Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.
Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
Teddy Roosevelt... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter.
It's hard to distinguish when I was actually struggling from when I only felt like I was struggling - which was pretty much always.
I've always had real trouble knowing what my actual desires and goals are. I've just been dragged along by fate.
I say 'as it were' or 'so to speak' too often because puns and double entendres keep insinuating themselves into my consciousness as I'm talking.
I ruefully admit that if the cat is asleep in my chair - which she regards as hers, of course - I tend to leave her there and take the other one.
After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.
It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.
Reading is a collaboration between the writer and reader. Both parties must keep that in mind when dealing with a work of fiction.” {Guy Gavriel Kay}
Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing.
I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding the world.
We don't live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for.
I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.
The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.
I don't run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.
Whatever things may have been in their origin, they are what they are, both in themselves and in regard to their indications respecting other beings or influences the existence of which may be implied in theirs.
Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze.
I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.
I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.
The spirit of Southwest Airlines is exuberant, it's caring, it's dedicated, it's diligent, it's fun, it's rewarding, it's a joy.
