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Zachary smiles, and I wonder if he's felling different. Because standing out here waist deep in Gossimer Lake, next to my best friend, I'm feeling ...

The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Praise a fool, and slay him; for the canvas of his vanity is spread; His bark is shallow in the water, and a sudden gust ...

The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary.

Finn gave a soft laugh. 'What's so funny?' 'I think you're the first person to actually apologise for inflicting pain. Usually it's someone's hobby.

I own one movie by fellow Swede Ingmar Bergman, because I have to. You can't be a movie critic with a collection of six or ...

All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others.

But a long time ago I made me a rule: I let people do what they want to do.

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

And you, a king's daughter, who willingly gave herself to me - who brought me to her bed? Are you so high and pure?" She

It is not important what others think about you; it is important what you think about yourself.

I can't write to please everyone, but someone, somewhere will be touched if I put my heart into it.

If you engage people honestly, and you're willing to do the leg work, people will respond to that.

Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel ...

To float like a cloud you have to go to the trouble of becoming one.

If we are a people rich in social relationships, we are rich indeed. Whenever we develop significant friendships with those who are not like us ...

A hundred thousand welcomes: I could weep,And I could laugh; I am light and heavy:Welcome.

I've got a great relationship with my dad, but I can imagine how annoying it would be if I had to move back into his ...

Some day, I hope that you will find me hidden amidst my worlds, letters, poems and writings, discover me amidst my characters, uncover what i ...

I gotta make a living somehow, and make ends meet. I accept the idea of having a retirement.

Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine's economy.

When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years.

For the life of me I cannot remember, what made us think that we were wise and we'd never compromise. For the life of me ...

More than that, in the five hundred years of European OCCUPATION, Native cultures have already driven themselves to be remarkably tenacious and resilient.

Nobody seems to appreciate what an incredible player Wilt was," Russell said at 1997 All-Star Game when the league named and honored its 50 greatest ...

Conrad might be on his way to achieving godhead and wouldn't that be a kick in the ass?

Does [America] realize the meaning of every Iraqi becoming a missile that can cross to countries and cities?

Good-byes are like this. You can't always mark them well at the moment of separation - no matter how deep they cut. (Ky Markham)

By the time Cyrus was released from the hospital and the army, his gonorrhea was dried up. When he got home to Connecticut there remained ...

I've always been really drawn to that kind of sexual earthiness in European women, and Sophia Loren covered all the bases, including the whole mummy ...

When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.

Then endure for a while, and live for a happier day!

Acting isn't a profession, it's a way of living ...

Rural life in the winter months was rugged: snow-blurred and alcohol-fueled, violent and fast.

He who remains calm while those around him panic probably doesn't know what's going on.

There is a morality of reason, a morality proper to man, and Man's Life is its standard of value.All that which is proper to the ...

There are a number of World War II historians I admire: Cornelius Ryan, Mark Stoler, Antony Beevor, to name a few. As for generals, there ...

Above all else, trust that you don't have to control your partner, because your partner, given the freedom to do anything, will want to cherish ...

For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade.

(I know that last statement seems obvious. Everyone who meets me is fortunate, but you take my meaning.)

I lean into him and tuck my head into that space between his head and his shoulder - the space that I always thought was ...

Because people fight most fiercely when they dare not admit even to themselves that their cause is unjust.

They followed the middle way of Muhammad, which included marriage, a socially useful livelihood, and a life "in the world but not of it.

I was struck by how easy this was, how comfortable it was. There was no onion to peel here; Clark was an open book. Easy ...

She grabbed his hair and pulled his mouth tighter against her lips. She wanted to possess and devour him.

Once a bird had lost his ability to fly, not much else could be done in the way of mending him. Losing a wing was ...

Everything you do in life, whether it's good or bad, makes you who you are. Don't maybe your decisions to death because you can't change ...

What we have at the moment isn't as the old liturgies used to say, 'the sure and certain hope of the resurrection of the dead,' ...

Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.

If you can begin to believe in your own beauty, you can then begin to believe in the beauty of others.

When I looked back, all I could see were flashes of green and blue as my father fought the Titan and the sea itself was ...

Within you, whoever you may be, regardless of how big a failure you may think yourself to be, is the ability and the power to ...

I don't mean to sound boastful, but he was my icon before he was anyone else's. Being Mrs. Fred Rogers has been the most remarkable ...

In his eyes I forget time, burnt diaries, midnight, and ballads. I forget that I am growing older. One day I will be an old ...

I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.

Love is good for footballers, as long as it is not at half-time.

In this day and age, the U.S. and Europe do not have the luxury of focusing solely on a single region.

His pretty face could not make up for the fact that he had the IQ of a dead houseplant and the emotional range of a ...

The three things that shorten your life are smoking, artificial sweetener, and violent images.

The only way to consistently stay ahead of the game is to adopt a long-term view and, if appropriate, with a strong contrarian spin.

It's a blank slate here, filled with possibility.

Two people who were once very close canwithout blameor grand betrayalbecome strangers.perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.

As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.

It is not Sufism if it does not perform its function for you. A cloak is no longer a cloak if it does not keep ...

It might interest you that just as the U.S. was ramping up its involvement in Vietnam, LBJ launched an illegal invasion of the Dominican Republic ...

A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes.

I spent the better part of my developing years in Massachusetts.

People frequently fail when they try to do everything at once. They approach a massive project and quickly get discouraged. Taking small, but high-value steps ...

Life is pushing you toward love.

Sometimes," Halt continued, "we tend to expect a little too much of Ranger horses. After all, they are only human.

Why didn't I buy a new phone earlier? Why don't I always walk around with a spare phone? It should be the law, like having ...

I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job. But I truly, deeply hated the evil that woman possessed. I hate ...

During our lives ... we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to ...

Always live the adventure.

We forget that God's primary goal ia not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations ...

You were the goddess I longed to worship. My unobtainable dream. The relationship I could never hope to have.

Perspective was my secret weapon, and books gave me plenty of ammunition.

The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.

I'm just trying to be the me that I am and not all of this other crap. I just want to be the family man, ...

Mother, I spoke to the duke. He understands that this is not a formal meal. And he specifically told me that he was looking forward ...

At that age I looked at women with brutal and emotionless judgement. Assessing the slope of their breasts, imagining how they would look in very ...

Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.

There isn't a part of our lives that money doesn't touch - it affects our relationships, the way we go about our everyday activities, our ...

I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth.

The ability to make hard truths palatable is one that every long-lived co-leader has mastered.

When your mind is preoccupied, your impulses - not your long-term goals - will guide your choices.

I wish I could write librettos for the rest of my life. It is the purest of human pleasures, a heavenly hermaphroditism of being both ...

Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is ...

Some times we think we have nthin to earn. Bt in dis situation 1 thing must remember by everyone - if we r really hardworking ...

I suffered a bout of depression that pushed me to reevalute things in my life, and I learned a lot about myself and the world ...

I've been working a lot with Dick Smith on overpopulation.

Whatever your resources, the world was yours to the exact degree to which you summoned the fortitude and faith to step away from convention and ...

The ancients have left us model heroic poems in which the heroes furnish the whole interest of the story, and we are still unable to ...

The temperament reflects everything like a mirror.

Only the artists interest me whose hearts beat in unison with the poignant misery of the world. If you have not felt that, you have ...

Smart men play close to the line because they have tosome of them can't stand it, so they quit.

Great persons, like great empires, leave their mark on history.

Little faith will bring your souls to heaven, but great faith will bring heaven to your souls. Charles H. Spurgeon