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To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes.
Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand.
Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.'
My heart is broken,” she goes. “It’s turned to a piece of stone. I’m no good. That’s what’s as bad as anything, that I’m no good anymore.
Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing.
We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen.
Sometimes it seems that the fate of the world is decided entirely in the ether of electronic communications and corporate backroom deals.
A cosmic war is like a ritual drama in which participants act out on Earth a battle they believe is actually taking place in the heavens.
You cannot create in another's life against their will, but if it is something they want, your thoughts are a real force that helps them.
The only difference between people who live in this way... is that the people who love in the magic of life have habituated ways of being
Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the same power which gave it birth – yourself. (Genevieve Behrend)
Know that ever about you stands the reality of love, and each moment you have the power to transform your world by what you have learned.
There are people in this servile world who will endure any trampling, and at the first beck rush delightedly to proffer their assistance.
How we fall into grace. You can't work or earn your way into it. You just fall. It lies below, it lies beyond. It comes to you, unbidden.
I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.
The biggest challenge for newspapers has been that the public has far more choices for news, information, and diversion than in the past.
The New York Times credited me with the rediscovery and revival of red velvet cake. I consider this as one of my great life achievements.
I'm much more interested in writing about the things that engage and enrage me as an adult rather than in wallowing in childhood sorrows.
In the temple of science are many mansions ... and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither.
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
When you die of sorrow it's as if you've broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That's sorrow.
Hamilton was extremely combative. Not only was he combative, but he also overreacted to anything he perceived as a threat or a criticism.
The manuscript may go forth from the writer to return with a faithfulness passing the faithfulness of the boomerang or the homing pigeon.
miss my daily Mass, and have a superstitious feeling that anything may happen on the days I don't go. However, nothing in particular has.
No government that is for the profiteers can also be for the people, and I am for the people, while the government is for the profiteers.
The right food always comes at the right time. Reliance on out-of-season foods makes the gastronomic year an endlessly boring repetition.
We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week... The bottom is out of the Universe.
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins, when all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins.
The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.
Mrs. Rimas cried at the mention of the wafer and the traditional Christmas blessing. "God grant that we are all together again next year.
A shot-down advance doesn't have to mean the end of a relationship, right? You can still be friends, as long as you're not dumb about it.
The brain, which is plastic when young, must be exposed to certain sights early in life, or it will remain blind to those sights forever.
We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.
The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness.
Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.
Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is.
Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.
It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind.
The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.
I also admit, that there are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits which are not good till they are rotten.
Everything that I write comes when it wants to, out of its own need and it dictates its form. I don't say, "I am going to write a novel."
I know the books that I need to help me to be wiser than my years and be kinder and more compassionate and more patient than I really am.
And he left. I watched him walk out – he didn’t say good-bye, he didn’t even look back. It scared me, how easy it was for him to do that.
I looked at my hand resting on the shelf of the prop cabinet, thinking of the scars that were there whether anyone could see them or not.
I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out and find my voice.
The characters are whole, real people to me that I'm getting to know, and since real people are all flawed, so are my characters, I hope.
The true story...is the realization that no time in your life is ever perfect, that even the best memories have cracks you might not see.
I mean, at first, it was kind of disappointing. But people recover from disappointment. Otherwise we'd all be hanging from nooses. Right?
For me, faith means that what is right will win out one day. It means that the universe is not aimless but moves by some positive design.
Forget the past and live in the present hour. Now is the time to work, the time to fill The soul with noblest thoughts, the time to will.