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I have, at times, been absorbed in my work to the point of complete self-oblivion. Once I worked for thirty-six hours without a break - ...
Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things; possible to miss life in preparation ...
I needed to go into that bare, with nothing from my own life on my body, the way woodcutters' children in fairy tales have to ...
The big problem for a democratic government - democrat with a small "d" - is how to hold down government spending.
What singing means to me, I never did consider myself a singer, I just let people watch me feel music and how it comes through ...
Good manners do more for a man that good looks.
The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into ...
For better or worse, when you're running for mayor, there's a little bit of a spotlight on you.
One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.
I started working when I was three years old and was basically known before I knew who my own name was. My parents needed money, ...
The theory of evolution explains to us what our ancestry has been. It does not explain away our worth. Why should we be afraid to ...
All my ex's live in Texas, And Texas is the place I'd dearly love to be, But all my ex's live in Texas, Therefore I ...
If I have led my life totally deliberately, then when I come to the end of the diving board, I can just fall off the ...
It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.
I looked up the word "scandal" in my dictionary last night. No wonder there has been such a fuss.
Love is a verb. We have to let our love call us to action.
Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus.
All of us have hidden skills keep searching for yours
If the black vote does not come out in big numbers in the age of Ferguson and voter ID, it will empower our adversaries and ...
We haven't had any accidents for months now ... Everything on that island is perfectly fine.
I have no words to express my sadness, grief, and frustration. I never thought Bengali people could do such a heinous and atrocious thing. My ...
I am not a vivacious person in real. I hate smiling. I hate doing small talk.
Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes ...
Such crimes has superstition caused.
Divorced? I'm a good Catholic girl, Louisa. We don't divorce. We just make our men suffer for all eternity.
I think people like to be thrilled and excited. And a scary movie is a safe way to do that because you're not actually doing ...
The stars were my best friends. The air was full of legends and phantoms, full of mythical and fairy tale creatures, which suddenly flew away ...
Those dudes are hot," announced Tamara. Both Lor and Patrick shut up and turned to stare at her. Damian looked up and grinned wolfishly. My ...
Don't do this. I love you. Don't shut me out.
The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.
Too fearful to intervene and hold back the tormenter, she was pleading instead with the victim to be more submissive. It was a solution that ...
How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you ...
Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment.
The great enemy of knowledge is not error, but inertness. All that we want is discussion; and then we are sure to do well, no ...
Arrogance can be deadly.
Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
She made love with the freshness of an impatient virgin and the ingenuity of a sex-scarred whore.
In Vitrag-Vignan [science of vitraag lords, the enlightened ones] there cannot be the slightest of the [wrong] insistence; moreover, there can be no insistence on ...
The Bible makes it clear that reason is not the front door of faith. It takes spiritual eyes to discern spiritual matters. But how do ...
And then," Darren continues dizzily, "when we've come, I'll keep you open with my fingers, keep you loose, and when I'm ready, I'll take you ...
I thinkI just don't know.
Spotting talent is one of the essential elements of great leadership.
The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.
The dying are selfish, he thought; they want their moments to themselves, like children.
In every experience we get to choose either love or fear as a response. Your character is formed by the percentages of those choices, which ...
There you are. I've been looking for you. His first words to me - not a lie at all, not a threat to keep those ...
What's a Muggle?" he asks, taking it from me. "I save that mug for special people, Kit. Don't ask questions.
The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.
I believe that if you're an artist, it's like a gift. If you can do this for a living and you can be involved in ...
If you haven't carried a voice recorder in the past 72 hours to capture the sum of your brilliant quotes, you should reconsider the life ...
They are certain old qualities and flavors within you. However much you may try to pretend that you're a very nice and loving person, when ...
Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that ...
I 'd never seen him cry; I didn't think he could . It would have to take something greater than the end of the world ...
You can't choose your family. Can't shoot 'em either.
All the bad in my life led me to her, which makes me think that I can live with the past if she is my ...
Hard work does not go unnoticed, and someday the rewards will follow.
Leave people alone when they tell you to leave them alone. If they mean it, they need it.
Let the winds blow! a fiercer gale Is wild within me! what may quell That sullen tempest? I must sail Whither, O whither, who can ...
When someone asks about Boston, I put my brain on pause. I feel like I took a 5,000 pounds off my back to be here.
I wasn't on the board of Lehman Brothers. I was a banker, and I was proud of it and I traveled the country and learned ...
For 42 years, I worked nonstop from 7 A.M. to 5 P.M., day in and day out.
Your letter filled the hole in my day like a key.Turn it.
Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, ...
The economy is like a machine.
The message of the Bible is clear: Jesus Christ is Lord! It's a fact. Bringing our lives into submission to His will in everything is ...
I am extremely disappointed by the actions of the 9/11 commission.
We do not wish to say only that a man is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for that of all ...
For Pan! Grover rushed in from the right. He threw his sheep bone, which bounced harmlessly off the monster's forehead.
It is important for coaches to mentor young people toward those things that are most important in life and aid them in creating their own ...
Michigan State already has one of the coolest mascots in college football, but if Sparty ever needs a day off, Javon Ringer could do the ...
Your ears are yours alone. Tell others what you alone can hear. Your voice is yours alone. Tell others what only you can say. Your ...
Here's to a vacation of no regrets!
I am AFRAID OF TALKING WITH PEOPLE... MAINLY BECAUSE WORDS LOSE WEIGHT... MAINLY BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T PUT VALUE ON THEM.
He's a sick old man who's lost everything and everyone. You have a huge heart, Gabriel - find room in it to be kind.
I believe people exist to be enjoyed.
In the end, nothing matters except love you gave away and love you have received.
Yet so often it seems that victory eludes us. It is when our self-confidence is finally destroyed and is replaced with dependence upon God that ...
Rocky's made you soft," he returned. "That is one thing your sister has never made me." Garrett felt his lip curl. "Christ.
Your intentions create your experiences.
No, don't draw away from me. Whatever else I am, I am your son - your most wretched son. If you do not hate me, ...
You are likely the greatest obstacle to achieving your own dreams.
He will take you back, and he will destroy you. "I bring change," Rand said sadly. "Not peace, but turmoil." Destruction follows on my heels ...
You chose love like a belief, a faith, a place, a box for one's heart to knock against like a spook in the house.
Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up ...
If you make a film about a pig farmer in Wales and you are a huge hit as the pig farmer's wife, the next thing ...
It is really this that makes death so hard - curiosity unsatisfied. ...
I have been struck by the way all the young people I've met through coming back to music are so much more generous-spirited with each ...
This was more of a cartoonish thing for me and it kind of took me back to SCTV, in a way, where the characters are ...
Hugh Grant and I both laugh and cringe at the same things, worship the same books, eat the same food, hate central heating and sleep ...
Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's ...
You need one of those recap sequences," Trey says. "Like, 'Hi, I'm Kate. Here are a few things you might need to know.'" Charlayne smiles. ...
I love being reminded that existence itself is all about the tangling of souls.
He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.
It would be so good to settle down and become part of somewhere again, instead of constantly passing through
I had a nightmare last night. I dreamed Dolly Parton was my mother and I was a bottle baby.
Swimming in my Daddy's big nuts
People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is ...
We are our own worst enemy.
Stupidity is the chlorine that cleans out the gene pool.
My name is John Taylor. I'm a private eye, specialising in cases of the weird and uncanny. I don't solve murders, I don't do divorce ...