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And Manon understood in that moment that there were forces greater than obedience, and discipline, and brutality. Understood that she had not been born soulless; ...

I wasn't a very athletic boy. I was once lapped in the long jump

I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.

Mourn for the living, the dead have got their camphor gardens.

But I've lost parts because of my looks. I auditioned to star with Richard Dreyfuss in 'The Buddy System.' The producers said no one would ...

Knew I how to pray, to intercede for your [broken] Foot were intuitive - but I am but a Pagan.

Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal and still love ...

I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people ...

Remember the past - and await the future.

While these Christians (the majority in a recent poll) are particularly concerned that religious freedoms are being eroded in this country, they also want Judeo-Christians ...

Time is the best preserver of righteous men.

As we begin to see where we have been absent from life, increasing possibilities audition for our approval.

What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves. He must have the ...

I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.

The reality of your own nature should determine your speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become tense and high-strung, slow down.

You don't have the courage of a half-bred mongrel.

You have a responsibility for the way you make the audience feel, and I want them to feel uncomfortable.

True love should not have to lie, cheat, or steal. The best kind of love finds you when you need it most.

Exercise stimulates an increase in appetite and calorie consumption such that it results in a draw when it comes to weight management.

Romance can end, but I don't think art really ends, as romantic as that might sound.

It is time to recognize a simple fact of life. Contrary to what some of my colleagues seem to believe, tax cuts do not pay ...

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

It was a city to visit, not a city to live in, but it was the city where Wormold had first fallen in love and ...

Doctors said 'go home and enjoy what little is left of your life'. He recovered.

But Quinn held the fuzzy handcuffs in his hands, looking them over closely, and he smiled. Oh, hey, did you want to keep these for ...

Who we were is lost to all men, and life is bitter.

Ronaldo is a unique player for all of his talent and his professionalism. He is a player who is extraordinarily consistent.

I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and ...

I paint with a language I can call my own ... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by ...

I'm definitely not a football player, but I can play one for a season.

You should never eat when you're on the toilet. "But I'm lactose-intolerant, and I always wanted to enjoy a bowl of Puffins with whole milk!" ...

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.

Successful creators engage in an ongoing dialogue with their work. They put what's in their head on paper long before it's fully formed, and they ...

His voice as smooth as silk, Grant started into his standard crowd-pleaser: Sinatra's 'My Kind of Town.

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

When the game is over I just want to look at myself in the mirror, win or lose, and know I gave it everything I ...

In the zero-sum budget game, every dollar spent on this problem [illegal immigration] must be taken from somewhere else ... No, we should not tolerate ...

Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and for me to ...

If you do a job, do it right or there is no point.

History has to be rewritten in every generation, because although the past does not change, the present does; each generation asks new questions of the ...

Freedom gives you the air of the high mountains.

If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.

Close your mouth, E'lir Kvothe, or I will feel obliged to put some vile tonic in it.

Mark spoke like a poem and walked like a dance.

Practice makes legibility!

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one ...

Out of power, Marxism can develop critical intelligence; in power, it quickly becomes stupid.

You may think or tell others that you are a realized person,You may even convince others or deceive yourself;But unless you have love for humanity ...

Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.

All I'm saying is like, spoil me with your consistency Always remain the same you and you won't have to worry about a different me

You shouldn't be afraid of dying, Sarah - everyone does it. The only thing to be scared of is not living before you do.

My bubbly personality is like its own screaming person.

Like most people, I gave little thought during my life to the scourge of child pornography. But, I now know we are fighting a losing ...

Life is such a big book, Some people can read it and others can not, Only people who can read knows the meaning of life ...

Hi, Princess. Sorry I'm late. Traffic was a bitch." He winked at me, then shot a glance at the winter sidhe, standing in the doorway. ...

But if true love carries any weight with you, you can be certain Miss Suellen will be rich in that if nothing else.

If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.

Love is the theme of all religions but making it commercial is satanic.

In my book, water was only good for one thing ... when I remember what that is, I'll let you know.

A smile, a weird one, nestled in his mouth like an egg.

That's crazy, because I had no idea what the word 'contraction' meant before I saw it on the Internet,

With the juice, I try to put a lot of different kinds of vegetables in there like zucchini, kale and broccoli. It looks scary, but ...

Black holes are not really black after all: they glow like a hot body, and the smaller they are, the more they glow.

You are a message to the world make sure it is motivating.

One of the secrets of a successful life is to know how to be a little profitably crazy.

WE CAN'T ALWAYS CONTROL OUR CIRCUMSTANCES BUT WE CAN CONTROL OUR ATTITUDE.WE MUST BE MORE CONCERNED WITH WHAT WE DO WITH WHAT HAPPENS TO US ...

I'm not the head of Scotland Yard," said Mrs. Oliver, retreating from dangerous ground. "I'm a private individual -" "Oh, you're not that," said Rhoda, ...

Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is ...

Teaching a fool is like trying to light a fire on water.

I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.

When did a smile ever get anyone into trouble?

I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home. My father was ...

If you are to love mankind, you must not expect too much from it.

Its all about taste.If you are cheap, nothing helps

The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by ...

The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in life which can ...

I have never enjoyed an experience that begins at five A.M.

He was wondering at the unreality of ideas, at the fading radiance of existence, and at the little absorptions that were creeping avidly into his ...

Mere fact has no chance of being formally perfect. It will get in the way, it will be all elbows.

Suddenly we find that we are no longer the actors, but the spectators

It was always embarrassing when professors assigned their own books. Even Madeleine, who found all the reading hard going, could tell that Zipperstein's contribution to ...

Unless your life arises from your spontaneity, from your very empty heart, it is going to be just superficial. And with the superficial you cannot ...

I love the 'Underworld' movies because the vampires aren't automatically evil, yet neither are they basically humans with fangs.

As the eye of the body once put out, can never be restored by the creature's art, so neither can the spiritual eye lost by ...

If we know only our own side of the argument, we hardly know even that; it becomes stale, soon learned only by rote, untested, a ...

When the violation of parity was discovered I began a series of electronic experiments to investigate parity violation in hyperon decays.

I tell you one you straight off in Scotland - Nick de Luca. I don't see his name quoted, but I've played against Nick quite ...

Architecture is a hypothesis about the future that holds that subsequent change will be confined to that part of the design space encompassed by that ...

J.R.R. Tolkien told a questioning correspondent, life's purpose is to know, praise, and thank God.

Tis very sweet to look into the fairand open face of heaven, - to breathe a prayerfull in the smile of the blue firmament.

I started taking selfies since I was 4

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

I used to walk around with a stick. My dad used to call me Moses. It's on a home video. He said, 'That kid would ...

My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow ...

As we gather here today," Clinton said, "the fiftieth woman to leave this Earth is orbiting overhead. If we can blast fifty women into space, ...

And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a ...

I'm the go-to guy for Mexican priests. I'm the new Barry Fitzgerald, except with a Mexican accent.

Organizations can't change their culture unless individual employees change their behavior - and changing behavior is hard.

Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?''Always,' Carol said, smiling, too.

Arithmetic is the death of story.