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I mean you ACRES of harm,' Dalrymple growled. 'Untold QUANTITIES of harm. I will visit a whole CONTINENT of harm upon you before we are through.
If your homeland were invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?
I am only so beautiful as the character of my relationships, only so rich as I enrich those around me, only so alive as I enliven those I greet.
I want to hold you like a kitten in my shirt, and still I want to spread your thighs and plow ye like a rotting bull. I dinna understand myself.
...sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually is known to men; women do it much more often.
I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so many ways. But I worry about our virtual blinders.
A legend can just as well be founded in the future as in the past." "It's called a 'prophecy,'" Urruah said. "You may have heard of the concept.
In the real world, banks hang onto their money for fear of making bad loans, no matter how many bailouts or stimulus packages Washington passes.
Those crazies in Montana who say, 'We're going to kill ATF agents because the UN's going to take over' - well, they're beginning to have a case.
There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life puts off the mask and deep answers unto deep.
Technology may change rapidly, but people change slowly. The principals [of design] come from understanding of people. They remain true forever.
The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.
Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player.
I loved the fact that it wasn't my responsibility to change somebody, that it was God's, that my part was just to communicate love and approval.
When a campaign doesn't go my way, I always take a step back, look at the facts, and try to figure out what we could learn from that experience.
I'm obsessed with the thought of making things happen... Ultimately, I do it because I'm scared. I don't ever, ever, ever want to be poor again.
Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.
On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of very different lengths.
I would say healthcare in Vietnam is so-so. There are several international clinics that are good but expensive and the care offered is limited.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy.
Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.
Above all, the only thing you have to heal is the present thought. Get that right and the whole picture will change into one of harmony and joy.
If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world.
Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink.
A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.
The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.
That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
Your system was liable to periodical convulsions, business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation.
If prayer puts God to work on earth, then, by the same token, prayerlessness rules God out of the world's affairs and prevents Him from working.
Why not make a habit of approaching life in the right spirit, joyously, expectantly, and with absolute faith that only the very best is for you?
What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others.
Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.
You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.
God made poor woman with no heart, But gave her skill, and tact, and art, And so she lives, and plays her part. We must not blame, but pity her.
The coffeehouse is good for genius, and the Viennese coffeehouse is a classic case. Freud had his favorite coffee shop, and so did Gustav Klimt.
in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.
Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare.
But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again (I hope).
if you don't exist in the arts of a culture, you're invisible. The arts are what express the soul of who we are and that expresses our humanity.
Because of the Law of Attraction, each of you is like a powerful magnet, attracting unto you more of the way that you feel at any point in time.
If you write a page a day in couple months you have a good chunk of the book and then after a year you have almost a book. It's not that...hard.
To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that, having had it.
Public deliberation is a means by which citizens make tough choices about basic purposes and directions for their communities and their country.
People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.
There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.
I adore burgers. I know they are bad for me, and only technically a sandwich, but a well made burger, juicy and hot off the grill, is wonderful!
First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.
When someone asks, 'Why do you think he's not calling me?' there's always one answer - 'He's not interested.' There's not ever any other answer.