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Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether.
Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
My reflection in the mirror shows me pink and puffy. I thought pregnant women were to supposed to glow. I am not glowing.
Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking.
Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck.
There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.
Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.
For me, I took the exact right path. The cranky, independent one. And I've never looked back on it with anything but joy.
Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.
I'm an old member of Greenpeace. I worried intensely, as I think most of my friends did, that the world was coming apart.
Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.
I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.” “Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.
Someone like Bruno Sammartino should never be a jobber on a video game, so and so forth. I think you have to pay respect.
Empty Spaces:After his father died he carried his life more gently & left an empty space for the birds & other creatures.
'100 Bullets' is a novel on its own. 'Brother Lono,' other than the main character, has nothing to do with '100 Bullets.'
Believe it or not, but 'White Heat' and 'Little Caesar' keep dancing around in my brainpan while I'm writing 'Moonshine.'
A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.
Sometimes, I get ideas from dreams. Often, my stories are based on adventures that I, or my friends, have actually lived.
Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self.
I been a wanderin' Early and late, New York City To the Golden Gate An' it looks like I'm never gonna cease my Wanderin'.
Influence follows close upon the heels of character; and whatever we are, that we shall in the end be acknowledged to be.
Never underestimate the importance of the beginning. Of anything. The beginning has the seeds of everything else to come.
Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you.
I write to explore something that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way I know how to write.
When my father finished his Ph.D., my mother went back for another bachelor's degree, this time in environmental science.
When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before any one is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness.
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.
For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.
Possibly we might even improve the world a little, if we got up early in the morning, and took off our coats to the work.
Actually, attorneys say, copying a purchased CD for even one friend violates the federal copyright code most of the time.
In surveys, many borrowers say reverse mortgages have improved their lives and provided money they needed for retirement.
For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is "take-home pay" because home is the only place they can afford to go with it.
Tenderness is total love, whereas justice is only a part of love, though it believes itself, mistakenly, to be the whole.
I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.
Something I am now convinced of, after researching Everyone Brave, is that none of us is born courageous in all respects.
If you can't figure out how to make the beginning of your book compelling, you're probably not writing a compelling book.
Just because he was pretty didn't mean he couldn't be improved by a smack upside the head with a piece of earnest hickory
My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.
Adventure-seasoned and storm-buffeted, I shun all signs of anchorage, because The zest of life exceeds the bound of laws.
More interesting than thinking about whats possible in 10 years is thinking whats possible now but that no one has built.
One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning.
if one's natural feelings are suppressed long enough one develops supernatural feelings and feels surer of having a soul.
I think that people who stand up for what they believe in, no matter how unpopular, should be celebrated, not cast aside.
I am proudest of that first novel, 'Trust,' of anything I have written. I don't think I've had such intense energy since.
Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves.
On a court full of great writers, I shouldn't say full of - there have been some bad writers on the court over the years.
Seventy per cent of all patients who come to physicians could cure themselves if they got rid of their fears and worries.
You realize that if you're in the media business, technology is fundamentally what's driving the change in that business.