Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to do it under the scrutiny of tabloid press at first made it seem even more difficult. But in fact, it oddly ended up being a plus. Because of the ...
[There are] games children must conjure up to combat an awful fact of childhood: the fact of their vulnerability to fear, anger, hate and frustration - all the emotions that are an ordinary part of their lives and that they can perceive only as as un...
Maybe the perceived fact that smart, rich parents tended to have smart, rich kids was largely due to the fact that they also tended to have stay-at-home moms or nannies who read to their kids, held them, put mobiles over their cribs, playing those an...
It's so hard when you're young to look at older people and understand that they have been where you are. It's the weirdest thing. You just can't get your head around that, can you? You can't get your head around the fact that someone who is 60 was on...
Our climate is changing. The Earth's climate has, in fact, warmed by 1.1 to 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit since the industrial revolution. People look at this and say: Oh, that is not very much. In fact, it is very much, and it changes the dynamic. It impac...
Mary Wilke: Facts?I got a million facts at my fingertips. Isaac Davis: That's right, and they don't mean a thing, right? Because nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind. Everything really valuable has to enter you through a different op...
Hope is magic. Hope is a gift. Hope is a raft we cling to in the midst of a storm. Hope by nature is an independent of logic. Hope is power outside of the facts. The human mind longs for something better. Hope is not rational. Yet who need rationalit...
How sad, he thought, that desire found new objects but did not abate, that when it came to longing there was no end.
When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad.
What's most revolting is that one is really sad! No, it's better at home. Here at least one blames others for everything and excuses oneself.
Humanity's greatest achievement will come when the happiness of some will no longer be the sadness of others.
Other flowers came at the end of the summer, but by then the winter sadness had already dissipated, and the effect of the blooms was not the same.
My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her.
Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow.
And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to be got from this but sadness.
The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.
There are times, Kruppe murmurs, when celibacy born of sad deprivation becomes a boon, nay, a source of great relief.
Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad.
it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.
Nobody is happy all the damn time. It doesn't work like that. But if you are more happy than sad then maybe you aren't barely existing
The important part of growing older was the growing part. Resisting change meant forever standing still, which was a sad way to live.
