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Europe is standing on the brink of the greatest tragedy in the history of the human race: a new world war, that may involve the ...

Does one always need a reason to like something?" she asks amusedly."Because if there isn't any reason, I guess you can just say that's pure ...

You certainly wouldn't want to invest much time in an argument with someone who would believe it in the first place.

I feel blessed to be a musician, and I know it's a power given to me from God that I must use in a very ...

It's very hard to get pretentious about beer. You can become knowledgeable and start to talk with a highfalutin' vocabulary. But you can only go ...

Butchery is not the point of vampirism. Sex - domination and submission - is.

Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.

I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours.

The paths of Fate are many and varied,and no sane being should ever venture down the deceptively pleasant one of "if only".What happened,happened;

A major celebrity is a major brand, and major brands pick very critically what other brands they're going to associate with. So an A-list celebrity ...

Any activity?" Robert asked."Not in the lasssht ten minutesh. Before that, very exshiting. I shaw Wolf Beta run by. There were vampiresh chassing her. She ...

I hate all pain, Given or received; we have enough within us The meanest vassal as the loftiest monarch, Not to add to each other's ...

Death and life were just adjacent verandas.

I had rather eleven died nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.

Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by ...

For those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of pop-culture icons seems at best an annoying tic and at worst a dangerous vapidity ...

A tour of the Mexico City of Diego Rivera and Frieda Kahlo led by Barbara Kingsolver would be nice. And I certainly wouldn't turn down ...

You're wallowing in guilt and he's playing the martyr. It's like living in the middle of Hamlet.

I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.

I feel like I've been very smart in the way that I carry myself and treat myself. I feel like my mom was a big ...

Photography is the easiest medium with which to be merely competent. Almost anybody can be competent. It's the hardest medium in which to have some ...

As you write more and more personal becomes more and more universal.

It's easy to teach, give lesson to other, passing comments, but hard to learn when it comes to yourself.

A winner has more skills than a loser," Vor said, "no matter how you define the competition.

Maybe I think you're cute and funny. Maybe I wanna do what bunnies do with you, if you know what I mean.

My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, ...

Recognition in front of peers is the strongest motivator, and berating team members in private or public is the biggest demotivator. Check your use of ...

William McKinley has left us a priceless gift in the example of a useful and pure life, in his fidelity to public trusts and in ...

You're in love, that's what your problem is.

She doesn't like her own room because it's too little, she says. She says she likes to spread out. That kills me. What's old Phoebe ...

A person's heart should be what she was judged by, rather than whose blood ran in her veins.

We learn about life by exploring the texture and depth of space that composes our private inner world. In solitude we revisit our wounded feelings, ...

I monitor the food my players eat on a Friday night. It's no good if they've had two vindaloos and a kebab.

What really got me thinking about illustrating children's books was I discovered Hugh Thompson's illustrations for The Vicar of Wakefield in my mother's library and ...

There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate'er we do.[Lat., Est profecto deus, qui, quae nos gerimus, auditque et videt.]

Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought.[Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione quidem violari ...

The worst part of it is you don't know if he's barking at an owl, the moon or a burglar!""That's one of the drawbacks of ...

The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their linguistic function.

Love is how you live, not how you feel.

Yes, he was very dangerous, perhaps more dangerous than Vazkor, for his weapon was honesty.

Outside of London especially, I can't go anywhere without people buying me a drink. There are quite a lot of people who know me from ...

The fear that we cannot grow beyond whatever distortions we may find within ourselves keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, externally defined, and leads ...

I've had unsatisfying experiences, but mostly it's about communication, which is why I make an effort to talk to the director beforehand to make sure ...

You are made of Love, and this Earth is rich with opportunities to Love. Love is all around you.

I could have drowned ... and my brother didn't even care.

He almosted smiled. "There you go again. Why? Why do yo keep helping me?"There were a million answers on my lips, everything from It's the ...

The views of the multitude are neither bad nor good.[Lat., Neque mala, vel bona, quae vulgus putet.]

I have a little piece of advice for all the single guys out there, this is a piece of gold so please write this down. ...

Women are often only in the media to be victimised or objectified

A person who does not have respect for time, and does not have a sense of timing, can achieve little.

Everyone omes with a label, it's up to you to peel it off. pg.155 Vanishing Acts

Like many women, I stay active juggling many aspects of a very full life! I'm a busy mom. I also love to travel, garden, cook ...

You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and ...

The art of tomorrow will be a collective treasure, or it will not be art at all.

Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.

The abject pleasure of an abject mindAnd hence so dear to poor weak woman kind.[Lat., VindictaNemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]

There's nothing happy about love at all!! I would rather have not known real love ... if it hurts this much.

We shall fight to the last to free our Motherland.

I am not a morning person, I'm more of a morning velociraptor.

Justice has nothing to do with it. Stark, bloody, screaming, agonizing vendeance is what I'm talking about.

Verdiana was the child of poor though well-born parents, and her knowledge of the sufferings of the poor from her own experience in early years ...

Carisoprodol. Comes in a white tablet like a big-ass vitamin, 350 mg of muscle liquefier for those tense, recovering athletes and furniture movers. Too much, ...

Axilor Ventures helps startups to improve their odds of success, and I look forward to supporting the executive management of Axilor with this vision.

When I was in school, I was beaten every 30 minutes. It never did me any harm except for some psychological mal-adjustments and blurred vision.

I've been to Sardinia about 10 times because my wife, my daughter and I used to go every year with another family. We rented the ...

The couple that never talk to each other never discover how little they have in common.

Vivez joyeux" was the old saying. "Live joyfully.

Verily, the word of Allah teaches us, and we implicitly believe it, that for a Muslim to kill a Jew, or for him to be ...

He went through the cupboards, found the olive oil, and started upstairs again. He glanced down at the green and gold label and had to ...

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.

I'm voting for Gore because the other is unthinkable. Which most of us will probably do. I hope all of us. I've always liked Ralph ...

Faith is only a word if there is no love at its center, so flaccid and lifeless, vague and hollow - not anything you could ...

Thanks anyway,' Vanderdecker repeated, and wandered off to have a stare at the sea. It was his equivalent to beating his head repeatedly against a ...

I think it's very hard to direct foreign language actors, but Carl Rinsch found a great way. A special super visional way.

I love the sea as much as I love the veldt of Africa.

Don't worry, Njrea," said Vrem, but everyone went just a little bit still when Trals's raptor got close. Andrea stared down at the wide, yellow ...

I am Brister Fendlestick. Velcome to my hoomble home!

Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.[Lat., Continuis voluptatibus vicina satietas.]

Burnside left even sooner, hard on the heels of a violent argument with Meade, an exchange of recriminations which a staff observer said went far ...

Now voe me I can zing on my business abrode: Though the storm do beat down on my poll, There's a wife brighten'd vire at ...

In Moulin Rouge I could not change the name of Toulouse-Lautrec obviously to Toulouse-Lautrec- Martinez. But in ER I did that, my name is Dr ...

His bite will be cruel, but his tongue cunning,His breath seductive, but his grip deadly.The Dragon knows only hunger, never sated,Only thirst, never quenched. - ...

Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy ...

There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the ...

I preach on specific sins because people are not convicted by sermons on sin in general. It was when our Lord said to the Samaritan ...

It's quite a trick to use three instruments to tell the story of two people, but Vores carried it off; three, for once, is not ...

Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and wethe white racehave become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will ...

Hey, er ... " said Zaphod, "what's your name?"The man looked at them doubtfully."I don't know. Why, do you think I should have one? It ...

The Orange Revolution was a powerful example of democracy around the world. The people of Ukraine are continuing to shape their own future.

Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?

I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of ...

All that you have been is but a small part, a very mere bit of the potential of your life.

What we have here is a bunch of junior-varsity players trying to get on the varsity team.

Won't You guide me through the dark night of the soul That I may better understand Your way ... Let me purify my thoughts and ...

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 ...

My brain and body and nervous system, they see a plane ride, a long plane trip, as an opportunity to sleep with nothing coming in, ...

HERE LIES BROMWho wasA Rider bonded to the dragon SaphiraSon of Holcomb and NeldaBeloved of SelenaFather of Eragon ShadeslayerFounder of the VardenAnd Bane of the ...

When I was in my early twenties, I hoped one day to own a Victoria Cross, the ultimate decoration in Britain and the Commonwealth for ...

That's the hardest thing to do-to stay with a sentence until it has said what it should say, and then to know when that has ...

I am somewhere in the middle of a village with all the modern amenities. There's something missing. Life? I reckon....