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Hell, right now my only weapons were Obnoxious and Snark, and I intended to use them whenever possible.
One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it.
When others doubt the power of Jesus, be the one who asks Him to perform the impossible. He often will.
Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.
It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.'
Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.
I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.
GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions.
I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.
If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.
A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
Unless inside, where no one sees, our soul is kneelling, too, a prayer is not so likely to get through.
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.
I think Chicago is the best city in the country, hands down, but I don't like the winter there anymore.
I don't really like questions about the writing process, because the truth is I don't know how I write.
Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
Love is the victor in every case. Love breaks down the iron bars of thought, and sets the captive free.
Few have greater riches than the joy That comes to us in visions, In dreams which nobody can take away.
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
Simply getting a country's population online is not going to trigger a revolution in critical thinking.
children are made of eyes and ears, and nothing, however minute, escapes their microscopic observation.
Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.
Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin.
It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
The very truths that gave birth to the Pentecostal movement are today generally rejected as too strong.
When you have a brush in your hand, inking a beautiful woman is a lot like running your hands over her.
Even trees understand me! Good heavens, I lie under them, too, don't I? I'm just like a pile of leaves.
Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.
When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.
The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.
We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are.
Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.
Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.
I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.
We make a mistake in thinking we own pets - the animals open their lives up and make us a part of them.
I'm scared of snakebites - that's the origin of cowboy boots, protection - but my toes need to breathe.
Baby boomer media like 'The Times' is a laughingstock, and we should do whatever we can to ridicule it.
I grew up with an Apple 2E - I had a deep, emotional attachment to that machine - and I loved doodling.
Our prosperity as a nation depends upon the personal financial prosperity of each of us as individuals.
If you desire to help thy friend, do so in a way that will not bring thy friend's burdens upon thyself.
Life is short, very short, and what are we doing here if not trying to become more generous and loving?