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My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.
A child... never takes time off as a child; time off does not begin until the principles of order have been accepted.
For a mother's love is fashioned, After God's enduring love, It is endless and unfailing, Like the love of Him above.
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody.
The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'
When people call this beast to mind, They marvel more and more At such a little tail behind, So large a trunk before.
Psychics tap into what is collective: our regret and our sense of time going by; our common repression and anxieties.
Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?
It is one of the blessings of wilderness life that it shows us how few things we need in order to be perfectly happy.
Right now at this very moment we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness.
Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.
I want knowledge. Not belief. Not surmise. But knowledge. I want God to put out His hand, show His face, speak to me.
The shadows of the room pool in the lines of our faces, draining our eyes of hue. "There's nothing left worth saying.
Now shall my inward joys arise, And burst into a song; Almighty love inspires my heart, And pleasure tunes my tongue.
At books, or work, or healthy play, Let all my years be passed; That I may give for every day A good account at last.
I was a political refugee living in Venezuela. I had a job that was twelve hours a day, no money. It was a hard time.
People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly.
The Rocky Mountains realize - nay, exceed - the dream of my childhood. It is magnificent, and the air is life-giving.
Don't you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it.
All through university years, I used to come up to Melbourne, go to Pizza Napoli with my friends and then to a movie.
Such things and deeds as are not written down are covered with darkness, and given over to the sepulchre of oblivion.
Oh, the gallant fisher's life!It is the best of any;'T is full of pleasure, void of strife,And 't is beloved by many.
If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.
Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch.
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
But I am the real Strider, fortunately. I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will.
There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.
I've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live as writers.
I love playing with form. I love playing with sounds... I love music, and I love writing that has a musicality to it.
Usually people who do bad things make good writers.I did a lot of bad things, which is why my novels are interesting.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.
I love shooting movies. I love the shots. That's the thing that I love doing, and I've just never been able to do it.
Do you know how big of an insult that is to me - to say that I had to be brave to confront some ignorant white folks?
For the first time in our lives, I’m somewhere she can’t find, and I don’t have the map to give her that leads to me.
In my experience, clever food is not appreciated at Christmas. It makes the little ones cry and the old ones nervous.
youth is so insatiable of happiness, and has such sublimely insane faith in its own power to make happy and be happy!
Don't give up on me now. I'm sorry. I guess that's an odd thing to say. Because isn't that what I'm doing? Giving up?
An intelligently planned feast is like a summing up of the whole world, where each part is represented by its envoys.
If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it.
I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way.
Getting a gun should be easy for good people and impossible for bad people. The only trick is telling the difference.
I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.
Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.
Even a dream as inspiration doesn't mean anything unless you then find that it's sparked an actual story with a plot.
I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.