I'm always trying to push for women's rights.
I discovered something attractive about uncertainty. It was the knowledge that God was in control and that I was depending on him every moment.
All that alcohol does for them is to liberate the sense of sin, which reason suppresses in saner moments.
This war will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongol massacres and the Crusades. —
This is going to sound crazy, but... from the moment I first set eyes on you I haven't been able to stop thinking about you.
Mr Davis was a middle class tremble of a man worried about an unseemly display and his Jerry Springer moment
For a split second they stared at each other. A fleeting, lasting moment. One person noticing another person out of a whole crowd of strangers.
What a tricky and uncomfortable thing is conscience, that nearly always begins to trouble us at the moment of, or after, the event, not before, when it might be of some use.
She filed those moments away like precious documents, wore them smooth with memory, collected them like bits of prayers.
If she had looked into his eyes at that very moment she would have seen the inferno that she had thrown him into.
A man who becomes enchanted by the flower's fragrance stays only for a fleeting moment, but a man who comes because of love stays for a lifetime.
Suddenly, a high-pitched sound blasted into the room. The floor began shaking beneath her feet. She paused for a moment, wondering if she was causing this.
People started down the road with good intentions, but the moment the road became rough or difficult, they'd abandon it.
I sacrificed for only you. I loved you from that moment I felt you flutter in my womb.
Storytelling--that's not the future. The future, I'm afraid, is flashes and impulses. It's mode up of moments and fragments, and stories won't survive.
Gone was the reflexive need to see the worst in things. Before the tumors took her life, they gave her a few moments of grace.
Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish.
And here was the moment. The end of it all, for civilization was merely another name for friendship, and friendship was coming to an end.
If a boat is shattered by a storm, the desperate passengers cling to the floating pieces of the hull. In that moment, it's not a broken boat. To a drowning man, it's a floating miracle.
Just this once,’ he says almost more to himself than to me. ‘Just one moment.’ Then he leans down and kisses me.
