Steven Chbosky
- Imaginary Friend
Jesus, I am a sinner. I am vain. I am narcissistic. And my biggest sin was that I have been so afraid of You that I never really loved You until this moment. But I'm not afraid anymore because heaven and hell are not destinations. They are decisions.
Kate Bush
- 1992 Radio 1 Interview with Kate Bush
I was trying to say that, really, a man and a woman can't understand each other because we are a man and a woman. And if we could actually swap each other's roles, if we could actually be in each other's place for a while, I think we'd both be very surprised! And I think it would lead to a greater understanding. And really the only way I could think it could be done was either... you know, I thought a deal with the devil, you know. And I thought, "well, no, why not a deal with God!"
Kate Bush
- Running Up That Hill
And if I only could, I'd make a deal with God, and I'd get him to swap our places. Be running up that road... be running up that hill... be running up that building. Say, if I only could.
Masked Deuce
- One Piece Novel: Ace's Story
All I knew of Roger came from the papers and books. I'd never met him or spoken with him. I just accepted whatever society and other people said about him, and assumed it was all true. What a shallow, ugly way of thinking. Since when had I become one of those nasty, cynical adults, always jumping to conclusions.
Kim Namjoon - BTS
Humans seem to be programmed to think of ambivalent feelings at the same time. That is the driving force behind human beings: to be the warrant of all things and to control other worlds.
Kim Namjoon (BTS)
I've had to accept that - that everyone cannot love me. Because when there's love, there's hate. When there's light, there's dark. But it was really hard to accept as an artist that there's a lot of people that hate me, but on the other side, there are many more people who love me. I think everyone goes through that.
User533001
- Getting Faster
I found my average typing speed increasing consistently until I was averaging 80 wpm, but struggled to get faster. I had exceeded 100 wpm on certain quotes but only sporadically. I chanced upon a quote by another user that suggested English typists looking for something different should try typing Dutch. Different it definitely was, but more surprising was the increasing steadiness to my typing as I concentrated on each letter. Now my average wpm is increasing again.
Pata Customer Experience
- CX Typing Test
Since 1985, Patagonia has pledged 1% of sales to the preservation and restoration of the natural environment. We've awarded over $140 million in cash and in-kind donations to domestic and international grassroots environmental groups making a difference in their local communities. In 2002, the founder of Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard, and Craig Mathews, owner of Blue Ribbon Flies, created a non-profit corporation to encourage other businesses to do the same.
Robert Charles Wilson
- Spin (excerpt, p. 273)
I'd been staring down the barrel of this empty weekend. It was good to be busy, I reasoned, because when you were busy you were awash in the countless but comprehensible daily problems that crowd out pain and stifle remorse. That was healthy. That was a coping process. Or at least a delaying tactic. Useful but, alas, temporary. Because sooner or later the noise fades, the crowds disperse, and you go home to the burned-out lightbulb, the empty room, the unmade bed.
Samwel Nyanjah
- The Creation of Love
That millions of years age, MOTHER NATURE created LOVE to enable poor beings survive by means of dependence... that its why the rich don't need much of it than the poor do; because money can greatly (though not fully) satisfy most of loves benefits. I am not sure of what I have written but what I want to emphasize is that though money is a tool, it is a necessary for one to become powerful.
Samwel Nyanjah
- SCHOOL
To me, a school is a laboratory where everyone has to test the weapons they shall use in the world. And that all the consistent suffering in the world is as a result of poor or bad training in school. For amongst all weapons that have changed the societies and the world, the BOOK is the most adorable.
Joe Biden
- CNN interview
You know, there's a uh, during World War II, uh, you know, where Roosevelt came up with a thing uh, that uh, you know, was totally different than a, than the, the, it's called, he called it the, you know, the World War II, he had the war - the War Production Board.
Joe Biden
- Asian & Latino Coalition town hall 2019
We should challenge students in these schools. We have this notion that somehow if you're poor, you cannot do it. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.
Joe Biden
- Use the forces
When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him to be able to use the forces.
Anonymous
- What is Comic Timing?
Comic timing emerges from a performer's joke delivery. The pacing of the delivery of a joke can have a strong impact on its comedic effect, even altering its meaning. Interacting with an audience to guide their laughter, then guides the comedic narrative.
Elliot D. Cohen
- Elliot D. Cohen - What Would Aristotle do? Introduction [2/3]
These and many other problems of living often have a pileup effect until you feel overwhelmed, lost in a maze of confusion, not really sure which side is up and which is down. 'What Would Aristotle Do? Self-Control through the Power of Reason' cleanses these common confusions of life with an ancient antiseptic from the revered sage Aristotle, who stressed reason in everyday life as an antidote to unhappiness. By taking control of your life through the power of your own native reason.
Jodi Balfour
Sometimes it's that feeling of being utterly seen - a brief moment of 'I'm like that, too,' that lingers, fuels you. And sometimes it's more ambiguous than that, there's involuntary emotion, a quickening, a catching of the breath, a rising heat and aliveness that makes everything feel very pure for a while. Storytelling, in these instances, has total power over me. There's nothing else quite like it.
Sleeping At Last
- 'Neptune' Chorus
I'm only honest when it rains. If I time it right and the thunder breaks when I open my mouth. I wanna tell you but I don't know how. I'm only honest when it rains. An open book with a torn-out page and my inks run out. I wanna love you but I don't know how.
Sleeping At Last
- Neptune
Stitch by stitch I come apart. If brokenness is a form of art, I must be a poster child prodigy. Thread by thread I come apart. If brokenness is a work of art, surely this must be my masterpiece.
Kobe Bryant
I've shot too much from the time I was 8 years old. But 'too much' is a matter of perspective. Some people thought Mozart had too many notes in his compositions. Let me put it this way: I entertain people who say I shoot too much. I find it very interesting. Going back to Mozart, he responded to critics by saying there were neither too many notes nor too few. There were as many as necessary.
