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A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a ...
It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners ...
Mostly, I'm drawn to great characters and great worlds that use weird things for their language - whether it's dance, whether it's pop music with ...
What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he ...
I had no sense of any reputation that What a Carve Up! might acquire - at the time I didnt even have a publisher, so ...
Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life.
And when the war broke out, its real horrors, its real dangers, its menace of real death were a blessing compared with the inhuman reign ...
The day after the Oscars, I flew back to London to film a television play for Anglia. It was a big mistake because you never ...
Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about."Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered desk ...
Please don't speak Igbo to him,' Aunty Uju said. 'Two languages will confuse him.''What are you talking about, Aunty? We spoke two languages growing up.''This ...
Celebrity is very weird.
Lord, when I feel that what I'm doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that everything I do is significant and important in ...
When a friend is sick, I see the situation for what it is, not what it isn't, and I offer to help as much as ...
My voice grows even smaller. 'Because I thought no one could love me.' 'And why did you think that?''Because I didn't think I was worth ...
Perhaps that same concept applied to people as well. Did we love them more when we knew their full story? How they came to be ...
You stupid jackass," Ian said."Who's got the crush on a worm, bro? You gonna call me stupid?
The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody.
I'm not holding Hitler up as a role model, the man was a filthy swine, but as I stood in the suspicious glare of my ...
Success, for me, is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter ...
The point of feminism ... is to win women a wider range of experience. Feminism remains a pretty simple concept, despite repeated - and enormously ...
Napoleon was asked, "Who do you consider to be the greatest generals?" He responded saying, "The victors.
I work out and go to the gym, but I still enjoy my soul food and snacks. But I'm a pretty petite young woman, and ...
We learn most not from all of the things that go right. We learn most when everything goes wrong.
I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy ...
There's like ten minutes when it's like, 'Okay, wait, who is this guy again?' And then, you know, I just put on the calculator watch ...
My workout regimen at the moment is nonexistent. I wake up in the morning and brush my teeth. My toothbrush and deodorant are my only ...
I ran straight into the wooden fence at the foot of the field. I was lucky that it had been a rail fence, rather than ...
I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
To turn off your phone when you go to your country house or you're on vacation for a few days is important. I turn off ...
I don't need a boyfriend to be happy. If I meet someone and I want to be with him, then I will be. I'm very ...
Pullum has special vitriol for Elements of Style, which he calls "E. B. White's disgusting and hypocritical revision of William Strunk's little hodgepodge of bad ...
Of course, it's wonderful to film any period piece - but especially 'Foyle's War' because the art direction is so imaginative and yet at the ...
In community we are called to care for each member of the community. We can. Choose our friends but we do not choose our brothers ...
Consciousness-Based Education is just plugging us all into the beautiful, eternal field within, and then watching things get better, which is what happens. It's a ...
We don't lose our loved ones when they die. We gain guardian angels. - Tanya Masse aka Comic Strip Mama
When you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you'll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you.
Yeah. I'm pretty sure I spent a good part of the day making everyone uncomfortable as I stalked Anna, trailing her through Patti's house. And ...
But I'll tell you what I do wish. Wish we could live twice, take a different path each time. That at the end of all ...
Singing still brings me tremendous joy, the reception you get and you never know what people are going to share with you after the event.
Walking around a slum in a third world country quickly puts into perspective what really matters in life. It grounds you in a way that ...
I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I ...
In the long history of male and female relations all the way back to the Garden, I can't think of one in which a woman's ...
Life goes on, even when you think it shouldn't. In the morning, the sun will come up, no matter how hard you wish for it ...
Oh Lord, I've been so selfish, so consumed with myself I haven't been able to see anyone else's pain but my own. I've let anger ...
As they climbed into their saddles, Myron bowed his head and muttered a soft prayer."There," Hadrian told Royce, "we've got Maribor on our side. Now ...
Isn't a normal night. It's the kind of evening remembered in history books. You know history, which only winners write, and forge it the way ...
It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in ...
When you - when someone dies in your family and you think you're over it, and then you wake up in the morning and it ...
A lot is gained through experience, but experience teaches some and not others. Effectiveness and excellence, whether or not they were attained by simply having ...
As my late mother famously observed, the one thing to be said for growing old is that every year there are a few more things ...
God help the man who ever really loves you.
Parents do tend to judge each other. I don't know why. Maybe because none of us really know what we're doing? And I guess that ...
Sometimes," she said, "two people pass each other by, look into each other's eyes for a moment, and all that's left is a wish. A ...
When i ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, i can feel the Spirit whisper to me, 'you ...
That is a Medieval way of drawing history, in which they do not respect the law and want the rest of the world to respect ...
Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries that Thou hast done to me.Therefore turn and draw.
Annika called back, "Never would I give my daughter to a dog." Good luck with that one, Lachlain.
When you commit your life to something and it doesn't work out, it is a tough place to be. Suicide can be the spiritual reprieve ...
I don't avoid trends. You do definitely want to be on-trend, but I do like to pick and choose the things that I'm seeing. And ...
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, ...
Maybe love is a risk, but it's a risk I'm willing to take and as you said, it's not a choice. I never thought I ...
Life, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to read bad books.
I married the perfect girl. I married the girl who could have done so much better and took me anyway. I married a woman who ...
She told me of your two chief faults, your vanity, and your being, as she termed it, "all wrong about money". I have a distinct ...
Ya wanna be an artist? Make art!
She says screens are the cigarettes of our age. They're toxic, and we're only going to realize the damage they're doing when it's too late.
The mind and body are not separate units, but one integrated system. How we act and what we think, eat, and feel are all related ...
The warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped up - flaked up, with rose-water snow.
In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any ...
The spark lies within us, somewhere deep within! Once you find it, that will illuminate the whole path you travel, all lives upon your way ...
I want to be with you. By your side. I don't want us to have to hide, but I understand. Doesn't mean I agree with ...
We aren't heroes out there in the military. We're just Patriots.
Here's my theory: If a person gets worldwide fame at a young age, they're emotionally frozen at that moment. For me, that's 15 to 18, ...
Today the world is a big jungle.
I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter.
With United, we'd all grown up together, we all wanted to win the biggest trophy in football. We did it togther.
If you can believe that you can do it, the whole universe will conspire to help you.
Neither one of us could be sure we'd get our money back on this investment, but we just wanted to have company of our own ...
Just because you leave someone doesn't mean you ever let them go. Even when you couldn't see me, you knew deep down I was still ...
It's easy to wish for health when you're sick. When you're doing well, you need just as much vigilance.
Keep moving. Have a goal, One day you will arrive at a place that is better than the place where you were, even if it ...
Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won't rain forever. You just have to sit down and watch it ...
Emily wondered whether Artie would be so carefree if he knew The Book Club was performing grand theft imagination.
When the pace of our feet matched perfectly, I felt a deep inner pang of satisfaction. I could have gone on walking like that forever, ...
CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she's strong and successful. Men admire her because she ...
You lose, you smile, and you come back the next day. You win, you smile, you come back the next day.
Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desparate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching.
I have to trust people. There's no system of controls that can replace trust, so I need to reinforce that trust, and part of reinforcing ...
On my first album I was wearing a lot of guys pants, baggy clothes and stuff like that. I was 17 and I was a ...
One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. ...
No, the Scriptures were not given to us to confuse us but rather to instruct us. Certainly God intends that we should believe His Word ...
The student who elects to risk it all - which is nothing - to establish an online video rental service that delivers $5,000 per month ...
Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.
We must meet the challenge rather than wish it were not before us.
The only certainty we have is that those who are certain of a way to arrive at worldly salvation, are committed enough to organize around ...
Each day is a journey. We come out of the night into the day. All creativity awakens at this primal threshold where light and darkness ...
All through that winter and into the spring, when our Tuesday and Thursday-night dinner shifts were done, Matt and I would sit at the long ...
I do not agree with a big way of doing things. What matters is the individual. If we wait till we get numbers, then we ...
Some people think that nothing moves in this world without leave of the woman. Do not know more, but I can say that war never ...