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Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine.


Geraldine Brooks

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JOHN M. SHEEHAN In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are...
JAMES ELROY FLECKER Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
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JON STEWART Does 'interesting' mean something different in the scientific field than it does in normal life?
JOHN OLIVER You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
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HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
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THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT The sun is my wine.
MARTY RUBIN Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past......
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;The winds that will be howling at all hours,And are up-gath...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The moon has seen many a theory come and go.
MARTY RUBIN The moon was sewn into the sky that night
MARKUS ZUSAK Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you.
F. JOHNSON I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... Life is short, and that's why, I don't test people; because we all fail tests sometimes, but that is...
C. JOYBELL C. She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer ...
ANGELA CARTER The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explo...
KATHERINE VUCICEVIC No, sweet one. See, my precious: if we has it, then we can escape, even from Him, eh? Perhaps we gro...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.
BURT RUTAN Ben Adaephon Delat," Pearl said plaintively, "see the last who comes. You send me to my death."
STEVEN ERIKSON ...There is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end to the making and selling of ...
GEORGE SAUNDERS We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
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ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.'
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GARTH BROOKS True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.
GARTH BROOKS I just love to see people having a good time.
GARTH BROOKS Truth is mighty and will prevail. [Lat., Magna est veritas et praevalebit.]
THOMAS BROOKS He said true things, but called them by wrong names.
THOMAS BROOKS Needy people are like newborns, I have come to realize. One intoxicated night and BAM! You are stuck...
CHASE BROOKS It just comes from not doing anything and eating my momma's cooking. After my surgery, I was in the ...
AHMAD BROOKS It means we can play with the big dogs. It's a big confidence boost.
AHMAD BROOKS It was real tense. We just needed someone to make a play.
AHMAD BROOKS It was frustrating. It was kind of like last week [against Duke], when I was on the sidelines. You r...
AHMAD BROOKS I had some pressure [on that play]. I threw my hand in his face. That was all I could do. They weren...
AHMAD BROOKS It was my first time playing outside linebacker, this weekend, so it's kind of hard to pick up every...
AHMAD BROOKS The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 19...
PHILLIPS BROOKS It is for us, in whom the Christian Church is at this moment partially embodied, to declare that Chr...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 If man is man a...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642 Slowly, all through the universe, that temple o...
PHILLIPS BROOKS I do not believe anyone ever yet humbly, genuinely, thoroughly gave himself to Christ without some o...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865 Only when a man tri...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 A large acquain...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of Luke the Evangelist No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Chris...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536 To hold your truth, to beli...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 I hear men praying eve...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 Wherever soul...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr O little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie!...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apos...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation Continuing a series on the person of Jesus: W...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Beginning a series on the person of Jesus: I read the words and ponder them, but most of all I loo...
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