We ought not to be looking for something spectacular but rather develop a plan in conjunction with the White House to work our way out of this problem over the next six weeks.
You women will live as if father is still alive and in the next room.
Ah, the freshness in the face of leaving a task undone! To be remiss is to be positively out in the country! What a refuge it is to be completely unreliable! I can breathe easier now that the appointments are behind me. I missed them all, through del...
Me: “I refuse to attend Support Group.” Mom: “One of the symptoms of depression is disinterest in activities.” Me: “Please just let me watch America’s Next Top Model. It’s an activity.” Mom: “Television is a passivity.” Me: “Ugh...
Little Marjorie was born an only child some forty years ago. She had lost her mother at a young age and her father never remarried. All her life she had been cursed with the need for her ‘coke-bottle’ glasses with the practical over-sized frames....
It may be possible for each to think too much of his own potential glory hereafter; it is hardly possible for him to think too often or too deeply about that of his neighbor. The load, or weight, or burden of my neighbor's glory should be laid daily ...
For the first twenty years of my life, I rocked myself to sleep. It was a harmless enough hobby, but eventually, I had to give it up. Throughout the next twenty-two years I lay still and discovered that after a few minutes I could drop off with no pr...
Next to music, beer was best.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
The nation that is supreme above all others during one age, will be eclipsed by another in the next age.
Because you’ve survived, there is a next strategy.
Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
I couldn't become a policeman, so being county prosecutor is the next best thing.
We are bred to compare ourselves to the next person, to what they have and what they have accomplished.
Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best
You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
The next point - that's all you must think about.
First of all, I'm no better than the next person.
You never know what an artist is going to create next.
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.