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Religions should teach that this life is enough.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we ...

I can't watch scary movies right now, because living on my own, it kind of freaks me out.

The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the ...

You have to explain the invention to customers - not once or twice but three or four times, with a different twist each time. ...

When left unsatisfied, lust becomes violence.

Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers ...

The British scholar Avner Offer calls attention "the universal currency of well-being." Attentive people, in other words, are happy people. Tashi

Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth. If it is ...

For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism.

Never give people power over you until you know how to get rid of them.

Oh my God! Why did I leave India? I fell in love with a white man. That's what it was. It was the most boring, ...

Subordination and explain her inferiority; for even as a copy she was not a very good copy. There were differences. She was not one of ...

America must begin the struggle for democracy at home. The advocacy of free elections in Europe by American officials is hypocrisy when free elections are ...

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Though I stand in darkness, I will fear no shadow. Though I am lost, I will know the way. Though I dwell in sorrow, I ...

I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.

Nobody wants to hear that you met Harry Truman ... I met Harry Truman ... But you know what I mean? Nobody's interested. They want ...

I care little for titles assigned to men, rather I care about the spirit of men.

A good wife is Royal in Heart. She is a crown to her husband, and pride to the home where she was raised. She is ...

Strangers who have seen Shaw face to face are wont to report their surprise at his gentleness and consideration, his willingness to listen and his ...

Jihad is our path and death in the name of Allah is our goal.

Cornwall, peopled mainly by Celts, but with an infusion of English blood, stands and always has stood apart from the rest of England, much, but ...

In many ways, I think it's easier in some ways, or it's more entertaining or more guaranteed to be entertaining than traditional improvising. Again, because ...

Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account.

For one person, organized files might be a crucial tool for creativity; another person finds inspiration in random juxtapositions.

After Richmond, we went to Dover and tested that week at Kentucky. I was going to Dover and we had to get the trainer to ...

I know something about performing. I know that when it seems like the avalanche is about to roll over you, you face into it and ...

He [God] chooses not to intervene in the world. Why not? Because he figures he's done enough and the rest is up to us? Or ...

I have that thrill-seeking mentality, so when people want to know why my incarnations keep changing, or why I'll do something different than I did ...

Knowledge is addictive. Keep it up.

I'm also hard at work on plans for the Obama Library. And some have suggested that we put it in my birthplace, but I'd rather ...

It was one of those late summer days trying its best to convince everyone that winter would never seep through and ravage the earth.

I wasn't saying you were heartbroken." I sound like English is a new language for me, the way I stutter out the words. "I just ...

Words without action mean nothing. I'll show you.

Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.

The mind I love most must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the ...

It is better to be a reader than richer.

Forgiveness always heals; it does not matter whether you are Hindu, Buddhist, Catholic or Jewish. Forgiveness is one of the patterns that is always true, ...

The audience was swell. They were so polite they covered their mouths when they yawned.

No, Ben. What I'm asking is: Are you the vehicle, and Georgie rides around in you? That is why Ben's the driver, right?

Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to ...

Women were gravitating towards him from all directions like a planetary orbit.(Zoe on meeting Justus)

I'm not a proper anything. Majoring in philosophy kind of turns positive assertions into maybes.

We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.

If I see Marian Keyes' books or Patricia Scanlan's books given more prominence than mine in the bookstore, I'll move mine to the front. I've ...

Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.

I was kicked off a record label and didn't get picked up again. It was devastating at first because I thought, 'Oh my God. My ...

I come from a family of tall, curvy women. I developed in my body and my shape far earlier, so from a young age I ...

Nobody can see your dream the way you see it because your dream is your dream, and you are responsible to build it. Work on ...

The rain could turn to gold and still your thirst would not be slaked. Desire is unquenchable or it ends in tears, even in heaven.

Without a goal or an obstacle you're just running through a green cricket pitch for the rest of your life.

And she already has her treasure: it's you.

Leo waited while the fish centaur put away his supplies. Aphros's lobster-claw horns kept swimming around in his thick hair, and Leo had to resist ...

Although I'm a lead guitarist, I'd say that a good 95 percent of my time onstage is spent playing rhythm.

"War gives men a plain-and-simple something to do ... Women write diaries in the hope that their words will beckon fate." It's a romantic manifesto.

When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, ...

American power confers benefits on most inhabitants of the planet, even on many who dislike it and some who actively oppose it, because the United ...

I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but ...

Tourists, a lot of them, wearing unfamiliar faces. There is something subtly different about them, like they're a different species ... They're related to us ...

True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more ...

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Anything worth having is worth busting your ass for.

After all these years, I'm finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international group - they're all around me, ...

To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her ...

Cosmology is serious business and in our hearts we are nothing if not cosmologists, hanging in a cold cage sifting the ruthless jewels of existence.

When I'm in the house of God, I don't wear my jewelry, if you're looking for my jewelry. All you see is my heart of ...

In the morning, smile like the morning sun and give the best gift of a smile filled with the warmth of love.

It is the small losses in life that cut one to the heart.

Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of well-being within yourself. To me it's that incredible sense of ...

My thoughts jumbled together, but I remembered that one was not supposed to make eye contact with royalty; or was that mad wolves?

I don't have any delusions. I don't think I would make it through Navy SEAL training.

Abyss is not an absenceThough presence be destroyed.

All people go to Allah after their death, but the happy person is the one who goes to Allah while still alive.

When I was a kid, I would sing in people's living rooms and for different little family things.

It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on ...

It's like trying to describe a color you've never seen before. Words can't make you understand what real love is like. But until you've felt ...

She had to save herself from every last one of them. All of them, the people at the orphanage, the foster care system, the middle ...

I intended only lilies. That was my intention: a bouquet of lilies. - The Magician

My whole thing is I want to affect history in a positive way. I want the timeline to be, 100 years from now, when we ...

IN THE MIND'S EYE, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are ...

I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, ...

The for-profit education industry has proven equal to the task.

I stole a Bible, is that a sin?

RBG's main concession to hitting her late seventies was to give up waterskiing.

We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something, and to do it very ...

Both my partner and I did not get into cooking so that we could wear ugly chef's coats and stuff. We dress sexy in the ...

The violation of press freedoms has been egregious under this administration, even as the press fetes President Obama as an honest and effective commander-in-chief.

He wondered why he turned so sentimental. That's what happened when you have no one to talk to.

The true value of a leader is not measured by the work they do. A leader's true value is measured by the work they inspire ...

A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.

I thought about you often, the boy behind the fence, the boy on the outside...the boy who stole my first and only kiss

Long-term unemployment is particularly costly to those directly affected, of course. But in addition, because of its negative effects on workers' skills and attachment to ...

Mockery is the sure mark of the cynic, unredeemed and cut off from salvation.

True Friends are the bacon bitsIn the salad bowl of life. How trueI read that and straight away,My thoughts turned to youAnd especially today on ...

On my honor, I ain't ever tasting another woman's sexualfavors. Even if the bakery offers 'em up in a cupcake wrapper andcalls 'em whipped dreams.

You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these ...

As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of apartheid everywhere ...

It's ideal really. They will come up with a plan. No one will like it. Everyone will feel they have been treated unfairly, but will ...