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A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted ...
I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O ...
I have seen humility in many of the finest leaders I have met the world over. And indeed, it is embodied in the warm, engaging ...
One of the most frightening things in the Western world, and in this country in particular, is the number of people who believe in things ...
When writing a book what is more important? Grammar and spelling or telling a great story? I know which I would choose.
After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn't even go to the classes.
I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for ...
Eagerly succeeded at the instrument by her sister Mary, who
Put all your eggs in one basket ... the handle's going to break. Then all you've got is scrambled eggs.
Melville has his tics, but he always put his words in the right order. Once you fall under the spell of the writer, you look ...
We need to EARN the right to be leaders. It is to our peril when we are given things for which we are not qualified. ...
Invest to acquire knowledge to grow your wealth of wisdom.
Do everything you need to do to keep the passion alive and never forget that it is a privilege to do what you love.
The road that connects our thoughts to the ears of others is our tongue. What travel on this road is our word. Our action is ...
Progress cannot be generated when we are satisfied with existing situations.
The music that I represent and helped to create and establish was born in Jamaica.
I mean, I think we are a better team than last year offensively, but there is always a question with the Minnesota Twins. We'll just ...
I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.
Stocking up" is what our robust Americans called it, laughing nervously, because profligate abundance automatically evokes its opposite, the unspoken specter of dearth.
When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.
Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language ... it is quite demanding because ...
People talk about bullying, but you can be your own bully in some ways. You can be the person who is standing in the way ...
Cecile made it sound like it was no big deal. "I've been fighting for freedom all my life." But she wasn't talking about protest signs, ...
Now what's the idea?" I said "Now pay attention. This is the most important idea anyone ...
Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.
He should have just checked it. I don't understand why some people insist on hauling those giant bags around everywhere they go - not when ...
But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go on your way ...
It is a pro-U.N. movie. It's a pro-American movie. It's a pro-American movie. It's a movie people should be watching and not denigrating.
Eternity might be captured in a single kiss.
I'm not a mistake, McKenzie,
I tell you, commander, it's true that some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think, genuinely think, that ...
I never had an official job, but I did play at a local cantina every Tuesday night, and I babysat a lot.
Don't accommodate any degree of temptation. Prevent sin and avoid having to deal with its inevitable destruction. So, turn it off! Look away! Avoid it ...
O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised ...
The strangest and most unique things are very often connected not with the larger but with the smaller crimes.
What nearly everybody in my life had misunderstood about Satanism was that it is not about ritual sacrifices, digging up graves and worshipping the devil. ...
We are alike in many ways, you and I. There is darkness in us. Darkness, pain, death. They radiate from us. If ever you love ...
Beth's not on that train?""Nope. She's not even in that station, that town, or that part of whatever country your metaphor lives in.
I don't have a set schedule to work on poetry at any given time, at the same time every day, but I do try to ...
Elegance is not to be noticed, but to be remembered.
The ancient rishi Patanjali defines "yoga" as "control of the fluctuations of the mind-stuff.
I love 'Breaking Bad.' I think that's my favorite show.
I mean really wonderful. In teaching. Personal epiphanies. About life. About different perspectives-help with different perspectives that you have. You know what I mean? Relationships ...
Love heals, even when you are angry; hate harms, even when you are happy.
If you make peace without defense power,then you should be really ready to be ruled.
Supposing you've got an acute appendicitis. You've got to be operated on tonight. Would you like to have a surgeon who's read some books of ...
Friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and ...
I mean, when you grow up dancing, you have to become very comfortable in your own skin.
The fundamental sanity of Indian civilization has been due to an absence of Satan.
All the stuff I don't like about myself has been pushed to the back of my brain. Maybe that is what I like best about ...
We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, ...
I wrote this life in pencil so I could always make a change
Jessie's fate was a complex tapestry of many choices and many circumstances, and Kera knew she had been only one small thread in the weave.
She'd once been appalled to hear of women claiming PMS as a defense for murder. Now she understood. She could happily murder someone today! In ...
The wind was cold and cut into her even though it was at her back, but she loved the wild sound and the salt smell ...
I challenge the Republican nominees and all Republicans to not just be the anti-illegal immigration party. That's not who we are and that's not who ...
I've really grown to love film, but I think occasionally you need to get up on a stage and see what's going on.
Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations.
As a politician, you have to deal with someone wanting you to fail every day. I think I prefer being in a situation where generally ...
It never gets old. Working with somebody like Kevin Hart is rejuvenating in a lot of ways. He's such a pro. He's so good.
If you want to build a high performance organization, you've got to play chess, not checkers.
Any fool can hide, few can play.
As tranquil streams that meet and merge and flow as one to meet the sea, our kindred hearts and minds unite to build a church ...
But now, he was conscious of his own impatience with what he had begun to see as the sinister pedantry of therapy, its suggestion that ...
In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it.
She smelled like vanilla spice, or pumpkin pie, or something sweet yet sinful.
We have to recognise that the validation of identity comes through relationships we have and what we produce.
As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.
The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.
Fantasy is my genre and my home in the writing world. I consider it the biggest writing room in all literature, where there are literally ...
I wish the hearts of human beings pumped with kind desires.I wish every gaze landed on the eyes of others compassionately.I wish hatred, envy, and ...
Also,' Rodriguez finished, 'you looked totally hot on tv, and your sister looks pretty good naked. Now. Tell me about what really happened with Quinn.
Noah, if we were to get married, you couldn't date anymore.
As for the end of the universe ... I say let it come as it will, in ice, fire, or darkness. What did the universe ...
And through the gloom I saw that mortal boy watching me, and I smelled the hot aroma of his flesh.
And if redemption was self-serving, coming as it did ribbon-tied to what he wanted most in life? For once, Akiva's shame wouldn't rise to the ...
I think that a good Left is a party that always thinks about the future and doesn't care much about our past sins.
Where did I get it? Smartypants, getting a gun in Gutshot, Tennessee is easier than getting chlamydia from a hooker.
I know that whenever I think about death, I come up against a stone wall.
What this world needs is truth, not consolation. It must find itself in its ordeal and by way of its restlessness, not in the solace ...
A true encounter with the living God will break the spirit of religiosity, empty man of his pride and conform even the most vile and ...
Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life. Whether you live or ...
If I give a book as a gift, it is invariably a children's book with beautiful artwork and a simple text. I adore the feel ...
A book is almost always a collective effort, even if it has only a single author.
All the rest of [Shakespeare's] vast history, as furnished by the biographers, is built up, course upon course, of guesses, inferences, theories, conjectures - an ...
I want this to be everything you want it to be." Leaning in, he smiles and says, "I want you to see your dream come ...
You can learn so much from bad things. I feel boring. I feel like, Why is everything so easy for me? I can't wait for ...
You're always cursing, you're always praying and you're always making love. It ain't do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do.
All men are alike. The approach is different; the result is always the same.
I'll always choose you." Yes that was the word. "Every single lifetime, I'll choose you. Just as you have always chosen me. Forever.
His eyes were hazel, his gray hair tousled, and he wore the look of a man who had seen too much, too soon, and been ...
Everyone has at least one talent. It's just that some talents are pointless.
I collect new books the way my friends collect designer handbags. Sometimes, I just like to know I have them and actually reading them is ...
Being on the moon is about harnessing science and technology. Waveless waterbeds are about harnessing nature and that, by definition, is not natural," I shot ...
Hate was just a legendAnd war was never knownThe people worked togetherAnd they lifted many stones.They carried them to the flatlandsAnd they died along the ...
They act as if their religion were a celestial gumball machine, taking no blame for personal failures because they won't manifest their will in the ...
I'm more of a debit card person, and I live in the 'now'. I don't like credit cards anymore. I try to live with whatever ...
But who is to decide who truly fears the Lord? The magistrate has no power to enforce religious demands. The laws of the First Table ...
The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.
I like my whiskey neat and strong just as I like my women. Women who have matured in their minds and bodies; women who have ...