My romantic history since arriving on Novo has been non-existent, but I don't know what, if anything, came before; thanks to the government's cerebral pilfering.
He’s a lovely guy, but there’s no spark between us whatsoever. It just goes to show, that even with all their fancy assessment tools, the government can’t legislate for chemistry.
The atmosphere beneath is languorous, and is so tinged with azure that what artists call the middle distance partakes also of that hue, while the horizon beyond is of the deepest ultramarine.
In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving
There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.
Have I missed a national holiday? There must be celebrations in the streets for you to be home at this hour of the day." "I'm calling it Summerset Goes Mute Day. The city's gone mad with joy.
a voice called out after me, 'life takes us on many divergent paths, and yet we shall meet one more time! Not in the flesh, but in the sun, man's home
If that's what you believe the Lord is calling you to do, then you can be confident He'll go ahead of you.
I taught a college course called “Of Course!: Helping the Oblivious Realize the Obvious.” Nobody showed up to class, probably because the time and location weren’t obvious enough.
There’s a drive in a lost soul—in one that is searching for acceptance, companionship, belonging, whatever you want to call it. The slightest coincidence ignites a spark that one hopes will lead to something meaningful.
I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere.
The sign of the victorious communities are that they forbid evil; call to good and spend in the way of Allah.
You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone else had a chance to read it.
God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Nice enough?” he asked, tendons tightening in his neck like he intended to Hulk out on me. “Did you just call my kiss ‘nice enough’?
There was a day when writers actually read," he grumbles. "They could quote Keats and Socrates. Now anyone with a keyboard and a fifth-grade education can call themselves a writer.
Call it walking meditation or a neighborhood stroll; by whatever name suits you, rediscover the art of meandering.
Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down". My eyes are seeing through what the ordinary men call a mirage!
8. The Cat Who Lived in the Palace The cat who lived in the Palace had been awarded the head-dress of nobility and was called Lady Myobu.
You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!
