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To me soldiers had appeared to become younger as the war went on, and Rudy was no exception to this [ ... ]. And like ...

You cannot tell a river in which direction it should flow, but you can steer your boat.

Every situation you conquer, you find the strength, your never knew you had.

If you are doing things the same way as two years ago, you are almost certainly doing them wrong.

You cannot!' Tatiana said sharply. 'If you order a gun there is only a single shot, and once delivered the doors are locked and will ...

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

My Lord, what love is this that pays so dearly. That I, the guilty one, may go free!

Everyone has a right to bear arms. If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who have guns are the ...

Once assumptions are set in play they tend to justify additional assumptions.

My apartment is infested with koala bears. It's the cutest infestation ever. Way better than cockroaches. When I turn on the light a bunch of ...

I jolt up, a scream lodged in my throat. Drops of sweat roll down my forehead and my throat hurts as if I've been screaming ...

If you really care about children then why would you want to keep families from adopting them?

How come when you wipe up dust it's called dusting but when you wipe up a spill it's not called spilling? There's something to think ...

Think of people as people, not problems that need to be solved.

Today is a new day for the land.

Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long ...

What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.

Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years ...

When we are young and restless to be free, home is the place from which we long to escape. But if there is still a ...

Jared was her son and the "co-general manager" of the Yankees - co meaning shares the title with someone who knows what he's doing because ...

The state of love is the state of grace. The development of that state and the unlocking of its mysteries brings one to the condition ...

It is not enough to just ride this earth. You have to aim higher, try to take off, even fly. It is our duty.

Actually, people with the fixed mindset expect ability to show up on its own, before any learning takes place.

The truth is that comic-book creators have simply lost the habit of telling stories to children. And how sad is that?

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

The walls were made of white stone, topped with preening angels

No one needs a first edition. Whoever wrote it; even if it was Moses.

Intrinsically, I'm the same person I was as a young lad, and I think I still have the optimism of life, still the same wants ...

He is loyal to you. It is his desire to be with you that drives him to these desperate schemes.

Something's died in me," she goes. "It took a long time for it to do it, but it's dead. You've killed something, just like you'd ...

Amy looked irritated. She wasn't irritated, but she sometimes liked to give him the impression she was, just to show him who was boss. 'Why ...

Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of convictionthat would not be anything to be deploredbut a weakness of conviction.

I've never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ...

Mother Very Easily Made Jam Sandwiches Under No Protest

The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact.

The very beautiful and very touching thing about opera singers is they are very willing to do whatever you want. Unlike actors, who constantly want ...

As' is the most difficult word in a Christian's life. We have to forgive 'as' we want to be forgiven.

She forgot the small detail of the business she wanted to engage him on. She enjoyed saying no to him, repeatedly. Refusal was probably a ...

Have no discrepancy between what you say, what you are and what you do.

When you're feeling down, sad, lonely, negative, you don't want to take care of yourself - and the weight problem and the diabetic problem and ...

I am from the Netherlands, so that means we like to stick to the rules, and we like to stick to the deal, and we ...

It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.

But sometimes mindless entertainment was a release of its own. Most important, mindless entertainment didn't come with complications.

Joseph [Millar] is much more disciplined than I am. He's up every morning meditating, then he writes, and he reads throughout the day. He probably ...

My uncle is so funny - Don Vito. He was always fat with the craziest voice. Dude, he barely speaks English; it's just full-blown jibber-jabber. ...

To swipe the immortal lines uttered by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, a great mystery should take the lid off life and let [you] ...

The body is a boat that carries the soul in the ocean of the world. If it is not strong, or it has a hole, ...

I love observing both vocally and by sight. So I take on a lot of those elements of people around me.

The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse ...

You are pure-hearted and lovely, and you have never done a moment's wrong. But you are a living creature, born to make a real life, ...

Sometimes the most important moments in your life can only be seen in the rearview mirror.

Even if I never registered my YouTube channel with the intention of being a role model, if I am that for somebody, I can't help ...

He had that York gift, didn't he?" he presses me. "Of making people love him? Like your father King Edward did? Like you have? It's ...

To be fully alive is to have an aesthetic perception of life because a major part of the world's goodness lies in its often unspeakable ...

When you first start singing something after you've written it, it has this sort of sparkle to it. And if you capture that, that's luck.

Knowledge is the beginning of practice; doing is the completion of knowing.

Just like the sea, she was turbulent and wild, angry and loving. She felt every sensation, but it was only here, with water around her, ...

Avain attempt to subdue that unsubduable country.

Had the poet said so in so many words, he would have been far less effective. Because, as I understand it, anything suggested is far ...

Without electricity, there can be no art.

To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a ...

It's the texture of New York that people miss by filming elsewhere. There are layers and layers of character - even in the pavement - ...

I got a gerontology certificate a million years ago along with my law degree, so I've been interested in older people for many years. Some ...

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.

I never doubted the issue from the beginning. I knew I was too good for Burns. I have forgotten more about fighting than Burns ever ...

For the few little successes I may seem to have, there are acres of misgivings and self-doubt.

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the reward ...

The only thing better than word of mouth is words of mouth. Give me at least two words.

At 8, I made a pact with God.

Northern Ireland is part of Ireland, not Britain, as can clearly be seen from aerial photographs.

Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.

There are some weird things (such as the Trinity, transubstantiation, incarnation) that we are not meant to understand. Don't even try to understand one of ...

It wasn't that I didn't feel like sharing. Mostly I just figured they couldn't do anything about it, so there was no point in worrying ...

You're hopeless dumbif you blindly tweet rumours and get ripped on-line.

Excitation of the instinct of appropriation at the sight of the weak: it is to be remembered, however, that " strong " and " weak ...

Another study notes about Bali: "Babies are encouraged to acquire quickly the capacity to sleep under any circumstances, including situations of high stimulation, musical performances, ...

My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.

It was easy to tell Jamie to move on, be happy with someone else. But she saw now that it would absolutely kill her to ...

The down side these days is thinking that, "I can do this all on my own". Yes, you can do this on your own but ...

Not only does American corn syrup run deep in our food - it also runs deep in our propaganda. ...

It is a settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute. The United States, while they wish ...

One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No 'poof.' No flash of light. ...

But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.

When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, youre in good shape.

It's the easiest thing in the world to be kind to someone, to show love, to forgive. You are born with this instinct - it ...

Nudity is a problem for Americans. It disrupts our social exchange.

Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.

I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy.

I'm both an artist / filmmaker and a human rights defender.

We're lucky to be making films. My crew and I have been working together for a long time. I think that that's what emanates.

You're like, a kick ass ninja of niceness.

The little people parted and two of them carried a tray with the head of an animal Wiggley Charlie didn't recognize down an aisle. (It ...

No one looks for pots of gold, it just happens. Sure, some people are born with an incredible financial ability, and some people are natural ...

When in reality she is waging a mild battle with that providential caution of the old earth of and with and by which she lives. ...

If you have a certain point of view and reasons that you think are valid, then whether it's pro or anti, you can only and ...

I had the vocation for politics. What I didn't have was any aptitude for political combat. I took the attacks personally, which is a great ...

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

No matter what transpires between us, in this life or in any other, I will be with you always. You really are my soul mate. ...

Yoga has had a profound effect on my songs and performances. I don't meditate in the traditional style of sitting and doing nothing. I prefer ...