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Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked. It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?
You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair," said Anne reproachfully. "People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.
A crafty nightrunner died of late, And found himself at Bilairy’s Gate. He stood outside and refused to knock Because he meant to pick the lock.
Why is it that so many people think that charity consists in giving away merely what they cannot use instead of the article the recipient needs?
I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write.
Trees are the largest and most spiritually advanced plants on Earth. They are constantly in meditation. Subtle energy is their natural language.
This is what our customers are asking for to take them to the next level and free them from the bondage of mainframe and client-server software.
The whole concept of data science is that the software becomes the expert, and you, as the average user, are able to understand what's going on.
Life's tricky for women because they have to make more choices than men. And yes, choice is good, but boy, you better be an expert choice-maker.
Personally, one of the most helpful things I learned was three-act structure. For my first four or so novels, I built the structure intuitively.
I'm not really part of the Internet world, my age a factor in that and a lack of interest in sharing with so many, so little, so much, so often.
There, that's better. Now you look like the wild scrub that fell into my life." "Because you loosened the vent's screws." "Best. Decision. Ever.
The globalized nature of production and innovation means that the benefits don't necessarily stay in the country where the investments are made.
Magic happens when you tell the universe what you want it to do for you; miracles happen when you ask how you can be of service to the universe.
Once we truly understand that God's will is that we be happy, we no longer feel the need to ask for anything other than that God's will be done.
A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.
As we give, so shall we receive. Service does not mean self-sacrifice. It means giving the needs of another person the same priority as our own.
God is a peaceful ground of being. He is the energy of nonviolence. To ask Him to help is to ask Him to turn us into profoundly peaceful people.
Human civilization as we know it is like the Titanic headed for the iceberg, whether the iceberg be nuclear, environmental or terrorism-related.
Our task, in the aftermath of September 11, was and continues to be the transformation of the effects of evil into something beautiful and good.
Look at Fukushima. Should we or should we not agree with the U.S. government that none of that radioactive energy is making its way here? Hello!
When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight.
While women were powerfully liberated both externally as well as internally by the feminism of the 1970s, we made some serious mistakes as well.
To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.
I have neither talent or taste for kingship, cousin. I am a warrior, and to dwell always in one place and live at court would weary me to death!
Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is the man or the woman.
I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.
My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.
I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.
If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.
Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship money.
What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?
I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.
Graveyards are filled with books that were never written, songs that were never sung, words that were never spoken, things that were never done.
Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.
In the moments I get it right, every step I take seems to be matched by a universal mystery, which obligingly, incredibly, creates what I can't.
Many people think passion is a fuzzy feeling that makes taking action effortless. In fact, it's the gritty courage and tenacity to forge onward.
As children of God we are somebody. He will build us, mold us, and magnify us if we will but hold our heads up, our arms out, and walk with him.
It's undeserved success that people are so terribly afraid of losing; they know they haven't any way, themselves, of ever getting it back again.
I think if a woman is very happy with herself and at ease with her choices, it goes a long way toward making other people feel at ease with her.
Europeans used to say Americans were puritanical. Then they discovered that we were not puritans. So now they say that we are obsessed with sex.
The suspense in a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist himself, who is intensely curious too about what will happen to the hero.
Fletcherizing is gross. I tried it once. I tried to go until it's all liquid, and it just creeps you out to be focusing so much on your chewing.
A fine book, in the perfect setting, when there's all the time in the world to read it: Life holds greater joys, but none come to mind just now.
I get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually the opposite of a cynic.
Though we may now think some sins light and little, if the Lord awaken the conscience, we shall feel even the smallest sin heavy upon our souls.
Liberals like using government to solve problems in OUR country and conservatives are using our government to solve problems in OTHER countries.
The truth is that at the White House and in Congress, you are as likely to find sympathy for animal issues among Republicans as among Democrats.
Best, I'd advise, to give up all animal products obtained by cruel methods. There are some fine companies nowadays offering leather substitutes.