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Mocking precedes learning the hard way.

Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.

I always love it whenever Rose delivers one of her witty one-liners - particularly when it's a completely serious situation. The contrast always amuses me, ...

The Lord Jesus sits in heaven, ruling over all, and causing all things to work for his children's good.

The word "miss" is so wistful. As is the word "wistful," for that matter. They both have sighs embedded in them, that "iss" sound. Which ...

Write what your heart tells you to write. How you feel it should be written. Some people won't get it, and that's okay.

The Self in you is the same as the Self Universal. Whatever powers are manifested throughout the world, those powers exist in germ, in latency, ...

Sam gave Captain Suicide a droll stare. How did you die again? Oh wait, I know this. 'I can take 'em. I don't need to ...

Thou rising Sun! thou blue rejoicing Sky! Yea! every thing that is and will be free! Bear witness for me, whereso'er ye be, With what ...

Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.

Hungries toggle between two states. They're frozen in place most of the time, just standing there like they're never going to move again. Then they ...

Spend more time with people who bring out the best in you.

I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.

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 ...

The news that Daisy Miller was surrounded by half a dozen wonderful mustaches checked Winterbourne's impulse to go straightway to see her.

Of course I didn't take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present. It was her birthday and would I have got married during ...

With a fixed mindset, you believe you are who you are and you cannot change. This creates problems when you're challenged because anything that appears ...

So long, Geralt. Look after yourself." The witcher's smile was surly. "I prefer to look after others. It turns out better in the long run." ...

So why did I think about her every second? Why was I so much happier the minute I saw her? I felt like maybe I ...

The adjacent shores resounded with the alternate shouts of the sons of liberty and the groans of their parting spirits.

Sleep deficit and an anemic pocketbook dictate my erratic lifestyle.

Victory isn't defined by wins or losses. It is defined by effort. If you can truthfully say, 'I did the best I could, I gave ...

And you can use that sword, Weland Godfredson?""As a woman can use her tongue, lord.""You're that good, eh?" Ragnar asked, as ever unable to resist ...

The trouble with running is wherever you run to, there you are.

What could have John Edwards' motivations been to have the affair with Rielle Hunter, given his wife is smarter than he is and probably nagging ...

... .watch me rise like smoke from fire.Watch me fly above your hate.Watch me dance upon your meannesslike a ballerina with posture; grace.Watch me laugh ...

She bit her lower lip hard and blinked her eyes. There was such wistfulness and longing in his voice. Oh, she was going to give ...

It's not unusual for people to like Florida in the winter. I'm not a great tourist. I like coming down to work.

Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.

I'm afraid of needles, except acupuncture needles.

Ask him what time it is and he'll tell you how the watch was made.

Many handis make light warke.

It's so internalized, the way your mind works in relation to anything - it's a process, but then it isn't. It's working all the time.

If I had a long-term partner, I don't think I'd be an actor. It'd be too much of a strain; you have to work too ...

I never take myself too seriously.

You women, always trying to rush straight to sex. Whatever happened to romance?

All men fall under 5 categories: The assholes are by far the worst. Then there are the dumbasses, the smartasses, the sorryasses, and last but ...

Reggie, you wrapped your sports car around a telephone pole after drinking a bar." "Yeah... But I was wearing my seatbelt.

In any case, I wrote, I've decided to make myself strong. As far as I can tell, that's all I can do.

I'd ridden to school with Link every day since kindergarten, when we became best friends after he gave me half his Twinkie on the bus. ...

Talk is cheap when your words are of no value

It lies like a leper in purple, it sits like a dead thing smeared with gold.

Everyone keeps looking on their defects. It's not like everyone's perfect, we all are are ugly and at the same time beautiful. It's just how ...

I am proud to find, from two astronomical observations, that Chapel Hill lies right in the orbit of Jupiter and his satellites, and that the ...

I don't know what kind of life you had, what sorts of joys and sorrows you experienced. But even if there was something that left ...

We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real ...

Life does exist. It's the purpose that count.

Their eyes meet and her heart starts flopping around weakly, like a bunny in a Ziploc bag. He grins and waves.

And that's it; that's why I want to teach; that's the one and only compensation: to make a permanent difference in the life of a ...

It's strange to play outdoors, especially in the daytime. But we're figuring it out. The rules are different for festival shows - how you talk ...

Being receptive to what is happening around me gives me inspiration and feeds my desire to create.

Some days I am more wolf than woman, and I am still learning how to stop apologizing for my wild.

If we go to Frankfurt together it won't be long, I'm sure, before I love you. I'm not like you; it takes me longer than ...

In the spiritual journey, you cannot be a wine taster, you have to become a drunk.

I fire people that win gold medals, great champions, everything else, and, you know, it's not - it's not easy. People say oh well it ...

People who are tired of K Street corruption and Wall Street greed are ready for Main Street Values.

The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.

Oh, who would choose to be a traveler? That anxious railway-guide unravelerWho spends his nights in berths and bunks,His days in chaperoning trunks;Who stands in ...

After so many years of whispery, DIY vocals, there's this new generation of voices that are really starting to burst through the seams.

Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads to ...

Having financial independence does not increase one's chances of independent, artistic creation whatsoever. Our conditioned behavior toward mimicry for the sake of market forces is ...

Unpaid internships are worse than slavery," Gabby said. I looked at her, unsure of what she meant. "They make us work ridiculous hours, for free, ...

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

The Justice Department needs to investigate how Goldman Sachs was able to steer things in such a manner through their former employees in the Bush ...

Aye, wumman, if it's truly romantic, then it must be Scottish,

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

To me, every fundamentalist Muslim, no matter how peaceable in his own behavior, is part of a murderous movement and is thus, in some fashion, ...

[ ... ] when it's a question of wahre Liebe, true love, the beloved hardly matters.

I would like to hook up with one of the great Japanese filmmakers, like the master that made 'Ringu,' and I would like to take ...

One thing that's paramount in my life is that I am alone. I'm a loner. And yet I have many friends and I don't feel ...

It's when you have friends that you can afford to be lonely. When you know a lot of people, loneliness becomes a luxury. It's only ...

What are you waiting for tomorrow to do? To get done? To achieve? To start? Where your good intentions are disconnecting from the actions you ...

It's too hard to explain. I can't say why I love the book. I just do. You don't pick the books you fall in love ...

When sleepy, meditate with your eyes open wide. Stand in place for a few minutes or do walking meditation. If it's really bad, walk briskly ...

All things in this world are historical.

I used to imagine that if I got up early enough in the morning and went to Pebbly Beach, I'd find my special someone walking ...

Nothing can stop the words so well as the mute alphabet of knit and purl. The curl of your cupped hand scoops up long drinks ...

I never really had novel-writing instruction like people do in MFA programs.

Of course it would be hard. But I remembered what my nurseryman grandfather used to say when I didn't want to go to school: half ...

Salvation is not a divine transaction that takes place because you are morally perfect, but much more is an organic unfolding, a becoming who you ...

A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, ...

"If it were a dog, it would have bitten you already." Actual Twents: "At e ne hond was, dan e oew allange ebettene." Meaning: Said ...

Through heaven and earthGod's will moves freely, and I follow it,As color follows light. He overflowsThe firmamental walls with deity,Therefore with love; His lightnings go ...

There. Maybe if you're lucky, you'll get a scar! That's what you want, isn't it?

If you want to cry go ahead. Son, there are just some time in a man's life when he has to let it out.

We seek to craft characters who inspire empathy: characters our audience will care for and, as a result, will care about what happens to them ...

Joy is not a requirement of Christian discipleship, it is a consequence. It is not what we have to acquire in order to experience life ...

Okay, Troy ... you're right. I'll take care of your baby for you ... cause ... like you say ... she's innocent ... and you ...

It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the islands, to have ...

Somewhere a woman is praying her toddler wins a beauty pageant. I say this because sometimes people wonder why God lets tornadoes happen.

My mother didn't find motherhood easy. I've heard her saying that. She didn't breastfeed me. I woke up when I was breastfeeding my own child ...

Do you earn for others to burn? Why not GIVE as you LIVE, so that when you die, the world will cry.-RVM

...time is not a willing captive. The days pass too soon, slipping through my fingers like sand. I grab for a moment, only to find ...

Let's see, today is Thor's Day the sixteenth." "You mean Thursday?" "That's what I said. The island will rise on the full moon six days ...

Society just doesn't care about young people anymore, even if we are the future.

Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.

For me," he said. It came out as a cross between a choked growl and a whimpher. It was shocked, and it was possessive. Full ...

Does anything really matter? We all end up in the same place. All that's left is our Wikipedia entry.

Furthermore, worrying about people and problems doesn't help. It doesn't solve problems, it doesn't help other people, and it doesn't help us. It is wasted ...

People don't want to watch a sport where you see people fall down and somehow score above someone who goes clean.