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Sometimes the heart makes decisions the mind cannot, and though we know that the heart is deceitful above all things, we know that at rare ...

My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. ...

The essence of the moon, gathered by a virgin, added to the death of innocence. [Sylvian]

It is fine to be zealous, provided the purpose is good, and to be so always, not just when I am with you. My

We make our own gods for our own purposes. And we love them, and that's the whole point.

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

People may love to hate me. I can do a lot with the love in their hate.

Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away ... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken ...

People are comprised of sets of DNA from each parent. If you looked at just the DNA from your father, it wouldn't tell you who ...

I think people think I'm harder and more arrogant and cocky than I am - because I know how to put on a front, but ...

It's an irony... that we understand humans like the foreign languages... full of miss understanding and miss conceptions.

Haiti is closer to anarchy than it is to anything else.

Even though I smoke, just because I'm a dumbass doesn't mean anyone else has to be.

How can one maintain a theological confidence in what one claims to be _true_ while acknowledging the existence of multiple religions that also claim to ...

When women hear each other's stories, told from the heart, it gives us inspiration to keep on going.

If you smell fear - bite on it; it can't bite back.

I'm a very loyal boyfriend. I'm a bit of a joker ... I can be romantic, but not too sickly.

I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment.

I feel like a Gold surrounded by Silver!

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People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth.

You are not one you are a Thousand. Just Light your Lantern.

He hung up so gently, I didn't even hear the click.

Gandiji says where there is love there is life. We can also say where there is hate there is hell!

Tommy Hearns seemed like an indestructible machine, so to beat him, I think that was my defining moment, the pinnacle.

She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.

But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.

To see an enemy humiliated gives a certain contentment, but this is jejune compared with the highly blent satisfaction of seeing him humiliated by your ...

What does that indignity amount to, weighed, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament?

I'm lucky to have the privilege of being able to choose what I want to do.

It's not me trying to act or pose in a certain way. It's a lifestyle - like a suaveness or a swag, per se.

In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that men ...

There is a difference between going to a service "for the worship" and going to a service "to worship the Lord." The distinction appears to ...

We are gene-copying bio-robots, living out here on a lonely planet in a cold and empty physical universe.

Could an android listen to the whining, requests for advancement, and entreaties for guidance and affection that pour from subordinates? Sure it could. Frankly, all ...

Friends are people who help you be more yourself, more the person you are intended to be.

Evil men flourish. The righteous suffer. The Lord never promises we won't - only that He'll sustain us when the tribulation comes.

The first reason why I started to use the [electric] keyboard is because I really like the bending sound of the guitar and bass player. ...

Ll I can think about, every day, every waking minute since they drew Prim's name at the reaping, is how afraid I am.

The ability to dream is the most important human resource given to man by God.

What its children become, that will the community become.

What greater fetter to anchoring ourselves to the false notion of self could there be than a selfie? It is named after an illusion!

And now he knew what it was like to be on the inside, caught in a web woven from your sickest fears and most traumatic ...

Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.

To most of us the future seems unsure. But then it always has been; and we who have seen great changes must have great hopes.

That which is denied gains power, and seeks strange and unexpected forms of manifestation.

Making someone happy is perhaps the humblest way of approaching happiness.

All that winter's day and far into the night the kings twisted and squirmed, but Merlin held them in his iron grasp and would not ...

Pride - Lord of human kind

If you aren't sure, then you definitely aren't in love.

Any woman who can't say a four-letter word sometimes is deceitful.

You know, Ms. Morgan, that was your mother you just hammered, Mr. Solomon said.

There cannot be any true leisure until all the world possesses it equally.

I feel that I have something significant to say, but I cannot think what it is.

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

It does not take long to tell where a man's treasure is. In fifteen minutes' conversation with most men, you can tell whether their treasures ...

At some point, the family you create is more important than the one you were born into.

Give me break," Polly said.

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere.

I wondered, what other gifts I got bottled up inside me? That question had started to gnaw on me some.

An opportunity always comes before a change. If you wait for a change to occur in order to grab an opportunity, you'll lose all opportunities ...

Until you get a guidance from above you cannot be sure; but to get this guidance it requires time and sadhana.

We've got to continue to find ways to honor our 25 million veterans that have served our country with such honor and distinction.

In 2012 there was a megafoolish, if well-funded, effort by a group called Americans Elect to raise an independent Cincinnatus to run for president via ...

Herein fail not at your peril.

However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of ...

Honey, you can't lose someone you gave away.

To harness your potentials,look inward,upward to God,then outward your environment

Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it.

I'd given up trying to explain Hobie to Boris: the house, the workshop, his thoughtful way of listening (...) but more than anything a sort ...

I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think.

I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the ...

He was so. So dirty, and just moving in front of me, and cute. I was in love with him, especially because he was talking ...

The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil.

I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.

The meaning of a particular action of the hand was understood only in terms of the positioning of the entire body, the facial expression, and ...

I want to say a word to the Brahmins: In the name of God, religion, sastras you have duped us. We were the ruling people. ...

There's never any time I think I'm a real journalist, because I don't have any of the qualifications or the intentions for that.

I knew what my times were and how my practices were progressing and how close I was to the goals I had set for the ...

I was seventeen when I moved to New York. I was nineteen when I joined the main company. I was going through a lot. Just ...

My main income is from speaking.

The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm, that upon which all ...

Those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.

This woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

I just love animals, and I'm an advocate for animals rights, and my family has rescued dogs from all over the world. I don't believe ...

Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, ...

Choose love and don't ever let fear turn you away from your playful heart

She says this like people are constantly knocking down our door for a nice, dry, warm place to stay, when, in fact, we are the ...

When I grow, I'm going to be my mother.

Give me someone I can look up to, show me someone I can love.

The joy of just being involved in something, of being part of a big process, just as a human being, it's nice to be part ...

I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things much more easily than people who don't ...

I tell you this because books for young readers are so often written about that very moment: the moment of the fork. The moment the ...

Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.

Violation is a synonym for intercourse.

We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through ...