The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.
Just because a word or expression has an antiquity or was once widely used does not confer on it some special immunity
My book is already online. I can type 150 words a minute. I took typing in high school.
'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.
Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the '04 elections is that politics is a word game.
The Latin root of the word 'politics' means 'of the people.' Politics is about something bigger than electoral politics; in that sense, I feel like I'm already involved.
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.
This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.
I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.
Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.
Never was I supposed to hear the words 'He says he wants to see you.' But now that I have, there's no way to refuse.
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.
A writer is simply one who writes words, Even if just 1 person reads it your work, or a 100, or 1million or 100,000 You are a writer.
In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.
Single is not a status, it is a word that describes a person who is strong enough to live and enjoy life without depending on others.
(Emerson's) aphorisms tend to be chicken soup for the academic soul or gobledygook of a man who prefers the sounds of words to their meanings.
where oh where, in what cemetery of the heavens do the tender words of lovers rest when they love no more? (Searching for author)
Proofs are to mathematics what spelling (or even calligraphy) is to poetry. Mathematical works do consist of proofs, just as poems do consist of words.
There were a story scripted on the wall, no words used though, just pictures, memories, from another world. Her happy place.
