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He who discovers the light, discovers life. He who discovers the dark, discovers death, Neither are wrong and neither are right; your perception is what ...

For a photographer, the first 70 years are a bit difficult, but after that things get better.

Believing in gods always causes confusion.

If we didn't execute bankers and rogue traders found guilty of financial mischief, it might give them the clear signal that it's actually okay, and ...

Before the Human Genome Project, most scientists assumed, based on our complex brains and behaviors, that humans must have around 100,000 genes; some estimates went ...

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always ...

I have tons of sunglasses. My husband won't let me buy another pair because I lose them all the time.

I think I read Susan Brownmiller's classic book called "Femininity" when I was about 16. So yeah, it's been part of my mindset since a ...

Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past the ...

You needn't worry. I don't think you have aged enough for me to partake of you. Blood, women, wine, and cheese all get better with ...

She found Nicholas busily engaged in making a penny spin on the dresser, for the amusement of three little children, who were clinging to him ...

There ain't no time to be wasted, the world is going under ... Nowadays, can't tell Fall from Spring, and Winter from Summer.

Desperation, she said, feels like someone's reaching down your throat and ripping out your guts.

Knox Masters is exactly the type of guy I want to date. He dominates a sport I love. He's confident but not arrogant. He's funny, ...

Yes, Mom but how does the music get from that needle" - I pointed my chubby little finger to the record player -"to my heart." ...

Now that that's settled, you're coming with me.""Never in a billion suns. Not even if Zeus showed up as a swan and tried to peck ...

I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.

DCI Horner's advice to Jack Spratt: "Remember, m'boy," his old boss had said, eyes twinkling, "that if anyone tries to get the better of you, ...

You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - ...

Shameless, impudent, meddling females, who presumed to set at naught the Society's prohibition on women's magic, and duped the common people with their potions and ...

He did not falter, as long as there was a path that led toward his goal.

ESPN has announced that they are launching a 3-D sports network. Industry analysts say this will absolutely revolutionize the way Americans don't watch soccer.

For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words you wrote the day before, or how many novels ...

When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and ...

Payment and reserved copyright are at bottom the ruin of literature. Only he who writes entirely for the sake of what he has to say ...

Written words can also sing.

I was never the biggest kid or the best looking kid or the most popular kid, but that's not all it takes. Sometimes you turn ...

I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.

No matter how far we may wander from the Lord's perfect will for our lives, we are always welcome back.

I love wraps and shawls.

It has always been the role of the shaman to go into an altered state of consciousness and track down where the soul fled to ...

Always give a hundred percent, and you'll never have to second-guess yourself.

What are you doing right now that requires faith?

You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, ...

You will learn more about writing from one hour of reading than you will in six hours of writing.

My mom told me once - relationships end until the one that doesn't. So you can't be sad, really. Because if the wrong ones didn't ...

It is said that some Western steamers can run on a heavy dew, whence we can imagine what a canoe may do.

That is one of the many reasons why I avoid speaking as much as possible. For I always say either too much or too little, ...

What human beings can and should do, he wrote, is to conquer their fears, accept the fact that they themselves and all the things they ...

Neither books nor people have Velcro Sides there must be a bonding agent someone who attaches child to book. ...

Give yourself permission to be happy. It doesn't matter what's going on around you, what matters is what's going on inside you.

Clary?" he thought.Her voice came through, tinged with alarm. "What is it? What's happened? Did my mom find out I'm gone?""Not yet," he thought back. ...

I have traveled all over the world and gone to the highest peaks, and the densest jungles. The Carpathain Mountians will always be my homeland, ...

And everywhere books, books, books,

Exhilarating. Radical Grace moved me to tears with its portrayal of good people putting their beliefs into action in ways that transcend all ideological boundaries.

Goal setting is fine if you want to be the warrior archetype. These people are setting goals constantly and trying to get someplace else. They ...

The stars are filming us for no one.

Her courage was a guise. She wondered if courage always was, or if there were those who truly felt no fear.

Dr. Prem, a world renowned speaker delivers flawless speeches on various topics including leadership, public speaking, business management and global healthcare. Dr. Prem is well ...

When we look through the lens of each others' weaknesses, we make others' strengths irrelevant and their weaknesses more evident.

Through time you learn from your experiences. I think I've learned to deal with people a little bit better over time. That in particular has ...

I grew up in western Oregon, just outside Eugene, on 27 wooded acres that served as my playground.

Was Luther crazy? Perhaps. But if he was, our prayer is that God would send to this earth an epidemic of such insanity that we ...

[A]n unpleasant nest of nasty, materialistic and aggressive people, careless of the rights of others, imperfectly democratic at home though quick to see the minor ...

In 30 years time, as technology moves forward even further, people are going to look back and wonder why offices ever existed.

I was lucky. I grew up knowing that hard work and smart work has a greater impact on results than being passionate about something.

Love made me weak. I wished it would go away. Instead, it crushed me under its heel. I let Levvie push me back onto the ...

I fear not," Hamilcar said gravely, shaking his head. "It seems to be the fate of all nations, that as they grow in wealth so ...

At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been ...

There's things people say in the barbershop they won't even say in their own living room, because it's just one of those zones where nobody's ...

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

At the city gates a corpse or two hung, moldering, from the municipal gallows. Within the walls, there were the usual dirty streets, the customary ...

We have a tendency to assume people are a unity, and thus good people all good, etc. But the fact that Hitler was good to ...

Why do you persist in this belief that punishment must be meted out from either God or Satan when the most relentless, merciless punisher is ...

Love is a big and wonderful idea, but life is made up of small things. As a kid, you have nothing to do with the ...

Theater is all about foyers and conversation and digesting what you've seen.

The princess turns to him, serious. 'You are the one my great-grandfather spoke of: a denizen of Earth wearing a dirty apron who falls down ...

I feel like giving myself a pat on the back. We can create history tonight. We can bid goodbye to 10 years of (Liberal-Conservative) government ...

Although peace can be negotiated by governments, it is ultimately the responsibility of the people themselves to make it last. All of us have a ...

If you want to believe that humans walked with dinosaurs and the planet is a few thousand years old, that is absolutely fine with me. ...

Sometimes kids used to give me a hard time. But they're on my side.

When a pure devotee or spiritual master speak, what he says should be accepted as having been directly spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead ...

A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are.

Weird is my bread and butter.

A person who Sleeps more, Slips More.

People talk of rage as something fluid; it boils, flows, spills over, scalds. For her, it is not any of these things. Instead it is ...

The mountain is high, the valley is low, and you're confused on which way to go. So I've come here to give you a hand, ...

Anticipated rents, and bills unpaid,Force many a shining youth into the shade,Not to redeem his time, but his estate,And play the fool, but at the ...

What counts in a good story is the person inside. Keep it simple.

Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?

When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.

If you have a fight work it out, don't get out

I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.

Stop thinking for a while, then you will start thinking better; stop walking for a while, then you will start walking better! Apply the break ...

No monarch placed more emphasis on the veneration of the king's body than...Louis XIV.

Nothing is part of everything.

So maybe it was just as well that my companion was more like Mulder. A coked-out Mulder with a lot of weapons, who knew that ...

Writing was in my mind from the time I was in high school, but more, the idea that I would be a doctor. I really ...

The emphasis in doing any in-depth photography is on building relationships, quality relationships. It's what I call thirty-cups-of-coffee-a-frame photography. You need to enter into the ...

It's about more than us, now, can't you see? I love you, of course I do, but some things ... some things just have to ...

I know more about UFC than the wrestling circuit. I think everybody's a pretty good guy in the UFC.

Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.

The madness of Christmas is not to be resisted by any human means. It either stealthily creeps or crudely batters its way into every fastness ...

Even if I never sold another book, I'd keep writing, because the stories are here, in my head. Stories that just need to be told. ...

Politicians in Washington work in a small, sheltered world where they lurch from crisis to crisis that they create, nurture and use as ideological triggers ...

I love the idea of creative collaboration. I love the idea of exploring marriages, particularly ones that are in process for a long time.

I think that the power over death and life is the greatest strength that any person can have. It trumps sex and wealth. If I'm ...

You want me to paint you?' Genna spoke up raising an eyebrow of displeasure.'All of me.' James bowed his head to Genevieve and whispered the ...

We must remind ourselves that to do what is possible we must sometimes challenge ourselves with the impossible.

I felt stifled. Everything I looked at reminded me of myself.