man's life's no more than to say "One."
We're seeing so many people come around and say, "Listen, we want a real conservative. We don't want a Washington dealmaker who will support Democrats ...
Take off your coat.""Excuse me?""Take it off.""No.""I want it off.""Then I suggest you hold your breath. Won't affect me in the slightest, but at least ...
I want to be known as the mayor who happens to be Latino who made a difference. I ran to make a difference.
In general, I tried not to take myself too seriously - I called myself "the manalyst," after all. My life's motto: Joke 'em if they ...
Even if a life has traveled down an unproductive path, you can find your faith again; pure faith, which is loyalty to God himself. Dark ...