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In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there'd been in other ...

Solveig was higher up than me. She had a white apron. She was the cook. Sieving and singing hymns that her pastor in Sweden had ...

You see, without hard work and responsibility, there is no American Dream. Hard work lays the foundation. Our solidarity makes work pay - for all ...

I was referred to Mike Jones from the concierge at a Marriott hotel when I asked for a masseur.

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

There are three indispensable requirements for a missionary: 1. Patience 2. Patience 3. Patience.

Death always brings with it a kind of stupefaction, so difficult is it for the human mind to realize and resign itself to the blank ...

So many tankers come down with maintenance problems all at once. I do not think that the press is telling us the whole story. Then ...

He had an AM radio playing a conservative talk show. The host was making some very interesting statements about the president. I don't usually pay ...

I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.

Your gaze is very powerful, but trust me, it won't open that door

A tardiness in nature,Which often leaves the history unspoke,That it intends to do.

It's easy to practice something that you are good at, and that is what most people do. Wat's tough is to go ot and to ...

The world's natural calamities and disasters-its tornados and hurricanes, volcanoes and floods-its physical turmoil-are not created by us specifically.What is created by us is the ...

Is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.

A snap of Rhys's fingers, and my nightclothes - and some flimsy underthings - appeared on the bed. "I couldn't decide which scrap of lace ...

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

Smart talk trap."17 This a syndrome where companies hire, reward, and promote people for sounding smart rather than making sure that smart things are done.

I believe the last thing I read at night will likely manifest when I'm sleeping. You become what you think about the most.

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

The first time I had sex, I was scared I got the girl pregnant. And that was despite the fact we were safe. Luckily, we ...

You are the weirdest girl ever." "Please. You live with Eve.

Love is the way back into Eden. It is the way back to life.

I spend my life writing fiction, so reading fiction isn't much of an escape. That's not always true, but I don't read much contemporary fiction.

We learn that those around us are an extension of ourselves, both animate and inanimate. All things have a life and form. We learn to ...

I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.

Meantime, when once we know from nothing stillNothing can be create, we shall divineMore clearly what we seek: those elementsFrom which alone all things created ...

The common theme of common sense is that it's commonly rejected as uncommonly demanding.

He was a wraith of the factories, skinny and tall, with a wobbling gait that broadcast his deformed legs.

Experiments at Seattle aquarium prove that octopuses can tell individual humans apart - even when the people are dressed identically - just by looking up ...

My mother was working a lot, so she was gone often. I would leave school and hitchhike to the beach. I can't believe I hitchhiked ...

Every improvement or innovation begins with an idea. But an idea is only a possibility - a small beginning that must be nurtured, developed, engineer, ...

I want people who have received a diagnosis of Hepatitis C to know that they didn't just receive a death sentence. They do have options, ...

It goes in streaks. But some things never go out of fashion.' Hunger artists, fat folks, giants, and dog acts come and go but real ...

Those people who are scared of science or are a bit dismissive of science tend to not really understand what science really is, which is ...

Many of the members of the class had never held ice.

It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone ...

You marry the day you realize the human defects of your love.

Now people matter.

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?

Make up your mind that nothing is more important than how I feel now, because now is everything. Now is the whole enchilada. Now is ...

While Roscoe made cups of coffee for Charlie Hubble and Finlay sat in the rosewood office,

You beat a dozen armed men single-handed?" "Oh aye, sir," said Wee Mad Arthur slyly, "but it was nae fair, I had them outnumbered.

When a man wants to make up with his Maker, he does not consult a third party.

K [Kissinger] called from New York all disturbed because he felt someone had been getting to the P [President] on Vietnam ... Henry's concerned that ...

If I see darkness in the Church I bring light to it.

Fill your life with what you love. That's my hope for you.

Societies in which most people depend for most of their goods and services on the personal whim, kindness, or skill of another are called underdeveloped, ...

Okay, please draw a circle." I did. "Now draw a smaller circle within that circle." I did. "The larger circle is virgins. The smaller circle ...

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.

He bade the slave ships speed from coast to coast, Fanned by the wings of the Holy Ghost.

Don't worry," I say. "I have no interest in discussing your broken heart.

Even when you're producing difficult material and you get emotional, after it you feel good; you feel like you've done a good job, or had ...

Helen, in a white coat and stethoscope, effortlessly achieving the sort of discipline for which lesser women would require black leather and a hunting crop, ...

Sleepiness seemed to be creeping out of the ground and up their legs, and falling softly out of the air upon theirheads and eyes.

It's true, I used to be so shy. I used to never talk, just sit back and do my thing. I was never bullied, though, ...

Wanting to repent is the sign God hasn't abandoned you. It is God, after all, who puts in us the desire to come to Him.

The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the affect of increasing wealth, so it is the cause of increasing population. To complain of ...

What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless ...

I revised my earlier thought about the risks of dancing. I was looking at a sprained ankle, a few pulled muscles, and maybe a homicide ...

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.

Eat your food slowly and chew each bite completely (20-30 chomps is ideal) to facilitate proper digestion.

The public has no idea that writing is a disease, and that the writer who publishes is like a beggar who exhibits his sores.

Paradoxically, when 'dumb' money acknowledges its limitations, it ceases to be dumb.

I think I've been mildly obsessed with my hair. I don't think I have a hugely adversarial relationship with it. One my essay is about ...

This may account for Americans' overuse of the courts as a means of finding coherence and stability. As other institutions become unusable as mechanisms for ...

I think the gay community should get smart and drop the word 'marriage.' Do you really need to change every right-wing Christian to make sure ...

Other people are joyous, like on the feast of the ox, like on the way up to the terrace in the spring. I alone am ...

In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight.

If you read every poem in every anthology of Greek poetry, you wouldn't read one poem in which a character of the woman who's loved ...

If my favorite, most comfortable place is by our fireplace in cold weather, expedient places are on an airplane, in a waiting room or even ...

It was not the Jew, of course, who invented the love poem, but the other way around.

Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.

Drawing back, and then folding into the shore. Pause, crash. Pause, crash. It made you feel like you were a part of something infinite, looking ...

My major aim was to shape a book which would make its own comment, a wordless statement: to talk through the way it was shaped.

All this happiness on display is suspect ... If they think - and they could be right - that continued torture and summary executions, ethnic ...

My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was ...

She could be anybody and she could pretend to be whomever she wants to be. With social media and internet communications, everything is virtual. Social ...

I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why ...

Her heart was aching, and she was lonely. I could understand loneliness. I wished there were more I could do for her, but I wasn't ...

I refuse to cut the joy from the lives of others in fear I might lose my own. Only the former is definite, and may ...

Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it ...

Turn yourself inside out. Live with absolute certainty that you have the power to create anything that you desire-anything!-because the power you need is the ...

Wasting and losing time is equivalent to wasting and losing your life

Right now, the leadership in Iran is telling their citizens one thing. Our President is telling us another.

And withholding. Everything I get from them is either inconclusive or subject to reinterpretation. Nothing is as it appears.

Oh, hon, it's the little courtesies that make life bearable, I find, wouldn't you agree?

I speculate that this is the best of all possible worlds, for philosophy is the best of humanity, and this world is the best philosophically.

Grace...you don't understand...kissing is not just principle thing with Ryker. It's not a macho...Heman woman hater thing to him...or a way to avoid commitment. It's ...

There's a certain window of time in the middle of the night out in Middle America where there's no bar open and nothing on TV. ...

Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten.

As you speed along the highway of life ... you might pause and consider. When everything's coming your way, maybe you're driving in the wrong ...

Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.

Do what experts since the dawn of recorded history have told you you must do: pay the price by becoming the person you want to ...

Good morning starshine the earth says hello....

Would Eric enjoy being a Sooner? As I navigated through Shreveport, I wondered if Oklahoma vampires wore cowboy boots and knew all the songs from ...

Concentrating when it's the hardest is what builds character

Working in a lab for twenty years has left me with two stories: the one that I have to write, and the one that I ...

Power, money, lusts of the flesh and any other desire which takes a man, a family, a village or a nation from peace or freedom ...