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My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
Too many of the organizations I have observed resemble a farm in Kansas. They have lots of fences and silos as well as a storm cellar.
If you grow up where a snow mountain lifts its proud crown on the home horizon, in some strange way it becomes a member of the family.
With a Trump administration we don't know enough yet to make predictions, but if past behavior is any indication, I am not encouraged.
Love and fear represent two different lenses through which to view the world. Which I choose to use will determine what I think I see.
You are emerging from the cocoon of your former self. There are no limits to the extent of the transformation that's possible for you.
If we do not like what we see in the world, we must face what we don't like in ourselves. As we change, the world will change with us.
Any conversation which does not include the context of the journey of the heart is by definition untrue to who we are as human beings.
As all of us are only too aware, the loud and frantic voices of the outer world easily drown out the small, still loving voice within.
Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.
Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.
The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms.
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.
The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.
Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
I think we're intrinsically spiritual. We're spiritual beings in a physical universe and we are here to make a spiritual contribution.
Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free across the hold.
If you're feeling intransigently ambivalent, it might pay to formally accept what's already happening - that is, decide not to decide.
Through microscopic examination one can find in almost every life incidents or traits that can be destructive when they are magnified.
Illiteracy at the poverty level (mainly a matter of bad grammar) does not alarm me nearly as much as the illiteracy of the well-to-do.
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
I do not think very highly of Madame D'Arblay's books. The style is so strutting. She does so stalk about on Dr. Johnson's old stilts.
Marriage is like a fine aged wine. It has to endure its Time of Fermenting before its full-bodied Flavor and Bouquetcan be appreciate.
Though we must never think to learn above our Bible, as long as we are here in this world, yet we must still be getting forward in it.
Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.
Moses simplifies the whole duty of Israel (and of humanity) by crystalizing the moral law into a single command to love God supremely.
At the University of California at Berkeley, my interests broadened from military history to diplomatic history and other disciplines.
We need hope. There's nothing worse than to live a life of despair. For a person to have no hope just sucks the blue out of every sky.
You are who God says you are. Spiritually alive. Heavenly positioned. Connected to the Father. A billboard of mercy. An honored child.
Prayer lets God do what he does best. Take a pebble & kill a Goliath. Take the common, make it spectacular! Pray & see what He can do.
Yesterday you can't alter, but your reaction to yesterday you can. The past you cannot change, but your response to your past you can.
My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.
There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.
I have heard it said that winter, too, will pass, that spring is a sign that summer is due at last. See, all we have to do is hang on.
I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.
It's wonderful that whenever Patsy Cline's name is mentioned, people's voices fall and they become right sentimental. And, rightly so.
The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world.
Only a fool is never afraid, Frank. Heroes are the people who carry on despite their fear, because they know the job’s got to get done
No. The answer was no, I was not all right. I nearly got knocked out. Knocked out by desire! Desire for forbidden dissimilar molecules
And you’re not afraid of it ending?” “Sure I am. But I’d rather have something this good for a little while than have nothing forever.
Air travelers, of course, are famous for their hubris. They carry on too many bags and use the restroom when the seat-belt sign is on.
I am not sorry for a moment . It was worth every moment, every second we were together. I would not change it for an immortal lifetime
... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.
[Harrier] locked eyes with Zanattar. He couldn't remember another time in his life when he'd been this angry and hadn't hit something.
I just wanted to tell the story of a bunch of musicians who had never had their story told before. There's no preaching or theorizing.
You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.
We tell prospective hires, 'If you want an environment that is never going to change, don't come here. This is not the place for you.'