It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.
The French Revolution, which is nothing else than the idea armed with the sword, rose erect, and, with the same abrupt movement, closed the door of ill and opened the door of good.
What does the fish remind you of? Other fish. And what do the other fish remind you of? Other fish. Major Sanderson sat back disappointedly. Do you like fish? Not especially.
I don't, she sobbed, bursting violently into tears. But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make Him out to be.
Likewise, every disturbance, whether resolved or not, is making space for an inner engagement. As a shovel digs up and displaces earth, in a way that must seem violent to the earth, an interior space...
Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.
"Is the Master out of his mind?' she asked me. I nodded. 'And he's taking you with him?' I nodded again. 'Where?' she asked. I pointed towards the center of the earth. 'Into the cellar?' exclaimed the...
The book of Psalms has been and still is the irreplaceable devotional guide, prayer book, and hymnal of the people of God. The Hebrew title is "the book of praises" {tehillim}.
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
Rimed and sparkling with sugar, the wrestler lay like some child's flaccid sweetmeat in death, and the dogs licked his eyelids.
Uncle Avery, who was not only postmaster but mayor of Pitchfork as well.
building had turned out to be murders. She
- {...} Once I read, I declare obediently, that there was a great battle in which a Swedish king fell along with his faithful horse. They took both carcasses to Sweden, and now the two codes are...
"I'm already fed up with this," he exclaimed the second cable. "So you're a happy man," said Svejk. - Some people never get fed up.
The only thing going on was a war, and no one seemed to notice but Yossarian and Dunbar. And when Yossarian tried to remind people, they drew away from him and thought he was crazy.
Don't be such an ass, Scheisskopf. People have a right to do anything that's not forbidden by law, and there's no law against lying to you.
Do you have problems? What should I say? Daneka continued with a slow, mournful sniff. - Ah, I don't complain. I know there is war. I know a lot of people will have to suffer for us to win the war for...
It doesn't have to be pretty or smart, just honest and true. For many a dance starts with a trip, and many a song finds its opening through a cough.
Where love is deep much can be accomplished. -SHINICHI SUZUKI
Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them -- a mother's approval, a father's nod -- are covered by moments...
Soon we had tumbled into a most fundamental debate. How can different religions coexist?
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don't necessarily try to put on a show. That's what my father's thing was, and he was great at it. Everything I say...
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Greatness is an opiate.
The creation of language is the creation of a fiction. The minute we speak we are in that fiction. It's a fiction designed, we hope, to reveal a truth. There is no "pure" language. The only "pure...
Change anything about your life that cannot be accepted. Accept everything about your life that cannot be changed and move on with your big dreams!
The second message is one that I have saved for weeks. It's Otter, and he simply says, I love you.
The middle classes, grown prosperous by the belated but staggering development of the industrial revolution and dazzled by the success of Bismarck's policy of force and war, had traded for material...
Stay humble; don't interfere; respect your creative genius
Americans believe that alcoholism is a disease and the alcoholic a sick person who needs help and treatment. The NCA
Quarrelling with the Prince of Barrow was like fighting a curtain. Robin Stewart gave up.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
