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It was like I was inside a fishbowl in the middle of a typhoon, and everyone else was on the outside cluelessly enjoying lovely weather.
While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.
Advertising gets such a bashing from the world. At parties you are always asked, 'Aren't you just selling people things they don't want?
I think there's nothing new going on. Except that, you're even more public than you've ever been.There's some good and some bad to that.
Corporate worship is a regular gracious reminder that it's not about you. You've been born into a life that is a celebration of another.
The naturalist picked up the eagle and said to it, "Thou dost belong to the sky and not to this earth; stretch forth thy wings and fly."
There's a lot to be said for quitters. Those people who are extremely good at one thing got that way by quitting almost everything else.
We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be, for we forget: The ocean is not our territory - it's theirs.
It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem - which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.
We can't make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths.
I know how to live here, I know how everything smells, and tastes, and is. What could I ever search for in the world, except this again?
Is it...dead?" asked Tom, his voice all quivery with fright. "A town just ran over him," said Hester. "I shouldn't think he's very well.
For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of keeping company with God.
Fear is but another name for lack of power to control our minds, or, in other words, to control the kind of thought we think or put out.
Whatever you are holding onto in this life, hold it loosely so it won’t hurt when the Lord has to pry your fingers open to take it away.
By His life, death, and resurrection, our Savior has conquered our enemies, and by His Spirit He has granted us to share in the victory.
I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths.
The question and the cry 'Oh, where?' melt into tears of a thousand streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance 'I am!'
Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man.
Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.
From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have to listen for yourself
Some things are private. Some things needed to be said, even when the person who needed to hear them couldn’t hear anything. Ever again.
And the truth was that most of Nash's friends weren't that bad. Their girlfriends were another story. Speaking of bloodthirsty hyenas...
There cannot be love without trust and there cannot be trust unless we take the responsibility to act in a way that people can trust us.
She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes. "You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?
Give cheerfully. If we're not cheerful, the problem is our heart, and the solution is redirecting our heart, not withholding our giving.
Goals are only ever a guide; a winding, changing path. It's your heart that will really keep you on tack... and nourished along the way.
It is useful to study different traditions in order to be free of attachment to any one way of expressing what is beyond expression. (x)
Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth.
If we could convert 0.03 percent of the sunlight that falls on the earth into energy, we could meet all of our projected needs for 2030.
I am the kind of woman who loves hurricanes. They put me in a party mood. Make me want to eat oysters on the half shell, and act slutty.
[Evelyn Waugh] made drunkenness cute and chic, and then took to religion, simply to have the most expensive carpet of all to be sick on.
Strong, smart, self-reliant women who don't need men to define them only crop up in the human myth-base in one guise - the Wicked Witch.
Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.
But it's not the name I'd give to a conqueror of worlds... I would've gone with Thundro or Ragnor. I might just call him Thundro anyway.
What do you think Dimitri? Is this a good idea, Dimitri? Please give us your blessing so that we can fall down and worship you, Dimitri.
Who are these people?" my mother asked. "Guess," replied Abe flatly. "Who would be foolish enough to break into court after escaping it?
Lightning crashed on the horizon. A breeze swirled around the Cast Members. The air tasted dusty, almost bitter, with electrical charge.
You can be living in a big house, driving a nice car, going on exotic vacations and still be empty inside, crippled with fear and dread.
I write very tightly, and my big fear is boring people. I want them to read quickly, stopped in their tracks. I resist indulging myself.
Your stew, so long deferred, stands finally extra causas. Greet it as your fellow creature. It is as deliciously unnecessary as you are.
If we could just figure out how to have more fun at it, maybe more of us would join the ranks of those who seek after justice and mercy.
The U.S. trade embargo on Cuba is almost completely ineffective, as many other countries, including the European Union, do not honor it.
When the government mandates that everyone must buy a product, its sellers can, and will, increase its price, potentially without limit.
After all, I want to make sure I stick with his original vision. So far, [Steven King] comments have always been the same - run with it!
Good writing is really meaningful, and it's one of the - it's still one of the best tools we have to get and capture people's attention.
Sure, cricket on a beach on the isle of Jura is different from a Test match in a stadium in Galle, 6000 miles away, despite the sea air.
Most people want the convenience of the Internet far more than they want the private spaces that older forms of communication protected.
Evil isn't prejudiced. It doesn't care what you look like; it just wants a place to rest. It's up to you whether you give it that place.
For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. ... She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.