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I will age for you, if it pleases you. I will match you, wrinkle for wrinkle, grey hair for grey hair, crease for crease, wrinkle ...
Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights Act ...
Corporate efficiency has led to a nasty trend of filtering resumes for keywords. This might save time, but it ensures that many of the best ...
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, ...
My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals - I've never played anyone with whom there's any overlapping Venn ...
There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.
Don't be afraid to hit the ball.
Un viaggiatore americano ha scritto: "Italy is the land of human nature".
The table. That Saukerl, that filthy pig - you call him Papa, verstehst? Understand?
I imagined more than office jobs. - Gretchen Vitamvas
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Path To War was the last thing that John Frankenheimer directed, I think, before he died. I'm a huge U.S. history buff, and I studied ...
Underneath Day's azure eyes, Ocean's nursling, Venice lies, A peopled labyrinth of walls, Amphitrite's destined halls
It is important to know who your friends are and to stay, remain loyal to your friends, despite what you hear, despite the mistakes that ...
Sometimes we're brought to our knees. Literally. But, oh how we rise when we stand up. - Vicki Reece ...
Let me tell you this, if I had wanted to have a library of audio and videotapes of Bill Clinton, I could have had that. ...
We don't yet know the state of the naturals. Are they friends or foes? None of us can say. We ought to anchor in the ...
If the day comes when you would find me again, give that coin to any man from Braavos, and say these words to himvalar morghulis. ...
Not only the words (vocabula) which the Holy Spirit and Scripture use are divine, but also the phrasing
Dialectical thought is related to vulgar thinking in the same way that a motion picture is related to a still photograph. The motion picture does ...
Maybe he'll be different from who he was and always is.
Our attitudes and personal values create outcomes. The consequence of any venture shapes our evolving ethical precepts, and the product of a sundry of worldly ...
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander
Spurting out like formula from a colicky baby's mouth, drops ejected from boiled frosting boiling, preliminary spurts from Old Faithful before the earthquake.
Billy made a noise like a small, rusty hinge. He had just emptied his seminal vesicles into Valencia, had contributed his share of the Green ...
What emerged from the doorway can only be described as how I envision a love-child between Grady from Sanford & Son and a small goat. ...
In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather ...
But the instruction that the awareness is only twenty-five percent really brings home the idea that it's not a concentration practice - there's a very ...
We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to ...
Every villain is a hero in his own mind.
He started talking, and what he said changed all of our lives forever. "Mommy," he mumbled, and Dr. Tanner and I both started.
The couturier should be a geometrician, for the human body makes geometrical figures to which the materials should correspond.
I entreat masters to live a good life and faithfully to instruct their scholars, especially that they may love God and learn to give themselves ...
New problems: Mrs. Van Daan is desperate, talks about a bullet through her head, prison, hanging, and suicide. She's jealous that Peter confides in me ...
To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.
You can't throw us into space," yelled Ford, "we're trying to write a book." "Resistance is useless!" shouted the Vogon guard back at him. It ...
I wanted all my visits to be official. When I sent the pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the ...
With no pretensions of art, Viva Las Vegas, the new Elvis Presley vehicle, is about as pleasant and unimportant as a Banana Split.
Drug use is a primordial animal activity. Among humans , it is immemorial and nearly universal. VVhat then accounts for the 'war on drugs
I've excluded happiness as one of those possibilities we seek for ourselves. Oh, I still want it, but that's beside the point. Contentment - they ...
When the Veterans Affairs Department implemented a program to provide home-based health care to veterans with multiple chronic conditions - many of the system's most ...
Women have to be careful to not wear out their husbands on their honeymoons, or they get so weak that they can't go to work!
Stop a knife? You're serious.""As a heart attack.""You are something else."I couldn't tell if he was giving me a compliment or a veiled insult. "I ...
It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire is ...
It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.
Love is being stupid together.
Goliath symbolizes the vanity and the illusions of this world. They disappear in a puff
When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.
She figured if people were dumb enough to believe that crap, they didn't deserve the truth. They probably wouldn't believe it anyway
Burn me," Mat said, throwing on the shirt he dug out of the bundle. "I'll give you a hundred Tar Valon marks if you do ...
I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles.
I ask permission to be like everybody else,like the rest of the world and what's more, like anybody else:I beg you, with all my heart,if ...
For 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona,' for example, Woody Allen is one of the greatest American directors, and we really had a very good working relationship. We ...
If you are involved totally, sex disappears because sex is a safety valve. When you have energy unused, then sex becomes a haunting thing around ...
Who are you and why are you here?''I'm here to kill you.''Oh. I knew there was something about you I liked.
The creed of sacrifice is a morality for the immoral.
So you're dating Mr. Freaky Vanderperv, at least you're not dating a guy with no skills and no interest in you sexually! Treat his kinks ...
I know she hates me, yet cannot choose but love her: No matter, if but to vex her, I'll haunt her still; Though I get ...
Thank you Jonah." He lowers his head at the break in my voice. I ignore the moisture in his eyes and pretend that mine don't ...
Not only is writing more important than ever, but visual literacy is vital. We don't teach enough design, art, visual things. We have to recognize ...
Her flawless pale skin was also spangled with gemstones. I don't know how they'd been attached, but they clung to her and sent little flashes ...
[the] special relation of women to children, in which the heart of the world has always felt there was something sacred, serves to impress upon ...
Did you hear about the woman who sent out 40,000 Valentine Cards doused in perfume and signed, "Guess Who?" She's a divorce lawyer.
Actually, we did a fun April Fools' thing with Google a couple of years ago, which we called Virgle. And we looked for volunteers to ...
I don't want to be a star - most of the ones I know are too unhappy.
Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according to ...
It's a strange life, isn't it? ... A Rom with no tribe. No matter how hard you look, you can never find a home. Because ...
I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.[Lat., Ego verum amo, verum volo mihi dici; mendacem odi.]
No, I don't have a heart of gold. It's normal - the one that gets hurt by rude words and broken promises.
My way has always worked. My way is what got me here.
Any minority's right to be different must be respected, but the right of the majority must not be questioned. Without the values at the core ...
You know I'm a firm believer that women come in all shapes and all sizes and you know certain people like certain things. It's all ...
The Eskimos may have a hundred words for snow, but at that moment, I only had two: Fuck. Yeah.
They say sound is vibration and it got my mind shaking/ Can you feel it vibrating? I call it Vibe Ratings
Anywhere you want. Any time you want. One condition - it has to be amazing.
Do we want blanks, asterisks and exclamation marks which people can fill in with their own imaginations, or are we prepared and strong enough to ...
It was absolutely marvelous working for Pauli. You could ask him anything. There was no worry that he would think a particular question was stupid, ...
I want each and every West Virginian to have bragging rights. I want to stop playing defense and start playing offense. So, together, let us ...
I am obsessed with delivering value to investors and winning the game from a personal standpoint.
Security is always going to be a cat and mouse game because there'll be people out there that are hunting for the zero day award, ...
I am & have been for years a confirmed anti-vaccinationist. Anti-vaccination has no backing from the orthodox medical opinion. A medical man who expresses himself ...
Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a ...
If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could ...
No viticultural region in America has demonstrated as much progress in quality and potential for greatness as ... the Santa Barbara region, where the Burgundian ...
A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food.[Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]
The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.
With any luck, Heaven itself will resemble a vast used bookstore, with a really good cafe in one corner, serving dark beer and kielbasa to ...
I'd let his whole khalasar fuck you if need be, sweet sister, all forty thousand men and their horses too if that was what it ...
Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't ...
I shall be a vestibule of unhampered sanity.
Every woman treats me that way, Reese. I'm not a person to them. I'm just ... a good time or something vile to be avoided ...
In the war I was subject to military law, but subject to law nevertheless; now I am at the mercy of an arbitrary power.
It's just different today. Nobody seems to last too long these days. I wouldn't know how to get started today.
( ... ) after an early dinner at The Egg and We, a recently inaugurated and not very successful little restaurant which Pnin frequented from ...
Life repeats Shakespearian themes more often than we think. Did Lady Macbeth, Richard III, and King Claudius exist only in the Middle Ages? Shylock wanted ...
If coloured lenses can potentially stop the world seeming fragmented and put an end to nightmare distortions, then the learner with autism who shows signs ...
And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to ...
All laws that are proper and correct, and all obligations entered into which are not violative of the constitution should be kept inviolate. But if ...
Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contractions of brain muscles usually accompanied by ...
America was discovered by Amerigo Vespucci and was named after him, until people got tired of living in a place called "Vespuccia" and changed its ...