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You can't move forward if you're still hanging on.
I wasn't saying you were heartbroken." I sound like English is a new language for me, the way I stutter out the words. "I just ...
The idiot had shot their own dog. That's what happened when the destructive potential of a man's weapons exceeded his intelligence.
For a moment, he was relaxed and mindless, drifting peacefully, and then his identity returned to him lazily, like an unwanted afterthought.
He that lives not well one yeare, sorrowes seven after.[He that lives not well one year sorrows seven years after.]
Leaving senior year like: its hard to leave to you leave, then its the eased goddam thing you've ever done.
Three things are required of you: the wishes you made when you first knew the breadth of this life; the contract you signed when you ...
If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to ...
Clarity of vision is a thing much prized. I find when you turn that clear sight upon yourself - and see through to the truth ...
The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.
Though my stories aren't autobiographical, I do sometimes use things from my life.
I'm not a birthday person. Maybe because I don't like to build expectations around that one day. You never know how it'll turn out to ...
In a time when it is common for chefs to simply reproduce the innovations of others, the few who speak for themselves through their food ...
Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.
If you have a big destiny, you're going to have to meet and face some big demons. But the good news is that your strength ...
In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil ...
I want to live like there's no tomorrow. Love like I'm on borrowed time. It's good to be alive.
The Internet, and the computers that made it possible, came from a rather dark place, much more missile than ballet, and they might yet return ...
Now, I don't make decisions as fast as I used to.
He looked up the stairs and then back to me. "You came out of nowhere." "No, I was on my way down too. You probably ...
He who goes questing for what he wants may discover, along the way, what he needs.
A child falls many times in attempt to walk. But never quit trying and eventually, the child is able to walk.
Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. ...
That the vegetable creation should restore the air which is spoiled by the animal part of it, looks like a rational system, and seems to ...
I cannot imagine not going home to animals. They are the closest thing to God; they don't harbor resentment. I wanted to be a vet ...
Most men wait to move until victory is guaranteed.
The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your ...
By now, the camouflage had become my skin. My friends wouldn't want to know. Who would want to know? I certainly didn't want to know. ...
You grow and learn a lot about the industry and what happens behind closed doors over the years.
I'm in the process of trying to find something that I could do on my own.
If there is no meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. ...
Attempting to succeed in a competitive external environment, we can lose track of how to live without anxiety.
I think the first time I realised 'Downton Abbey' was a hit was when I was sitting in a tea shop in New York and ...
Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean. (Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa ...
Much of the success of our thinking will depend upon just how we divide our big problems into subsidiary problems, and just what our subsidiary ...
Psychoanalysis seemed an expensive, slow working, unreliable tranquilizer. If LSD were really to do whatAlpert and Leary claimed for it, all psychiatrists would be out ...
The interesting thing is when you look at what people want to do on their phone, it's mail, weather, check stock quotes and news. That's ...
That's your pitch to women? Let's get naked?" He snorted. "No wonder your balls are blue.
I don't want any competition; I've finally made it! I don't want any young bucks knocking me off and taking my job, so stay in ...
Josh, do you know what my favorite thing is? she asked. I mean, my very favorite thing?I'm not sure.It's when the whole family comes for ...
The year the Sox finish in the first division will be the year you stop stuttering, mushmouth, Richie said.
No one is entitled to anything. Everything we get in this life we have worked for. And sometimes we take on baggage we never even ...
If I'm going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction.
I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. ...
Once upon a time, when I was young, his forgetting might have rendered my memory meaningless. I no longer require so much from life.
When I would see my friends with their kids, I was envious that you can use children to get out of just about anything. If ...
O memory, thou bitter sweet,both a joy and a scourge!
I think if it doesn't do what I say, if it doesn't do what I want, if it isn't politically subversive, if it isn't sexy, ...
You do not need to be different from who you are. You only need to be more of the person you already are.
In other periods of depression, it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope, but ...
There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every ...
If someone tells you that you can't do it then it actually means that they can't do it.
A free spirit is the master of its own universe.
Anything is easy to the man who sees ... The open eye of the open mindthat has more to do with real detective work than ...
A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
The problem with all politicians is that they are human.
Beware the cute, hot guy who kind of reminds you of the parent you don't get along with: your cold, distant father who left when ...
Our Body function in unity,to get things done.The body of the world, should learn from our body.
It just makes it even harder for people to even approach the (open source) side, when they then end up having to worry about public ...
Pretending to be someone you're not is like kissing a live grenade.It feels smooth with your eyes closed, but remember, brother, like it ornot, you're ...
Isn't it better when people are pleasantly surprised rather than mildly disappointed by that which is you?
It was the sort of bone deep emotion that made him want to hold her tighter with one hand, and draw a sword against the ...
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish
The greatest things in life all require commitment, sacrifice, some struggle and hardship. It's not easy. But absolutely worth it.
Don't you love those crazy Brits?Jumpers for sweaters and spots for zits.And when they want to change their suits,It's in a box, not a booth.Be ...
Do you have a name?" asked Gerta. "I do," said the raven. Gerta waited. The raven fluffed its beard. "I am the Sound of Mouse ...
Red Sox versus Yankees is the greatest rivalry in sports.
Wait your turn, Lion, or I'll be wearing your eyeballs as jewelry. (Savitar)
A mind without a secret is with a question mark! A mind with so many secrets shall attract an exclamation one day!
In order to console, there is no need to say much. It is enough to listen, to understand, to love. PAUL TOURNIER
Zane met Ty's eyes. "I can't imagine being anywhere else. Although I suppose if it becomes worrisome, we can take a trip out to Austin ...
We all have to start with ourselves. It is time to walk the talk. Take the journey of making very difficult decisions. Start removing things ...
It is apparent that Christianity and Islam must come, and come immediately, to a closer understanding, and it is equally apparent that their unity if ...
I've never met a woman who is not strong, but sometimes they don't let it out. Then there's a tragedy, and then all of a ...
It occurred to me that a food drive would be a natural way to talk to kids about hunger, which so many of them simply ...
A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either ...
The thickness of the walls should be sufficient for two armed men to pass each other with ease.
Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write.
The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he ...
If the writing is good, then the writing is already funny. All you have to do is make this funny writing true to the very ...
There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.
Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of ...
If you can pick the baby up without him squirting our of your hands like a bar of soap in the shower, he's not oiled ...
I said that if I were an industrialist or entrepreneur, I would invest in agriculture-based enterprises, for there is so much that can be done ...
I like songs that make me feel tough. Like 'Back in Black.' You want to hear it again and get in a fight.
I'd never imagined myself in a band. So the fact that I've had such a long career without really naturally pursuing it is really astounding. ...
He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often prevented their manifestation.
Sin has been pardoned at such a price that we cannot henceforth trifle with it.
You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes; it would be unreasonable to do so without accident for two ...
What makes you say the opposite of what every celling your body wants you to say?
On the grave among the pine trees, a boy knelt weeping, his chest, racked by sobs, heaving in the darkness, oppressed by an immense grief ...
I feel like nothing is impossible.
If you take a scotch whiskey and distill out the alcohol, what is left has an amazing taste to it and can be used as ...
I wanted to badly to be vulnerable over a burger, beer, and bags of free books we find on some stranger's porch. You wanted badly ...
He has denied what has happened. His sworn statements have denied what has happened.
This is love, to sit with someone you've known forever in a place you've been meaning to go, and watching as their life happens to ...
If I see myself only in terms of myself, I am always going to be wrong. To fully understand who I am and what I ...
I took some important things with me from sports. Rock and roll is a team sport. You're only as good as your weakest link.
But Odin had other plans. The huge figure pushed away from the only living thing in his world - a puny and twisted version of ...
New York is great for busy creative types. The city has a pulse that races, and you either keep up with it or you leave.