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It doesn't take a brain surgeon ... or a cardiologist ... or a pediatrician ... or even a policy wonk to figure out that a ...
Sometimes, you have to make the choice to forgive 10 times a day when you have these pockets of anger come up. That's a lot ...
She was too interested in getting married to waste her time on someone ineligible. Infatuation made for odd behavior, though. And love and marriage did ...
I'm totally a ninja wolfhound. This car is ridiculous, though. He has a revolting citrus air freshener in here. Do you know when his birthday ...
I'm a liability to them - I'm a woman, I'm empowered, I'm an artist. I've had executives who can't come to my shows they're so ...
Here's what I know: I eat mass quantities of red meat, curse religiously, sing out of tune but with conviction. I cry when it suits ...
It's a white-knuckle roller-coaster ride.
The first movie I ever cried at was when I was 10 years old and saw 'The Notebook' in theaters. I was like, 'Whoa, so ...
Always remember that the ocean delights in feeling your feet in her eternal bath ...
A few months ago, and again this week, bin Laden publicly vowed to publicly wage a terrorist war against America, saying, and I quote, "We ...
The primary needs can be filled without language. We can eat, sleep, make love, build a house, bear children, without language. But we cannot ask ...
In other words, nourishing internal culture must precede expanding outside influence. Real change is inside-out.
It's not a dream, But the reality that makes our passion As a lamp shadow - no - no lamp, the sun. What the world's ...
I believe in the princess when she says that she'll return to those waiting for her. So i'll wait. It's more painful to wait than ...
Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
Something different was happening to William alright, as if Winkleberry wasn't different enough.
I don't think there's any border between science and art. All the fiction films I have made were always on the same subject, - a ...
I remember one time that I was filming a scene in whych my character rides through Troy on a chariot. I just looked around at ...
It is necessary for us to have an imperfect freedom so that we can give ... if we cannot give anything to God, we do ...
I miss you so much. Maybe if I say your name over and over again, it will eventually feel wrong to me. Like a word ...
He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore ...
Just as the world war is no white man's war, but every man's war, so is the struggle for woman suffrage no white woman's struggle, ...
I was under the impression that werewolf packs were not meant to be run by committee.""Yeah," I said. "But I dont want to be like ...
In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient from prayer to dynamite. The ...
You promised me you would never cheat on me, that you'd love me forever and we would never get a divorce." "I still love you, ...
Seems a lot of men never saw one such as me. A girl what could keep up and fight and ride and curse with the ...
It's always the compliments from people you love that mean so much.
As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
Not only is evil what irrupts from indecision and ambiguity, but irruptive anger, malignity, is the structure of ambiguity itself
Judicials of common [or general] equity are such as are made according to the law or instinct of nature common to all men: and these ...
Honey, I look at cake the way he looks at you," Lana remarked, shoving a load of bags across the counter at him. "Just do ...
When I was young I thought, 'Yeah, people don't see, they're not recognizing how funny I am, and how talented I am'. And the guys ...
You carry the weight of the preternatural world on those big shoulders of yours. But your heart is even bigger, and the burden you harbor ...
If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.
She groaned and closed those eyes. "Do not look at me like that. You will make me smile, and I refuse to smile when I ...
To generalize is to be an idiot, said Blake. Perhaps he went too far. But to generalize is to be a finite mind. Generalities are ...
You've got one life, live it. Follow your dreams, quit your job, drop out of school, tell your boyfriend that he's lousy and walk out ...
IF THEY THINK those two words New York will fix them, who are we to say otherwise.
It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according ...
For God, who is in heaven, is in man. Where else can heaven be, if not in man? As we need it, it must be ...
Breakfast was an irritable business. The clock, on the wall, MapHead noticed, seemed to make everyone unhappy. Everyone checked the clock on the wall, then ...
And Jasmine, royal princess and daughter of the sultan..." the little old religious man trailed off, confused. "I'm sorry, daughter. I don't remember all of ...
My only real advice to Oscar nominees is, 'If you haven't actually seen a competitor's film, don't fib and say you have and blow smoke ...
In a world where very few people care if you live or die, there is a light that shines in the distance. It has a ...
A lot of progressives really believe that if we can turn out one more white paper with bullet points about how to fix Problem X, ...
Historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.
As his (C. S. Lewis's) good friend Owen Barfield once remarked, Lewis radiated a sense that the spiritual world is home, that we are always ...
His house to me was a child was a heart of happiness. If there is a wonder childhood possesses which makes it forever superior to ...
...I had an acute sense that the walls were closing in on "real" Christians... For the first time in my life, I felt like a ...
Hate gets no god.
Teddy Roosevelt supported a progressive income tax. If I am sitting pretty and you've got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and ...
Warfarin is the drug the medical community loves to hate.
We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful ...
'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.
Your Blake is mourning something. I think that pain is manifesting as his glass-skin delusions. You're going to have to approach him as if he's ...
No holy place existed without us then,no woodland, no dance, no sound.Beyond all hope, I prayed those timelessdays we spent might be made twice as ...
We all have our moments of being fed up ... but give me your hand and I'll hold it. If you are being bullied I ...
Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing.
More than any audience in the world, Americans will cross their arms, stare at you and say, 'OK, whaddya got?' - no matter how many ...
I never dreamed I'd be a spokesman for anything. But Pac Bell just asked me. The money was OK; the scripts were fun because I ...
I was raised in California, so this whole New York winter thing is completely new for me. I've already justified buying seven coats!
I hate baseball. It's dull. Nothing happens. It's like watching grass - no, Astroturf - grow
Insofar as we have freedoms, it's not because some great wise Founding Fathers granted them to us. It's because people like us insisted on exercising ...
Brandy, which is fallen and accursed wine, as devils are fallen and accursed angels ... ("The Wondersmith")
Vampire Willow Rosenberg: In my world, we have people in chains, and we can ride them like ponies.
Get a little practice. See what it feels like to drive a knife through my heart. Relish it. Watch the light fade from my eyes, ...
Obama's election had challenged many whites' central cultural assumption - that the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) was the only authentic model of citizenship.
When it comes to dress, we are supposedly free to wear whatever we want - but if this is the case, why do we wear ...
Words could cut just as deep as sharpened claws, and while the skin could heal, the wounds words left behind never faded as quickly.
Waking up next to you is what I like the most, knowing that you belong only to me makes me very happy. Being with you ...
The Pike is the meanest and most vicious of fresh-water fishes. This is caused by heredity and environment, or unfortunate social conditions in the water.
The pictures are postcard reproductions of Old Masters. She has lots of metal animals about an inch long, little wooden shoes, painted boxes only big ...
When you work with the same people for 10 years, they become family. Now when I see them - it might not be for nine ...
Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and ...
A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.
If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.
Let your commitment to various styles of writing never be waived!
My point is,' Jamie continued, 'not everything's perfect, especially at the beginning. And it's all right to have a little bit of regret every once ...
The moment he touched me, my universe constricted to the space between our lips. We were a snarl of limbs and bright-burning kisses.
The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
His own parents, the estimable Gilchrists, a couple who had taken the 'till death' part of their own wedding vows so seriously he wouldn't be ...
I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.
Extra special birthday wishes are sent to you today, to wish you love and happiness in every single way.
Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but ...
There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause.
When I started my own practice, I was criticized, not because I was doing product design but because, like Le Corbusier, I was insisting on ...
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
But the storm-whipsers sound more pleased to me. Excited eve
Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be ...
A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has ...
Wildfire did not run through dry woods as fast as gossip ran through women.
The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets of the divine ...
Life is conspiring in your favor. It may not always look that way, but it is, I assure you. Everything that is happening, is happening ...
[Agatha Christie] is fond of quoting the witty wife who once said, 'an archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she ...
Words may help and silence may help, but the one thing needful is that the heart should turn to its Maker as the needle turns ...
People like me, LB, the truly great ones ... we are always alone.
The secret to not being afraid is to understand what scares you
There's a point where a cop pulls you out of that car and starts abusing you or beating on you and at that moment he ...
The day had been a slowly closing door. The rest of the world moved on out into the stream of life, while I was left ...