You have to believe that people will be open to your advances. We psych ourselves out of approaching a potential BFF or emailing a role model because it seems far-fetched that they'd want to be friends or network with us in return. But, as has always...
Forgoing privacy in a quest for absolute safety is as harmful to a healthy psyche and life of an individual as it is to a healthy political culture. For the individual, safety first means a life of paralysis and fear, never entering a car or airplane...
Despite the fact that an Indonesian island chicken has probably had a much more natural life than one raised on a battery farm in England, people who wouldn't think twice about buying something oven-ready become much more upset about a chicken that t...
The most interesting of the classic movie genres to me are the indigenous ones: the Western, which was born on the Frontier, the Gangster Film, which originated in the East Coast cities, and the Musical, which was spawned by Broadway. They remind me ...
There's something about courting the darkness that makes some people see the truth in raw, twisted ways, as though they were shining a black light on life to illuminate the absurdity of it all. Comics tell you a truth you can only see from the unders...
Andrew just shrugged, and I fiddled with the napkin in my lap while glancing idly around the restaurant. The obligatory mirrors hung on the walls, and there was one of those fountains with fake lily pads in the entryway. The restaurant was also lit l...
Endlessly foremost, the recollection of youth’s fount flows deep in the psyche of an aged man. The loss of a first true love is never quite lost, for he sees her in the faces of passing strangers, is haunted in the quiet of his solitude as he waltz...
Ghosts Take shape under moonlight, materialize in dreams. Shadows. Silhouettes of what is no more. But ghosts don't bother me. The day brings bigger things to worry about than flimsy remains of yesterday. No, spooks don't scare me. Gauzy apparitions ...
The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.
Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.
Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to man himself.
Accepted that we all are human resources, but we are humans first and resources later.
In God becoming human in Jesus Christ, God has established solidarity with the human condition.
Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.
Human fallibility recognised, God's sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society.
A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.
The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.
In Actual Human Rights are "caring" for Humans left on the planet
Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.
With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
