All discourses and disciplines proceed from commitments and beliefs that are ultimately religious in nature. No scientific discourse (whether natural science or social science) simply discloses to us the facts of reality to which theology must submit...
Critics and academics have been trying for forty years to bury the greatest work of imaginative fiction in English. They ignore it, they condescend to it, they stand in large groups with their backs to it - because they're afraid of it. They're afrai...
He meant everything he said, when he said it. But this is his default. And it won out. Right now you're depressed about one thing. Before you were depressed about everything. These are good times for you." "I'm afraid of loving again. I'm afraid I've...
Seth Brundle: [to Veronica] You're afraid to dive into the plasma pool, aren't you? You're afraid to be destroyed and recreated, aren't you? I'll bet you think that you woke me up about the flesh, don't you? But you only know society's straight line ...
Martha: I looked at you tonight and you weren't there... And I'm gonna howl it out, and I'm not gonna give a damn what I do and I'm gonna make the biggest god-damn explosion you've ever heard. George: Try and I'll beat you at your own game. Martha: I...
[George takes a corner far too fast, tossing everyone in the car from side to side. Pause] Martha: Aren't you going to apologize? George: Not my fault, the road should've been straight. Martha: No, aren't you going to apologize for making Honey throw...
Two things cannot be hidden: being astride a camel and being pregnant.
It's not about being liberal or conservative, it's about being human. It's not about being rich or poor, it's about being alive and happy. It's not about being right, it's about being considerate and compassionate.
I haven't had a lot of good, soft things in my life," he said against my forehead. "Not since my family sent me away. Apart from being your sire and feeling that pull to you, it's that goodness, that softness and warmth, along with the resolve and st...
Go, even though you love him. Go, even though he is kind and faithful and dear to you. Go, even though he's your best friend and you're his. Go, even though you can't imagine your life without him. Go, even though he adores you and your leaving will ...
Standing as a witness in all things means being kind in all things, being the first to say hello, being the first to smile, being the first to make the stranger feel a part of things, being helpful, thinking of others' feelings, being inclusive.
I'm afraid to go into myself and see what's going on in there.
It's okay to be afraid, it means you have something to live for.
Possibilities ...in the closet ...itching ...to break out ...but afraid of ...the fallout
Even fear afraid of faith.
How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.
But sometimes we crave the love of those we’re afraid to hate.
I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older.
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
I am afraid of losing what I have already valued.
