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We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to ...

So if the world hates us, we take courage that it hated Jesus first. If you're wondering whether you'll be safe, just look at what ...

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.

I was a hyperactive kid, and it took awhile for me to find the right teacher. My master was a Shaolin kung fu teacher, but ...

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations ...

I don't like perfect people. They're usually not.

But Henry wasn't a parent, and he didn't understand that when you were, almost nothing was more satisfying than seeing your kid sleep.

It occurred to me that Australians are so surrounded with danger that they have evolved an entirely new vocabulary to deal with it.

Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land; and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women.

For your Bildung you should choose the most difficult and splendid problem, but as subject for a dissertation choose no more than a very limited ...

I think it's important to have flexibility to work wherever is best for you. I actually encourage people to work at the cafe - or ...

All Nigerians of voting age are free to vote based on their convictions. It is our duty to defend and protect that basic right, and ...

Everyone's default state is this pleasantry state. My goal in the show is to undercut that as quickly as possible. If you really do let ...

I raise money the old fashioned way, I go out and tell people what I think. And I say to them, "If you hire me, ...

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There are programs for the scrapping of appliances, but no one thinks about what's involved in the waste management of brassieres.

The most important 'speed' issue is often not technical but cultural. It's convincing everyone that the company's survival depends on everyone moving as fast as ...

No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote.

If everyone thinks you're bizarre and creepy, then you play bad guys. If everyone thinks you're beautiful and wants to kiss you, then you play ...

Just because you can't physically see the presence of love and goodness doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Everything you need is out there in the ...

It is a burden because I get asked about my father all the time. I just need to accept that he was a champion before ...

Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism.

The nature of love requires a recipient one who will respond by choice to the love given

When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother.

She tasted of hope. Oh. What does that taste like? Pollen and stars, the Fallen said.

You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to ...

When my father ran for the state Assembly, the headline said, 'Kean's Son to Run for Assembly.' When my grandfather first ran for Congress, it ...

Price, taken by itself, is nothing but the monetary expression of value.

You can't manage by memo. You can't stand up there and just send out edicts. I think you just gotta really personalize your relationships.

If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.

The movie is not a thing which is taken by the camera; the movie is the reality of the movie moving from reality to the ...

Go often to Holy Communion. Go very often! This is your one remedy.

Well, well, well," I said. "If it isn't the people responsible for unleashing Rose Hathaway on the world. You've got a lot to answer for.

The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.

To the man who cherishes a secret in his breast, there is a still greater secret unexplored. Our most indifferent acts may be a matter ...

Everything falls into the hands of music eventually. The only thing that ever rescued me was listening to a big voice. There are years accumulated ...

Light must always win.

India's national elections are really an aggregate of thirty different state elections, each influenced by its own local considerations, regional political currents, and different patterns ...

I think technology advanced faster than anticipated. In that whirlwind, a lot of companies didn't survive. The reason we have done well is because, even ...

I am a storyteller and a researcher, and I'm sorry the world has a hard time straddling the tension of those two things, but that's ...

As in labor, the more one doth exercise, the more one is enabled to do, strength growing upon work; so with the use of suffering, ...

Actually, highly successful people don't think about time much at all. Instead, they think about values, priorities, and consistent habits.

Luceo Non Uro. 'I shine, not burn,

I have faith in God and not that we have evolved from a rock, not from worshiping the environment or endangered bugs.

Across the globe, even in the world's "worst places," people found ways to turn pain into wisdom and suffering into strength. They made their own ...

Count no mortal fortunate till he has departed this life free from pain.

History constantly reminds us that in an uncertain world there is no visibility of prospects. Future earnings cannot be predicted with accuracy.

Lying is forbidden in Iraq. President Saddam Hussein will tolerate nothing but truthfulness as he is a man of great honour and integrity. Everyone is ...

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

In the ruling, Justice Roberts, who wrote the decision, referred to cell phones as not just phones but, quote, "cameras, video players, rolodexes, calendars, tape ...

Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress ...

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Amidst the rush and confusion of modern life something old and wise is trying to catch up with us. Whereas simple knowledge tends to divide ...

I just appreciate still having the longevity that I've had in my career.

Beneath the uniformity that unites us in communication there is a chaotic personal diversity of connections, and, for each of us, the connections continue to ...

She kissed him in the exact same way he wanted to fuck her. Hard, insistent, determined, as though burning him with her mouth. Branding her ...

The success gene lives in every person regardless of the results they are presently getting - we are spiritual beings and spirit is always for ...

By deciding that they would study only that which could be verified under controlled conditions, they had merely limited their field of endeavor. Most truth ...

You can get stuff done in New York that you can't in Los Angeles. If you wanted to get some milk and get your shoes ...

I looked up in the sky and trusted in God.

She had denied herself the pleasure of openly sharing life with the person she loved.

I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

There are no mineral monsters.

I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.

As well as many subspecies, the main blocks are fear of failure after previous success, fear of success due to a sense of unworthiness, lack ...

Be the change you seek.

Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the State [People's Republic of China].

People always grumbled. If things went well they wanted them to go better. Give them comfort and they wanted luxuries.

Quality is free. It's not a gift, but it's free. The 'unquality' things are what cost money.

History shows: Whenever people try to pull you down, you will reach peaks of success. You just need the ability to ignore.

A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds.

Let me quickly remind you that the allegation of being mentally incapable is a tried and tested method of silencing women dating back hundreds of ...

On impulse, I go round the small clearing, picking up all the trash, working with a burst of energy. There isn't a rubbish bin, but ...

This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to ...

Lord have mercy upon mankind.Deliver and save the world from the dreadful EBOLA VIRUS.

The one who looks at me is seeing the one who sent me. - John 12:45 niv

Yes, victory is sweet, but it doesn't necessarily make life any easier the next season or even the next day.

When women survive an awful marriage or love affair, and all that shit, they generally avoid another relationship for quite some time. With men, however, ...

This is possibly the most shameful situation I've ever gotten myself in in my life, and I've done some pretty dumb things in my life. ...

Two Polish men at Halloween with burned faces. What happened? They were bobbing for french fries.

If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge ...

Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your hat has got a hole ...

Make philosophy thy journey, theology thy journey's end: philosophy is a pleasant way, but dangerous to him that either tires or retires; in this journey ...

Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see - Egoism, Arrogance, Conceit, Selfishness, Greed, Lust, Intolerance, Anger, Lying, Cheating, Gossiping and Slandering. If you ...

I gasp, and I'm Eve in the Garden of Eden, and he's the serpent, and I cannot resist.

You don't know anything about me, Tyler. I would suggest you stop trying to fucking psychoanalyse me. I've already told you that I have no ...

I'm still an athlete, I'm still a stockbroker, I'm still an actor. I think of it as more of an opening of new doors than ...

The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail.

He meant it and he didn't. Both. At the same time. 'It doesn't matter if you meant it or not. This is the life you're ...

A single candle can light a thousand more without diminishing itself.

We need to empower women. Give women a voice in the decision-making process. Give women a political voice where they can champion, for their own ...

Contentment is the greatest door that one enters to Allah, it is the source of tranquility for the worshiper and paradise on earth. Whoever does ...

Let's be clear about this. The rejection of the constitution was a mistake that will have to be corrected.

England have nothing to lose here, apart from this test match.

Cum gutters are pretty high up there too," I smiled sleepily. "Cum gutters?" he asked with a short laugh,

I don't belong in the world. That's what it is. Something separates me from other people.

This is a book. Only make-believe. Remember?

I think that burnout happens because of resentment. That notion that, 'Wow, I worked 100 hours last week, and I couldn't even have this thing ...

The world will not get better, only we get and grow better.