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I never thought I want to do anything, really, except not go to work properly and turn up at the same place every day and ...

Why is everything I own rubbish?' said Ron furiously, striding across the room to unstick Pigwidgeon's beak.

Money don't change you, it changes the people around you.

The more we train a man to labor, deliberate, dictate and demand over the inconsequential, the less capable his mind becomes of holding that of ...

I was raised in Washington, DC, very violent place. I grew up with violence. My introduction to music was violent. The years I've spent on ...

Worship is the grand theme of the Bible.

You don't obtain excellence by doing the bare minimum.

But the scent of the good is blown against the wind: A good man perfumes all directions.

I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after ...

I haven't got a very sweet tooth, but I love salted things like nuts. I would have to be dragged in by a lorry if ...

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

Your disbelief cures nothing.

Man does not drift into goodness ... the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination.

On an average day, I spend 12 hours listening to music. Very little writing.

Our little kinsmen after rainIn plenty may be seen,a pink and pulpy multitudeThe tepid ground upon;A needless life if seemed to meUntil a little birdAs ...

There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or ...

When a Banker jumps out of a window, jump after him - that's where the money is.

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger how much happier we would all be.

My father and I are very similar and have a wonderful relationship, but we both stand by our opinions.

What they failed to teach you at school was that the whole business of being human just got messier and more complicated as you got ...

Cruelty impresses, people want to be afraid of something. They want someone to whom they can submit with a shudder, the masses need that. They ...

Recovering Leah knows fear stands for false expectations appearing real.

Friends are proved by adversity.

To be sure, the Road of Excess leads to the Palace of Wisdom, even when it takes you through the Valley of the Nest of ...

Although yoga is commonly portrayed as a popular fitness trend, it's actually the core of the Vedic science that developed in the Indus Valley more ...

Though pundits and politicians, weary of the story, are happy to omit facts about voting systems and their private contractors running our public elections, such ...

I'm ashamed to be German.

Instead of setting goals, seek defining moments. Those are the real tests, because you have to be willing to fail in a pressure situation in ...

I just set the bar, niggas fall under it like a limbo

18 Let your o fountain be blessed, and s rejoice in t the wife of your youth, 19 a lovely u deer, a graceful doe. ...

There are no good reasons to believe in god.

The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.

I made the grandkids laugh. John Madden finally liked me!

I have a political attitude, but I'm certainly not a politician.

Yes, it would nice for this fifty year period, this cradle of all vampire short stories in the English language, to include a vampire tale ...

Will cast the spear and leave the rest to Jove.

Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself.

The city was a machine of its own, continuously producing. We were constantly pumped out through its assembly line, in different forms or models. We ...

You know all those times you just don't dare to dream? You tell yourself it'll only end badly. Why hurt yourself for no reason? And ...

Contrary to what most people believe, trust is not some soft, illusive quality that you either have or you don't; rather, trust is a pragmatic, ...

[The Creator] shines in the cosmic consciousness as a painting in the mind of an artist.

For me, playing music while I write is important. Several of the romantic scenes in 'Paris' were written with Debussy's 'String Quartet,' his 'L'Apres-midi d'une ...

I don't hold Travis anymore, of course- not to read to him, or for any other reason, either. I wish I'd known that the last ...

This summer, I'll be bringing out a mystery that involves a young lawyer and a court scene the likes of which I don't think you've ...

I'm not a fan of mysteries, so to prepare for this experience of writing a mystery I started reading the most successful ones in the ...

Everyone's crazy, but few show it.

Any attention to them (terrorists) on the part of the media, any double-standard interpretation of their motives and results of their activity means nothing but ...

That's the beauty of this great sport (track), though-it's such a fine line between success or not, which makes the sweet moments that much more ...

He is - and this is a fundamental entrepreneurial talent - a master illusionist. It's the essential entrepreneurial skill, to convince people you are what ...

I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.

Cancer opens many doors. One of the most important is your heart.

Clatter of a typewriter suggests that you're actually building something.

Christians in community must again show the world, not merely family values, but the bond of the love of Christ.

The veil of money has never been about how much money you have but about how much money has you.

A woman is like a flower! Flowers are to be treated only with a gentle touch ~ A Child of A Crackhead

I don't think of myself as being particulary a subversive writer, but I like to think that my work could afford someone else, the extra ...

Enough," Curran said. An unmistakable command saturated his voice. Jim clicked his mouth shut. I crossed my arms. "I'm sorry, is this the part where ...

It's blasphemous, don't get distracted by these lottery tickets and statues It's just fake gold and plastic We crying for votes but how many of ...

What is life without honor? Degradation is worse than death.

Regular feedback is one of the hardest things to drive through an organization.

Like all independent movies, the first thing you're looking for is a name actor who will justify your financing.

Yes, it is true that there are times when you do wonder if things are worth it but usually those moments pass as soon as ...

I tend to be most interested in the kinds of people that don't sweeten or dilute themselves for the sake of people's tastes.Who never soften ...

The Kyoto treaty has failed, and it's failed even in Europe, which has had cap and tax since 2005.

Whereas Mirabelle is tall, thin and sad, Vesta is physically and emotionally her opposite.

So many I considered, closest to me,turned on a dime and sold me out dutifully,although that knife was chipping away at me,they turned their eyes ...

There had been those who touched me in the past, who knew what they were doing, who made me feel wanted, beautiful, and necessary. But ...

I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet somehow, it wasn't enough. I had a hole in me, ...

Insanity is a state of mind. Souls are a state of being. Being soulless is a state of insanity.

Get It and Go with It It

I think a stalwart peasant in sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and ...

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!

It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.

When you're here, in a place like Bamiyan, with such a giant blue sky draped above you, other places seem so tiny.

Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.

There's way too much pain in this business for anyone who doesn't HAVE to write.

The whole structure of African government, as far back as we know, was based on tyranny. One guy ran the show. Chiefs like Chaka and ...

So a law was made that any Christian might worship as he saw fit. This was the first toleration act in the history of America. ...

Mari reached over and retrieved her cup of stew, sipping at it. "It's cold. Yours must be, too. Sorry."Alain picked up his and finished it ...

I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking.

We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and ...

The storms in our lives can best be handled through a sound thinking, a calm stance and a high spirits!

I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure ...

I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions, ...

It's like live action if you reshot every scene a million times after finishing the movie. Because even apparently by the very end, a few ...

I don't apologize for being sexually adventurous. Why not? It was often fun. When it wasn't - I didn't continue what wasn't pleasant.

I'm learning all the right vocabulary words - 'You're right, I'm wrong.'

I look most like myself ... when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses.

No,you're officially banned from listening to us. Or thinking about this. Or even thinking about thinking about this, understand?

She hadn't starved to death like they had expected her to, and she hadn't crawled back to them for help either. It gave her satisfaction ...

Some people are like that - closed - they can't learn from anyone. Us, for example, we can't learn anything, neither I from you nor ...

I love family reunions. Maybe next year we could pass out samurai swords.

It is a mistake to suppose that the Supreme Court is either honoured or helped by being spoken of as beyond criticism. On the contrary, ...

My father had osteomyelitis-his left arm was withered between his elbow and his shoulder ... But the amputation of a Stone Age man called Leaf, ...

You may scoff at the Tooth Fairy if you like. But the Tooth Fairy's approach has gotten more politicians elected than any economist's analysis.

You were like an ulcer on the inside of my cheek that my tongue could not stop touching.loving you was like watching a stranger clean ...

There are two infinities: God and stupidity.

The food in Europe is pretty disappointing. I like fried chicken. But other than that Europe is great.

The bullet is already in the brain; it won't be outrun forever, or charmed to a halt. In the end it willdo its work and ...

Acted, however, with great efficiency and self-sacrifice. But