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I lied and said I was busy.
I was busy;
but not in a way most people understand.
BRITTIN OAKMAN![]()
Why we don’t feel sorry for killing thousands of mosquitoes every day?
Are they useless or t...
M.F. MOONZAJER![]()
I closed my eyes and prayed for divine intervention.
I waited a beat and nothing happened...
KRISTEN ASHLEY Go away," I muffled out. "I'm busy."
"You look super busy."
"I'm busy willing multiple Peo...
SANTINO HASSELL I threw away my phone
I thought that you should know
I'd throw away my home
If I had som...
ASHLEE SIMPSON![]()
To my wonderful readers:
Sorry about that last cliff-hanger.
Well, no, not really. HAHA...
RICK RIORDAN![]()
You get older
and you are a whole mess of things,
new thoughts, sorry feelings,
big p...
VIRGINIA EUWER WOLFF The cab driver is staring at me in his mirror. I'm talking to myself.
"The second sign of madne...
MICHAEL ROBOTHAM Actually, I came because I have a last-minute invitation. My friend Erika Gill is having a big party...
ELIZABETH CHANDLER Sometimes I grow
so tired of speaking
my emotions to you.
I open my mouth
and du...
GABRIEL GADFLY![]()
Chese now," quod she, "oon of thise thynges tweye:
To han me foul and old til that I deye,
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Anna: Ash, I don't have anything planned with my Mother... She's dead.
Ashley: What?
JESSI KIRBY![]()
The boldest of the three moved suddenly, grabbed Angua and pulled her upright. "We walk out of here ...
TERRY PRATCHETT![]()
Boys, welcome to the wonderful world of talking to women about their feelings. As a handy primer, he...
BRANDON SANDERSON![]()
You were talking to that niche in the wall again, Gwyneth. I saw you."
"Yes, but it's my ...
KERSTIN GIER People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff...
The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.
Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads
Let love through good deeds show.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first ti...
To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to...
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of...
Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their chi...
A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and d...
If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool.
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it ...
Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.
Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.
Friendship is love with understanding.
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius
Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.
Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation
To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have li...
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind
If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.
We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good...
The guilty catch themselves.
Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.
Hate pollutes the mind.
If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.
To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle.
Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.
A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming t...
"Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."
It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.
Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the t...
Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for ...
Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor.
"What made the deepest impression upon you?" inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, "when you stood i...
It isn't easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice.
Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.
Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason.
Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses.
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and u...
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.
One look around us ought to show that all our arbitrary measures and bounds have been clamped on us ...
No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous.
Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break.
The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-re...
Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.
Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea
Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn't, it will be too late to do anything about...
Age withers only the outside.
Where ambition ends happiness begins.
The best answer to answer to anger is silence.
The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
People who know the least always argue the most.
If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.
What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir.
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes
The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.
I was busy;
but not in a way most people understand.
BRITTIN OAKMAN
Why we don’t feel sorry for killing thousands of mosquitoes every day? Are they useless or t...
M.F. MOONZAJER
I closed my eyes and prayed for divine intervention.I waited a beat and nothing happened...
KRISTEN ASHLEY Go away," I muffled out. "I'm busy."
"You look super busy."
"I'm busy willing multiple Peo...
SANTINO HASSELL I threw away my phone
I thought that you should know
I'd throw away my home
If I had som...
ASHLEE SIMPSON
To my wonderful readers:Sorry about that last cliff-hanger.
Well, no, not really. HAHA...
RICK RIORDAN
You get olderand you are a whole mess of things,
new thoughts, sorry feelings,
big p...
VIRGINIA EUWER WOLFF The cab driver is staring at me in his mirror. I'm talking to myself.
"The second sign of madne...
MICHAEL ROBOTHAM Actually, I came because I have a last-minute invitation. My friend Erika Gill is having a big party...
ELIZABETH CHANDLER Sometimes I grow
so tired of speaking
my emotions to you.
I open my mouth
and du...
GABRIEL GADFLY
Chese now," quod she, "oon of thise thynges tweye:To han me foul and old til that I deye,
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Anna: Ash, I don't have anything planned with my Mother... She's dead.
Ashley: What?
JESSI KIRBY
The boldest of the three moved suddenly, grabbed Angua and pulled her upright. "We walk out of here ... TERRY PRATCHETT
Boys, welcome to the wonderful world of talking to women about their feelings. As a handy primer, he... BRANDON SANDERSON
You were talking to that niche in the wall again, Gwyneth. I saw you.""Yes, but it's my ...
KERSTIN GIER People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff...
The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.
Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads
Let love through good deeds show.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first ti...
To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to...
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of...
Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their chi...
A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and d...
If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool.
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it ...
Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.
Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.
Friendship is love with understanding.
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius
Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.
Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation
To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have li...
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind
If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.
We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good...
The guilty catch themselves.
Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.
Hate pollutes the mind.
If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.
To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle.
Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.
A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming t...
"Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."
It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.
Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the t...
Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for ...
Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor.
"What made the deepest impression upon you?" inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, "when you stood i...
It isn't easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice.
Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.
Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason.
Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses.
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and u...
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.
One look around us ought to show that all our arbitrary measures and bounds have been clamped on us ...
No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous.
Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break.
The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-re...
Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.
Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea
Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn't, it will be too late to do anything about...
Age withers only the outside.
Where ambition ends happiness begins.
The best answer to answer to anger is silence.
The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
People who know the least always argue the most.
If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.
What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir.
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes
The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.
In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my ch... 
As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was... 
Most of us fall in love with someone's persona and spend the next three to five years discoverin... 
There is nothing you can control about love. 
Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do. 
Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurt... 
The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it. 
I've, we have in this state, like many other states, we're experiencing an enormous budget d... 
My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from colleg... 
I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand - that always seems to startle peopl... 
I wanted to have a go at a pop career. My first single, 'Baby I Don't Care', was a hit, ... 
And when I'm on set, I'm just thinking about the script and of working. I think I've sta... 
My big sister Melissa, is such a stud and my little sister Suzanna, has always had a perfect body an... 
What a terrible feeling to love soemone and not be able to help them. 
I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by associa... 
Now that Scotty has entered the realm of myth, everyone wants to own him. And maybe they should. Doe... 
It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the m... 
Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the ... 
I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long ... 
Was I bitter? Absolutely. Hurt? You bet your sweet ass I was hurt. Who doesn't feel a part of their ... 
She's probably afraid you'll turn out like her and be married to someone you can't stand. 
A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends.
The eyes are one of the most powerful tools a woman can have. With one look, she can relay the most ... 
Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don't care but because they don't. A person... 
You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too. 
You have been in every way all that anyone could be.… If anybody could have saved me it would hav... 
I believed then - in a deep, easy way that is impossible for me as an adult - that there was more to... 
I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, ... 
My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the fin... 
I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, 'I'm going to a... 
My mother had all these maxims - like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never ge... 
There is a cost that comes with moving schools so often and it's not what I want for my son when... 
I hope that when I'm 80 years old, people will still be talking about my wedding. 
Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the si... 
You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands... 
Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded. 
I like to say, 'Chop suey's the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on an... 
I don't find it a struggle to maintain a healthy diet now as my palate has changed. I don't ... 
One of the things I've started doing lately is tracking my dreams. I feel like there's a lot... 
I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood i... 
I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind. 
To become a classical ballerina, you have to move to New York when you're 12 or 11 and that beco... 