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You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.
When you look back from your Olympic experience, you never want to question whether you could have done more. The one thing you can control ...
I've swallowed a pollywog. It wriggleth in my tummy. I shall die - Emerson
A lot of people think they're born for themselves; I don't think that. I believe that we're here to help other people all the way ...
Congress is a wishy-washy, whiney bunch of people who can't see past the next election.
We do not strive for spectacular actions. What counts is the gift of yourself, the degree of love you put into each of your deeds.
Although Mar would be quite pleased to be consort, Skjaldwulf didn't want to be wolfjarl.He wanted Isolfr, and he would take the damned job that ...
Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they don't try or give up when their efforts don't lead to a masterpiece right away. ...
Despite what The Wall Street Journal says, our awards are the best-kept secret in America, with the possible exception of what George W. Bush did ...
If the garden of Eden really exists it does so moment by moment, fragmented and tough, cropping up like a fan of buddleia high up ...
'Saw' is like a big jigsaw puzzle. When you put a jigsaw puzzle together, you put the bottom left corner together first, and then you ...
Some investments do have higher expected returns than others. Which ones? Well, by and large they're the ones that will do the worst in bad ...
Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long ...
Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.
There are so many people we could become, and we leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it's hard to ...
If guilt was an animal then it would be an octopus. All slimy and wriggly with hundreds of arms that wrap around your insides and ...
He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.
But Sarah Weddingtonhad never told me that what I was signing would allow women to use abortions as a form of birth control. We talked ...
I read hugely as a child, but I slowed up when the print got smaller. I am a very slow reader. I don't know why. ...
The handkerchief is the universal utensil of the seasoned traveler. It can be a sanitizing device, a seat cover, a dust mask, a garrote, a ...
Perhaps some people really are born unhappy. I surely hope not. Speaking for my sister and myself: We were born with the capacity and determination ...
You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care, you've won. I absolutely promise you, in every serious ...
Establishing and keeping a routine can be even more important than having a lot of time.
I don't really know what I'm ever looking for, it's kind of like whatever happens to resonate at the time with me.
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
As a kid, I was a dancer in Dick Whittington, Snow White and Cinderella. When I was 14, I played Baby Bear. I had a ...
The words came out before Harry had quite got his tongue around them."Wangoballwime?""Sorry?" said Cho."D'you - d'you want to go to the ball with me?" ...
Excellence doesn't come by obeying doctrines. Excellence comes through recognizing the flaws in the prevailing doctrines of the society and throwing them away if necessary ...
I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don't really know where wittiness is constructive.
I smelled the clean house and the wood-frame bed. It was all filler. The noise, the sound, they existed just to take up space. My ...
To me, Hewitt and Nadal would be the best spirited fighters I've ever seen on the tennis court.
Now, it's time for me to lock up and go. Listen to me. Lock up an empty building that's gonna be torn down. Makes no ...
Ken was Mary's new boyfriend, a nice guy who made all their friends comments, "Oh, there he is. That's what she's been waiting for," as ...
Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal's gate.
Wingback chairs had been originally designed to protect their occupants either from drafts or the heat of a fire.
And watch your tongue. I happen to be partial to humans - most, anyway. Clowns, not so much. Those evil bastards never stop smiling."Niccolo didn't ...
[T]welve year old Libby O'Shea coasted on a homemade swing, toes touching a blinding-blue heaven dolloped with clouds.
Try to have a good day today, wherever you are, whatever you do, whoever is near, if no one is near. Try to be happy, ...
The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold. 69 L
I bled a lot. I got hit across the face. We couldn't film for seven days. I got hit, whacked, underwater, across the face. I ...
The Great Convergence: Asia, the West and the Logic of One World.
This road is a winding one. We left the west floodedwith new loneliness.
I'd love to play a villain in BBC drama 'Sherlock' - some sort of evil, slinky blonde would be right up my street.
Turned her head away from the other woman to avoid showing her smile. "If people were sensible, the wedding venue would never be rented out, ...
Since death is an inevitablility and life an uncertainty, it all comes down to how we live the precious moments of our lives. When all ...
I was thinking about New York and realized how much I hate walking around in the winter and how much I dread getting on the ...
The point here is ... to be just a little less arrogant. To have just a little critical awareness about myself and my certainties. Because ...
You just put your boot so far up his ass, he'll have to eat his dinner with a shoehorn." "I can always count on you ...
Leave the woodpile higher than you found it.
What the pundits call wishy-washiness, the Bible calls repentance.
Started underneath the floor, Now my money through the ceiling.
If our great view is upon those of the next, the expectation of them is an infinitely higher satisfaction than the enjoyment of those of ...
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 ...
Spring with its wavin' green grass and heaps of sweet-smellin' flowers on every hill and in every dale.
Why, to hear Betsy Bobbet talk about wimmin's throwin' their modesty away, you would think if they ever went to the political pole, they would ...
Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. ...
We have some breaking news from our dedicated kale coverage desk here at NPR.Starting now, Chick-fil-A has kale on its menu next to the spicy ...
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 ...
If 'The Blacklist' taught me anything, it was kind of open-ended intrigue and leaving questions unanswered. Creating this kind of mystery by virtue of depriving ...
I bet all I had on a thing called love; guess in the end it wasn't enough. And it's hard to watch you leave right ...
Until you find where the goal post is, you shall only exert all your precious energy and ability shooting in the direction of goal kick ...
We are alike in many ways, you and I. There is darkness in us. Darkness, pain, death. They radiate from us. If ever you love ...
A man is not required to run faster than he is able but it is a requirement to run.
Who are the executives, and what are the stories that are being released? Not just in movie theaters but online. When you watch Master of ...
Food is like war. You have to experience it for yourself.
Patience, young grasshopper," he teased. "Good things come to those who wait." "How very wise of you," I teased back.Russ shrugged. "I eat a lot ...
I love you. Those three words have a deeply embedded history. They come with a whole lifetime of laughter and tears. So when I say ...
I am naked because I am going for a swim," he says happily. Then he laughs loudly, clutching his side. "Oh Johnny you look like ...
After Supper the Master dismissed all except Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie and Sha the Monk. He took them out with him and said, Look at ...
Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That's definitely my first response. I think change ...
Robert Kennedy was inspired to take on organized crime by watching the landmark movie On the Waterfront.
So why did you want to kiss me?""We're friends aren't we?" Callum shrugged.I relaxed into a smile. "Of course we are.""And if you can't kiss ...
Watching someone you love die is like driving through a fog. You know you're headed somewhere but you can't see your hand in front of ...
What a magical place," she whispered in an awed voice. "I expect a unicorn or fairies to appear.""What would the fairies be doing?" Shermont asked. ...
We kissed, and sparks went off in my chest. At the end of the night he said, 'I know what you're thinking. You're wondering if ...
The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.
But Mari, I just don't think I can justify a show-offish wedding. I've never been that sort of girl. I'm the 'Let's go to a ...
Recent sociological findings indicate that while "whites have largely abandoned principled racism... they have not necessarily given up negative racial stereotypes" or "negative sentiments and ...
I think it's very important to distinguish between objectivity - which tends to be open, flexible, skeptical of its own certainty and open to new ...
I love movies to death. I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies.
On the way up the walk I took in the weedless border gardens, the two floors of smudgeless windows, and I wondered, when a person ...
They say that one must beat one's wings against the storm in the belief that beyond this welter the sun shines
Our willingness to embrace the realities of our neighbor's difficulty is what empowers our witness and makes our testimony of Christ effective and hearable.
I remember when I first met Jason Reitman with the 'Whiplash' script; he quickly became a mentor figure who guided me through the process and ...
If you love the rain very much, you feel the warmth of the sunshine in your heart while it is heavily raining outside!
To split the very sea into ours and theirs. Border at the BeachAnd More White Sheets
From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome ...
It's a compassionate reaction that all testicles have for fellow testicles being whacked, kicked or ripped to shreds by footballs, martial arts students or dead ...
I get my sense of humor from my parents. That's why they don't have one anymore.
The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of ...
The silence between the notes is the good part for me. I find that to be a very important part of music that is often ...
What would you like to do today?" he says. She gives him a funny look. "What are my options?" "Sky's the limit." She considers it ...
Won't You guide me through the dark night of the soul That I may better understand Your way ... Let me purify my thoughts and ...
For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.
What is most important is the deeply felt conviction that freedom is like oxygen, and I hope The Long Walk is a reminder that when ...
What to do when the market goes down? Read the opinions of the investment gurus who are quoted in the WSJ. And, as you read, ...
Spiritual Choice towards Light will open your eyes, you will see things, which you haven't seen before...
I suppose I was dying again, so I asked the Lord of Permanent Affection for the strength to live the day. Clearly, the answer came ...
It doesn't hurt me on a personal level, but it hurts me on a larger level of like, why are people so stupid? Why do ...
There is only one name on the door at Walt Disney Imagineering.