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Hope is such a tenuous quality. To feel it and then to be denied what one most longs for ... Better, surely, not to hope ...

Well, it's a sad day when I'm the nicest person you know."-Jonas

How many people cdan play a piano? . . . Practically anybody who has ever been a child. It is a standard parlor accomplishment.

I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.

J. Cole's 2014 'Forrest Hills Drive.' The album, artwork, and director of that album was a huge influence on the visuals for 'Homecoming King.'

Cats are the flowers in all animals kept at home.

Yes," Jace said, "I regret having disobeyed you."No! Clary thought, but her heart sank. Was he giving up, did he think it was the only ...

Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and ...

You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.

I don't try to be sexy, but I do want to look as good as I can.

City's gripped in panic again,' I tell Harry. 'It must be a Tuesday,' he responds...

My job is to sell clothes to very rich women.

What need the bridge much broader than the flood? The fairest grant is the necessity.

Just say the word and I'll make him stay.I have to do it.There's no have to. Not even now.

Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from the circumstances of ...

I chose to tell a personal story. When you tell a movie like this that's as emotionally charged as this is, it's a risk. As ...

Logic, order, truth, reason, we consign them all to the oblivion of death," said one Surrealist manifesto. We must "cultivate the hatred of intelligence," said ...

How could I understand my weaknesses if my strength had not been tested?

I M Simple but I Do Anything in World

Vampire. Dangerous. Unknowable. Seriously creepy. This one's name was Constantine. We'd met before.

With a quick check, he pulls out onto the road and we roar off in a trail of dust, leaving my stomach still somewhere on ...

Folk music has always contained a concern for the human condition. And since it brings people into it from different points of view, that can ...

This is a great country. You're trying to tell me we can't keep people from coming into our country if we really had the desire ...

Every athlete has training they enjoy and training that they do because they have to and they don't enjoy so much. Do the training you ...

My little Jasnah, insufferable and wonderful.

Nature, too, seems to sense that something is coming to and end; it's summoning all it's strength for one last surge.

Ideation is not a synonym for innovation, conformity is not its simple antonym, and innovation is not the automatic consequence of "creative thinking.".

My sons named her Bridget because that way they always had their sister, Bridget, with them. People thought we were nuts because on the phone ...

If you are verifying information for yourself, you will not send on fake news to others. If

Got a problem? Good that you know you have one. Otherwise people either don't know that they have or they don't accept the fact that ...

It's so crude' complained her mother, who believed in Good Taste the way Sunday worshipers believed in the Immaculate Conception. She wasn't quite sure what ...

Pride became this dogma which meant you couldn't criticize anything gay - if you were the least bit critical of gay culture or people or ...

On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers.

If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of ...

If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I ...

Most people think buying is investing, but they're wrong. Buying doesn't make you an investor any more than buying groceries makes you a chef.

If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it.

I don't play a character. It's totally just an extension of myself.

The young have stolen our youthfulness, and flaunt it without shame.

The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to ...

The one who can dissolve her mind will suddenly discover the Tao at her feet ...

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

It is interesting that the worst retellings of traditional fairy tales are those that heavy-handedly take the step of making a moral point.

Experience was the most painful of teachers.

Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.

In a perfect world we don't want to be overly dependent on any single asset or be so dependent on the cycle or where one ...

A team is better 'cos your aptitude is multiplied in your members

What a director does ... essentially, it's storytelling, but a director also controls the feeling and the sounds and the texture. It's an act of ...

There's a lot of music at my fingertips that I can be influenced by. And just because I play a horn, I don't need to ...

True compassion is not about giving or taking. True compassion is doing just what is needed.

I would give my best quartet for a good razor,

As an actor, I'm always looking for scripts that I relate to, in some way, and things that are interesting and different. If it's combining ...

That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your ...

I heard a Lannister always pays his debts.""Oh, every penny ... but never a groat more. You'll get the meal you bargained for, but it ...

Dry your eyes O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise To ease my breast of melodies.

And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting - In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.

It's not all rainbows and ponies.

Worst of all, however, is the devastation wrought by the misuse of religious conviction for political ends. In truth, we cannot sharply enough attack those ...

Marry in haste, Repent at leisure.

Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.

The bark on the tree was just a little softer.

Authors are merely the medium between the words and the page.

The costs of engaging in the black market of religion in China are very high. Once found by the authorities, leaders and believers may suffer ...

I do small things. I try to do good things every day.

Working on 'Outlander' has been a delight, it really has. I had kind of forgotten what Scotland was like, and I'd turned into a bit ...

There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

Why didn't you come see me yesterday?" I asked.

Economics is the continuation of energy/resources by other means.

I really like the relaxed glamour of the '70s.

I remember once Robert Taylor invited me to lunch. I asked him, 'What is your ambition?' He said, 'I want to have 10 very good ...

My memories of events and games are fragmented.

I consider myself a kind of a one-man government-in-exile. I don't want to call it a government - let's call it one man's idea of ...

I was just so sick. I thought that orange juice was going to make me fat.

A word's meaning depends not so much on its linguistic past but rather on the place the word occupies in relation to the general system ...

A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.

A kind of losing loadum is their game,Where the worst writer has the greatest fame.

So let everyone take sides. Team Nick, Team Amy. Turn it into even more of a game: Sell some fucking T-shirts.

Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.

I have always found small mammals enough like ourselves to feel that I could understand what their lives would be like, and yet different enough ...

Don't complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised ...

My will and my desire were both revolved, as is a wheel in even motion driven, by Love, which moves the sun and other stars.

My occupation doesn't really allow for routines, but I'm pretty consistent about tea in the morning.

The learned are not agreed as to the time when the Gospel of John was written; some dating it as early as the year 68, ...

Just two small things: meditation and let-go. Remember these two key words: meditation and surrender. Meditation will take you in, and surrender will take you ...

If I die suddenly, my gravestone might appropriately offer this insight into my departure: "God got tired." I require lots of work.

It might not be distance or time that takes you away from people. Maybe you decide when you let them go. But I can't let ...

The way I perform or the setup is always same - just me and a microphone and the text - and they usually have some ...

Service of God consists in what we do to our neighbor.

A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.

Be patient. Life will offer you another chance as soon as you find calm within, for abundance is born out of calmness.

I speak my mind because it hurts to bite my tongue." - Unknown

My experience is that money and transactions purify relations; ideas and abstract matters like "recognition" and "credit" warp them, creating an atmosphere of perpetual rivalry. ...

Most customer service people are great. It's that one customer service person from hell that drives me crazy!

Everyone's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

I burned too bright. I saw too much.

We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in ...

Existing is not quite enough. Passionate living is the best revenge.

- mind, Miss Taggart? My mind is not on the market any longer.

That's what it all comes down to in the end,' he said. 'A person spends his life saying good-bye to other people. How does he ...