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I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening.
Every fact is impure, but every fact contains in it the juices of life. Every fact is a clod, from which may grow an amaranth or a palm.
Don't think of him as a Republican. Think of him as the man I love, and if that doesn't work, think of him as the man who can crush you.
The inventors we remember didn't invent anything. They're the people who took somebody else's invention and made it commercially viable.
Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.
Putin needed an enemy, an Other, against which to mobilize. LGBT people are really convenient: we're sort of the ultimate foreign agent.
Basically, Trump's significant first moves have been twofold. To marginalize the media, and to start dismantling the federal government.
The idea will be to find of focus on crime and issues where there`s not a lot of - where Donald Trump can kind of get people`s emotions.
A good executive is one who makes people contentedly settle for less than they meant to get, in return for more than they meant to give.
People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and how they manage on it.
It's a shame that gays who ought to be pushing boundaries have been domesticated and tamed and turned into pets by the Progressive Left.
I enjoy upsetting the right people. I love poking fun at earnest censors. I want to push the bounds of what can be said on the Internet.
The religious fundamentalists of the Republican party are a mirror image of the religious fundamentalists of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.
While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction
Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies.
I'm very classic and structural. I love clean lines and interesting, modern details. But I'm all about being streamlined - less is more.
Style is really very personal. It's kind of timeless. Style is really about how you put yourself together. It's something very personal.
If people were possessed by reason, running marathons would never work. But we are not creatures of reason. We are creatures of passion.
It's always a shock to the people who run studios when a movie that is for women is a hit. They have an infinite capacity to be shocked.
Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.
In my headphones, I led a life of romance and incident and intrigue, none of which had anything to do with the world outside my Walkman.
Falling in love with Renee was not the kind of thing you walk away from in one piece. I had no chance. She put a hitch in my git-a-long.
I don't like the midnight closing on weekends. It's one thing to tell people they have to drive to Jiffy Lube Live in the outer suburbs.
You can come from China, Russia, any place, and you can be a New Yorker. You can say what you want to say here, really express yourself.
This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.
The West is pathetically naive about Russian reformers. We long to believe they are real liberals, but no liberal will ever rule Russia.
I do not think about absent persons as often or with such intense longing as I think of places. They lie one below the other in my mind.
When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?
Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.
No one has ever found an organism that is known not to have parents, or a parent. This is the strongest evidence on behalf of evolution.
Here's what I just realized: A world in which sport at its best is not seen as some kind of art is a world that doesn't deserve any art.
Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.
Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.
[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
In one survey, respondents listed Princeton as one of the country’s top ten law schools. The problem? Princeton doesn’t have a law school
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets.
PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.
I am going to cut my hair very short; I've never done this before... I want to say I had something to do with how I look, not the cancer.
Everything I had read in the fields of fiction and science led me to a single, dark conclusion. Humans are screwed, and so is our planet.
Max Brooks' novel 'World War Z' is one of the greatest zombie stories ever written, partly for reasons that make it basically unfilmable.
... there are four women in every man’s heart. The Maid in the Meadow, the Demon Lover, the Stouthearted Woman, the Tall and Quiet Woman.
Yet civil rights issues are very much on the front burner in South Carolina between the Black Lives Matter movement and police shootings.
The most frightening interview I've ever done was with Dr. Lonnie Thompson of The Ohio State University on the subject of global warming.
He has everything a boxer needs except speed, stamina, a punch, and ability to take punishment. In other words, he owns a pair of shorts.
A gripper of a read . . . Silence revives the cliff’s-edge drama of those Jazz age climbs and drives home the tragedy of Mallory’s death.
There's this false notion that this is a regional phenomenon, when in fact every state in the union has hardcore rednecks. No exceptions.
Unfortunately, Florida is a mecca for the shyster element, and there are apparently no rules on the kinds of advertising a lawyer can do.