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There's an invisible army of woman and men who really don't get why we give so much of ourselves to football. And they need to SPEAK UP.
At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy by the pound.
The key to success is to raise your own energy; when you do, people will naturally be attracted to you. And when they show up, bill ‘em!
On weekends, I sit in a lounge chair on my balcony. I love to be outside when the weather's right. I can stay there pretty much all day.
If you were a sane woman, I would, of course, behave in a more rational fashion. Since you are a lunatic, however, this is the only way.
Crises have a way of thrusting into the limelight hitherto obscure persons, and giving them, for a long or short period, a leading role.
One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness.
Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.
The number of ways you can live in one lifetime is limitless. So why limit yourselves? The sky is NOT the limit. Beyond the universe is.
Never fear Death for you will feel aroused by his sleep. Never cheat death or he will slap you with a sentence of misery for the defeat.
Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies...that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself.
A life-whether seamstress or poet, farmer or king-is measured not by length, but by the worth of its deeds, and the power of its dreams.
Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
I'm a writer. My job is to speak what - that which I think is true. If that bridges the gap, that's good. If it doesn't, that's too bad.
The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping shallots.
...In the vast majority of drug experiments, it is not uncommon for none or one or two of hundreds of patients to benefit from the drug.
In her glamorous quest for the darkest light and the lowest high, she now found herself wallowing on the bottom of a filthy garbage bin.
The training of a Mord-Sith takes years - to learn to handle the pain. I guess it's also why only women are Mord-Sith, men are too weak.
A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written.
Zen is consciousness unstructured by particular form or particular system, a trans-cultural, trans-religious, transformed consciousness.
If we are to make life into a pleasure rather than a struggle, then I would suggest that we have to start with our own mental attitudes.
To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.
The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it's not fun, you're wasting your life.
Unless a man has considerable skill with and reliance in his weapon, he will not remain cool in the presence of dangerous game close by.
Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that.
The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.
I play quite an old-fashioned game of poker. It's a lot about getting a sense of people at the table rather than the maths of the thing.
Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.
He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.
They'd poisoned me, dammit. Probably to trade my dead body to the barbarians for Wulfgar's safe return. Or maybe just for the fun of it.
I should like to underline: no people, no country, in which a Communist dictatorship has been established, ever found its way out of it.
If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
It's really important to have subjects that people all over the world are familiar with, and the Disney films are really great that way.
If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.
India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
I, indeed, following the true law of history, have never set down any fact that I have not learned from trustworthy speakers or writers.
Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.
When I say war, I'm not talking about mental war; I'm talking about totally eliminating the obstacles to transformation of our children.
Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer-space.
Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer space.
Nature gave you your look and there's only a limited amount you can do about that, but what you wear is the skin you choose for yourself.
Love of Allah gives us spiritual life; hope in His Reward is the greatest incentive to do good; and fear of His Wrath stops us from evil.
We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.
One of the best ways to realize that age is an illusion is to have your body get older and realize that you are who you always have been.