If there isn’t some sort of rule about annoying kid brothers growing up to be walking, talking sex, there should be. ~Carly
The more personal an example, the more richly it becomes encoded and the more readily it is remembered.
In the 1970s, many intellectuals had become political radicals. Marxism was correct, liberalism was for wimps, and Marx had pronounced that 'the ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.'
To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child.
Do you know why we’re all happy here, monsieur? Because it’s the last house on the road.
The vastness of the desert frightened her. Everything looked too far away, even the couldless sky. There was nowhere you could hide in such emptiness.
You do not tell people to go fuck themselves and then later when you're in trouble ask them to help you.
If a woman has a good ass the rest of her wil be nicely configured too, except for maybe the face. The face is always on its own.
Most of our parents wanted the best for us, I knew, but we also wanted the best for them.
Blaming is so much easier than taking responsibility, because if you take responsibility … then you might be to blame.
When working with the Universal Laws you are working with the laws of manifestation, not instant gratification ...
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.
The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person.
Three scents accompany my memories of this place: cut wood, poppy-seed bread, and the soft, crisp smell of snow.
Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process
But there is one part of this that hurts. The carefree, normal part. The part of me that was lost when we first moved and that I'll never get back.
There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past.
Your father is the only God. You can also become god but you must follow a simple rule and let that rule be made up of love.
The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.
I just like playing with makeup and clothes - so I really don't feel like there are rules, and if there are rules, then I think it's up to you to break them.
I've got a new rule. It'll be rule No. 312. If it's three days before a campaign, don't believe anything new you hear about anybody.
