When first asked if he would grant an interview with TIME, Greene responded by asking a question of his own: 'Does the candidate get paid?
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it." ( , May 16, 1767)
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place of the victim, and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness.
There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements.
The pigeon here is a beautiful bird, of a delicate bronze colour, tinged with pink about the neck, and the wings marked with green and purple.
I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.
Melbourne is wonderfully altered since I last saw it. There are some very fair buildings in it now, and things are a little cheaper than they used to be.
Some people go to the West and claim they are gays and that their lives are at risk in the Gambia, in order for them to be granted a stay in Europe.
The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.
I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.
Any cut to Pell Grants means low-income must take out additional loans or work longer hours - risk factors that increase their odds of dropping out of school.
President Obama seems to think that you win by demonstrating that you're a more reasonable person than your opponents. It didn't work too badly, I'll grant, as an electoral strategy in the 2012 election.
Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women's lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling industry was downright sobering.
Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before.
I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any.
Old habits never die. And when you've once been in the business of granting wishes, the impulse never quite leaves you
Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.
We did not - and could not - purchase Earth with money. We have just been granted temporary stewardship.
What i took away from witnessing the broken climbers in Moshi was this: *Everything is easy until it isn't.*
Real life doesn't grant us many of the more than useful possibilities people can come out with in fiction.
But I was learning forgiveness didn’t have to be about granting absolution for sins but being able to find freedom from pain.
