Good fortune may forbode bad luck, which may in turn disguise good fortune.
Sometimes when I watch my dog, I think about how good life can be, if we only lose ourselves in our stories. Lucy doesn't read self-help books about how to be a dog; she just IS a dog. All she wants to do is chase ducks and sticks and do other things...
Billy Kramer: Who's gonna read me my bedtime stories? Ted Kramer: Mommy will. Billy Kramer: You're not gonna kiss me good night anymore, are you, Dad? Ted Kramer: No, I won't be able to do that. But, you know, I get to visit. It's gonna be ok, really...
Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories. The first - the story of our quest for sexual love - is well known and well charted, its vagaries form the staple of music and literature, it is socially accepted and celebrated....
A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war s...
Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me offer you a definition - is the storytelling animal. Wherever he goes he wants to leave behind not a chaotic wake, not an empty s...
And here lies the crux of the matter: to say that nature is personal may mean not so much seeing the world differently as acting differently -- or, to state it another way, it may mean interacting with more-than-human others in nature as if those oth...
We are not good because of the good we do but we are good and so we do good.
My dad is such a good man, hard-working.
Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.
Well, air-conditioning is not a good thing.
I was raised that emotion was a good thing.
I don't know that praise is always a good thing.
There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
I think a good song is a good song is a good song.
But I like to be thought of as a good father and a good husband.
Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
I'm alive. That's a good thing.
Never repent a good action.
Where there's no good within, no good comes out.
A good deed bears interest.
