Quotes of: My-number-one Keyword

...and I want you all to remember-that you must not dream yourselves back to the times before the war, but the dream for you all, young and old, must be to create an ideal of human decency, and not a narrow-minded and prejudiced one. That is the grea...

Number the Stars

Another thing we can learn to do is to be more grateful for every day we have with our children. None of us ever knows how long we have on Earth, so it is imperative that we live and love each moment we have. For some of us, our children’s days do ...

Two Mothers, One Prayer: Facing your Child's Cancer with Hope, Strength, and Courage

Human beings are the only ones in nature who are aware that they will die. For that reason and only for that reason, I have a profound respect for the human race, and I believe that its future is going to be much better than its present. Even knowing...

The Pilgrimage

Uncoupling is primarily a tale of two transitions: one that begins before the other. Most often, one person wants out while the other person wants the relationship to continue. Although both partners must go through all the same stages of the transit...

Uncoupling: Turning Points in Intimate Relationships

Wife number one always married with the naïve romantic dream that her husband would never need another wife, believing his earnest promises to her that she would be the only one, that their marriage was different… until he shattered her union with...

T.K. Naliaka

Here are the facts. Coronary artery disease is the leading killer of men and women in Western civilization. In the United States alone, more than half a million people die of it every single year. Three times that number suffer known heart attacks. A...

Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr.

Radagast the Brown: [looking the symbols around the tomb's door in the High Fells] These are dark spells, Gandalf. Old and full of hate. Who's buried here? Gandalf: If he had a name, it's long since been lost. He would've been known only as a servant...

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

. . . we come astonishingly close to the mystical beliefs of and his followers who attempted to submit all of life to the sovereignty of numbers. Many of our psychologists, sociologists, economists and other latter-day cabalists will have numbers to ...

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.

Lady Oracle

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949

I want a baby of my very own one day, but it seems that my being male is a BIIIIT of a problem.

Black Butler, Vol. 3

One doesn't need to be taught fear when one is the hunted.

Bleeds My Desire

One day I would like to have my own art show.

Kiana Tom

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.

Billy Bob Thornton

Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.

John Mayer

Sadie," he said forlornly, "when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that my own dreams, my own goals and wishes, are secondary to my children's.

The Red Pyramid

A number of people who I’ve talked to about this assume that I got into a fight with the cops. (Because of, y'know, the militant politics.) I actually had an audience member come up to me once and ask me if I paid taxes. Of course I pay taxes! I pa...

Indecision Now! A Libertarian Rage

My silence knot is tied up in my hair; as if to keep my love out of my eyes. I cannot speak to one for whom i care. A hatpin serves as part of my disguise. In the play, my role is baticeer; a word which here means "person who trains bats." The audien...

Lemony Snicket

The Royal Family have always had an interest in a number of different areas of society. We are a part of society.

Prince Andrew

Time is numbered only to man.

Ezra Taft Benson

One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand. Then I saw a third and new kind, which I could not bear to lose, so I popped the one which I held in my right hand into my mouth. Alas! it ejected some intens...

Charles Darwin