I did a face plant. Ivy was her name.
Sometimes a miracle is a change in material conditions, such as physical healing. At other times, it is a psychological or emotional change.
Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.
our destinies are intertwined like the stems of ivy on an oak tree.
I never went to camp as a kid. I couldn't get into an Ivy League school. I wouldn't join a biker club.
He saw something more in those eyes. The emotion wasn't nakedly apparent, but Mr. Cawley was a professional at reading the subtleties of people. The elderly and wildly successful credit card magnate believed that certain human frailties could actuall...
He was known to hit low, drive upward from the hips, and flip other boys over his shoulder and onto their backs, knocking the wind out of them on the glass-littered asphalt, sometimes causing a fumble and always inciting cheers from onlookers up and ...
A boy, if he's lucky, discovers his limitations across a leisurely passage of years, with a self-awareness arriving slowly. That way, at least he has plenty of time to heroically imagine himself first. Most boys unfold in this natural, measured way, ...
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
I've always been fascinated with aristocracy. I'm really interested in the Ivy Leagues, the final clubs, all the really old-money families, the concept of old money.
There are only two choices. Stay here and die. Or get up and see what happens next.
Every mode of travel has its signature mental aberration.
Major political parties have a role, but they are incapable of initiating fundamental change because they are fundamentally tied to the status quo. They are the status quo.
The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined.
These ivy league students are in the upper echelon of the college boards and had great opportunity in front of them regardless of where they go to college. Its in their very nature and it is something they expect.
In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.
I don't trust most people. Except for you." "Why me?" "Because everyone needs someone to put their faith in.
My mission is not to make him happy and bear his children and be his wife. My mission is to kill him.
If I had chlorophyll instead of blood, I’d have ivy in my IV (not Roman numeral four).
If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the rest of the Ivy League are worthy institutions, to be sure, but they're not known for educating large numbers of poor young people.
