The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.
Material things may satisfy your temporal desires, but none can be taken with you when you're gone. Build your hopes on things eternal !
I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.
Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.
Don't fall in love with someone who says the right things. fall in love with someone who does the right things.
The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.
Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.
To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
One enjoys the good things more to the extent that one goes to them after having labored in advance, for labors are a sauce for good things
I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water...
Fitzpatrick: Back when I was doing Perl-even for people that knew Perl really well-I would recommend MJD's Higher-Order Per!. The book is really fun in that it starts somewhat simple and you're like, "Yeah, yeah, I know what a closure is." And then i...
Marya Morevna, we are better at this than you are. We can hold two terrible ideas at once in our hearts. Never have your folk delighted us more, been more like family. For a devil, hypocrisy is a parlour game, like charades. Such fun, and when the ev...
Caroline leaned forward. “Now explain to me why this is perfectly normal and dressing up in Regency gear is not.” He blinked. “Finley, because the Civil War is history.” “So is Regency England.” She laughed, eyes bright. “Just because w...
I’ve got hair in my mouth, because I replaced my teeth with my cat. This makes it more fun to pet my gums.
getting old means getting lucky sometimes means sometimes you learn & along with other sweeter acquisitions you learn that nine tenths of what goes down is bullshit that there's just no way to be with people & not smear yr tongue with bullshit lies t...
My yogurt was nestled into a bag, waiting to turn into aushak, and all around us were sausages and pastry, lollipops and spices, chicken and cheese. Any world that contained all this, I thought surveying our loot, was a very fine place. I felt reinvi...
The silent horror of Archie's ordeal had been temporarily replaced by the howling, agonising pain of the blood refusing to drain from his penis, the end of which was a deep purple verging on black where Officer Griff had tested how hard it was by usi...
He couldn’t see why people made such a fuss about people eating their silly old fruit anyway, but life would be a lot less fun if they didn’t. And there was never an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eat...
