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Betsy dreamed about going away from Deep Valley, but she didn't for a moment suspect that around a bend in her Winding Hall of Fate ...

The Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program is a very effective way to raise awareness and consumption of two vital food groups that are sometimes ignored, ...

Women are safer in perilous situations and emergencies than men, and might be still more so if they trusted themselves more confidingly to the chivalry ...

Subhan'Allah. It is in the process of 'losing' that we are given.

My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist will blow away your expectation of what late-model literature has to be. Unified by obsessions too eerie not to be real, ...

No longer associated simply with objects and appearances, design is increasingly understood in a much wider sense as the human capacity to plan and produce ...

Believe you can and you're already halfway there

As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one's talent or value.

Your soul was like a network of spittle.

There's something funny about being on a big stage and not making a big effort to fill it up

Though he had spoken of the subject many times, in the silence of his room he added the powerful kind of phrasing that would not ...

Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the ...

I'd cry," I said, turning back to look him right in the face. "I'd be devastated. But I'm not running away anymore. No matter what ...

This is a completely heterosexual bro-hug that I offer in a totally nongay way to all my hockey brothers.

Turn them into summer lightning! When spirits injure and abuse us, Magic must step in to save us. ...

It's not perfect, but nothing is perfect except for an idea of something," he goes on, "And if we aren't experiencing the world and all ...

From doing A Moon for the Misbegotten, I've learned that nobody's love can save anybody else. There are people who want to die, and nothing ...

What happens to you happens from you.

I've found that from my point of view, the Chen style contained many things that I knew on a fairly superficial level from Eagle Claw, ...

If you are ever attacked in the street do not shout 'help!', shout 'Fire!'. People adore fires and always come rushing. Nobody will come if ...

In Spanish, I record a lot of single-voice tracks, and in English, I 'stack' a lot of voices, so it's very different, and I think ...

You see, Hansel and Gretel don't just show up at the end of this story.They show up.And then they get their heads cut off.Just thought ...

When you have endless time, you take all day to go to the grocery store. But, if you have to be at work for 14 ...

You ask a question, I said, to which a reply can only be given in a parable. Yes, Socrates; and that is a way of ...

Generally, I find that when you're writing and having fun with the writing, that energy and dynamism is going to come out in the text ...

It would be nice if we could clear up the nominations that are still out there, and there are a lot of them.

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

But you're human, aren't you? (Kat)I'm human, except when I first wake up in the morning. Even I don't want to be around myself then. ...

I also do not believe that the United States can let itself be driven into a political role by escalating terrorism, and therefore, the leaders ...

When your love contracts in anger, the atmosphere itself feels threatening. But when you're expansive, no matter what the weather, you're in an open, windy ...

You pray. And you allow the Lord to be your strength. Remember the Lord doesn't give you strength. He is your strength.

Men put all kinds of expectations on you. They want you to scream 'You're the best' while swearing you've never done this with anyone before.

For wisdom is the property of the dead,A something incompatible with life; and power,Like everything that has the stain of blood,A property of the living; ...

I know it's a lot of fun for you guys to write a lot of wacky things. Go ahead, if you want to. Get creative. ...

The social world being the realm of nullity, there exist between the merits of women in society only insignificant degrees,

Writing only leads to more writing.

But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, we never burned and ...

Live for the momment because everythung else is uncertain

Rationalism is false not because it seeks to express reality in rational mode, so far as this possible, but because it seeks to embrace the ...

Need to sharpen my blade. Make it shiny, gleamy, and oh, so ... deadly.

Life begins at sixat least in the minds of six-year-olds ... In kindergarten you are the baby. In first grade you put down the baby ...

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

I never think of my age, never - I could be 20 or 100. I never think about it, I'm just me.

Remember live each day, as though it were your last, the mark you leave, your legacy, can't change once you have passed.

Extra time was spent on the farms in every biome, and in watching the feed from Earth.

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.

Where principles and heart stand in conflict with each other, let us make the law of the spirit free from the law of principles.

I've had a nontabloid life because I had a really good family.

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

Magic made things simple. Sometimes, thought Kell, it made things too simple.

Where you are and what you have been through has you perfectly placed to move forward. Stronger, braver, wiser.

If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.

The descendants of Abraham were flattered by the opinion, that they alone were the heirs of the covenant, and they were apprehensive of diminishing the ...

Who delivered up Jesus to die? Not Judas, for money; not Pilate, for fear; not the Jews, for envy; - but the Father, for love!'181

The Sage expects no recognition for what he does; he achieves merit but does not take it to himself; he does not wish to display ...

Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.

A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature. And if ...

I am so mad at the press I could just strangle them!

I could try to care, but I ain't sure it's worth the bother.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Change leads to growth. Resistance leads to rigidity. Rigidity leads to ...

But I think there's a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach's growling, I'm going to dance. That's what ...

He tunneled his dirty hands through her hair and kissed her breathless. Her neck, her eyes, the corners of her mouth. He kissed her lips ...

You never really know what's going to happen. You never know what the audience is going to be like or how they're going to behave.

When are you going to stop being annoyed

Basically, there is nothing new in the behavior of monsters, for the monster himself is nothing more than an invention of his victims.

We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

It wasn't the mountain ahead that wears you out, but the grain of sand in your shoe

The world is here only as long as you look for it, only as long as you keep your eyes open.

There will be calmness, tranquility, when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.

I've been trying to do better about killing people," Lynn said. "Then fate puts you in my path.

Maybe I'm overly pessimistic, but most of Africa is a continent without much hope for its people ... What [Africa] needs, the West cannot give. ...

Mothering is precarious. You try to do the right thing - you think you have - then wham.

Dreams, Ours mysterious Dreams, they can be Reality

I can never remember what I do even in the studio.

It was farcical.

One thing that I always loved about, say, 'Raiders of the Lost Ark', is that Indiana Jones gets the Ark of the Covenant about sixty ...

If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and ...

The words or the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought

In some ways clarifying a vision is easy. A more difficult challenge comes in facing current reality.

The Persian poet Rumi says, The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you ...

Promises, like gardens need weeding from time to time to produce healthy results.

Be accepting. Of everything. People's differences, their similarities, their choices, their personalities. Sometimes it takes a variety to make a good collection. The same goes ...

God save us from gloomy saints!

When is the last time you saw a Lamborghini sale?

All it can see in an original idea is potential change, and hence an invasion of its prerogatives. The most dangerous man, to any government, ...

At eighteen you don't think about memories, you tell them.

I've never told my daughters how to live.I just lived and let them watch me.

Loved with obsessive devotion, hated with barely controlled fury.

I've always had a special relationship with the U.K. fans, because even when I wasn't working they were very supportive.

Within the bowels of these elements, where we are tortured and remain for ever, The Labyrinth hath no limits, nor is circumscribed in one self ...

I learned how to change a cloth diaper on a raccoon. I was maybe 8 or 9.

I like doing interviews. I really do.

Why are people so fascinated by how to eat Valomilks?' She said, 'Well, Dad, they're round and they're messy. But that's what makes them fun. ...

You can't blame anyone for being cynical about politicians.

To the psychologist Robert Cialdini, people can capitalize on this norm of reciprocity by giving what they want to receive. Instead

They will kill me but they will not kill my voice, because it will be the voice of all Afghan women. You can cut the ...

She was so pitiful as she lay there on the cold, damp ground that only a heart of stone could have been unmoved. There are ...

When I first made photographs, they were too plain to be considered art and I wasn't considered an artist. I didn't get any attention at ...