Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.
If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.
I'm not trying to be noble. I'm afraid. And the idea of having more love than I've ever had-- and knowing I might never have it again-- that scares me worse than anything.
Never confuse lust for anything other than what it is. There isn't a man alive that wouldn't gladly take what you are so willing to offer." "Any but you, apparently." -Eric to Camile, Pawn of Innocence
Progress is a natural result of staying focused on the process of doing anything.
And because people are stupid and use their noses only for blowing, but believe absolutely anything they see with their eyes, they will say it is because this is a girl with beauty and grace and charm.
People are naturally hardworking but will stop working hard at anything if they learn from experience that their effort makes no difference.
Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.
God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.
It was not really Saturday night, at least it may have been, for they had long lost count of the days; but always if they wanted to do anything special they said this was Saturday night, and then they did it.
The reader may ask how to tell fact from fiction. A rough guide: anything that seems particularly unlikely is probably true.
With you and me, I don't know what anything means. We're pushing each other away and yet I don't seem to be able to let you go.
And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.
They had as good a shot at making it as anyone did, but what if marriage didn't solve anything and didn't save anyone even a little bit? What then?
I don't know how to be anything but pretend," I replied, and it ached in me how true that really was. "But if I could be real, I'd be real for you.
The recognition of oneself as a part of nature, and reliance on natural things, are disappearing for hundreds of millions of people who do not know that anything is being lost.
What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.
You can't do anything about the past, it's done and can't be mended. But the future is different, if you just think what you really want and reach out and take it.
...much theological discussion is wasted, not because the words used have no possible meaning, but because the people who use them don't mean anything by them.
Why didn't I ask him for his number, address, e-mail — anything? Why? Because I'm in a sodding war zone, that's why. And I'm a soldier. And this wasn't supposed to happen.
I know a lot about forming personal connections with people. Not from, you know, personal interaction or anything, but from reading about it alone, in silence.
