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A twinge of wonderment that might charm the most cynical of New York dance fans…They raise the bar, and then they jump over it.
I think it has as much to do with honoring my own voice as it does with feeling a responsibility to my readers or my daughters.
If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can pray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn.
If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.
"Not sure," he retorted; "you call yourself a journalist, and admit there is a subject under Heaven of which you are not sure!"
It is only the first baby that takes up the whole of a woman's time.Five or six do not require nearly so much attention as one.
Five thousand people in one society might do something, but five thousand societies of one member each would be a holy trouble.
The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.
Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.
Can another help bring about a transformation in you? If he can, you are not transformed; you are merely dominated, influenced.
The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.
While expressing your desires, you would need to exercise control in order to prevent them from doing harm to you or to others.
I've always known I'd be a bank robber. So judge all you want, ladies and gentlemen. Because you never did become an astronaut.
If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image. [Ger., Das Betragen ist ein Spiegel in welchem jeder sein Bild zeigt.]
The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.
Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny
Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage
Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.
Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.
Anyone who has ever stopped to watch a hawk in flight will know that this is one of the natural world's most elegant phenomena.
I have written about the women around me. My ancestors, my relatives, lovers. It was a way of trying to make it all make sense.
An Englishman hath three qualities, he can suffer no partner in his love, no stranger to be his friend, nor to be dared by any.
If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.
Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord.
The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.
The writer, like everyone else, is equipped in infancy with a thick padding of things he believes to be true, but which aren't.
Far more disturbing than any spook house at an amusement park is a ride through the old hometown if you've been away for years.
Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of choosing kindness over cruelty would change us.
If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
It's a good rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you're not allowed to see where something comes from, don't put it in your mouth.
She maintained a careful balance by her window, never allowing the men to come too close, never allowing them to stray too far.
Check out that one at the end. He's taken the form of a footstool. Weird...but somehow I like his style." "That is a footstool.
Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know about women.
The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.
Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.
When a storm blows, you must stand firm. For it is not trying to knock you down, it is really trying to teach you to be strong.
motivation is highest when the probability of success is 50 percent: We don't get involved if the task is too easy or too hard.
Blakes Hotel in South Kensington was a particular favourite of mine during what I affectionately think of as my Restless Years.
It's a sin to hate, and for that reason alone, we must not hate the Normans... We can, however, thoroughly dislike them, Alice.
Do you have feelings for this kind man?" "You shouldn't ask her such a question," Frances Catherine said. "But do you, Gillian?
And as I watched him, I knew that in every dark night there was, somewhere, a small light burning that could never be quenched.
This had been real: real in its flaws and uncertainties, real in its small triumphs, real in its compromises and understanding.
I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for connections.
I just want some space to myself every now and then. Every time I’m with you I have this sense that you want something from me.
The good and the bad, the sugar and the salt, the kicks and the kisses—what’s come before and what will come after, you and me—
I want you here. I don't care if it's a hundred degrees and every blade of grass dies. Without you, none of that matters to me.