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Myrnin said softly. "And how is it that you do not understand that HERE, in THIS place, this girl belongs to me, not to you?
The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.
Intelligence is not a competition," she said. "There is plenty to go around, and there are many ways it can be demonstrated.
I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
It was that famous joke: What's the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? 'Hey, I wrote a song.'
I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.
A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'
My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.
Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.
Intellectuals (in the standard sense of the term, not [ Edward] Said's prescriptive sense) are the people who write history.
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
The worst that can be said about pornography is that it leads not to anti-social acts but to the reading of more pornography
Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it’s realized that our liberties and wealth are in jeopardy.
Of course I have said, till I am blue in the face - people don't lack goals, passion, grit, or drive - they lack leadership!
Jesus said that when confronted with Caesar's coin, to render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's but unto God what is God's.
An oblique angle,” Jack said, and his bout of jealousy was quickly replaced with glee. “Ha! I told you I would work that in!
I don't have to forgive you, Cath said. It's not like that with you. You're just in with me. Always. No matter what happens.
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
Sophie, honey, stop looking at me like that,” Garrett said gruffly. “You’ll have me convinced I’m going to die.” “You’re not?
A soldier told Pelopidas, "We are fallen among the enemies." Said he, "How are we fallen among them more than they among us?"
I have always said that archival images are images without imagination. They petrify thought and kill any power of evocation.
I'm sorry Finn. I'm a wooden-headed dummy.' Don't be so hard on yourself,' said Finn. 'You're just a straw-brained scarecrow.
I do not criticize religion as such, but I criticize the concept and the definition of "religion" - as I said in Genealogies.
There is something incredibly arousing about being wanted. I pulled my hand back and sucked in a deep breath. “Adam,” I said.
I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'
'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'
She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need.
[Magnus] reminded himself of his manners, and bowed. "Charmed," he said. "Or whatever effect would please you best, I'm sure.
You spoil your horse, Halt said. Will glanced at him. You spoil yours. Halt considered the thought, then nodded. That's true.
Then, if you love him," he said quietly, "please, Tessa, don't tell him what I just told you. Don't tell him that I love you.
You look angry," he said. "You put me on hold." "For a very good reason." "You put me," she said very, very slowly, "on hold.
See you in the funny papers," he said. Jaunty, he reminded himself; always jaunty. In my panache is their hope for salvation.
My favorite is Matthew 25: 'The Lord said, 'Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do to me.' I truly believe that.
In the beginning there was nothing and God said 'Let there be light', and there was still nothing but everybody could see it.
There's like this great thing that Bette Davis said when someone asked her, "How do you get into Hollywood?" "Take Fountain!"
I know Jerry [Falwell] fairly well, and he's probably not bright enough to recognize all of the implications of what he said.
It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind.
And, again, I don't know where he [Osama Bin Laden] is. I — I'll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him.
Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not; the whole point of conversations was flow.
Ben Carson said black people worked for less. I have breaking news: we built this joint for free. We didn't build it for less.
Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.
I've liked you better when Katsa's around," Giddon said. "She's so rotten to me that you seem positively pleasant in contrast.
Even if that were true, it wouldn't be irony," Lucas pointed out. "Irony is the contrast between what's said and what happens.
You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear?
We must not close with Christ because we feel Him, but because God lias said it, and we must take God's word even in the dark.
You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.
Auri," I asked slowly, "are you joking with me?" She looked up and grinned. "Yes I am," she said proudly. "Isn't it wonderful?
This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.
If you'd have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn't know what you were talking about. And then, they'd be against it.
I said, yes, if you think I will avoid bloodshed by standing aside I will stand aside … but I will never ever again come back.