The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.
Paul Smecker: So you're telling me it was one guy with six guns, and he was a senior frigging citizen?
Paul Smecker: Oh really! I might just be wanting a bagel with my coffee.
Rocco: This guy takes out a whole family... wife, kids, everyone... like he's ordering fucking pizza.
The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
And I withdrew into myself when I understood that they wanted to extract every thought in my head, one by one, like decayed teeth.
I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.
She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn's wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks... (iViva la Gloria!)
An investigation by msnbc.com shows that the CDC routinely takes as long as a month - and sometimes as long as nine months - to visit the scene of firefighter deaths.
By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world.
We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the problem, they are part of the solution.
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love.
To so many people, the Lord is in danger of being no more than a patron saint of our systematic theology instead of the Christ Who is our life.
Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia.
We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field.
In particular, we must take account of the well-known and striking saying of Jesus to the dying brigand beside him, recorded by Luke (23.43). 'Today,' he said, 'you will be with me in paradise.' 'Paradise' is not the final destination; it is a beauti...
Is it love to worship a saint in heaven, whom you dare not touch, who hovers above you like a cloud, which floats away from you even as you gaze? To love is to feel one being in the world at one with us, our equal in sin as well as in virtue. To love...
Conversion can also occur among those who already have the faith. Christians will become real Christians, with less façade and more foundation. Catastrophe will divide them from the world, force them to declare their basic loyalties; it will revive ...
Saint Laurent has excellent taste. The more he copies me, the better taste he displays. - Coco Chanel
Jem is nothing but goodness. That he struck you last night only shows how capable you are of driving even saints to madness.
If oppression produced saints, we’d want everyone to be oppressed.
