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To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages; to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and in the side ...

My family doesn't do happy endings. We do sad endings or frustrating endings or no endings at all. We are hardwired to expect the next ...

What followed for two hours was such an adventure as only wretched amateurs would indulge in...

Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.

Evie's head is pressed tightly to my chest; I would pull her inside of me and have my heart beat for us both if I ...

I am not here to speak the Truth. I am here just to give you a method to perceive it.

I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, ...

You know it's real when you are who you think you are

I grew up in New York City, and both my parents worked. On weekends, we'd go out to the country, and on Sunday nights we'd ...

Modern allopathic medicine is the only major science stuck in the pre-Einstein era.

Don't let your dreams stay hidden inside of your mind, free them.

I took back my life.

..."ya gotta be one of the good guys...'cause there's too many of the bad.

It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our final day (attributed to Matthew Henry)

FUCK UNITY! FUCK CONSENSUS! There was no unity or consensus during the American Revolution. We had principled leadership from a small, vocal, minority that refused ...

It's so dark," she said lamely. "You want me to hold your hand?"Clary put both her hands behind her back like a small child. "Don't ...

We are in danger of valuing most highly those things we can measure most accurately, which means that we are often precisely wrong rather than ...

I can't hear myself. I can stare at my double chin all I want, but hearing this androgynous voice, you can't even tell what sex ...

To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but ...

Gates Open at Nightfall & Close at Dawn in swirly lettering, and under that, in tiny plain letters: Trespassers Will Be Exsanguinated Bailey doesn't know ...

We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in ...

We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.

So, on top of the betrayal, I got to feel ashamed. I got to hate myself, when the rage of Medea would have served me ...

Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education

The strength of soul; love, hope and faith.

I'd like to think that all the old Beatle fans have grown up and they've got married and they've all got kids and they're all ...

She looked outover the crowd, murmuring, I wonder if there are any gentlemenhere who might be willing to marry me before Wednesday

I close my eyes. My bones sob. Throb. I'm so weary with tryin to hold myself together. Tryin to hold back the darkness.

It is found again. What? Eternity. It is the sea Gone with the sun.

I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and ...

When a friend of mine boasted about living in a gated community, I thought he meant Folsom, and I wondered whether he knew Charles Manson.

Significant new peer-reviewed research has cast even more doubt on the hypothesis of dangerous human-caused global warming.

I do a lot of recipe creation. Translation: cooking tempting dishes that must be eaten.

Be yourself. Love yourself. This is your sacred self.

As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it.

I give the president credit for at least one thing. He's proven that someone can deserve a Nobel prize less than Al Gore.

No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.

I now understood the secret of music and knew what makes it so infinitely superior to all the other arts: its incorporeality. Once it has ...

He felt the slowly healing polarization of his mind, matching his to hers, the alignment of all his prejudices and conceits to the lodestone of ...

Fetty Wap is just a face. It's just a name and face.

But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.

The soul is not a soul,Has no secret, is small, and it fitsIts hollow perfectly: its room, our moment of attention.

You should know that I lead, not follow

I think anybody with an insecurity, which is everyone, appreciates the fact that it's much easier to be a predator than it is to be ...

They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.

His hair in falling seemed to have stuck to his chin, and had prospered in the new locality, for his beard hung down to his ...

As writers, we must keep throwing problems at our characters. Conflict is the heart of good storytelling. Hiking in nature along a twisting trail can ...

Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will ...

There was some expiration point to my life, and it became very important to maximize the time that I did have on Earth. That's what ...

Ah! well away! Seasons flower and fade.

It's total submission to the cross. That's the bottom line of discipleship - to die unto ourselves; to nail our desires to the cross, and ...

It's curious that children can either be expert liars or utterly incapable of hiding their emotions, and the classification changes from minute to minute.

God and eternal things are my only pleasure.

Each time thou wishest to decide upon performing some enterprise, raise the eyes to heaven, pray God to bless thy project; if thou canst make ...

Some people were nice to you simply because they liked you.

She told me that she did not like the idea of your being in that house all by yourself, and that she thought you took ...

Life is like a clay it's in your hand.So make it whatever you want.

In pharmaceutical speak, psilocybin is known as an asshole inhibitor.

The player who puts the ball through the hoop has ten hands.

Teddy bear looked like he was suffering from murder withdrawal.

All life demands change, variety, contrast - else there is small zest to it.

I understand that in our work - doesn't matter whether it's acting or writing - what's important isn't fame or glamour, none of the things ...

We grew up with social media. There was no iPhone when we started! I love technology; I love what it does to my life. What ...

I would never intentionally want to hurt someone's feelings.

I see the way he looks at you when you're not aware of his gaze. I see the way you care for him. And so ...

You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.

Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.

I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion

The gentry protect their names like hymens,They suck their names like thumbs,But they sign their names and something happens.While Zimmer, I can write, Zimmer,All day, ...

I fear that there will be no neat ending to this, in the manner of the old Greek plays. Where the Gods descend, and all ...

The refurbishing and rebuilding of Fenway Park since 2001 has created a new urban neighborhood in Boston.

We need better options for securing the Internet. Instead of looking primarily for top-down government intervention, we can enlist the operators and users themselves.

Love Christ, and then the eternity in the heart will not be a great aching void, but will be filled with the everlasting life which ...

She really started to cry, and the next thing I knew, I was kissing her all over - anywhere - her eyes, her nose, her ...

The magical approach is indeed the natural approach to life's experience. It is the adult version of childhood knowledge, the human version of the animals' ...

The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

Be the hero of your children's story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and doing what is right is only reserved ...

I would say my sex drive is weaker than most. However, my lens has a permanent erection.

If you endure only half a storm expect to enjoy only half a rainbow.

There's a weird kind of paradox that the more expensive the vacation is, the more potentially anxiety-producing it is.

President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.

But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for ...

Most of the time I manage to forget to be afraid. But sometimes I think, 'This could be is,' and I move forward anyway.

Bad guys, in their various forms, on their various levels, didn't take time off.

The Magic of Reality, aimed

Jesus this song you wrote The words are sticking in my throat Peace on Earth Hear it every Christmas time But hope and history won't ...

Interest makes all seem reason that leads to it.

When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still exist ...

I love all forms of music. I even like music I dislike, because the music you dislike is like going to a strange country, and ...

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned

Mir has long since been deorbited and burned up in the atmosphere.

That's easy to say until the person you love is happy with someone else. Girls always choose men, and men always choose the wrong girls. ...

To flee. His big hand engulfed both of hers so

I don't like to go into subways, because I always see them [ mice]. They are like my naguales [kindred animal spirits]. They follow me. ...

At the end of a marriage it is difficult to recall the beginning.

If you don't have a destination, you'll never go anywhere.

In the pursuit of acquiring Treasures, we lose the ONE treasure that we truly possess - Life. Let us not lose Life in the wild ...