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It is true that I had wanted to die , but that is peculiarly different from regretting having been born. Overwhelmingly, I was enormously glad ...
We have some decisions to make. You'd just be going back and forth to his room to report when you might as well take all ...
Let me encourage you, if someone has wronged you, and you still get that cringing feeling on the inside when you see or think about ...
Why?" Why wouldn't he let her go? Why did he make her stay?She felt the brush of his lips over her hair."Because I need you.""You ...
The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.
Danny and I were sposed to go to his mother's house for Thanksgiving. Now what? What do I tell his mother?Well, not this. Mothers hate ...
Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.
You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I ...
I'm buying things for people I don't even know. I'm like Willy Wonka, but more manipulative. Imagine if Willy Wonka had a devious goal.
Don't worry about meaning. If a story's any good, it can't help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means.
People don't always give us full credit for our warm, fuzzy side, but it's definitely there. We just love to help.""Fuckin' Mother Teresa of the ...
Here we suffer grief and pain, Here we meet to part again; In Heaven we part no more.
For I chase but one hind, he says, one strange deer timid and wild, and she leads me off the paths that other men have ...
Hanna Krall's book Shielding the Flame drew on the experience of Dr. Marek Edelman, who before he died in 2009 was the sole survivor of ...
What kind of shapeshifter has orange fur anyway?" "Weredingo." Now I'd seen everything. Well, at least he didn't steal my baby.
You feel like half of your life is a vacation when you go to these Barcelona music festivals and have all day to sound check ...
The Same organizing forces that have shaped nature in all her forms are also responsible for the structure of our minds.
I understood we used to be close. But they were like books i'd read two summer ago; I knew I'd liked them, but I couldn't ...
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if ...
Fashion is not an investment. If you wear a dress and don't get many compliments, you won't wear it again. It's not like buying bonds.
We've got nine generations of farmers in my family, in Warwickshire. And I do feel connected to being a farmer's son. There was a time ...
Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.
The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I'd try to really write about what it feels like to have ...
All of us have areas of weakness. God wants these character flaws to show us how totally dependent we are upon Him. When we handle ...
There has been a change in heroes within the working-class community
If you eliminate the junk food, you don't really run the risk of gaining weight if you've got a good workout routine.
Leaders motivate people to understand that they can do better than they've already done and go farther than they've reached.
[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot.
If an angel could admit she was wrong about a vampire, maybe there was hope forthe werepanthers in East Hampton after all.
This isn't a religious book though I mention God, not a medical advisory though I speak of pain. It's a circus, a mortuary, a grade ...
At their most eloquent, proponents of neoliberalism sound as if they are doing poor people, the environment, and everybody else a tremendous service as they ...
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 ...
Seated alone by shadowy bamboos,I strum my lyre and laugh aloud;None know that I am here, deep in the woods;Only the bright moon comes to ...
I believe that, for those who love to write, time spent writing is never wasted. And then isn't it from book to book that we ...
Being a pro athlete doesn't mean you treat your body right, even though it's so important to what you do. Being a runner and training ...
Much insight into himself could have been gained from contemplation of these things, but Wintrow reined his mind away from it. Perhaps he did not ...
I think we all have to fight the werewolf within us somehow.
You believe me, don't you? You really do. Why do you believe me? Did Anechka do something to you? Now I owe you; and I ...
A big corporation is more or less blamed for being big; it is only big because it gives service. If it doesn't give service, it ...
We are all doomed to seek our own happiness; we can't help ourselves. We are all, the cruel and the gentle alike, condemned to seeking ...
I can't take any more white boys noodling around on their guitars.
When snooty high school bitches grow up, their meanness is distilled into its purest, most lethal form," Emmie whispered fearfully. "Don't you watch Real Housewives?
With our intimate partners, we can take responsibility for the parts of ourselves that are hardest to deal with - because we finally know ourselves ...
All friends are not for life, but if you have a true friend, you have a life.
The biggest test for any cricketer in England is the weather.
The Peninsula is what we have and there is no more where it came from.
We ain't got a lot, but we don't need anything. Covered in kisses, surrounded by love, showered with blessings from up above.
Don't try to prove to everybody that the reason why you can't is that nobody could. It's no excuse. You can break the tradition by ...
I remember Detroit feeling really unsafe, feeling scared a lot. Our house was broken into, our car was stolen, we had to get a watchdog, ...
Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.
People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.
For most of our young lives, my family was baffled by elementary school bake sales, to which we were told to bring in goodies to ...
There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldn't be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of ...
Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.
One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
What we now have in Iraq is a defeat.
It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that ...
I sighed. "Now what do I do?" He leaned against my wall. "What do you want to do?" "Since when has that mattered?" "It's always ...
I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to ...
We fixate on sins of commission: Don't do this, don't do that - and you're OK. But that is holiness by subtraction. And it's more ...
Death's not one of those things that frighten the life out of me. Getting up on stage with the curtain going up frightens me more.
At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of country music, a ...
I have not tolerated an atheist in the ranks of the SS. Every member has a deep faith in God, in what my ancestors called ...
I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying ...
LISTEN to the small, quiet voice within that only ever guides you with love and compassion. Let yourself receive the inspiration of beauty and kindness. ...
I hated Woody Woodpecker and Scooby-Doo, but I was a cartoon freak.
He was slumped in the back, gazing out of the window, as though his parents were two people who had picked him up hitchhiking, connected ...
From the mouths of our elders comes a fountain of wisdom.
Every credible scientist on earth says your products harm the environment. I recommend paying weasels to write articles casting doubt on the data. Then eat ...
Tsukuru couldn't fathom what this substance was. He couldn't accept or reject it. It merely settled on his body as a shadowy swarm, laying an ...
About 1998, when 'Wide World of Sports' and the 'Footy Show' came to an end for me, I couldn't type. When I started architecture, it ...
It's [Jack the Giant Slayer] one of those fairy tales your mom and dad read to you when you're little. Never once did I imagine ...
Me sins are great, and I'll burn for dem. But if ye never believe anyt'in' else, know dat I loved ye more den anyt'in'. Ye ...
I want to grow. I don't want to get stuck doing the same thing over and over and think I'm the best at it.
One first celebrates a 'silver jubilee', then a 'golden jubilee', then a 'diamond jubilee', but even then he goes back again into a pile of ...
You can look at a person's attitude and know what kind of thinking is prevalent in his life ... It's better to be positive and ...
Better to be strong than pretty and useless.
This decision will only strengthen the bond between women players and one of the world's great sporting events [on equal prize money at Wimbledon
So I'm at the wailing wall, standing there like a moron, with my harpoon.
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
Liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others.
He stops kissing, but his lips stay touching mine, lightly, like a feather would. "I'm bad for you, Sarah. I won't ever be the gentleman ...
Yes, the deficit doctors have their scalpels out all right, but they're not poised over the budget. That's as fat as ever and getting fatter. ...
Miz Ellen, what do you carry in that handbag of yours that has enough wallop to knock down a full-grown man? - Dan Landry
All perception and thought is relative, operating by comparison and contrast.
I don't need to touch a woman to possess her; I can reel in souls with a simple look, a light touch, a well-timed smile. ...
Will you ask God to bring you to the place where you're willing to be willing?
Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.
In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks ...
Father God, according to Your Word, without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to You must believe that You exist ...
That's called faith. Trusting God." His voice waffled. "We must be ready to hear from Him and respond, at any moment, no matter what the ...
Everything had kept getting less, they'd had to leave behind more and more baggage, or else it was taken from them, as though they were ...
It's a wonderful side effect of what we're doing, to give someone the strength to come out of the closet to their family, or simply ...
For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We have lost a ...
I have heard African lions roar and the hacksaw cough of leopards just outside my safari tent, but neither of these is as haunting, as ...
I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair.
I'm not good at living in the grim places ... when we did Gatsby, I lived in Claridges, that's where I wanted to live. I ...
The way we're going to win elections in this country is not to become Republican lite. The way we're going to win elections in this ...
Religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on.