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Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.
Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.
The squirrel has not yet found the acorn that will grow to the oak that will be cut to form the cradle of the babe that will grow to slay me.
In a novel, you can always go back and make it look like you knew what you were doing all along before the thing goes out and gets published.
Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or what will lose.
I think there are just a million interviews in anthologies with famous musicians that are about the music, and they're really boring to read.
Let me tell you something. Nobody goes to jail unless they want to. Unless they make themselves get caught. They don't have things organized.
Sometimes I try to meditate, which I hope will help, but it doesn't really. But lots of times my dreams have the seed of an intriguing story.
Courage comes in different forms. There's strength--that's the muscle. But love's the heart. When you put them together, you can do anything.
I have no idea why it apparently takes three grown men to cook some hamburgers. One to cook, one to kibbitz, and one to insult the other two.
Couples take care of each other, Clare, that's what makes them a couple. And couples tell each other when something happens that scares them.
Those big blue eyes were swimming, and he was afraid that if the first tear fell, he would break and carry her off anywhere she wanted to go.
The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God's infallible Word.
In our common parlance we speak of the man "with no tea" in him, when he is insusceptible to the serio-comic interests of the personal drama.
At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips.
True love is not a potion one person can swallow and another refuse to drink. It happens only when the souls of two join together to form one
My parents were travelers. Every time my parents got ten dollars ahead they went somewhere. That's what they did. So I got the bug from them.
A linear projection into the future of any science or technology is like a form of propaganda &emdash; often persuasive, almost always wrong.
Like it or not, males have a tendency to wander a little bit. What you want to do is make a home so wonderful that he doesn’t want to wander.
It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.
God never intended for us to simply be the objects of His love. We are also called to be the instruments of that love in the lives of others.
You cannot divide human beings into those who worship and those who don't. Everybody worships; it's just a matter of what, or whom, we serve.
We can choose this moment of crisis to ask and answer the big questions of society's evolution — like, what do we want to be when we grow up?
For many years, I have sought and studied Agarikon, an unusual mushroom native to the old growth conifer forests of North America and Europe.
Lion's mane may be our first 'smart' mushroom. It is a safe, edible fungus that appears to confer cognitive benefits on our aging population.
If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
All economic activity is by definition "high risk." And defending yesterday--that is, not innovating--is far more risky than making tomorrow.
It is commonly believed that innovations create changes - but few ever do. Successful innovations exploit changes that have already happened.
Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence.
Wherever an impact can be eliminated by dropping the activity that causes it, this is therefore the best-indeed the only truly good-solution.
It has taken us two million years to elevate politics from the level of a monkey squabble, to a level comprehensible to a six year old child.
If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the I.R.A. for it.
Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.
You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you master the old rule, you are then the master-and masters get to change things.
Even when we strive for perfection , life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.
The left-wing agenda wants us to think that the reason there was a depression was because the government didn't do anything. That's not true.
Theres a lot of American kids think their food comes from the grocery store and the concept of seasonality has no meaning to them whatsoever.
In zen, it is a cardinal sin to waste time. To waste time is to squander the here and now, which, if you think about it, is all that we have.
A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.
Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise.
We live in age of compromise, but if we stand on the bedrock of God’s truth, we will not bend with the winds of relativism and faithlessness.
Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.
I’d know you in the dark,” he said. “From a thousand miles away. There’s nothing you could become that I haven’t already fallen in love with.
I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.
Reagan was sitting up at Cath's desk when Cath woke up. "Are you awake?" "Have you been watching me sleep?" "Yes, Bella. Are you awake?" "No.
Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults.
The denial of an objective moral law, based on the compulsion to deny the existence of God, results ultimately in the denial of evil iteself.
Jesus came to save souls in his fathers name with love and only love that is why he turned up as a man, so why can't we see his real message?
Bob Dylan tends not to have geographical or chronological markers that tie a song to any specific context, so they stay alive, stay relevant.