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O Lord, I wish to promote thy holy religion which is dreadfully neglected. I am desirous to save young persons from the vices of the age.
The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community.
I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others.
It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.
If you would be a magician, honor the Earth. Honor life. Love. Know that magic is the birthright of every human being, and wisely use it.
You can do irrefutably impossible things with the right amount of planning and support from intelligent and hardworking people and pizza.
I've always liked politicians and lawyers. They keep the PR professional's status at least two from the bottom of the ethical food chain.
He struggled to breathe through the agony in his chest. The Fates were still mocking him. It must be a boring day for them up on Olympus.
Tell him what? Kat’s a raging nymphomaniac. (Kytara) Tara! (Kat) Oh, all right. She’s so bland she makes plain toast look spicy. (Kytara)
Beat him until there’s no skin left on his back. If he passes out, wake him and beat him again. (Father) Love you, too, Father. (Acheron)
No worries. They don’t scare me. (Devyn) All right, but if my brain matter ends up smeared against a wall, I’ll never forgive you. (Alix)
(Looking at their son on ultrasound.) He looks like an angel. (Cassandra) I don’t know. I think he looks like a frog or something. (Wulf)
Bending over backwards does not bring you the love and attention you crave, but having your own life, your own goals and a backbone will.
Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian.
Writers are often alone when they work. Hours pass in silence as one long moment; light fades as day turns back to face the coming night.
When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].
The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.
As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during the day.
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
Too much has been said of the heroes of history-the strong men, the troublesome men; too little of the amiable, the kindly, the tolerant.
You have two things happening: You have the cultural and economic reality of men falling apart and traditional masculinity falling apart.
Charlie took my hand and, in a symbol as old as the world, placed it in Edward’s. I touched the cool miracle of his skin, and I was home.
If someone should ask me, 'What does the soul do?' I would say, It does two things. It loves. And it creates. Those are its primary acts.
You've got to figure out which end of the needle you're gon' be, the one that's fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth.
I wondered what it was like to be inside her, just a curl of flesh swimming in the darkness, the quiet things that had passed between us.
It's been quite a long time that I've been working out, so I know what sort of workouts work for which muscle group and overall strength.
Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.
... they always tell us it's getting to the top that's hard. Climbing's the easy part. Sliding down the other side, that's the hard part.
Sugar Beth detected the movement and shot him a look that challenged not only his manhood but also his very right to exist on the planet.
Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera's eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes.
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was 'interesting'.
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall.
If you want, I can carry you—” “I’m fine,” she said shortly. “Let’s go.” He’d said that wrong. He should have said, “I want to carry you.
What do you think?" I whisper to Peeta. "About the fire?" "I'll rip off your cape if you'll rip off mine," he says through gritted teeth.
Making knots. Making knots. No word. Making knots. Tick-tock. This is a clock. Do not think of Gale. Do not think of Peeta. Making knots.
So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask. Prim sounds about a thousand years old when she speaks. "Whatever it takes to break you.
Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.
What was that you were saying just before the food arrived? Something about me... no competition... best thing that ever happened to you.
Besides, it's the first gift that's always the hardest to pay back. I wouldn't even have been here to do it if you hadn't helped me then.
If an evil spirit had to hide from God, it would hide in a diamond. If an angel had to hide from the Devil, it would hide in rose quartz.
His smile was like lightning in the darkness, blinding and beautiful and mysterious, and I wanted him so badly it was physically painful.
It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like.
History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television.
Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.
Having your stuff online - some people think of it as gimmicky, but in a way, it's one of the most pure forms of having your work judged.
Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories.
The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in the general Dance.
Of course I'd sometimes have characters from downstate living upstate, but it took a while for me to start writing about where I grew up.
The winners stun us not by their cleverness, but by the fact that every tiny aspect of the business is just a touch better than the norm.