The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.
Feeble is the character, that bows to inflated ego, arrogance, and whines of affluent, whilst raising itself mercilessly on the humble and underprivileged.
Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be extraordinarily challenging.
The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.
The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.
We have to ask ourselves why younger women don't feel the need to be right up front with their politics. Is that going to set us back or is that itself a sign of progress? I don't know the answer.
If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself. It's easy to point at me. I'm convenient.
It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.
I didn’t like how my body seemed to be intent on sabotaging my brain, especially since my brain was so good at sabotaging itself.
I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It's basically a mini-country unto itself.
Life itself is a frightening image for every human being.... being strong in life isn't easy.
I don't compare life to anything. Life can't be defined or compared, I just know that it dresses itself as a murderer in the end.
Religion is a virus that we cannot get rid of. A virus of the brain that comes from no other source than itself. We who are uninfected must find the cure.
It almost contradicts itself," she says after a moment. "It's as if there is love and loss at the same time, together in a kind of beautiful pain.
I think, therefore a single fertilized egg cell can replicate itself into trillions of specialized and exquisitely organized cells.
Prayer is not itself powerful; it is not magic. But its power is unlimited in that the child of God calls on a Father of unlimited goodness and ability.
Do not worry about what words to use. Worry about why this story needs to be told and the rest will take care of itself.
Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all.
At last, Russia has returned to the world arena as a strong state - a country that others heed and that can stand up for itself.
If the nation is not capable of preserving itself and reproducing, if it loses it vital bearings and ideals, then it doesn't need foreign enemies - it will fall apart on its own.
There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.
