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• Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How 'substantial' does the distress have to be for it to turn criminal?

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Action
  • Emotional
  • Turn

• Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Way
  • Jesus

• One thing I love to do when I'm working out is take my watch off, take my heart strap off, and just run - not for time, not for exertion, but just to get the blood flowing.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Time
  • Dance
  • Reaction

• Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Lying
  • Curiosity
  • Wait

• Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn't want to go anywhere near it at all, although on the other had I wouldn't mind having a crack at something like the Punisher.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Want

• I don't ever want to be sad about my life.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Sad
  • My Life

• But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just that sense of romanticism and escapism and the dream of it has always been quite alluring to me, as well as that sense of becoming a character through clothes.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Character
  • Dream

• A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Know
  • Enjoy
  • Fans

• We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Future
  • Looking
  • Everyone

• We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Trying
  • House
  • Black

• The restaurant business had a profound effect on my future and that of my two brothers. When we were able to stand on a stool to reach the sink, we washed dishes, and later, when we could see over the counter, we waited tables and managed the cash register.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Business
  • Future
  • Profound

• In army, I went to Kashmir and did well, which was a challenge. In sports, I went to Olympics at a time when no one believed that we can actually win. Coming into politics was also a challenge as I wanted to push the youth to achieve gold in various fields of life.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • Life
  • Time
  • Challenge

• The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Long
  • Rest
  • Run

• Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about everything.

  

  Barry Watson
  • Woman
  • Planet
  • Sexiest

• It seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry, and it was this belief which led to the subject becoming the main theme of our activities at Calcutta from that time onwards.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Time
  • Light
  • Study

• We have no vital national interest in Syria's civil war.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
  • Interest
  • Civil War

• If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Age
  • Change
  • Environment

• The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • School
  • Experience
  • Earth

• What culture worth the name would deny women the right to safe motherhood? What value system would send young people ignorant into the world, when a little knowledge might save their lives?

  

  Nafis Sadik
  • People
  • World
  • Women

• When I lived in Delhi, it was burdened with so many futures - fast roads, malls, flyovers - that one felt almost obliged to be hopeful. Now that hope has diminished, you can feel the city going into a frenzy to reinvent itself. I miss living there.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Hope
  • City
  • Roads

• When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.

  

  Ann Beattie
  • Photography

• Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Architecture
  • Kill
  • Human intelligence

• The only time I had what you would call life-threatening fear was when I was on the Moon. Towards the end of our stay, we got excited and we were going to do the high jump, and I jumped and fell over backwards. That was a scary time, because if the backpack got broken, I would have had it. But everything held together.

  

  Charles Duke
  • Together
  • Broken
  • Moon

• The fossil fuel industry is destroying our planet and everything that we love.

  

  Billy Parish