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But she never knew what it was like to walk away from the thing she had most wanted. Years later she would say, Photography allowed ...
It's a rotten world, Miss Millick,' said Mr. Wran, talking at the window. 'Fit for another morbid growth of superstition. It's time the ghosts, or ...
When you talk of not wanting children, it is impossible to avoid sounding defensive, like you're trying to prove the questionable beauty of a selfish ...
No! I'm not ready, this is still my first cup of coffee!
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one nightSailed off in a wooden shoe, -Sailed on a river of crystal lightInto a sea of dew.
Overconfidence: As the WYSIATI rule implies, neither the quantity nor the quality of the evidence counts for much in subjective confidence.
What is the name of your dream? A lovely wooden cottage in the middle of a forest? Or walking in an endless autumn path? What ...
To be happy with myself and always make others happy. To be confident and give others confidence in themselves. To smile, to surf, to laugh ...
Was I wrong? Was I imagining a problem where there wasn't one? Of course my great aunt Maureen always said even a broken clock is ...
I haven't felt the full weightof the world on my shoulders,and I haven't experienceda fraction of the painand embarrassment I've put out into this great ...
Storiesindividual stories, family stories, national storiesare what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.
Hope is a helium balloon. It is a wish lantern set out into the dark sky of night.
In all that ever mattered, you are unchanged. Old? Yes, we must all grow old. Age is nothing but the sum of life. And you ...
Every little boy wanna pick up the mic,And try to run with the big boys and live up to the real hype.But that's like pickin ...
People always talk about good, fresh country air, but I kept getting wiffs of something that was neither good nor fresh but definitely country.
When I'm traveling the world, I don't ever look anymore at the geography - just enough to catch galleries and paintings.
In times of stress and danger such as come about as the result of an epidemic, many tragic and cruel phases of human nature are ...
We spend half of our lives preparing to live-instead of just living.
I always have loved the Stradivarius. My teacher, Josef Gingold, he had a Stradivarius. As a treat, he would put it under my chin and ...
Elora had it put in while you were gone. She's
You made the right choice," Roden whispered. "Though you did choose his name rather quickly."He has a skinny neck. He'd have died faster." (Jaron)"That's why ...
Remember that I'm still a monster. I can listen to you scream and cry and beg and I still won't let you out.
It's really hard when you break up with somebody, or somebody breaks up with you, and you're in this band; guess who you have to ...
George Sears, called Nessmuk, whose "Woodcraft," published in 1884, was the first American book on forest camping, and is written with so much wisdom, wit, ...
Who wants to get cake? - Following a pop quiz
This year I have Sister Mary Joseph for Religion. Right away I could tell she was going to become my archenemy. She has a stony ...
Remember when Jesus was hanging out with that one dude that kept messing up his life with sin and Jesus was like "You are a ...
Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom ...
You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
Wilke subscribed to the principles laid out in a seminal book about constraints in manufacturing, Eliyahu M. Goldratt's The Goal, published in 1984.
Enough is enough. Six years you serve the countries. You been working hard. You sacrifice your time even your life. And, even your family life. ...
I have a problem with the strip that runs along the bottom of the news programs. Don't these idiots who run the news programs know ...
Something in me died at Peleliu. Perhaps it was the childish innocence that accepted as faith the claim that Man is basically good. Possibly I ...
I always have the feeling we are merely fearfully trying to save room for God; I would rather speak of God at the center than ...
By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
Dust webbed the window and the showtrays. Dust darkened the toiling fingers with their vulture nails. Dust slept on dull coils of bronze and silver, ...
I definitely start early and keep items in mind throughout the year for key people in my life. I love wrapping everyone's gifts in hand-painted ...
It's like when you are excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other ...
Do I need to hire a hit man?
I like to have one night on the weekend where I can just cuddle up at my house.
They said when you are in love you will be happy but when the day comes i fell in love with someone.i regret the day ...
It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.
The lounge is empty of bodies but full of debris: wineglasses, ashtrays, food wrappers, and a pair of silk boxer shorts over the Boer War ...
I would like to do something dark or small. I love independent films. I love emotional scenes. I love people who are struggling with something. ...
From day one, since I was traded to the Clippers, the team has been amazing to not only me, but to my family.
Each man was born to his degree, and a happy man was one who did not question his place in life.
In a democracy, people always vote for their alike! Pig for the pig, raven for the raven! Dull for the dull, wise for the wise!
The search for the right answer is the enemy of art.
None of us are perfect, and we all make mistakes. But the American people are a very forgiving people.
The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it ...
Don't ever try to judge me dude. You don't know what the fuck I've been through
I love you," he said against her lips. "I love you, too," she said but the words that always seemed so big felt small now. ...
Revision, once well done, becomes a sort of automatic itch which you scratch in the next work without thinking about it.
We do not accept the Western way of thinking that there are two ways of life. At the same time, the police (here) are not ...
God grant that this is the work of the Communists. You are witnessing the beginning of a great new epoch in German history. This fire ...
Thanksgiving creates abundance; and the miracle of multiplying happens when I give thanks-take the just one loaf, say it is enough, and give thanks-and He ...
God's work is not man working for God; it is God's own work, though often wrought through man's hands.
What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our ...
Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third world, because the US economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals ...
Slaying dragons, melting witches, and banishing demons is all fun and games until someone loses a sidekick - then it's personal. The bad guy isn't ...
During our session, I told Tove about how I'd done mind-speak on Duncan, but it only worked when I was irritated. Using that logic,Tove spent ...
I remember confuting one of Westminster's favourite maxims, "better the devil you know than the devil you don't". In the annals of popular wisdom, this ...
Luckily, I discovered ice skating when I was eight and a half years old. There were two wonderful ponds within walking distance of my house. ...
Hephaestus glowered up at us. "I didn't make you, did I?"Uh," Annabeth said, "no, sir."Good," the god grumbled. "Shoddy workmanship.
If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, ...
I'm watching her talk. Watching her jaw move and collecting her words one by one as they spill from her lips. I don't deserve them. ...
My life is an open book looking for chapters of love to fill my lonely pages.-Michelle Carithersread more A Daughter's Worth-A Novel
In breaking news, the sky. The earth. Life. Existence as an unchanging plain with horizons of birth and death in the faint distance.
You will have to write and put away or burn a lot of material before you are comfortable in this medium. You might as well ...
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, ...
John McCain responded to critics who say he's too old for a sixth term by saying that his mother is 103 years old and doing ...
When we are forced to stop the noise around us and in us, we begin to hear everything that is not us, and this is ...
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half.
The Mushrooms. He rubbed himself with them and then whamo! Grumpy glows. He wouldn't come anywhere near this place without his mushroom rubdown, and let ...
I have often felt that I cheated my children a little. I was never so totally theirs as most mothers are. I gave to audiences ...
Leaders learn more from blames than praises. Praises make them know what's already done well; blames show them what's yet to be done well.
We are two girls, with endless thoughts of provocative romance.
This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me
It wouldn't be a ball if someone didn't take it upon themselves to be wildly inappropriate. - Wil
Give you whatany you want, Chessiebomb. Anything.
SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. ...
You haven't done your best yet because you haven't seen the best you can do yet. You are where you are now because you haven't ...
During this time, Ainsworth met Charles Dickens and introduced the young writer to the publisher Macrone and to George Cruikshank. Ainsworth also introduced Dickens to
If movies and music are vehicles for emotionally "hooking" people into Hollywood worldviews, then the best countermeasure is to create more compelling, more beautiful forms ...
Why had he wanted to be rich, or to feel rich? Was he an unhappy mouse before? Didn't he see the King himself often looking ...
Give it a minute or two for the weaction to begin.
Strong-willed, intelligent, sharp-tongued, doesn't suffer fools gladly ... remind you of anyone?""Yes. Gordon.""Interesting," said the man. "Because those are the exact same words he used ...
I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and ...
Some parts of Florida are filled with real magic. You just have to keep your eyes open. Ah, for the mermaids of Weeki Wachee ... ...
A misanthrope I can understand - a womanthrope, never!
I believe that whatever we have, regardless of a trade being done or not, I feel we have a shot. I've just got to believe ...
My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually ...
Smack me if we ever get that awful.""But I smack you so often," she said, "how will you know that's what I'm smacking you for?""We ...
Something has worked in the past, until - well, it unexpectedly no longer does, and what we have learned from the past turns out to ...
In the grand scheme of things, the stuff that comes with a forewarning isn't really that important. We know when that big exam is, the ...
Why did you take me down this road if you don't want to walk with me? Why do you exist all alone, when you could ...
You know God gives me that inner strength that super strength to get through things.
I'm a woman of lip gloss. Estee Lauder has an amazing lip gloss line. But I even go as far as to use some Wet ...
The world is exploding in emerald, sage, and lusty chartreuse - neon green with so much yellow in it. It is an explosive green that, ...