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Vocabularian (n.) One who pays too much attention to words. In the past I have been accused by various parties of paying too much attention ...
Cod is more responsible for the discovery of the New World than almost anything else. Drove the Vikings across the North Atlantic, and John Cabot ...
Shoulder width is an absolute requirement for displaying the V taper that will make or break your physique.
There is no need of words; believe facts.[Lat., Non opus est verbis, credite rebus.]
That is why all romantics are anti-Voltairean, even Michelet, whose political fervor ought to have made him stand aligned with Voltaire; and that is why, ...
There's always been war," said Veillard. "But people quickly get accustomed to peace. So they think it's normal. No, war is what's normal.
I shit on all the revolutionary vanguards of this planet
Sports became a favorite subject of reflection and will soon be the only way of thinking
Tis as easy as lying: govern these ventages withyour lingers and thumb, give it breath with yourmouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music.Look you, ...
I never read any fairy tales or classics until I was an adult; all we ever had was comics ... No television, either. If we ...
Quand notre coeur a fait une fois sa vendange, Vivre est un mal. Once our heart has been harvested once, Life becomes miserable.
FIFA is a vuvuzela. It's in your ear, but you don't want to hear it, and then eventually it goes away.
We are living in a cultural dark age of musical pollution. You put the radio on, and five minutes later you need an aspirin.
The French, than whom - it's a very than-whom people all round - none can be more vacuously orotund, are (the same ones) obligingly terse. ...
I did my English A level in England, and we studied Shakespeare. I had great, great high school teachers, and we parsed the text within ...
I certainly wouldn't be writing books if it hadn't been for the feminist blogosphere, and I think that's a really amazing thing.
I am a big Vespa enthusiast, and I enjoy the state park aspect of California. It's awfully nice to ride my little scooter through the ...
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...(he) had his own set of rules: "ride clean and ride fair." Asked by reporters how he managed to keep calm despite the attacks by ...
I am suspicious - first of all, in myself - of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people's tendency to ... vampirize ...
Bene vixit, bene qui latuit.(to live well is to live concealed)
Destiny might play some of our cards, but we are the choiceswe make, Gregorii.
Stories are wonderful, enjoyable, and scrumptious things. In the old days, they were served on thin plates called pages. You ate them with your eyes. ...
I wandered through various public rooms, glory below, gloom above: for the look of lust always is gloomy; lust is never quite sureeven when the ...
The Miguel Syjuco character is not me. I wanted him to represent my own fears and frustrations and guilt, my own worst tendencies and my ...
I like zombie movies. I like 'The Walking Dead;' I like the metaphor of it, simply because when we go with the zombie concept - ...
Stay up and listen to lightening. If there is no lightening around, stay up and listen to nothing. Just listen to the sheer joy of ...
Henry dropped his voice to a horrifed, but confused, whisper. "A knife? Or a dagger?" ... Vlad wrinkled his forehead in uncertainty. "What's the difference?"Henry ...
Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.
Survival Movement in Hostile Areas," most of which he could have quoted verbatim if somebody asked him, but really all you had to know was ...
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Do unto others, before they do unto you.
When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory. How do you manage unreasonable people? You dismiss them. Like shadows
Now I am in control!" He followed this statement with a burst of laughter that showed the owner had done a fair share of gloating ...
Before he sat down, my internal heat-seekers sensed what was coming my way: deep blue eyes that melted girls like Velveeta in a microwave. I ...
I do different work, teaching and running around visiting universities and bookstores, and that prevents me from writing. But it's nice to be wanted as ...
The Scots (originally Irish, but by now Scotch) were at this time inhabiting Ireland, having driven the Irish (Picts) out of Scotland; while the Picts ...
It's a glorious evening, warm but not too close, the sun starting its lazy descent, shadows lengthening and the light just beginning to burnish the ...
How do you feel about vaporizing or slow,agonizing radiation sickness?""I usually don't think in those terms.
If your vision inspires others to see their dreams and your actions motivate them to realize it, then you are a leader.
I hope the Vandals had thorns in their sandals
Every maiden's weak and willin' When she meets the proper villian.
The drivers have one foot on the brake, one on the clutch and one on the throttle.
For a number of years I was relentlessly pursued by 10 to 15 men, almost daily. Spat at, verbally abused.
Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks he ...
My mother often said, as long as a person is happy at work, then poverty is nothing to be ashamed of.
The Visalus Founders are the finest and sharpest young leaders that I have ever met.
It was a large room, heavily outfitted with the usual badly ventilated furnaces, rows of bubbling crucibles, and one stuffed alligator. Things floated in jars. ...
Everything in his life was temporary, ungrounded. Language itself had lost its solidity; it had become thin, contingent, slippery, a viscid film on which he ...
Modern warfare wasn't supposed to have this much blood in it. The weapons were supposed to cook everyone neatly, like eggs in their shells. (Mark ...
I had a bartender friend once tell me about a $14.00 shot of vodka, this was years ago it's probably more now. I thought that ...
In the second installment, I pretty much dominate the show. Somehow or another, though, I manage to apparently dominate the first show pretty well with ...
Either I will come back after hoisting the Tricolor, or I will come back wrapped in it, but I will be back for sure.
During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
A smile curved the corners of his mouth under the dust-and soot-covered visor. "You're crying? I answered his question with my tear-stricken gaze."I'm not going ...
The reflex of fear was soon replaced with another, more useful emotion.Rage.
Their are millions of people in this world, but still some people are alone ...
There is not a single crowned head in Europe whose talents or merit would entitle him to be elected a vestryman by the people of ...
The Sword. Her name is Nightmare."A small shiver ran down Vall's back, in the exact line where the blade now was. It was not a ...
Be the hero of your children's story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and doing what is right is only reserved ...
Apparently having your girlfriend get shot in the head and Life Flighted away takes its toll on a guy. Imagine that? I told him it ...
Personal finance is a means to an end - living a rich and fulfilling life. It is not hard. It is not complicated. I write ...
It was the Victorians who covered the piano legs and drew a heavy curtain over what a lady got up to in her boudoir.
Validity is the touchstone of inference, and truth of judgment: the fact that vichyssoise is cold ratifies the judgment that vichyssoise is, indeed, cold, and ...
Here's how I see obesity: as a symptom. The larger problem is over-consumption. In a society that identifies consumption with patriotism, valorizes 'growth' above all ...
About the biology of stress and recovery, stress seems to have an effect on the brain similar to that of vaccines on the immune system. ...
Beauty can come in strange forms.
Honor from death," I snap, "is a myth. Invented by the war torn to make sense of the horrific. If we die, it will be ...
If you load a mud foot down with a lot of gadgets that he has to watch, somebody a lot more simply equipped - say ...
Never trust a survivor," my father used to warn me, with Vartan Mamigonian in mind, "until you find out what he did to stay alive.
A good video can make all the difference
VALIDATE NEVER EVER ANY VOICE .PROVIDED IT IS WEIGHED AND AGREED & APPROVED TO RECOMMEND TO ALL OTHERS BY GLOBAL FERTILE MINDS ON SCHOLAR'S PLATFORM
You'll find that as you get vider, you'll get viser. Vidth and visdom, Sammy, alvays grows together.
Holy freak show!
Women are no more important than any other potential victims, but we are the primary targets of the messages and myths that sustain rape culture. ...
The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions ...
You know how much I want a Vespa. I'm Vespa Desperate. It's a medical syndrome, you know. I see Vespas and I want to chase ...
Vola: So which is it? You going back for your home or for your pet?Peter: They're the same thing.
I feed my kids organic food and milk, but I've also been known to buy the odd Lunchable. My kids are not allowed to watch ...
There was reason to fear that the Revolution, like Saturn, might devour in turn each one of her children.
The second issue, which was a big one, her hands shook like she had DTs. I was tempted to go to the liquor store and ...
People try constantly to use me, and I hate it.
Inari screamed and swung her stake, but her Buffy impersonation wasn't any better than mine.
It's about transitioning from adolescence, when you live together with parents and see each other every day, to the era when you don't live together ...
What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function.
The greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, nor in its gold. Its glory is in its Age, and in that deep ...
If you have Jesus Christ, then you are no longer a slave to the forces of this sinful world; you are untouchable and unstoppable.Romans 8:15
Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.
The moment of assassination is the moment when power and the ignorance of power come together, with Death as validator.
Aitisi nai poroja," replied Veikko, a pleasantry long grown routine, meaning, "Your mother fucks reindeer.
In the darkness, who would answer for the color of a rose, Or the vestments of the May moth and the pilgrimage it goes?
Joy. Fear. Fear, most of all." His hand came up and smoothed my curls away from his nose "I havena been afraid for a verra ...
YOU HAVE A VAAGGGIINNAAA!
Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.
I spend so much time in Los Angeles and normally stay at a corporate apartment when shooting 'Top Chef: Just Desserts,' but when I have ...
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 ...
I watched Ricki Lake's documentary, 'The Business of Being Born,' and that led me to call a midwife, and not an ob-gyn, when I found ...
There was no theater program or anything where I'm from. So junior year in high school I started the theater program.
I can't wait to see how Dan and I will look when we are older.
He was in his midforties, tall and overweight, a sausage-fingered vulgarian in a slick suit.