Sports represent a shared vision of how we continue, as individual, team, or community, to experience a happiness or absence of care so intense, so rare, and so fleeting that we associate their experience with experience otherwise described as religi...
People question me all the time about my experience. They question my experience in politics, and the first thing I always tell them is yes, I have no experience raising taxes over and over. I have no experience increasing the debt in a state.
To enjoy beauty in the company of myself is to experience beauty bound by the limits of the sole person that I am. But, to experience beauty in the company of God is to experience beauty bound by the limits of Who God is, which is to experience beaut...
Experience by itself proves nothing. If a man doubts whether he is sleeping or waking, no experiment can solve his doubt, since every experiment may itself be part of the dream. Experience proves this, or that, or nothing, according to the preconcept...
Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.
Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.
I gave up on ever trying to get 'my way.' I barely knew it existed.
She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do.
Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses.
The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.
I've spent so much of my adult life in relationships that it's actually quite pleasant to be alone at last. I turned thirty-six the other day, which staggers me when I think about it.
One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather.
Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people?
Lady Wisdom will be your close friend; and Brother Knowledge will be your pleasant companion.
It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.
Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
What is aesthetically beautiful, should not be able to be understood fully: by its mysterious character it should leave behind a vaguely pleasant feeling.
I'm placing you under arrest for murder, conspiracy to commit murder and, I don't know, possibly littering.
What would killing the Elders result in?" "Panic? Fear? Three empty parking spaces in the Sanctuary?
A living skeleton isn't enough for you, is it? What does it take to impress young people these days?
