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I would caution anyone who thinks the solution is to get out to realize that Iraq will be our problem, whether we're there or not, ...

Serra High school, to me, was my most enjoyable time for me in my entire life. That was the only time I was free. We ...

This is what travelers discover: that when you sever the links of normality and its claims, when you break off from the quotidian, it is ...

Everyone steps in shit. They keep walking and it comes off.

The Guy Fawkes mask has now become a common brand and a convenient placard to use in protest against tyranny - and I'm happy with ...

For the most part, I'm extremely thankful for the life I have and what I get to do in the future.

To my daughter I will say, when men come, set yourself on fire.

Malone kept listening, a saying from Sun Tzu's ART OF WAR spinning through his mind. When your enemy is in the process of destroying himself, ...

In business, there is nothing more valuable than a technical advantage your competitors don't understand. In business, as in war, surprise is worth as much ...

If you show me a lady, I'll show you a gentleman; show me a bitch, and I'll show you a G.

When you're rearranging the furniture to make way for the decorations and the tree, make sure you rearrange your heart to make room for the ...

I want to inspire through example. I hope my books motivate others to open doors and windows that will help them to embrace their own ...

What if, when I get home, Nicholas is standing on the porch with open arms, willing to pick up where we left off? Can I ...

Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves?

In spite of its poverty, its political upheavals, its lack of resources, Haiti is not a peripheral place. Its history has made it a center.

If you can conceive it in your mind, then it can be brought to the physical world.

In a way, I think a part of you has to die in order to get through a thing like that. It's the only way ...

Adults are always like that, They only see what they want to see, As such, I am disapointed in them, but... That's convenient for me. ...

One must not trifle with love.

Firefly: Now that you're Secretary of War, what kind of an army do you think we oughta have? Chicolini: Well, I tell you what I ...

The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.

She knows not loves that kissed her She knows not where. Art thou the ghost, my sister, White sister there, Am I the ghost, who ...

You know, while you're off sexercizing, I'll be sitting here all by my lonesome watching lame ass lifetime movies.

There was nothing very cheerful in the climate or the town, and yet was there an air of cheerfulness abroad that the clearest summer air ...

Hawkwind are one of those bands that people introduce you to because you don't see them on the covers of magazines. I'd heard 'Silver Machine' ...

Shhhhh, I am trying to read.

The girl whose table I occupied was reading a book but I couldn't help but notice that all this time, she was secretly watching me."You ...

The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not ...

Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.

He felt his heart roll, exposing its underbelly. Nothing he could do about that. He was equipped to eliminate threats, protect and serve. Not to ...

Humankind won't find peace as long as we're treating feeling animals as if they were so many blocks of wood.

Knowledge! What does that mean? Your knowledge is nothing but cowardice. No, really, that's all it is. You just want to put a little wall ...

Believe it or not, I'm as much a fan of a supper shortcut as the next person.

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 ...

Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong.

With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.

I think you can't do any action without in some way paying homage to John Woo. He's the guy who just invented that sort of ...

If you talk about race, it does not make you a racist. If you see distinctions between the genders, it does not make you a ...

With a tennis racket strapped tightly to her hiking pack, Martina Navratilova began her ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro. The tennis legend had visions of celebrating ...

Liberty, in my opinion, is the only orthodoxy within the limits of which art may express itself and flourish freely-liberty that is the best of ...

But what is love if the heart falls for someone else so fast? Was it real?

I've been an avid consumer of young adult literature since I was one, and I think some people leave that stuff behind when they become ...

Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens.

Time is the explicable raw material of everything.

The inner attitude of the heart is far more crucial than the mechanics for coming into the reality of the spiritual life.

As much as I love coaching the masters, junior cycling is obviously the future of our sport.

There is an imbalance of power. It is an imbalance that is easy to exploit, but it is not a wise course. Where there is ...

Enrich your soul in the great goodness of God: The Father is your table, the Son is your food, and the Holy Spirit waits on ...

Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all ...

According to the yoga tradition, each person is allotted a certain number of breaths, and after you exceed this number, your time on earth is ...

Then let me be your mercy," he said. "I'll never be able to give you smart answers about why we suffer, but I can come ...

His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.

God forbid that I should ever be a good influence on anybody.

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

I love the smell of old books, Mandy sighed, inhaling deeply with the book pressed against her face. The yellow pages smelled of wood and ...

I find it's best to remain pessimistic. At least then there's less of a blow when fate fucks you over.

I don't think you can describe your ideal girl. A big part of that is just meeting someone and really clicking with them and wanting ...

Rather than a plausible explanation for how we got to be the way we are, the standard narrative is exposed as contemporary moralistic bias packaged ...

The rottweiler stood his ground and waited for me to take the next step in the dance of ritualized intimidation. Instead, I leaped at him. ...

Digging deep inside you as a writer will damn near kill you at times. But in the end, your words will be true and undeniable ...

Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead

I have heard endlessly that fish are so resilient that there is no way that you could exterminate a species. We are learning otherwise.

The author characterizes Hamilton's tone in the Federalist papers by saying that he never spoke of problems but of being at the last stage in ...

Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.

The world is full of 'friends' of suicide victims thinking 'if I had only made that drive over there, I could have done something.

A simple smile, a tender touch, speaks the true language of love.

I did do a film that I refer to as 'The Unpronounceable' by a guy named Yvan Attal with Charlotte Gainsbourg. I had a bit ...

Every second is your own. Make it count.

If you don't find yourself and purpose, the world will be worse for it

Vhat is your nom?" Preston had a lazy eye, and the alcohol added to the lopsided effect of his gaze. "Shannon Tinker, and I watch ...

Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.

If you stand in the rain, you get wet, whether you understand water or not.

We are all better than we know. If only we can be brought to realise this, we may never be prepared to settle for anything ...

Real democracy is only possible when people truly imbibe democratic principles and respect ethical values above everything else.

The dangers we have to fear aren't the ones we're used to. They're coming from directions we never imagined.

And then you came into my life, and you just blindsided me. I am so fucking wrapped up in you I can't see straight, and ...

I believe the last thing I read at night will likely manifest when I'm sleeping. You become what you think about the most.

I take a lot of pictures.

Yesterday I was sad, today I am happy! Yesterday I had a problem, today I still have the same problem! But today I changed the ...

It may be true too that I would not have encountered the most important books and art and ideas of my life had I not ...

You need to be, like, turning down high-paying illustration work because you want to work on your comic. That's when you know you're doing something ...

You need something more nourishing than the contents of that glass, Mr. Shaw."His hard gaze met hers. "I know what I need, you presumptuous wench. ...

I remembered a mantra that one of my teachers used to tell me at drama school, that every thought will pass across your face. Even ...

There is no real religious experience that does not express itself in charity.

I'm scared of boogers. If anyone ever showed me a booger I'd smash their face in.

To name the world in your own terms, to tell your own story, is an act of authority and power. When you write, you are ...

The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer bond ...

Ukraine will be reforming its energy sector because we want to integrate into Europe, ... We have conducted all the talks and reached an agreement ...

You don't have to love somebody to miss them. You get used to having them around, like a cat or a bird.

My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.

You can't undo something that's happened; you can't take back a word that's already been said out loud.

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

There is no illusion great than fear.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, ...

We are the thoughts we choose to keep.

I've actually started to drive slower. I never want to see a news headline that reads, 'The Chinese Guy from 'Fast & Furious' Pulled Over ...

I to my friends, to my own heart, I to seek among phrases and fragments something unbroken.

It's amazing how harmless the world can sometimes seem.

Women are hard on themselves.

I think it's a mother's dream come true to see it work out that way. Not just the mother, but certainly parents, to know that ...