No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night.
Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.
Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
Another man whose social life has ruined him.
I want another idea, another project, but you can't make them up. They show up.
I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.
I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time.
Fred C. Dobbs: Say, mister. Will you stake a fellow American to a meal? American in Tampico in white suit: Such impudence never came my way. Early this afternoon I gave you money... while I was having my shoes polished I gave you MORE money... now yo...
I wanted to hear his window open, hear his espadrilles on the balcony, and then the sound of my own window, which was never locked, being pushed open as he'd step into my room after everyone had gone to bed, slip under my covers, undress me without a...
When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. In learning to write, the pupil goes over with his pen what the teacher has outlined in pencil: so in reading; the greater part of the work of thought is already done fo...
Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece of my floor. A futon. A bed. But I never did. If I let him inside I would become him, the line between us would blur, m...
Three days a week she helped at the Manor Nursing Home, where people proved their keenness by reciting received analyses of current events. All the Manor residents watched television day and night, informed to the eyeballs like everyone else and rush...
I always thought of it like you said, that all the strings inside him broke. But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ships sink, or maybe we’re grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as lo...
I have always felt that suicide was connected to communication. Not due to a lack of opportunity, but to an impossibility to communicate and be understood. It can be frustrating to try to share something with somebody, something important and real to...
Griffin Hansbury, who was born female but underwent a sex change after graduating from college, has another well-informed view of the powers of testosterone. “The world just changes,” he said. “The most overwhelming feeling was the incredible i...
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
When the Turk becomes richer he takes another wife.
The beggar that begs near another beggar will never be rich.
Talking of an old debt always starts another quarrel.
He that chases another does not sit still himself.