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Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.
A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts.
one of the greatest hindrances to happiness in the present day is our tendency to standardize our conception of it.
Most of us have never allowed ourselves to want what we truly want because we can't see how it's going to manifest.
I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T, teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.
I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.
Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects.
Most people are far more concerned that they can control their own bodies than they are about petitioning Congress.
If I were a young man today, I might be lured into the moviemaking industry. You can really make a statement there.
Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.
Genuine confidence is what launches you out of bed in the morning, and through your day with a spring in your step.
Thomas: Is it [my brain] fixed? Brenda: It worked, judging from the fact that you're not trying to kill us anymore.
You have to work to keep love alive; you have to protect it and maintain it, just like you would a delicate flower.
The erogenous zone is always shifting, and it is the business of fashion to pursue it, without ever catching it up.
The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us.
Great, they give blind kids guns," I said, trying to lessen his horror. "I don't even let Iggy have a gun. Usually.
So there you have it, the extent of my charms: brown hair and eyes like unbarfed chocolate. I'm a lucky girl." -Max
We’ll be back!” he snarled. It was really Ari’s voice. Boy, you just can’t kill people like you used to,” said Fang
Passing in any crowd are secret people whose hidden response to beauty is the desire to tear it into bleeding meat.
Trusting your intuition is like learning to ride a bike. Everything takes practice before it becomes second nature.
Sadly, e-mail has triggered the decline of the handwritten note; I have seen its near-disappearance in my lifetime.
I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.
I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.
I write every day... I never get ideas unless I'm actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don't do me any good.
In Iraq during the days of Saddam, I had a government minder who followed me everywhere, reported on my activities.
I never set out to be a journalist. I wanted to be a humanitarian doctor like Albert Schweitzer, working in Africa.
It was hard to trust someone enough to let them all the way in when I didn't think they deserved to be there. -Cora
Turning a human being into a thing is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person.
We're going to knock those demons out and slay them with the power of Jesus. Hallelujah, can I get an amen?- Timmie
Odd that I couldn’t catch any of your dream,” Bones went on. “Normally your dreams are like background music to me.
This isn't going to be easy," I grumbled as we headed toward the exit. Bones shrugged. "Nothing worthwhile ever is.
Brilliant landing.. We´re trying to keep a low profile, and here you´ve gone and made it look like a meteorite hit.
The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.
Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.
Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all, other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you.
Trust is not an important element; it is THE important element in any LONG TERM success with anyone or any company.
Kids are so dynamic; if you're tired and you walk into a roomful of kids, your energy is brought up to their level.
Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass.
Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a lifetime.
Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter.
What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.
Violet, the Dowager Countess: “I mean, one way or another, everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden.
Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging.
When I was a newspaper reporter, and later a television writer, I really felt my co-workers became a second family.
Go to lots of interviews, at least one a month even when you don't need a job, to keep in training for when you do.
When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?
Spiritual maturity is a lifelong pursuit. We grow in spiritual maturity moment by moment, day by day, year by year.
As a leader you should always start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go.
The question is not whether the formula for success will work, but rather whether the person will work the formula.