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Reverse the typical American meal pattern and instead eat like a king for breakfast, a prince for lunch and a pauper for supper.
she was such a bad actress. she never said her lines rite, it was something perverse in her nature. and wat was her line anyway?
Once you get below the floor of our personal identities, we're all connected. Perhaps that's why we can move into others' lives.
Why is it we are always the targets of the angry Fates? Twice as many men of ours met harm as did theirs, since we've come here.
If cities have souls, Sanctuary's was troubled long before Tempus got here, and will be troubled long after he and his are gone.
The truth of God's love is not that He allows bad things to happen, it's his promise that he will be there with us when they do.
Drinking freshly made juices and eating enough whole foods to provide adequate fiber is a sensible approach to a healthful diet.
It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person.
...I'd have cheerfully thrown Her Majesty and her hundred pounds of baggage to the curb, but that wasn't mature. ~Cat on Annette
Then, when people saw you strolling around at high noon holding your rosary beads, they’d think, ‘Well, that can’t be a vampire.
He looked at the box with interest. 'Well, well. Five speeds. Heat and massage. Deep, penetrating action. Sure this isn't yours?
I love the 'Underworld' movies because the vampires aren't automatically evil, yet neither are they basically humans with fangs.
When I started writing about vampires, I swore that I wouldn't touch the 'Dracula' legend because it's been done too many times.
If a principle exists it must be immutable, for that is what a principle is - a truth standing apart from the mood of the times.
In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.
Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.
Negative people are worse than negative occurrences. The argument is over in ten minutes - the person may hang around for years.
The more a prospective customer clicks on you and your stuff, the easier it is for them to make a buying decision in your favor.
Management's job is to convey leadership's message in a compelling and inspiring way. Not just in meetings, but also by example.
You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want.
All I'm saying is that I understand if the novelty's worn off and you want to get off the carousel ride now before it kills you.
I am driving an unfamiliar vehicle down a narrow road I've never seen before. Do you really want to be pissing me off right now?
There are some people whose Twitter feeds are works of art. They intuitively understand how much of themselves to put out there.
Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.
The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold.
Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.
When we were children we were errant enough to wish to be birds for the day but there's nothing easier to lose than playfulness.
Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That's called doing your homework.
If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop learning, never stop growing.
Remember that all success is based on long-term commitment, faith, discipline, attitude and a few stepping stones along the way.
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.
All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.
But will you miss me? More importantly - will I miss you? Does either one of us really want to hear the answer to that question?
Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot.
I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't get shoved first.
Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins.
By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.
Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.
A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations.
Wanting to win isn't enough. You have to go through a process to improve. That takes patience, perseverance, and intentionality.
A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others. By John Maxwell
If you want to reach the top, don't run over others. Likely, the only way you'll reach the top is to be carried there by others.
Unsuccessful headlines were not written without a strong appeal, but it was the wrong appeal for that product and that audience.
The real meaning of the word paranoia is--- a man or person who has the ability to link events that seemingly are not connected.
difficulties only become problems when we separate ourselves from them instead of dealing with them directly and wholeheartedly.
Your self doesn't represent the truth in you, your being does. Give your ease only to what you know represents the truth in you.
We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.
For after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion . . . and a man no longer believes he is a man.
but there was nothing I could do to dim the supernovae exploding inside my brain, an endless chain of intra cranial firecrackers