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Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.
Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ...
Audiences crave something they've never seen before. That's what they want. They want to be dazzled. They want to go in either to have their ...
In the Bay Area, there was a resurgence of Dixieland jazz in the '40s - there was the Frisco Jazz Band, and Lu Watters and ...
Unbelievers are not the enemy - they are people for whom Christ died. We need to remember we were each one of them once.
[To W.R. Hearst:] Love is not always created at the altar. Love doesn't need a wedding ring.
Men have always wanted to have sex with as many fertile young women as possible. It's part of a man's basic programming. That hasn't changed. ...
Even if you don't feel like it, look in the mirror and laugh for a couple of minutes.
Goliath symbolizes the vanity and the illusions of this world. They disappear in a puff
Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on ...
Less reasoning when be too sure.
Love is a wingless angel; hate is a hornless devil.
I would suggest that the prisons I incessantly create are not designed to lock me in, rather they are designed to lock the world out. ...
To earlier feminists who had fought for the vote and for fair treatment in the workplace, it had seemed obvious that the ready availability of ...
If you don't find the time, if you don't do the work, you don't get the results.
I had five sisters and one brother, so having a big family is a given for me, but now being a father, and trying to ...
When 99% of people doubt your idea, you're either gravely wrong or about to make history.
Those who break down the dikes will themselves be drowned in the inundation.
We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.
I spent many years not knowing where my dad was ... Not knowing if my dad was alive, even. He turned up when I was ...
Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path.
A hungry man can be a fast learner. When you come to a table with nothing but need, you are grateful for things you might ...
When we fail to harmonize and integrate, living systems, from individuals to families and countries, tend to move toward either chaos or rigidity.
We spend too much time telling girls that they cannot be angry or aggressive or tough, which is bad enough, but then we turn around ...
In Scripture the election of God ... does not come out of works but out of grace. God's electing plan prepares the way of salvation ...
Women's history is the primary tool for women's emancipation.
With widened eyes she stumbled backwards, not able to take her gaze from the flames engulfing the wooden shed right in front of them, wrapping ...
It's extremely difficult to describe interestingly what happens on the pitch. Thousands of journalists write millions of words every week trying to do it, so ...
If the inner [intent] is not spoilt, it means "Our Own Self" did not spoilt. That which has become spoilt on the outside will burn ...
Tell the truth, why aren't you going to kill me?" ... "Because she is.
Beyond, the unknown lay before us once more, and another impossible task. The four of us emerged from the earth and turned our steps west, ...
Just because they really are out to get you doesn't mean you aren't paranoid.
Victory may now require a level of force deemed objectionable by civilized peoples, meaning that some, for justifiable reasons, may be reluctant to pursue it. ...
Quote taken from Chapter 1:I know what." Isabel reached under the end table, took out the game board, and rattled the Band-Aid box containing the ...
I'm afraid the 'Doctor Who' door is probably closed because of me being in 'Torchwood.'
If you want to become a fossil, you actually need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the ...
Sometimes writing is like talking to a stranger who's exactly like yourself in every possible way, only to realize that this stranger is as boring ...
Indeed, love is everything.
What GOD has joined together, let no man put asunder. Your consummation is an eternal binding. It is a glorious mystery not realized by many, ...
I think Democrats are always challenged to have a unified message, and it's in part because our strength is our diversity as a party, but ...
The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning's transient shower.
The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of them. Well, this ...
They loved God and their hearts were alive and there is nothing more gorgeous than that.
And normality was precisely the most fearful part of that infinite war: nothing ever happened.
You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in ...
I hate publicists and publicity. But I love the people.
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
Now, your mother and I made a deal when we first got married that if either one of us ever watched the 'wunnerful, wunnerful' Lawrence ...
Once I tried to use Him, now He uses me.
Give your false prophet a message for me. Tell him Jesus befriended the whores and the thieves and the sinners. Tell him his Old Testament ...
Nothing is so easy as to find fault with human institutions; nothing so difficult as to suggest adequate practical improvements.
We can imagine the two of them having this conversation: Consciousness: "Hey, watcha doing over there?" Subconsciousness: "Trust me, you're better off not knowing." Self-protection ...
With the Internet and social media being a huge part of today's culture, I think it's super important to promote staying smart online.
All I ask, Madam, is to share with thee a common center of gravity.
Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.
I remember something the Buddha said after he witnessed a supposed saint walk on water: 'For a penny,' the Buddha said, 'I can board a ...
The truth comes when you can see that your self-image is just a convenient reference point and nothing more, and that you as you had ...
Was some foul parody, some infamous ignoble satire. He had never done that. Still,
Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing, or acknowledging; it is ...
How can I wear a leather suit that does not carry the stains of wine and blood?" asks CT, and Gustav does not answer; of ...
If wishes were horses,we'd be wading in horse dung!
The lack of women among the twelve disciples isn't prescriptive or a precedent for exclusion of women any more than the choice of twelve Jewish ...
Worry leads to worry.
Lastly, 'Hang tough!' Never, ever give up regardless of the adversity. If you are a leader, a fellow who other fellows look to, you have ...
A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience ... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality ...
I think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and ...
Loss taught me. It taught me that I won't have people around me forever. The good I need to do to someone today, I may ...
[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.
It may not be the most popular but there is a place for it. I think about the kind of music I love, acoustic, melodic, ...
I often heard Latvians compare Russia and America. Latvians find both countries and their leaders possessed of the same mysterious confidence.
The problem is not that the PC you need always costs more than you can afford. The problem is that whatever the price, it is ...
Until this evening, then' Delacre gathered his things and sketched a quick bow. 'I must be going. I like to wear out at least three ...
I want to be on a show that's not sensitive to racial jokes; I want to be on one where they call me everything and ...
I love children.
Having a breakdown was like breaking a vase and then gluing it back together. You could never trust yourself to handle that vase again with ...
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
Ambition and suspicion always go together.
In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to undulate'."
Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that.
He had the kind of face you wanted to kiss - lips, forehead, cheeks, eyelids, everywhere except his chin. That you wanted to bite. ...
The language of nature is silence.
The word 'jihad' has nowhere been used in the Qur'an to mean war in the sense of launching an offensive. It is used rather to ...
Baum (Writer of THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ) was a true educator, and those who read his Oz books are often made what they were ...
Jude, a bondslave of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to those who by God the Father have been loved and are in a state ...
Paul Simon is my absolute hero. He's one of a kind. He wrote his own ticket in life by being himself.
When your IQ rises to 28, sell.
However, there is no retirement in the spiritual life, and God intervened to upset what appeared to be Jacob's retirement.
The enemies of a people are those who keep them in ignorance.
My fate is a prison. It's the only one of us who didn't need to inhabit one. I took your responsibility for those souls for ...
Basically, all my life I'd been told you can't do that because you're female. So I guess I just didn't pay any attention. I just ...
The happiest people aren't necessarily the most successful, or the most popular, or the most talented. They're the ones who are interested in the people ...
Is your company so small you have to do everything for yourself? Wait until you're so big that you can't. That's worse.
It wasn't all that different from any particularly demanding boarding school, except that of course nobody ever went home for the holidays and we had ...
Penance?" Marcus asked. "No penance." Ballard gave him a sad and knowing smile. "Something tells me that loving your Eleanor will be penance enough.
No matter how hard I try to stamp it down, part of me is picturing Sophie's guy cracking the password and coming up with both ...
I think the best comedy is tragicomic. Yeah, I suppose if you were to look at everything I've done, there is a bit of a ...
We read novels. We read hundreds of pages of words, when the story is good because we're willing to stay there. I hope the story ...