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Incoming!" yelled Poseidon.They shifted-as much as they could in the cramped space-and Rocky landed in their midst."This is not a baby," Hades noticed "I think ...

Spiritual life flows out of union with Christ, not merely imitation of Christ.

We'll find new stuff to want.

Your inner light is your brightest light.

Loneliness had made the Queen bitter, bitterness had made her selfish, and selfishness had made her suspicious. --The Changeling

All art moves between the extremes.

I like porterhouse steak, rib-eyes and New York strip. This works for me because I have very low cholesterol and low blood pressure. It's not ...

The twist makes it a no-floater summer!

If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, they will listen the day after tomorrow, but ...

I'm not afraid of the Canadian tuxedo.

For the first time in my life I'd started thinking about God, seriously imagining that there could be a kind of Creator of the universe ...

Then again, if you opinions on women prevent me from carrying out my work, then I would be more than happy to suggest a place ...

I love that man better who swears a stream as long as my arm yet deals justice to his neighbors and mercifully deals his substance ...

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was ...

So if you think this is going to save you ... If you think anything is going to save you ... Please consider this your ...

We're all pretty ordinary on paper.

For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory ...

Long-term marital intimacy requires accepting this truth: to stop giving yourself to your spouse is to spiritually divorce them.

From a UX standpoint, the toughest battle is how to make a platform that's really open so kids can use it but has sort of ...

Rich is not better.

A pure heart is one that is unencumbered, unworried, uncommitted and which does not want its own way about anything but which, rather, is submerged ...

Sugaring season is the season when you tap the trees for sugar that turns into maple syrup. I've married someone from Vermont, so it's an ...

Purled and meandering lines drawn by knives; brain and bone exposed by stones; the rope still digging at his throat.

The more clearly we can see the walls of our life, the better. Even if it's only a psychological boundary, even if, deep down, we ...

At the next vacancy for God, if I am elected, I shall forgive last the delicately wounded who, having been slugged no harder than anyone ...

It is an incredible thing to see how many crazy things get thrown out that people then often write commentaries about how happy they are ...

Social-media platforms have become places where it's acceptable to brag,

I pride myself on being steady and unruffled even with my friends, and so I'm trying to get myself together, but goddamn, it is hard. ...

Before you act, find your center. Ground yourself in Spirit. Set ego aside. Ask yourself, "How do I want to be about this? What would ...

Never again war. Never again hatred and intolerance.

If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.

You all sound like a bunch of ducks! What? What? What? What? Shut up while I'm talking!

Spontaneity has its time and its place.

I can't bullshit you. In all this time, you're the only person I can't fool. It's like you're bullshit-proof.

In the vivid description of the Gospel, it would seem that we must help the Christ hidden in every poor man, in every prisioner, in ...

Probably the easiest and most efficient approach was to hate everybody. Where have you gone, Jackie Robinson?

Rilla was not fond of Mary Vance. She had never forgotten the humiliating day when Mary had chased her through the village with a dried ...

I have always thought that humanity was animal-like. The Confucian theory was man could be improved, but I'm not sure he can be. He can ...

Look at it like this, it's not that we're making life, we're simply giving life a place to live.

Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?

When I was younger, my mum used to dress me in, like, lime green leggings with a matching neon jumper and hair scrunch, so I'd ...

Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel; I don't want to be in a ...

There will be difficult moments in a five-gram trip, but on the other hand certain questions will be solved forever for you, because you will ...

It's a myth that the border can't be enforced. It can be enforced.

I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was ...

Sixty-five months into Bush's presidency, conservatives feel betrayed The main cause of conservatives' anger with Bush is this: He talked like a conservative to win ...

Make each day your masterpiece.

Life has a habit of making the easy desperately difficult, and the hardest choices so easy as to be no choice at all.

I say yes to almost anything that comes my way.

I have deep feelings of depression ... What can I do about this?''Snap out of it! Five cents, please.

Within the United States, there is a real division between the PhDs given in science and math to the Asian community, to the traditional white ...

You can always find hope in the truth that our God reigns & He will take care of His own.

The world designed by God cannot be a world in which some hoard immoderate wealth in their hands, while others suffer from destitution and poverty, ...

He will stay, Minerva, because he needs to understand,' said Dumbledore curtly. 'Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there ...

Look here,' she began, 'you can't go on like that, you know. If you are really keen on a thing, and it's a good thing, ...

In America, you're allowed to justify almost any kind of bigotry, sexism, or intolerance if you source it to God's big book of bad ideas.

It's always hard to be private in public, which is what acting is because you have to do thing really emotionally naked.

Life Plan:I asked her what she planned to do with her life & she said she was way beyond that point already. I'm just happy ...

Assume that people are good until you actually and specifically learn differently. And even then, know that they have potential for change and that you ...

I think we choose gear by the way that it looks. We choose lots of things by the way that it looks. I don't like ...

Ben, I don't want to take your freedom. I just want a place in your world. An important one."He craned his neck, tipping my chin ...

Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too ...

I had to soften him up because, for whatever reason, all the Rock Chicks had an alternate Hot Bunch guy, Indy's was Eddie. Roxie's was ...

Running my fingers into his thick hair, I wallow in the strength and heat surrounding me before he pulls away, giving me such a happy ...

It's only natural for unbridled partisanship, unrestrained by allegiance to a greater cause, to lead to chaos.

There's something about these obscure vignettes of former lives that's very powerful. Our woods are full of old cellar holes, tumbled-down chimneys, ancient scraggly lilacs ...

The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

When she saw Blake staring at her over Beckett's shoulder, Livia stumbled a bit. His gaze was so intense. So Blake. Beckett kept her steady. ...

Willpower is real, but it needs the right conditions to thrive.

If you go to a coffee shop or at the airport, and you're using open wireless, I would use a VPN service that you could ...

We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.

Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.

Finding practical answers to tough problems seems to take a backseat to ideology.

This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take ...

But how do you protect yourself against an enemy you cannot see? How do you combat a thing that only threatens but never really comes? ...

The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too. Thomas Fuller

As my friend said that when people say the church is full of hypocrites, he says we always have room for more.

One of the things about working for an old school studio like Warner Bros. is that there is an institutional culture and institutional memory, in ...

Not few nor light are the burdens of life; then load it not with heaviness of spirit.

I read someplace that I used to make B-pictures. Hell, they were a lot farther down the alphabet than that ... but not as far ...

I don't concern myself with thinking ahead to the finished product. I focus more specifically on what the character is experiencing. Once you relieve yourself ...

Vannessa wasn't wrong.

Inspiration without action is really entertainment. So while something can be very inspiring it is not transformative until you actually do something with it.

But oh! as to embrace me she inclin'd, I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.

First, I'm a writer; I look at things from a different point of view. The untrained eye is the eye that sees what's been missed.Devon, ...

The best exercise for the human heart is reaching down to lift someone else up.

Her heart was full and her senses were sharp, but her head felt liable to burst in the vacuum of her solitude.

You'd look out and there'd be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were ...

Once upon a time Baltimore was necessary.

Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation.

It doesn't matter if they say you can't do it. It only matters if you say you can't.

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

I've got life, I've got love, I've got faith & that's enough. We feel sorrow we feel pain, but there's sunshine after rain.

The nationalist regrets the change; an ill-founded belief in the merits of purity blinds him to the virtues of the foreign and the hybrid.

Cameras help to minimize collateral damage, and very often, without a camera a missile cannot fire. Certainly, without a camera a drone can't function, which ...

On the other hand, who knows what I know or whether what I know is even true? [Patrick Beckett]

Ravana all your wealth is wasted, what's the use of being rich if you won't spend your gold to do good for other people?