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Four turnovers. Two assists. I told him he'd have the game ball if he had taken care of the ball a little bit better.
You have exactly three seconds to get out of here before I do everything I've been thinking about since the first day I saw you. ...
You are giving a little man a biscuit to eat, and you put a barrel of flour more taxes on top of his head to ...
I want my relationship with my future boyfriend to be built on trust, not in alcohol , not in the appearance , and in jealous ...
Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human ...
I just need you.
The only way back is the way forward.
Whatever you do in life, don't give up on your own dreams.
What trifles colour life and make it dark as night.
But it's hard to feel bad for her, because as much as she's hurting, she doesn't know pain. She doesn't know it like I know ...
In the field of letters, as apart from medicine and science, professors do not lead but follow. Their wisdom is always that of a post-mortem. ...
Romania will always defend the Roma's right to move freely in Europe. They are European citizens and as long as there is no evidence they ...
If they don't utter the words, it cannot happen. But words, once spoken, seal a man or maid for life or death. [Gisa]
Acting will always be my first passion, it's what I live to do and I hope to be lucky enough to do it the rest ...
You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.
To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true? The operationist asks, ...
For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.
My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.
When World War II started on September 1, 1939, the German army contained 3.74 million soldiers and 103 divisions.
It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.
We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life.
Around, around the sun we go:The moon goes round the earth.We do not die of death:We die of vertigo.
I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.
Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.
As you may know, I'm a native Texan. In fact I'm a fifth generation Texan.
Please don't talk into the middle of other people's crotch!
Kittens play with yarn, they bat it around. What they're really doing is saying, "I can't knit, get this away from me!"
What makes tar sands particularly odious is that the energy you get out in the end, per unit carbon dioxide, is poor. It's equivalent to ...
We cannot let the future of our children be decided by their zip codes and family incomes.
You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic ...
A show of power is not the same as silent power.
No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp or violently worded expressions of public discontent. ...
I do not believe in the unlimited power of the majority,because tyranny of the majority is tyranny like any other.
Doing his utmost, deploying all his energy, a young man setting out from zero can wind up after ten years somewhere below where he started.
Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.
Oh hey, God told me to tell you something: Get over yourself.
Now, I came to everyone else's rescue. Screw the knights in shining armor. This beauty of the night came to your rescue with pointed fangs ...
We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.
It's easier to find a new audience than to write a new speech.
Before, singing was my life, my vocal chords used to lead the way. Now, I'm in-charge.
I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've been dodging work for 20 years, and ...
Or bid the soul of Orpheus singSuch notes as warbled to the string,Drew Iron tears down Pluto's cheek,And made Hell grant what Love did seek.
Have you seen some of the crap they're selling as exercise equipment now? How about that Suzanne Somers? She should have been thrown in jail ...
The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.
Mama had an appreciation of the language. She taught me a love of words, of how they should be used and how they can fill ...
It's very difficult to lie to yourself about certain things. I'm not necessarily convinced about how information is gathered and I don't think the credence ...
The Sunnis continue to see themselves, possibly for nostalgic reasons, as the most influential group and want a stronger central government - quite unlike minorities ...
Underneath the world of sense perceptions and the world of mind activity, there is the vastness of being. There's a vast spaciousness. There's a vast ...
The moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven.
Real religion is no religion at all.
I've never cared about how successful or how big I was going to be. I just wanted to be part of a story that affected ...
Intentions, whether good or bad, that don't reflect the words and actions are only meant to fulfill personal goals.
To be fearless no matter what happens-that is the root of true happiness. To move forward resolutely regardless of what lies in store-that is the ...
So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with ...
And my one prayer to God, the miracle worker, was that I would wake up lighter-skinned,
The rest is a mere matter of detail, to be settled with judgment, discretion, and caution.
No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.
My gaze zeroed in on his as if I was a compass needle and he was my north. I'd never suffered a phenomenon such as ...
Are we going to give up, or are we going to be the kind of people who stand up and do what it takes, even ...
The real goal of a spiritual tradition should not be ascent, but openness, vulnerability, and this does not require great experiences but, on the contrary, ...
Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the personality to the ...
Even the best of us have bad days. We fall, we climb. That's life. I can promise you, your worst day is never your worst. ...
I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged ...
He felt that if he had a love he would have hung her picture just facing the tub so that, lost in the soothing steamings ...
They mistake their star, these papery godfolk.
Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
I always want to surprise myself, more than anybody else.
I have hundreds if not tens of thousands of fans ... The people who have negative things to say are typically loser-type people who are ...
[M]an is not an island, he is more like a spaghetti junction.
There's a reason cats were near deity in ancient Egypt. Dogs may be loyal, but cats are smart. This one must recognize our bond. You ...
I was playing in the beginning, the mood all changed
History was a way to live extra lives, to cheat the limits of flesh and blood, to roll the rock back from the tomb and ...
Authors," he murmured with a grin. "You all think your work is flawless, and anyone who tries to change a single word is an idiot.""And ...
When somebody's really good, they're not just thinking about their job.
Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can't see watches you.
It was hopeless, life, really. It was set up all wrong.
That's stupid. That's like going to someone who's just won the lottery, taking their money, and saying, 'Look, let's just go back to how things ...
Creation is everything you do. Make something.
Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.
I'm very glad to have something to be passionate about. I can't imagine a life without passion.
The path to joy and spiritual fulfilment requires the courage to change and grow.
Imagine a world where people line up to help each other like they line up to buy the newest iPhone.
Unemployed writers have muses. Employed writers just sweat.
Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird.
But young as she was, Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally, so though she believed she ...
We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.
There are few, if any, Canadian men that have never spelled their name in a snow bank.
Your world is as big as you make it.
The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.
Living in an age of casual sex, serial commitments, and frequent divorce, we are all in danger of becoming as jaded as anceien regime aristocrats. ...
She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I had been, and ...
My forever mission is to take the best elements of both commercial and independent films and bring them together. I learned so much about the ...
Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents.
Because I'm even more determined to bring that light back to his eyes. And I know my love is strong enough to do it.
Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer nigh! The bitter wind makes not the victory vain. Nor ...
I'd also learned something new. There was something really sexy about a man that kissed you, without stopping to ask first.
Joking around is part of my personality, just who I am.
Charity is an unending self-discipline which always looks and leads towards the eternal affection. Therefore, its triumph shall be lasting and everlasting.
The most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that's expensive and has high opportunity costs. They do this by getting onto other types of land, ...