Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
Swami Sivananda
Recitation: by Male by Female
I miss the game - I miss it a lot.
Joe Montana
GameMissLot
I'm finding things out about myself as a person - as a writer - as I write, and so are the people who listen to what I do. But they have this additional aspect of how they take the stuff that I do, and so it broadens the work, and it creates this strange connection.
John Darnielle
WorkMyselfPeopleFindingPerson
I want to say something in a tough-love kind of way about crop insurance. Let's face it: You don't buy insurance on your house hoping it will burn down. Neither do we want to buy crop insurance and hope our crop fails so we can file.
Sonny Perdue
HopeFaceInsuranceYouHouseBurn
I don't know of many people who've done sex research with an eye toward people saying sex is bad for you, except for the promiscuity and cervical cancer link - which is actually a valid discovery.
Mary Roach
PeopleResearchEyeSayingYouBad
I wondered what would be the most humiliating way possible to be turned into a vampire - a story that a vampire would be embarrassed to share with their vampire buddies over a nice glass of Type O.
Molly Harper
StoryNiceGlassWayPossibleOver
Literature is a far more ancient and viable thing than any social formation or state. And just as the state interferes in literature, literature has the right to interfere in the affairs of state.
Joseph Brodsky
LiteratureMoreRightSocialAncient
Permanent bonds of culture began to be formed between the extreme East and the extreme West of Europe by intermarriage, by commerce, by the admission of the nobles of Byzantium within the orders of chivalry.
Joseph Jacobs
CultureEuropePermanentWithinWest
When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians - Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I used to imitate them. I'd go to see a Buster Keaton movie and come home and try things out I'd seen. I learned to do pratfalls when I was very young.
Dick Van Dyke
HomeLovedGoYoungSilentTry
I give Reiki, which is energy, but I don't tell too many people that.
Donna Karan
PeopleEnergyTellGiveManyWhich
There was a period in my life where most of my musical career was spent in a band that was very aggressive, and there was sort of a wall of volume all the time.
Chris Cornell
LifeTimeMy LifeCareerWallBand
It is our duty as states, citizens, and industry leaders to make the energy transition a reality with the ultimate aim of reconciling two major priorities: to meet ever-increasing demand and to confront the complex issue of climate change.
Christophe de Margerie
ChangeEnergyRealityPrioritiesAim
The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.
Bruno Bettelheim
FailureFearChildrenGreatLibrary
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