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If you can't get out of it, get into it.

Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.

It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud.

I've been boxing for 25 years and I need exciting fights.

He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for ...

I wanted to write about women and their work, and about valuing the work we, as women, choose to do. Too many women I knew ...

Everyone is lonely," Ranulf said, but he smiled. "We have to remember that life is to be lived one day at a time. You cannot ...

I like to write sad songs. They're much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people don't want to ...

A sweet life is a sweaty life.

The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be ...

The greatest stories ever told trace a path through the charred and exalted landscape of romantic love.

My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.

I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first ...

You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish.

Oh! my pain!Now I have embraced you,Conquered you!You have become my antidote,You can no longer break my spirit.

Certain artists can get away with certain things. Certain things are acceptable for certain people. It's a difference.

When you're out there partying, horsing around, someone out there at the same time is working hard, someone is getting smarter, and somebody is winning, ...

One thing I'll have to face about myself, I suppose, is that while I've always loved mankind in general, I have been less than generous ...

Nuclear fusion of light elements like hydrogen or helium would permit approaching the speed of light. It seems very attractive to refuel your space ships ...

Physical size can not measure the ferocity and compassion of the heart, spirit and soul. Truly in the measure of a person, short or tall ...

This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.

Misery cannot be counterfeited.

Katie cleared her throat again. Then she looked into the window at her gums. She said, To change the subject, do you think I could ...

He turns me inside out, take me apart, and puts me back together - all in the span of one night.

I grew up playing basketball and eating hot dogs on the corner.

"What does it mean if i'm afraid? Does it mean something bad is going to happen?" "No, it doesn't mean something bad is going to ...

The kids look at me, 'Ah, you're my hero.' I want to teach those kids. 'Hey listen, God is my hero. He died on the ...

Hate-on-the-highway is an institution occupying a high place in our modern civilization ... The godawful glares that drivers exchange as they pass each other, the ...

Fiction is about stuff that's screwed up.

Only the good die young.

No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked.

Mr. Denzi can teach us all something about accumulating wealth. Begin earning and investing early in your adult life. That will enable you to outpace ...

A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.

It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.

You think you walk, Lucy? I think you fly. You see yourself in a uniform? I see you in a cape. You're a hero, of ...

The human heart will never wrinkle.

Writing is a solitary job, and should be taken to someone who believes in you.

In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I ...

My point, though, is that if lines have indeed shifted, it's not so much that the younger generation just doesn't care, it's that we have ...

It is the challenge for every leader to develop and invest in those he depends on, to ensure his or her vision is realized in ...

Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are taxed away

Most small-business owners will tell you they don't want Obama 'boosting' them. They just want him to get out of the way.

If a problem is clearly stated, it has no further interest to the physicist.

I stopped singing and they gave me an award.

Let's get something straight. There is nothing wrong with you. Everyone has his or her quirks. Yours is just affecting your life in a negative ...

There's this notion that allows people to create their own collection of songs, so it rewrites what a song is. They may only want 10 ...

John Clare, in his poem To a Fallen Elm, makes the tree a selfmark as well as a landmark.

'Heel Turn 2' is about a person who's in a match, and he's playing as though the match were real. But it is real! If ...

You are my family. If we never have children, I will be disappointed, but if I never have you, I will be devastated. I love ...

AMONG THE DEMONS that taunt a writer before he can open a vein and write in his own blood are the devils that whisper: Are ...

I never want to make screw-you money like the rest of the financial services industry.

Embrace the truth. Speak the truth. Be the truth. When we welcome the truth, we live our lives like it's golden.

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

I can't say for sure what I feel, and love has already destroyed me once.

The office of the leisure class in social evolution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent. This proposition is by no ...

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

Dad built houses and when they were sold, he moved on to a new town, so I know a lot about my native state.

Perfect is highly overrated. I'm a character in my story, going through the chapters of my life as if it was written by an imaginary ...

Wine is drinkable sunlight. It's the most glorious summer's day imaginable, captured in a bottle.

I figure when you get married, it doesn't matter how much you earn or how much your husband earns, just as long as everything you ...

You put your hand on your heart and feel it beating and decide if what you wrote feels true.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight ...

The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!

We will win with character, not with characters.

Well, certainly the Voynich Manuscript is the 'limit text' of Western occultism. No one can read it. It is truly an occult book.

Steve Lawson is a brilliant musician. I've known about him and listened to him for many years. He may not be one of the most ...

The truth is that you are the instrument of God, that you have to become one with God, that you have to be born again.

Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.

It's about goddamn time! I've been sending you telepathic messages for ten minutes!

I do yoga almost daily. I try to fit in swimming and cycling when I can.

To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.

I have always just made things. I don't see what I make as being defined by a medium or aesthetic. It probably comes more from ...

When you raise the dead, they bring their baggage.

We now witness the constructive work on a foundation that will endure through the ages. That foundation is the god of science - revealed to ...

Don't talk about it. Be about it.

I want to do something that is unique, that has its own legs. But it's very hard because if you start veering off, if you ...

Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.

Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.

Why did women always believe that talking about a problem would fix it? Some issues were corpses. Hot air made them fester and rot and ...

Jesus proclaimed unmistakably that God's law is so perfect and absolute that no one can achieve righteousness. Yet God's grace is so great that we ...

Winter was gray and mean upon the city and every night was a package of cold bleak hours, like the hours in a cell that ...

When I'm not completely loaded, it's a much more vulnerable place. I can feel the music, I can feel the energy and I really have ...

I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, ...

In some ways, I've been left with this great 'idolic' image of my father, but there's a sense of absence, too. You miss his advice ...

I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.

Observing sea, sky and stars, I sought to indicate their plastic function through a multiplicity of crossing verticals and horizontals. Impressed by the vastness of ...

From the early days of the telegraph, to be a telegrapher was a job, and there weren't many of those folks. They could recognize each ...

A careful regulation of the economic impulses of society was considered as essential to man's spiritual welfare as it was to his material well-being. There ...

I was never the girl who yearned for children. I pretended to be interested in other people's kids, but that was obviously just an act.

Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. ...

Fate represents the fulfillment of man's expectations of himself.

I did an early version of my site where it was virtually impossible to get through it, just as a statement about the web. But ...

We cannot make owners by merely giving men something to own. And, I repeat, whether there be sufficient desire for property left upon which we ...

Love and respect yourself and never compromise for anything. And then you will be surprised how much growth starts happening of its own accord.. as ...

The Law of Detachment: 1) Allow yourself and others the freedom to be who they are. 2) Do not force solutions - allow solutions to ...

I would love to be in a Jimmy McGovern drama on TV, but there is no way he would ever ask me unless it would ...

When I went to Fashion Week, I was very disappointed by how few women of color were in those shows. I do speak to the ...

My company in the U.S., Pratt Industries U.S.A., has grown from scratch to become a billion-dollar business based on recycling, as well as the largest ...

Though you might conquer in battle A thousand times a thousand men,You're the greatest battle-winner If you conquer just one - yourself.