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Happiness leaves such slender records; it is the dark days that are so voluminously documented.
Doss dear," said Cousin Georgiana mournfully, "some day you will discover that blood is thicker than water." "Of course it is. But who wants water ...
I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people have ...
Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking ...
I think alot of vocalists believe in the sound, or the way they sing it - it's interchangable.
Start a rumor aboutpeace taking over,love being the new black,and compassion going viral.
We can't have it both ways. We can't expect God to protect us in a crisis and just leave Him over there on the shelf ...
Women have tongues of craft, and hearts of guile,They will, they will not; fools that on them trust;For in their speech is death, hell in ...
My soul to-day Is far away Sailing the Vesuvian Bay.
When the grand twelve million jury of our sins and sinful fury, 'Gainst our souls black verdicts give, Christ pleads his death, and then we ...
All without any more sound than flipping over a playing card. And sitting in this limo, compared to my fifteen-year-old Volkswagen Beetle I'd bought off ...
There was reason to fear that the Revolution, like Saturn, might devour in turn each one of her children.
I look like a hooker.""A slut," I corrected. "Hookers have pastier complexions.""The voice of experience, I'm sure.
Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.
When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.
It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one ...
Theories of "natural law" and the "law of nations" are another excellent example of discussions destitute of all exactness. [ ... ] "Natural law" is ...
After waking up, I take my vitamins and eat fruit or, sometimes, bread with garlic, which is good for your health.
Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.
I am a very spiritual person and love travelling to religious places. I go to the Golden Temple, Tirupati Balaji and Vaishno Devi every year.
I was so shy and so quiet, and the only time I had my own voice and I could really connect with people was when ...
I like playing Vernon Dursley in 'Harry Potter,' because that gives me a license to be horrible to kids. I hate the odious business of ...
That's what I enjoy most about my music - that it heals in its own time and makes us look at ourselves in its own ...
Matt is a tortured soul,' Amanda insisted. 'He's Heathcliff and you're Cathy. He's Rochester and you're Jane Eyre. He's-''Darcy and I'm Elizabeth. I get it. ...
Law firms can create environments for abusive relationships. This is especially true if an attorney has no self-direction, has no independent means of financial support, ...
Le mal de vivre, 'the pain of life.' Qu'll faut bien vivre ... 'that we must live with, or endure.' Vaille que vivre, this is ...
I was a political refugee living in Venezuela. I had a job that was twelve hours a day, no money. It was a hard time.
It wasn't fair to pull her into that vortex, because I couldn't be fixed. And Roxy was a fixer. She thought she could help me, ...
Neighbors are the most indecent sort of folk around. Nothing but voyeurs and gossipers. As a community we would be much better off without them.
Smaller stuff tends to get shared more frequently.
Vitamin B proved to be not one vitamin but several, which is why we have B1, B2, and so on. To add to the confusion, ...
Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.
What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize ...
For happiness, how little suffices for happiness! ... the least thing precisely, the gentlest thing, the lightest thing, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a wisk, ...
This is very unprofessional, but at 'The Toxic Avenger,' Demond Green, Matt Saldivar and I had a contest to see who could say the word ...
Especially once those poetry events began, because, yeah, the stuff was still on the page, but the page was starting to spill into real space, ...
It is important not to allow ourselves to be put off by the magnitude of others' suffering. The misery of millions is not a cause ...
The universe does not judge us; it only provides consequences and lessons and opportunities to balance and learn through the law of cause and effect. ...
All through school, I was losing hundreds of pounds in school, so that's a journey - that's an old journey. I'm tired of that. I ...
In the Sixties, fashion was about liberation. It was about setting women free; it wasn't about being unable to walk.
You can't start a movement, but you can prepare for one
Goliath symbolizes the vanity and the illusions of this world. They disappear in a puff
Be accepting. Of everything. People's differences, their similarities, their choices, their personalities. Sometimes it takes a variety to make a good collection. The same goes ...
The so-called spirituality that was handed to me by those who put me to the task of pastoral work was not adequate. I do not ...
I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a ...
I love you."Voosh"Sorry ... what did you ... ? The planes noise was ...
If a vaccine works, then the vaccinators might conceivably set up what's known as ring vaccinations around Ebola hot spots. In this technique, medical workers ...
Our dreams drive us so. One after another. Jasmine sprung bravely from the fertile soil of our suffering. And who can live without dreams? Who ...
My only aversion to vice, is the price.
Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. ...
Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.
The purpose of the word "slut" is: controlling women through shame and humiliation. Women's bodies are always the ones that are being vied over for ...
This might sound masochistic or narcissistic, I don't know, but when I'm not playing the game, the validations I feel about life are always through ...
What a fine fellow is Quincey! I believe in my heart of hearts that he suffered as much about Lucy's death as any of us, ...
I do support enhanced interrogation techniques. Obviously their value is shining through with respect to the bin Laden killing.
I am Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, of the blood of Old Valyeria. I am the dragon's daughter.
McKeon: "You know Hauptman is going to deny they had anything to do with it [smuggling].""Forty-three million in illegal peltries? Of course they will, just ...
It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must walk. And on ...
When Theolyn died, the humans had built an enormous pyre and placed his body at the center. How was [Veka] supposed to know humans cremated ...
Septon Barth's claim that the Valyrians came to Westeros because their priests prophesied that the Doom of Man would come out of the land beyond ...
Again Al touched me, but this time, his hand was gentle on my shoulder. "And if you're not, it's Ku'Sox. He knows you're too protected ...
Gazzy: "What does that mean?" (points to metal plaque warning to stay off the third rail that said Stay off the third rail!)Fang: "It means ...
If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only the shores of ...
When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away...meditate and teach your heart that this is destiny." - Wayan
Victimism uses the ideology of concern for victims to gain political or economic or spiritual power.
When jumbled up, the letters contained in the name Taarak Vakil now spelt out a name that every theologian in India would be familiar with. ...
Everyone's always making fun of him and calling him crazy behind his back, but I can kind of understand how someone would end up that ...
They have weaknesses, the same ones which every attack-minded team has. I'm sure that they will concede more than one at El Madrigal
It is no coincidence that, on all four sides, in all four corners, the borders of the Roman Empire stopped where wine could no longer ...
Bought the Vegematic and Pocket Fisherman, too, illuminated illustrated history of Life, and Boxcar Willie.
I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is always my compass.
If thou wilt lend this money, lend it notAs to thy friends; for when did friendship takeA breed for barren metal of his friend?
It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried ...
Actual places, landscapes that exist[ed] simultaneously in both physical and metaphysical space ... true geographical refugia, verdant valleys dominated by protective mountain deities where people ...
There's no need for me to enter your mind, just sit at the edges and look for leakage.""Leakage?" Veran looked at his daughter. "You magicians ...
I'd like to rebrand the whole thing that's called 'disability'. It's an unsuitable title in the modern world
I don't know how long it's been since I've been gone, but you have to move on. If not today, then someday soon.I love you, ...
I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a ...
Radicalism,like stamp collecting,has its time and place.Perhaps,it is useful in one's youth,but you have to move on.
No day would be complete without chocolate. My favorite: Vosges Creole bar - it's dark chocolate with cocoa nibs. Holy Toledo, that thing is good.
I will stay at Arsenal forever. There will be no transfer for me. I love London. I've got a house there, I'm happy there and ...
In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
The way people are being displaced, who can stop the arrival of Maoism?
I thought the line 'I am the daughter of the former governor of Alaska' was very funny. I think the word is 'sarcasm.' In my ...
I'd lived in Portland on and off for a decade before I'd even heard of Vanport. It was this town of 20,000 people that washed ...
I had a terrible dream when I was pregnant; I dreamt the baby had a ventriloquial mouth, but there was no hand hole; I had ...
Up to a point go for quantity rather than quality. Most people would rather have two glasses of ordinary decent port than one of a ...
I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.
Forever chasing stars
Self-deception is a pessimistic definition of optimism.
True independence is an illusion; no one matures in a vacuum. We have heroes, we see villains, and ultimately we try to walk the path ...
The Sims is an escapist vehicle for people who want to escape to where they already are, which is why I thought this game was ...
I was a single dad in New York City, raising a child and pursuing a career.
Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled ...
Life is full of chances, don't miss yours today.
He wasn't a loner, but he liked doing things his way. Compromise wasn't a priority for him.
The artist, if he is not to forget how to listen, must retain the visionwhich includes angels and dragons and unicorns, and all the lovely ...
I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the planet.That may be. ...
A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.