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Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my ...

How absurd to call youth the time of happiness - youth, the time of greatest vulnerability! - Hercule Poirot in Death on the Nile

It's so sad to see how few people in the Obama administration have any private sector experience.

The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.

When the WHY Goes, WHAT Is All You'll Have Left

The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their fangs drawn - they are dangerous because of the ...

Let the child feel Christ is near him; By your faith will grow his own; Death nor danger will affright him If he never feels ...

Good commanders look after their troops, and good troops look after their commanders.

We're never as good as we think we are, nor as bad as we think we are.

Coffee is the ultimate stress buster for me and I need my cup of coffee in the morning to kick start my day.

I think many years ago I got on a bus in L.A. and drove around to see the stars' homes, but that's the extent of ...

I feel like I'm waiting on something that isn't going to happen Don't complain; just work harder.

If only everyone could know we've been created by and for God! If only we could all comprehend that we're precious to Him, housing mirrored ...

Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists: Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate religious faith.

The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector.

Who did you lose?"This girl is full of questions."Nobody." Or everyone - depends how I look at it. People don't really need to die to ...

In prayer, more is accomplished by listening than by talking.

Patience, he told himself. Get yourself at least one virtue, anyway.

The sure way to success is so simple, but it requires character, guts, persistence, the mastery of lower jobs to be ready for the better ...

I'm concerned with China growing at double or triple the rate of the West, that there will be tensions. One needs to do something to ...

The calmness was fracturing, tendrils of fear seeping through her mind like ivy. Once the fear consumed her, she'd run.

There's something about my films; they're informed by my sensibility. I have the same preoccupations, the same interests ... there's just something in the nuance, ...

I have no evidence that libertarianism leads to a better life. I just think it is morally right.

I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that ...

Liberty must be a mighty thing; for by it God punishes and rewards nations.

Traditional doctors say I'm a mystic. I don't deny it.

The best way to behave is to misbehave.

What's the difference between venerating women for being fuckable and putting them on a purity pedestal? In both cases, women's worth is contingent upon their ...

The thought makes me reach back for my knife, my sharp, throat-cutting security blanket, as I look around.

I think of you only twice a day - when I am alone and when I am with someone else.

In the Lotus Sutra, Buddha says to light up one corner - not the whole world. Just make it clear where you are.

You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.

O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.

My experience working in the Grameen Bank has given me faith; an unshakable faith in the creativity of human beings. It leads me to believe ...

Man is a strange being. He always has a feeling somewhere in his heart that whatever the danger he will pull through. It's just like ...

You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.

Dude, we both know it's only going to get worse. You're like a ticking sex bomb.

He said it twice because he had never said it before, and it sounded funny.

Rise and rise again and againlike The Phoenix from the ashes;until the lambs have become lions.

There is a wonderful continuity of being, the continuous awareness of self, a sense of yourself continuing in time and space.

People only make us lonelier by reminding us of God.

Valerie Sherwood, I said to myself, you're going to die.

Severus Snape wasn't yours," said Harry. "Snape was Dumbledores, Dumbledores from the moment you started hunting down my mother ...

Any Christian constitutionalist who retreats from this battle jeopardizes his life here and hereafter. Seldom has so much responsibility hung on so few, so heavily; ...

When I talk to people about 'KnowMore', it is as an experiment. The biggest thing I'll say there is that we've learned a lot from ...

What he wanted was very near. It was typical of the monstrous, egregious, laughable irony which dominated his life that with every dragging lift of ...

You are writing the story of your only life every single minute of every day.

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

The reality is the park has been badly maintained for years.

I needed it to have experiences I could write about. I thought I was someone who had nothing to say.

It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.

I just reared back and let them go.

I love a woman in a tuxedo, or in a dress, who looks comfortable, relaxed, happy. I'd love to dress Daphne Guinness - she has ...

It takes great strength to compromise, Shahar. More than it does to threaten and destroy, since you must fight your own pride as well as ...

A Quarter Quell. They occur every twenty-five years, marking the anniversary of the districts' defeat with over-the-top celebrations and, for extra fun, some miserable twist ...

I do not employ tricks when I attack.

Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount, we are put ...

I think Benjamin Bratt is the most dreamy ... he's dreamy! And I love the fact that he's got this Peruvian heritage; he's absolutely striking.

The squirrel in my yard really knows his way around the neighborhood.

The arrogance of wanting to be loved had emerged only now it was unreciprocated - I was left alone with my desire, defenseless, beyond the ...

I'm a devoted husband. That must strike you as totally deviant.

We do not have a paradise on earth; it is riddled with so much sin and disease.

I used to go in at 5:30 or 6:00 so I could run.

The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it ... 'Beware of me,' it ...

The super PACs have brought an element of fear into the equation. The fact that they can bring this money into the campaign, basically ambush ...

It is far more seemly to have thy Studie full of Bookes, than thy Purse full of money.

If you asked me, denial was the best stage of grief. If prompted, the Wicked Queen's mirror would definitely say it was the fairest of ...

At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.

His high spiced wares were made to sell, and they sold; and his thousands of readers could as rationally charge their delight in filth upon ...

Because that's what it would catch in the wild, a boar, right? I can't wait to see a pack of bunnycats take down a wild ...

I spend so much time on the Internet ... I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going ...

The play-maker is the most difficult position because you have to always know where everyone is on the pitch.

We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.

Doctors' investment in radium ... the price of radium increased 1,000% when they began to use it on cancer victims ...

That is love, baby girl. Working hard when we don't feel like it.

I watch vlogs on YouTube. I watch Jenna Marbles a lot - I think she's really funny - and a lady called Daily Grace.

It's like avoidance behavior in therapy - wanting to share the gossip but not wanting to deal with the real, more painful issues. Of course ...

Woman wants to be taken and accepted as a possession, she wishes to be merged in the conceptions of " possession " and " possessed ...

Zarathustra received his revelations from the archangels at age thirty, when he began his prophetic mission; Siddhartha's great renunciation of his princely life took place ...

I have all the power, but you will destroy me.

What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages and genders and ...

It is ... marvellous ... to have a period of apparent fanaticism. No obstacle can discourage you. The single vision of your quest obscures defeat ...

Sacrifice your fear on the altar of your dreams.

Put your hope in the right thing, and it would be a lifeline. Put your hope in the wrong thing, and it would be a ...

So by all means, have your beliefs - but hold them lightly. Keep in mind that all beliefs are stories, whether or not they're true.

This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and is now advancing, gradually yet ...

You break through the veil whenever you strap on a sword or chant the ancient verses. You escape when you write a poem or a ...

What you do on the court, off the court, in the classroom, it's all the same. Your habits, the way you treat class, your relationships ...

I think video games are a huge part of our society now. Having kids play baseball video games helps them understand and love the game. ...

Nothing short of the Almighty Power of God can Save us - it is not in our Numbers, our Union, or our Valour that I ...

Right now, in the amazing moment that to us counts as the present, we are deciding, without quite meaning to, which evolutionary pathways will remain ...

Don't watch the redheaded mind reader whispered. I closed my eyes.

... I thought I'd never seen such a miracle as the way the muscles of her thighs and buttocks flexed and relaxed in the grip ...

Faith is all we need when reason sends us down a different path.

To wail adamantly that a god exists is to kill that god or turn it into a plastic idol. To say that a god might ...

I made one untitled piece.

It was enough to drive me mad. I was no longer myself and yet I was so much more me than I had ever been ...

To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it so radically that ...

I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb.

If the way of wisdom was easy, anyone would have walked in. Wisdom is not a whore she is a shy mademoiselle so only those ...