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Celebrate your success and stand strong when adversity hits, for when the storm clouds come in, the eagles soar while the small birds take cover.
There are many ways you can make money. Certain ways will make you happy, certain other ways will make other people happy. But if you ...
Sometimes I dream that I'm working; that's awful. When you awaken after a big, surprising dream, you feel it's very interesting. When you sit and ...
It is the greatest folly that is in Babel for people to strive about religion, so that they contend vehemently about opinions of their own ...
To be cautious, one should not take high confidence as any absolute guarantee of anything.
For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.
Workable solutions for Earth are urgently needed. Saving seals and tigers, or fighting yet another oil pipeline through a wilderness area, while laudable, is merely ...
I wouldn't apply myself at school. I was quite bright, but I didn't do much with it, and I thought acting was dressing up and ...
To prevent a crippling attack on our nation's critical networks, U.S. companies and the federal government must work together to combat those who wish to ...
Nelson once said that love of his country served him for a greatcoat.
The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of ...
Blessed Stars, please make this world into a place where we will never again be forced to kill an enemy whom we cannot hate. Were ...
I'm never going to get tired of finding you looking at me that way. Like you have to have me right now."She laughed, then looked ...
Trees have feelings too, and no one ever says 'hi' to them. Next time you're outside and see a tree, say 'hello'.
I was, like, a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used ...
Do you think too long a period of nightlessness," mused Sandra, "could drive you insane, the way they say sleeplessness can?
Growing up, I used to watch 'Happy Days,' 'Laverne & Shirley,' 'All in the Family.' Those were the shows I watched growing up with my ...
It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved by anyone again.
Cultivate the habit of setting clearly-defined written goals; they are the road maps that guide you to your destination.
Having been familiar with "drunk" once or twice myself, that lick just came to me - and yeah, it sounded very drunk, so I presented ...
When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Unless some terrible catastrophe has occurred the night ...
Obviously, it's a great privilege and pleasure to be here at the Yale Law School Sesquicentennial Convocation. And I defy anyone to say that and ...
The future will belong to the nature-smart-those individuals, families, businesses, and political leaders who develop a deeper understanding of the transformative power of the natural ...
But no matter how advanced the system, no matter how precise, unless we have the willto communicate, there's no connection.
I love cooking. I like to make lasagna - it's authentic Italian-style. I also do a great chicken recipe for a barbecue.
I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around from this set ...
Our current political system ensures not that the worst will get on top - though they often do - but that the best will never ...
I'm a little kid at heart, so my eyes light up when everything is lit.
Go God's way! His is the most reliable route to follow when life gets complicated. It will have its tough moments, but you will never ...
Lately. It's a bitch, huh?" "Yeah, it's a bitch.
He led her to the bedroom, he took off her clothes, without a word, in the manner of an owner undressing a person whose consent ...
Any point of view reflects some side of truth and must not claim that it is complete
I just feel like the world is our oyster. I grew up knowing that my mother is a journalist and was one of the first ...
The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.
My own path towards wellness has been a long and dynamic one. It's taught me that healing from the inside out takes time and there ...
When a daughter loses a mother, the intervals between grief responses lengthen over time, but her longing never disappears. It always hovers at the edge ...
Wine is to women as duct tape is to men, it fixes EVERYTHING!
Closely - you can't have a front without a back, you can't have an up without a down, and I'm not sure you can have ...
It is easy to overlook the thought that life just is. As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point.We have ...
Until Henry Ford saw the chance to get free publicity (making Sub-chasers) he thought submarines were something to eat.
Inflation, being a fraudulent invasion of property, could not take place on the free market.
Your happy destiny is unavoidable. You cannot be "saved." There is no hell except not knowing this.
The Christian ... imagines the better future of the human species ... in the image of heavenly joy ... We, on the other hand, will ...
It just didn't feel right to let my child scream and holler and thrash by her little self in the dark in her crib when ...
It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.
It is true that you get what you tolerate.
Wicked eyes are not a good prospect for seminary boys. They want a gentle, soft sort of wife, not a wife who looks as though ...
We live, we die, and the wheels on the bus go round and round.
...maybe that's why this all went wrong. Like fate saying 'hey, you rush me so I'll fuck up everything for you guys.
In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
The outside world is just a bad habit of the so-called nervous system.
Programmers work in bursts of productivity. Then, they let the brain rest and get back into it. A lot about the office world is not ...
I blessed the power which has filled my life with poetry.
We met when we were almost young
But I am a writer, and I deal in words, and I need to have them spelled out for meprecisely.
Love yourself and watch - Today, tomorrow, always. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing - Straighten yourself.
Nothing else need be said between them. No words or platitudes uttered. No fears or sins confessed. He saw absolution in her eyes. Understanding. Acceptance.And ...
There was a uniqueness to the American case of slavery. 10 million people, a conservative estimate, were brought to America ... hundreds of people were ...
Whether true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and particularly on their destinies, as what they ...
What man seeks, to the point of anguish, in his gods, in his art, in his science, is meaning. He cannot bear the void. He ...
There's a chill in the air that feels like winter, or at least the start of it. This is my least-favorite time of year because ...
During a recent press conference, former President Jimmy Carter said he could never run for president today because he doesn't have a lot of money. ...
Nobody likes practice, but whats worse: practicing or sucking at something? ... Oh give me a fucking break, practicing is NOT worse than sucking.
{Y}ou make do with what you're given, and I've spent a good many years learning to write fine-sounding sentences so that I can hide behind ...
Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.
If you look at 'Doctor Who,' it's a Time Lord in a blue box who travels around the universe. It's a silly concept, but it's ...
No, Alina. You came here for Ravka. For the firebird. To lead the Second Army." He tapped the sun over his heart. "I came here ...
The reality that the (intellectually disabled) person is a version of myself is one from which so much can be learned and gained, and yet, ...
Everything alive must die. Every building built to the sky will fall. Don't try to tell me my everlasting love is a lie.
The like factor is a great thing. Love cannot burn constantly. It's very hard for it to be so intense. But it's wonderful.
I was famously in love with a woman who had no time to spare, not even a breath, for she dwelled in a place beyond ...
And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race. ...
Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
There are no small churches, just small people.
If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.
Smack me if we ever get that awful.""But I smack you so often," she said, "how will you know that's what I'm smacking you for?""We ...
I have a lot of insecurities, but you learn from your failures.
The biggest and grandest adventure in life is life itself.
The Washington Redskin fan base represents honor, represents respect, represents pride.
A purpose directed disciplined action always bring success.
If you will stop feeding your feelings, then they will stop controlling you.
Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and ...
As she sustained wound after wound ... the fairy should have fallen, but instead, she danced. This was Titania, the Fairy Queen.
1,2,3, I'm at the Chelsey Hotel, like, Sid and Nancy, with knife, and two grams of candy
Maybe you're the one that gave me up to the Darians at Oden's Ford.""Right," she said, staring up at the ceiling. "And then I turned ...
Whenever you're talking about meaning, basically ... I think a lot of the human experience has to do with trying to understand what things mean, ...
I don't write fiction but I do write narrative; I write memoirs that I treat like stories, so whenever I'm using somebody I actually know ...
I love being outdoors and think a tan is very sexy. I'll lie out on white towels strewn with pillows. I don't like to hide ...
The morale when I came in was not the best. It was because the agency had not been valued.
So many people seem to me not to be either bad or good, but simply, you know, very silly. Mr.
This world was made to be cloaked in gray.It wouldn't feel natural if the sun shone brightly all the time.
One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole ...
Have you ever had the experience of finding in a book some vague idea that's already occurred to you, some obscure image that comes back ...
At thirty I lived in a world where death wasn't immediately real; it was always something "out there." My deeply held illusions of immortality - ...
The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring.
My novel is about the history of the world, told from the point of view of a column of stone. (from "Wherein We Enter the ...
So I arrive at this definition of gratitude. Gratitude is a species of joy which arises in your heart in response to the goodwill of ...
Command responsibility sometimes meant having to make decisions based on incomplete information.
When it comes to food, we are, in essence, following an eating script that has been written into the circuits of our brains.