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I've got a song on One Direction's album called 'Tell Me A Lie'. It's a really cute song - I love it. I loved that ...
I'm going to have to come up with a new word for "excited". Something preferably a verb that describes the simultaneous actions of jumping up ...
The government is somewhat inept, but the private sector is inept in general. How many companies do venture capitalists invest in that go poorly? By ...
He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it.[Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]
We're individuals bound by a pattern of reciprocal obligation," I said. "If a group of chimps in the Amazon can be called a family, I ...
I'm all for setting goals and making plans for the lives we want to become a reality. I love vision statements and life maps, but ...
At first, I was able to use a Bunsen burner attached to my mother's gas stove, but the use of the kitchen as a laboratory ...
In the Immortal word of Socrates...I drank what?Form the movie Real Genius
When so-called child's play turns hostile, and a child becomes a victim, it is time to act. Victims of cyberbullying do not choose to participate. ...
This nation should be less worried about putting the Vietnam syndrome behind us than restarting the World War II victory syndrome that resulted in the ...
The more we know about how we lost our spontaneous wonder and creativity, the more we can find ways to get them back.
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
Every week brings to us 10,080 minutes That is our capital. How shall we use it to get the utmost benefit?
I love old, vintage cars. I've got a 1936 Dodge Touring Sedan right now and there's only five of them registered in the world, and ...
I coveted you. I had no right to want youbut I reached out and took you anyway. And now look what's become of you! Trying ...
I mean, they're not actually going to murder you. Right?
Reality is changing Viena. You can not stop the cycle.
Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the ...
Rebecca Black might sing like a robot, but that's just proof she has evolved beyond us. Her vocal is just a slightly exaggerated version of ...
As St. Faustina writes, "The miracles of mercy are impenetrable. Neither the sinner nor the just one will fathom them" (Diary, 1215).
Because beautiful things, even when they are temporary, still manage to leave a part of their beauty with you ... even after they're long gone.
I spend a lot of my time on the phone, pestering people. 'What's new in your lab? Can I come visit your lab? When can ...
The Bible does not profess to make men omniscient, but simply to tell them enough to make them happy and good, if they will believe ...
It is in the character of very few people to honour a prosperous friend without envy, and these very few people tend to become best ...
Then a faintness came over her; she recalled the Viscount who had waltzed with her at Vaubyessard, and his beard exhaled like this air an ...
A pleasing countenance is no slight disadvantage.[Lat., Auxilium non leve vultus habet.]
There cannot be friendship without equality.
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the ...
Una Salus Victis Nullam Sperare Salutem - (Latin - written 19 BC)The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all ...
Nature has a way of deadening us to traumatic events, until we're ready to deal with it. And once you do, it's a volcanic reaction.
I never wanted to sound clean and pretty. I always wanted to have kind of a certain natural quality to my voice, and I wish ...
There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.
My life isn't theories and formulae. It's part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I've absorbed what logic ...
It didn't matter to her whether she'd written anything brilliant. It just felt good to be able to write again.
But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club.
We didn't die,' she said.Of course not. I'm too clever to die, and you're too pretty.'I am pretty,' Valkryie said, managing a grin.
When you have a 12-minute debate over whether lipstick on a pig refers to a demeaning comment about the vice presidential candidate, you know we're ...
I think that those elements - light and sound - are beyond democratic. They're into the creative part of life.
Never make a person feel, that he/she is very (extra) special.. Cause, then that person starts feeling that 'You' are not worth him/her.
Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and ...
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 ...
Veni, vidi, vici. That was easy for Julius Caesar to say; he crossed Italy in a chariot, not on a stupid bike." - Vivia
Chernobyl is a theme worthy of Dostoevsky, an attempt to justify mankind.
It's a full moon here tonight, which makes me think of you. Because, I know that no matter what I am doing or where I ...
Tunisia is extremely dependent on economic conditions in Europe, which is why it also experienced shockwaves from the euro crisis.
A change in those moments, some switch turned off forever, the end of trust or safety or love, and how do we ever find the ...
When you turn up in Leicester Square and there are 5,000 people screaming your name and holding placards, that's just weird. It's hard to find ...
What I have found is that my fan base will follow me to whatever I'm doing. They gave me a big tune-in for Hallmark. They ...
Your body's just a vehicle, transporting the soul. It's what's inside of people, is beauty to behold.
We can bring peace in the world, not by eliminating violence in the world, but by finding the causes of violence and by preventing those ...
And then the critics, going back to the novels of his maturity, found that their English had a nervous, racy vigour that eminently suited the ...
Jacob opened the refrigerator and stared into it vacantly, with the false purposefulness that lingers for a few moments when a person of a solitary ...
Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical ...
The breeder can indeed lay the foundations of a good and serviceable dog but the trainer must see to it that he brings to their ...
There is no force in Earth or Heaven above,No, not even the damned of Hell can stop relentless Love. ---Kari, The Valkyrie, Chapter Sixteen,Valley of ...
I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to be ...
In her fury she'd broken into Valencian, indicating the deepest possible roots in the land. I was impressed with how deeply she was from here, ...
Very efficient, a new voice said approvingly. He decided to take it as a sign of approval, anyway. The speaker was a European-looking youth with ...
Hope is holding on, praying expectantly. It's never giving up. It's never quitting.
I am rather observant, and have a habit of putting things together. I tell you that so that you may be careful when you don't ...
Before they could continue their sparring, Dr. Steele walked up to Vasile and asked to speak with him in private, so naturally the whole table ...
I moved to Kentish Town from Chelsea in 1983, partly because I had a lot of friends already living in the area and because it ...
You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class).[Lat., Verba togae sequeris.]
But however imperfect, even repugnant, were particular policies, particular actions, there remained the purity of the ideal, represented in the theories of Karl Marx and ...
I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam, then moved on to NFL 2K on Dreamcast. The game I really loved was Virtua ...
The choice to become vegetarian was purely for ethical reasons. Like most meat eaters, I was a little concerned with removing meat from my diet. ...
I'm all about the story. If I like the character and I think the story's entertaining, I'll do it.
Economists have calculated that every dollar invested in high-quality home visitation, day care, and preschool programs results in seven dollars of savings on welfare payments, ...
Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.
Even in the midst of life's adversity, struggle or strife; Love's enduring presence remains steadfast.
When you sit in America you miss the open plains and you miss the sound of rain and the smell of rain and the smell ...
When I was a kid, before there were VCRt, my parents had a movie projector, and we'd watch Frankenstein and Dracula. I just always though ...
When Lafayette met him in 1775, the first volume of Raynal's 1770 History of the Two Indies had already been banned, which is to say ...
Good, law-abiding, value-oriented citizens are the ultimate in hypocrisy; "majority rules" and the law are exactly the same as being the biggest bully on the ...
In retrospect, I can see that President Brezhnev was quite proud of the limited agreement that he had concluded in Vladivostok; and to have a ...
The vulgarization of Darwinism that sees the "struggle for existence" as nothing but the competition for some environmental resource in short supply ignores the large ...
What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.
And Dirk van Dyck the Dutchman realized that he never had been, and never would be, as proud of any child as he was of ...
THE ADVENTURE OF THE CREEPING MAN
This was a commercial situation, not some exercise in an Applied Theology course.
The catechism of the vinyl LP involved a complex series of rituals over sleeves, sides played, needles, fluff and cloths, that were only enhanced by ...
She begins to feel that the reality show is the university she never attended. Vicarious reality. Emotion without a value-added tax. Movement without danger. Alma ...
There's no danger of me forgetting, but if you think the threat of a seven-foot-tall bear of a roommate is my only incentive for treating ...
Oh, I thought. It's on, bitch!
I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with pitfalls, and that, for him, suppressio veri is almost necessarily suggestio falsi ...
Morality is a closely knit garment that binds tightly when it binds at all, but the vastnesses that lie between the stars are prone to ...
His statement to himself should have been 'I possess this now,therefore I am happy' , instead of what it so Victorianly was: 'I cannot possess ...
It's not all rainbows and ponies.
In the last hour, I have been offered immortality eight thousand times, the ship says. I hate negotiating with vasilevs.
Consuming pornography does not lead to more sex, it leads to more porn. Much like eating McDonalds everyday will accustom you to food that (although ...
I am earth, earth My heart's love Bursts with hay and flowers. I am a lake of blue air In which my own appointed place ...
If you inhabited a world and a colony of tongueless people landed, would you consent to having your tongue cut out so that you could ...
I am tired of the superficial smiles that adorn the many ghouls among us. I am tired of the righteous indignation that hides beneath those ...
Dear God, she couldn't give this man sex. She could barely give it to Van, and he currently smelled so good she just wanted to ...
Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.[Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum ...
If Republicans triumph in 2014, it will undoubtedly be as a result of Obamacare. In 2010, Republicans soared to historic victory because the much-maligned Tea ...
Give house-room to the best; 'tis never knownVerture and pleasure both to dwell in one.
Vess Incorporated had simply dug them out of one hole and buried them in another
I did not come to this country for the terror from paramilitary," declared Voytek, hoarsely. "I did not come to this country for motherfucker. But ...