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The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
There is no theory of a God, of an author of Nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly repugnant to my faculties. . .
The average citizen expresses pride in the American Bill of Rights and then seeks to protect his real estate by restrictive covenants.
You’re really cute, Midori,” I corrected myself. “What do you mean really cute?” “So cute the mountains crumble and the oceans dry up.
I'm kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn't suit me. I'm more of a side dish--cole slaw or French fries or a Wham! backup singer.
You know what I should do?" Hoshino asked excited. "Of course," the cat said. "What'd I tell you? Cats know everything. Not like dogs.
There's an essential order you have to follow in everything. It's a way of showing respect, following everything in the correct order.
I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.
Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness?
It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.
A mother's love is like a tower, Rising far above the crowd, And her smile is like the sunshine, Breaking through a threatening cloud.
That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man.
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.
Words are not in the power of men; men are in the power of words. Every time we open our mouths, a thousand dead men speak through us.
The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful."
Our culture is something that has sustained us for thousands and thousands of years and will continue to do so in generations to come.
Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!
There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean.
She sits up. I can’t read her expression, but her cheeks look a little pink. “I didn’t think you were going to be here.” “I live here.
Faeries are associated with wild untamed nature, with art, and with death - so the folklore is rich with different stories to explore.
I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.
The first step of letting go: To remove what obstructs your experience of wholeness and peace, you must first look at the obstruction.
Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference.
Incarcerating people for their [drug] consumption choices has the consistency of arresting a survivor of suicide for attempted murder.
Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.
Now I want to make it plain that 'The Virgin Spring' must be regarded as an aberration. It's touristic, a lousy imitation of Kurosawa.
I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
At the age of thirty-five, I have just begun to become the kind of person who could understand the kind of book I would want to write.
There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it's up to you how you respond to it.
The tulip and the butterfly Appear in gayer coats than I: Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
Prayer is a sacred and appointed means to obtain all the blessings that we want, whether they relate to this life or the life to come.
Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.
If I could reach from pole to pole or grasp the ocean with a span, I would be measured by the soul The mind's the standard of the Man.
Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.
My female protagonist will not be this promiscuous, beautiful, dark-haired, thin lady. It will be a plump, blond, healer and so forth.
I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals.
I remember my childhood as a horrible time. My mother says that nothing so horrible ever happened to me as the things that I remember.
If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.
Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.
At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution.
But that's part of faith. Believing and knowing despite what other people say, and despite what the world might think of your beliefs.
they have enough testosterone between them, if testosterone were electricity they could light up New York City for the month of August
Kate O'Hare is a former SEAL and is currently in the FBI - we know that there are no women in the SEALs, but we think there should be.
And at some point, the struggle becomes too much-too tiring-and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy... or whatever... to happen.
A week went by and nothing. But eventually, as they always will, the rumors reached me. And everyone knows you can't disprove a rumor.
I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.
You have to engage with people who are different from you and try to work with their thinking and their mind. That's a real challenge.