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We must love those close to us, all the time, every day. Moments only happen once. Make them matter.
The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war ...
I dropped my dress to the floor and sat on the sofa with renewed determination. This man was going to have sex with me whether ...
Tom read, - "Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.""Them's good words, enough," said the ...
That's why I drove there in the middle of February, patches of snow still on the fields. I had the strong feeling that somewhere between ...
Am I a hypocrite?" I ask. "You're a black girl who fell in love with a white boy." "And a black girl who cares about ...
It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided ...
My family is a Jewish Iranian family, but I was born in Turkey and raised in Italy. So it's a very mixed background.
The world's most funniest and easiest thing is to give an advice ...
The best form of respect is self respect. Give it to yourself and others will see that you won't settle for anything less.
A child, when it begins to speak, learns what it is that it knows.
POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of ...
Those words are from Lynda Barry's novel 'Cruddy.' I've carried them with me for some time. There's a lot in my life I wasn't expecting. ...
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 ...
Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.
No man who worships education has got the best out of education ... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
When you get a lot of money thrown at you, you can make some dumb decisions without the right advice.
They say that family is the place of safety. But sometimes this is the greatest lie; family is not sanctuary, it is not safety and ...
One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree.
I have a foolproof device for judging whether a picture is good or bad. If my fanny squirms, it's bad. If my fanny doesn't squirm, ...
A lot of my songs are about death and the fleetingness of life. It just feels good to remind myself about that a lot. For ...
Sometimes you have to learn how to give the right answer to the wrong question.
The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but ...
My joy. That was a great day in my life! Your time is too valuable to worry about pleasing everyone else or making them happy. ...
I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going ...
If no love is, O God, what fele I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from ...
I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.
Life is sad.......when you are living it alone.
Shame on you. Don't tell me you've been married for an hour and you've already got eyes for another woman.
There have been those among us who have been so dazzled by the might and technological wizardy of Europe that they have been rather a ...
WarGames had been one of Halliday's all-time favorite movies. Which was why I had watched it over three dozen times.
When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.
I'm going to Hell in a basketWeaved in from my sinsLike wickerWith little Wiccan tiesAs if I'm a witchAccused
During breakfast there is something I cannot resist, apart from my boyfriend - it's actually the phone. I have a phone breakfast. Always. I call ...
Withstanding the cold develops vigor for the relaxing days of spring and summer. Besides, in this matter as in many others, it is evident that ...
BORN: 1856 George Bernard Shaw (Man and Superman, Major Barbara), Dublin 1894 Aldous Huxley (Brave New World, Crome Yellow), Godalming, England DIED: 1934 Winsor McCay
I think Adrian really likes you. Like, in a wanting-to-be-serious way."I shook my head and stepped back. "Nope. He likes me in a wanting-to-get-the-clothes-off-the-cute-dhampir way.
You are my wickedest mischievous sisters, most beloved friends of my mind. - Esme from Sister Mischief
Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn't have. Maybe there's a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me ...
A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according ...
Are you already drunk?" "No. Just ... in a weird mood." And it's true. I feel unsteady like if I stop moving I'll crack and ...
[Suffering] brings out graces that cannot be seen in a time of health. It is the treading of the grapes that brings out the sweet ...
And what is life without the company of wine, women and good weather.
So here are reasons why I talk to strangers: because I never know what might happen, because the world is full of surprises; because the ...
I spent most of my youth hauling sides of beef and pork to my father's shop. Carrying you is far more enjoyable.""How sweet," Annabelle mumbled ...
It's false. There is absolutely no evidence that extreme weather events are on the increase. None. The argument that more and more dollar damages accrue ...
Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.
The best thing about me is that I am generally very honest - not hurtfully honest, but honest. The worst thing about me is that ...
We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.
The dumber people think you are, the most surprised they're going to be when you kill them.
The evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor-apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady, when an elderly-man ...
Cinna slid down the bar, sassing three groomsmen andwinking at a fourth on her way."I totally get why some animals eat their young," Pepper said.
Do not have expectations. We humans are created imperfect, which means that we have flaws
But as a wise and great teacher once explained so patiently, all good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your nature, ...
As a producer, the most important call you can get is on Saturday morning, when the Friday-night grosses come in. As a director, you want ...
Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer ...
Here march the eaters of earth, the swallowers of rain.
It's alright to do things the way you want. There is no map to life, no blueprints to survival, you can create your world day ...
Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible? ... Is ...
There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with ...
I can't shut my brain off. It's like a hamster wheel." ~ Justin
When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened ...
You came to talk about the play," he said. "Let me discourage you. It was written to entertain people. Like horror movies. It isn't literature, ...
In every contest, there comes a moment that separates winning from losing. The true warrior understands and seizes that moment.
The woman tried to teach Winnet her language, and Winnet learned the words but not the language.
In sport, there is always room for improvement. Whenever I see my innings against the West Indies or Australia, I think, 'Maybe, I could have ...
A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone. -Traditional Chinese Proverb
I just know that when I'm walking on the wafer-thin ice of happiness, I'm terrified, so terrified that I wish it was over, that I ...
I love beauty. But I like the beauty accidentally, not dished up, served up on a platter.
The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members. ...
It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertivelywhich means to live authenticallyis an act of high courage. That is why so ...
I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, ...
A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the ...
If you want to become a fossil, you actually need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the ...
I'm a cartoonist, it's what I am at heart, so cartoons take reality and deform it and make it grotesque, you make it funny, but ...
The worst feeling in the world is the feeling of your heart breaking from the person who mend it in the first place.
I am completing a book I began back in 2002 called 'Poems in the Manner of.' 'The Matador of Metaphor' is from this manuscript. It ...
What you get is the opening of your mind. I'm not preaching any new religion; I'm ritualizing everyday activities. You drink the water. You count ...
Time is eating away my memory. Time, and this illness, this trespasser in my brain.
I feel like today should be a perfect Meatball day ... Let's just get wastey-pants!
There's going to come a time when we won't speak for days on end." "There won't." "There will. Every parent thinks it will never happen ...
Our character is our will; for what we will we are.
It was tied with a Windsor knot. Bond mistrusted anyone who tied his tie with a Windsor knot. It showed too much vanity. It was ...
We are not facing China alone; we are facing China together with a lot of other people in the region.
If you are a Rothschild, a Rosenwald, a Gimbel, or even a Waldbaum, growing up Jewish can be a rich experience. For the rest of ...
Two thousand years from now they'll still be hearing about Elvis Presley.
But the suit I wear is my work attire, and nothing else.
In the bustling of the cities, forever surrounded by people and their chatter, we stand alone; an island of humanity. Build your raft, that you ...
By the time you are in your thirties, most of the time, you've got a job, you can pay for your rent, you can create ...
Nothing unleashes curiosity in an audience like good storytelling. Nothing inspires storytelling, in turn, like the results of curiosity.
Jesus was too smart to ever run for public office ... that's what Jesus would do.
Somebody waits for the time I know will never comeYou get yourself so highThen you come down feeling blueOne day you'll wake up and realize ...
I always have Giorgio Armani's Luminous Silk Foundation, Bobbi Brown's Jenna lipstick, and my Estee Lauder Double Wear Concealer.
He'd been prowling this bedchamber every night, driven wild by the knowledge only two oaken doors and some fifty paces of wainscoted corridor lay between ...
The more space you allow and encourage within a relationship, the more the relationship willflourish.
When I retire, I want to step away on a positive note. What you put out into the world comes back to you. You actually ...
I never lifted a weight in my life. Why am I going to do steroids? That's not going to do me any good. We didn't ...
Thus the skilful general conducts his army just as though he were leading a single man, willy-nilly, by the hand.
I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery.
But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat, "we're all mad here. I'm mad. ...