I'm Jewish; I'm not religious at all, and I wouldn't pretend to know anything about Catholic politics.
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
You can easily take photographs at a wedding - no one would question it. But funerals are different.
Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.
Above all, staring at my old bedroom ceiling, I feel safe. Cocooned from the world; wrapped up in cotton wool. No one can get me here. No one even knows I'm here. I won't get any nasty letters and I won't get any nasty phone calls and I won't get any...
And so it was settled. Sam Gamgee married Rose Cotton in the spring of 1420 (which was also famous for its weddings), and they came and lived at Bag End. And if Sam thought himself lucky, Frodo knew that he was more lucky himself; for there was not a...
What is the price of freedom! I'm not talking about the physical restraining kind, but the spiritual, mental, emotional kind! If we glance at a tiny bird, it represents the ultimate freedom, the ability to fly, to rise above all, to look down on eart...
Teammates...were fine things. Piling onto the bus before the game, edgy with shared nerves, egging one another on with the genial, meaningless phrase C'mon, you guys!, collapsing back into the same seats for the ride home—the sense of striving in a...
Those of us who work in the field of trauma and abuse, whether psychologists, psychoanalysts, social workers, doctors, counselors, or psychotherapists, have been provided with beautiful tools for understanding the impact of trauma. We become adept at...
I've heard it said that grace is God reaching God's hands into the world. And the Bible tells us that we are part of the body of Christ, that if we let the Spirit move through us, we can become the hands of Christ on earth. Hands that heal, bless, un...
[A]s it is impossible that any man endowed with rational faculties, and being in a state of freedom, should willingly agree, without some motive of love or friendship, absolutely to sacrifice his own interest to that of another; it becomes necessary ...
When it repudiates a past paradigm, a scientific community simultaneously renounces, as a fit subject for professional scrutiny, most of the books and articles in which that paradigm had been embodied. Scientific education makes use of no equivalent ...
The main character, Gene Moore, is shown how much of his identity is wrapped up in his career and potential in that career. When he comes home from war no longer able to see himself as a baseball prospect, he isn't sure who he is. This is thoroughly ...
Games are lost and won in your mind as much as they are on the field.
A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees... Strangers are like friends
It's impossible, that's for sure. So let's start working.
Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.
It was there that, through a mutual friend, I met John Waters - proving what I've always said: you meet the best people on field trips.
