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The character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the kept.
It took me a long time to even dare to envision myself as a writer. I was very uncertain and hesitant and afraid to pursue a creative life.
I love reading poetry, and yet, at this point, the thought of writing a poem, to me, is tantamount to figuring out a trigonometry question.
The two hemispheres of the brain are two very different places and they don't share any cell bodies. They are completely separate entities.
Who’s there?” “The scratcher of your itch,” he said. She opened the door a crack and stuck her nose out. “Was that supposed to be romantic?
Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.
It may not seem obvious at first glance, but the way we make decisions in life tells a lot about the kind of faith we have in Jesus Christ.
The old saying is true: If you have only the Word, you dry up. If you have only the Spirit, you blow up. But if you have both, you grow up.
Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well.
In terms of work, I never felt that I've done it right. I always want to have done it differently, to have done it better, a different way.
Marina sighs. "Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you drown.
How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.
She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.
You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else. I need you, she replied. Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.
When you look into your baby’s eyes,” Lacy said softly, “you see everything you hope they can be…not everything you wish they won’t become.
The legal system works really well, if you communicate a certain way. But if you don't, it all goes to Hell in a handbasket really quickly.
I don't want people reading my books just because they're horror or mysteries. I want them to read them because they're Joe Lansdale books.
Many Americans genuinely fear that God is preparing to remove his hand of protection and blessing from our country, or perhaps already has.
I moved into midfield because I ruptured my Achilles tendon and couldn't run anymore - it's not what I wanted to do, it's what I had to do!
When you break it down, Yahoo! is a Very Large Display Advertising business, with a hefty side of search and a bit of this and that on top.
Obama will win the 2012 election, thanks in part to the tech community rallying behind him due to issues like SOPA, visas, and free speech.
Life is going to hit you some line drives, and sometimes you'll have to think fast. However, it's better to think first than to think fast.
Your goal as a leader isn't to be indispensable to the people you lead; it is to leave your people something that is indispensable to them.
Profile of a winning team - They play to win. They have a winning attitude. They keep improving. They make their teammates more successful.
Success is choosing to enter the arena of action, determined to give yourself to the cause that will better humanity and last for eternity.
Every major difficulty you face in life is a fork in the road. You choose which track you will head down, toward breakdown or breakthrough.
What I find them struggling most isn't with one of the twelve [things from daily list]; I find them struggling with what decisions to make.
I'm worried about greenwashing. I think we should come down on it very, very hard, whether it's with criminal intent or actively deceptive.
The Lord's supper is memorative, and so it has the nature and use of a pledge or token of love, left by a dying to a dear surviving friend.
Above us, the wind blew and the branching shadows rearranged themselves on our skin. Gus squeezed my hand. "It is a good life, Hazel Grace.
The whole pleasure of being in a state of unknowing is that as long as you don’t know, all possible outcomes feel as if they are happening.
My days had a pleasant identicalness about them. I had always liked that: I liked routine. I liked being bored. I didn’t want to but I did.
It's almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was or the whatever I am now.
Is that what relationships become? A reduced version of the hurt, nothing else let in. It was more than that. I know it was more than that.
I am not an Internet superstar. I am, ironically perhaps, the most old media superstar of all time. My fame is due to broadcast television.
Here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond: Not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed.
The pessimistic coach complains about the play. The optimistic coach expects it to change. The realistic coach adjusts what he can control.
Multi-billion-dollar multinational corporations view the exploitation of the world's sick and dying as a sacred duty to their shareholders.
Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
Ghettos and barrios and abusive homes and trauma wards may produce scarred souls; they can cripple more human spirits than they strengthen.
Tithing is like training wheels when it comes to giving. It's intended to help you get started, but not recommended for the Tour de France.
God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn't. Copper will do.
Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically. It is mainly about displaying the covenant keeping love between Christ and his Church
Do you feel more loved when God makes much of you or do you feel more loved when God at the cost of His Son allows you to make much of Him?
The story [Henny-Penny] has the best opening in all literature-"The sky is falling," cried Henny-Penny, "and a piece of it fell on my tail.
The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side.
The gospel creates the church, which spreads the gospel, which creates more churches, which in turn spread the gospel further ad infinitum.
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.
In the society of illusion, reality must manifest itself. The story songs of Joel Rafael are that manifestation... the essence of minstrel.