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To Subdue an enemy without fighting is the greatest of skills
God doesn't need to have emergency meetings. He's never gathered the Trinity and asked 'What happened there'.
I do try to live every day as if it were my last, and it has worked for me so far.
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in ...
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
At least since Darwin's day, we have known that all of us originally emerged from the sea. That fact may account for our abiding fascination ...
So many bright futures consigned to the ashes of the past.So many dreams lost in the madness that had engulfed us.Except for a few widely ...
(Antique clocks) need servicing just like your automobile or anything else. They're mechanical, and about every 10 years you should have them cleaned. That's the ...
The noise made Kim want to cover her ears, reminding her, as it did, of diarhoettic excretion.
Sometimes I get the feeling that everything that happened to me was some kind of illusion. It's as though something happened to make me think ...
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our ...
God can and will break the labels that have held you hostage.
When we awoke he greeted me with his crooked smile, and I knew he was my knight.
The truth of the matter is, we're not far away from where we should be. We can complain about the problem or we can go ...
She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.
War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell ...
Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
I stay subjective because that's what I do. That's one of my abilities. I don't need to watch it because I've had the adventure. I ...
Envy's just another word for ambition
A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.
If one is on the spot, disorders are seen as they spring up, and one can quickly remedy them; but if one is not at ...
To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want?
Trading decisions should be made as unemotionally as possible.
Death is not the worst thing. It is His gift to us, and end to want and pain. On the day that we are born ...
I had become conscious of my physicality, aware of my presence and open to the ugly truths of the world. At the age of thirteen, ...
Philip K. Dick diedand now we only need what is strictly necessary.
I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
Every day Big Government heaps demands and restrictions upon businesses that sink some enterprises, cause others to direct resources away from serving customers and instead ...
A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.
The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of poverty, race, geography ...
She said Halloween is a British tradition and it has nothing to do with being a Christian. I almost said Why do you celebrate it ...
I'd much rather go out having America shocked than having America go, 'Eh, it was his time.'
A person doesn't feel, then act; rather, he acts, then feels. Change actions to change feelings.
I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.
The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.
Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for ...
Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.
Because when you love someone, you owe it to them to help them be the best version of themselves that they can be. And as ...
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
My face becomes a Picasso sketch, my body slicing into pieces.
In Knoxville, they're still doing cartwheels because they went 7-6 and won a bowl game.
And what would be the point of turning the Secret Annex into a Melancholy Annex?
I think I can speak on behalf of women and say that every woman wants a man who just loves them and lusts after them.
Love is the skillful audacity required to share an inner life
This is not like other bookshops.' He leaned forward and whispered. 'Every word in that book is true. Every word on every page in every ...
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
If you live your life the right way, you work hard, you go about things the right way, eventually something good's going to come of ...
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we ...
Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
I'm anti-cheese in a salad.
Remember that codes are more than a filing system. Every project needs a systematic way to store coded field data and a way to retrieve ...
"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I ...
It's hard to forget someone whos given so much to remember.
My job now is to work hard and learn all I can.
We could go back to your house. I can stay with you always. We can know each others bodies in every way, night after night. ...
If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you're okay. Who watches out or you and ...
Ole boy's melanin was so popping I bet he sweats coconut oil.
Fear is where there is no love. Love is where there is no fear.
No matter the nature of your individuality, you can nurture a better identity and have a mature positively rewarding life.
If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to ...
There's no "should" or "should not" when it comes to having feelings. They're part of who we are and their origins are beyond our control. ...
ServiceI will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages.Rabia el-Adawia.
You're not someone I could forget," he murmured.
Get the steppin' This is my show, I'm running things, here!
Auschwitz was attacked and recovered by the Russian forces on January 27th, 1945. A very short time before that date Buchenwald had been reconquered. Buchenwald ...
I realize that things happen for a reason.
She turned back to the reporter, holding out the microphone. I'm not an expert, I'm a survivor. I hope you can learn how to be ...
The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.
He rolled me under him to kiss me. It wasn't a gentle kiss like at the beach, or passionate kiss like the one that happened ...
Jesus, in His earth walk, was the will of God in action. If you want to know what God thinks about sickness - look at ...
(the villa) It's beautiful too, all hot pinks and reds, and rocks and sand and blinding blue and white.
Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it's still snowing.
IMAGINE WHIRLED PEAS
There are a lot of bands who would get really big in Fort Worth and play shows on a Friday night that everybody would come ...
I cannot imagine anyone being more of an outsider than the first woman president.
This, I remember thinking, is the end. Nothing had ever ended before.
Mystery is the essence of divinity
...and only if your wounds let meI will stand beside youin the black cold caveand let fireflies nest my hair.
People who pity themselves think, 'Why would I try to do anything? I'll just fail.'
If nothing ended, then we'd all be stuck in the middle.
Is he immortal do you think? Because I've seen much in my years, and heard rumors of much more, but never of a man or ...
Modern slavery - be it bonded labor, involuntary servitude, or sexual slavery - is a crime and cannot be tolerated in any culture, community, or ...
I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with a blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael ...
I am Donna Julia. I like business related books. I like forex trading and have started trading with a group related to trading. you may ...
I hit a one-yard draw in there
People die. Love endures.
Georges Claude made a fortune from his neon signs, but lost most of it in the 1930s with hair brained schemes to make electricity using ...
It is only the souls that do not love that go empty in this world.
There is no law saying you have to die before your assets can be passed to loved ones. In fact, gifting earlier can be a ...
There is an odd assumption that compassion and care are finite or that critics can be everything to everyone - commenting on everything simply because ...
Thousands of musical voices, like rain on water, beckoned.
Pretended to be interested in her, allowing
Let frugality and industry be our virtues.
I'm a traditional country singer and we're always trying to make that a fresh and modern sound. That's always going to be the challenge with ...
Tallie looked for something to throw, but considering the fact that she threw like a girl, she dumped that plan in lieu of grabbing her ...
Art, in a sense, is life brought to a standstill, rescued from time. The secret of making it is simple: discard everything that is good ...
I relate to both my Caucasian side and my African side, and I love that.
Snatch religion back from the clerics and literature from the critics.
Who knows how fast a second-guess can travel? Who has ever measured the exact speed of regret?
In rapid succession we passed through the fringe of fashionable London, hotel London, theatrical London, literary London, commercial London, and, finally, maritime London