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We know that people we love are both good and bad, but we expect strangers to be one or the other.
My generation was somewhat between things, neither free nor much supported by whatever held us in.
If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city.
When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.
You have to recognize as a creative person that not everyone's going to be into what you're doing.
Social media has been a great change. It's also a great way to disseminate comics and market them.
You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you.
Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
Patience and perseverance are never more thoroughly Christian graces than when features of prayer.
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation.
People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.
Happiness," said he, "must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.
Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man.
Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.
Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.
Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.
I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.
The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have.
Mostly, I'm totally happy in my own space at home with the door closed with my family and friends.
Whenever something great happens, you’re always kind of poised for the universe to correct itself.
It's so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself.
The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration.
Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always the fair-minded who are in the right.
The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.
A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.
To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.
Magic is not always serious or solemn. It is a joyous celebration and merging with the life-force.
Maybe that was the price of loving someone: You lost your grasp of where they ended and you began.
I kissed him once," she whispered. "Well done. What did he do?" "Um..." Deryn sighed. "He woke up.
When the term "machine gun" enters common parlance, the word "machine" becomes much more sinister.
Frighteningly Beautiful, Dangerously Strong, Breathtakingly Fast. Face it Tally-wa you're special.
But they're already singing our praises!" "They are Americans. They toot their horns for anything.
When the term 'machine gun' enters common parlance, the word 'machine' becomes much more sinister.
Few writers push the reader away with the coolness, dignity, and faint melancholy of Fleur Jaeggy.
Everyone is in pain.No matter where they come from or what you think of them. Sorrow spares no one
Did you wake him?" "If I say yes, will you spank me?" Syn rolled his eyes. "You're horrible, Mari.
Sitting in a Court of law, I can receive no evidence but what comes under the sanction of an oath.
You'd be surprised how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as teletubies.
Where are you going? (Nykyrian) To get a drink and kill Cruel…not necessarily in that order. (Syn)
I can’t undo the past. But in the future, I will gladly lay my life down for you, brother. (Styxx)
What do you want exactly? (Fang) An end to the mistreatment of small, fluffy dust bunnies. (Thorn)
But it’s like Cherise says, the hardest ones to love are always the ones who need it most. (Aimee)
You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.
The emancipation of women must be the work of women themselves, independent of the class struggle.
I never loved totalitarianism and all the ideas of making mankind happy always seemed crazy to me.