Be patient with a bad neighbor: he may move or face misfortune.
As we grow older our bad qualities make us younger.
Greater qualities are needed to baer good fortune than bad.
He who makes the first bad move always loses the game.
Hundreds of thousands of people live in my library. Some are real, others are fictional. The real ones are the so-called imaginary characters in works of literature, the fictional ones are their authors. We know everything about the former, or at lea...
Our relationship with literary characters, at least to those that exercise a certain attraction over us, rests in fact on a denial. We know perfectly well, on a conscious level, that these characters “do not exist,” or in any case do not exist in...
Election has nothing to do with the eternal salvation of individuals but refers instead to God's way of saving nations. It was a major mistake of the Reformation to have decided to follow Augustine in this matter, taking election to refer to grace an...
The American critic Dale Peck, author of Hatchet Jobs (2004), argues that reviewing finds its true character in critical GBH such as Fischer's [review of Martin Amis's Yellow Dog]. It represents a return to the prehistoric origins of reviewing in Zoi...
He finally comprehended that the sole impossibility regarding human sorrow is to arrive at some unsurpassable limit to it.
The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn't it?
Bad dogs, she believed, were like most bad children: created by those around them. But then, that was a personal opinion.
Just for a moment, amid all the bad stuff, this was a happy place again.
Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs.
Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.
To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.
Seguro que sabéis que cuando uno está en su propia habitación, en su propia cama, una situación triste puede mejorar un poco
But like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.
Good news is, we're annoying him. Bad news is, we're all going to die painfully.
It's weird when you wake of from a bad dream and everything is still bad.
Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time.
He and his brothers were heroes at heart - even if they were all bad boy on the outside
