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... in the case where the self is merely represented and ideally presented (vorgestellt), there it is not actual: where it is by proxy, it ...
I love riding, even if it's just my Vespa. You just zip and do your thing. I find there's a different awareness when I ride; ...
The intensity of her pleasure at this compliment surprised her, and she dropped her eyes. I but wear the only dress I own, and I ...
We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still
I love the smell of old books, Mandy sighed, inhaling deeply with the book pressed against her face. The yellow pages smelled of wood and ...
America does not presume to know what is best for everyone
Vote SNP for a party that always stands up for Scotland, that is stronger for Scotland, and a government that will keep the country moving ...
The city of Rome is called the "city of seven hills" and the Vatican is located within its confinement. These are the hills: Palatine, Capitoline, ...
There is no flock, however watched and tended, but one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside howsoe'er defended, but has one vacant chair.
Five percent seems very little to ask when you consider that the artist, through his or her efforts over many years, is largely responsible for ...
Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.
I mean, I can do that all day long. I can tell you the Vulcan's are not actually devoid of emotion. That they work hard ...
I've just confirmed every bad joke ever told about second violin players. Question: How many second violinists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? ...
The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!
Here, in Alethkar, men often spoke of the legends of mankind's hard-won victory over the Voidbringers. But when weapons created to fight nightmares were turned ...
Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.
The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people ...
Venting anger does not solve the problem that anger signals.
To relax is not to collapse, but simply to undo tension.
The one good thing is that I get a lot more good scripts coming through my letterbox. 'Vera Drake' raised my profile in one way, ...
I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you.
Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. -Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo ...
There is no plummet to sound another's soul.
I actually think the creative process is finite, and I'm wondering whether I've retched everything up. Because it's like vomiting or shitting.
You can be feminine and strong, at the same time. You can be a bad-ass and, at the same time, have a vulnerableness when you're ...
Gymnastics has become degraded as the participants have become younger. Once it was a sport of grace for women, never for little girls.
War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
Matthew and Luke handle the problem differently, by deciding that Jesus must have been born in Bethlehem after all. But they get him there by ...
Every race man and woman should cast aside their skepticism regarding the Negro's ability as a motion picture star.
What you have in Iraq is not just a society coming apart like Yugoslavia or Congo. What is at stake is not just Iraq's stability ...
When I was awarded a fellowship in poetry by the National Endowment for the Arts (for "Alphabets"), I felt myself suddenly (vaingloriously) equal to my ...
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.
Would you pour sand into the gas tank of your car? Of course not, your car was meant to run on good gasoline. Well, your ...
Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, ...
Pity is a useless emotion
Performance enhancements are most impressive when used by that sedentary athlete, the videogamer. After he turns to hitchhiking in disgrace, his giant thumbs can take ...
It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the food offered in ...
We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times.[Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
I think I have experience in rowing, and that has given me some ability to go about racing. I'm lucky genetically. I have a good ...
Voicing out your concerns in a calmly way is a great thing to do and it helps and saves lives of those who can't speak ...
( ... ) after an early dinner at The Egg and We, a recently inaugurated and not very successful little restaurant which Pnin frequented from ...
A little light in the dark night A faint voice is calling you This way! This way! This flickering, wavering little voiceLike dew, like a ...
Vadalism: beautiful as a rock in a cop's face.
Next! The taller of the guys at the door called. Saved by the yell.
I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government.
Apparuit iam beatitudo vestra' That is, Now your blessedness appears.
The important thing is not the size of your faith - it is the One behind your faith - God Himself.
When you appreciate what you have, then you will receive more. When you are in this moment feeling gratitude for this moment you actually up ...
A plant has to be watered but when it grows into a tree, it is no longer necessary. Similarly, if the inner consciousness becomes stronger, ...
It's a joy to be up close to Derek Jacobi's work. Alas, we haven't worked very much, over the years, since we were at university ...
I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable; so that you could go ...
With my sometimes blunt indecent vocabulary & very vivid imagination, I wonder if I should be writing "other" kinds of content.
The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.
Necessity makes dastards valiant men.
:...I love you with all the moods and tenses of the verb...
The U.K. outside of the European Union will end up being a mid-sized economy, somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, in neither America ...
At the start of the season you're strong enough to win the Premiership and the European Cup, but you have to be as strong in ...
You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.
That's right, you and God versus me, Vincent Kennedy McMahon, and the product of my semen, my son Shane!
Final Fantasy VII awoke American gaming to the possibilities of narrative dynamism and the importance of relatively developed characters - no small inspiration to take ...
There is the story in every man's heart of human progress. I believe every one of us knows that his major job on Earth is ...
Do you believe in God, Venkat?" Mitch asked."Sure, lots of 'em," Venkat said. "I'm Hindu.
The jewelry stores say, 'Tell your wife you love her with a diamond,' while wives tell you they love you with, 'Ok, but just because ...
Opening the fridge door, I found a rat eating the cheese. My dealings with rodents, particularly those tagged verminous, have been few, but generally the ...
The best education we can ever receive is from the University of Adversity. It's the only institute of learning that rewards us when we fail.
Propaganda - a war of words. Diplomacy - words of peace.
There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.
When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god ...
He was also a vociferous champion of abstinence from hard or spirituous liquors - but then no one's perfect. In
Sooner or later even the most ambitious glutton must crawl away and seek the solace of the vomitorium.
Sheldon Van Auken wrote,"The best argument for Christianity is Christians: their joy, their certainty, their completeness." Guess what he said is the best argument against ...
It's always more interesting to make a movie about what is relevant in your society. What's the political global backdrop? What are our threats? What ...
Against Amerigo Vespucci no such charges of immorality, cruelty, and bigotry can be brought as against Columbus, and the sole accusation against him, of falsifying ...
Character assassination of a politician is a victimless crime
How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis ...
So you should always stay on top of people's vesting schedules.
He's a vampire. I added. You know. In case Ty thought he was a really convincing vamposeur.
I never lost money by turning a profit.
A 2015 research report in the United Kingdom found that the main consumers of vinyl records that year were 18- to 24-year-olds, and research group ...
I was loved as a kid; I was raised with more love and emotional support than most folks could wish for ... my memories aged ...
Das war ein vorspeil nur; That was only a prelude; dort wo man Buecher verbrennt, Where one burns books, vebrennt man auch am Ende One ...
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
It seems farther away now because there are no rockets getting there. Nobody is going.
On the face of it," Vehi Fairfield said finally, "two separate worlds, each unaware of the other. But they always connect someplace.
Voluntary euthanasia occurs only when, to the best of medical knowledge, a person is suffering from an incurable and painful or extremely distressing condition. In ...
You need to get out of your nest in order to fly.
When you grew up in France in the 1970s and 80s, the Vel' d'Hiv wasn't part of the history program.
Never have varmints, only grandvarmints.
Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and ...
The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.
It sounded good. It was a story that Victor Conte told me to use. I was contacted by Dr. Goldman, and that's how the story ...
When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?
Reflect and meditate on yourself and discover ways to multiply yourself
We know that we have achieved something important for the club and for Villarreal.
Sorrow opens the gate to the Grace of God
Students are expected to demonstrate creativity and perform service in order to get into college, but no one thinks they should be dumb enough to ...
By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move thelight chariot, and establish love.[Lat., Arte citae veloque rates remoque moventur;Arte levis currus, arte ...
He looked at the viewscreen and couldn't believe it. If the other ship were any closer, then it would've been up his nose! There was ...
What well-advised ear regards What earth can say? Thy words are gold, but thy rewards Are painted clay.
Estragon: You see, you feel worse when I'm with you. I feel better alone, too.Vladmir: Then why do you always come crawling back?Estragon: I don't ...