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There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, ...

Felicia's place is always off the edge of the map, where dragons wait, and this story is more than a memoir. It's a quest. If ...

Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can't think for themselves - But when one has made up one's opinions, ...

Your problem, Nagrant,' he declared, 'is that your education was unconnected with the practical reality of life. You grew up believing that rules are more ...

Belief followed by strategy and culture moves people to community.

What I do is I remove my makeup every night, use a little bit of Vitamin C serum, and that's it, pretty much. Of course, ...

Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder to the faults of those around me.

Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light.

The Bloodsucker Queen has lived for what, a millennium? She can wait on her decaying ass a little while longer.

One of my 'Secrets of Adulthood' is: Somewhere, keep an empty shelf. I know where my empty shelf is, and I treasure it.

The life of a real adult is not a life everyone is made for. Some people never grow up.

There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel

Every day is precious. You will never live THIS day again. It is ONE event in human history. Why not make it count? Time is ...

Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.

I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we can get rid of the negroes ... I believe that ...

I don't think any of us are careful enough about emails. When you are writing an email, you should imagine yourself in an auditorium speaking ...

If you want to find missing children put their photo's on Soda Cans, beer cans and cigarette packs and you'll increase the odds by millions ...

Sleep is a shallow death we practice every night.

If Congress is unable to do its job and pass a federal budget, then I do not believe we should receive a salary.

Collaboration is just about finding people who are better than you at certain things and combining your powers. Like, if I'm not the strongest at ...

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.

Wherever I look there is nothing but the image of death.

The predicament of a person in a restaurant who is unable to determine his or her designated restroom (e.g., turtles and tortoises).

If progressives were interested in mitigating inequality, they would support the dynamism of free markets to allow the merit of ideas, products and services to ...

Genius is the union of man and God in the acts of the soul. Great men are always greater than their deeds. They are in ...

Winning her heart again meant more than any championship.

Good books do not make people wiser or happieronly more conscious.

The idea should come first, the startup should come second.

We know of fishing vessels that carry up to twelve different flags on board, and they re-flag their ship at sea,.

We [he and his wife Trish Van Devere] don't talk politics. I'm an independent conservative; she's a radical Democrat. We never vote together.

I would say that an easterner's first grunion hunt is also his first step in becoming what all of us sooner or later become here: ...

I wasn't being followed around by paparazzi all the time. I was able to be a kid and spend that time with my family and ...

I'm a London fanatic. That's my city. I love being from there, you don't appreciate it until you go out.

The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate ...

He must have been an incredibly good shot.

I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.

I usually like to get people in because I don't have a band or anything. In cities where I have friends, I try to get ...

How about a TV show about vampire plastic surgeons called, "Suck and Tuck"?

Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn't normally.

I've known you all my life. And I've never seen you treat anyone the way you treat Sienna. Not when we were in high school ...

A walk?" said Catharine."One foot in front of the other," said Newt, "through leaves, over bridges

Tradition is only democracy extended through time.

A house takes on the characteristics of its occupant, and, depending on who lives in it, it can become a very good house or a ...

Gone to Kansas City, Nick thought. For all I know, that could be it, too. Everybody left on the poor sad planet picked up by ...

There is a kind of gospel being proclaimed today which conveniently accommodates itself to the spirit of the age, and makes no demand for godliness.

I don't have diamonds or solitaires now, but with this water of the pool and this bottle of beer, I vow before you to love ...

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 ...

As Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert argues, 'You can't adapt to commuting, because it's entirely unpredictable. Driving in traffic is a different kind of hell ...

You know you have received the invitation when your heart is ready to risk everything to hold the hand of God.

The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things ...

I can only assume that he must have dreamed it up at the last minute and ad-libbed it - and on just such foolish, tenuous, ...

Love is the piety of the affections.

So many times I've encountered people who are just kind of like, 'Yeah, Nigeria,' and, you know, thump their chest and seem very sure of, ...

Sure, football is a silly game. But have you seen what else is on television?

A little brother may live to be a hundred, but he will always be a little brother.

Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.

The best way to live / is to be like water / For water benefits all things / and goes against none of them.

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

Shall we presume on God's grace by tolerating in ourselves the very sin that nailed Christ to the cross?

A human being with no daemon was like someone without a face, or with their ribs laid open and their heart torn out; something unnatural ...

Even though sugar was very expensive, people consumed it till their teeth turned black, and if their teeth didn't turn black naturally, they blackened them ...

Youth now flees on feathered foot.

Every day I wake up and I realize how lucky I am to be living this life.

Asha believed a person seeking betterment should try as many schemes as possible, since it was hard to predict which one might work.

Regulate the banks, get money out of elections; raise the minimum wage, environmental issues. They're all very important and the Occupy movement made a difference. ...

Raise Your Financial Vibration" Principle: Money is a tool that helps you live your intended life.

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.

Yes, aiji-ma." "What is this agreement? You are most valuable when you argue, paidhi! Do not say yes to me!" "I shall most strenuously object ...

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the ...

One of the biggest and most common mistakes a woman makes is to substitute activity for God for a relationship with Him.

Every day sees humanity more victorious in the struggle with space and time.

Every moment each human being is doing the best we know at that moment to meet our needs. We never do anything that is not ...

You couldn't trust anyone or anything that belonged to the world of espionage.

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world?

What you call life is but a dream, and reality is relative.

I mean its an obsession, you follow the obsession but at the same time you have so many doubts, you know. Why am I wasting ...

I've played parts that were just likable people, and there's a certain pleasure in that. And that's that.

It occurred to him to say the viddui, the prayer before death. He struggled to remember it. Blessed are You, who has bestowed me with ...

If you destroy the credibility of those people or institutions that could undermine your own, you create an opportunity for your voice, however irresponsible or ...

Smudge continued running laps, flames flickering like tiny orange banners on his back. He was never wrong about danger, but he couldn't tell you if ...

I thought that there is yet hope for someone who was caught in the river's whirlpool, but none exists for those who are trapped in ...

I think it was absolutely a mistake for President Obama and Harry Reid to force a government shutdown.

There's something exciting about being afraid.

It's been an incredible odyssey to make the journey from a vibrantly healthy person to someone with a chronic illness.

In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.

Defend the weak, protect both young and old, never desert your friends. Give justice to all, be fearless in battle and always ready to defend ...

Face calm and composed, Kellan simply smiled. Taking that as an affirmative response, Tory twisted to face the elevator doors. Behind her back, Kellan flashed ...

If you want to cry, you're not going to like my books.

So much depends on my actions, so I am seeing fewer people, simplifying my life, organizing it so that I am not always on the ...

Telling takes away the need to write. It relieves the pressure. And once that tension dissipates, so does the need to relieve it. First write ...

The nicest part of the prize, perhaps, is the effect on my friends and family. Each of them feels proud and happy to have the ...

As long as women consent to be unjustly governed, they will be; but directly women say: "We withhold our consent," we will not be governed ...

I firmly believe that Scotland's place is in the U.K., and I do not believe in powers for power's sake.

My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.

My approach to living with purpose has always been to create the life I want,one conscious decision at a time.

In this world, two ilk of men exist-those who think they don't need to, and those who think they must. A third alien type exists ...

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

I do not believe that the average person wants a 'map' of his face - I believe he wants to be idealized.

Every great achiever nurtures a positive mindset.