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Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.
For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races.
Venice, as a city, was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket among the bulrushes.
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.
Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.
By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
Riches are a blessing or a curse to a man according as he has or has not a heart to make good use of them.
It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.
This wasn't a position she wanted to be in. And yet . . . yet she knew that she was going to do it anyway.
The task of evangelism often involves preparing an open road so offenders can find their refuge in Christ.
When God gives an assignment, he also gives the skill. Study your skills, then, to reveal your assignment.
God is not a miser with his grace. Your cup may be low in cash or clout, but it is overflowing with mercy.
I believe for God not to allow pain to happen in the world is for Him to extract free will from the world.
I would guess that about 75% of my stories are like that - personal experiences that I probably over-milk.
People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship.
Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.
A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.
On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.
In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.
Tell me what you need." "You," she said simply, that one word tearing to the very heart of him. "Just you.
If kisses were what you were looking for, little fool, why didn't you come to me? quoted by Susannah Simon
I didn't even think about suggesting he take the boots off. There'd probably be a apocalypse or something.
Writing with other people is absolutely delightful. It's social, which a writer doesn't usually get to do.
My church is the world! I want to bring the gospel to as broad and as interesting an audience as possible.
Small business owners and entrepreneurs worthy of the title need to build systems that replace themselves.
One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.
If all you did was tell a lamppost your goals for each day, they would still be far more likely to happen.
Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong.
The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath
Lots of my writing can be accurately called lesbian, but I myself am queer and date people of all genders.
Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo.
How are you going to change the world? The answer is easy. By changing the world that exists in your head.
The truth is the most important part of being impeccable with your word...Only the truth will set us free.
Listen to everyone, read everything; believe absolutely nothing unless you can prove it in your own right!
Fear is how you lose your life...a little bit at a time...What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.
She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.
Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you.
There are many ways of understanding simple things, but generally the opposite is true for difficult ideas
Everybody in America grew up without a father even if they had one. It was the fifties. They were working.
We have all these cultural assumptions about love. People get hurt, and we say, 'Oh, it's no one's fault.'
The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language.
Leadership is inherent in our nature and is fundamental to our origins, our human makeup -and our destiny.
Faithfulness to your husband means sticking up for him, always building him up and never tearing him down.
Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.
If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Go on,” he said in a low tone that was a dare. “Keep on poking the hungry wolf, see how naked it gets you.
The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.
In a baby's first months, the earliest patterns of intimacy or distrust are forever grooved into his soul.
Games don't cause racism. But the real-time chat makes nasty comments hard to moderate and easy to spread.
My childhood was full of shocks and alarums, and I had to work a long time to make a life that pleases me.