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past years prison-population
The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years. Bobby Scott
past waiting pieces
It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures. Ally Condie
past proud ashamed
You're so ashamed of your past; drop it! You're so proud of your past; drop it! Anthony de Mello
past years world
I honestly feel that "Murder, She Wrote" stands alone, as many of the other great shows of the past 35, 40 years do. It stands alone, and it's still on. It's still all over the world, "Murder, She Wrote," Jessica Fletcher and "Murder, She Wrote." Angela Lansbury
past thinking issues
I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past. I think we have to seek to create coalitional strategies that go beyond racial lines. We need to bring black communities, Chicano communities, Puerto Rican communities, Asian American communities together. Angela Davis
past differences people
I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences? Anne Perry
past world superstitions
Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past. Anne Rice
past fire vision
Yet I saw crypts when I looked at him, and I heard the beat of kettledrums. I saw torchlit fields where I had never been, heard vague incantations, felt the heat of raging fires on my face. And they didn't come out of him, these visions. Rather I drew them out on my own. Yet I never had Nicolas, mortal or immortal, been so alluring. Never had Gabrielle held me so in thrall. Dear God, this is love. This is desire. And all my past amours have been but the shadow of this." — Lestat de Lioncourt
past waiting trapped
We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work. Anna Freud
destiny men decision
But freedom is the possibility of a total and centered act of the personality, an act in which all the drives and influences which constitute the destiny of man are brought into the centered unity of a decision. Paul Tillich
destiny cities humanity
The citizens of a city are not guilty of the crimes committed in their city; but they are guilty as participants in the destiny of [humanity] as a whole and in the destiny of their city in particular; for their acts in which freedom was united with destiny have contributed to the destiny in which they participate. They are guilty, not of committing the crimes of which their group is accused, but of contributing to the destiny in which these crimes happened.
destiny hands meaning-of-life
It is not the courage to be that we must develop as much as the courage to become. We are responsible for our destiny. The meaning of life is not located in some hidden crevice in the womb of nature but is created by free persons, who are aware that they are responsible for their own futures and have the courage to take this project into their own hands. Paul Kurtz
destiny looks amusement
Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity. Elizabeth Gilbert
destiny self play
Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.
destiny perfection looks
The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.
destiny talking let-it-go
The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go... if it's not a part of your God-given destiny. Joel Osteen
destiny needs left
If they left you, you didn't need them. If they walked away, they weren't part of your DESTINY.
destiny thinking faults
We can all control our own destiny. And I think sometimes it's a copout to say, "Well, it's this person's fault or another person's fault."