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I believe in metaphysics. I don't believe in God because I think that is a human simplification of the things we can't explain. But I ...

Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.

The passing time is painful. I have lost the art of moving simply, naturally, within it. I am swept back against its flow. Angry, vindictive, ...

Cross,please, just hold on for a few more minutes, okay? You promised to make out with me in a castle, and I'm holding you to ...

The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.

Really, the one thing that actually works - you know, state-run communism may not be your cup of tea, but [China's] government works.

If a lady should do this, Raisa wondered, should a man do the same? Is he required to?

If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been ...

You see guys in the NFL when you're younger, and you try to model your game after that.

And what is true of a shop-keeper is true of a shop-keeping nation.

Widowed were not those alive, but those who were dead.

It's a small thing to help one animal, but to that one animal it's a big thing

I'm focusing on cultivating my land. I have vegetables and fruit trees; I want to get some chickens and solar and really get off the ...

On the other side of attraction, is repulsion.

Some things just can't be described. And stepping onto the moon was one of them.

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt ...

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.

Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken! Take heed, ...

Take the chair and sit at the fore-front of your dreams. You are the chair-person at the center of affairs; make it memorable; make an ...

It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.

In her memoirs she writes that she left the hospital job because it eventually made her numb to suffering, and it left her no time ...

The modern wars are also omnipresent in our electronic media - to be cynical about it, we now have 24 hours of non-stop bloodshed available ...

Don't go there Rule" Lawe warned him softly. " I don't think your horoscope declared today to be a good day to die.

Singer Boy Dylan was stopped at his own sow by security guards who failed to recognize the singer. Asked to comment, Dylan replied, 'I can ...

Most Pagans are in agreement, treat yourself, others, animals and nature with respect. Just like many other religions the Pagan belief system often incorporates a ...

It doesn't much concern me if Tiger plays in the tournament or no.

I don't care whether they're men or women, that's bullshit. A good writer can get into any gender, can get into any mouth. When I ...

Ecological disturbance causes diseases to emerge. Shake a tree, and things fall out. Nearly all zoonotic diseases result from infection by one of six kinds ...

Didn't your mother tell you boys tease the girls they like?" "That only applies to children." "All men are babies." "Point taken."Chloe and Stella- The ...

Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty ...

You are condemn your by thoughts.

Most men - not just the men in Brentwood - are scared of powerful women with brains. There's something in a man that makes him ...

I call on those that call me son, Grandson, or great-grandson, On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts, To judge what I have done. Have I, ...

Hunger never being fed makes cracks in the brain.

The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you ...

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not ...

There is no group of Americans more pessimistic than working-class whites. Well over half of blacks, Latinos, and college-educated whites expect that their children will ...

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

He's so damned nice and he's so awful. He's my sort of thing.

The world vanished inside a shrieking, whirling ochre haze. Stones and gravel pelted them, drawing flinches from the stallion and grunts of pain from Kalam.

People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of ...

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really ...

Those affiliated with the plot have no need to hope for a far off better future; they know a sure means to pluck joy immediately: ...

The human brain takes in information from other people and incorporates it with the information coming from its own senses, neuroscientist Gregory Berns has written. ...

Gay marriage! That's a huge change and a huge win-win for feminism.

The Spirit of holiness and love is also the Spirit of wisdom and knowledge about love; and they are in fact one and the same ...

This struggle between good and evil, fresh and stale, new and decrepit,between the vigor of moral youth and the dotage of senility, is of positive ...

I could wrap myself in the warm cocoon of a song and go anywhere.

What the world needs now is love, sweet love.

I drive a Prius and drink $10k bottles of wine. The wine isnt on Instagram. The Prius is.

You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day, the opportunities stop, you know.

We need to care about reality more than we care about what we want to be true about it.

You wouldn't have left had it been me on the foundry floor - " "I knew you were going to say that," he said in ...

Emma giggled. "I don't think so." She nudged him playfully. "Just go on over and make them an offer they can't refuse on taking your ...

Once a day, after you've done your day's work, go back to your documentation and find one little piece of your process that you can ...

Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,a long way leading nowhere.

Mothers have need of sharp eyes and discreet tongueswhen they have girls to manage

Pride invites you to soar to heights of personal triumph, but the wind is stronger at those heights and the footing, tentative. Farther, then, is ...

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

Nowadays, using a computer has become a way of life.

I looked more like Kurt Cobain than ever, except I doubt Cobain ever wore a shirt that read: WIGGLES ROCK & ROLL PRESCHOOL TOUR! The ...

When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an ...

And I survived because I made a point of forgetting.

I think about Marvin Gaye and 'Sexual Healing.' What a radical idea that sex was healing. I learned my politics through that music.

In my whole career, I've never seen this type of race that you had to wait for the last day. There's so many teams that ...

And I saw a man- go up to one of the doors of the train and press a big button next to it and the ...

Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.

Only he who asks the question, will be able to hear the answer.

You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not ...

One of pleasures of parenting, future reader: parent can positively influence kid, make moment kid will remember for rest of life, moment that alters his/her ...

You don't run a business hoping you don't have a recession.

The Enlightenment (The beginning of) a way of pursuing knowledge with a tradition of criticism and seeking good explanations instead of reliance on authority.

Nowdays, Rosie the Rivetere was a former soccer mom who had just opened her own catering business when Last Night came down and her husband ...

I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all sort of things. I'm a sort of genre-free recording ...

The trail should be enjoyed, and when joy is difficult to achieve, personal growth should become the focus. Still,

Very few people do this any more. It's too risky. First of all, it's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier ...

A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless ...

Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization.

Do you know the moment I laid my eyes on you, I felt the wind knock out of me, like someone just gut-punched me. I

Being moral or attending church regularly is not the same thing as having a personal relationship with Christ.

What divides men is less a difference in ideas than a likeness in pretensions.

The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.

The idea of 'ferie,' or summer break, is a long tradition of which all Italians, including myself, participate. It's a time to relax, reflect and ...

Never in the history of chess have so many moves been repeated so often so quickly by so many people who didn't really understand them.

If you happen to be one of the people who has a split zygomaticus major muscle, where the lower part of it is tethered to ...

There was nothing like necessity to supply a lack of nerve.

I think it's kind of crazy that we're still calling comedians "female comedians." That seems more like a sneak attack.

I like Sprite a lot, but I try not to drink it. My mom doesn't want me to drink Sprite because it's unhealthy. So she ...

I don't have anything against organized religions, except when they engender hatred for other religions. A lot of that we see today, where the Muslims ...

Don't do what you can't undo, until you've considered what you can't do once you've done it.

Leah was more than beautiful. She was filled with some spirit, a high quality, which Peony admired and did not understand. The Chinese said of ...

For me, the fiction writer's job is to take the small, stupid process of learning to use an iPhone - and suddenly you're the guy ...

Declining welfare rolls and increasing work participation rates demonstrate that Missouri is moving people away from welfare dependency and into jobs.

I'm not dead yet, just in a state of rapid decay, who isn't?

The Lotus is a couple of years newer than the Williams was, and as the pace of development in F1 cars is so quick, I ...

I believe myself to be an artist. That was my calling, to do my work, and what's most important to me is to do the ...

From its earliest days in the nineteenth century, and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist movement, ...

If you see a man who is so obviously impressed with his own appearance, then you wonder what his priorities are.

I like to be open with journalists and I like to be honest. I hate being disingenuous because that's really uncomfortable for me; I don't ...

Archer wouldn't consider her allowance of the guard to be evidence of the powers of rational argument. He'd take it as proof that she was ...