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- Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.
- George Bush (1924 - )
- The bone-chilling scream split the warm summer night in two, the first half being before the scream when it was fairly balmy and calm and pleasant for those who hadn't heard the scream at all, but not calm or balmy or even very nice for those who did hear the scream, discounting the little period of time during the actual scream itself when your ears might have been hearing it but your brain wasn't reacting yet to let you know.
- Patricia E. Presutti, 1986 winner of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
- Beauty? Let me tell you something - being thought of as 'a beautiful woman' has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
- Halle Berry
- Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
- Milan Kundera (1929 - ), The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Share your M&Ms. There are bags and bags of them all over the place. If you give them one of yours, even one of the green ones, you will not be lacking. Honust Injun. Now apply this to Time, Concern, Touch, Interest and Being Vulnerable.
- Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02-14-03
- I learned in the last few years that it's really unhappy and really unsustainable to try and base your well being on something as arbitrary as record sale and critical acclaim and the interests of the public. All of those things are so fickle. So my approach now to music is I want to make records that I love, and I hope that other people love them, then that's OK.
- Moby, quoted on CNN.com, March 2005
- He loved humankind dearly and with all his heart, but he disliked most human beings.
- David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
- Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.
- Paul Theroux (1941 - )
- For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
- Saint Teresa of Avila (1515 - 1582)
- I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.
- Neil Armstrong (1930 - ), USC 2005 graduation
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