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You’re the greatest risk I’ve ever taken.” His pressed his lips gently to mine. “And the greatest reward.
I want you too much. I want you with me, in my life, in my bed. If i can have that, nothing else matters.
I can't bail out on Cary," I said apologetically, turning to face him. "Chicks before dicks and all that.
'White America' is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies.
I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.
Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
I'm in a loft and the kitchen is in the very center of the apartment. The whole place revolves around it.
Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.
There is nothing that exists that has only one side. Even a piece of paper, thin as it is, has two sides.
The concept of an inactive church member is an oxymoron. Biblically, no such church member really exists.
Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.
The sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all in all.
I started writing serious books so late because I knew I'd be accused of riding on my father's coattails.
The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.
A broad and joined-up approach is needed if we are to match human demands with the capacity of the planet
Breaking free, or not, is usually determined by whether you want to get somewhere slowly or nowhere fast.
About the different levels of skill involved. You have to practice before you become a great masturbator.
There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.
What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English -- SWELL and LOUSY.
I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.
Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.
When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre
How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before biographers.
The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.
Without discipline a body of men becomes rabble. Rabble dies, either on the battlefield or in a POW camp.
I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.
The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.
No matter how much you may change or how life may change, God never changes, and His promises never fail.
I won't glorify or romanticise heartbreak, for me it was a kind of death and I was forced to keep living.
In Mexico, wealth and poverty live next to each other and are cordial with each other - in my experience.
If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.
As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.
You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.
It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.
Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.
Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.
We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.
People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why; they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake.
Those who have little shall have less, and that those who have much shall take all that others have left.
And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.
An Englishman never takes his collar off when he is writing. How can you expect him to show you his soul?
Today the outlandish becomes routine overnight. The humorist is trying to say that it's still outlandish.
God has guarded His Word so that only the pure in heart can see its secrets. All other efforts will fail.
Many say they can't get God's guidance, when they really mean they wish He would show them an easier way.
Some people in China don't look at freedom of speech as an abstract ideal, but more as a means to an end.
Frederick Nietzsche was important to me, in teaching that it's okay to strive to improve the human being.