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I'm used to rereading e-mails, even, before sending them - a bit compulsive. So this is high speed roller coaster for me!
what I love is slowness. Slow people, slow reading, slow traveling, slow eggs, and slow love. Everything good comes slow.
The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.
When you are convinced that everything that happens is the will of God, what is there to do but wait until God has mercy?
The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.
Nobody ever sees this part,” I said. “It doesn’t matter if it’s pretty.” “So it’s like track six on an album,” Cole said.
I say, 'I will not be your weakness, Sean Kendrick.' Now he looks at me. He says, very softly, 'It's late for that, Puck.
The extent to which we take everyday objects for granted is the precise extent to which they govern and inform our lives.
It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.
Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.
a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.
Play up the outrage factor and suddenly groups bond together like never before - and prepare to attack like never before.
I would rather have a man dog then a women dog because they do not bear like women dogs, it is a hard case it is shoking.
It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.
No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.
She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.
Blunted unto goodness is the heart which anger never stirreth, but that which hatred swelleth, is keen to carve out evil.
Life is as the current spark on the miner's wheel of flints; While it spinneth, there is light; stop it, all is darkness.
What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.
there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.
For me, a novel relying too heavily on a single idea might be a dry, deadly thing unless it possesses an animating force.
I could never be a sports writer, unless my assignment was to write 'sports sports sports sports sports' for three pages.
You're awake," he said. "Phresine is not," pointed out the queen. "Oh?" "You gave her lethium." "She gave it to me first.
When you long for the port, it is time to leave the journey; when you long for the journey, it is time to leave the port!
I would love to buy a piece of land in the Moon, just to feel very farsighted, extremely optimistic and absolutely crazy!
Our dreams are our precious diamonds; without them, we are endlessly poor. Let us perpetually dream to be overly wealthy!
A free horse where there is no man on its saddle always looks more beautiful than a slave horse with a man on its saddle!
Every day spend at least an hour in a forest to stay healthy, and much more than this, to stay sane in this insane world!
Fight for your existence and when doing this, try to be just to others! You have no job other than this in this universe!
I have lost my faith, but I gained the truth! It is not important at all to lose your candle as long as you find a torch!
I judge the people and the nations by their ideals; the higher the ideals, the better the person, the greater the nation.
While wishing a beautiful snowing for the streets of your city, do not forget also to wish a warm house for the homeless!
To fly up to the sky and watch the earth is beautiful; to fly down to the earth and watch the sky is even more beautiful!
Real love and Sun have something in common; they are so bright that they don't have shadows, they are free of darkness...
When you see the flower of happiness on your way, don't take it immediately; sit and watch it and realise how rare it is!
Sarcasm, as it turned out--even when it was instinctive and quick--cut into the time one had to manufacture one's escape.
A home to come back to every day of their lives. Where they would all belong or long to be. A place on the Jellicoe Road.
You shy, Francesca?” Javier asks me later on. I shake my head. “Not really.” I’m just sad, I want to say. And I’m lonely.
That's her secret, I suppose. Everything that happens to her she's proud of. She makes it special by it happening to her.
You grow weary of being treated as the enemy simply because you are not young anymore; because you dress unexceptionally.
There are people to whom heroism under fire comes naturally and seemingly without effort, but Patton was not one of them.
Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.
Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect.
We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.
What landed Jesus on the cross was the preposterous idea that common, ordinary, broken, screwed-up people could be godly.
As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom.
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
In a way, every parent is sort of dependent on the benevolence of the society around them to take care of their children.
I don't want to get hung up on what 'people,' that nebulous mass, think about me. That's the way to unhappiness, I think.