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Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
Life
Yourself
Revolution
Live
Evolution
Promise
Just
Process
Your
Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression.
Antonio Tabucchi
People
First
Resources
Weak
Kind
Economic
Civilizations
Nomadic
Xenophobia
Because
Cultures
Itself
Targets
Lack
Subsistence
Against
Land
Means
Aggression
Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear.
Antonio Tabucchi
Fear
Imagination
Nights
Blazing
Like
Comet
Infinite
Spaces
Contessa, a.k.a. Baboushka, was a leader in the Russian mafia. Hardnosed, ruthless... very much her own woman. She's a martial artist, marksman, and good with guns and gadgets as any good pulp spy should be. She's supported by her constant companion Gyorgy Gyorgyov, an old friend of her family who was, in fact, her KGB handler and inventor.
Antony Johnston
Good
Family
Woman
Gadgets
Old
Leader
Own
Constant
Mafia
Guns
Martial
Russian
Ruthless
Inventor
Fact
Supported
She
Friend
Spy
Very
Any
Artist
In Fact
Old Friend
Much
Should
Who
Companion
Her
Pulp
A wedding, a great wedding, is just a blast. A celebration of romance and community and love... What is unfun about that? Nothing.
Ariel Levy
Love
Great
Nothing
Community
About
Wedding
Blast
Celebration
Just
Romance
Grief is a world you walk through skinned, unshelled.
Ariel Levy
You
Grief
World
Walk
Through
Skinned
New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
Arthur C. Clarke
Good
Worth
Three
Imagination
Through
Knew
Idea
New
Along
Ideas
Periods
Pass
New Ideas
Doing
Done
Good Idea
The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.
Arthur C. Clarke
World
Will
Minority
Beginning
Mark
Real
Intelligent
January
Century
Millennium
Third
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Truth
You
Impossible
Whatever
Must
Remains
However
Improbable
Eliminated
For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Life
Strange
Imagination
Extraordinary
Daring
Must
More
Combinations
Always
Go
Effects
Itself
Than
Effort
Any
Which
Far
As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Face
Difficult
Crimes
Rule
Bizarre
More
Mysterious
Puzzling
Most
Identify
Said
Proves
Just
Which
Commonplace
Holmes
Really
Your
Less
Thing
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Arthur Conan Doyle
Truth
You
Impossible
Whatever
Must
Remains
Said
How
However
Improbable
Often
Eliminated
The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Events
Single
Once
Would
Follow
Only
Bearing
Fact
Results
Had
He
Ideal
Also
Been
Led
Up
Which
Deduce
Chain
Shown
The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Crime
Difficult
Most
Track
Which
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Knowledge
Ignorance
Remarkable
His
How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?
Auberon Herbert
Free
Moral
Seeing
Compulsion
How
Intelligent
Any
Done
Being
Act
Element
Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.
Augusten Burroughs
Solitude
Focus
Reading
Takes
Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.
Augustus Hare
Working Together
Together
People
Some People
Difficulty
Carry
Some
Both
Heads
Very
Hearts
Apart
Them
Working
Many
Actively
Keep
What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.
Augustus Hare
Humble
Words
Our
Ourselves
Seem
Hypocrites
Talk
Proud
Sound
Hearts
Whenever
While
We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
Barbara De Angelis
Courage
People
Live
Our
Our Lives
Say
Ourselves
Find
Rediscover
Authenticity
Want
Us
Lives
Things
Serving
Need
Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
Barbara De Angelis
You
Gift
Whatever
Lesson
Focused
Totally
Only
Delight
Offer
Your
Moment
Consciousness
Receive
When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
Barbara De Angelis
Relationship
You
Commitment
Experience
Ownership
Energy
More
Invest
Attention
Make
Because
Your
Now
Profoundly
There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human cruelty. I'm talking about whole species becoming extinct, asteroids hitting planets, black holes gobbling up stars.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Time
Black
Cruelty
Stars
Black Holes
About
Talking
Becoming
Lot
Up
Hitting
Going
Just
Holes
Planets
Whole
Species
Extinct
America is addicted to wars of distraction.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Addicted
Distraction
America
Wars
Marriage is socialism among two people.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Marriage
Socialism
People
Among
Two
Two People
Someone has to stand up for wimps.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Wimps
Someone
Up
Stand
Stand Up
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