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And the man who dreamt of flight has tripped and fallen in a hole.
On 9/11, 2001, the Navy stood at 316 ships. By 2008, after one of the great military buildups in American history, we were at 278 ...
I tried to stop smoking cigarettes by telling myself I just didn't want to smoke, but I didn't believe myself
Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.
I look at people holding hands in the hallways, and I try to think about how it all works.
AC/DC is a prime example of taking that blues rock thing and just living in that world. They only really move the furniture around a ...
You should think about your own death 3 times per day at the very least.
Soldiers who return from foreign battlefields with a syndrome that survivors of the Great War called the thousand-yard stare.
I wondered if they had rehearsed this weird three-way-talking thing they had going on. I imagined them sitting in a circle in their dorm room, ...
When you're photographing anything to do with war and conflict you're photographing something impossible. Everything you do is just clumsy and stupid and half witted. ...
I loved that place as if it was a part of me, and perhaps, in some ways, it was.
You feel that there is an avalanche coming when you meet the right person.
The most fatal seductive lie that has yet existed
I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.
No good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one ...
I talk about race a lot. It's been my work ever since I came out of acting school. But it's true that in a way ...
He who does not work, will not eat
Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.
My name is Four," I say. "Call me 'Stiff' again and you and I will have a problem.
Fame should be left to the film stars.
If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy ...
I once worked at a record label called London Records. The company was owned by Roger Ames, one of the most successful figures in the ...
If man could do what in his wildest self-worship he can imagine, the grand result would be that he would be his own God, which ...
Do you want it bad enough to get over being hurt?
For a period of 17 years - from the age of 9 until I was 25 years old - my mother never spent a day ...
Philosophy starts when we question ourselves and search for meaning in our lives.
I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.
When you hear tracks everybody immediately thinks that nobody is really playing or singing. That's not the case at all.
Courtney was a doctor herself. She diagnosed herself with Schizophrenia years ago, but didn't take any medication. The point of her barely leaving her home ...
I see things and I hear things I do not understand. I'm a skilled, resourceful ... vegetable!
You are as young as you feel. If you begin to feel the warmth of your soul, there will be a youthfulness in you that ...
Others tell like it is, while I tell it how I would like it to be.
I came to realize, along with being attracted to girls, I had similar feelings for boys. All the people close to me have known for ...
Little Richard, he'd say, 'Oh Dick Dale! You have luscious lips!'
You - who are smarter than cruise ships - can empathize, but also, however, you cannot.from "Cruise Ship Disaster Empathy
If God doesn't answer the way you want, you still need to praise through. That is when it's most difficult to praise God, but that ...
No I didn't audition, I didn't even know David Lynch till the week before I started the film.
Her Pan-Cake makeup was cracking like a dried-out Dakota lake bed.
I think that if you use the so-called "strong words" you'll get your point across faster and you can save a lot of beating around ...
A woman should always stand by a woman.
Truth is also about increasing moral minimalism. As you learn more, you should have less need for moral opinions. Or
He used Zane's body to pull himself up and closer, settling between Zane's legs, pushing his hips against Zane's inner thighs, rubbing his hard cock ...
Your story isn't powerful enough if all it does is lead the horse to water; it has to inspire the horse to drink, too. On ...
Finding a master of the dark art of ninjutsu in modern westernized Japan seems as unlikely as finding an active practitioner of the magic of ...
Pulling me into his arms, he trailed light kisses from my ear to my neck, almost making me forget how late I was running.I pushed ...
A tomb is a monument placed on the limits of two worlds.
She said, 'Is that legal?' 'I was trained to use bigger guns than this.' Which didn't exactly answer her question.
Thinking of and serving with others can be an antidote to negative and unhealthy introspection.
Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they ...
Sometimes I feel like I'm sailing on a sunken dream
Being an American is more than a birthright. It is something we must prove worthy everyday, failure to do so insults those who have sacrificed ...
Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the ...
Inner peace is the sacred-strength of peaceful existence.
If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.
Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them.
Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
I was on the street. This guy waved to me, and he came up to me and said, 'I'm sorry, I thought you were someone ...
I don't want to sound condescending, so I'm not going to say anything else, except that it is literally impossible to imagine a thing dumber ...
Think ... you still have no idea. The effect you can have." He slides his cuffs up the support and pushes himself to a sitting ...
By the close of summer, with increasing losses from disease, desertions, and absences of one sort or other, his army was in serious decline. Spirits ...
Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style.
Almost alone among successful politicians, he took slights personally.
War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.
Crazy is such a misunderstood term. I like to think that I march to the beat of my own drummer.
Know and believe in yourself and what others think won't disturb you.
A fight is like a fire. You think you have it under control, you think you can stop it whenever you want, but before you ...
I'll do anything for kids but I don't sign anything for grownups anymore.
Sometimes I would make myself very still and try to imagine myself dead. I tried to invoke the feeling of the very last breath I ...
At its core, I believe leadership is about instilling confidence in others
I had been there before; I knew all about it.
Perfectionists often position themselves on the sidelines, from which they point out that nothing is good enough.
Tenderness is total love, whereas justice is only a part of love, though it believes itself, mistakenly, to be the whole.
Instantly, Harry felt a jerk somewhere behind his navel. His feet had left the ground. He could not unclench the hand holding the Triwizard Cup; ...
On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key.
Some people can see things with their hearts. Others need to see them with their eyes.
When photography was invented it was thought to be an equivalent to truth, it was truth with a capital.
Am I grave?', he asked. 'I had an idea I was grinning from ear to ear.''You look as if you were taking me to a ...
Where is the civil rights groundswell on behalf of stronger marriages that will allow more children to grow up in two-parent families and have a ...
No bird casts the seed on land to grow food for itself, nor do beasts plough and enclose fields claiming - this is mine, this ...
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
The real trick in life is to turn hindsight into foresight that reveals insight.
I went to high school in Columbia. I met my first wife, Richards, whom I married while I was working on a B.S. in chemistry ...
Just be, right now, here; & breathe. Stop questioning every little thing, stop analysing how it should be and let go of the control, you ...
Deciphering the rabbit warren that made up the minds of most women was never his strong suit. All he could do was ask for clarification. ...
I put a limited time on the blues. I say, 'I allowed myself to be blue for four hours, and now I'm going to stop.'
I used to have a recurring dream where I was at a party in a country house, surrounded by the same people each evening. Everyone ...
Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out.
I'm sick of all you ammo-phobes being intolerant of my gun.
Therefore, as you seek to know God, there isn't a need to dabble in lots of different religions or make up one that makes Him ...
I lost so much energy in taxis, planes, hotels, phone calls and interpreters. Now, with the help from my little successes, I do everything in ...
I had no intention of becoming a comedian. I just wanted to make people happy. I tried everything-I shucked oysters, I painted houses, I sold ...
You will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by Him.
Mark in what order: first, our calling; then, our election; not beginning with our election first. By our calling, arguing our election.
Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes.
A lot of those songs are actually about Sarah, who I was recently divorced from about five or six months ago. I'd been seeing her ...
In our world of shadows, there is no black and white but a thousand different strokes of light".
If we are expected to show a gentle compassion for humanity, shouldn't we all have a wash care label sewn into each & everyone of ...
I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around ...
Instead of convincing people who are opposed to your message, spend your time finding people who are already predisposed to it.
Your mental attitude is the most dependable key to your personality.