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Being born into the world is the greatest crapshoot there is. — Katie McGarry

Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me? — Barbra Streisand

When lying to someone, look him straight in the eye. — Mason Cooley

I read it in a book, one line, and carry it around with me for days, a new map: "The literal translation for the words 'pray always' is 'come to rest.'" . . . Prayer is the essence of rest, the essence of theology, the essence of idol destruction, the essence of communion. We came from His breath and we're most our real selves when our breath is offered back to Him.6 — Jessica N. Turner

I have always taken care to put an idea or emotion behind my words. I have made it a habit to be suspicious of the mere music of words. — Leopold Sedar Senghor

The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without. — T. S. Eliot

Generally speaking, we can and should say everything. We just have to choose the right time, otherwise the truth can be worse than a lie. — Sergei Lukyanenko

The really cool thing about festivals is that you're getting to play in front of a whole lot of people who have never heard of us before. That's exciting. At the same time, it's a little bit of a challenge to capture the attention of people who have already seen a lot of bands. — Josh Dun

There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks! — Tamar Braxton

Music without passion is merely noise. A life without passion? You may as well be dead. — Rachel Van Dyken

Their combined ages were two hundred and sixty-three years. None of them had ever been out of England, fought in a war, been in prison, ridden a horse, travelled in an aeroplane, got married, or given birth to a child. There seemed no reason why they should not continue in the same style until they died. Year in, year out, nothing ever happened in the Comstock family. — George Orwell

I'm just a regular girl who likes to go snowboarding and picks her nose like anybody else. I just like to drive into things and take risks. — Cameron Richardson

You seem to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps ... Their power [is] the more dangerous as they are in office for life, and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves. — Thomas Jefferson

If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don't respect him. — Wil Wheaton

The lesser grindstone stood alone there in the calm morning air, with a red upon it that the sun had never given, and would never take away. — Charles Dickens