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When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of ...

The girl was not specifically religious; [...] yet although her faith was nameless her way of living was somehow an affirmation of life rather than ...

The words I speak to these chairsmust be silencing.It has stunned theminto a profound emptiness.No creaking from the galleryno James Joyce here, nor MaloryAn unknown ...

I don't know what anyone has to be proud of.

I bet you were a Boy Scout.""You are incomprehensible.""It's just a compliment.

And His disciples remembered that it is written: Zeal for Your house will consume Me.

Increasing food production to feed an increased population results in yet another increase in population.

What a loss it would be if feminism killed chivalry.

There was never talent, only hard work.

Pure, white rock 'n' roll, with no blues influence.

I want to kick Grandma in the penis,

There is no logic in logics except an illogical logic.

Miss Leary, do you mean to insinuate that I should go encouraging homo-sex-uality amongst these corpses?

Our obsession is how we can use technology to reach our big goals, first peace, which will allow us more equality and better education.

Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.

'War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is ...

I love the '70s. I think the '70s had the best music and the best movies.

You don't need to know what tomorrow holds; all you need to know is the One who holds tomorrow.

I don't want little girls to have the same ambitions as me. But I want them to know that it's okay to be ambitious.

It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.

An astounding thing is that, almost every single week, I have met someone from my past.

The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.

Pausing even for lunch, they turned the car around and headed

It is values that tell you what your pattern and values must be on daily bases.

Women are wired to do more and different things because of their lack of ego

I didn't seem to exist, except in relation to her. I would watch her sleep across the roomfromme, one long shadow linking our beds, and ...

The members of the circle ... [were] performing a peculiar caper based on Mrs. Shawcross's fancy of what a Saxon dance might have seemed like. ...

My experience has been that grief and loss do not necessarily become more acceptable with time, and commitment to them is of no value to ...

Have a strong mind and a soft heart.

Compassion also brings us into the territory of mystery - encouraging us not just to see beauty, but perhaps also to look for the face ...

The Puget Sound is like a time machine, hiding things and then spewing them back onto its shores at the time and place of its ...

The increase in chemicals and the increase in technology, like wi-fi and cell phone use that's going through our bodies all of the time is ...

There's no such thing as a grown up person.

It's wrong, I know, but I play out this dance with him, exquisite and slow. I play it out in my head, because that is ...

The deepest joys and most terrible wounds were both to be had from family. The

He's the need and the sparks and the laughter, and he touches my heart in a way it's never been touched before. It's terrifying and ...

What do you know of my heart, priestess? What do you know of my sister?

Much healing can occur through the sexual act with a person you love and trust if the two of you can stay with each other ...

Experience is everything.

Unconscious decisions for action go on constantly inside the head.

Mamey said that in her day a woman who had not married by the age of thirty was called a thornback, named after a flat, ...

Half the people I know have dead animals in their freezers: reptiles, birds, mammals. Is that normal?

And no matter how many people surround you, that is still the loneliest place on earth.

Times have changed. The athletes have changed.

We are not saved by nations or by churches or by families, but as individuals, through a personal interest in a personal Saviour.

I do love poop. I can't help it. The heart wants what it wants. I enjoy being clever and pithy and political, but nothing's going ...

When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in ...

Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to ...

Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.

Real readers poison themselves with words. They close each book as though climbing, reborn, from a tomb.

I quickly tried to tidy-up, but she stilled my busy hands. "Honey, I don't mind a bit of mess. It's what makes you real. Please, ...

It's ok to FAIL it's not ok to Quit

Any change in attitude changes the way one sees the world, and this in turn changes the way one acts.

You know, at 35 or at 38 or 40 you really start to see what your body could look like if you just don't do ...

...There thou mightst behold the great image of authority: a dog's obey'd in office. - Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand! Why dost though ...

In my younger days, I was arrogant - jail helped me to get rid of it. I did nothing but make enemies because of my ...

Patton would have said a warmer goodbye to his horse, The author writes on Eisenhower's cold dismissal of his wartime lover.

Killed tonight, the one whose

I have seldom written poetry unless I was rather out of health.

Poverty is not a circumstance, it's an attitude.

I believe people exist to be enjoyed.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

When it's all over and the on the air signs go off there isn't a more lost feeling in the world. The wonderful, exciting, even ...

It is the civil jury that really saved the liberties of England.

When you decide to make a film, it's imperative that it's a story you just have to tell ... no matter what. If so, then ...

Knowledge will not be acquired without pains and application. It is troublesome and deep, digging for pure waters; but when once you come to the ...

Man, who knows everything, but fails to see anything by choosing to have nothing because he is too busy knowing it all to realize how ...

There is seldom a difficulty with religion where there is friendship.

One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into ...

You're mine. I knew it the first time I saw you. I will always come for you, Sara. Always.

Expanding can only be done when the company is ready.

Confidentiality and transparency are not mutually exclusive, but rather two sides of the same coin.

Just ten minutes, but everything was different now. He was different, the world was different. His father was nowhere in it. And with that, tears ...

A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our ...

Since the early beginning of history, India has been the Klondyke of the world

Most Christians expect little from God, ask little, and therefore receive little and are content with little.

Over the years, I've seen how being a soloist and having a family can really work.

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

I can never tell if guys are attractive in a loserly way or if they're just losers.

Her blue eyes glowed headlight red into my leafy greens. Those eyes were freaky.

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's ...

The only way of full knowledge lies in the act of love; this act transcends thought, it transcends words. It is the daring plunge into ...

People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment.

So childish, Alex. You've ruined her dress." The vibrant red silk floated around me as I treaded water. "I know. Bad me.

Maybe I'm less sensitive to these issues because I see that what people need first is economic security, and only when they have that can ...

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Saying she should be the one I see every time that I'm here, but when am I really even here?

Gays should be fought against.

It's not easy being number two. As a marketer, you have limited choices - you can pretend you're not defined by the market leader, or, ...

It is fundamentals that matter not the trappings. (Alice Cunningham)

We answer rage with wisdom. We answer fear with imagination. We answer war with hope. We are, each of us, important.

Be your own kind of Beautiful

Xerox manages the infrastructure of E-ZPass for a large number of states. So when you say E-ZPass, and get some bill from E-ZPass, or call ...

I'm not worried about headlines affecting my family, especially my son. He knows who I am. Whatever these things he is reading, he has a ...

There's this unbelievable bias and prejudice against quote-unquote good-looking people, that they can't be in pain or they can't have rough lives or be deep ...

I haven't really eaten breakfast since high school.

All her words to him are like staying in a hotel, new and curious and tentatively fumbling for switches on the wall, repeatedly turning on ...

The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of ...

I was picked up on a London street by a model agent. She took me to her office and then sent me to Paris to ...

"offensive" is frequently but a synonym for "unusual" ...