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If we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to do otherwise.
Groundless superstition ill befits an army; valor is the only deity that rules in the warrior's breast.
There are many ways to tell the history of the world. Oral histories that were later written down, including the Book of Genesis, the Rig ...
It might be a Proustian slogan: n'allez pas trop vite. And an advantage of not going by too fast is that the world has a ...
And in answering that question he saw the inside of that bleak Viking world, the reality of love and compassion that all these hammer-throwing and ...
Okay, to be fair, I had tried to Google-stalk him. But Google-stalking is a far cry from having your demonblood best friend park his vampmobile ...
Mouth of teeth on him like a vandalised graveyard but we all have our crosses.
I do think certain kinds of music can make you violent. Like, when I listen to Nickelback, it makes me want to kill Nickelback.
We have a tendency to think of war as this quasi-mystical thing, and that interpretation flattens the experience - by using different perspectives, I wanted ...
The Steinway pianos of today are the finest I have ever played.
What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
At Chelsea, a sacking is just another day at the office.
You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death ...
VUCA World - an environment of nonstop volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.
Emotional abuse is any type of abuse that is not physical in nature. It can include everything from verbal abuse to the silent treatment, domination ...
In Spanish there is a word for which I can't find a counterword in English. It is the verb VACILAR ... It does not mean ...
I found a vlogger named William Sledd who talked about his life - it was very minimal edits. It was one of those things where ...
This really is my life's work, to go where there is suffering,
And she's here. And said he's here. And she's going to tell him I'm here." Avery waves her hands frantically. "Shh . . . or ...
More and more movies have been pressured to allow reporters and TV cameras to come onto the set while you're working, and I find that ...
All my favorite establishments were either overly crowded or pathetically empty. People either sipped fine vintages in celebration or gulped intoxicants of who cares what ...
Redd stared at the bald head bent down before her. How refreshing Vollrath's sacrifice was. He didn't beg for his life. He didn't embarrasss himself ...
So near along life's stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin; and the voyageur will do well to replenish ...
Prior to Valentinus, those who follow Valentinus had no existence. Nor did those from Marcion exist before Marcion. Nor, in short, did any of those ...
You'd better be careful, they are going to revoke your vampire license if you get any more romantic and mushy.""Don't worry," Burnett said, his eyes ...
I can no longer believe in any voodoo spell or laboratory virus. This is something deeper, darker. This comes from the cosmos, from the stars, ...
Ninety-three was the war of Europe against France, and of France against Paris. And what was the Revolution? It was the victory of France over ...
Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things ...
All the genres of philosophy, science, high art, athletics and politics were invented by men. But by the Promethean law of conflict and capture, woman ...
And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with ...
Aerotechnik Super Vivat Icarus motorgliders had an enormous wingspan and looked like a typical side-by-side pilot/passenger configuration sailplane that had been crossed with a small ...
Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
At last he reached out and with a gentle hand, closed Valentine's eyes."Ave atque vale, Shadowhunter," he said.
We want from here to express our solidarity and our support to all the victims of these acts of terrorism and their family members. We ...
I'm Raine Benares, seeker and ... " I looked up at Vegard."What else are people calling me now?"The big Guardian chuckled and shook his head. ...
I've got a dad thanks. Your just the jerk who knocked up my mum and left her to figure out what to do with a ...
Don't do anything wrong, but more important is don't allow anyone else to do wrong through you.
The most attractive habitats for synthetic sentience might be the vicinities of exceptional sources of energy - for example black holes, or even the neighbourhoods ...
What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
I used to drink tons of caffeine. Now I make smoothies with frozen berries and Green Vibrance health powder.
It was like invasion of the body snatchers. "Knock that off. Stay out of my brain. Play around in your own. Stretch out a bit. ...
I would say that Emma Stone and Emma Watson are two very talented young actresses who are very intelligent and have a great sense of ...
You get yourself out there and you work hard and you hope that word of mouth kind of carries and one day somebody will actually ...
Her soul rusted with that grievance sticking in it
And finally - he was neither able nor willing to prevent it - the self-loathing dammed up inside him spilled over and gushed out, gushed ...
Toward an eternal aspiration for vague things.
It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace ...
Arrogance needs advertising, confidence speaks for itself.
Henry shrugged. "I've kissed plenty of girls." "I'm not talking about your mom,dork.
Without a doubt, it [Canada] is the land God gave to Cain.
Holyfuckingmancandy.
The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.
Dancing was the only activity he enjoyed with a woman, and he regretted that court dancing was no longer in vogue. If you want to ...
I do not believe in hypocrisy.
I find my anger ebbing away, and I'm lost in muffled grief again, this time not just for Tris, but for Uriah, whose smile is ...
And yet, as Verena watched her turn back to the dusting, she had the curious sensation that positions had been reversed in the oddest fashion. ...
The polls show that 10 percent of the public are ready to vote for me even though they don't know I'm running. We hope that ...
It is a strange thing being suddenly motherless. It's like losing a rudder that was keeping me on course, one that I never paid much ...
It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on
The use of violence in movies is a subject that's worth addressing. I'm not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger, but I'm interested ...
Sleep, Maya," he murmured softly. "Sleep, my love, and I promise that I will come looking for you.
Rome versus the Visigoths, Ancient Egypt versus the Hyksos, Aztecs versus the Spaniards.
Your giving and searching for ways to give is Love in action. This is the evidence of Spirit at work.
Seville never had a rich chess tradition. Valencia is entirely different, it is enough to say that one of the city squares is named after ...
Hugo Chavez has tried to steal an inspiring phrase 'Patria o muerte, venceremos.' It does not belong to him. It belongs to a free Cuba.
Taking responsibility means not blaming yourself. Anything that takes away your power or your pleasure makes you a victim. Don't make yourself a victim of ...
I'm p-paralyzed with happiness. - She laughed again, as if she said something very witty, and held my hand for a moment, looking up into ...
Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a ...
People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!
I am aware that true miracles, things unexplained by human reason, can only occur when Jesus does them.
Homicide is not a sin. It is sometimes a necessary violence on resistant and ossified forms of existence which have ceased to be amusing. In ...
Che sanza speme vivemo in disio.That without hope we live in desire.
If you follow a recipe for life, spontaneity will be cooked.
He chased after her. Needed to reach her, though he didn't know why. He was just sure in that certain senseless way of dreams.
I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
I don't think a man should try to suppress a woman just because he's married to her.
The traveling heart went free / With endless streams; that strife was stopped; / And down a thousand vales I dropped, / I flowed to ...
Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.
The changeful change of circumstances.[Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
My mother-in-law has so many wrinkles, when she smiles she looks like a Venetian blind.
Some people hear the voice of God in their dreams or through prayer or meditation. For me, God is truly in the details - the ...
I know you are reading this poemin a room where too much has happened for you to bearwhere the bedclothes lie in stagnant coils on ...
Schumacher wouldn't have let him past voluntarily. Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it.
The gardens at Rugeley had lots of separate lawns, paths, flower and vegetable borders, the pigeon coop, and plenty of low hedges,
I have never been able to see how a thirty-year old moron can vote more wisely than a fifteen-year old genius ...
Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.
While I cannot be regarded as a pillar, I must be regarded as a buttress of the church, because I support it from outside.
Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings.
You see," she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across spaceI belong to him. He doesn't love mehe never willbut I ...
Long-term vision and product strategy.
Be music always. Keep changing the keys, tones, pitch, and volume of each of the songs you create along your life's journey and play on.
All action is prayer. All trees are desire-fulfilli ng. All water is the Ganga. All land is Varanasi. Love everything.
Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends ...
I've got a Ferrari. VROOM! I do 104 from the garage to the front door.
Everybody always asks about Jimmy Fallon. I'm sorry to say that he's very nice and there's not much bad to say about him. I don't ...
The world is poor for him who has never been sick enough for this 'voluptuousness of hell
I think I liked you better when you were a raging idiot.
Memory is the place where our vanished days secretly gather ... The past seems to be gone and absent. Yet the grooves in the mind ...
Good players win volleyball games for you, not tall players.