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My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a ...
I sit watching until dusk, hypnotized. I think of the sea as continually sloshing back and forth, repetitive, but my psyche goes with the river- ...
Love is the garment of knowledge.
Shortest straw pulls the skunk's tail.
I think I'm always conscious of not letting things fit into a specific box. Being a filmmaker and trying to chart a career, you never ...
He does manage the bookstore, which is currently my favorite place on earth." Her eyes glazed over. "All those books. If I married him, I ...
...'beard' isn't really a superpower.
But you are alone. Yet I never tell what you are. And if your face lights up my world as no other can - well, ...
Who gives an island as a gift? I frowned. I hadn't realized Edward's extreme generosity was a learned behavior.Bella
She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface
Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people.
The more you talk about price, the lower it gets.
No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.
To us marriage is first, everything else is second.
It's amazing how relaxing it is not to claim you know more than you do. I'm surprised that those who claim to speak in the ...
In November I received a ransom note telling me exactly what to do if ever I wished to see my uncle Theobald alive again. I ...
My dad studied at the American Conservatory in Chicago, so he lived on all those streets. He said the war probably saved his life because ...
Winston Churchill once said "Never Give Up", little pause..... "Never Give Up" and again pause.... "Never Give Up". This 9 Words, said about success (Bob ...
If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it is ...
I couldn't go to church and worship God if I didn't try to help that man.
It seemed like my professional life would take a more scientific route. I guess that plan started to become undone when, at the age of ...
Police chiefs don't think a cat can possibly turn into a lion; and yet, it happens.
I watch her as she leaves. Everything about her is fluid as a river. Her messy hair, her xylophone voice, the strokes of her paintbrush. ...
By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego ...
Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and ...
Don't feel bad; I regularly reduce people to unintelligible stammers.
And I see that not touching for so long was a drive to the beach with the windows rolled up so the waves feel that ...
Why did I ever think I would get enough of you?
My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the Beatles, Alice In Chains ... ...
If someone chooses not to forgive others, they are actually hurting themselves. The only way to free yourself from that is to forgive others so ...
Be confident when facing your enemies; be humble when you defeat them. Break records, then shatter them.
It's always easy to get parts when you're a guy!
He was saving innocents and serving truth. And in the final judgement, what is more important? The burdens we bear -- or the way we ...
The solution of every problem is another problem
Years of expensive Zen training gone to waste
I think that if you don't think we're in a war that you can't win the war.
We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own ...
Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
When you can clearly see yourself being there, you can see much more clearly how to get there. You can imagine the path to your ...
I imagine the world dividing into the people who want to feed their children, and the ones shooting at them.
As far as being territorial about one's own life, that's a mistake for ANY writer. All writers everywhere, in every genre, are drawing from their ...
Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than ...
Child never allowed to give would surely become a self-indulgent adult, his happiness dependent upon whatever was put into his outstretched palm.
I want, most of all, to glorify God. I want to make much of Him. I
The best way to be loved, is to love yourself.
By affirming your own gifts and accomplishments, you build your confidence and increase your ability to build a brighter future.
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it ... The ...
I want to be so strong as an actor that people wouldn't say ... eh, that's Josh Lucas.
It is what you are inside that matter. You, yourself, are your only real capital.
To guys like Mark, time was another weapon of the establishment, like alphabetical order. The great engineers, hackers - they didn't function under the same ...
The Srimad-Bhagavatam states that any bona fide preacher of God consciousness must have the qualities of titiksa (tolerance) and karuna (compassion). In the character of ...
I feel we must all exert ourselves to the utmost to see that the ideals and hopes held by Alfred Nobel, whom we commemorate today, ...
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
I threw bitter tears at the ocean, but all that came back was the tide.
Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world
The people hung upon His words - that is, until they hung Him on a cross. Admiration is fleeting. Love is eternal.
What a storyteller does is *see* more than most of us. We say he's making up his stories, but he - or better yet, *she* ...
I loved her; we were happy; I miss her. She didn't love me; we were unhappy; I miss her.
Hearkners, we say, seldom hear good of themselves.
Any celebrity that goes on Twitter and spouts off, as if we should care what they say, is opening himself or herself up to ridicule ...
The great stories go to those who aren't afraid to live them
I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the props.
What about death is to be feared? The burdens of life can be so great that it would be a comfort to know that someday ...
I like to talk. That's why I can't karaoke in a private room. Those types of shenanigans are only good in a public space.
Carelessness with details sinks more careers than anyone will admit.
How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!
I work continuously within the shadow of failure. For every novel that makes it to my publisher's desk, there are at least five or six ...
Past life knowledge is not the wedding album of existence. Past life remembrance in Buddhism is the ability to bring a greater awareness we had ...
And it's time people told the truth about beautiful women. They do not shimmer down staircases. They do not descend, as was once supposed, from ...
We the people have no excuse for starry-eyed sycophantic group-think in the Information Age. Knowledge is but a fingertip away.
I'm kind of a complainer, but not about getting old. I complain about, you know, something that can be fixed.
It disturbs me mostly ... is the willful, deliberate denial (by the FDA, of) our own citizens, a fair chance to use Laetrile, when all ...
It was the emotion I hated the most of all emotions, shame.
The weight of knowledge is too great for one mind to absorb.
But I could love you, too, sister. If you'd let me.
Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.
Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in ...
The plants we've chosen will collect and cycle Earth's minerals, water, and air; shade the soil and renew it with leafy mulch; and yield fruits ...
Prepare for the new; expect the new; embrace the new. Otherwise, you'll just repeat what's old.
Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.
I have always found those who take the easier road, when they know they should be walking the more difficult one, to be cowards, Robillard
This is, i think, very much the Age of Anxiety, the age of the neurosis, because along with so much that weighs on our minds ...
Just be prepared," she said. "When you do come back to live with me, you are SO GROUNDED for calling me the chicken that crossed ...
Poetry has acquired a fluffy image, which is totally at odds with its real nature. It's not pastel colours, but blood-red and black. If you ...
I am a Doctor, but above all else I consider myself an activist for peace, justice and care for all people.
I have advice for people - period - who are in unhealthy relationships: Follow your heart. It will get you to where you need to ...
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.
History is written by victors," said Duko. "But I have little use for history. It is the future with which I am concerned.
The only thing worse than training employees and losing them is to not train them and keep them.
Open source production has shown us that world-class software, like Linux and Mozilla, can be created with neither the bureaucratic structure of the firm nor ...
What really grabs me about living in Tucson is the color beige.
Not so much that I wanted to give up rock writing, but I also wanted to try something new. So I moved to a crumbling ...
Your life's course will not be determined by doing the things that you are certain you can do. Those are the easy things. It will ...
His poor-man's Ionesconian exchanges with Jude suddenly dissolved when he needed Jude to do his calculus homework, at which point Ionesco abruptly transformed into Mussolini,
Good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it.
Win a lottery-prize and you are a cleaver man. Winners are adulated. To be born with a caul is everything; luck is what matters. Be ...
They made a simple enough mistake. The same one we're making. They founded their society on resource extraction, and in doing so, inflated their population ...
If a believer asks something from the Lord and does not receive it, he should consider it a signal of spiritual danger.