Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.
I have to smile. He's such a dork. But I'm starting to realize the one good thing that's happened: he's my dork.
So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen genius, your one story-writer: a thief.
Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.
Heaven and Earth are meeting in a storm that, when it's over, will leave the air purer and the leaves fertile, but before that happens, houses will be destroyed, centuries- old trees will topple, paradises will be flooded.
that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.
When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.
We don't know what's happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have lived and died since they did.We could be the last people left.
Ab figured that the chance of his recognising it would be about the same as a burglar recognising a dollar watch that happened to get caught for a minute on his vest button five years ago
If you believe it, it happens. If you don't, it doesn't. When you believe him, you put your own power in his hands.
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
We always stay on the optimal path, when we practice the power of allowance. Allow everything to happen the way it does. Respond to everything with love and understanding.
I was hoping against hope he'd refill his Prozac so we could be in love again, but, sadly, that never happened.
To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to live the life of a child forever. For what is a man's life, unless woven into the life of our ancestors by the memory of past deeds?
Where are people going? I wonder what they hope will happen and what they are afraid of? For me it’s the same thing and has to do with being loved.
A piano might fall on your head, he said, but it also might not. And in the meantime you never know. Something nice might happen.
That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want; the men wind up suckered into things.
As sometimes happens with men who wish to fight but do not or cannot, Reagan developed a romantic image of the military.
If you are standing in one place waiting for something to change, you may be there for a while. You've got to move. Step up and take a swing. Make something happen
singing has to come from the inside, and i don’t have anything left inside.’ ‘really? How did that happen?’ ‘it all just drained out.
singing has to come from the inside, and i don’t have anything left inside.’ ‘really?’ Ruth said, amazed, ‘How did that happen?’ ‘it all just drained out.
