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The sadness will last forever.

I'm, like, super-clumsy and weird and funny and dorky.

I recall that day on the beach - the sand so brilliant, the clouds so massive, and the wind punishing your hair ...

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will ...

A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

I opine-I think you're a woman of your world,' he said from the far end of the couch. 'I would have a hard time seeing ...

Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have ...

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, ...

If I beat myself up about the bad stuff I did, I'm ignoring that I was strong enough to stop being that person. I think ...

Patriotism has become a narrow offensive sentiment which as long as it lives will maintain war and exhaust the world

I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough ...

Paull has his own style, which is folksy, not canned.Religion? He's got one. His prophet's Ayn Rand.By Rand's eerie theories he's fervently gripped,So he won't ...

Misery is only better than death because you can rise from it.

I know when I am well off. You had better come up to me.' 'You know I can't.' 'Of course you can't. You can only ...

The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility ...

King has big offices, houses, and he pays his fighters a lot of money. An, because he's black, the FBI figures he must be doing ...

I'm a big believer in human nature.

Please don't go away. You--you matter. To me.

Your body is a museum of natural disasters can you grasp how stunning that is

A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or ...

Daughters of the South were to their mothers what tributaries were to the main rivers they flowed into: their source of immovable strength.

The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.

We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.

When I was in high school, I ran hurdles, but I was really short, so I'd barely clear them. I was pretty quick, but I ...

The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty or judgmental about any other time, the better ...

Young men kill someone for a handful of coins, then are remorseless, even casual: Hey, man, things happen. And their parents nab the culprit: it ...

We're also extremely sensitive to the difference between literacy and ideology. It is our belief that the first helps to thwart intolerance, challenge dogma, and ...

The purpose of art is to bring people into presence.

I'm a big believer in hard work, grinding it out, and not stopping until it's done,

With each successive pint he found that he was enjoying himself significantly less; until now he was sitting and shivering on the sidewalk outside the ...

The last time anyone did anything wrong in this town, Hades's men found those responsible and dragged them back here in chains. You would have ...

Living in New York City, I am reminded by the Statue of Liberty that the United States of America has always welcomed those yearning to ...

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I wish mental health care was as easy to get as, say, a gun.

Live your life to the fullest...you never know who is living vicariously through you!

His eyes are peculiar. There is nothing in them, like an eclair without the cream filling. It's wrong, lack of cream.

Serena was on her feet, her face pale, the bruises standing out in stark contrast, but she was alive. And I loved her.

He was pouring vinegar onto the hot grill, where it sputtered and foamed and hissed. The air was full of it for a few seconds, ...

The only sign of war was a cloud of dust migrating from east to west. It looked through the windows, trying to find a way ...

Girl ... you're seriously crackin' a moisty right now, aren't you?

True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers ...

I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio ...

Rekindling hope, engaging in inner work, and venturing into the world amount to a complete plan for picking yourself up when you're down.

I believe the two biggest mistakes made by the Founders were giving Federal judges life-time appointments and permitting them to be confirmed without the agreement ...

There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a ...

It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living ...

I discovered that I could take a risk and survive. I could march in Philadelphia. I could go out in the street and be gay ...

The wind picked up. The power went out. The windows rattled. I took an Ambien and curled into a ball and tried to hide from ...

It is very important to go home if you want your work to be whole. You don't have to move in with your parents again ...

People who make growth their goal - instead of a title, position, salary, or other external target - always have a future.

If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!

As an actor you're used to being the focus of attention.

Wearing my tee over her shorts, she studied the sink counter. "You smell like chocolate." I handed her the Axe spray. "It brings all the ...

I didn't know what grace was, but maybe it sounded like the music. Maybe that was what I was feeling. How sweet the sound. And ...

Nature shows me incredible beauty standing just beyond the rat race. It's always there if I'm open enough to see it.

Don't mind her," Kip said to Nicki. "She's just crabby from the long ride." "Yeah, I've been riding with...I mean on...a horse's ass all day," ...

If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?

They will all abandon you. All you have left is my desire for you.

It was fun playing a horrible, snotty kid in 'Harry Potter', and then playing Prince Charming where I was also singing and playing guitar, and ...

Jewish comedians do the best Jewish jokes, and anyone else doing that, they don't have a right to, because they're not coming from that experience. ...

Yes," he said sincerely. "Such a one deserves peanut butter on the seat of his pants.

Stop shakin' your head, Griselda Schroeder, because this is my truth, and I am sharing it with you, and you need to respect that.

Many things led to this day, for all of us. A forgotten son, a vengeful mother, a brother with a long shadow, a strange mutation. ...

Perversion is a sleeping monster; art is a fanning mistress. Art serves the perversion that is deep and often dormant within human beings.

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.

[The child] takes his play very seriously and he expends large amounts of emotion on it. The opposite of play is not what is serious ...

The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability.

I love Canada ... It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos.

I recall the words, the faces, the stale perfume and the pungent odor that filled the room..

I'm kind of a more sunshiny person myself.

Love is like a rose. So beautiful to look at, yet so painful to touch.

An independent Scotland - like all countries - will face challenges, and we will have our ups and downs. But the decisions about how we ...

Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the ...

She had to have gone elsewhere ... but elsewhere is a big place.

But the miracle of the redemptive reality of God is that the worst and the vilest offender can never exhaust the depths of His love.

We still have sanctions on Iran for its violations of human rights, for its support of terrorism and for its ballistic missile program. And we ...

The Six Faces of the FUTURE are: Fast, Urban, Tribal, Universal, Radical and Ethical.

I was on a very bumpy plane ride, an overnight flight. I was so miserable, and I pulled out 'David Copperfield,' and I forgot how ...

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 ...

I have the impression that when we talk so confidently of liberty, we are unaware of the awful ... servitude of poverty when means are ...

One of the advantages of having to live with JUnit for 8 years is now we can look back and see which decisions we made ...

I kept yelling at them that you were a human being, that you mattered, and it was like they weren't even listening to me. I ...

A privileging of individual rights over group goods can lead to serious problems, as we've seen with the antivaccination movement.

If there is anything education does not lack today it is critics.

If you were to live your life like a prayer, every action a sort of prayer, it would be easy to believe that all your ...

Astrology is a disease, not a science.

Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.

The purpose of all prayer is to find God's will and to make that our prayer

We were talking about the prince,' Sansa said, her voice soft as a kiss.Arya knew which prince she meant: Joffrey, of course. The tall, handsome ...

There is nothing to fear on earth but sin. Prison and death are nothing compared to a guilty conscience. If we are destined to suffer ...

I've no interest on initiating a fashion trend on Coruscant or anywhere else. I simply want a uniform that fits - Tarkin

Life plots elegantly.

The fundamental laws of human nature are overlooked by social planners.

Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.

I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio ...

It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.

Life does not always give you what you want, but if you look closely you will see that it gives what you need for growth.

I don't really believe in regrets.

In the meanest hut is a romance, if you knew the hearts there.

I found out about Jonathan Winters' death a day after it happened. That seems wrong. A talent like his should be more revered. The world ...

What we spend a lot of money to obtain can be accessed freely in prayer.