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It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became less important.
You won't have a story unless you have conflict, which means if there's no conflict in a situation, people look for a way to make some.
Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth.
I probably had 150 meetings with Trent Lott. He has said exactly as many racist things to me as Bill Clinton has, which is to say zero.
In varying degrees and and upon different levels all gods and goddesses represent aspects of One God Which is both 'male' and 'female'.
Sound is the basis vibration of the universe All those little vortices may get sent going the other way. Sound is really very powerful.
Our information lives will be better served when we are free to get to our information from wherever we are, with any device available.
Without a positive male role model in your life it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society.
So before everyone begins the big party for 'Brontosaurus' and celebrates this huge diversity of sauropod names, let's hold our horses.
There are many more traits that the climate deniers share with the creationists and Holocaust deniers and others who distort the truth.
I inspired a new generation in the same way the previous generation inspired me. I believe that our democracy itself is very inspiring.
So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.
I admire Dickens beyond words. He is one of the greatest plotters of all times. Didn't have a clue about women, but he sure could plot.
There are unlimited numbers of angels, beyond the human ability to count. Every time God has a thought of love, a new angel is created.
There is nobody that's ever going to fill Ted Kennedy's shoes, and that's a tall order for somebody in the family to try to live up to.
The Shadow had no imagination. He neither looked at naked women nor thought of ridding the world of dictators like Hitler or Mussolini.
There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heaven to me as the blue had never done
Success is not the result of making money; earning money is the result of success — and success is in direct proportion to our service.
It wasn't through the mind, through thinking, that the miracle that is life on earth or your body were created and are being sustained.
A self - a me - exists in every thought and every emotion. Suffering arises through complete identification with thinking and emotions.
Humans are potentially capable of living in a state of consciousness compared to which normal wakefulness is like sleeping or dreaming.
Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.
I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd.
the truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong.)
He is, as you say, a remarkable horse, a prodigious horse, although as you very justly observe, a suspicious and untractable character.
Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.
The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.
We can change our wives,” he said. “We can change our jobs, our nationalities and even our religions, but we can never change our team.
Every dog might wish to be Dog One, but like us, most dogs want membership in the group even more than they want supremacy over others.
A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it.
Flesh-meats will depreciate the blood. Cook meat with spices, and eat it with rich cakes and pies, and you have a bad quality of blood.
Created in the awesome image of God, men and women know that life has a meaning beyond 'eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.'
Reason cannot account for those moments in life that "bewilder the intellect yet utterly quiet the heart," as G.K. Chesterton observed.
I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.
You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.
I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.
First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking.
I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.
If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
You must hold hard to life and do it. But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you need it. Hold it tight.
It is not healthy to be thinking all the time. Thinking is intended for acquiring knowledge or applying it. It is not essential living.
I know it sounds crazy, but as soon as Christians start telling non-Christians how to live their lives, we've lost the Christian faith.
The most important thing that you can teach your children is that Well-being abounds. And that Well-being is naturally flowing to them.
People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.
A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.
my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me.
but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game
He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.
All that kept her from breaking was that it was not an image of strength that was leaving her; she would be just as strong without him.