mystery

Voters have soaked up a noggin full of negativity over the last twenty years, with an economy we had to bring back from collapse, plus terrorist attacks and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I don__ want to belabor these points, but your listeners know what I__ talking about. I think the antidote is to appreciate what we have, enjoy where we live, and make a positive contribution to our communities. My Cracker Pride campaign is balanced by the spirit of Cincinnatus. He was a farmer and Roman general who was twice made dictator. And he had the forbearance to resign as dictator as soon as he had vanquished Rome__ enemies. He became a civic ideal for good leadership. That__ the spirit I want in my district and in my campaign. - Veda Rabadel, The Tea & Crackers Campaign.

Where you been, girl?_ Harvey answered. ____e been sendin_ you twits for the last hour.

The best method for getting away with something outrageous is to do it right in front of people, and then tell them they__e not seeing what they think they__e seeing.

How love works: Proximity leads to intimacy, and intimacy leads to a relationship. In other words, people who are around each other a lot, get close, and end up hooking up. So it's no great mystery why bosses and secretaries or co-workers or classmates end up dating each other.

Mystery of love is like digging water: everything closes. (Mystère de l'amour est comme - Creuser l'eau : tout se referme)

So, what are you going to do about it?_"Watch this!""Oh, that__ just freaking great. __atch this!_ The two most dangerous words in the English language. I__ getting out of here before lightning strikes.

Jensen looked concerned."I'm reluctant to delay, but would a later appointment be better?" He glanced over at Vanelli and got an answering 'I told you so' look that I personally wanted to scrape off Vanelli's face with a blowtorch.

I guess you__e going for the hard-ass Texas Ranger thing today_ ~ Laney Briggs

It's not compromise if it doesn't sting just a little bit on both sides, now is it?

It's never too late to achieve your dreams

I was drunk but not drunk enough to say what I wanted, that we don't live our lives so much as come to them, as different people and things collect mysteriously around us.

It was the fear of good things happening, because they, sooner or later, would lead to something bad.

In the temple, I sit on the cool floor next to Grandfather, beneath the stern benevolence of the goddess's glance. Grandfather is clad in only a traditional silk dhoti--no fancy modern clothes for him. That's one of the things I admire about him, how he is always unapologetically, uncompromisingly himself. His spine is erect and impatient; white hairs blaze across his chest.

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realize their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realized, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting point for an ideal that is other than itself. This is why music is the perfect type of art. Music can never reveal its ultimate secret.

Just sit down and write! Me circa 2009

In all emotional conflicts, the thing you find the most difficult to do, is the thing that you should do."--Meyer's Law

Openness to God demands our growing acceptance that we cannot create blueprints for our own lives. Though God__ character is unchanging, the ways of God are unpredictable, and there is a difference between arbitrariness and unpredictability.

When your ship comes in, don't be in the bathroom with your pants around your ankles." quoted by Frank McNichols, father of Rose McNichols in A Nose for Hanky Panky, a Granite Cove Mystery