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To fight against one's desires is the greatest of all fights.
The nurses did their best to spruce up the antiseptic corridors but the smell of pine boughs was overpowered by Pine Sol and no one ...
I was raised - professionally - in the Public Integrity Section. I started in 1976, stayed there for 12 years. It was formed after Watergate ...
I have two college degrees, but the only way I could make a living was by showing kids how to put a ball in a ...
To see the dull indifference, the negligent and thoughtless air that sits upon the faces of a whole assembly, while the psalm is upon their ...
Zec back toward the living room. The kettle's whistle died away, like an air raid siren winding down. The house went quiet again. "It's over," ...
They say that love and tears are learned without any master; and I may say that there is no great need of studying at the ...
Security matters should not be entrusted to people who make decisions without weighing things up.
- but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I've got to?
Obviously you try to keep as much of your private life as private as you can.
I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.
As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible.
Honestly, the best skater that I've seen who raps is Tyler, The Creator. He really can skate ... He's legit.
The best in art and life comes from a center - something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on its being. From ...
Run across a field of daisies at warp speed but keep your eyes on the ground. It's ace. Pedaled stars and dandelion comets streak the ...
I want to learn about a different religion. I grew up Catholic, but my grandfather was Jewish. Knowledge about other religions can help you understand ...
I wasn't the kind of person that liked waiting for autographs or following them, I just liked to go to the shows, study their records, ...
There's all sorts of ways to live, Chip. Some of them you give a lot. Some of them you take a lot. Art, jazz, it ...
I enjoyed my life when I had nothing ... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.
Take heed your actions lest ye become like the enemy ye seek to destroy.
Sheis the imitation of what I want.Unfortunately, the original is notavailable.
And I think a woman should find it a joy to be female because God made both male and female.
Was it hard?" I ask.Letting go?"Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.
True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. It's getting people to play beyond their potential
And I stood up, again to help when I was supposed to hurt.
As we arise each morning, let us determine to respond with love and kindness to whatever might come our way.
Diets are rubbish. I eat healthily, and often have a day when I stuff myself.
Tonight was definitely an eye opener, but a reminder of how I use to be & why. Self discovery happens at such random times.
You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.
Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you ...
My music, I hope, takes 100% of your concentration. I know how to do that.
With 'Gone Girl,' I sat down, and suddenly the end credits were rolling; you just become so engrossed in it.
Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.
Samuel Marshak was one of the founders of modern Russian children's literature. Soviet children used to know his poems by heart, but only since glasnost ...
If only Coca-Cola had had the kind of message to accompany its addictive deliciousness that Fox News has, we'd all be speaking Cokelish today.
Answering our calling is our greatest journey, the one that leads us back home to the truth of who we are.
We are all continually asked to learn how to ask for what we need, only to practice accepting what we're given.
It was not hard to believe a beautiful woman capable of murder, Margret thought.As it says in the sagas, Opt er flago i fogru skinni. ...
On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook poetry from their ...
While Molly and Joseph Anning suffered materially that winter, with many days of weak soup and weaker fires, Mary barely noticed how little she was ...
Hormones were as potent as whiskey, and twice as sneaky.
By privately endorsing Seward's spirit of compromise while projecting an unyielding public image, President-elect Lincoln retained an astonishing degree of control over an increasingly chaotic ...
There is practically nothing in life you are set out to do that you cannot accomplish; it only takes you to make you".
There are two sides to every story, and sometimes three, four, and five.
Wish on a star, said a tiny voice in his head from some long-departed day of early childhood: Wish on a starthe cry of pleasure ...
Each individual has a unique food personality. The key is finding the balance point at which you feel great and are healthy.
I Have Not Yet Begun to Procrastinate" which was the quote on Bay's shirt from "First Frost
Sometimes you don't really see who you are, until you see who you are not".
The standard of good behavior for the continuance in office of the judicial magistracy is certainly one of the most valuable of the modern improvements ...
The system of transportation is not coherent; it is not treated as integral. Roads compete with with railroads and airlines in chaotic fashion, and at ...
You try too hard. Winners forget they're in a race. They just love to run.
A great trick that I learned having worked as a screenwriter for many years, the way screenwriters work, is they break the project down into ...
You don't have to support Liverpool from the day you're born, Coach. You can learn to do it when you're grown up.
She considered [her] life, which had not been a life but only a sort of greeting, a Hello There.
The difference between virtuality and life is very simple. In a construct you know everything is being run by an all-powerful machine. Reality doesn't offer ...
It doesn't really matter what time it is if you haven't determined what to do with your time.
The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
Prayer is an impossibility without a living faith in the presence of God within.
Failing is not a disgrace unless you make it the last chapter of your book.
I have to teach myself. I kind of wish I'd continued with my education, but that's something I can do in the future.
Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves ...
Hollywood has always seen Sondheim as a caviar brand unsuitable for a popcorn industry.
I can never resist telling people good news. I mean, why not brighten someone else's life too?
The primary duty of every minister is to lead people into the "Promised Land.
Fears about yourself prevent you from doing your best work, while fears about your reception by others prevent you from doing your own work.
The thought made his belly heave again. Sam bent over the gunwale and retched, but not into the wind. He had gone to the right ...
I sting like a butterfly and punch like a flea.
The greatest comedian I've ever seen is Jack Benny. He wasn't afraid of the silences.
This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of ...
I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.
Every man is an author - an author of his state.
(Its) admirable words can purchase honour; (its) admirable deeds can raise their performer above others.
An international presence in Serbia's Kosovo province is not a problem. But only a civilian and unarmed mission under U.N. auspices, with Russia's participation, would ...
Hustle makes up for many a mistake.
I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we've passed the audition.
At the English Revolution, when William of Orange came to the throne, the introduction of French wines into the country was prohibited, and this gave ...
Averse alike to flatter, or offend;Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.
I believe that God has a plan, and it's your job to show up with an open heart.
People can't imagine an enemy that would cut someone's head off before a video camera and spread it out across the world. But that has ...
Oh my God, you feel incredible." He breathed heavily against my ear. "Holy shit, I may never recover from this.
Isn't it only laughter we can stay human?
OH THAT I COULD GO TO THE SKY WHERE I MIGHT FIND A CLEAR KNOWING.
For some things there are no explanations - no reasons, and so, when these things happen, there is nothing to talk about really. And it ...
Mystical state, madness, how it frightens people. How utterly crazy they become, remote, rude, peculiar, cruel, taunting, farouche as wild beasts who have smelled danger, ...
Those Genes Could Have Been Mine
Sometimes we have to go wrong to go right - Acheron
All you have to do is utter the words, "I pledge myself to the goddess Artemis. I turn my back on the company of men, ...
I always studied because I knew I had to. I needed to survive and take care of my mother.
The present moment is the only aperture through which the soul can pass out of time into eternity, through which grace can pass out of ...
Touch me, he thought, my arm, my hand, a finger. Let me know it's all right for me to have these feelings for you.
You're filmed that one very special day of the pageant, and you want to make sure you're as ready to go as you can be.
It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker.
Put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
I'd seen the movie 'Paranormal Activity' and was convinced for weeks that it was real.
Home for the exile in a secular and contingent world is always provisional
Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
Spirtual does not mean divorced from the physical, earthly realm. The Earth is one of the most divine forms in all creation.
Many other teachings, has its esoteric or inner phase,
But, in reality, we're all dying. We should remind ourselves of that on a daily basis, appreciate we're still around and try to squeeze as ...
I'm wondering if every person I pass has similar depths, and if there's any way to avoid the mistake of judging them so shallowly that ...