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People had figured out all sorts of ways to make things seem different than they truly were.
It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it’s there.
There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.
Everything is made up of the exact same thing, whether it's your hand, the ocean, or a star.
I would like to lose some of the weight that I have put on since I stopped playing football.
If Glenn Hoddle had been any other nationality, he would have had 70 or 80 caps for England.
How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.
You see, when our attitudes outdistance our abilities, even the impossible becomes possible.
How do you explain to someone who thinks you're the devil incarnate, that you're really not?
The more that you bypass of your own mechanisms, the more in your self that will come apart.
When you rest in the weakness of your heart, your being moves and your self becomes quieted.
Idiots, Halt muttered. If we were here to cause trouble, we could simply ride them both down
Lawrence Millman is a favorite writer of mine. He did a travels on the trail of the Vikings.
Enlightened social engineering is required to face situations that demand global action now.
I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
Cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next.
The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.
You're funny, and you're smart, and you may show up late, but you always show up eventually.
I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.
When people have to choose between civilization and warm genitals, they choose warm genitals
I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.
And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.
Dad had a sign of his own. MY BEAUTIFUL FAMILY, it read, and then underneath that (AND GUS).
Because knowledge changes so rapidly, knowledge flow is more important than knowledge stock.
There are truths, and there are legends touched with truth, and all can teach you something.
The best use anyone can make of any day is to enjoy it - and then spread that joy to others.
Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.
I've had nothing to do with the intelligence world since I left it, in any shade or variety.
I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains.
Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.
God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
When someone is in crisis, don't start by teaching, leveraging, or explaining. Just be with.
When time marches on, it steps on your nose and tail, and leaves boot prints down your back.
The combination of foolishness in the heart and free will in the head is extremely volatile.
How do you prevent a little sociopath from becoming a big, full-blown sociopath? Sit on him.
This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.
Only let a man say that he will do something and a whole mechanism goes to work to stop him.
Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
What do I want in a doctor? Perhaps more than anything else-a friend with special knowledge.
For many years we have suckled on fear and fear alone, and there is no good product of fear.
Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts.
Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.
They took all our land; I don't have any land to toil. My crops have to grow somewhere else.
The military should get rid of video gambling devices on nearly 100 overseas bases and posts
The casinos are walking out of states with at least $1 billion in their pockets to Las Vegas
Life becomes inspiring, not in spite of the problems and the hard hits, but because of them.
I do not know whether I have been a good seaman, but I know I have been a very faithful one.
The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life.