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But it is curious how you can see that an idea is absolutely true and correct and yet not believe it deeply enough to act on it.
Clever plastic surgery can restore an appearance of youth, but nothing changes the expression of age and experience in the eyes.
It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.
Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
Avoiding a bathtub because your parents tried to kill you in one isn't the same as avoiding your entire life by becoming a wolf.
Do you ever get the feeling that something awful might happen?' James asked me. . . I sat up. 'I'm the awful thing that happens.
Thanks,” I say, and Finn looks uncomfortable. Mum used to say he was like a faerie; he didn't like to be thanked. I add, “Sorry.
Do not attempt to benefit by rebukes one who boasts of his virtues, for he loves to display himself can not be a lover of truth.
The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken.
To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them
This is the greatest and most fraught romance of modern society, the marriage between the IT staff and those who depend on them.
But what do I have? The things I'm told and the things I tell, that's all. And as far as I know, that never yet made anyone fly.
Many girls have not the advantage I have and I [am] very very glad that satan has not geven me boils and many other Misfortunes.
Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.
I think 'The Lord Of The Rings' is the mother of all cult books, because you can be in that cult and not even know you're in it.
I am always asking myself how I can improve the lives of my customers, my colleagues, my shareholders, my family and my friends.
My parents were able to pay our expenses, but not for education. We were encouraged to work hard in school and get scholarships.
Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education, But its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not thoughts to things.
In a dream thou mayst live a lifetime, and all be forgotten in the morning: Even such is life, and so soon perisheth its memory.
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.
As soon as I started reading, I found myself drawn to fictional character's homes as much as I was to the characters themselves.
On my first trip to New York in the 1980s, the first place I wanted to visit was the Plaza Hotel, home to Kay Thompson's Eloise.
Having watched herself in the speckled mirror ... she was already shocked beyond surprise at what the flat hand of age could do.
All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.
What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?
Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.
Acceptance is the word we must substitute for dependence in dealing with the aged. Their acceptance of help, ours of their need.
To reach the goals of your life, you need discipline, you need luck and you need something as important as these two: Vacations!
When a crow says an intelligent thing, chickens may laugh at it. This is the laughing of the sand castles at the powerful waves!
Animals like crows, owls or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men's superstitious mind which is the inauspicious one!
I don't like spiders; setting a trap is the art of low creatures! Who shall ever lay a trap shall be the meanest being on earth.
No matter how safe and lovely your harbour is, leave it to see the insecure and the ugly one; only then you can reach the truth!
The Devil needs a very good lawyer to prove that it is not the Satan but the people themselves who have committed so many evils!
Time will come; we will plant trees to other planets! I see the orange trees and the cherries in the far lands beyond the earth.
To die for one's country? To die for love? To die for an ideology? But I say unto you that stay away from the death, stay alive!
He came third in the state for woodwork,” Francesca explains. “We actually had to be proud of him for a whole week. Tough times.
She knows that feeling too. Of believing that each time someone says her name, it’s to tell her that something bad has happened.
The number eighteen is symbolically meaningful because it is the numerical equivalent of the Hebrew word chai, which means life.
We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.
And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
It is equally pointless to weep because we won't be alive a hundred years from now as that we were not here a hundred years ago.
The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit.
I think that stereoscopic 3D will have to continue to develop. It's still quite archaic because of the glasses you have to wear.
Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.
What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.
I like the computer! It's a gadget, and I love gadgets. But it's very complicated and I didn't think I'd have the time to learn.
Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up.
When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.