When we deal with death, the pupils will always be fixed and dilated, which indicates that there is no longer brain activity or response.
It's far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood.
As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.
Within an ensemble, like in sports, if you do your little job, it makes everybody look good.
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.
For the cause that lacks assistance, the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do.
You can't know what the future holds, though you might conjecture on it, and if you're psychic, you might venture a guess.
The great thing about fiscal policy is that it has a direct impact and doesn't require you to bind the hands of future policymakers.
The Egyptian Revolution makes it clear, if anybody was in doubt, that digital technologies are going to play a powerful role in the future of global politics.
The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations?
I have a great ability to improvise verbally, and I am very funny on a dime.
And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.
Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.
