Constance always said good people need to stand up and do what's right, otherwise bad things will go unchallenged.
It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.
It was possibly the most circumspect advance in the history of military manoeuvres, right down at the bottom end of the scale that things like the Charge of the Light Brigade are at the top of.
Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.
God arranges everything for us, so that we need have no more fear or trouble and may be quite sure that all things will come right in the end.
What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.
Democracy is a fine thing. But that doesn't mean citizens have a right to run riot whenever they disagree with something. #Page: 120
An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been i...
Would they retreat or move forward? Could they do this thing they were on the verge of doing? Did they have it in them to make a wrong decision just because it felt right?
... when things get too good and too right and too perfect, it's only because the ugly twist hasn't yet infiltrated the goodness of it all...
He had a talent for asking exactly the right questions to lead me to my own answers. Just being near him made things clearer.
Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.
The rights of man are poor things beside the eyes of hungry children. Their hurts are keener than the soreness of injustice.
Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Why? What's wrong with being emotional about this? why is that a negative thing? Why isn't the emotional decision the right decision?" asked the woman who wasn't crying.
If you've had the right kind of education, it's amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about.
You see, the best thing about wrong decisions is that they don’t prevent you from making the right decisions later on. It’s harder, but it’s not impossible.
If he set out right now to make a list of the things he had taken for granted in his life, he’d go broke buying paper.
He said that things could be different in Little Rock, if only the right people could find their voice. I wanted to be on of those people.
At times, it's better to think of exactly what is happening right in front of you every second, rather than going through things from the past in your mind.
