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Scars are but evidence of life.

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.

The average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality.

Dancers carry themselves in completely different ways to how we do in our everyday lives. They are very free with their bodies which I'm not ...

Thus, an index built for vector space retrieval cannot, in general, be used for phrase queries. Moreover, there is no way of demanding a vector ...

I can't give you the sunset, but I can give you the night.

At an early age Jesse often said he wanted to be a soldier, and before long he was one. He was there with his military ...

At times we'll want to escape our polluted reality... not augment it with digital Debris

There are lies in life we accept. Whether it's for the sake of ignorance, bliss, or, in my case, survival, we all make our choices.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you ...

Affection makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot.

Nothing comes easy, and if you want to be safe your entire life, you can miss out on the things that make it worth living.

It is mere nonsense to put pain among the discoveries of science. Lay down this book and reflect for five minutes on the fact that ...

Go out, go out I beg of you And taste the beauty of the wild. Behold the miracle of the earth With all the wonder ...

If you lost an opportunity don't be sorry ... Find another one.

I'm opinionated, but I'm not a vindictive person and I never say anything unprovoked, either.

O heaven! were man, But constant, he were perfect.

It will be found that everything depends on the composition of the forces with which the particles of matter act upon one another; and from ...

I don't engage in hypotheticals.

It was this weird confrontation of these two delicious flavors that got me consciously or subconsciously combining Lincoln and vampires as an observational in-joke with ...

There, there, dear, we're sorry that you'll keep on being you. It's rotten, but what are the choices...?

The paradise offered by the culture industry is the same old drudgery. Both escape and elopement are pre-designed to lead back to the starting point. ...

If anything, when you're in your late 20s, early 30s, and then mid-30s, you're getting less attractive.

A penguin cannot become a giraffe, so just be the best penguin you can be.

Labels want to capture a certain market of kids and blah blah blah, and it's true, I just never think about that stuff. It's all ...

You get these moments in the ring that live forever. That's what Muhammad Ali accomplished, and I hope that I have, too.

Remarkable ... Moskos manages to capture a world that most people know only through the distorting prism of television and film, where police officers are ...

America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't ...

It is a mistake to assume that the law should always enforce morality.

Science have proof that women talk more than men, it's a fact.

If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and guilt instead of ...

Never give more time to reading a book than to reflecting upon its contents.

First rule in government spending: Why build one, when you can have two at twice the price?

My doors enter from the sidestreet,my windows painted basement black,my mouth kisses the blues harp,my heart hides like noteslocked in a cedar chest.

I've got to bring it 'cause they're going to compare me to that Taylor [Lautner] kid, and if I don't bring it, I'm just going ...

Carpe Diem, everyday!!!

There is also the issue of personal privacy when it comes the executive power. Throughout our nation's history, whether it was habeas corpus during the ...

Huge advances in clean energy technology are happening all the time. Solar and wind are booming. New ways to generate energy from our windows, the ...

And when those children died, our memory would fade, and when their children died, it would be swept away like the dust we become, down ...

No feeling is wrong. You have the right to your feelings. However, you do not need to wallow in them, and you do not have ...

Colors are important. People are in clinical depression whether they are on medication or not. Neutrals are another form of medication.

People read vampire novels and say, 'Oh I want to read another vampire novel.' People read fantasy, and they're like, 'Oh I love fantasy.' I ...

Holyfield won the fight. It's not the first time Romney has been knocked out by a black guy.

Skateboarding is not for girls at all.

It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do.

There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.

I have always come to life after coming to books.

Tobin had spent the first twelve years of his life living a lie, and the last two trying to ignore the truth.

In other words, the Regent was to be informed that his Captain had been well and truly turned off, in a manner that could not ...

I'm a Christian. And until the day when the world automatically understands that to mean that I believe in the full humanity and personhood of ...

Be wanderers through time, I said. Be witnesses of all splendid and beautiful things human. Be true immortals.

I think it's a shame that we have 'Bild' like you have the 'Sun'. Now serious newspapers like 'FAZ' and 'Spiegel' use a bit of ...

Your eyes remained haunted. Seeing something in the world that your mirth can not dissolve." I

When everyone in the family is united, when they resolve their issues with each other and unite; it is called vitarag bhav, attachment-free intent. And ...

Never knowingly leave anything wrong on your canvas.

Then I was a young man a thousand years old, and now I am an old man waiting to be born.

There are a lot of young great athletes out there; they're much better athletes than what we were. They're bigger, faster, stronger, unfortunately, there're fewer ...

When he is dissected after his death," a disrespectful interpreter said of a foreign dignitary, "a million predicates will be found in his stomach: those ...

Love should be pure. If you have love for someone you won't see bad points of the other person, never.

Dogmas don't have to be entirely logical, as long as they work.

Princes give me sufficiently if they take nothing from me, and do me much good if they do me no hurt; it is all I ...

Linebacker is a lot more detail oriented and you have to know a lot more than a defensive end necessarily would on any given play.

We are what we are, and life is what it is, but God is bigger than any cross we bear

Pickle juice on a cookie.

If customer ignorance is a profit centre for you, you're in trouble.

Love is dangerous and often violent in the sense that it can radically alter us at a moment's notice.

The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation.

I don't think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different ...

I'd like to create a space for people who have a lot of talent but not a lot of reach.

I love being married more than anyone. It's what I always wanted. I found the person who's perfect for me, and we have a great ...

Everywhere in nature we are taught the lessons of patience and waiting. We want things a long time before we get them, and the fact ...

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.

In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.

I think really what I'm saying is that I thrive on adversity.

Just because a man's hormones are involved doesn't mean his heart is involved.

The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.

Like a circle in a spiralLike a wheel within a wheelNever ending or beginningOn an ever-spinning reelAs the images unwindLike the circles that you findIn ...

I thought I'd never do film, let alone television. I was a diehard theater nut.

The fundamental attribution error is the tendency of human beings to attribute the negative or frustrating behaviors of their colleagues to their intentions and personalities, ...

Tragic Powell, the Company Man Who Could Have Been Great, who was offered the mantle by all the polls but deferred to the Boss's Callow ...

Although she shook her head.

Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has ...

Janet Yellen at the FED is equivalent to having a biology schoolteacher who has never seen blood perform brain surgery.

Ow, that hurts! It hurts like being in Connecticut!

Virtually all success depends on trying things that fail.

I'd kill to be a poet.

The United States has been very clear that we did have to have some political basis to make clear that that cessation of hostilities was ...

Boggles the mind. Whether

Her cooking suggested she had attended the Cordon Noir.

The man in the water saw the eye of the man on the bridge gazing into his own through the sights of the rifle. He ...

Safi was sick of dancing. Literally, she felt ill from all the spinning, and her breath - she'd not had a single moment to catch ...

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

The fashion industry isn't merely content to encase my meaty flanks in skintight denim. Oh, no! That denim also has to be white, a color ...

9Blessed are c the peacemakers, for d they shall be called e sons [1] of God.

Just because my dad is Clint Eastwood doesn't mean I don't have to work for a living.

I had to learn, because as an artist myself, an artist owns that right to protect their interest of how they want to roll their ...

It was weird because I was pregnant, throughout that so it was weird being a pregnant witch. I was in a really bad mood but ...

Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore rescinded the state's European Heritage Month proclamation for fear it would sound racist. It's too bad. Thus ends a month of ...

I think there are only two times that I've ever ended up paying somebody their quote. Like what they actually were worth in the marketplace.