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The power and energy sectors are the biggest constituents of the infrastructure sector. If you ignore them, no development will happen.
Loving is the only sign of truly living.
I think you've got be willing as an interviewer to ask the dumb question every now and then.
Sometimes, son," my father said, prying my fingers free, "you have to help the heroes along.
If you walk by something that I've done and you like it then I don't think I did what I was supposed to do. It ...
Sometimes my dreams feel so real it's hard to believe they're just the subconscious's stroll across a whimsical map that has no true north.
I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine - you mourn things that actually happened.
Do Chinese dragons even eat people?" "She lives in the Bay Area," I say severely. "She eats a Westernized diet.
In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.
She was held in the tension just before movement, about to walk back toward the house. Later she would think, If I had turned away, ...
Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two.
[1768] The Billeting Act, which required the colonists to lodge and feed the British troops quartered among them, added fuel to the flames. In 1768 ...
I'm glad you had a good time, Pidge. You deserve it.
Getting older means learning how to leave with doubt and how to get home again.
If you're white and you're wrong, then you're wrong; if you're black and you're wrong, you're wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green - ...
When others are having hard times and poor business, you will find your greatest opportunities.
Olivia," he sighed as he held her tight against him. "I like the way you leap."For once her laughter was free and easy. "And I ...
I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker ... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because ...
You know you've had too much to eat for Christmas dinner when you slump down onto a beanbag and realize ... there is no beanbag.
Little changes can start to make a difference in the world.
It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
My family were great story-tellers. My mum was one of 12 and they were all fighting to tell stories. You have to tell a good ...
Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.
If you want to talk to God, pray. If you want him to talk to you, read your scriptures.
Uncertainty and change are life's constraints. And that's the fun part.
People's stupidity probably explains much of what people do and don't do, as I have conceded all along in this book.
I imagine her rolling onto her back, welcoming me to create secrets with her that'll never leave this room.
I'm in love with writing, but sometimes I swear it hates me.
Stop waiting for what you want, and start working what you have. This can turn your greatest frustration into your greatest potential innovation. If you'll ...
It's an all-fired outrage to tell any human creature that he's bound to hell.
I do the work with friends who are musicians as well. I'm working on a piece of music and I have an idea of who ...
My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.
There are two sides to any war-game, Your Highness, and the other side is trying to win, too.
You must find a way to make peace," said Inej. "At least for a while.""This is not your concern," Matthias growled.Kaz stepped forward, his expression ...
We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new.
When she turned to see me smiling. It was an awkward smile, but you only really know what a smile means when you own the ...
Let menot, even inmyownmind, committheinjustice of taking a speck for the whole.
And, quite frankly, I fully expected to be charged with murder, because they weren't charging anybody. I did it in terms of, I felt like ...
Maybe Ian doesn't come from london at all, but from Idaho. And not the potato part of Idaho, but the crazy, inbred parents locking their ...
Love is an ideal. A false hope. Marriage is the reality. And like all realities it is painful.
Bullies want to isolate you, so they can torment you & then make you feel bad about yourself when you want to tell someone. Don't ...
Your kids pissing you off is an inborn instinct. It's nature's way of getting you to kick them out when they turn 18!Okaaay. ~sigh~ Due ...
Tailor Made will help Ferrari's clients tailor their cars in a very personal, specific way. It's a bespoke service, like visiting Huntsman or Anderson & ...
We need to get insurance out of the way and let the consumer interact with their doctor the way they did basically before World War ...
As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now.
The Lord of the Rings is a million times more interesting than mere literature, which is why mere literary critics cannot get to grips with ...
We can use doubt to self analyze. A measure of doubt can help us to attain self-honesty. But, like too much water, too much doubt ...
I was trained as journalist never to use the word 'I,' never to put my own opinion there. In fact, if you had a dollar ...
Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars ...
Sometimes women are so great and powerful, but then they surrender to these vain things. They kind of fall for it.
I love the noise of my wooden clogs on my wooden floor. Dancers wear clogs. They're good for you.
We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling.
Her checkbook catches his eye. He takes it and hides it in the back of the freezer, underneath a bag of frozen lima beans. If ...
You are not a product of society, you are a product of your choices, and decisions....you set the direction of your life, not others
A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it ...
Between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. That doesn't mean the weaker one doesn't ...
If it's all true, then we're in the citadel of unbelief, where nightmares are dispatched with Lysol and scalpels and chemotherapy rather than with stakes ...
I think it is a simple statement of principle that in a democracy you should make your MPs work harder for your vote and try ...
And over one more set of hills, along the sea, the last roses have opened their factories of sweetness and are giving it back to ...
As if fixing the little errors would made the big stuff manageable.
Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they're waiting for someone to say, 'You're good, you're pretty, I give you permission.'
I like everything you do to me.""In that case"- he flipped her onto her back again, spread her thighs- "I think we should explore the ...
I learned to surf for 'Soul Surfer.' Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of ...
How to live a Dreamby P.C.M. HermansSeptember 14, 2016
The fact of the matter is that if we were going to do anything about Gaddafi, it should have been at the beginning. And by ...
Remember, NO ONE has the right to control your emotions, thoughts, and actions, unless you let them.
Prayer is the Lord's great sterilizer against the germs of spiritual disease.
Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.
One thing both my parents agree on is this: if people are doing something unfair, it's part of our job to remind them what's fair, ...
Let's forget the novelties. If we prevail in prayer, God will do only what he can do. How he does things, when he does them, ...
Instead of thinking about work the next day or thinking about what you have to do, if you live in the moment you'll have some ...
Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's being content to ...
Too Blue is a fantastic band with great singing, great picking and large dollops of creativity. The album features beautifully clean production values and the ...
Straight between them ran the pathway,Never grew the grass upon it
How could I not come for you Moira? If I'd know who you were from the beginning I would have never let you get taken. ...
I don't want to play the fat guy or the friend for the rest of my life.
If you cannot have an easy journey, have an interesting story.
One exits with one's husband one lives with one's lover.
Even if there was the slightest probability Cael was right, Ash was so deep in the closet, he was taking Aslan's place in Narnia.
Developing confidence is like watching the sun rise. First it seems very feeble and one wonders whether it will make it. Then it shines and ...
The beauty of being an Author is, It's your story and you can write what ever you want.
Indeed, it may most verily be saidThat only death and taxes certain are.
Who are we to think we deserve anything? What makes us so great? No one is "lucky" to have us. We are all full of ...
A well-behaved woman seldom makes history
I lean down so that my face is right in front of hers and whisper, 'He doesn't love you. I love you.
It was like a prodigious unexpected vast great broadside from a three-decker, but of happiness:
Yeah, you're sitting in a tree because you're fine. That's easy to see. I can't believe this is Maximum Ride, destroyer of despots, warrior hottie, ...
Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a process of commodification. It becomes packaged and summarized ...
The lowest lows bring the highest highs. And when you find someone who brings you both, that doesn't mean you should walk away; it means ...
I realize it's impossible to have any sympathy, I mean, true sympathy, for people that are famous.
I manage fine with no others around;I cannot manage without you.My heart bears your brand,it won't wander away from you.Reason's eye blurs with your wineheaven's ...
One thing both my parents agree on is this: if people are doing something unfair, it's part of our job to remind them what's fair, ...
He had no use for sensual gratification, unless that gratification consisted of pure, incorporeal odors.
The absolute easiest thing to do is spend time, as often as one can, in tranquil or majestic nature. Look at butterflies. Walk barefoot in ...
America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.
I also grew up on a farm in east Tennessee, so my roots are just naturally super southern, so I've always had that southern country ...
We are the worst of ourselves and also the best. They can try and shock it out of us but it doesn't really go away, ...
My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy ...
My family dumplings are sleek and seductive, yet stout and masculine. They taste of meat, yet of flour. They are wet, yet they are dry. ...
I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio ...