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Strive for the Long Now
You eat to get happy, feel bad for indulging, and then eat more to escape your emotional discomfort. I'm sure you'll agree - this isn't ...
I've determined the ideal job for me is one where I can write clever essays about my life and my employer will give me enough ...
You renew yourself every day. Sometimes you're successful, sometimes your not, but it's the average that counts.
The human eyelid is not teartight (happily for the human eye).
What you can't do, you don't know.
We are taking close to $10 a CD the way we are doing it, and I think that is a fair amount to split up ...
Babe Ruth rose like a rocket. Through discipline. He also loved to practice.
It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.
I'll take my Gut over Google any day
Anger is a shield for the power of the sword's magic, so that helped.
Abandon the idea that you will forever be the victim of the things that have happened to you. Choose to be a victor.
Guy Boy Man," says Baby Doll15. "Violence is not the answer."I look down the hallway, steely eyed. "Then I don't like the question." Sweetie and ...
We have entered a new era. Global society is interconnected as never before. [...] I suggest that we have arrived in the Age of Sustainable ...
I hate you," I told him, quietly and vehemently."I hate that I still love you." Just as quiet, just as vehement. Far more destructive ... ...
I like projects that are entertaining, where I'm emotionally engaged and there's something to think about afterwards.
Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a ...
I like to dream about Portugal, and it's less easy when you are there.
We need men of the cross, with the message of the cross, bearing the marks of the cross.
You've got to change with the public's taste.
Dear Leonard. To look life in the face. Always to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last ...
Always try to be busy with valuable activities otherwise invaluable activities will definitely try to be busy with you
Wen you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but vether it's worth while goin' through so ...
I believe the difficulty that lies in growth, is the struggle of letting go of all you know to learn about the unknown. When in ...
If people are connected with God, they would be safe
Am I worried about the future? I don't know. When I think of the word it's like seeing a cavity, a space where a tooth ...
It is difficult for people to appreciate their own laughter unless you show them some pathos along the way.
On the contrary, I think making you happy should be taken very seriously.
You just make a game out of relaxing in the face of its melodrama. You simply learn how to release the tendency for getting drawn ...
Ronan and I have always had a fucked up way of going about things. The first time he fucked me, it was next to my ...
Grant made the perfect candidate, a war hero with indistinct views on most political issues.
Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
Because my parents took a risk on me not knowing a thing about me.They believed that in everyone there is potential - that by believing ...
If you were a son of mine, I wouldn't want you to be an architect, because it's a tough way to be in the world.
Creatively, I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship just wasn't happening at all, and our chemistry as ...
Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.
Sometimes it's a struggle to live in the moment.
Hell, Tate hadn't been to church in so long, he even wasn't sure they still held it on Sundays.
Prophetic of infidel times, and indicating the unsoundness of our general education, 'The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation', has started into public favour ...
Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable he in whom there rests a dim opinion concerning the gods.
To meet the serious issues facing us in our respective communities today, we must be examples of virtue and righteousness ourselves and choose today to ...
It was smaller than the Kidwells', and, moreover, he shared it with a wife, three active children, and a perpetually functioning television set. ("It's the ...
It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon ...
Priestley, a brilliant man with an astonishing variety of talents, did not lack for career options. He was employed as a minister for a Dissenting ...
If you don't lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.
I'm comfortable with being a voluptuous woman because I'm not going to be a size two and that's ok with me.
The object was not to stay alive but to stay human.
What's funny is that an old Web site of mine just had one fake bio, and everyone went crazy for it. So when I made ...
Words indeed have been my ruin; they have consumed me, and to the end I cannot be free of them.
As long as we are seeking our worth in anything and everything but the gospel of God's grace, we will keep seeking and keep wearing ...
As it was, he surfed his way towards daylight on a couch infested with cigarette burns and drunken dreams.
According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own ...
An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.
There is a certain type of greasy hair that you get only when you are writing with no breaks.
I can't understand people who give up and commit suicide. If I have a bad day, I figure tomorrow will be better. And even if ...
I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it as ...
Catholic sex is twenty minutes of pleading and whining (Vatican-approved foreplay), thirty seconds of involuntary shuddering and an hour of apologizing to God.
Not taking yourself too seriously, that's the important thing.
Frankly, acting doesn't scare me because I really enjoy it.
Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.
Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. Then by all means follow that path.
It was 5:45pm when I decided my future. By 9:43 I was well on my way to making it all come true. At 11:16 I ...
New York is vertical - all skyscrapers.
All dust is the same dust. Temporarily separated To go peacefully And enjoy the eternal nap.
I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the ...
You're so completely going to be in Slytherin.""I'm so completely going to be in Ravenclaw, thank you very much. I only want power so I ...
I like a thin book because it will steady a table, a leather volume because it will strop a razor and a heavy book because ...
To teach means scarcely anything more than to show how things differ from one another in their different purposes, forms, and origins ... Therefore, he ...
Either blasphemy is a victimless crime or its victim is powerful enough to take care of himself without any help from you.
Currently, sharks carry a stigma about them that breeds fear in humans, but in reality, it is the humans who are more of a threat ...
Adults weren't supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.
666 Pennsylvania Ave. "Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; ...
I'd love to build a company that will continue to make movies well beyond me someday. And I'd like to help start something great, even ...
It's amazing the fantasies your mind can put together.
Male eighteen whats your point?" - Shane
No Late Messages: It is proper netiquette to send messages within an appropriate time frame.
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, ...
The future lies in unity and respect, not division and stereotypes
All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
How to make spiced rum. Place rum, allspice, cloves, cardamom, star anise, cinnamon, nutmeg, orange peel, and one vanilla bean - split lengthwise - in ...
Everyone is normal until you get to know them.
This message God was communicating to mankind, this Gospel of Jesus, was a message to the heart as much as to the head, that the ...
The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening ...
I couldn't stop bawling, watching the towers come down. it was a terrible thing to happen. And a terrible thing to realize that I don't ...
If we continue to stand up for our rights, none of us alive today will ever have to pick up a weapon against our government. ...
The practice of any art demands more than 'mere savoir faire'. One must not only be in love with what one does, one must also ...
Being happy in God and living righteously tastes far better for far longer than sin does. When my hunger and thirst for joy is satisfied ...
We don't pretend to disagree.
Broadway is such a diverse community. Everybody knows how I believe, and everyone believes, and it's not a big deal. But in Hollywood, if you ...
I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a ...
I live my life like there's no yesterday.
There is no question that al-Qaida operatives are currently active in Iraq. A premature exit before the threat they represent has been dealt with would ...
Growing up, I was a very shy, wallflower type. I was not a nerd, but not popular. I was just invisible, like that person you ...
Judah Friedlander, I'm ok with you being the world champion for a few years more. That's a hook with legs. But I think he should ...
We, at least I, need monsters. Without monsters, there are no heroes. Something has to be black and white.~Lew Fonesca
Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one's hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
But so often, things of great beauty are full of great corruption.
Lyra marveled at the effect hope could have.
A great leader cannot worry about being well liked.
Even the songbirds have levels of mercury in their blood and feathers.