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It is though we had wanted to add to the already existing proofs of God's Existence, a new and finally convincing one: the universal destruction ...

The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us ...

I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me ...

My brainWorked with a dim and undetermined senseOf unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughtsThere hung a darkness, call it solitudeOr blank desertion.

My philosophy has always been if I can learn just one thing from an article or book on writing, it's worth it.

If it were not for our conception of weights and measures we would stand in awe of the firefly as we do before the sun.

Tangier is one of the few places left in the world where, so long as you don't proceed to robbery, violence, or some form of ...

Walter Junior, were in the toolshed outside their home in Mars Bluff, South Carolina, when a Mark 6 atomic bomb landed in the yard. Mrs.

There is a generation begging for you to be real ... and to be real now.

Take care of each man as though he were your own brother. He is.

Be proud of yourself when you do keep going!

A cold, miserable little hamlet on the eastern coast of America called Piper's Grave.

What was she to say? The prodigal has returned? The mutineer wishes to be reinstated? The subordinate, having gone to a great deal of trouble ...

But that's how Wicca was: ancient and gently permeating many facets of people's lives without their being aware of it.

I have always had a separate walk-in wardrobe, so I have the luxury of a fairly sparse bedroom.

If you don't physically age gracefully, it's a bit sad. I think Steven Tyler can get away anything, because he still looks like he did ...

I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young wife. The only ...

When you look back on your life, the greatest moments will be the moments when you went all in.

My mum translated this in her head to "witchfinder," which was good because like most West Africans, she considered witchfinding a more respectable profession than ...

A short distance away is the Tidal Basin, ringed by cherry trees that every year produce flowers, an event to which Washingtonians react as though ...

Compression is a necessary evil. The artists I know want to sound competitive. You don't want your track to sound quieter or wimpier by comparison. ...

Wait until the sun sets tonight, and if we are both here to see it, then my heart will break knowing you are safe and ...

It is all about love. It is all about caring. We are all in this game together, we are all connected. You may not be ...

Ronald Reagan's idea of a good farm program was Hee Haw.

Could you be nostalgic for a friendship that wasn't over yet or did the fact that you were nostalgic mean that it already was?

The separation of religion from the practical affairs of society is a convenient doctrine for those who fear that social change would threaten of modify ...

Where Watanabe and I are alike is we don't give a damn if nobody understands us ... That's what makes us different from everybody else. ...

Even Mahatma Gandhi - hardly a comfortable character - always wore a bowler hat with his loin cloth when practising as a barrister in London.

I took the two most expensive aspirins in history.

Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with ...

She dumped me for the quarterback after she'd played my body like a banjo. So Sad.""I bet""I'm serious. I was heartbroken.""For how long?""A whole week." ...

The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.

Her sickness came from the water," the nurse explained. "She should drink only good clean water. If the water is dirty, you should boil it ...

In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. ...

I liked laughing, I found out, and music. I liked nice people, getting up early, and working hard. I liked simple pleasures, like my toes ...

It is notorious that we speak no more than half-truths in our ordinary conversation, and even a soliloquy is likely to be affected by the ...

I was always a show girl. My parents were wonderful. There wasn't a lot going on where we lived, but they ferried me to classes ...

Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives.

A nation's greatness is measured not just by its gross national product or military power, but by the strength of its devotion to the principles ...

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 ...

Man without mysticism is a monster.

What are you going to do with yourself, Ed?" I asked. "I don't know," he said. "I just go along. I dig life.

When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, "Has the bus come yet?". If the bus came would I be standing here?

Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.

I should not have called you a menace. I'm afraid I allowed my temper to get the best of me, and I spoke out of ...

I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take ...

To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.

Lat take a cat, and fostre him wel with milk, And tendre flesh, and make his couche of silk, And let him seen a mous ...

At the piano, I'm able to communicate in a way that is very intimate and direct. My approach at music is a bit like talking ...

Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything. Once you say the character is in love, ...

Come on, I said a third time, to the approaching darkness, to the figures that beckoned from within it, to the peace that comes at ...

When you are starting to fall in love with someone you want to know everything there is to know about them; you want to understand ...

Living beautifully and justly are the source of all joy and happiness.

I think when you wear the brand anyway, why not go out and try to promote it and make it as cool as you can? ...

Somewhat, lawbreakers are lawmakers for they give lawmakers real reasons to make and strengthen laws

Consider your actions and words. Be thoughtful when expressing your feelings or concerns. Sometimes it's not what you say, but the way you say it. ...

The worst is likely to be behind us

The love of these people and of my fans mean more than any award or special accomplishment.

Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual."

If at first you don't succeed, sure, try again ... but if you keep not succeeding, you should probably concentrate on something (or someone) else ...

A large-scale wind, water and solar energy system can reliably supply the world's needs, significantly benefiting climate, air quality, water quality, ecology and energy security ...

Without the door let sorrow lie,And if for cold it hap to die,We'll bury 't in a Christmas pie,And evermore be merry.

In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.

It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have ...

Wait a second Why should you care what they think of you? When you're all alone, by yourself, do you like you? Do you like ...

I don't get it. It's a bunch of trees with leaves.

Or winters when the sloughs were frozen over and dead and i could walk across the ice and snow between the dead cattails and see ...

I don't want to be in some relationship that's just about trading apologies when things get hard. Doing that won't make it all OK, you ...

Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance.

I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.

He sat there studiously bent over his work (Bill saw him), which lay in a slant of crisp white winterlight, his face sober and absorbed, ...

I don't buy into that pressure to be glamorous all the time. It's impossible, I mean, you get a pimple in the morning, you wake ...

Thinking about writing isn't writing. Planning to write isn't writing. Neither is talking about it, posting about it, or complaining how hard it is. These ...

I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work. People need money, ...

I said he kissed me. Really kissed me. It rocked me to my soul. It was brutal. It was brilliant. It was horrible. I thought ...

But you can tell he's a wizard, because he's got a pointy hat with a floppy brim. It's got the word "Wizzard" embroidered on it ...

Carrying little Kunta in his strong arms, he walked to the edge of the village, lifted his baby up with his face to the heavens, ...

If you're ever if you're ever thinking, "Oh, but I'm a waste of space and I'm a burden," remember: that also describes the Grand Canyon. ...

The California supreme court, following the English common-law, decided that the owner of land bordering a watercourse was entitled only to the usufruct of the ...

All writers start out mimicking other writers. I've never relinquished that. I have a good ear for speech and writing patterns.

Once your get your hopes up, your mind starts acting on its own. And when your hopes are dashed you get dissapointed, and dissapointment leads ...

Good job, Ambrose," Wilem said sarcastically. "You caught him. He stole your fire." One of the onlookers chimed in, "Yeah, make him put it back!

Waste is any human activity which absorbs resources but creates no value. - James P. Womak and Daniel T. Jones, ...

I know we were kids at Brown. But there's no one I've met before you, or since, who even came close to completing my heart. ...

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. ...

Against snow, a tall Beautiful Being. Whistlings of death and circles of muffled music make this adored body rise, swell and tremble like a ghost; ...

And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with ...

Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the enemy, but know ...

I finally had what I'd wantes all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was ...

Don't get smart or sarcastic He snaps back just like elastic Spare us the theatrics and the verbal gymnastics We break wise guys just like ...

Like ageism and sexism, lookism was everywhere, resulting in the good-looking getting the best jobs, winning all the plaudits, being let off the most parking ...

I would say courage first; then wisdom, which is a sense of knowledge and confidence; and also the wish and desire to uplift. The underlying ...

Jelle, if you really love Guji, you'd be willing to let him go and allow him to be happy with the woman he loves. Walang ...

Now, your mother and I made a deal when we first got married that if either one of us ever watched the 'wunnerful, wunnerful' Lawrence ...

An' writin' even goes on sayin' a man's wurds after he's deid! Ye cannae tell me that's right!

So much of what folks want in the world turns out to be just a thing they say. Words change the way you feel for ...

Its not greener on the other side of the fence, its just a different shade of brown over there. Be happy with who you are ...

Turning your heart's desires into actions is what counts most.

It all comes down to who's by your side.