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A creature that never cries over spilt milk: a cat.

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• I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Never
  • Two
  • Journal

• In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • People
  • Time
  • Heart

• There are several very good websites which describe the details of preparedness planning for citizens.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Good
  • Planning
  • Details

• People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • People
  • Work
  • Friends

• The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Life
  • War
  • Political

• I do a lot of ceramics.

  

  Jeff Bridges

• I don't get surprised very often to be honest. I'm the kind of person who you couldn't throw a surprise party for because I'd figure it out.

  

  Chris O'Donnell
  • Party

• I still have a sweet tooth, so I bake a lot, but I'd much rather have one of my sweet potato brownies than a processed chocolate bar.

  

  Ella Woodward
  • Sweet
  • Chocolate

• I grew up in the '70s and '80s, at a time that I'd argue was the absolute golden age of American popular culture. Because not only did we have all of the fantastic new stuff in print and on screens, but we had a constant supply of everything that came before, as well.

  

  Chris Roberson
  • Up
  • Time
  • American

• There's not a pill or an injection that's going to give me, going to give any player the hand-eye coordination to hit a baseball.

  

  Mark McGwire
  • Hand
  • Player
  • Baseball

• Where I would fault President Bush the most was that, in the wake of 9/11, he motivated our military, but he didn't call the nation into a state of war. And he didn't explain that this would take though a communal effort against common foe.

  

  Frank Miller
  • War
  • Effort
  • Military

• I think, in this country, we have a problem where we view the arts as charity, and therefore, it has no value. Things in America that have value are profitable, and unless you are profitable, we don't know where to put you.

  

  Jason Ralph
  • Country
  • America
  • Value

• I didn't watch TV or movies as a kid.

  

  Jason Ralph

• When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Mad

• I resist lists. It must be all those 'Most Important' and 'Best of the Year' ones I compiled in my years as a beat critic. I often felt guilty about what I left out.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Important
  • Guilty

• There is a power of God for salvation. And it is the gospel of Jesus Christ.

  

  Paul Washer
  • God
  • Power
  • Jesus

• I've always been attracted to themes of isolation in my work - in my independent work and my DC work.

  

  Jeff Lemire
  • Work
  • Independent

• We can trace things back to the earlier stages of the Big Bang, but we still don't know what banged and why it banged. That's a challenge for 21st-century science.

  

  Martin Rees
  • Why
  • Science
  • Challenge

• The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Law
  • Suffering
  • Hero

• If you can believe this, I didn't fight for my first world title fight till I had 58 fights, so I really appreciated what I was fighting for and for whom as well.

  

  Alexis Arguello
  • World
  • Believe
  • Fighting

• In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Find

• A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.

  

  Dean Inge
  • She
  • Cat

• If South Korea's dictatorships were America's running dogs, then North Korea was the Eastern bloc's house cat: intractable, convinced of its superiority, and to some observers a more independent creature, but never much good at feeding itself-even after the can openers started falling silent in 1989.

  

  Brian Reynolds Myers
  • Good
  • America
  • House

• A creature that never cries over spilt milk: a cat.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Cat
  • Creature
  • Cries