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prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous.
Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.
All of them are men, not a girl amongst them unless you count Tommy Falk because his lips are so pretty.
The journal and Gansey were clearly long acquainted, and he wanted her to know. This is me. The real me.
Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty.
For I had rather die in the adventure ot noble achievements, then live in obscure and sluggish security.
Most people have their best ideas when they take their minds away from problems they're trying to solve.
In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.
She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.
The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time.
Once fraternities became tied to power and leadership, the powerful and would-be-leaders wanted to join.
One remains young as long as one can still learn, can still take on new habits, can bear contradictions.
God, the boring relative everyone ignores--no one calls, no one writes--until they need a serious favor.
I think if you're looking for a pure expression of evil, torture is pretty - is a pretty good candidate.
It is not possible to become a great player without having learned how to analyse deeply and accurately.
Mitt has a ton of consultants, and not one of them thought he needed a credible answer on Bain or taxes?
You don't want to hit readers over the head like they're completely incapable of picking up on subtlety.
Winning wasn't natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind.
Per capita availability of good, potable water is diminishing in all developed and developing countries.
I never pay attention to age or gender. There are just too many other more important things to consider.
Your home should be a reflection of how you want to live right now, and for the next phase of your life.
Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it.
In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.
Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.
I don't want to stay in the bad place, where no one believes in silver linings or love or happy endings.
I imagine I'm a very unusual guy to date. You know, I've got toys on the shelves, and I've got the cars.
It is odd how one can feel like someone else early in the morning - bigger, cleaner, so much more alive.
Leaders should be able to Stand Alone, Take the Heat, Bear the Pain, Tell the Truth, and Do What's Right
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind
Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.
I am a master of foolhardy plans, I thought. I have so much practice I consider them professional risks.
Pigs are dirty, but I will tell you something dirtier: Liars! Untruth always smells like rotten garbage!
For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!
Without knowing every single detail in a man's life, we cannot judge whether he is a good person or not!
Inconsistency is a great door for the change and for the progression! Never hesitate to be inconsistent!
Walking does good to the fat and giving alms does good to the sinners; these both make one feel lighter!
A bench in the street can be a good writer because all kind of material comes onto it like a heavy rain!
A clever man can see the world from a cave much better than a stupid man can from the top of a mountain!
All truths can be changed! Put this brave idea to the centre of your beliefs! All truths can be changed!
Every man must have a peaceful place to contemplate. If you do not have such a place, you must find one!
Not to climb the high places lonely, but to climb there all together, to rise en masse! This is the way!
On a soft snow, even a sparrow leaves a trace; the important thing is to leave a trace on a steel plate!
Stupid speaks loudly; he makes noise like pigs! Wise man speaks calmly; he makes sound like quiet lakes!
To defeat all their enemies and be victorious! This is the unpreventable destiny of all the great ideas!
Something reduces the speed of the world and that something is stupidity! Stupidity is a boring friction
While sleeping in a hammock, with the touch of a warm wind we remember why we are in love with the life!
No, no, no, no,no,' he gasped. 'You can't bring up your mum and dad while your hand is down there, Finke
One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind.
The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.